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 The Vintage Years • February 24, 2005 • 11 Vintage Profi le ✦ Allen Marple Active retiree plays major role in local arts foundation by Robb Hoff the price of subscriptions at the seat on its board, where he Shortly after Allen Marple very reasonable level they are served with the ballet’s corpo- began his four-decade, inter- now and secondly, will enable rate support campaign, major national career in corporate us to attract even more well- gifts drive for a new ballet banking and the investment known talent,” said Marple. home, executive and finance industry, he first visited Lan- He cites his background in committees, and director of the caster County during his hon- the investment industry in ballet endowment fund founda- eymoon with wife Joan at the addition to his experience in tion. Tides Inn in 1960. running businesses and past Eventually, Marple became The Marples would return involvement with non-profit chairman of the ballet’s board. frequently over the years to organizations as assets for him As ballet patrons, he and wife stay at the Tides during Thanks- in his role as RFA president. Joan underwrote a production giving, where they based their “I’ve had a lot of experience of “Desire” by the company. holiday travels to family gath- in fund raising and I’m not The ballet returned this erings in Richmond and Alex- the least bit bashful about season and the Marples donated andria. asking people for money,” said a pair of tickets for a Ches- After his retirement in 1998 Marple. “And if you believe apeake Academy fund-raiser as president of Spectrum strongly in the mission of an that was won by Dickie and Investments Inc. in Toronto, organization, it’s quite easy to Anne Carpenter of Irvington. Canada, the Marples picked lead, especially if you have a Besides being regulars at Lancaster County as the home- talented group of directors like RFA events, the Marples reg- site for their retirement. we have.” ularly attend performances by Marple’s involvement with the Canadian ballet and main- the RFA is not the first time he tain their dual Canadian and has dedicated time and energy American citizenship. VINTAGE COMMENTS to a performing arts group. Besides being president of Married 44 years, Allen Marple and his wife, Joan, today call While Marple lived and the RFA, Marple is a director the Merry Point area home. worked in Toronto, his interest of the Cheaspeake Academy Allen Marple in ballet eventually led him to Foundation, a director of Bay Age: 68 raise funds for the National Trust Company and chairman “There was a lot of reasons tion supporters with the success Ballet of Canada. of the governance and com- Longevity secret: Physi- for coming down here,” said of RFA projects that include His fund-raising activities for pensation committees of Bay cally active, community Marple. “We didn’t want to the “On Stage” performance the ballet company led to a Banks Inc. involvement, and intellec- retire in Canada. The taxman is series, student programs in tually engaged. rather unfriendly there and the schools, and community show- “It seems to me there’s winters are rather long. case events such as the kind of a Newton’s law for “We said, ‘This is a nice Lancaster High School band every diminution in phys- area,’ It’s got four seasons, but Christmas concert in 2004 that ical capacity, there must they’re all balanced.” raised $7,000 for the band to be an equal and opposite With the help of White Stone participate in New Year’s Day increase in useful experi- realtor Patt Lawler, the Marples parade festivities in London, ence.” found property to their liking England. in Merry Point. They then “I think it has paved the road Greatest infl uence on my had Lancaster County based for a successful repeat in the life: My wife, Joan. “She’s architect Samuel Nuckols and years ahead,” Marple said of been an incredible sup- builder Robert Bragg design the LHS band’s Christmas con- porter of everything I’ve and build their retirement cert. done. Picking up and home, which was finished five Marple added that the quality moving to various places years ago. of the band’s Christmas concert Allen and Joan Marple present fl owers to the National Ballet of around the world and par- “It was the most successful performance was quite good. Canada after a performance. ticularly supporting my building experience you can “It demonstrated the talent involvement with the imagine,” said Marple. and musicality of these young arts.” Since his retirement to Lan- people,” said Marple. “I think if Advice to youngsters: caster County, Marple has been you closed your eyes and then “Invest in yourselves actively involved with the Rap- opened them, you wouldn’t through education and pahannock Foundation for the have expected them to be teen- involvement in the Arts. He began his involvement agers.” community by helping at the invitation of RFA found- The spectrum of the RFA others.” ing director William Moore and venue also includes promotion became the director of develop- of the visual arts. RFA pro- What makes me happiest ment in charge of fund raising vides funding for Rappahan- today: “Being able to give for the RFA’s events, funding nock Art League shows and back to the community. support, and enhancement of scholarships. Having run businesses, the 500-seat Lancaster Middle Marple encourages the com- you develop a capacity to School theater. munity to continue support of work, which for many of Since 2003, Marple has RFA through subscription for us is not tested in retire- served as RFA president. performances, annual ment, so in a very real “Our mission in life is to pro- donations, and funding of the sense the involvements I mote both the performing and RFA endowment funds through Rappahannock Foundation for the Arts president Allen Marple have in the community visual arts,” said Marple. wills. are a gift back to me.” (left) presents Lancaster High School band director Robbie Marple credits RFA direc- “As the endowment funds Spiers a check to help fund a band trip to London, England, in tors, volunteers, and founda- grow, it will enable us to keep 2005. 12 • The Vintage Years • February 24, 2005 Medicare offers Nuttsville seniors needed seniors new benefi ts Local seniors are eligible for Seniors with diabetes are at for oral history interviews a new round of benefits includ- greater risk for health com- Residents and former residents from Nuttsville and and compilations from Mary Ball Washington Library ing physicals, according to plications including blindness, the surrounding area 70 years and older are being and old newspaper accounts are a treasure trove of Susan Everett, regional direc- kidney disease and cardiovas- sought for oral history interviews. history,”Barber said. “Filling in with the memories tor with Medicare Today. cular illnesses. Early detection The only testimonials left in Nuttsville are the old of people who lived and experienced those events or “Many seniors aren’t aware is critical in preventing serious houses. Photographs are scarce. knew the people who created them brings it to life.” that the new Medicare law illness. Bernadette Barber, who keeps the town’s historical Interviews will be conducted through July. Those is providing new and exciting • a “Welcome to Medicare” website, www.nutsville.com, is trying to fi ll in a lot of interested in participating, or those who know of benefits to improve the quality physical. For the first time, gaps. others who may be contacted, may call Barber at of lives for Medicare benefi- Medicare will pay for new “Gleanings from court house documents, books 462-7255 ciaries,” Everett said. enrollees – anyone who enters The Medicare Modernization Medicare for the first time after Act, passed by Congress in late January 1, 2005 – to have 2000, created the new prescrip- a complete physical examina- tion drug benefit that takes tion. 