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traits, of which there were many, and, of course, those dentures.
“It's an investigation in the truest sense,” says Rees.
Scientists will then work backward in time to reach an exact and real image of Washington as a younger man, much as forensic scientists work forward to find what missing children look like as adults.
Just like Washington, to whom Rees endearingly relates many topics in conversation, Rees has come from Mount Vernon to Rappahannock. He was “living over the shop” in Mount Vernon and needed a place to get away. He did not choose Rappahannock by sheer accident.
“There are a lot of places out here that Washington crossed. He really got around. This county is enlightened, and I saw a cabin and it was an historical structure, just right for me. And the town here is Little Washington.”
Everything seemed right.
“This was Washington’s proving ground,” Rees says of Rappahannock and its environs. “He learned about land and proved himself here. He was a county surveyor at 23. He traveled through the wilderness of here without help, which was great commander’s training for later on. He was aggressive as a president. He subscribed to the Western expansion, and that started here in this beautiful county and this untouched land.”
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