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Article fallout
elicits response
News
ANALYSIS
By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Whether the article, which ran in the Sept. 23 Washington Post Food Section, influenced the Washington Tbwn Council appointment is a matter of conjecture.
Whatever the intent of writer Walter Nichols, part-time Gid Brown Hollow resident and Post food editor, the article was neither kind to the town nor flattering to The Inn’s owners.
The whole slant of the article portrayed the town as backward and petty: “But only artistic license could make such a movie a comedy. Recent goings-on fall under the heading of stereotypical small-town infighting and backbiting.”
The article named the mayor’s wife, Eve Willis, and Carol and Newbill Miller as spreading the false rumor that The Inn was being sold to the Marriott Corporation, which was going to use it as a training center, thereby eliminating The Inn’s contribution to the meals and lodging tax. It said Reinhardt Lynch and Patrick O’Connell accused Willis of buying votes with small gifts — a felony — and stated that Newbill Miller screamed at O’Connell for planting a tree by The Inn’s kitchen.
“It was insulting to people in the town to infer that they could be bought,” said Willis in response to the article’s accusation.
See REACTION, Page A2
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