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Mountains
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right away the atmosphere.
It reeks of fun, but there is also a serious note. Although the jokes fly, the work is important. We are intent on learning everything we can about the mountains, and the people who live there. And learn we do.
We’ve visited with, to name a few: Sheldon Wimpfen, geologist: Dennis Wingfield, weather watcher; and Lyttelton Wood, forester. We went to the home of authors and historians Eileen and Darwin Lambert, where, after a mile hike, we chatted about the books they’ve wnitten, and of the Indians.
We saw the Rappahannock County landfill with County Administrator John McCarthy. Our group went to see (and swim at) Lake Arrowhead, where we met Ronnie Good, the town manager of Luray.
On Monday and Tuesday of the second week, the class split up into five groups, and each group spent time with a different person. We travelled to Little Washington to see Beverly Atkins, Commissioner of the Revenue, Attorney Doug Baumgardner, and Rappahcuinock News General Manager Barbara Burke and Editor Lou Hatter. (I was with Mr. Hatter. We had a pleasant time, and he asked me to write this article.)
On Tuesday, we were split up again. We met Pete Estes, local historian and member of the county’s Board of Supervisors: Edna Metzinger, chairwoman of the Culpeper Minute Men Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Tom Taylor, a contractor; and Tom
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