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“Little shop, little shop of horrors . . . bop sh’bop . . . little shop of terror . . .” The mammoth undertaking of a full-length musical production surfaced in the seemingly innocent and most unlikely of places – the Rappahannock County High School auditorium!
Last weekend, in a two-night sensory extravaganza (May...
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The Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department is looking for a few good underwriters to help put on its fourth annual Rappahannock County July Fourth Celebration, and the new Visitors Center is hoping to train more than a few good volunteeers on May 12.
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The Rapp Happenings section lists events, generally in Rappahannock County, on a space-available basis. (The rappnews.com Web site will always list all calendar items we receive.) If your event absolutely must appear in the paper, on a certain date, please call Rappahannock News advertising consultant Patti Engle at 540-878-2417. Listings must be received by...
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What's so funny? If you attended “What’s So Funny,” the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and Community (RAAC) Theatre's latest offering last weekend, the answer was immediately obvious. From start to finish, the production illustrated how life can be funny in both amusing and poignant ways.
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Betsy Apple, center, widow of food writer and “Far Flung and Well Fed” author R.W. “Johnny” Apple Jr., chats with CBS News correspondent Bill Plante and PBS’ Terence Smith before the three, as well as publisher and Washington mayor-elect John Fox Sullivan, gave brief readings from Apple’s food memoir – all as part of...
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An exhibition of the new work by Viviane de Kosinsky, “Thought for Food and Beyond” goes on display at the R. H. Ballard Gallery this weekend in Washington. A gallery reception, with Gadino Cellars wines and light hors d’oeuvres, is 4 to 7 Saturday (May 8) with the artist present.
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On Friday, May 14, the Rappahannock Association for Arts and the Community (RAAC) welcomes author Maggie Kast as the featured program for its “Friday at the Library” series. Kast’s sister is Rappahannock resident Sally Nash. Given that connection, the author is well known here in the county and was a featured artist at a...
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Ice House Gallery and Geneva Welch Gallery, both on Washington’s Main Street, join forces to present a special exhibit entitled “Little Galleries – Little Artworks.” Samples of their small but powerful artwork are shown. The exhibit runs May 8 through May 30. For more information, call 675-3332 or 675-3039. Pictured here are details from...
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Master story teller Jon Spelman is coming to Rappahannock! Describing him as “the best company imaginable,” The Washington Post once said that “in Spelman’s hands storytelling is an art, not to be missed.” The Washington Times wrote of his “must-hear spellbinding skill. For the thrills and excitements, giggles and scares of an oral roller...
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When fire destroyed the Rappahannock home of Lynn and Joe Horning, right, in 2007, among the many art works destroyed was a large wood and metal sculpture by local artist Thomas Mullany, left. Lynn Horning had purchased Mullany’s “1st American” in 1994, when she worked with Troyer Gallery in Washington, D.C. As they went...
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The details of the Rappahannock Evening View benefit for RCCA, a vegetable garden for the county jail and informational Earth Day shopping bags created by students studying endangered species.
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The Rapp Happenings section lists events, generally in Rappahannock County, on a space-available basis. (The rappnews.com Web site will always list all calendar items we receive.) If your event absolutely must appear in the paper, on a certain date, please call Rappahannock News advertising consultant Patti Engle at 540-878-2417. Listings must be received by...
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If there is any doubt that spring has arrived in Rappahannock County, look at all the blooms: Not just on the verdant landscape but inside, where art inspired by the landscape blooms.
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The final performance in the 2009-2010 season of the Smithsonian at Little Washington concert series will take place on Saturday, May 8 at 8 p.m. The concert is a joint presentation by the Smithsonian Chamber Players and the Theatre at Washington, and will be held at the Theatre. The program consists of sonatas for...
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At the “Across the Years” Rappahannock High School student/staff reunion attended by some 200 people last weekend at Sperryville’s Link community center, most of the rites of passage of high school reunions were followed — including having a laugh over old yearbook photos, as Donna Atkins and Mark Raiford are doing, and dancing with...
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For the past few years club leader Kim Nelson, second from right, and her mother, instructor/basket weaver Nancy Wheaton, standing at left, have been leading the young members of the 4-H Basket Weavers Club and teaching them the art and science of basket-weaving once a month. At a recent meeting, from left: Kayla McGhee,...
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Retired diplomat and county resident Bill Ryan of Amissville has taken on a new challenge as a playwright with his third play about Thomas More entitled “Thomas More: The Last Hour.” The play will be performed at a “Renaissance in Rappahannock” gala at Rappahannock Cellars on Saturday, May 8, by actors that include Rappahannock’s...
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As a follow-up to the classes at Rappahannock Elementary and a field trip to the Thornton River at the Link, the students were asked to submit essays on their experience, with a winner to be selected and announced in the Rappahannock News. From 38 entries 10 semifinalists were chosen and then five finalists —...
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First the missile gap. Then the science-education gap. And now this: the woeful lack of dancing knowledge among our young people. We find, to our dismay, that American children are far behind their counterparts in other developed societies. We even find that Rappahannock youth might be lagging behind their peers in Fauquier and other...
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From contributed reports The Castleton Festival returns this July with an impressive array of opera and concert performances and an additional full week of programs. The music of Puccini takes center stage with a new production of the beguiling one-act operas that comprise “Il Trittico ― Il tabarro,” “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi.” The...
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An opportunity to learn from Farm-to-Table students, a prestigious volunteer award for a Sperryville man, Miss Rappahannock and more.
