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women of Washington and the countryside used beautifully - detailed little molds to impress a delicate design on their precious butter. Mrs. Anna Jenkins, Ruby’s mother, like many other Rappahannock women, used a tiny square mold to turn out individual pats of fancy butter for special dinners.
On the kitchen table are many items: the old almanacs that contained household hints for rural women as well as planting dates and weather forecasts for their husbands; a beautifully embroidered handmade tablecloth given to the museum by Mrs. Havstad and made by her grandmother well over 150 years ago; a cookbook by Mrs. Margaret Compton, a Rappahannock School teacher who published it in 1924. Mrs. Compton taught in the little “Rabbit Gum” school, the first in town. She was generally considered to be one of the area’s finest cooks and in her cookbook, New Delineator Recipes, you can find a recipe for everything from a club sandwich to Lady Baltimore Cake, all presented in the “modem” style adopted in the twenties.
Leaving the kitchen, you pass by an ancient pie safe and enter the second room that Miss Jenkins has restored - the school room.
Here she has assembled treasures from past Rappahannock schools. On the little desks lined up in rows there are old textbooks - the same ones that were actually used here. At the Academy, or “Rabbit Gum” School, students read from McGuffy’s readers and spellers, from Smith's Grammar, from Davis’s Arithmetic, and from the Spencerian Copy Book. Students of geography used the definitive textbook of the turn of the century, written by M. F. Maury who advanced the somewhat radical idea that “the teacher should teach as well as hear recitations.”
A high school student in 1890 was graded on no less than nineteen subjects: Reading, Spellings Arithmetic, Geography, Physical Geography, Penmanship, Civil Government, Physiology, Geology, Composition, Grammar, Orthography, History, Algebra, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Botany, Drawing and Deportment. Teachers who chose to teach as well as
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