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Rappahannock News

Staff Photo/Mark Mulligan BOOK IT: Twenty of Virginia’s most famous houses are featured in the book, “Virginia’s Historic Houses.”

didn’t see her, but many people have. “She is supposed to be the ghost of a disgruntled bride.”

Masson said that she had references from a number of architectural historians, and that helped her gain the access she needed to make the book what it is.

And she has advice for her readers: “You have to go,” she said. “You can’t just get all you want out of this book, you have to go there. They’re working on many of these places, discovering new things about the houses and the people that lived in them. If you went there in the third grade, go again.”

Kathryn Masson can be reached at (540) 364-4543. She is having a book signing at the Shaggy Ram in Middleburg from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16.

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