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JON KLAVERKAMP
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Eugene J. McCarthy—former U.S. Senator, Congressman for 22 years, author of 11 books—came to Rappahannock County “kind of by accident.”
After retiring from the Senate in 1970 he settled in Georgetown. Not happy, however, living full-time in the city he rented a house in Amissville for four consecutive winters. The country house appealed to McCarthy. Finally, “the lady sold it to me,” he said.
McCarthy has since relocated to Hawlin Hollow in Woodville where he has lived for five years.
From high atop his perch in Hawlin, McCarthy observes with a keen eye the natural beauty of Rappahannock. In his most recent book The View From Rappahannock (essays) he describes the colors of the county in autumn:
“And then the colors begin: first sumac, singed and turning to a savage orange and red; the pentecostal tongues of gum tree leaves; the dogwood, some green and red and others the color of dried blood. Beyond these are the varied yellows of beech and poplar; of ash and hickory, and elm; the bronze, the copper, and the red of oak trees; and the sudden surprising Hares of maples. All these colors are tempered by the remaining green of willows in the low lands and the continuing green of pine, cedar, and of hemlock and of the fir trees that run the ridges of the hills and mountains.”
An account of nature by McCarthy often reads like a passage from The Book Of Lists or a page tom from a dictionary of horticulture. Witness: “For three seasons there are flowers: wild plum, cherry and redbud, bloodroot, spring violets, wild azaleas, may apples in the spring, anemones, phlox, chicory and daisies, daylilies in the summer, asters, daisies, butterfly weed, ironweed, and thistles in the fall.
Aside from this more than casual interest in the landscape, McCarthy’s essays reveal an appreciation for the stock human characters of Rappahannock. That is, the former senator can relate to the “good old boys.” He relies
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