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By Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi “Come unto me, all ye that their wedding and returned five January 13, 2005, was just labour and are heavy laden, and years later to Weems where another day of many for Mar- I will give you rest,” she quotes they raised their family. garet Cora Thomas Webb. the book of Mathew 11:28-30. She had all three of her chil- Celebrating her 105th birth- “Take my yoke upon you, and dren before she was 21 and day on that date, Webb’s learn of me; for I am meek Cockrell jokingly says, “I guess life—38,393 days and count- and lowly in heart: and ye shall there wasn’t anything else to ing—has spanned the 20th cen- find rest unto your souls. For do then but have babies.” tury. my yoke is easy and my burden Webb worked part-time at “I thank God for letting me is light.” her father’s canning factory be this old, but I don’t think A lifelong member of Camp- along with her four sisters we need to put it and brother, all of in the paper,” said whom she has out- the modest cente- lived. narian. “I just thank “I thank God for letting me be this old, “The only work God for letting me but I don’t think we need to put it in the she did was for the live that long.” fun of it,” said Born on January paper.” Cockrell. 13, 1900, to —Margaret Cora Thomas Webb Also for fun, Samuel and Annie Webb and her hus- Thomas, Webb has band would travel lived most of her life in the bell Presbyterian Church in by horse and buggy to nearby tiny waterfront town of Weems, Weems, Webb “was going to Wharton Grove for camp meet- rearing three children there and Campbell before she was born,” ings. outliving two. said Cockrell. “Her mom and “When I was young and went Her daughter, Gen Cockrell, dad helped to get the church over there, someone had put and around-the-clock nurses started.” my name on a tree,” said Webb. tend to Webb’s needs. Married at the age of 16 to “And that tree is still there.” Although her memory is bad Ernest Webb, she enjoyed 72 Living through countless at times, Webb can always years with her husband before technological advancements, recite verses from her favorite he died in 1988. The two Webb admits she preferred an book, the Bible. moved to Baltimore just after old-fashioned horse and buggy ride to an automobile. “I never did like to drive a car,” said Webb, who probably only drove a handful of times in her life. She and her husband also had one of the first telephones in the Weems area. Ernest was a Maggie Webb poses in her father’s work clothes in the 1920s. truck driver for Standard Oil Company in Kilmarnock and was constantly on call. Serving so long,” said Webb. “It was fact, she doesn’t take any med- as a secretary of sorts, Webb the good Lord.” ications on a regular basis. would field his calls. 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By Reid Pierce Armstrong Demierre camoufl aged these declined, explaining that he is a Blame it on the continent, documents in young Recht’s cruiser, not a racer. blocking his way to Tahiti. Blame photo albums. The instructions But there was no one else pos- it on James Michner and his book were to give the albums to the sessing Recht’s abilities. So the Chesapeake. Blame it on the coin fi rst British offi cer who addressed club asked him to simply cruise toss that picked the Chesapeake him as Kiki. the racecourse so the crew could Bay over the Panama Canal. Or, Recht left Switzerland in get the feel for it. He would blame it on the war of 1812, August 1942 and arrived in Por- be at the starting line when the which put Kinsale on the map. tugal eight days later. In Lisbon other boats started, and he would Jacques Recht ended up as Vir- he sent a telegram addressed to follow the same course, just cruis- ginia’s premier winemaker by his father, England. He had no ing along. accident. The 74-year-old Bel- specifi c address for his father and Oddly, as the fi nish line drew gian made a career building the no way of knowing if the tele- near, Recht was surprised to see Virginia wine industry. Nearest gram arrived. that they were in the front with and dearest to his heart was Ingle- When the plane arrived in Bris- a few other boats. He trimmed side Vineyards in Oak Grove tol, England, most of the passen- the sails a little and they began where he served as resident wine- gers were taken to the hangar for to pull ahead. He trimmed them master for 15 years. interrogations. Two Rolls Royce a little more, and they won the Recht’s fi rst calling was not to cars were waiting. One was for race. winemaking, however. In his life- a woman who resembled Lady His ocean sailing career had time, he has had many careers – Churchill. The other was for only begun. each representing his great pas- Recht. Recht always wanted to build his sion and his eternal quest for It was then that the French- own boat. He built a 36-foot rep- knowledge and adventure. speaking British offi cer addressed lica of an ancient Polynesian-style Recht as Kiki and he handed over catamaran equipped only with oil A secret career his albums. lamps and a sextant. He and Liliane During World War II, at the Recht was reunited with his navigated by the stars and slept in age of 12, Recht served as an father in Bristol where there were the hulls of the pontoons. agent for the Swiss Secret Ser- celebrations in his honor. He For two years they sailed it vice in its covert efforts to aid signed autographs for little girls around the world, exploring the the Allies. He carried documents and the newspapers all wrote arti- African coast and crossing the hidden in a child’s photo album cles about his journey. Atlantic in half the time it took through occupied France to Spain Word soon got back to the Columbus. and Portugal and, fi nally, to Eng- Gestapo, who informed Recht’s They were in the Caribbean land. There he turned the album mother in Brussels of her son’s and hurricane season was fast over to an austere British offi cer arrival in England. Recht’s mother approaching. Anyone living on who spoke perfect French and threw a fi t, hurling ashtrays across their boat had two options, make a used Recht’s code name “Kiki.” the room and screaming that her dash to the Panama Canal or head Recht’s father was a career mil- husband had stolen her son. north to sheltered waters. Recht itary offi cer and civil engineer. Jacques Recht She managed to convince the had recently fi nished reading He also happened to be one of Nazis that she had no part in her Chesapeake and was intrigued. Europe’s best experts in explo- when I look back on those tragic fact that Switzerland had declared son’s escape. A year later, Recht’s So they tossed a