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To the editor:
There was a time, not too long ago, when I looked forward to reading the letters to the editor.
Now the readers are faced with letters on every conceivable subject (probably bulk mailings to every newspaper office in Virginia or the United States) written by strangers in faraway places.
I assume they are printed because no letters are submitted by Rappahannock residents. So, as an alternative to the mass mailings from Who Knows Where, U.S.A., I offer this letter from Flint Hill.
The Feb. 23rd issue of the Rappahannock News featured frontpage photos of the destruction of Piedmont Farm’s main house, treating the “event” as though it were a traveling carnival show. That house was not the first to be destroyed in Rappahannock County, nor will it be the last.
But that’s not all that is disappearing. Rappahannock natives, young and old, are forced to move away because of the lack of housing.
While laws are being passed to protect Rappahannock’s scenic beauty, the real foundation of Rap
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