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On a recent evening I came home to find a big package, addressed to me, on my front porch. “What in the world?” I thought, puzzling over the unfamiliar return address. “Has someone sent me a gift?”

I took the package inside, shrugged out of my coat, and carefully opened the box, which turned out to be from my 100-year-old Aunt Polly. What lay inside was a gift indeed: dozens of old family photos—sepia-toned portraits from the 1800s, color-tinted poses of children during the 1940s, ruffle-edged Polaroids of family reunions from the sixties. My family history, at least on my dad’s side, in a box.

Except that most of the photographs had no information written on the back. I peered at a handsome yet stern man from the Civil War era that, I thought, had cheekbones suspiciously like mine. Who

were you? What was your life like? What did I inherit from you? Questions bubbled in my mind. I may never know the answers.

For Georgetown residents who have such questions about Georgetown’s—and Williamson County’s—past, answers aren’t as hard to find. In this issue, we recognize Black History Month by delving into stories that reveal the past and how that past has shaped who we are now. If you don’t know longtime resident Paulette Taylor already, you’re going to know her after reading Alicea Jones’s Getting to Know feature on Paulette’s memories of growing up during desegregation in Georgetown. And after reading Karen Pollard’s Create article on sculptor Chesial John, we hope you’ll be inspired to learn more about Dr. James Lee Dickey, the first African-American doctor in the county, and the museum to honor him currently underway in Taylor.

The box my aunt sent spurred me to dig into a box of my dad’s things that I’d stored away years ago. In it I found a quaint, faded Valentine he’d given my mother in elementary school. It’s bittersweet, finding that token of my past preserved in a present from which both of them are absent. History is like that old Valentine, I think, precious in what it reveals—and in what we learn from it.

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Afew of the men can count eighteen bat-tles stars. Lawrence “Peanut” Warren, who served on USS

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that matter,” says Martin Parker, a veteran who served on USS Kitty Hawk (AKV-1) and who today seeks to capture as many stories of fellow veterans as he can. “Sixteen million men and women served in WWII, and 450,000 died for their country. This boggles the mind of people today. At this time of life, these WWII veterans are becoming very scarce. If they have never revealed their service…, they need to unload their hidden stories before it is too late.”

With the assistance of his wife, Francinn, Martin seeks to record and publish as many of these “hidden stories” as possible. He has published two collections of WWII veteran stories, Freedom Ain’t Free, with 246 stories, and A Legacy of Heroism, with 72 stories, the latter in association with Crestview Baptist Church. Martin

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The story collecting started in 2006, when Martin was “shooting the breeze” with fellow veterans and began to listen to some of their stories. “What I [heard] was unbelievable,” explains Martin. “Walter ‘Boxy’ Elam, now deceased, told us of his nine battle stars, four [earned] in Europe and five in the South Pacific. I had no idea Boxy was involved in so much. [Then] Lawrence ‘Peanut’ Warren said, ‘I was in eighteen battles and have proof of it.’ Gene Wilkins [re-sponded], ‘I was not in nine or eighteen battles, but I flew many a flight over “the Hump” as a pilot of B-24s.’”

Martin could not ignore these stories waiting to be collected and shared much less the hun-dreds of other stories that he knew were carried in the hearts and minds of men who served. As he began to collect stories, though, he encountered some difficulty in locating WWII veter-ans. To solve this problem, Mar-tin turned to local churches, like the Brethren Church in Taylor, and to American Legion Halls, tracking down names and ad-dresses. Even after he began to locate veterans, though, he had to do a little more work to encourage them to share.

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created a list of twenty-two questions to prompt veterans when they have no idea how to begin telling their stories. “Most veterans are timid and reserved about their service, so they don’t want to appear as heroes.” Despite this re-luctance, Martin persists, confident that

the stories he collects are important, both for the generation that shares and for those to come. “It [is] my experi-ence,” he notes, “that combat veterans [will] tell their experiences to another veteran or to their grandchildren, if to no one else.”

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the hARd pAthBorn in Trinidad, Chesiel moved

to New York with her family when she was fourteen. She’s always been creative. “My mom put a brush in my hand when I was a baby,” she says. Her mom had a creative side, too, though her dream of being a singer remained unfulfilled. But she never pushed her own desires onto her daugh-ters. Chesiel says, “She allowed

Art Resonating with LifeRough road enriches one artist’s talenttook two jobs and managed to find them a one-bedroom apart-ment so they could move out.

