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BY GERALD OCHS
Rappahannock News Writer
July 4th should prove to be quite a day in Washington, Virginia. Not only will “Festival 2000” draw our attention and lots of Rappahannock folks and visitors, but Sunnyside Farms is scheduled to unveil its Sunnyside Farm Market in the old Mercantile Center on Gay Street.
What a store! You’d have to travel to New York or Milan or Paris to find a selection like that soon to be available there. Sunnyside Farms Director of Production, Michael Randolph, with the assistance of Sunnyside’s GM, Bill Cole, scoured the globe (and the County) to find the “best of class” and to stock those refinished old mercantile shelves and drawers with them. Randolph said that “we want to celebrate the art of food in our store,” and Cole added “and the art of agriculture as well.”
The Sunnyside Farm Market is not only going to be a gourmet’s paradise, but a nice place to sit outside and drink a cup of coffee (Cafe la Semeuse from Switzerland it looks like), have a croissant, and read the Washington Post (or the Rappahannock News) on one of our glorious Rappahannock Sunday mornings.
The restoration of the mercantile center by Kreyling Construction has created a look back as well as a look forward. The interior is now flawlessly done and evokes the feel of a Nineteenth Century general store, though the products displayed force one’s con
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