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god for holding off the showers, Charlie Tompkins explained the concept behind the 1987 RAAC calendar in between shouted instructions to the “grunt crew.”
“With this calendar, RAAC’s executive committee decided to shift the emphasis from artists’ forum to fund raiser,” he said. “The committee decided that the calendar needed commercial appeal because it’s to be a money-making venture. That doesn’t mean it can’t be artistic, just that the art has to have a theme and a focus.”
The theme of the 1987 RAAC calendar is Rappahannock; the focus is architecture. For the last two months, since the executive committee decided to go ahead with a calendar, Mr. Tompkins and Henry Eastwood have been dragging their photographic equipment from historic building to historic house. They’ve shot the courthouse, the Rappahannock Library, Ben Venue, Rose Hill, Oak Hill, the Roy House, Greenwood, Brookside, The Maples, Mount Prospect, Mt. Salem Church, Montpelier, the Clark cabin and Faith Mountain, all examples of the finest in local architecture.
“For future calendars, the focus will change. We won’t do historic homes every time, but the theme will remain Rappahannock,” explained Mr. Tompkins, chairman of RAAC’s calendar committee. “We want to ensure that the buyers of the calendars get a little slice of Rappahannock.”
This year, for the first time, the calendars will have sponsors. “We want to thank Patrick O’Connell and Reinhardt Lynch from The Inn at Little Washington for their support. It made a tremendous difference to the project,” said Mr. Tompkins. “And we also appreciate the help we received from the Swindlers at Country Manor and Martin Woodard from Faith Mountain.”
Also for the first time, the calendar will feature bits and pieces of Rappahannock trivia, collected by Daphne Hutchinson, who gathered the information for the descriptions of the historic buildings.
With the 1987 calendar off to the printers and expected back in time for Fourth of July sales, work has begun on the 1988 edition. Mr. Tompkins invites Rappahannock artists interested in participating in the calendar effort to contact him.
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