” Sitting on the rug in Janet’s room, and writing in my day book. I was writing a story about a Fish Show, but I couldn’t pronounce the “sh” sound, so when I asked her for help spelling certain words, she had no idea what I was talking about. I said, “a fish show, like a cat show or a dog show,” and she finally understood.” – Erica Peters
“Has anyone mentioned doing poetry with Connie Saltonstall ? She had to lobby hard to get a quarter time faculty salary. She died of leukemia at age 38. She was a major heir to the Saltonstall banking fortune of Boston and used it to found the current Saltonstall Foundation of artists residencies. Who knew ?” – Bill Mutch
“The one thing I didn’t learn there that was noticed in later schools was penmanship, and that was a pretty small price to pay.” – Anonymous
“My thoughts were probably translated here. Not sure all the words were in this seven year old’s vocabulary. ” – Greg Hartley
“When I was about six, I asked someone to teach me to write in cursive, because my uncle sent me letters in cursive. They said because I was left-handed, I should ask a left-handed teacher. That was Ruth Wishik. I lay on the floor on my stomach, and she stood at the board and wrote words for me to copy out. So I learned.” – Karen Carr
“In 6th grade I taught a class in French, because I had just come back from a year in France and had learned to speak it.” – Karen Carr
