The Kids Are Alright.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 6:03PM I've been blogging with the kids working on the Roxbury Community Garden. You can read their first posts here
In our first session we talked: Snakes, corn, unidentified melons and stories of glass houses. That might sum up my morning with Robbie, Collin (“with two Ls,” he told me proudly) and Nick-from-
New-York-City. All three garden in Roxbury. I was there talking to them about
writing and blogging (and at some point even the differences between the third and
first person. Never too young for grammar, I say.)
Robbie started working on the garden at 5 in kindergarten and has the tales to
prove it. Including trying to kill a snake last week. This snake was a harmless garter
snake, but I think this qualifies as a boys-will-be-boys moment. What went from
Robbie’s talking about trying to pick it up, quickly (with two-L Collin’s arrival)
advanced into the truth. Robbie had tried to kill it. Or, as he put it “Lightly Remove
Its Head.” He is writing about that this week.
Read on at the Roxbury Central School Garden Club blog