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she spent in the classroom and the library, Mrs. Kilby sees only one moment fraught with tension and the potential for crisis. “That happened when I was a substitute the first year. Jimmy Orange had an accident, and the blood was just spurting from his wrist. I clamped a piece of gauze over the wound, scooted him up to Dr. Snead’s office and then to the surgeon’s in Culpeper. The artery was cut, and he had nicked the veins,” Mrs. Kilby remembered. “That was my tensest moment. I don’t want to live through that again!”
But there are no other unpleasant memories. “I learned so much from the children, and I liked the children so much,” she emphasized. “I don’t think anyone should go into teaching if they don’t like children. That’s the most important thing. You can be a smart person. You can know your subject matter perfectly. But you just can’t stand at the front of the class and give out information. You have to see the children, see that they are getting it, digesting it.”
She’ll miss them when school starts without her this September. But she won’t be idle. Mrs. Kilby will catch up on her needlework, volunteer at her church and the county Historical Society and help Ainee Massey, the new librarian who will take her job at RCES.
The stand of a tractor intrudes on the conversation. Oh, by the way, will she take a more active part in the farming operation?
Lucia Kilby just laughed. “I’m a farmer’s wife, not a farm wife,” she said. “I didn’t grow up on a farm. I don’t know anything about it. Billy threatens every so often that he’s going to put me on a tractor, until I remind me, ‘You can barely stand
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