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By LOUISA WOODVILLE
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
More than 500 people, many from Rappahannock, Culpeper, Loudoun and Fauquier counties, gathered at the Smithsonian's Museum of American History in Washington, D C. Friday evening, Oct. 4, to view "Hallowed Ground: Preserving Americas Heritage, a Shared Vision for Virginia's Northern Piedmont," the first national photography exhibit of the nine-county region, ranging from Loudoun in the north to Albemarle in the south.
The exhibit, based on a book By author/joumalist Rudy Abramson that waS published this October, features the magnificent photographs of Nali'onal Geographic’s Kenneth Garrett and free-lancer Jack Kotz, who were on hand to sign books throughout the evening.
Four big rooms of the museum's third floor were the site of the elegant reception, with the 55 photographs the center of attention and drawing a large crowd. Senator John Warner attended, having himself just returned from a Civil War battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley.
The works on view are spellbinding. In one, shrouds of mist hang over the Rappahannock River in a haunting portrayal of Virginia's undulating hills;
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