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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock N»*« Staff W ritar • One trademark of hometown ■ newpapers is hometown news. ! Social columns, very much a part ; of the Rappahannock .Yews, are a byproduct of the first newpapers, 1 when communities lived without modem communications such as telephone, television and a network ’ of highways and dual-car families.
Social columns kept people living in small communities in touch with one another.
You won’t find them in the Washington Post or the New York Times, but you will find them in the Rappahannock News.
The social notes—seven different columns from seven different communities around the county—are filled with pleasantries, community , events, joyful expressions of births and sorrowful expressions of death, ' visitations and departures.
For many, they are a welcome additioned to routine new's stories, and for some they are the substance of which the weekly paper is made.
Correspondent Polly Aylor has been wTiting social columns for this newspaper for over 35 years.
Producer of the Flint Hill column, Mrs. Aylor is married and has one daughter. A mother-at-home for over 19 years, Mrs. Aylor has recently taken on a full-time job at Aileen in Flint Hill.
A member of the Sperryville United Methodist Church, Mrs. Aylor said she enjoys the time spent each week preparing her column and the recognition she receives.
“I’ve been writing since about * 1956,” she said with laughter, adding at the time she was a teenager at Rappahannock County High School. n “Mrs. Barbara Gentry was doing 'the column before me and when she gave it up, she asked me to take it on,” said Mrs. Aylor.
Bom in Flint Hill, Mrs. Aylor is a ■"native of the county and familiar with most families and most faces.
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