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Four Decades Ago I graduated from 8th grade...and almost 3 Decades Ago Became a Parent...thinking of life time lines by the decades...

on Fri, 08/18/2017 - 04:24

Remember playing hide and go seek and counting by 5s to let people hide? We'd call out, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60 (boy the numbers were getting up there...what comes next? Oh yeah..) 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90 (surely, everyone's got a good hiding place by now and it could be hard to know where to start looking since everyone hides so well in our big yard around the house along the woods even with boundaries one couldn't go past..) 95, 100! Anyone Around My Goal Is It!

What if we thought about the numbers as Years of Our Lives, counting by 5s and 10s... It dawned on me that I

HVRHS 75 Years Young in 2014!

on Tue, 09/09/2014 - 04:11

A quintessial rural high school, the first Regional High School in the state of CT, celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2014, with a special open house on September 20th, 2014 from 10 to 4pm for those not heading to NYC for the Sept 21st  #PeoplesClimateMarch.

The graduating class of '14 included two honorary women graduates from the some of the earliest classes after the school opened in 1939. Our family connections run long and many maiinly since the 60s when I was just arriving on the planet (over 50 years ago).

Housatonic Valley Regional High School has stood the test of time yet the