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By Sallie Morgan
Rappahannock News Writer
The second of RAAC’s new Friday at the Library series is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. and will feature two individuals who have spent a great deal of time capturing and recording Rappahannock County history and stories.
Wayne Baldwin is a Rappahannock native who has collected a wealth of stories through oral history, genealogical research, and a personal crusade to preserve local family cemeteries.
Laura Matthews, author of "A Ramble through Rappahannock," is a professional editor and writing consultant, who moved to Amissville in 1991 and became fascinated with the unique character of this community. The following article describes what inspired Ms. Matthews to write "A Ramble through Rappahannock."
It was not one of those inspirations that arrives in a blinding flash of light, engendering a feeling of exhilaration at the start of a project. Instead, the idea for A Ramble through Rappahannock crept up on me much the same as the sprawl on the horizon has been working its way south and west from Washington, DC, for the past few decades.
Early in the 1990s, I had moved from Southern California to that smidgen of Amissville situated in Culpeper County just east of Rappahannock County. As I became familiar with the general area, I began to wonder about the stretch of highway meandering toward Shenandoah National Park.
Friends who had bought a house in Viewtown said that county zoning restrictions prevented anyone from building on fewer than twenty-five acres. Having stopped in at the Viewtown General Store, with the village post office nestled in a corner across from the checkerboard, I was captivated by this virtual living museum and tangible link to the county's past. When those same
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