A most interesting article and I hope to read more about it in the next issue of WMQ, which, in my view, seems to have gone seriously off topic in recent years. (So off topic, in fact, I am recommending to the two institutions in which I am the accessions coordinator, that we just drop the subscription and replace it with footnote.com). This is the sort of thing WMQ should be writing about. I hope they can tone down the socio-political commentary and stick more to the facts and mores of the time frame which they are discussing.

All that said, what a great find and what a great story. Don't know why they haven't even mentioned dendrochronology to date the building. Seems to me that would be the first order of business. That, and deed work. But, the article is rather silly on facts and details and surely this is being discussed in the real world of WMC. Sounds like a great project for Camille Wells.

My 2c
Craig Kilby

On Jul 23, 2010, at 9:25 AM, rlb6 wrote:

> Washington Post : At a time when some venerable Southern colleges are finally acknowledging and apologizing for their past ties to slavery, an inquisitive scholar at the College of William and Mary thinks he has made a more inspiring find: the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for African American children . 
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/22/AR2010072202858.html 
> 
> 
> Forwarded by Rosanna Bencoach (New Kent) 

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