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By H. RAMSEY TERHUNE
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
“How many of you lived on the mountain back then?”
It was a probing question that brought the speaker and his audience together in a warm relationship of common roots.
Repeating an annual affair, the Amissville Ruritan Club was host to 21 senior citizens for dinner and entertainment September 17.
The speaker, Ranger Chuck Anibal of the National Park Service, was giving an articulate account of the history of the Shenandoah National Park when he questioned his audience. In a rapid slide show, punctuated by interesting facts, he traced the turnover of private and state-owned land to the stewardship of the National Park System.
Two hands' were raised in response to the ranger’s query. Mrs. Bertie Hackley located her homeplace down on the Blue Ridge on Hazel Mountain in the Madison County area. Mrs. Omega Hitt’s homeplace was on the Luray side of the Ridge off 211 in a place called Beahms Gap, an area named for her grandfather, a
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