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By LISA CURRIE and
FRANCES BISHOPP
Rappahannock Naira Staff Wrltara
Rappahannock County.
The words bring to mind a tranquil land sheltered by sloping Blue Ridge Mountain ranges - an agricultural area plotted off in rows of well-kept orchard spaces or large wide open fields dotted with grazing livestock.
Or. . .a developing high-tech market place busy with graphic artist or computer consultant cottage industries or world-wide competing computer program software enterprises.
The characterization - opposites in the economic community — are both representative of a changing Rappahannock County.
The high-tech computer industry is taking its place alongside the traditional agricultural base as computers become more obtainable and computer results more demanded by consumers, countywide, statewide and worldwide.
The computer world is a varied industry and all aspects are growing in Rappahannock’s fertile marketspace.
From creating computer software in Flint Hill to selling the product worldwide to consulting and educating national companies on computer usefulness from a homebased Woodville office to designing and producing graphic art or typesetting newsleters on a simple Apple Macintosh II computer located in Gid Brown Hollow, the computer industry has lodged itself in Rappahannock’s economic backbone and continues to grow with demand.
“This business just came and knocked on our door,” Mary Carnahan of Small Fry Graphics said. The five-year-old business, shared with Jensen Kvames, is run from Kvarnes’ home in Gid Brown Hollow and produces Macintosh-designed materials ranging from local newsletters, sales pamphlets, business cards, to statewide promotional materials, nationally distributed sales materials or advertisements
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