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25 Years Ago
November 26,1981
The pages of the Rappahannock News of November 26, 1981 offered a variety, from a ghost in Flint Hill to a recipe for hassenpfeffer. What catches the eye that week is the letter from one Lanice Waites, who had misplaced her purse somewhere in the Tbwn of Washington. Terribly worried, of course, about the loss of identification cards and such, she approached then-Sheriff Buntin who, she writes, agreed that he and his people would “keep an eye out”. The stray quickly comes to a happy ending with a telephone call from the post office in Amissville, where the purse had been plopped into the outdoor mailbox. Lanice Waites does not spell out if all the contents of the purse were intact, but that’s the way it sounds, for she finishes this way: “In this time of nuclear buildings and nuclear reactors, murder in the streets, unemployment and recession, a simple faith in the goodness of human nature has been restored to me.” Recipes In 1981 one of the county extension agents was Birgitt Thornhill, who in late November offered readers of the News four recipes:
1. Rabbit a la mode, or hassenpfeffer. (This called for marinating the meat in a jar for two days.) 2. Roast venison 3. Bread dressing suitable for a small turkey or a goose 4. Roast wild turkey School A brief column headlined “Panther Tales” bears the bylines of Richie Burke and Lori Frye and reads: I do not think that there is a student who has
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