“Woodville’s history is a series of layers, and one of those layers was the 1960s and 70s when the hippies came to the community,” said local historian Misty Hitt Wright whose family ties to the village date back to the 1840s. Beginning in the mid 1960s, William Lane...
In a county rich in artists, Robin Barker Purnell holds a unique position. A Rappahannock resident and wife of a senior American diplomat, she traveled the long weaponized U.S.-Soviet divide at a time tensions were loosening, and established an artistic presence in...
Photos | Headwaters Harvest Festival 2023 The Headwaters Foundation hosted its second annual Harvest Festival at Eldon Farms last Saturday as a celebration of Rappahannock County’s rural roots and commitment to education. The festival boasted many activities for both...
Bill Dietel obit portraitBill Dietel at Over Jordan Farm in 2016. Longtime Rappahannock County resident and philanthropist Bill Dietel, 96, died peacefully at his Flint Hill home, Over Jordan Farm, surrounded by his family Tuesday night. Dietel, who lived in the...
Ed Gannon Inn general managerPrior to coming to Little Washington, new Inn general manager Ed Gannon helped launch a 700-acre resort in California’s Napa Valley. Ed Gannon, The Inn at Little Washington’s new general manager, is taking on the storied enterprise’s most...
Washington’s Architectural Review Board unanimously endorsed the sweeping expansion design advanced by the town’s chef and innkeeper, Patrick O’Connell, after a succession of residents said they trusted that the new and revised buildings wouldn’t overwhelm the quiet...
If not for Ben Raines, the world wouldn’t know one of the most dramatic stories of the last 163 years. In 2018 upriver from Mobile, Ala., this former journalist discovered the wreck of Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach our nation. Moment of...
Woodville, a blink of a hamlet that’s a 60-second drive-through between Sperryville and Culpeper on U.S. Route 522, may be the smallest village in Rappahannock County, but it has a rich, colorful history and now, evolving possibilities for its future. Woodville’s...
How engineers are making it fit for development For many in Rappahannock County, the approval process for Rush River Commons was the main game. But behind the scenes teams of engineers already were busy, wrangling with their own major task: how to build on a site that...
2022-09-Reisler-Play-3-web.jpgBoomie Pedersen performed the one- person play with brightly painted masks by Mary Bartlett helping set the scene. Julie Portman’s play tells story of a dream that took her to India 50 years ago “Inside each one of us, there is a place...
Remembering era of rotary phones, change that came next Remember the time before cable, satellite and wireless telecommunications, back when AT&T had a monopoly on phone service in the United States? Award-winning filmmaker Cliff Hackel, a long-time Rappahannock...
Rapp son Ben Raines dives into river, discovers ship shards Ben Raines, author of “The Last Slave Ship,” is coming to Little Washington Theatre on Sept. 16 to discuss the story of the criminal transport of slaves to the United States in 1860, and his own discovery of...