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quartet together is a shared love and understanding of the music which found its way to this country from the British Isles with those hardy souls who settled the rugged mountains of Appalachia...The sounds they make are quite unlike any music you may have heard.”
This concert is sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC), a nonprofit, volunteer organization. Admission is $6, with a $1 discount to RAAC members. Tickets are available at Brambles Cafe in Washington or reservations may be made by calling the RAAC office at 675-3193.
Library Series
Harry Crews, the author of the next selection in the Library’s book discussion series, “Growing Up in the South”, writes that Bacon County, Georgia was a place where “being alive was like being awake in a nightmare.” The experience was both horrible and beautifiil. That is a combination that few writers have the skill or the courage to produce.
What is the result? The reader of A Childhood: The Biography of a Place is surprised again and again by the pleasure produced by Crews’ description of events that would usually make us cringe or shudder with moral indignation.
Perhaps the reader enjoys this horror because Crews so vividly and nostalgically reconstructs a way of life that is far removed from the lives of most 1980s Americans, i As Crews tells it, Bacon County was a place that had been depressed before the depression began: a brutal place where a man might attend a best friend’s funeral in the morning and then steal his family’s smoked pork supply the same night. It was a place of superstition where the possum served for dinner had to have its eyes buried lest it return and seek out those who had dined upon it. Bacon County was a
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