Today is the retirement luncheon for Free Lance-Star editor and writer Lee Woolf. Lee is one of the most beloved contributors at our Fredericksburg newspaper, as well as other local publications including the Rappahannock Cooperative magazine. He has remained at the top of his game for over 30-years, and we have all been very blessed by both his talents and insights. Although I have not worked directly with Lee, I do write for his lovely wife Gwen. She is just about the coolest editor on the planet, and Lee has an equally stellar reputation with his peers. If you are not familiar with his work, I urge you to visit the Free Lance-Star’s website, and do a search through his archives. From sports, to history, and everything in between, he’s penned something worth reading on it.
We will all miss Lee’s work, but if anyone at the FLS has earned some R&R, it’s him. And he won’t be disappearing either. In his Farewell Column, Lee said that his retirement plans include “a bookstore job that should keep me from becoming a couch potato, some volunteer work with the National Park Service, perhaps some golf, and lots of reading and exercise.” I wouldn’t expect anything less, and I look forward to visiting him out at the battlefield bookstores.
Congrats Mr. Woolf. And we thank you.