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day, but especially on the day set aside for lovers. The first story is one found in My Rappahannock Story Book by Mary Elizabeth Hite.
The story is written as an explanation of how Mary’s Rock above Thornton’s Gap was named. The legend begins with a beautiful “maid of the mountains” named Mary who lived at the base of the rock. She fell in love with a stranger who was traveling through the mountains. He stayed with her for a while, but left at the beginning of autumn.
Every day, Mary would climb the rock and look in the direction that her sweetheart had gone until one day she was swept over the edge by the wind. People who lived on the mountain would say that they could see Mary dancing on her rock when the moon was full, and that the breeze through the pine trees was “Mary sighing for her faithless lover.”
Many beautiful love stories came out of the dark days of the Civil War. One is written in Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia by Carrie Hunter Willis and Etta Belle Walker. The story is about Belle Boyd, “one of the most beautiful women and one of the most famous spies in all history.”
Belle lived in Martinsburg at the beginning of the Civil War, and after the m&h enlisted and left, Belle became bored. When Martinsburg was taken by Federal troops, Belle shot and killed a Union soldier who was insulting her mother. After she was acquitted, Belle devoted all of her time to assisting the Confederate Cause.
After she had charmed Federal officers into telling her their plans, Belle would write them down and send them to General J.E.B. Stuart. She was arrested once when one of her letters was intercepted, but she was again freed. “Belle was undaunted. She not only continued to pick up valuable information, but she picked up small side arms and pistols and these, along with the information, found their way into the Southern lines.”
When Belle was in Front Royal waiting to go to Richmond, she stayed in the same house as Union General Shields. The soldiers were in the room below Belle’s room making plans, and Belle heard every word through a hole in the closet floor. She listened and wrote down every word, left the house secretly, rode all night to deliver the information and made it back to Front
Opthalmologist
Locates In
Culpeper Area
Culpeper’s first full-time opthalmologist Dr. Russell Brear established his medical practice here January 14.
Dr. Brear is the most recent in a long list of new physicians who have chosen Culpeper to raise their families and practice their specialties.
A native of Pasadena, Texas, Dr. Brear graduated from the University of Texas in Austin and received his medical degree from the University of Texas at Houston. After completing an internship in family practice medicine, Dr. Brear was a family practioner for three years with the Public Health Service of San Antonio. To pursue his interest in opthalmology, Dr. Brear attended the Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans, where he completed a thr^e-year residency in this specialty.
Providing a full range of opthalmology services, Dr. Brear’s practice will include routine eye examinations, eye glass prescriptions, contact lens fitting, diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases, and eye surgery.
Having moved to Culpeper from New Orleans, Dr. Brear, his wife Holly, and two-year-old son Isaac are pleased to be here.
“We chose Culpeper for a number of reasons,” says Dr. Brear. “We were attracted immediately by the friendliness and enthusiasm of everyone we met.
Dr. Brear’s office is located at 702 South Main Street with office hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
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