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Malcolm C. MacPherson
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
For a “come here,” Hollywood director and screenwriter, Ron F. Maxwell, has brought to Rappahannock County, his home for only 18 months, a passion and a commitment to preserve the beauty and ambience of his adopted home.
Indeed, Maxwell, 57, is using Rappahannock for settings this summer for a new 20-minute film he has written and is directing, “Young George Washington,” for the Mt. Vernon Ladies’ Association to be shown to Mt. Vernon visitors in a new semi-underground theater complex on the grounds of Washington’s birthplace.
The Rappahannock locations, he saj^s, suit his cinematic needs for being nearly identical to those that his subject took for granted in his own time.
“We can do the whole thing in Rappahannock,” he told a recent visitor to his home off Ben Venue Road near Flint Hill.
“Look out the window,” he suggested. “We live in a 1740 colonial house here. There are locations all over here with (period) structures and the same wilderness as Washington knew. We don’t have to leave here.”
What drew Maxwell to this area, also had to do with history.
It abounds here, and he has enjoyed a love affair with history since his childhood in Clifton, N. J., when his father took Maxwell and his siblings to American Revolutionary War historical sites.
“American history was vivid to me at an early age,” he said.
See MAXWELL, Page A10
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