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Country Cafe is facing the fact of moving from its present location in the very near future. I can only hope that a new and reasonably close location will become available soon.
My anxiety is not in the least bit eased by the statement that the inn properietors will operate a cafe in the space, serving both lunch and dinner (what about a leisurely breakfast), at prices smaller to those of the Country Cafe. I find the part about prices very hard to believe, but even harder to believe is that the “Rappahannock” feeling of “family and friends” will be in existence at all.
I know we all have to face progress, but what is progress? I hope not all of the small town cafes in our life will be swallowed up by the big city inns whether in the name of progress or not.
Please, David, hang in there. I sure would miss your smile and wonderful tea.
ELLEN B.JOBACK
Flint Hill
This Road
To the Editor:
The road stirs.in the distance
I stop and strain to view
across the bridge, around the bend
^bother passing through
he trails the road behind him
He never waves or slows
A headlong flight to somewhere else
As he hurries down the road
I guess the day will finally come
when this road’s just like the rest
No wild thread, but straight and wide
where cars pass two abreast
there’ll be no place for folks like me
no place for sweet and slow
down the highway fast and fierce
a long time down this road
Singers and songwriter Paul Reisler and John McCutcheon wrote this bittersweet melody (portions printed with their permission) with Route 622 in Gid Brown Hollow in their minds where the Covington River flows to meet highway 211 at Redeviva.
Recent “improvements” there have transformed this stretch from a little country road into a modem thoroughfare. Watching this process
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