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ine imra weekend in October will soon be here and with it a nip in the air and a brightening of the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains from the greens of summer to the orange, red and brown colors of fall.
The local highlight of this period will be the 31st annual Rappahannock House Tour and Dried Flower Sale to be held Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 17 and 18, in historic Washington. The event is sponsored by the Women of Bromfield Parish, Trinity Episcopal Church.
Since spring the ladies have planted, potted, collected, cut and dried and otherwise preserved flowers, shrubs, grasses, tree greens and even some weeds to be made into hundreds of arrangements from teacup to centerpiece size to be offered for sale at the Trinity Church Parish Hall that weekend. This popular event has drawn visitors from up and down the Eastern Seaboard and from the Mid-West.
The weekend’s other feature is a tour of three Rappahannock County homes, chosen each year for their historic or architectural interest. This year they range from the early 19th century to contemporary. Block tickets at $6 for all three houses plus tea will be available at the Parish Hall Tour Headquarters or at individual houses; single house visits are $2.50. Houses will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
The first of the tour houses is located in the heart of Washington between Main and Gay Streets approximately 200 yards south of Trinity Church. This is the Summer Kitchen, built in the early 19th century by Judge Edward Jones as a dependency of the home he built, now known as Clopton House. The Summer Kitchen consists of the kitchen building, a dairy and brick smoke house/root cellar all combined into a single residence in 1974 by Washington cabinetmaker Peter Kramer and his wife Joyce. This is a lovely example of restoration and preservation of the old with tasteful addition to meet modern living requirements.
Moving north about 5*/2 miles on Rt. 628, three miles west of Flint Hill off Rt. 629, is Mere House, the contemporary home of Linda and Bill Dietel. This modem passive solar three-story split level situated at the foot of The Peak is the center of
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