There are some days Mike Falco wishes he was a spectator rather than a teacher. “If I had retired sooner,” he told me, “I could have listened to someone else teaching my class.”
Kids of all ages recognize Lynn Fern. She’s not a teacher or a coach; she’s a parent who shows up at events with her camera. Even if her own children aren’t involved, Mrs. Fern shows up to take pictures.
Taylor Road has two lanes that wind lazily through the most rural part of Cornwall. It’s normally a quiet section of town. But that changed on the evening of March 20.
Last week a customer tried to overpay the bill for a modest takeout order. He left $100 on the counter. When the proprietor objected, the man explained what he was doing.