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ByTHERESA REYNOLDS
Rappahannock New* Special Writer
Elisabeth and Ned Johnson worked for many years on their collection of Rappahannock history, published in 1981 as Rappahannock County, Va. History: Fact, Fiction, Foolishness and Fairfax Story.
In all respects this volume was a service to Rappahannock County, published without a plan to bring profit to its authors.
Ned and Elisabeth concluded their work on the book while Ned was quite sick.
“I’d stay with him in the hospital dining the day and come home and type all night,” remembers Elisa* beth.
Before the book reached the manuscript stage, the Johnsons had spent countless hours in libraries, government offices, and interviews with older friends and neighbors.
After Ned died in 1984, Elisabeth produced' a shorter book, one devoted entirely to Ned’s remembrance of local tales.
She’d had the foresight to get Ned to record some of the stories and practical jokes he knew. For his birthday she bought him a tape recorder, and one snowy Sunday in 1969 she sat him down at the dining room table and told him that the time to record his stories had come. Unfortunately, Elisabeth remembers, the recorder and Ned were not a perfect match: “He could understand all about tractors and sprayers, and could figure out to the last teaspoon the amount of spray material to use in a 500-gallon tank at 10 percent strength to control the parasites that were damaging his apples,” she relates in her prologue to Ned’s Tales, “but he seemed to be terrified of gadgets such as tape recorders.”
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