Culpeper Star Exponent
Published: February 20, 2012 Updated: February 20, 2012 – 12:00 AM
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“Truth! This story is dripping with real events and real history in a high-paced, dramatic form. Also, the characters were very captivating to me—Constance Armstrong, Aaron Ames and Frank Stringfellow in particular. Their personalities were so well defined that it was a joy to write their songs.” These, the comments of nationally recognized song writer Rod Stone, when asked why someone from the West Coast would want to invest so much time …

Two of the love songs written by Rod Stone of Anacortes, Washington for the August 2012 Marching Through Culpeper stage production have captured the attention of a California promoter and one of Nashville’s top music arrangers. My Love Will Never Die and Our Union Shall Be Strong will be professionally recorded in Nashville the week of Feb. 27, 2012, with a full orchestra, male and female vocalists, and a choir. These songs will be marketed nationwide as wedding songs.
“Rod has given us beautifully haunting love songs with universal appeal that …

By Jeff Say, from the Culpeper Star-Exponent Dec. 24, 2011
A historic Culpeper book will be hitting the stage this summer.
Virginia Morton’s novel “Marching Through Culpeper” will be performed on the stage Aug. 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 2012 at Eastern View High School as part of the Civil War Sesquicentennial commemoration.
Aug. 3-4 and 10-11 will be at 7:30 p.m. and the Aug. 5 and 12 will be at 2:30 p.m.
Morton, who wrote the book several years ago, says the process to bring it to the stage has been a …

SYNOPSIS: Headstrong Constance Armstrong of Culpeper, Virginia—epicenter
of the Civil War—struggles to keep her family alive while joining her surrogate
brother, Confederate scout Frank Stringfellow, in espionage. But when she takes
a wounded Union soldier into her home, their growing attraction pushes her
courage to life-changing levels. 
The Civil War Sesquicentennial is generating unprecedented excitement and an enormous upswing in tourism. The Friends of Cedar Mountain Battlefield are spearheading efforts to capitalize on this tourism opportunity in a unique way. Virginia Morton’s popular Civil War novel will be brought to life in 2012 during six …