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For close to 60 years the annual Miss Rappahannock Pageant has provided an evening of community support and camaraderie. On Saturday, friends, family and fans of the participants, who ranged in age from seven days old in the baby category to the seven women participating in this year’s new over-20 category, once again helped...
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Ben Mason hears voices. The lifelong musician came to Rappahannock County a decade ago in part because . . . well, if you’ve been here for any amount of time you already know this, really: They’re louder here. Though the Castleton singer-songwriter is the first to admit to being a little crazy — in...
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Tucker Hill’s work lives on after his death. On two consecutive weekends in May, the Etlan-based artist, well known in the Rappahannock County arts community, will be honored. The Firnew Farm Artists’ Circle’s Mother’s Day show is, in the words of its founder Trish Crowe, “dedicated to the light and creative spirit of Tucker...
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Saturday marked the graduation ceremony for Joy Virginia Alther of Washington. Proud parents, grandparents and friends gathered to celebrate the special occasion at Gid Brown Bible Baptist Church in Washington. Pastor John K. Burke introduced and offered the opening invocation. He thanked the Lord for the blessing of Joy Alther. It was a heartfelt...
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The ancient Irish festival of Beltane, or May Day, signals the end of winter and the coming of summer. It will be celebrated at the Theatre at Washington with a concert beginning at 8 p.m. on May 1, when Washington, D.C’s award-winning Celtic ensemble, the Ocean Quartet, joins forces with members of the Washington...
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The Rapp Happenings section lists events, generally in Rappahannock County, on a space-available basis. (The rappnews.com Web site will always list all calendar items we receive.) If your event absolutely must appear in the paper, on a certain date, please call Rappahannock News advertising consultant Patti Engle at 540-878-2417. Listings must be received by...
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The Rappahannock County Nonprofit Center, which offers support activities to nonprofit groups such as churches and fire departments throughout seven Blue Ridge counties, is bringing back “partner” dancing on Saturday, May 1. The Spring Dance will be held at the center’s building in Sperryville, the old schoolhouse which is now The Link. Dancers will...
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Amissville’s Narmada Winery has a fetching exhibit up through June 1 in the tasting room of photos by John A. Bechtold, an advertising photographer based in New York City for 30 years. An Amissville resident the last 15 years, Bechtold worked for such magazines as Gourmet, Food and Wine and Cuisine, and his clients...
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By John W. McCarthy The Fodderstack 10K Race is at 9 a.m. Oh, and we’re moving the starting line. Last year, for the first time, the Fodderstack 10K Race began at precisely 9 a.m. The race started fine with no pile-up of over-eager type A runners, no children pushed aside by the overly aggressive,...
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Tucked up in a small corner of Oventop Mountain is a spring-fed pond filled with water life and two ingenious floating structures created to give frogs a place to breed and thrive. Water Cradle and Frog Habitat are the creations of Sperryville home designer Nan Reddick. Koi had flourished in this pond, but the...
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By Ray Holland Special to the Rappahannock News Everyone needs an escape now and then. Whether from the rigors of spring cleaning, garden planting or the daily drudgeries that tie us down, we all need a diversion. The RAAC Community Theatre is ready to help by providing highly talented actors to facilitate a getaway....
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White’s winning performance Michelle “Mimi” White, of Flint Hill, won first place for her flute solo at the Virginia Lions’ regional Bland Music Contest last month in Gainesville. Her rendition of “La Flute de Pan” qualified her for the Lions’ District Contest, encompassing northern Virginia, on April 16 in Alexandria. Two judges gave White...
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The Rapp Happenings section lists events, generally in Rappahannock County, on a space-available basis. (The rappnews.com web site always lists all calendar items we receive.) If you your event absolutely must appear in the paper, on a certain date, please call Rappahannock News advertising consultant Patti Engle at 540-878-2417. Listings must be received by...
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Special to the Rappahannock News R.H. Ballard will exhibit new paintings by Thomas Mullany through May 2 and will hold an opening reception 4:30 to 7 this Saturday at the gallery to meet the Washington, Va.-based artist and enjoy his work. There will be light food and refreshments, and Amissville’s Narmada Vineyards will be...
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On roads paved with words and notes, Woodville’s John Tole entices his listeners to travel into the past — particularly into our country’s past. “Music provides a nice vehicle for showing how people felt at various stages in our history,” says Tole. More often than not, Tole lingers in his journey in the mid-1800s,...
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John and Beverly Sullivan’s historic Washington home, The Meadows, is the featured cover story in the June issue of the national magazine Old House Interiors. The article, photographed and written by Rappahannock County residents Franklin and Esther Schmidt, depicts a full house tour and describes the history of the Sullivan house dating back to...
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Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout 2008, Random House Trade Paperbacks Reviewed by Kathleen Grove This is the latest in an irregularly appearing series of reviews of books that are likely to appeal to or particularly relate to the Rappahannock reader. Many of us Virginians have spent a few days, a week, or a month...
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The Middle Street Gallery is presenting a special exhibition of works by its new members through April 26. Patti Brennan, an artist from Sperryville who works in stained glass, Paula Endo, a photographer from Amissville and Patricia Underwood, a printmaker from Castleton and Washington, D.C. will show their works. Mary Brownstein, a sculptress from...
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By Sallie Morgan On Friday, April 9, the Rappahannock Association for Arts and the Community (RAAC) welcomes author Preston Browning as featured speaker for the RAAC Friday at the Library Series. Having grown up in the Culpeper-Rappahannock area (his parents hailed from Rappahannock County) and gone on to teach English at the University of...
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