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Out of the Attic
Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
The headlines from the Rappahannock News of 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from out of the attic.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
The headlines from the Rappahannock News of 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from the attic files.
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Celtic music headed into town
From contributed reports The high-energy pan-Celtic band Iona will take the stage at the Theatre at Washington for the first time at 8 Saturday, April 16. The Washington, D.C.-based Iona describes its shows as offering “traditional Celtic material . . . original acoustic arrangements . . . lively entertaining presentation.” The group...
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
An especially poignant photo from Out of the Attic -- Elizabeth Taylor at the races at Thornton Hill -- and headlines from 50, 25 and 10 years ago in the Rappahannock News.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
Rappahannock News stories from 50 and 25 years ago, and a photo from the attic.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
Rappahannock News stories from 50, 25 and 10 years ago, and a photo from the attic.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for March 3
Headlines from the pages of the Rappahannock News 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from the Attic files.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for Feb. 24
Headlines from the pages of the Rappahannock News 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from the Attic files.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for Feb. 17
Headlines from the pages of the Rappahannock News 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from the Attic files.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
Rappanannock News headlines from 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a picture from the attic files.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
A selection of stories from the Rappahannock News of 50 and 25 years ago, plus a photo from the Attic.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
The news from editions of the Rappahannock News from 50, 25 and 10 years ago, and a photo from Out of the Attic.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
The news from 50, 25 and 10 years ago, as published in the Rappahannock News.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for Jan. 6
50 years ago January 19, 1961 On Friday, Jan. 13, the Republican dinner meeting at Cab Inn was well attended. After a delicious dinner was served by Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Thompsen, and the regular business was conducted, including the reading of a letter from Richard Nixon, a very informative speech was made...
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
50 years ago January, 5, 1961 The Rappahannock Rescue Squad met Jan. 2 at the fire house with 13 members present and Capt. Frank Huff presiding. After the reading and approval of minutes, a report was given on the last dance sponsored by the squad and held at Sperryville. Proceeds from the dance and...
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Out of the Attic/Down Memory Lane for Dec. 9
10 years ago: County Attorney Peter Luke and County Administrator John McCarthy reported that the Sprint PCS cell tower application is still on hold, and that their appeal before the board of zoning appeals of the zoning administrator decisions regarding their application has been continued at their request, until Dec. 27.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for Dec. 2
50 years ago December 8, 1960 Rappahannock County supervisors held their regular December meeting on Wednesday the 7th with Chairman E. M. Jones presiding. Present were Supervisors L.H. Luttrell, Herbert Foster, E.M. Estes, and H. B. Wood. D. G. Wilfong of the Division of Forestry and Raymond Johnson, forest warden for Rappahannock, made a...
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Out of the Attic/Down Memory Lane
50 years ago December 1, 1960 Lyle Updike, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Updike near Washington Va., won second place in the 4-H Livestock Judging Contest, held in connection with the International Livestock Exposition at Chicago. He judged classes of beef cattle, swine and sheep last Friday and on Saturday received...
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Photo: Out of the attic
Posing in front of the family home in 1912 are, from left, Annie Bruce, Edward Bruce, Ruth Bruce Griffith (holding baby Haywood), Virginia Bruce, Robert, grandfather Silas and Benny Bruce, Mary Bruce Whalen, baby Myra and Annie Griffith. The big white frame house, remodeled over the years, sits at Blue Rock Farm, just across...
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Out of the attic
In going through her cousin Brad Nicholas’ collection of their grandmother Zinn’s recipes recently, Rock Mills resident Hazel Zinn-Day came across a book of “Rare Rappahannock Recipes” originally compiled by the Woman’s Missionary Society of Woodville Baptist Church” in 1929, and updated by the missionary societies of the Woodville and Mt. Lebanon Baptist churches...
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Out of the attic
Hezekiah Ricketts built the Ricketts Hotel in Flint Hill in 1869 and it served travelers as well as locals, who used it as a rooming house. Two doctors had their medical practices here. At some point, a saloon occupied part of the space. From 1915 to 1940, girls from the Foxcroft School would stop...
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John B. Kiger, a blacksmith and wagon maker, built Conestoga wagons in this location in the 1820s. It later became the home of the James Hitt family, shown here near the house. The house is still standing today on Main Street, Sperryville. Photo loaned to the Rappahannock Historical Society by the Estes family.
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Out of the attic
Photos/postcards were a gift of the late Ruby Green to the Rappahannock Historical Society. Earl Wayland first ran Bel Air Restaurant on U.S. 211 in Amissville, a popular dance hall, bar and restaurant. It was then taken over by Mary Hall in 1947, who turned it into Bel Air Tourist Cabins. Some locals fondly...
