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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON Rappahannock Newi Contributing Writer Sometimes luck is with you. You’re organizing the first auction for a small, private school. You’ve asked all the parents for donations, and they’ve done their best-a load of ' manure from a farming family, baskets full of goodies from a mother, antique coins from a grandparent. But, frankly, the pickings are a bit slim. Almost everybody works hard for a living, and there isn’t a lot _ to spare. Then, you call a nice woman, a local business owner, and you say sweetly, “Would you be able to donate something to the first annual ftmd-raising auction of Spring Mountain School?” And the woman, Mary Simmons, - ? replies, “Let me think about it.” A polite turn-down, you think? Read further. Mary Simmons happens to own Rush River Gallery on Gay Street in * Washington. She also is the new * owner of the Country Heritage * Store on the corner of Main and - Piedmont Streets. ' - When Stella Cadwalader phoned _ Mrs. Simmons to ask for a donation to the school auction, Mrs. Simmons i had been pondering ways to empty * Country Heritage, so that she could l make room for the Rush River Gal*lery, which needed to move from its - present location this spring. ' • “I called Stella back right away and told her she could have almost - Everything in Country* Heritage,” I said Mrs. Simmons. “I think it’s a i wonderful little school and the tim: ing was right for me.” 1 : It didn’t hurt that Mrs. Simmons * is a keen supporter of education and - a mother and a grandmother herself. ' - So come Saturday, March 19, at 7 p.m., the auditorium of Spring Mountain School on Mt. Salem Ave* nue in Washington will be filled with * furniture and other items worth a toItal of $10,000 to $15,000, including “ these items from Mrs. Simmons: a Walnut library desk, antique baker’s cupboard made from oak, Windsor siae chairs, and a mahogany four- poster bed. Her donations alone would require 10 typed, singlespaced pages to list. Yet Mrs. Simmons isn’t the only person who has been generous to Spring Mountain. Hunt Harris is offering almost six hours worth of tennis lessons. Sandra CartwrightBrown has donated two trail rides.
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