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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON KappahunniH-k News Staff Wrili r
Florence Vickers, Rappahannock’s new home demonstration and 4-H agent with VPI’s extension programs, is no stranger to country life.
A native of West Virginia, Vickers grew up on her parents’ dairy farm in Martinsburg, a junior pamter in the business of milking the herd of 110. "Everybody helps on a family farm," she noted. In addition to regular milking and gardening chores, she and her sister shared responsibility for 500 laying hens who produced the eggs her mother delivered to town every Friday.
Vickers earned an undergraduate degree in home economics and then taught home ec for three years before returning to school at the University of West Virginia for a masters degree in family resources. “That’s just a fancy term for home ec," she added with one of the broad smiles that’s part of her round-the-clock attire.
She sent but job-queeries to extension programs in states along the East Coast. "Virginia at first refused to even give me an application because of the hiring freeze
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