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Scrabble School and its students, Additionally, on June 14, the Rappahannock Wine and Food Consortium will host “Gourmet Rappahannock'’ at The Link in Sperryville for the benefit of the Scrabble School history project.

From a dream of several local Scrabble School Alumni including the late E. Franklin Warner in the mid-1990s, the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation was founded in 2001, The Foundation of “grassroots” volunteers and benefactors accepted the task of first saving the old derelict building while developing a concept for the site that would benefit the community and serve as the repository of African-American history in education and culture during the years that the school was in operation. In November 2004, the County Board of Supervisors concurred with the Foundation’s request to conduct a feasibility study and provide a recommendation for the reuse of the site. The following year, again in

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