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During this Christmas season, the television news is filled with stories of nativity scenes and Christmas carols being harmed from schools and other public forums.

Many of the comments on Rappnet indicate that there is a lot of division on this subject in Rappahannock County.

There are some who would be offended by the traditions that were a common part of long-ago Christmases in Sperryville, back when the auditorium of the old Sperryville school used to be filled to overflowing with parents and children who had come to see the reenactment of the Christmas story and when carolers on foot and in tractor-drawn wagons were commonly seen making the rounds through Rappahannock County while singing

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