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By Amy Silver O’Leary
Special to the Rappahannock News
With the assistance and collaboration of the Center for the Study of Local Knowledge at UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation has undertaken a project to investigate and document the history of Rappahannock County’s Scrabble School. The Center for the Study of Local Knowledge seeks to bridge the traditional divide between universities and local communities by creating new models for intellectual and social exchange between academic and lay scholars. Scot French, a historian and Interim Director of the Woodson Institute, visited Rappahannock County several times this summer to collect artifacts and documentation, interview Scrabble School alumni, and meet with other knowledgeable local people about the project.
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