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By Claudia Mitchell
Special to the Rappahannock News
Esther and Franklin Schmidt had already transplanted from New York City to Arlington in 1972 but it was the toss of a coin that brought them to Rappahannock County. Heads would be a horseback riding weekend in Sperryville and tails would win a whitewater rafting weekend. Rappahannock won and the couple fell in love with the beautiful rural county which was - in so many ways - the opposite of their New York City origins.
This Friday evening they will share their experiences of over two decades of photo shoots and road trips as guest speakers at The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and The Community (RAAC) Second Friday at the Library Series.
Franklin remembers that the first photograph he took in Rappahannock was in 1973 and it was of Billy Wayland’s barn. The Schmidts kept coming back to the county on weekends and in 1979 bought an old farm house outside of Woodville. But it wasn’t until 1984
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