Author T.A. Barron left Harvard for Colorado with his family at age 12, but never forgot his old hometown.
A favorite son returns to Harvard
Author T.A. Barron left Harvard for Colorado with his family at age 12, but never forgot his old hometown.
In the 1950s, a boy grew up in an old house atop Harvard’s Prospect Hill. He learned a love of reading from his parents, and he absorbed the history of his hometown — from the earliest Native Americans to the Utopians and the Shakers — from his babysitter, a local historian named Elvira Scorgie. (Full article: 1064 words)
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