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By H. W. HOLSGHUH
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Dreams are coming true in Rappahannock County. . .for Lyle Foster and others enrolled in the adult reading program.
All his life, Mr. Foster has dreamed of learning how to read and write. When he was a tiny tot, his father died and he and an older sister went to live with their grandparents in Flint Hill. Apples needed to be picked and farm chores beckoned for the growing boy, so there was little time for school in those days.
Of course, he learned all the farm routines, including the relationships between pints, quarts, pecks and bushels. He knew how much grain the miller kept as his “toll” for grinding the crop. He recognized the road signs and got his driver’s license in 1941, after passing the state exam verbally. He learned how to raise a family and to cook and keep house after his wife died and even how to put up garden produce for himself.
But he never learned how to read, until now.
Marion Simpson of Slate Mills, a member of Literacy Volunteers of America, has been tutoring Mr. Foster several days a week at the Rappahannock Nutrition Site (now meeting at the Washington Baptist Church, at noon) and she is delighted with his progress. “He has a good memory and really wants to learn,” Mrs. Simpson said.
Mrs. Simpson follows the Lauback Way of Reading, a system developed to train adults to read. The graded books start with pictures of
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