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10 YEARS AGO

October 13, 1999

Rebecca Rector Tupper, Kaite Payne and Mattie Jacqueline Nawrocki, all students at Rappahannock County Elementary School, have been selected as finalists in the 1999 Pre-Teen Virginia Scholarship and Recognition Program to held Oct. 15-17 at the Ramada Inn, Williamsburg. Rappahannock County will soon have occasion to quench its collective thirst for mead, an ancient honey wine said to have medicinal if not magical properties. Smokehouse Winery, located in Sperryville, will open its doors on Oct. 23 to welcome guests to its tasting house and its mead, crabapple hard cider on tap, ahd accompanying good food. An enterprise of Jen Cable and brewer John Hallberg, Smokehouse Winery’s tasting house is situated iiv a unique thatched roof cottage that evokes images of Celtic inns, ancient honey wine makers, and purely Rappahannock good times. Spend the weekend in the country at “Cooter’s Country Jamboree’’, the first ever starring John Schneider, best known as Bo Duke,’ and Ben Jones with “Cooter’s Garage Band* on Saturday, Oct. 23 and Sunday, Oct.24 in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

— Compiled by Jan Clatterbuck

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