coin and their sives. events, I always remember the its neutrality. mother and sister also escaped destiny was decided. When the war began in 1940, funny things that happened,” Demierre had become Recht’s to Switzerland where they stayed “If the coin fell differently, Major General Recht fl ed to Eng- Recht said. “I guess that’s how hero. He wanted more than any- for the remainder of the war. our lives would be different and land to join the army there. we survive. We remember the thing to become a secret agent The family reunited in Brus- the wine-making industry in Vir- Young Recht remained in Bel- good and forget the horrors” and to be sent on a mission. sels in 1945. ginia would be different,” Recht gium where he lived under Nazi In 1941, young Recht qualifi ed When the three months were (continued on page 16) rule with his mother and sister. for a Swiss Red Cross program over, Recht agreed to undergo A nautical career He knew nothing of his father aiding malnourished children. a tonsillectomy to justify an He met his wife on a streetcar for two years. When he arrived for a three- extended stay to the Germans. in Brussels after the war. They VINTAGE COMMENTS “It always amazes me how month stay in Geneva, he was When the second deadline arrived rode the same train everyday – placed with the family of Fer- for Recht’s return to Belgium, he to school, she to work. They Jacques Recht nand Demierre, an offi cial for the Demierre gave him a choice: he shared the ride for two stops. He Swiss Secret Service. could return to Belgium or join thought she was winking at him Age: 74 Recht was amazed to learn that his father in England. and decided he had to talk to Longevity secret: Always it was Demierre who had helped Recht did not hesitate. Despite her. She explained that there was have projects. his father escape to England. the dangers for a 12-year-old something wrong with her eye Demierre had sought out young traveling alone through war-torn and she was trying to focus it on Greatest infl uence on my Recht and applied for him to Europe, he wanted to join his an advertisement. life: My wife: It’s a love come stay with his family under father. The following months Her name was Liliane. They affair and love is peren- the auspices of the Red Cross were spent obtaining a passport have been married for 50 years. nial. program. and visas for his trip. Together, they learned how to Advice to youngsters: “In While Recht lived with the Shortly before his departure, sail. Recht became a master of your career, choose an Demierres, he attended school, agents brought back the minutes navigation. He wrote a book on activity which pleases you devoured Swiss treats, skied in of the Petain-Goering Conference using the sextant and became a like a game so that you the Alps and became familiar in St. Florentin and a report on sailing instructor. are playing all your life.” Secret agent “Kiki” is reunited with the steady stream of Allied the results of the raid over St. The Royal Yacht Club asked with his father in Bristol, Eng- agents that passed through the Nazaire by Canadian comman- him to skipper the Belgian ship What makes me happiest land, during World War II. Demierre household, despite the dos. in world ocean yacht races. He today: Wine making 16 • The Vintage Years • February 24, 2005

Recht looks forward to his next career . . . (continued from page 15) said. “We would be drinking Pina After Ingleside was up and years consulting wineries in Texas chainsaw to it. Coladas in Bora Bora.” running, Flemer asked Recht to and New Mexico. Their fi ve-acre vineyard has The plan was to travel up the consult with other vineyards in He recently agreed, as his gone to the birds and the deer. Potomac River to visit a friend at Virginia and to do the same thing retirement project, to be the wine- The Swiss Secret Service has the Belgian embassy in Washing- for them that he did for Ingleside. maker for Athena Vineyards near released documents about its ton, D.C. Then they would sail If they are making bad wine, he Wicomico Church. efforts to aid the Allies during the Great Lakes and down the explained, it refl ects on all of Vir- “I have been seduced by these the Great War. They have ques- Mississippi River. ginia wines. women,” he said. tioned Recht about his life with Recht consulted vineyards such the Demierres and “Kiki’s “ mis- A winemaking career as Accomac, Applehouse, Misty Another career sions. Their chart noted that the fi rst Mountain, Oackencroft, Oasis, Recht lives in an octagonal Recht is looking forward to casualty of the War of 1812 was Stonewall and Tarara. He also house that he built for his wife on beginning yet another career as in Kinsale, and Recht stopped to consulted wineries in New York, Nomini Creek. an author. visit. The Belgian fl ag and their Pennsylvania, West Virginia and They have a new boat and con- He is currently writing a book unusual vessel beckoned to the Iowa before he retired in 1995. tinue to sail, but the old catama- that brings together two of his curious. The Rechts were always Retirement lasted roughly 30 ran is still tied to the dock, a greatest passions – Greek mytho- quick to make new friends, and minutes. conversation piece for neighbors goloy and wine. some newfound sailing comrades Recht spent the next seven who refuse to let Recht take his His pen name is Enopion. invited them to a party. At the party, they met Carl Flemer, who was delighted to learn that the stranger was an enologist (Greek, meaning study of wine). Recht had studied chem- istry in school and later became a Recht and wife Liliane sailed professor of enology at the Uni- around the world for two years versity of Brussels. For 25 years, on this Polynesian-style cata- he consulted wineries around maran. Europe, primarily in Greece and North Africa. Flemer had just started a new months, three months turned into vineyard near Colonial Beach three years and three years 804-435-7776 • Chesapeake Commons, Kilmarnock, VA and had been desperately seek- became 25 years. ing a winemaker. He had sent his son to France with instructions to bring a winemaker home. Recht politely nodded as Flemer told him about his plans for the vineyard. Recht agreed to stop in Colonial Beach and taste Flemer’s wine. “It was awful,” Recht recalls. The Rechts continued up the Potomac and stayed with their friends in Washington for nearly a week. The ambassador held a banquet in their honor. While there, the embassy received a letter from Flemer asking Recht to please stop in Colonial Beach on his way back down the Potomac. His son had Call us! returned without a winemaker. His grapes were ready, and he had no one to help make the We always have wine The Rechts reluctantly stopped in Colonial Beach and agreed to stay for three weeks to help with Truckload Pricing! the wine making before traveling on to sail the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi River. During those weeks, Recht dis- covered that Flemer had not yet acquired his license from the department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. 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Women sites Members are often toning “When I went to my oncolo- their biceps beside neighbors, gist, he said ‘Mary, how’d you Lancaster County firming their legs next to co- lose all that weight?’ and when Chesapeake Commons, workers or dancing with rela- I told him, he wanted to know if Kilmarnock. Hours: Mon- tives. they have anything for men.” days through Thursdays, It’s a place where “every- A strictly all-female facility, 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 3 body knows your name,” said Curves promotes fitness and p.m. to 7 p.m.; Fridays, 6:30 71-year-old Jane Higgins of well-being more than weight a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Irvington. “It’s like old home loss. That’s not to say it doesn’t to 6 p.m.; and Saturdays, 9 week. I always see lots of happen. The Kilmarnock a.m. to noon. 435-7776. people I know.” Curves’ members have collec- Mathews County With 613 members, it’s hard tively lost thousands of pounds Crickett Hill Road, to go into the Curves in Kilmar- and inches. When joining, new Hudgins. Hours: Mondays, nock without seeing a friendly members are weighed, mea- Wednesdays and Fridays, face or two. surements of their waists, arms 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 “It’s like a huge support and legs are taken and body fat p.m. to 7 p.m.; Tuesdays group,” said 73-year-old Vir- percentages are checked. The and Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 1 ginia Peck, a member and part- measurements and weigh-ins p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.; time employee. are then done once a month. and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to Billed as a 30-minute com- But more than weight loss, noon. 725-3400. plete workout, the Curves said Jones, “at my age I’m regimen of hydraulic resis- suscepible to high blood pres- Gloucester County tance paired with cardiovascu- sure and diabetes and all sorts York River Crossing in lar training, is well-suited for of things. I need something to Gloucester Point. Hours: women of all ages. Some 235 combat that. Mondays through Fridays, of Kilmarnock Curves’ mem- “I’m just so glad the Lord 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 bers are 60 or older. Eight Carol Vangunten strengthens her arms on the bicep/tricep directed me to Curves,” she p.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sat- members are over 80 years old; machine. added. “It’s helped me to lose urdays, 8:30 a.m. to noon. 58 are between 70 and 80;169 weight and regain my well- 684-0877. are between 60 and 70, and being.” Main Street in Gloucester 190 are older than 50. “I’m just so glad the Lord directed me to Curves. Higgins plays tennis and Courthouse. Hours: Mon- Owner Judy Otis is 68. walks, but to supplement her days through Fridays, 7 a.m. “How many people start a It’s helped me to lose weight and regain my well- routine works out at Curves to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 new business in their 60s?” being.” three times a week. p.m.; and Saturdays, 8:30 asked Otis. —Mary Jones “I see a lot of young, thin, a.m. to noon. 694-0148. She heard about Curves from Merry Point attractive girls that don’t need a friend and was so inspired to be there to lose weight but she went to Texas for training. are there for the fitness,” said as she is for muscle-toning, and A week later, she was certi- Diane Heavin. In 1995, the first “After going around one Higgins. “In some ways I’m “it’s something she plans to do fied. Curves franchise opened and in time, you work on all the major jealous, not because they’re for the rest of [her] life.” One of the hottest franchises the first 90 days the Heavins muscles,” said Otis. “And as we young or thin, but because I Peck also plans to “do in recent years, Curves Inter- sold 10 franchises. we get older, that’s important. wish I had had a Curves long Curves” for as long as she can. national Inc.,was founded in In the company’s first seven Our bodies, especially wom- ago. I know it’s something “It’s a great approach for Texas in 1992 by Gary and years, Curves established one en’s upper bodies, lose strength they’ll do forever.” older people,” she said. “As facility for every two and our legs lose muscle. “ Higgins said she’s not work- you get older, you get a lot of McDonald’s restaurants in The wonderful thing about ing out as much for weight loss (continued on page 18) America.Today there are over the hydraulic resistance, says six thousand franchises in the Otis, is that the intensity level U.S. and nine other countries. is driven by the user. The faster It’s hard to go anywhere a person moves, the more resis- without spotting the trademark tance she encounters.Slower purple sign. With international movements mean less resis- locations in the Bahamas and tance. 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These are their stories. a member of the University of Mary Washington Board of Governors, a well-known Rich- Deputy sheriff started work by clearing land mond area school teacher, and an accomplished writer and pho- by Robb Hoff tographer. Allie Armstrong, 81, of the In 1927 at the age of 12, Norris Claraville area was the fi rst Afri- got her fi rst job at E.B. Wood & can-American deputy in Nor- Brothers Tomato packing house thumberland County. He was a at Hartfi eld. For most people, a community fi xture during his job results in being paid with years of service with the sheriff’s money, but for Norris her fi rst department from 1969 to 1989. compensation came in the form However, some 30 years before of tokens. Armstrong became deputy, he The packinghouse had an Ruby Lee Norris as a young earned his fi rst paycheck by clear- agreement with several local school teacher. ing seven acres of family-owned general stores in the commu- land and planting tomatoes on nityóstore tokens were paid to part of the property near where workers and the packing house he and wife, Inez, live today. would reimburse storeowners in “That was my fi rst time having Allie Hayden Armstrong today says youth should seek educa- cash for the amount of tokens a paycheck and putting a few spent at their store. pennies in the bank,” Armstrong tion and put God at the head of their lives. “When I was a child, there said of the $54 he made. “I went were four tomato factories in on up to Heathsville Bank, put when the call came to leave Wake and one in Hartfi eld,” said it in the bank, and opened up a Haynie Products and enter the Norris. “There was one or two checking account and got a check Pictured here in 1969, Allie fi eld of law enforcement, Arm- near Urbanna and there was Dan- book.” Hayden Armstrong was the fi rst strong was ready to answer it. iel’s in Deltaville.” Armstrong cleared the prop- African-American deputy for “They decided they wanted to Although E.B. Wood & Broth- Norris is an accomplished erty, dug up brush, and burned the Northumberland County hire a black deputy and some of ers only canned tomatoes, some writer and photographer. piles of debris in addition to using sheriff’s offi ce. the people from the community factories also canned herring, horses and plow to prepare the and the churches worked with herring roe and string beans. worked there,î she said. “I would part of the land for growing toma- Hooper. The decision to write to the board of supervisors and they “The factories were real beg to go because Mama and toes. her was a fateful one because carried my name in,” said Arm- important to