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By Jason Peck Rappahannock News Staff Writer
It’s not the first time someone's tried to write -down the history «f Shiloh Baptist Association. Years ago (me of its pastora tried his hand, producing the meticulouslyresearched, plainly-written tone familiar to history students.
Lanny Horton wanted something different.
“We had a history in 1976,” Horton explained. "That was simply church histories, a lot were just factual histories. We didn’t want this to be.”
As Director of Missions for the Association, a comprehensive history was a dream of his, a goal he set before retiring. He wanted to life and times of a group that originated when the nation was in its infancy.
Now, the end results of those two years has been released.
Entitled, "The Shiloh Stories; Our History of the Shiloh Baptist Association,” the book to take the association’s history to where it’s never been before.
"It happened over a twoyear process,” Horton said. "What we first got into it, I don’t think we really knew what was involved.”
In creating the book, he hired a professional writer for the task. Albemarle County-based writer Rob Hewitt stepped up to the plate.
With 14 years of experience writing books and articles, Hewitt’s most recent writings on local religion included the history of a Baptist church in Little Washington, and another on the religious history of Rockingham County.
He brought a novel concept to writing history: let someone else do it.
To that end, he worked with about 40 members of the Association over the course of a year, helping them write the histones of their own congregation with the information at their disposal. Writing seminars and critiques took place of conventional writing With the project now over, Hewitt regards himself as more of its editor thnn author.
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