Tuesday
6 May: Bruce is blogging for the first time! I woke up as the sky in the
East was beginning to lighten - a habit I acquired from my high school teacher
wife Elena. Shane and I were in the Bus at the home of Anne Tisdale-Ashford and
her husband Jonathan in Concord MA - very close to Boston
but far enough to be set out in beautiful farm country. We slept extremely well
after last night's supper of a delicious "country chicken" stew -
warm in our sleeping bags even though the outside temperature was predicted to
be in the 30's.
It
wasn't fun getting out of warm sleeping bags in the pre-dawn chill, but I felt
that it would be good to start earlier than later, as Boston rush hour has the reputation of being
tough. We got started around 6:30; traffic was already
busy on Route 2 East but not yet congested. Unfortunately the vegetable-oil
fuel system was! It turns out that on cold mornings, the oil is reluctant
to move quickly, even with all our heat exchangers, and on the first big uphill
the engine shut down. Not very convenient! But it as a matter of moments
to coast onto the shoulder, and a couple of minutes to re-prime the fuel system
- then we drove the rest of the trip on regular diesel fuel.
We
arrived at the Shady
Hill School
before most of the staff, but Kim found us and put us in the capable hands of
Tim, who showed us where to park and unload. Well worth getting there before
parents started arriving and dropping off children! Our host Erika helped
us get set up, and we were warmly welcomed by Mark, Alison, and many more
teachers whose names went in and out of my head. Our venue was the venerable
Assembly Hall that appeared to date to the founding of the school 100+ years
ago - high ceilings and massive beams, it was the most majestic room we've
presented in on this trip.
The
presentation itself was delightful - about 250 middle-school students in grades
5-8 sitting on the wooden floor. This can be a difficult age range if there's
any tendency among older students to be more concerned with whispering to their
friends than watching the experiments. But not this group! They favored
us with our attention from the first moment and got more and more into the
presentation as it progressed. Afterward a teacher (whose name I forgot) said
that having the middle school students on the same campus as the elementary
grades encourages the older kids to adopt responsible behavior as models for
the younger ones. I'm not sure if this would happen everywhere, but at Shady
Hill it works just fine.
A
note of thanks to our sponsor: THANKS to Lee Herbst for connecting us with Shady Hill
School! You should
be receiving some appreciative letters and emails from students and teachers.

We
tore ourselves away to start - finally! - our journey westward back to Tucson. We had been
graciously invited to stay with Robin Sherman, a college friend of Bruce's wife
Elena Martin. Robin and her husband Rob live in a lovely renovated farmhouse in
Deerfield MA, in the foothills of the Berkshires. We wanted to help her prepare
dinner, but she firmly directed us to stay on the spectator side of the kitchen
counter. Just as well, as she whipped up chili and cornbread in a controlled
whirlwind of activity that we could not possibly have survived! However
she did let Shane bake his trademark oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies afterward -
on condition that he replace the chocolate chips with cranberries in half the
batch. Not a bad bargain!
With the early start and
nonstop activity throughout the day, plus the wonderful supper, we could not
stay awake until Rob came home. Robin set us up with extremely comfortable
beds, and we slept extremely well.
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