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house burst with wine berries in the summer and spilled deer out into the clearings in fall and winter. It was paradise for a city kid.

At college (where he was studying to be a clown), Mr. Kvames traded unicycle-riding lessons for instruction in glass blowing. He began practicing the craft in earnest in 1973, and in 1979, he moved full time to the family’s weekend retreat and became Rappahannock’s resident glass blower.

In those early days before he’d invented the portable glass furnace, Mr. Kvames demonstrated the craft to anyone who dropped by his shop.

The glass from the late 1970s was heavier, the colors more limited, the shapes less imaginative, and the designs less inventive. But still, the promise was there, although

didn’t let you know that,” Mr. McCarthy replied.

“I’m surprised your neighbor got a letter and you didn’t,” added Commissioner John Clark.

Chairman A. Y. Stokes suggested Mr. Raynor check the paragraph in the deed book referenced in his deed for the missing prohibition against resubdivion. “You’ll probably find it.”

Phil Irwin, long-time opponent of the family subdivision exception to density standards and other ordinance regulations, called the provision “the leakiest gasket” in the county’s land use controls. The issue is not whether a landowner can give a small piece of property to a parent or child but rather “what’s going to happen to the property just a few years from now . . . This is a great problem and it will continue to be a great problem until it is addressed with enabling legislation from Richmond,” he said, referring to the

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