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Where do the talented Castleton Festival performers stay when they're not on stage? Either at one of Castleton Farm’s own properties or the permanent home of generous locals, who routinely open their guest rooms and cottages for up to six weeks to welcome in relative strangers.
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At its monthly meeting Monday (May 13) the Washington Town Council agreed to support RappFLOW’s cleanup project at Avon Hall, filled a vacancy on the Architectural Review Board and considered allowing bed and breakfasts to serve dinner to non-boarders.
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Check out restaurant reviewer (and longtime Rappahannock weekender) Walter Nicholls' amiable and informed hike though Sperryville's hotspots in the May-June Bethesda magazine.
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Musicals at two Rapp schools this weekend, chamber trios at the Theatre, the Studio School's open house, RAAC's "Uncle Vanya," a new Middle Stree exhibits, the Virginia Chutney Co.'s in the running for an impressive award, recycling with RAWL and more in this week's Rapp.
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Counting down to the 35th annual Fodderstack 10K, welcoming a Chinese pianist to the Theatre, meeting GOP candidate Ken Cuccinelli, remembering the county's Civil War past, becoming a stage hand with RAAC and showing off the improvements to the fire hall at the SVRS open house in this week's Rapp.
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On March 28, in its first meeting of 2013, the Rappahannock County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approved a special-use permit for a tourist home and a variance request allowing a house to be constructed farther back from U.S. 211 in Sperryville.
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As an artist, living in Rappahannock for the past 30 years, Patti Brennan knows the challenges of marketing her work and making a living. Her approach has been “strength in numbers,” and that's where the new Artisan Trail could come in handy -- if it's approved.
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World-renowned singers, many of whom launched their performance careers at the Castleton Festival, will appear in the festival’s fifth-anniversary season this July at Castleton Farms.
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How would you define Rappahannock County? Most definitions would probably include the word “agricultural,” but as the number of actual farms continues to decline, perhaps it's time to be more honest about Rappahannock's appeal.
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The Rappahannock County Planning Commission voted at its monthly meeting last Wednesday (March 20) to approve an adaptive-use permit for Cliff Miller that allows him to rent his family’s old dairy barn as an event venue for 15 events a year.
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We’re told that we humans are to have dominion over the earth, and yet Rappahannock’s springtime reminds us that often what’s most enchanting can be found in precisely those things, and those events, we have absolutely no control over.
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Hard data – and any short drive around the county with the windows down – seem to indicate that business in Rappahannock County, if not booming, is definitely hammering its way back up from the basement.
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The oldest occupied governor’s residence in the United States opened an archaeological exhibit to mark its 200th anniversary.
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A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that the 1.2 million visitors to Shenandoah National Park spent $73.9 million in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 1,050 jobs in the local area.
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A tourist train soon could be chugging its way through historic and scenic Tazewell County and across the state line to Bramwell, W.Va.
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The many features of Fourth Friday, the fortuitous birth of the Castleton Chamber Players, the Bland Music Contest winners, "Argo" at the Theatre, Jackie Labovitz's "Understory," growing an edible paradise and the return of donkey basketball in this week's Rapp.
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On the cusp of February, traditionally Rappahannock’s worst tourism month, here’s a nice change of pace: news of a restaurant opening instead of closing. Sometime this spring, Cliff Miller IV says he plans to open a neighborhood pub and lunch spot in the Sperryville Schoolhouse complex.
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Local Valentine's Day offerings, a well-deserved birthday trip for everyone's favorite dermatologist and Barbara says goodbye (and thanks) after six years of work in this final Sperryville column.
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Washingtonian restaurant critic Todd Kliman reveals how Rappahannock’s own Inn at Little Washington edged out Komi for the top spot in the magazine’s 2013 “100 Very Best Restaurants” this year on the magazine’s "Best Bites" blog.