Chesiel went back to Parsons in 2000 with a renewed commitment to finish her degree. She also began reading about musicians—their lives and philosophies. Many of her portfolio illustrations were of jazz musicians—pen and ink drawings that were whimsical, yet edgy. Her illustration style turned out to be just what Verve Records was looking for, and she landed a project with them illustrating singer Nina Simone’s upcoming CD. During those two years, she also produced editorial illustra-tions for magazines. She gradu-ated with honors in 2002, contin-ued to teach, got published as an editorial illustrator, entered juried shows, and began working with art dealers to show her work.

me to choose my own creative path.” One of Chesiel’s dearest memories is their Saturday ritual when she was in high school. “My mother would take Satur-days, only for me, to purchase art materials.” Sadly, her mom died in 1994, when Chesiel was just seventeen.

Chesiel continued to pursue her creative dreams as she began studying illustration at Parsons School of Design in 1995. But her grades suffered because of her grief, and during her sophomore year she was advised to take some time off or drop out. She opted to take two years off. Grief caused rifts within the entire fam-ily, and the tension grew as Che-siel and her two sisters endured their father’s overzealous rules. The girls finally reached a break-ing point. Chesiel’s oldest sister


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Then tragedy struck again. A dear friend died, and grief consumed Chesiel. Over the next few years, she struggled with her art and her person-al life, and when a romantic relationship fell apart, Che-siel found herself pregnant and homeless.

That’s when she met members of the Sisters of Life and the Missionaries of Charity. They helped Chesiel many times over, providing food, shelter, and spiritual guidance. “The Missionaries of Charity and Sisters of Life are my heroes,” Chesiel says.

After her son was born, she thought he needed his father in his life, so she rekindled that relationship. But it was not to last, and for a second time she was pregnant and homeless.

With help once again from those two Christian organizations, Chesiel and her two babies survived. She even managed to produce some freelance illustrations during that time.

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She has expanded her creative en-deavors in the last few years to include 3D sculptures, created from both old and discarded items. She strives to speak of history and humanity in her pieces and to bring awareness of the world—the past and the future.

One such piece evolved out of a trip to Taylor, where she discovered the Dr. James Lee Dickey House—the future Dickey Museum. Dr. Dickey was the first African-American doctor in Williamson County and a great hu-manitarian. Chesiel cre-ated a sculpture to honor the man and his work, incorporating items that would have been tools of his trade in the early to mid-1900s—a cracked

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Another project, shown at Zilker Botanical Garden last year, is her Per-cussion of Thought—ten rusty barrels, reminiscent of drums she’d seen in Trinidad, built from scrap metal. Each barrel is encircled by chains holding “ornamental charms”—bottle caps, a vintage frame, bells, records—memen-tos of times gone by, reminders of the tracks we leave behind.

Chesiel considers her life blessed. She hopes one day “to be a professor, to be somewhere talking to kids or people about recycling or anything that has to do with humanitarian change.” And she’ll continue to use her art “as a way to speak.”

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High-end clothing and house-hold items such as Brighton handbags, Tiffany jewelry, and P. Buckley Moss prints have graced the shelves and been offered for sale at a fraction of the original price.

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As a nonprofit organization—one of 121 Assistance League chapters nationwide—the thrift shop funnels help to those in need in Georgetown and surround-ing communities. Its signature program, Operation School Bell, involves purchasing new school clothing and shoes each year for elementary students from low-income families.

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This year, the fundraiser has been moved from the Georgetown Recreation Center to the Sun City ballroom, which will allow the group more space, accommodate far more people, and provide a larger stage for the fashion show.

“The fashion show will be cloth-ing exclusively from the shop,” says Judy Swain, public relations manager of Georgetown’s As-sistance League. “Our gals always model every year, and then people come and buy our clothes. It’s kind of humorous, actually. Sometimes when our models get off the stage, there will be people

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Since the items are always one-of-a-kind—or at least one-of-a-kind for the thrift shop—the Assistance League operates sales from its February fashion show as they would in the store: on a first-come, first-served basis.

“So far, the ladies have always been ladies,” Jo jokes. “We haven’t had a brawl yet.”

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Danny grins. “I think my dad did a little begging for me, too, to be honest.” His mom finally said “yes” to motorcycles after Danny was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder in first grade. “Let’s just say I didn’t get many gold stars,” Danny says of his trouble making good grades. The doctor encouraged his mom to get him involved in team sports to give him focus. But that approach didn’t help. “I wasn’t doing as well as I should in school. I was also taking Ritalin on a regular basis, which, in my opinion, made me a different person. I became very lazy, and I didn’t get excited about anything,” Danny explains. Then his parents surprised him with a Kawasaki KX60.

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Danny raced motocross, on enclosed off-road dirt tracks, until 2005. He rode professional arena cross and outdoor motocross. But traveling every weekend burned him out by the time he was twenty.

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Danny now races superbikes—a Su-zuki GSX R1000 and 750. “They’re the same as a sport bike or crotch rocket,” Danny explains. A race runs from six to eight laps around a track and covers from 1.7 to 2.8 miles.

