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Scrabble School featured
in/‘Second Friday at the
library’ series
By Amy Silver
Special to the Rappahannock News
The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC) and the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation will co-sponsor an information and discussion program on “Scrabble School: Respect for the Past, a Dream for the Future” on Friday, January 13 at 8 p.m. at the Rappahannock County Public Library. The program is the first event in the 2006 “Second Friday at the Library” series hosted by RAAC. The general public is cordially invited and the admission is free.
Now boarded up, its twin chimneys looking a bit wobbly, the Scrabble School building and the two-plus acres of ground on which it sits are about to be revitalized and once again become an asset for the county and its citizens. “Beginning as a grass-roots effort, alumni and friends of Scrabble School have been holding reunions, homecomings and public information sessions to involve citizens in the effort to ‘reclaim, rehab and reuse’ this old, neglected building that once was a school for AfricanAmerican children,” commented Bob Lander, president of the foundation. “Collaborating with RAAC to further
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