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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
When Rose Ann Sharp saw a little log cabin in the Virginia Discovery Museum in Charlottesville, she said, “We have got to have one of these for CCLC. Somehow, I will come up with the money to do this.”
That determination has paid off, and a one room log cabin, made by Chris Bird and Neal Shoemaker, was installed in the main room of the Child Care and Learning Center last Saturday. When they arrived at CCLC Monday morning, the children were delighted with their new cabin, and immediately moved furniture and other items in to make it their own little home.
Ozzie Pace donated the oak and poplar trestle table and benches that now sit in the center of the cabin. Mrs. Sharp said the cabin is being used as a housekeeping area for the children. It encourages role playing, she said, and they can practice playing adults. There is also a kitchen set up along one side of the cabin.
The cabin was paid for with $700 from the late Aubrey Keyser, a grant from the Virginia Council on Child Day Care, and Dick Bull, a board member of CCLC, who mule up the difference. Mrs. Sharp filled out the grant application for quality enhancement funds, which also helped to pay for a reading loft, stage area, and costume area. She said “We are turning our community room into a classroom.”
Mr. Bird and Mr. Shoemaker began building the log cabin in a barn on Mr. Bird’s property about two months ago. “It was a rainy day project,” said Mr. Bird.
The oak logs were salvaged from an old bam and cut to size. The two carpenters used power tools, such as a Foerster drill bit, and hand tools, such as chisels, to make the tenons and mortises to hold the logs together. After starting a hole with
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