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To the editor:
Patrick O’Connell, one of the owners of the Inn at Little Washington is quoted in the May, 1990 issue of “Travel & Leisure” magazine (in an article by George Lang) as follows:
“In Little Washington, which was almost a ghost town at the time, (1973), we found a peculiar-looking white elephant.”
I was living here in 1973, and I can attest that this was decidedly not a ghost town. In 1973 this was a beautiful and peaceful village with an almost constant population count of 250 persons or so, contendly nesting among the hills of the Blue Ridge as it had done since 1749 — a rare and precious Virginia state treasure during the ensuing years of rampant development all about us.
This is not, nor ever was, a deserted and helpless place awaiting commercial rescue by any business interests.
Assuredly, if the Inn’s present expansion plans are permitted, our little village will turn into a company town. Then it may indeed become a ghost (town) of its former self. The very core of the town will have been obliterated with irreparable damage to its heart and soul.
Not to mention the “white elephant” we may find on our hands, when and if, after all this, the owners, Patrick O’Connell and Re
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