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About three miles west of Sperryville in what is now Shenandoah National Park, students in grades one through six spent their days at the Atkinstown School, which ceased to exist when the park was created in the 1930s. In this photo, taken in the late 1920s, three of the students who posed for a...
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The "Sunbeam Band," as they called themselves, posed for this picture in October 1952 at the Luannah Smith residence in Sperryville. They are, front row, from left, Jackie Brown, "Bucky" Fletcher, Doris Ann Dodson, Michael Brown; second row, Louise Fletcher, Cathy Fletcher, Charles Dodson, Lee Thorton, Joe Brown; and, back row, Janice Lee Dodson,...
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Down Memory Lane / Out of the Attic
Eleven members of the Hiker's Club started at the Pinnacles on Sunday, June 19 and took the trail to Thornton River Gap. The trail wound through woodland carpeted with moss and bordered with columbine and dozens of other wild flowers. Several times the trail came near the highway where some of the members tried...
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Down Memory Lane / Out of the Attic
50 years ago, June 30, 1960: The National Apple Institute has expanded its name to The National Apple Institute, the Apple Growers of American.
E. M. "Ned" Jones of Washington, Va., head of the Virginia State Apple Commission, was elected president of the Institute, which wound up its annual meeting on June 24. A budget...
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Out of the Attic
Seventh grade students at Washington Elementary School who will receive certificates of promotion at commencement exercises are, front row, from left: Wanda Silvey, Gail Updike, Teresa Cordani, Diane Woodward, Linda Martin, Betty Jenkins and Charlotte Printz. Standing in the front row: Randolph Cooke, Arnold Walker, Jamie Tharpe, Wade Massie; second row, Donald Mills, Floyd...
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Down Memory Lane / Out of the Attic
Mayor and council ladies of the town of Washington will come up for reelection Tuesday, May 14. Not having qualified 60 days before election, as required by law, the election will be a write-in-vote. Mrs. Morgan Johnson has announced that she is not a candidate and will not accept the office of council lady...
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Down Memory Lane / Out of the Attic
On the evening of Friday, June 10 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The Sunday School of the Washington Baptist Church is entertaining at a reception in honor of Mrs. J. Frank Jones in recognition of her fifty years of faithful service in the primary department. All of her friends and former pupils are cordially...
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Out of the Attic
This photo was taken at Rae’s Restaurant — circa 1982 — in Washington. You’re looking at the space today occupied by the Country Cafe, though Rae’s also included what is now the Post Office next door. It was sent in by Sandra Cartwright-Brown, who is seated at the table in front with Dan Lewis;...
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Down Memory Lane / Out of the Attic
50 years ago: Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors met Wednesday, May 4 for their regular meeting with Chairman E. M. Jones, Herbert Foster, Landern Luttrell and E. M. Estes present. Mrs. Buntin of the Welfare Department presented a hospital bill for payment. It was agreed to pay the bill with the understanding of being...
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Down Memory Lane / Out of the Attic
50 years ago: April 28, 1960 Mrs. Irvin Wolf of Sperryville was named Chairman of the Finance Committee for the Rappahannock County Library, organized last week to raise funds for the restoration of the old Presbyterian church building on Gay Street. The trustees announced last week that they had received a grant of $3,000...
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Out of the attic
From the Rappsody yearbook of 1961, Rappahannock High School’s first year in operation, this photo was captioned: “Now if you ask me . . .” Said the text beside it: “Behind the production of our annual are hours of work that stretch into months of writing and typing copy, taking pictures, selling . ....
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Down Memory Lane / Out of the Attic
50 years ago April 14, 1960 The County Board of Supervisors at its last meeting empowered Judge Rayner Snead to set up a board of trustees to conduct the business of the new Rappahannock Library to be located in the old Presbyterian Church on Gay Street in Washington. Judge Snead this week announced the...
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Out of the Attic
“Hey, I caught it! I don’t know what it is, but I caught it!” So read the caption under this photo in the 1972 “Rappsody,” the Rappahannock High School yearbook. The yearbook was lent to us by the organizers of the “Across the Years” multi-year reunion at the Link in Sperryville on Saturday, April...
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Out of the Attic
The Rappahannock High School graduating class of 1948, photographed at the old school in Washington, are (back row, from left) Pete Dennis, Arley Estes, Floyd Hitt, Mrs. Burford (teacher),Ed Lawrence, Frank Zinn, William Printz and Billy Ramey; and (front row, from left) Becky Rutherford, Mattie Payne, Evelyn Utz, Margaret Atkins, Lena Mae Green and...
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