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Spring Mountain closed in May of 1996. The school finished the spring term in the old Washington High School, at that time renamed Spring Mountain School. Teachers finished the term without full pay. I remember well our final closing circle in the main hall as tears ran down many cheeks. Children really lost their school then. The current issue with the application for Hearthstone does not threaten to close the school, I hope.
Two letters have been sent to me as a property owner in Gid Brown Hollow regarding the Hearthstone expansion issue. While I find the communication and clarification of intention thoughtful, I am not a neighbor and feel it to be unnecessary in relation to an issue that directly affects the people living in the neighborhood of the proposed application. What the Chateauville Foundation offers to our county is of superb artistic value. That much of the building was designed and built by some of Rappahannock’s own makes it even more special to our county.
The alternative education that Hearthstone offers is of great value to those who choose it. The staff and teachers are some of the most nurturing, understanding people a child could know. The children who attend, love it.
I write this with all due respect to the Maazels and with fondness for our Hearthstone friends, But my main intention in writing was to honor the challenges and humanity, the spirit and vision that Spring Mountain School brought to our family for years as it endeavored to bring Waldorf education to Rappahannock County.
Barbara Sherwood
Gid Brown Hollow
Washington
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