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By Betsy Hille
Special to the Rappahannock News
Rayner and Lois Snead will share remembrances of their lives, passages from their books, and talk about their happy marriage of 61 years during a special event Friday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. at the Rappahannock Library.
The evening is hosted by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community.
Have you ever wondered what life was like in Rappahannock in the 1920s and 30s, during the Depression and Prohibition? Which hollows had the best moonshine? Did people really hunt ginseng? Were the mountain folk really partial to such favorite local greens as “merkels” and “creeses”?
What in the world are merkels and creeses anyway?
In those days in Rappahannock, haircuts were a quarter, and a doctor’s house call to deliver a baby averaged $7.50, depending upon distance trav
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