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for 50 years. The outbuildings were run down and the fields and pastures overgrown. And she knew absolutedly nothing about fanning. But then Mrs. Lucas had known absolutely nothing about dressmaking or running a shop when she launched that enterprise 20 years earlier.
She read extensively on the subject of agriculture, hired a farm management consultant to teach her the rest and Wakefield Manor was on its way to becoming a model farming operation. In 1974, Mrs. Lucas’ son, Col. Robert Dickey, retired from the Marine Corps and joined her in Rappahannock to take over the day-to-day management of crops and cattle. Last fall, the mother-son team was honored as the county’s soil conservationists of the year for 1982.
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