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One of the featured attractions at the Woodville Bicentennial celebration will be former resident James J. Kilpatrick autographing his collected Letters to Heather at the Headwaters booth.
During the 1970s and 1980s, when Kilpatrick was living in Woodville and interspersing his three-times a week political columns with accounts of country living that carried the Scrabble dateline, he also wrote letters to his granddaughter Heather which appeared in his column “A Conservative View.”
The first of these was written on the occasion of her birth in July 1970. For the next 16 years columns in the form of letters to Heather appeared each year for her birthday. There were also letters noting the deaths of her other grandfather, former Woodville resident Walker Stone, and her great-grandfather Ben Pietri, a Richmond inventor and sculptor. The final two letters in Kilpatrick’s columns marked Heather’s graduation from Rappahannock County High School in June 1988 and her 21st birthday.
Although several of these letters were reprinted in Kilpatrick’s The Foxes’ Union, a book about his life in Rappahannock County, this is the first time they all appear together. Headwaters, the Rappahannock County Public Education Foundation, has
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