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A Small
World Indeed
Norman Cartwright-Brown, of Slate Mills, discovered just how small the world is last week. He was assisting a European company to locate a supplier for poultry vaccine in the Middle East and was using the “Poultry Association Directory” as a reference. Of all the hundreds of firms listed in the directory he called a company in New Jersey first. The person who had sent the directory had checked off a few companies with whom he had personally done business. There being no checks in Virginia or Maryland, Cartwright-Brown arbitrarily chose the next nearest state listing a recommended company. His first and only call was to the Hoffman-LaRoche Company in Nutley, New Jersey where he was connected with a Dr. Ted Frye in the research department. Dr. Frye said he would have to put Cartwright-Brown’s request to another department and asked for the phone number. The rest of the conversation went something like this:
C-B: Area code is 703—that’s Virginia.
Frye: Yes, I know, I’m from Virginia myself. Where do you live?
C-B: Out near Sperryville.
Frye: I know that area. Whereabouts do you live?
C-B: Well, actually I live between Sperryville and Culpeper.
Frye: That’ll be out on Route 522?
C-B: No. Down 231 and then on 707 in the F.T. Valley.
Frye: Near Acey Frye?
C-B: Yes. He’s next door.
Long pause from Frye.
Frye: You don’t mean the old house next to the F.T. Baptist Church!
C-B: Yes, that’s it. Do you know it?
Frye: Know it! I used to stay there when I visited my Uncle Sim Wright. I remember playing on the upstairs porch right outside his room.
The Cartwright-Browns bought the former country store (known as Conyers’ Old Store in 1815 according to the deed of the F.T. Church) in 1979 as a country retreat from their home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. In the fall of 1981 they welcomed their first quests to what was the county’s first “Bed and Breakfast Inn,” now known as The Conyers House. One of the most popular rooms, due to the fireplace, is called Uncle Sim Wright’s room and a photograph of Uncle Sim is on the bureau.
The guests are told that Uncle Sim Wright lived in the room for forty years. Dr. Ted Frye, who has been invited to visit his old family home the next time he visits Rappahannock, is a cousin of Acey Frye, the CartwrightBrown’s nearest neighbor.
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