At Home in the Huddle 2009: Wednesday

It's Recyclables Day!

42.4 degrees and cloudy.

From WKTV: " A slow moving dying storm system will continue to give us clouds, showers, and cool weather. For today, mostly cloudy with sprinkles and a rain shower. Highs in the low to mid 50s. Rain showers will become a bit more widespread tonight, with overnight lows in the upper 30s. It may be cold enough in the hilltops for a few wet snowflakes to mix in with the rain. Continued cloudy, cool weather tomorrow, with highs in the low 50s. On Friday, the storm system exits, and the warmest weather by far of the season will follow. Friday will serve as the transition day, with sunshine and highs in the low 70s. Saturday and Sunday are expected to be very warm, with highs in the 80s. The warm weather is even expected to last into early next week, before a cold front moves in and cools us off."

Looking Good!

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Do you remember this picture of the swing in Winter?

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Here's the swing in Springtime!

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Missy Brouillette phoned me, early yesterday, to tell me that THIS was happening on Stafford Avenue.

By the end of the day, the entire structure had been flattened and debris was being taken away.

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Meanwhile, on Madison Street, beaver "jaws" continue to work!

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The Memorial Park School PTA is following up on the recent successful Parents As Reading Partners program with a Scholastic Book Fair and an Academic Fair.

The Book Fair
Tuesday, 10:00-1:00;
Wednesday, 10:30-2:30 & 6:00-8:00;
Thursday, 11:30-3:00 & 6:00-8:00;
Friday, 10:00-2:00.

A wide variety of books that will appeal to all ages will be available for purchase.

The Academic Fair
Thursday, April 23, from 11:30-8:00.

MPS students will be entering projects based on books they have read either on their own or as a class. The projects can reflect any area of the curriculum. The Academic Fair will provide the community with a cross-section of the academic program at MPS, and will provide the students with the opportunity to proudly display their work.

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On Madison Street!

Blue Scilla

It's spreading!

"Lungwort"

Pulmonaria is just beginning to bloom.

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A Question ........

are there any Waterville "youngsters" who are currently attending Amherst College?

They may be surprised to find THIS in the building called "the Octagon!"

The Babbott Room

established and endowed by Frank Lusk Babbott,
another Waterville "youngster," once a student at Amherst, himself.

Babbott was the only member of the first graduating class - 1874 - of the new "Union Free School" in Waterville. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst in 1878 and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Columbia.

Although he was never again a resident of Waterville, in 1916 he donated the park that we know as Babbott Field to "the youth of Waterville," and at the time of his death, in 1932, his bequests included gifts of $25,000 each to the Waterville Public Library and The Presbyterian Church.

He was most famous for his work in the field of Fine Arts and received honorary degrees both in the United States and Europe.

(I've just posted his Obituary on "Heaps of History.")

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