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Miss Lucy Conrad returned to Rappahannock last week for one of her periodic visits to the county she’s loved for 25 years.
In a switch on the standard practice that sees American and foreign students trading places. Miss Lucy swapped jobs with county teacher Mary Miller Wood a quarter of a century ago.
Mary Miller traveled to the Canadian province of British Columbia where she lived with Lucy’s sister for a year and taught in public school there while Lucy rented an apartment in the old Sperryville hotel and taught fifth grade here at that neighborhood’s elementary school.
The two women became friends as a result of their shared experiences as exchange teachers and have maintained close contact through the intervening years.
British Columbia is thousands of miles and another country away from Rappahannock County but neither exchange teacher noticed significant contrasts between the two school systems. Lucy recalled only a few changes in the elementary curriculum, anticipated since Canadians could hardly be expected to study Virginia history.
“The main difference was that it was a big city school up there and a little country school down here,” Mary Miller recalled of her year in the port city of Vancouver.
Although Vancouver was and is a major metropolitan area, the island port and its province of British Columbia shared enough similarities with Rappahannock to ward off homesickness.
Both places, according to Lucy and Mary Miller, are blessed with mountains. As Rappahannock is one of Virginia’s least populated counties and was so 25 years
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