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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON
Rappahannock New* ContribuUnf Writer
Weeks of work and agonizing came to fruition in Washington Saturday night when two simultaneous events drew hundreds of participants.
Folksy-blues guitarist John Jackson returned to his native county to appear before 225 people packed shoulder-to-shoulder in The Theatre on Gay Street.
Around the comer on Mt. Salem Avenue, another 125 people spent over $10,000 at a fund-raising auction for Spring Mountain School, a Waldorf institution for preschool and elementary-age children.
The organizers of both events declared the evenings complete successes, much to their relief, since the events competed for some of the same attenders.
"The schedule conflict was totally unintentional,” said Becky Parrish, one of the parents who anchored the Spring Mountain auction. “Had we been more organized, we probably wouldn’t have held our auction on the same night (as the Jackson concert).”
In spite of the scheduling goof, the results of the auction were “beyond my wildest hopes,” said Mrs. Parrish, who has two children at Spring Mountain.
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