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Our View
Good ideas
The Living Towns workshop held last
Thursday at Cliff Miller’s SchoolHouse in
Sperryville could be the start of something.
Keynote speaker Joel Garreau was a good choice to inspire, energize and perhaps coalesce community members into continuing the dialog that was started.
High speed Internet rose quickly to the top as a “must have” in order for businesses to operate effectively.
Telecommuting is an option that many, weary of long commutes, have embraced. While no one wants big development in Rappahannock County, sophisticated home offices can provide the serenity of the countryside coupled with the complexity of communicating worldwide.
Perhaps we need more.
While there is tendency for many to not look beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains for inspiration, there may be something to thinking regionally when it comes to luring tourists to the restaurants, bed and breakfasts, galleries and wineries nestled here.
A wine connoisseur from Chicago might appreciate knowing that he or she could traverse the Piedmont region stopping in Madison County at Barboursville Winery, then swinging through Rappahannock to check out Gadino or Gray Ghost or Rappahannock Cellars and then on to Fauquier’s Oasis, Linden or Peramund. As far as wineries go, it’s a fair list and with the reputation for Virginia wines escalating worldwide, this area is fast becoming a Napa Valley of its own.
And then there’s the artists. In fact, it was Garreau in an article that he did for the Post, where he referred to the Piedmont as the Taos, New Mexico of Virginia.
The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community will be sponsoring the third annual Artist’s Gallery and Studio Tour in November. Each year, it jpst keeps growing and getting better. The word is spreading. Perhaps one day it could be a week-long event where art lovers visit several counties in one long “string of pearls” as was talked about at the workshop.
Rappahannock County was chosen for the first time as the site for this workshop which encourages people to think about what they’d like to be - now and in the future.
Perhaps this thinking will lead to more conversations and those conversations will provide the momentum to act — so that what we have is preserved but what could be possible is pursued.
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