Feasting around the county this weekend; Huntly's historic post office; Dixieland returns to the Theatre.
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The Rapp for Feb. 16
The Rapp for Feb. 9
How you can help fund the Washington-based PBS show "In Season"; a Black History Celebration this Saturday at Scrabble School; volunteer your assembly skills at the elementary school playground; show your stuff (and the Beatles') at Hearthstone.
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The Rapp for Feb. 2
About wild (and natural) things in your backyard; the Inn crowd (and the in-the-area crowd); more gold for Gray Ghost; baroque but happy at the Theatre.
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Sperryville column for Feb. 3
A winning winter combination of wine, oysters, web-marketing and lots more; Trudi Spires' bares her polar bear soul.
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A good time, and $40K toward a good cause
More than 125 folks enjoyed an evening of good food and fun at the Washington fire hall for the benefit of the Benevolent Fund Saturday night. With tasteful decoration in bistro style and tables full of plates of tasty nibbles and drinks, the hall had become the place for enjoying oneself while doing good...
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Cafe for lease but Rapp Central stays
Reports of the death of Rappahannock Central have been greatly exaggerated.
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The Rapp for Jan. 26
Another Fourth (Estate) Friday meeting with our staff; two Friday films; oysters, Little Washington wine, art and a fundraiser Saturday; Israel at Trinity; uranium at the Theatre.
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Washington column for Jan. 26
A special birthday party; Civil War history and music; ham and oysters at the fire hall and more.
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Sperryville column for Jan. 26
Qi Gong at the School House; artist Barbara Heile's kitchen works; oysters and wine, birthdays and more birthdays.
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Sperryville column for Jan. 19
Matthew Hamilton, Rudy's Pizza's passionate new manager; Helen Wasmund, a living testament to Fauquier Hospital's spinal surgeons.
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Preserving food, preserving traditions
There are lots of tasty foods at Sylvie Rowand’s home in Harris Hollow. Though she has to buy such items as coffee and olive oil from other regions, most of the food Rowand utilizes comes straight from her farm, from neighboring farms and orchards, and from the wild, just like in the days before...
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Sperryville column for Dec. 29
Words to remember for New Year's, a night to remember at Cafe Indigo (and another one this week), and gathering and chatting at Sperryville's breakfast venues.
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Retail back to ‘School’
Retail businesses return to Sperryville School House (formerly the Link), and business is looking up elsewhere.
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The Rapp for Nov. 10
Middle Street Gallery's grand opening, CCLC's annual fundraiser auction, a solar-energy talk at Hearthstone, and RCCA's annual meeting.
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The Rapp for Oct. 3
Maazel auctions his 1873 violin to endow the Castleton Festival; The Inn receives The Post's top restaurant rating again; a Soap Box Derby film event in Culpeper, an RCHS drama encore performance, a Rappcats raffle, "Sudarium" authors at the library and more.
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Cafe Indigo hires Inn sous chef
Sperryville’s Cafe Indigo has hired as its new chef former Inn at Little Washington sous chef Anthony Ahrens. The 26-year-old Ahrens is the second sous chef in as many months to leave the renowned Washington restaurant not for one chef Patrick O’Connell’s many high-end competitors around the U.S. and Europe but for a restaurant...
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The Rapp column for Aug. 11
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative's annual meeting in Bealton • The Taste of Rappahannock is on for Sept. 10 • Remembering T.C. Lea
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Wakefield and Griffin celebrate Bloomsday
Wakefield Country Day School will host a Bloomsday celebration at Griffin Tavern on Thursday, June 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. Bloomsday is a commemoration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, who gave us the novel “Ulysses,” and is appropriately named after the book’s protagonist, Leopold Bloom. The evening will consist of...
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The Rapp for April 28
Upcoming events: Poetry to make the Civil War personal; all the "Proof" you need at RAAC Theatre; another Sperryville "Renaissance"; and a two-course Food Pantry benefit in Washington.
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Add freedom to your eggs
Good eggs are hard to come by — harder than you may think. It seems you can find chicken and eggs labeled "organic" and "free range" in just about any grocery store these days, packaged in bucolic images of rolling green hills and red barns. That is almost never the reality, even among...
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Sperryville column for April 21
Master gardeners at the Coop; a new medic and more for SVRS; happy birthdays, outdoor dining and stay tuned for a choral concert, plant sale, renaissance fair and community yard sale.
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The Rapp for April 14
Local artists at Gallery 251; art, music and the annual Fodderstack, Miss Rappahannock, Celtic music and more in Washington and Sperryville; a monumental Picasso recreation at Wakefield; gold for Gray Ghost.
