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they would appear in the paper the next week as the Flint Hill social column, one of several columns about local happenings.
Over the years her columns recorded the changes in the lives of Flint Hill residents and Rappahannock County. It was not unusual for Aylor to write about the arrival of a newborn, and then, decades later, to record this person’s graduation, marriage and the birth of another generation.
“The hardest part of the job for me,” she reminisced, “was that people move or pass on. So many young people leave the county.”
When Aylor started the column, she wrote her notes in longhand and carried them to the newspaper office. She particularly enjoyed working with the late Barbara Wayland, who was first a receptionist and then general manager and editor erf the paper for many years.
See AYLOR, Page A10
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