this area,” said Daddy didnít want me going, but “When I went up there and after the war, the two married and strong. Norris. “That was Depression I had to go because everyone in cleared it, it was already a family lived in New York for almost 10 Armstrong was active in the times and money was tight for the neighborhood was going and cemetery then but the fi eld had years until they returned to Nor- First Baptist Church of Heaths- everyone.” that’s where all the fun was.” grew up,” said Armstrong. thumberland County. ville serving as chairman of the “I’d peel tomatoes [with a Norris went on to teach school Armstrong recalls he did the The couple have been married trustees board, fi nance commit- knife] and drop the meat into for 37 years. She taught at work during his teenage years now for 58 years. tee member, and leader for youth a bucket. The tomatoes would Kilmarnock High School, before he joined the U.S. Army “Like I say, God has blessed programs. A former student of come to me in a wire basket and Urbanna School, Middlesex during World War II, serving in me and continues to bless me,” Claraville Graded School, Arm- I’d get 5 cents worth of tokens High School, Foxhill School and Europe. said Armstrong. strong stressed the importance of for every basket I’d peel. I could several high schools in the Rich- When Armstrong was stationed Upon returning to Northumber- God, respect for others and your- peel seven or eight baskets in a mond area. at Ft. Dix in New Jersey before land County in the 1950s, Arm- self, and education in life. day, which was 35 or 40 cents a As her last job in Richmond leaving for the war in Europe, strong worked in the menhaden “Because if you get the educa- day, and that was a pretty good she taught at a humanities center. he decided to correspond with fi shing industry for Haynie Prod- tion, the other things will fall into day’s work for a kid.” There she wrote and edited three a young lady he knew from ucts for 15 years as a machinist place and God will help work At that time, there was a fed- textbooks. Northumberland County—Inez and machine operator. However, things out,” said Armstrong. eral child labor law that kept After World War II, she children under 14 years of age worked with the G.I. Bill of from working. The law changed Rights to organize and adminis- Foxwells woman mastered work ethic on family farms in 1935 to allow these children ter a private high school in Phil- to work. adelphia for veterans returning by Robb Hoff “Mr. Wood knew about the from the war. When Lila Rose wasn’t attending the one- law and if an inspector came, Since retiring, Norris has taken At the age of 18, there was a signal for all of us room Adventist School in Kilmarnock, she Lila Rose posed on yet another profession as was earning her keep on the family farm of children to run as fast as we a photographer and writer. Her for this photo in could to get out of the build- tomato and corn fi elds, chickens, and dairy W ashington, works have appeared in numer- cows. Rose was one of nine children who ing,” said Norris. “We were told ous regional magazines and she D.C., when she to grab our glove, knife, bucket helped work the family farm during the Great started working as specializes in gardening and Depression on 80 acres in Bluff Point near the and stool and run. (They used a local history stories. a junior statistical glove on one hand to hold the current site of Indian Creek Yacht and Coun- clerk in 1942 for She graduated from Mary try Club. tomato.) The inspectors came Washington College and earned the War Depart- several times when I was there, “I wasn’t too big so I couldn’t do a lot of ment. her masters degree in humani- what the others could do, but I had my cow— but we never got caught. ties from the University of Rich- that was my cow to milk,” said Rose, now of “It was against the law for mond. She is currently on the children to work in the factory, University of Mary Washington (continued on page 5) but most of the kids in the area Foundation and Alumni boards. The Vintage Years • February 24, 2005 • 5

Selling oysters door-to-door Lila Rose . . . (continued from page 5) by Larry S. Chowning for 60 cents. We also sold oys- Foxwells. ters by the gallon to grocery Rose’s black, white-faced cow, William (Witt) Garrett, 83, “Noddle,” was a fi xture of her of Bowlers Wharf got his driv- stores, but I don’t remember what the price was for them. childhood from age 5 to 12. erís license when he was 14 “The whole time after I learned years old and shortly thereafter “Weíd get up at 5 a.m., load the truck, head through King to milk, she was my cow,” said got his first real job delivering Rose. oysters door-to-door in Rich- and Queen, and stop at Walker- ton to sell oysters there. Then And “Noddle” left an indel- mond. ible memory for Rose in more On Saturdays, Garrett and a weíd head over to Richmond and Highland Springs,” said ways than one. friend from Dunnsville would “I still got her footprint on my deliver oysters in his fatherís Garrett. “We’d sell all day and get home around supper time.” big toe,” said Rose. “She stepped 1931 Model A Ford, the back on my big toe and wouldn’t get of which was converted into a Witt’s grandfather and father Today, Lila Rose works as the ran C.P. Garrett and Son Oyster off.” truck. Witt and his friend had On the family farm, Rose was secretary for the White Stone a regular route from Walkerton House on the end of Bowlers United Methodist Church and Steamboat Wharf on the Rap- also given the job to operate the to Richmond. hand-turned milk separator that for Lighthouse Real Estate in “We sold to grocery stores pahannock River. Kilmarnock. “When my grandfather died, separated the cream from the and I had door-to-door custom- milk. She also churned butter and ers in Richmond too,” he said. Mr. Neil, who owned every- thing in Bowlers, took over the tended to young chicks to keep check was for $14.40, which was “I’d sell a quart of standards for them from smothering. 45 cents and a quart of selects shucking house and my father mainly used for rent, she said. went to planting seed oysters. Witt Garrett today “I always had something to After the war, Rose returned He also had a small three-man do,” said Rose. “But that wasn’t a to Lancaster County to start and shucking house,” said Garrett. I would go out and board the bad place to grow up on a farm.” raise her own family. But the call “Daddy had a double-end log boat about 2 o’clock in the However, as the Depression for civil service for Rose would canoe named the ‘Clipper.’ He afternoon when theyíd unload. continued, life on the farm came return. bought fi sh in her and would sell Weíd get the money from the to an end when Rose’s parents “I always thought that when I fi sh around the neighborhood. buyboat captain for the total relocated to Washington, D.C., to left that time that I’d go back to “We also raised alfalfa hay. number of bushels and then fi nd work. work for the government,” said We would bale the hay and take it back to Daddy, and heíd Rose moved around to stay Rose. haul alfalfa to Port Royal in the pay the men off,” said Garrett. with different family members From 1966 through 1989, Rose canoe to sell to lumber opera- Garrett graduated from until she also moved to D.C. at worked in different capacities at tions,” he said. Center Cross High School in age 16 and attended high school. the U.S. Army’s Fort Eustis. She “Daddy hired oystermen who 1939 and from Hampden-Syd- After high school, she returned commuted from her home in Fox- were black men living in the ney College in 1943. He is to Lancaster County to live on a wells during that time. neighborhood. They worked World War II veteran who farm that family members bought “It looked to me when I came my father’s oyster beds in my fought in the Pacific Theater. in Alfonso across from the post across that bridge, it just felt dif- fatherís boats,” said Garrett. Before retiring, he farmed and offi ce. ferent,” she said. “I wanted to ìIt was all piece work and worked in the family oyster Then the U.S. involvement stay on this side.” my father paid the men 10 or business. A classmate at old in World War II started. Rose For the past decade, Rose has 15 cents for each bushel they Center Cross High School was took and passed the civil service served as secretary of the White caught. the well-known late Judge Wil- exam. At age 18 in 1942, she Stone United Methodist Church “Sometimes we would actu- liam T. Bareford of Middlesex, headed back to D.C. to work as and also continues to work for Witt Garrett during WWII ally sell to an oyster buyboat. a lifelong friend. a junior statistical clerk for the Lighthouse Real Estate in Kilmar- War Department. Her fi rst pay- nock. Crabhouse “engine-uity” leads to career in Merchant Marines

by Robb Hoff Glebe Point ferry and then the Lloyd Ticer of Northumberland drawbridge) jokingly asked his County recalled his youth during son when he was going to dig “I had seen the Great Depression when he up his corn in the event he had took a job as an 11-year-old to planted “potato corn” that grew enough farming. thin corn on seven acres of farm- under ground rather than above I think I had land for three dollars. it. “In the old days, you didn’t “I had seen enough farming,” had enough of spend money on fertilizer to put said Ticer. “I think I had had on corn,” said Ticer, 83, who was enough of that that I could that I could raised in the Glebe Point area handle.” smell.” along the Great Wicomico River. Since farming did not seem “And if three stalks came up to be Ticer’s calling during his Lloyd Ticer together you’d have to pull one youth, he tried his hand at oyster Northumberland of them so the other two could shucking but was forewarned by come up.” oyster house owner Mason Booth Jean and Lloyd Ticer were mar- Pulling the stalks up by the before he took the job. ried in 1947 at the Norfolk Naval roots required time and rain to “He said, ‘When you go home Station. help loosen the soil. After fi nish- this evening and you’re walking career as an engineer started to ing half the job himself and a down the road, I want you to take shape. good rain fell, Ticer decided to think about it because I want Ticer said while working for my way,” said Ticer. get the job done quicker by hiring you to know that you’ll never eat Cockrell, he learned to replace The way for Ticer was further Now married for 57 years, one-cylinder inboard engines shaped by World War II. He local kids to help him fi nish. Lloyd and Jean Ticer still call another oyster as long as you live “I took the rest of the money unless you get somebody else damaged from a hole in the became a Merchant Marine Northumberland County cylinder with Model T Ford during the war and continued I had and bought popsicles for home. to shuck it for you,’” recalled the four or fi ve kids there,” said Ticer. engines. The two-cylinder Model afterwards in the mariner trade Ticer. “And we fi nished the job.” It was not until Ticer went to T engines would be sawed in for three decades, including the ica project to raise two acres of half, then the one-cylinder half better part of the last half of his In high school, Ticer under- corn but without success. His work for Earl Cockrell in the took a Future Farmers of Amer- crabbing trade that his future turned around for installation. seafaring career as a chief engi- father Bernard (who operated the “That’s when I knew I was on neer. 6 • The Vintage Years • February 24, 2005 From cull boy to railway owner 435-1701 .... this number will get you places! by Larry S. Chowning nickel for a day’s work. Some- Willis Wilson, 89, of Delta- times I didn’t get anything, ville got his first job helping but my father didn’t have any his father on the family oyster money. Some boys were get- boat. He was about 10 years ting 25 or 30 cents for a day’s old when he started working on work, but my father couldn’t Saturdays as a cull boy. afford that. On an oyster boat, the tonger “It was during the Depres- brings oysters to the surface sion and those were hard Specializing in local Art & Craft and drops his catch onto a cull- times,” said Wilson. “We’d ing board. A cull boy sorts the catch four or five bushels and Jewelry • Stained Glass • Oils • Watercolors catch, throws the small oysters get about 25 cents per bushel, overboard, and tosses market so he wasn’t making money Photography • Mixed Media • Professional Framing size oysters into the bottom of either. Turned Wood and Boat Models the boat. “In the warm weather, my “My father was tonging oys- father would trotline for crabs Classes & Workshops ters out of Broad Creek with and I’d get in the back of the 30-foot shaft tongs and he got skiff and scull out to his crab Re-open March 9, 2005 line. I didn’t get paid, but that 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday me to go along on Saturdays. It was in January, February and was one of my first jobs,” said March.” said Wilson. “I’d get a Wilson. 17466 Gen. Puller Hwy., Deltaville, Va. 23043 • (804) 776-8508 A trotline was used to catch crabs before crab pots were Willis Wilson of Deltaville invented. It was a long line with retired as a railway operator bait tied to it every so many feet. two years ago When a crab attached to the bait, a dip net was used to catch the work,” said Wilson. crab and bring it into the skiff. “That summer my father “I quit school in the sixth rented a haul seine from a Dun- grade when I was 12 years old levy man near Topping and we and that first winter I went with started making some money,” my father patent tonging (for he said. “We haul seined for oysters),” said Wilson. “Me fi sh for years. One year we and Amiel Montgomery quit caught a dolphin, took it to school together and went to the dock, and sent a boy to working hand winders.” tell the folks in the neighbor- While hand tongs are only hood. When they came down, pulled to the surface by hand, we charged them a nickel to patent tongs in the early years come out on the dock and see were cranked to the surface it. We made $8 that day off a by hand with hand winders. In dead dolphin.” later years, patent tongs were Willis and his wife Eliza- mechanically raised to the sur- beth live on Horseshoe Bend in face. Deltaville. He fi shed commer- “Now that was hard work for cially into the 1980s and oper- two boys, winding those heavy ated Montgomery and Wilson patent tongs up, and I think my Railway on Broad Creek. He father was trying to get us to retired from the railway two Virginia Willis Wilson and his $8 dead go back to school, but it didn’t years ago. dolphin.