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Washington column for April 14
Horses drawn at Ice House Gallery; giving a lift to Washington First Baptist Church's steeple; a birthday kidnapping; spaghetti dinner on Sunday and another word from the Hazel River Poet.
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Evening View: A party to protect the land
What has quickly become one of the county’s premier social and fundraising events, the Rappahannock Evening View, will be held Saturday, May 21 at Mountain Green, the home of Ashleigh and Alex Sharp located between the town of Washington and Shenandoah National Park.
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Sperryville column for March 24
Celebrate mutts with wine; a happy Hunter Jenkins birthday; more room for pizza; clean sweep news; adult ballet classes; a school board vacancy.
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Innkeepers offered a PBS series
It appears that innkeepers John and Diane MacPherson of Washington’s Foster Harris House will soon have a lot more to make than breakfast and bike trips. After nearly three years of work on a food/lifestyle/cooking pilot called “In Season,” the MacPhersons were offered a broadcasting and distribution deal by PBS this week.
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Band Coffee House: Be there
Enjoy fun musical performances, good all-you-can-eat food, and great community camaraderie? If so, the Sixth Annual Panther Band Coffee House may be for you!
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Washington column for March 3
Local Girl Scout wins the Gold Award; Trinity sponsors a workshop on conflict; WVF&R Ladies Auxiliary Thrift Shop wants you to see what you can fit in a big for $5; another Sunday in the Country cooking class; a jellybean-counting expert wins at the post office.
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The Rapp for Feb. 24
Restaurant doings around the county; summer camp help from Headwaters; "The Kids Are All Right" is RAAC's next Friday movie; Middle Street artists show and tell.
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Sperryville column for Feb. 10
A visit home from Tyler Hartman; love at the Copper Fox; meet Cheryl Lynn Herrmann; birthdays and the Virginia Wine Gazette's Web site.
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Sperryville column for Feb. 3
Another year of outstanding service from the Sperryville Rescue Squad; time for Miss Rappahannock registrations; the Sperryville committee considers tourism issues; Valentine's Day specials in the county; a super and silly time at the Benevolent Fund dinner; Triple Oak Bakery will bring you lunch; get well to Rebecca Abecassis.
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Letter: Benevolence becomes us
Kudos to all who worked so hard to make the Rappahannock Benevolent Fund dinner on Saturday night a success. There was great music, delicious food, laughter and hugs all around. It brought together a cross-section of the Rappahannock community, in the broadest sense, at the Link to do good – illustrating once again why,...
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Washington column for Jan. 20
Elementary students and Jeff Brown take on heart health; Sylvie Rowand takes on more Sundays in the Country cooking classes; a successful Washington fire hall breakfast and transfer of power.
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A full course for this year’s Celebrity Waiters
It takes a whale of a lot of organizing, collaboration, planning and preparation to put together the Rappahannock Benevolent Fund’s “Celebrity Waiters” benefit dinner. And an impressive group of folks are involved in making a success of the event, which starts at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Link. In the midst of one...
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Celebrity waiters meet to plan Jan. 29 dinner
Update on the Benevolent Fund's annual Celebrity Waiter Dinner Jan. 29 at the Link in Sperryville.
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Sperryville column for Jan. 13
James D. Russell, who died Jan. 5, was a pillar of the community who was loved by all who knew him. We extend our condolences to his family. From J.D. Hartman comes a heartwarming story about Mr. Russell. In 1992, J.D. opened a barbecue place beside Mountainside Market in a building owned by Mr....
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Sperryville column for Jan. 6
Sperryville's 2010 in review, history of a stone wall; Reynolds Memorial's mission trip; condolences and best wishes.
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Dig this: root vegetables
As a professional chef who grew up on an organic New England farmstead, I’m deeply drawn to vegetables grown underground. I find them mysterious and otherworldly.
Like geodes and gemstones, they come from a universe that I know little of. They drink in the nutrients from dark soil and transform them into perfectly imperfect knobs...
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Washington column for Dec. 30
New Year's customs, including a recipe for black-eyed peas; an early Christmas present; sympathy and birthday wishes.
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Cafe Indigo’s Carosi hopes to Shaker things up
Like so many routes to Rappahannock County, Sebastian Carosi’s was supposed to end somewhere else. “We had come down from Maine, we were maybe looking for someplace warmer to live,” Carosi says, speaking of the car trip that he and his wife, Heather, and his young son Zander, made to Virginia two months ago...
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