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The Baby Game

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

by Elizabeth and Christopher Wren (Hillsdale Road)

A window into the imaginative play of students enjoying the playground renovation at the Bishop School. Many thanks to the Bishop Playground Improvement Committee and others in the community who helped to make the renovation possible.

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A New Family Tradition

Monday, March 10th, 2008

By Donna and Chris Wren (Hillsdale Road)

On a warm sunny morning in May our family found ourselves surrounded by scores of people, ankle deep in the Lower Mystic Lake. Hundreds of herring swam around our feet and it was our job to catch them gently and place them in buckets. As the water poured from the dam between the two lakes we stood in the current and sat our borrowed nets in the water, waiting. Every once in a while we were rewarded with one or two fish in our nets. Into the buckets they went, to be peered at suspiciously by our 2 year old daughter. “Fishies?”

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