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By KAREN HENDERSON
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
When you’re a dancer in love with Rappahannock County, and there are no venues in which to perform and earn a living, what do you do?
The answer is whatever you have to, and that’s how Sally Nash earned her place in Rappahannock’s rural arts community, by hard work, determination, and a dedication to, in her own words, “the vaguest of dreams” that blossomed into a concrete reality.
It’s been twenty years since Ms. Nash moved to the mountains from D.C. When she first arrived, she was unable to earn money from her first love, dance, so she trimmed her lifestyle and worked at several small jobs.
She delivered mail, gave massages at different people’s homes, and lived well below the poverty line. Ms. Nash hauled her own water for 13 years, and heated her home with wood she split herself.
This spartan existence allowed her to found the Last Minute Wood Company, a performance group comprised of friends and neighbors from the area, who have performed her works ever since.
From her involvement and perseverance, Ms. Nash was in
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