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which comes through every fall — they always call if they’re going to be late so we can stay open.”
In country fashion, true to his cattle-farming roots, Mr. O'Bannon sets the store hours by the sun, opening early and closing about sundown. The store, along with Parkway, is open every day of the year except Christmas Day. That too, is a longstanding tradition.
He’s nonplussed by all the hubbub surrounding the recent media visits. “I offered that reporter lunch last week," Mr. O’Bannon said, “told him I’d take him to the deli for a sandwich. He told me he couldn’t do that, he'd lose his job, but that he could take me to lunch. So I said, ‘Sure’.
"He wouldn't even take any apples -—but he did buy a bag before he left. So did Mike Buchanan,” Mr. O’Bannon added, obviously proud of his Rappahannock apples.
Last week, after the story came out, Mr. O’Bannon said the lot was full of visitors who had bought a Post on the Skyline Drive and who wanted to stop to see the store for themselves. “A young man stopped today and told me that they love Rappahannock County, but that they had never stopped at the store. “I told him, ‘See what you missed?’ He said he’d be back in the morning.”
But really, after almost 20 years in business, what does Mr. O’Bannon think of all the publicity about his country store?
See EMPORIUM, p. 18
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