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haven’t retired. I’ve just changed jobs!” insisted Lucia Kilby, a grandchild on her lap and a grandchild balanced on her shoulder as she rocked on the wide front porch.
The lovely old farm house fits its mistress: both are gracious, both reflect the best of things Southern and both are passing through the years comfortably and gracefully. The historic home in the F.T. Valley once belonged to Miss Dolly Hite, author of My Rappahannock Story Book. This too is appropriate, because as librarian at Rappahannock County Elementary School, Mrs. Kilby has been the caretaker of Rappahannock’s story books.
For the first time since the school opened in 1968, she won’t be there to guide the children to the right shelf, to lure children into the world of books at her annual book fair with its wide selection of affordable and entertaining paperbacks, and to put up the call-to-read posters and art work that have amused tired reporters covering the long School Board meetings there after regular school hours.
She’s seen the county’s school system change and evolve since as a coed from the Shenandoah Valley, she met and married Billy Kilby while both were doing graduate work at Ohio State and came back home with the Rappahannock farmer and orchardist. She had her masters degree in home economics as a dietician, “but there was no job for a dietician any closer than Front Royal, and who wants to leave a husband and commute to work in a broken shift?” Mrs. Kilby asked. “Besides, when you married a local man in those days, the School Board parked on your doorstep if they found out that you could teach!”
So she taught, sharing the seventh grade at the old Sperryville school with Mrs. Mary Botts Quaintance. “She was the part-time
(See KILBY, page 14)
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