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COEHP02A The Vintage Years • February 24, 2005 • 7 Vintage Profi le ✦ Polly Walker Keys to a happy life: Stay busy, help others by Tom Chillemi In her 77 years, Polly Walker of Urbanna has seen a world “The most important thing is to live each change. Through it all she’s kept day as if it were your last, so there won’t those values instilled in her as a child in the Blue Ridge Moun- be any regrets.” tains. Polly Walker It’s a long way to Urbanna from Meadows of Dan, which is Urbanna about 45 miles west of Martins- ville. It’s a journey of not only of miles, but of time. For Mrs. for everybody. I get to meet a lot “Life is really short and when Walker time has not erased mem- of people by doing their altera- you are young you think you have ories made on the mountain more tions.” forever, but when you’re older . than half a century ago. She enjoys buying things from . . “The bible says the days are From the two-room school- a thrift store and fi xing them up short and the Lord doesn’t tell us house she left during World War for herself and other people. how long a day is,” she said. II to “courting” at apple butter and Mrs. Walker learned to sew As a child of divorced par- molasses makings, Mrs. Walker from her mother. “My mother ents, Mrs. Walker and her sisters is a story that is becoming all too was so busy she’d have us pedal were aware of the stigma that rare as time and “progress” put the sewing machine.” divorce carried in those days. distance between simpler life- Mrs. Walker took after her “My sister and I made a pact styles of yesteryear and today. mother—she made both of her that we would never get in trou- She remembers her mother car- daughters’ wedding dresses. ble so they couldn’t talk about rying grain on horseback to what Life has taught her many things. us. Be careful what you say and is now the famous Mabry Mill. “The most important thing is do, because it will come back to The water-powered mill is a stan- to live each day as if it were you.” dard photo for calendars and a your last, so there won’t be any Mrs. Walker noted it’s a long tourist attraction on the Blue regrets,” she said. way from being poor on the Ridge Parkway. “To a whole lot of young mountain to living in Urbanna, In the old days people had people there is no such thing as where she has all the conve- time to visit neighbors. Instead of dying or hell. All they are doing niences nearby. “You can accom- being entertained, they made their is living for the moment and have plish things in life if you put own fun, she said. Her grand- no idea what life is about. your mind to it,” she said. mother, Josie Spangler, played the fi ddle and told stories. “She took time with children. Like her mother before her, Polly Walker loves to sew. She would tell us stories of local Deltaville seniors meet monthly people and things that happened know you’d have a houseful.” ated W.T. Walker Plumbing and to her when she was a child,” said The Deltaville Senior Citizens Thursday of each month at 11:15 Mrs. Walker. “What I wouldn’t As a few cars started appear- Heating. ing in the area, they would park, She retired from Sun Trust after hold their monthly meetings at a.m. Guest speakers are featured. give to have some of those things Taylor’s Restaurant on the second The public is invited. written down that Granny told turn on the radio “and we’d have 30 years of service. us.” a dance on the road. I guess Mrs. Walker has gotten to know Family members would get you’d call that ‘red-necking,’ ” most of the community by doing together and play music and have she said. alterations on clothes. She did a square dances. “First thing you’d Her family was “as poor as couple of favors for people at her a church mouse, but we didn’t church, Urbanna United Method- know it because everybody else ist Church. “Now I’m doing it Put some SPAAHHH was poor.” People would do whatever they in your Life! could to make a dime. She had an VINTAGE COMMENTS uncle who owned a lumber busi- ness and would haul lumber to Polly Walker Richmond and bring sugar back to the mountain for the bootleg- Age: 77 gers. Longevity secret: “Stay- The close ties of family and ing busy. That’s why I do friends on the mountain made alterations.” Mrs. Walker a people person and she’s happiest when she’s help- Greatest infl uence on my ing someone. life: “My grandmother, After she and her husband, the because she took time late William T. Walker, moved with children.” to the area and LaGrange Creek Advice to youngsters: in 1976, she became a certifi ed “Find your purpose in life nurse’s aid for Bay Aging and and strive to achieve it.” cared for the sick. “Most of the Swedish, Deep Tissue or Myofascial Release time I got too attached to the What makes me happiest Massage available to your door. people and families I was work- today: “To be able to do As a youth, Polly Walker ing for,” she said. something for someone enjoyed softball. Mr. Walker owned and oper- else or help a neighbor.” Nationally Certified Massage Therapist 8 • The Vintage Years • February 24, 2005

