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My husband and I had
been living quietly down on the farm in Rappahannock ;■ for well nigh a decade when j we were approached by mem'< bers of Spring Mountain School in the spring of 1996. ; Due to a mid-term bankruptcy situation, which was impeding them from holding classes in their school, they asked us if we would put at their disposal a structure on our property that could func• tion as a temporary teaching area.
With some misgivings we put them up in a small house that had always been on the farm. That summer the school regrouped as a parent’s co-op and renamed itself “The Hearthstone Whole Family Learning Center”. Parents and teachers asked if we would allow them to continue to run the school on the farm.
By that time we had come to know the children well and had become familiar with the philosophy of the school which taught values that we associated with the Rappahannock life style: selfreliance, solving problems through dialogue, learning to love nature and the arts, and respecting the tranquility and safety of a rural setting.
We renovated a bam and enlarged schoolrooms. Permission to have the school at Castleton was applied for to the Planning Commission and subsequently granted. For three years we have watched the school prosper academically and have been cheered by the sounds and faces of happy children.
Some time ago it was proposed that an application be made to increase enrollment from 45 to 115. Two reasons were given:
1. each class would then have an optimal average of nine
2. the school could thereby
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