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Editorial: What’s in a name?
So who named Rappahannock’s county seat “Little Washington?” It must have been recent immigrants from in and around that much bigger Washington, using the Nation’s Capital as a point of reference,...
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Editorial: At one with the earth, at last
Conservation easements and wildlife habitat, subjects of recent Rappahannock News stories, are not the only ways to preserve the county’s open spaces. Here’s another: conservation burial! [...] » Read...
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Editorial: Happy Valentine’s Day!
To C.S. Lewis’s four types of love, a proposed fifth: Call it Amor Terrae — or “Love of the Land.” [...] » Read the full story at RappNews.com
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Editorial: Let it snow
Learning to appreciate snow, and the not-quite-New-England winters we have here in Rappahannock County. [...] » Read the full story at RappNews.com
View ArticleEditorial: Hoping for a spring thaw
A critical look at the Rappahannock News' coverage (or lack thereof) of the so-called "Inn crowd conspiracy," and a possible step toward a spring thaw. [...] » Read the full story at RappNews.com
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The play’s the thing: a magical mirror
Walter Nicklin looks at James Reston Jr.'s play "Sherman the Peacemaker," to be performed in Flint Hill this Saturday, and its take on Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's role in history. [...] » Read the...
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What’s on the unappetizing (but healthy) menu at the Death Café?
Walter Nicklin on how the stories go at his first visit to the “Death Café,” where there's a special, shared intimacy that seems only possible, ironically enough, among strangers. [...] » Read the full...
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Letter from across ‘The Pond’
Here in Paris — France, not Virginia — there’s a wind turbine on the Place de la Concorde, chunks of Greenland ice melting in front of the Pantheon, and stationary, clean-energy bicycles that strollers...
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Here’s hoping 2016 will be a beautiful (colder) year
Is there any ugliness in Rappahannock County, or do we keep it out? [...] » Read the full story at RappNews.com
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Of stones and words
Rappahannock County is blessed with an abundance of interesting individuals doing interesting things, often not widely known. In the interest of community-sharing and in the first of an occasional...
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Reflections on Rappahannock…
In the interest of community-sharing and in the second of an occasional series, Rappahannock News’ Walter Nicklin does a Q&A with Bill Fletcher of Sperryville. [...] » Read the full story at...
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As the world turns and the stones speak…
Sex! Violence! War! Beheadings! Genocide! Climate change! All that and more, here in pastoral, otherwise peaceful Rappahannock County — at 5 p.m. Sunday, June 5, at Stone Hill Amphitheater in Flint...
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Why Hillary Clinton: A president’s character is the nation’s fate
The man, not the party, always gets my vote; and this year that vote goes to a woman — Hillary Rodham Clinton. I urge you to do the same — for the sake of the country and the world. [...] » Read the...
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Fractured: 1968, a year like no other
The way one views 1968 says less about the year itself than about the viewer’s personality and politics. A Rorschach test for what you value. A prism through which all other years are viewed. [...] »...
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Of time and the river
For this was the bloody Rappahannock line that divided Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and the multi-headed Army of the Potomac, the line that served to separate Richmond and Washington. In some senses...
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An old land, forever young
In this respect, geology seems a lot like psychology: you seldom know what personal history lies at the heart of someone else. It could be as psychologically disruptive as tectonic plates colliding....
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At Stone Hill…The Play’s the Thing
John Henry, founder of Stone Hill Theatrical Foundation, answers a few questions about his new production, “Republic For Which We Stand" — premiering on May 28 at Stone Hill Amphitheatre in Amissville....
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As self-defeating as Pickett’s Charge
Growing up during the Fifties and Sixties in segregated, still rural Fauquier County, I would shudder when friends peppered their conversations with the “N-word,” even sometimes teasing me: “Is your...
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Rolling coal and raining retribution
Here in the U.S., virtually alone among nations, a sizeable portion of the population apparently refuses to connect the dots between extreme weather and climate change. [...] » Read the full story at...
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The Post Office Prophecies
Meanwhile, plans are proceeding to close the Sperryville Post Office and consolidate its operations at the new Post Office next to the bank. “After all, the new Post Office is just about as close to...
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