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By TUTT STAPP HARRIS
and
LAURIE MARSHALL
forRAAC
Mountain Neighbors
In the 1900’s at the foot of Old Rag a woman named Elizabeth Winn organized a group of mountain women to work together on reviving the handcrafts of this area of Appalachia. The women came to call themselves the “Mountain Neighbors.” Their organizing gave them new social opportunities, enhanced their ability to market their crafts, and kept alive vital aspects of Appalachian folk life which like all traditions passed down over years, are never more than a generation away from being lost.
Today in Rappahannock, another group of craftspersons is working toward similar goals. The present day Mountain Neighbors consists of Janet Kerig, Judy Sweetland, Jeanne Drevas and Cathy Kiley, all of whom focus their work on basketry native to Rappahannock, and Sam Clifton, who does basketry in addition to his work creating fabric sculptures. Their purpose, according to Cathy Kiley is “to enhance and inspire each other’s art.”
Although Judy Sweetland and Janet Kerig had been working together for over a year and all of the now-members knew each other, the idea of joining together regularly to work and share ideas was inspired by information on the original Mountain Neighbors, discovered by Cathy Kiley while researching her one act play Unfinished Business, which was based on
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