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By Bruce Sloane
Special to the Rappahannock Newt
In 1952 Polly Aylor, then a young high school student, wrote her first Flint Hill social column for the Rappahannock News. She enjoyed writing it so much that she kept on doing it, and doing it and doing it, for more than 50 years.
Finally last month she decided that she had been writing the column long enough. It was time to move on, retire and let someone else have a hand. And so, without fanfare, the baton was passed to her successor, Joanne Welch.
Aylor liked talking with her neighbors and keeping up with their lives. Each week she would call friends and neighbors and ask them what they had been doing of note.
With this information, she would then write about their achievements, graduations, marriages, births, visits, and other happenings that she thought would interest others. She took her handwritten notes to the newspaper office where
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