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By Helen Williams
Special to the Rappahannock News
“Bunree,” a 1920s home in Amissville, is the first of the three houses to be shown on the 47th Annual Dried Flower Sale and House Tbur, which is scheduled for Oct. 18 and 19.
First in age, this home, whose basement was dug by a team of horses, is also the first to be found on Hinson’s Ford Road, from which all three homes are reached.
The traditional autumn fundraiser in Rappahannock County is led by the Episcopal Church Women of Trinity Church, but the entire community joins in to help raise money for many internal needs, as well as several outreach charities.
The flowers have been dried all summer and are now being used to produce arrangements that will be sold at Trinity Parish Hall during the weekend.
The other two homes that will be shown are The Dickey House on Lost Acres Lane, owned by Gary and Marlene Dickey, and The Deep Woods on Mossie Lane, owned by Bud and Doris Rowzie. Both Lost Acres Lane and Mossie Lane are off Hinson’s Ford Road.
Bunree was built as a summer home for Williams and Eileen Laing, grandparents of Aileen Laing, who now has returned as a full-time resident of the family home, after retiring as a History of Art professor from Sweet Briar.
Her grandparents, Irish bom horse experts living in New York, bought land in Rappahannock because it reminded them of Ireland. They named their home Bunree, after a small salmonspawning stream in the town of Ballina in County Mayo.
Katherine Riley remembers that her Riley ancestors, and the Rowzies built the house and that Ernest Robinson was the stonemason who built the chimney and front gateposts.
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