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The staff
of life
By George Rowand
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
When Argia Caporuscio came to this country nearly 50 years ago, she was excited. Married in her native Italy, she and her husband settled initially in the Bronx in New York.
“Back then, in Italy, we really didn’t have much, so if you had anybody call you to come to this country, it was like a gift from God,” Caporuscio said.
Now living in Amissville, Caporuscio spends her time running a farm with her husband, baking bread and making jams and jellies that she sells in the area. The Town Duck in Warrenton carries her bread every week, while Food For Thought in Culpeper carries. her jams and jellies. In the summer, she sells plants at farmer’s markets.
“We’ve been selling her bread for years and people really look forward to it,” said Annette Johnson, owner of the Town Duck. “When she takes a week off, people are very upset. We have customers who have taken it as far away as New York as a house gift. It’s a fave.”
Farm girl
“When I was growing up, I didn’t like to be in the kitchen,” Caporuscio said. “I liked to work on the farm.”
She got her wish when she moved to Virginia in 1979.
“My husband worked in construction (on Long Island, where they had moved), and he started getting work down here,” she explained. “We tried it for six months, commuting from Long Island every week, and there was a lot of work, so we moved to Burke, and then we bought this place in 1980.
“We paid $34,500 for IIand-one-half acres, and we put the house up ourselves — the pond, everything you see, we did ourselves. By the time we moved in, the house was paid.”
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