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brought their lunches from home.
"We were all eating—everyone but this one little girl who had her head buried in her arms on her desk. I asked the child if she was sick. ‘No ma’am.’ I asked her if one of the other children had said something mean and hurt her feelings. ‘No, ma’am.’ I told her I knew something was wrong, that she must tell me. ‘I’m hungry. We didn’t have anything to eat this morning. We didn’t have anything to east last night either.’ / .
“Well, right off the bat, all the other children shared their lunches with her. I went to see the principal and told him about it and he called all the other teachers together,” Mrs. Keyser recalled.
Alarmed by the spectre of hunger, a phantom stalking undetected through the hollows of Rappahannock, the teachers turned to the children for help. And the hungry children told.
“We found out that there were families that really had no food, no food at all,” Mrs. Keyser said. “We found out there were families where the fathers weren’t working because they didn’t have clothes to wear and it was cold. They didn’t own a jacket!”
It was a few weeks before Christmas when the teachers began their drive to make the holidays a little brighter for these needy families. “Then the men got interested and it expanded through the whole community,” Mrs. Keyser noted.
“We gathered up toys. We gathered up clothes. People who had things at home donated what they r
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