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The 34th Annual Rappahannock House Tour and Dried Flower Sale, sponsored by the Episcopal Churchwomen of Bi'bmfield Parish, will be held Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20 and 21.
The three houses slated for this year’s tour will be open from 11 a. m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Headquarters for the event will be the Parish Hall of Trinity Episcopal Church in historic Washington.
The Parish Hall will also serve as sales room for hundreds of arrangements of dried flowers prepared by ladies of Trinity Church and others in the community.
The first of these houses is the home of Herman and Carol Beard on Route 622 in Harris Hollow.
In 1986 the Beards, then living in Fairfax, bought a log cabin in Harris Hollow as a weekend retreat. As is ,, often the case in Rappahannock, it , has become their permanent home.
The property is on a branch of r.i the Rush River, 2.8 miles north of Washington on Route 622, backed on , the foot of Jenkins Mountain with a lovely view across fields and river to The Peak. The log house of two rooms on the lower floor and two above was built about 1800 and then called Riverside. „ With the Beards’ decision to make this their permanent home '♦ came the realization that four rooms would be a bit confining. This was also the case with the Keysers who lived here in the 1860’s and 70’s with nine children, six of whom were bom " here. The Beards found another log house of two rooms below and one above, possibly built about 1740, on the DeBergh property approximately one mile away.
This the Beards dismantled, walls, floors, stone foundations, fireplaces and all and moved to their
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