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BY LEE COGHLAN „ Rappahannock News Special Writer
' ^jVho would have thought tliejold Sperryville Junkyard,
located across from the RjQpptainside Market, would
bp^thriving artists communiJSric
Kvarnes did when he bought it. And now he has tilled the 26 acre property iiutft. an empire. The plans were big and are still reaching fruition, as production has been slow. But when the glass hipping workshop is moved to the^recently finished pavilion qnd the bleachers are installed that will accommoclaitV 80 people, Eric Kvarnes WjlTfinally become the teacher Keyset out to be.
Kvarnes grew up in Chevy Chanse, Md., but his dad bought land in Rappahannock Cqjjyity when he was nine ^e^rs old
-Kvarnes says, “In 1961, my fattter paid $15,000 for 150 acres. People laughed at him, be$juse the going rate was
eighty dollars an acre at the time. I grew up two-sevenths of my life here.”
V~]Pe attended Goddard College in Plainville, Vt., because it was experimental liberal arts school with “no te^fs, no grades and no requirements” which would afford Kvarnes the freedom to find his niche. His major course of study was teaching, but he also heavily studied art SuitT theater and glass blowing. ' _ j^vames says, “I wanted to
a teacher because I had so many bad teachers.
They really inspired me. I to6k glass blowing my first semester and I liked that very much and it became more and more interesting. I completed
studies for teaching, but I knfeV I was going to open a glass shop.”
“I became a clown for a year and learned to ride a unicycle, I thought ‘If you can entertain kids, you can teach them.’ That’s where the clown came in. It was a part of edu
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