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by Larry S. Chowning Dedication to hard work, “Everybody just buried the dead in the simple living and her church family has been the mix that yard. I remember Mother was in a wooden has molded and shaped the long box. They dug a hole and put her down and fruitful life of Mrs. Malomy Ruffi n. This month Mrs. Ruffi n in it. There weren’t no vaults or anything will turn 101, making her one like that.” of the oldest lifelong residents of Middlesex County. —Malomy Ruffi n Mrs. Ruffi n was born in 1904 Middlesex in Saluda. She was the daughter of George Lewis Jones, the owner of a general merchandise store After her father died, the store the paddle wheel grabbing the on Route 17 near Warner. Jones closed and Mrs. Ruffi n got mar- water while on the steamboat, had a wide variety of items in the ried. She went from being a and the slow “clucking” sound store, including fresh seafood. storekeeper to being a house- of the engine in her husband’s Before horseless carriages wife. There was no modern con- boat. became the most popular mode of venience in her life. Her husband For Mrs. Ruffi n, the church travel in Middlesex, Mrs. Ruffi n made a living selling fi rewood has always been an anchor in recalls her father hitching his and harvesting and shucking oys- her life and she has always been horse to a wagon, traveling to ters. an anchor for her church. She the foot of Virginia Street in Mrs. Ruffi n lived a simple, became a member of Immanuel Urbanna, and buying fresh fi sh hard-working country life. She Baptist Church on Town Bridge from J.W. Hurley and Son Sea- and her husband raised chickens, Road just outside of Urbanna food. turkeys, guineas, ducks and hogs. when the church was formed in In the winter during oyster She smoked her own hams and 1915. season, her father would go to middlings, and she made her own Before the church building the foot of Watling Street in town sausage. They stored their meat was completed, her father and and buy oysters from black oys- in a smokehouse. They grew their others built a tabernacle near termen who moored their boats own white corn and had it ground Warner and worshiped there until near Wash Thornton Store where into meal at a local gristmill. the present church building was Urbanna Bridge Marina is located She had a big garden and completed. Today, Mrs. Ruffi n is today. It was the only black- canned her vegetables and some the oldest living member of the owned store in town. meat. They annually salted shad church and is respectfully called While someone else minded and herring, but the main family “Mother of the Church” by the his store at Warner, Mr. Jones, treat was “Malomy’s Blackberry congregation. an astute entrepreneur, would sell Wine” that she made during When she looks back on her seafood door-to-door to regular blackberry season. She stored life, she said the church and customers, and what was left over the wine in corked jugs in their church family have been a very he sold at his store. smokehouse so there was plenty special part of it. Recently, the Mrs. Ruffi n started school in a to drink throughout the year. church had a groundbreaking two-room schoolhouse that stills The Bible is one key to Malomy Ruffi n’s happy life. Looking back, some of her for a new social hall and Mrs. stands behind Antioch Baptist fondest memories are trips to Ruffi n was front and center with Church in Saluda. Benches were Baltimore on the steamboat or a shovel in her hand. used rather than desks or chairs, At 7 years of age, tragedy After her mother died, Mrs. going bottom fi shing in her hus- She is now a resident of and she recalls having to hold struck when her mother took Ruffi n went to live with an aunt band’s log canoe. A one-lunger Mizpah Health Care Center in books in her hands. A large sick. Mrs. Ruffi n recalls vividly in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. She gasoline engine powered the Locust Hill, but still tries to potbelly woodstove warmed the the day when her father sent for went to school and did some boat. She recalls the sound of attend Immanuel each Sunday. small building. Dr. Hoskins, a white doctor in domestic work until her father Saluda. She said Dr. Hoskins told needed her back home at the store her father that her mother was in Warner. Jones Store was a hub AARP tax-aide helps taxpayers VINTAGE COMMENTS going to die unless they could get of activity for the black commu- her to hospital in Baltimore. nity during the days of segrega- Malomy Ruffi n In those days, steamboats were tion. manage the stress of tax time Age: 101 the main means of transportation Working in the store was a Free tax counseling and prep- AARP Tax-Aide volunteers can and Baltimore had the closest happy time for Mrs. Ruffi n. In aration for all taxpayers with make the process of fi lling out Longevity secret: Hard hospital. “I remember she left those days, watermen were in middle and low income, with spe- tax returns a whole lot easier.” work and plenty of rest. on the steamboat alive, but when abundance and every oyster boat cial attention to those age 60 and Last year, over 890 Virginia Hard work is all I have ever they brought her home on the would keep molasses aboard. older, is available from AARP AARP Tax-Aide volunteers known. boat she had died,” said Mrs. “We sold a lot of molasses in Tax-Aid from February 1 through helped more than 55,400 people Greatest infl uence on my Ruffi n. those days,” she said. “We sold April 15. AARP Tax-Aide volun- fi le their federal and state tax life: Church and Sunday She said her father buried his it by the quart. They would bring teers, trained in cooperation with returns. The program is offered at school wife behind their house. “There their own quart jar or can and the Internal Revenue Service, will approximately 130 sites around were no graveyards then. Every- I’d fi ll them up from a molasses offer help with personal income the state including senior cen- Advice to youngsters: Obey body just buried the dead in barrel in the store.” tax returns at various locations ters, libraries and other conve- your parents. the yard,” she said. “I remember She sold gas from an old lever around your city. nient locations. Service is also Mother was in a wooden box. crank gas pump. She doesn’t “The AARP Tax-Aide program available for homebound individ- What makes me happiest is a wonderful resource for the uals, whenever possible. They dug a hole and put her down remember what a gallon of gas today?: I live all week in it. There weren’t no vaults or sold for, but she noted it was not American taxpayer,” said a client. 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