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Archive for May, 2010

How to walk to school

I spotted the book How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance at BookExpo last year. It’s the story of urban school revived by a group of committed parents, not a book about the importance of walking to school. I like both ideas. The challenge of improving rural schools is quite different [...]

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Posted: May 23rd, 2010 under Building community, Great Barrington (Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts), Urban community.
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Small-town moment: after the driving license test

Walking down to celebrate Rachel’s passing the driving test with lunch at Bizen, we were hailed from across the road by a man in a parked car. “Did you pass?” he called out. I didn’t recognize him and couldn’t imagine that he was talking to us. “Did she pass?” he said again. I noticed the [...]

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Posted: May 22nd, 2010 under On Main Street.
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