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By DEBORAH FLINCHUM
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Rappahannock County Elementary School will be full of activity bright and early on March 18. At 6:30 a.m. the seventh graders will be leaving the the county on a journey that will take them into the past to look forward to the future.
Seventh grade teacher Mrs. Lynne Baines remembered how this trip has become a tradition. “Our first trip was in 1972. We’ve only missed one year and that was because of the gas shortage. George Graham was teaching here at the time and he was amazed at the number of kids who didn’t know there was another part of Virginia. They could make no association with a lot of the things we did in history and - science., Williamsburg was basically chosen because it correlated with seventh grade history,” she said.
“Our academic objective is to make the students feel like a citizen of this state by visiting the three capitals — Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond. Culturally, to broaden their minds,” stated Mrs. Baines.
Mrs. Baines summarized the itinerary for this year’s trip.
“The first day we go to Old Jamestown. We see a film. We go-to a museum and then we walk around the island to see the old church tower, the original state houses of Jamestown, and statues of Pocahontas and John Smith. We then have a picnic lunch. Then we go to Jamestown Festival Park. We see the museum, fort, ships, and an Indian village,” she continued.
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