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Growing up in my native Dublin during World War II, I well remember the U.S. soldiers that graced my city as I would run up to them and ask, “Any gum, chum?” They were only too eager to satisfy my request, as gum was not yet available in Ireland. That introduction to American hospitality...
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Gov. Bob McDonnell has good reason to break open a bottle of Virginia wine and celebrate: Wine produced by the state’s vineyards posted record sales last year.
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At its monthly meeting Monday afternoon (Jan. 7), the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors elected its officers, discussed plans for the money gathered from a donation form attached to county tax bills and debated the overhaul of the county’s recycling method.
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Last Sunday (Dec. 30) marked the end of a four-month, weekends-only experiment by the Thornton River Group to run a second full-service restaurant in Sperryville.
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A report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture this fall provides a detailed look at the varied business models being used by American farms.
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Sperryville's new tourism-heavy direction and the kid-approved benefits of quality, sustainably-raised meat (and where to find some locally) in this week's Sperryville column.
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The Rappahannock Hospitality & Visitors Association (RHVA) wishes to thank the town of Washington, the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office, the Lion’s Club, the Washington Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department, the many volunteers that worked hours on end, parade participants bringing beautiful animals, colorful costumes and floats, our historic grand marshal and exciting guests, the...
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Laura Overstreet, the tourism director hired by Rappahannock County four years ago to coordinate efforts to raise the county’s profile among potential visitors, is retiring effective Jan. 1.
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It’s been true for some time that Rappahannock County’s singularly talented populace, and its mom-and-pop-and-beyond businesses, pop up often in headlines in the larger world – but November brought an exceptional outburst of attention.
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Artistic directors Lorin Maazel and Dietlinde Turban-Maazel this week announced the 2013 season of the Castleton Festival, featuring Puccini’s “The Girl of the Golden West” and a new, unique “La Voix Humaine.”
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The RCHS Veterans Day ceremony, the Bland Music Festival, jazz, Shakespeare and the return of the Castleton Trio, R.H. Ballard's newest exhibit, holiday greens, Farm to Table (and Tour) and boosting local business inside this week's Rapp.
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Recaps of Halloween in Little Washington and the eighth annual Studio & Gallery Tour, details on the Relay for Life survivor dinner/dance and a Cause for Paws raffle inside this week's Washington column.
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The Rappahannock County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approved special-use permits for five new tourist homes at its meeting last Wednesday night (Oct. 24).
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The fourth in a series of artist visits, focusing on Rosabel Goodman-Everard, whose multi-faceted and "edgy" designs are on display during the eighth annual Artists of Rappahannock Studio & Gallery Tour.
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Even Hurricane Sandy is not enough to dampen the spirits of the artists and gallery owners who are gearing up for this weekend's eighth annual Artists of Rappahannock Studio and Gallery Tour, Nov. 3-4.
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The Rappahannock County Planning Commission recommended approval of four special-use permits last week for tourist homes in and around Lorin and Dietlinde Maazel’s more than 550-acre Castleton Farms estate.
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It's Fourth (Estate) Friday (join our news staff for our monthly public meeting at 9 a.m. Friday at Tula's Off Main in Washington), plus artists receptions and lectures on Fourth Friday (and Saturday) in Sperryville, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and Mark Russell at the Theatre, and more.
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The success of the 56th annual House Tour and Dried Flower Sale, the Cause for Paws raffle, Tula's grand opening and the increasingly rare Lions Club apple butter in this week's Washington column.
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An update on the fate of the Sperryville post office, Sperryville's Fourth Friday events and the new products at Copper Fix Distillery in this week's Sperryville column.
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Ongoing events around the county — including the Trinity House Tour, "No Ordinary Person" and RAWL's halloween party, Relay For Life's dinner-dance for cancer survivors, Zagat's top rating for the Inn at Little Washington and more gold for Gray Ghost.
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This is the last of three articles about the 56th annual Trinity Episcopal Church Dried Flower Sale and House Tour (Oct. 20-21), focusing on Woodlawn, the oldest house on the tour.
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