"You see, for Betty Jacobs,
gardening was therapy
and
therapy was gardening."
gardening was therapy
and
therapy was gardening."
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| The Sleeping Giant, Hamden, Connecticut |
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| The hill in the background behind my childhood home would become Riverside Drive where Mrs. Jacobs would build her garden. |
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| Yale Divinity School |
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Yours truly at Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, circa 1992. |
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| Middlebury Graduation, 1997 |
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| What I looked like when I was mowing Mrs. Jacobs' lawn, circa 1955-64 |
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| I was 16 in this photo, and would mow Mrs. Jacobs' lawn and tend her garden until I went off to college at 19. |
