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Glasker family lived in a three-room cabin, a dependency situated near the bams of Woodville’s largest antebellum estate. Several of his elder sisters attended the nearby Scrabble School, and JW often remembered his own excitement when he began first grade there in about 1934.”
“His excitement for learning was blunted almost immediately by his family’s financial needs. JW”s father took him out of class one day later in that year, saying “Son, you already have strong, agile fingers for a boy. And you’ve picked up a lot of mechanical skills, helping me rig the rakes, and adjust combine tines. I’m going to need you to stay out of school now, and help me on the farm.”
The donor continued the biography of his friend: “Thus commenced the reality of life for many rural black children in Rappahannock and adjoining counties. JW Glasker began a farm laborer’s life, waking well before dawn, hauling water from the
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