While I didn’t have the good fortune to attend elementary school in Lincoln, the current discussion about this wonderful heart of the community has reminded me of my own experiences attending a neighborhood school: being walked to kindergarten by my older brothers, and the independence I felt when I could walk the road all by myself to school, or even take the “secret” woods path; how, in the lead-up to the 1972 presidential election, my fourth-grade teacher Mrs. Sullivan introduced us all to the importance … (read more)