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greeted them like celebrities, makj ing certain they were introduced to anyone in the room they might noi know. With all her regulars, she knew — she made the effort to rer member — just what was going on iO their lives, what was new, whaj their dreams were, what was the lat* est on a sick parent or a new baby or an imminent engagement. She never saw you without making a positive comment on how you looked — evefl when you knew she had to lie to dQ it. *
Her menu was typed on a sheet of paper that didn’t change in format until her last year in business when someone reprinted it on his conv puter. The selections ranged frorj “funky mushrooms” to regular offerings of steak, trout, scallops an$ chicken. The daily “specials” were a treat and a bargain, the food gooel and fairly priced, but I know no one who went there only for food. People went to the CornerPost for Peggy. '
The occasional ex-senator or congressman regularly dropped by. Fancier folks from Middleburg, Warrenton and Washington, D.C., slipped by after a Saturday foxhunt or point-to-point when you could find there a Redskin, a Hollywood celebrity or television media star.
Three of Peggy’s four sons helped out at the CornerPost as they finished their schooling and began their own lives, the eldest, Ed, having established his reputation 4s head of The Virginia Wildlife Center. Yes, Peggy knew all about being a single parent. Perhaps thaPs why she understood so well her “singles” — the loners who thought of her eatery as their own private pub;
The CornerPost will continue its life in Rappahannock. But it seertys important to take note of its beginnings and first decade of life — and to salute Peggy Clark.
PAT SALTONSTALL
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