In the straightaways Danny hits speeds between 180 and 190 miles per hour, but turns require the most concentration and skill. “I’ll come into turns, both wheels sliding, think-ing ‘I don’t know if I’m going to make it!’ That’s what it takes to win. You’ve got to absolutely push your limit, and you’ve got to know where your limit is,” Danny explains.

“Have I crashed? Oh, yeah, abso-lutely!” He points to a white leather suit scarred with black marks. “If it’s a low side wreck, it feels like sliding on ice. It doesn’t feel great, but it’s bearable.” When the bike flips and the rider goes tumbling, it’s called a high side. “High sides are no fun. They hurt,” Danny says. Once, while moving at approxi-mately 130 miles per hour, he hit a wa-ter patch. “The bike flipped about eight times. It went from a $12,000 bike to a $1,000 pile of junk in three seconds,” Danny remembers. But the leather suit, back protector, chest guard, and helmet did their job. He walked away with only a nasty bruise.

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Setting track records and winning races both require extreme focus. “Kayla does a great job of keeping me focused,” Danny says. “She does what-ever she has to do to make sure I don’t have a lapse in judgment [while] going over 180 miles per hour.” During one race weekend, for instance, Kayla got the happy news that she was pregnant but couldn’t tell Danny for two days. “It killed me!” she recalls. “Although it was good news, I didn’t want thoughts to go through his head that he couldn’t push his limit because I was pregnant.”

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ora held Paulette’s hand as they walked along Timber Street, dodging potholes along the curbless

street. Dust and gravel churned up by passing cars settled onto their newly polished oxfords. Dora was in the second grade and counseled Paulette, a first grader, about being on time. She also told her about Ms. Wilson, “one of the strictest teachers in the school.” Paulette unconsciously toyed with the bow her mother had placed on top of her head. She tried to divert her thoughts from school by studying the familiar, old but well-kept homes that dotted her neighborhood.

It was 1952, and Paulette Taylor was on her way to Carver, the designated school for African American students. It was here that Paulette would mature and learn firsthand the effects of racial segregation.

old cARveR schoolCarver sat on a bluff on Timber

Street (now Martin Luther King Street). It housed 175 students from first to twelfth grade. The school consisted of several small rooms on two floors. The first floor was for the elemen-

tary grades, and the second floor housed the older students. Because of limited space, each classroom contained students from two grades. Dora guided Paulette to the first-grade side of their classroom and then claimed a desk on the second-grade side. Paulette was relieved to recognize some of the kids from the neigh-borhood and from Sunday school; the butterflies in her stomach lessened somewhat.

Paulette was excited to receive her first textbooks even though they were worn and outdated. The lined cards on the inside of the front cover were filled with the names of previous students. Paulette and her classmates giggled as they tried to pronounce the names they found there. In the years ahead, they would recognize some of the names as residents from the neighborhood on the other side of the railroad tracks.

Paulette loved school and the social life she had developed by the time she became a teenager. On the weekends, she and Dora went to see the picture show at the Palace Theater. First, they’d stop at Peaslee’s Cafe for a ten-cent piece of sausage. Then they’d visit the restroom at the service station down the street because

blacks weren’t allowed to use the facilities in the theater. After the picture show, they’d go to the courthouse on the Square to ride the elevator. They’d get a sip of cold water from the colored water fountain before making the trip home. “I always wondered if white water tasted different from colored water,” Paulette says.

Each basketball season, the high school students from Carver were bused to Georgetown High to use the gym for practice and for their games. Paulette admired the shiny floors, the rows of bleach-ers, and the bathrooms that had many private stalls. She felt like a second-class citizen and won-dered why there was such a glar-ing difference between her school and the white kids’ school.

homecominGBy the time Paulette was a

junior, her discontent had grown. Preparations for homecoming heightened it further. “For home-coming, Georgetown High School would send us a big box of worn football shoes and helmets,” she says. The Carver team spent the weekends patching the shoes with tape and polishing them. They also painted the chipped helmets blue.

Alicea Jones is an award-winning writer and the author of Genuinely Georgetown. She resides in Georgetown, Texas. www.Genuinely Georgetown.com.


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It had been ten years since the Supreme Court unanimously decided in Brown v. Board of Education that segregating school children by race was unlawful. Yet nothing seemed to have changed for Paulette and her classmates. “We were tired of hand-me-down shoes and helmets and books,” Paulette says. She had decided on a ca-reer as a secretary and wanted to learn how to type to ensure her admittance into secretarial school. However, Carver had only one typewriter, and it was in the principal’s office.

“Parents began to come together,” Paulette says. Encouraged by their parents and Harvey Miller, a com-munity activist, Paulette and a group of students attempted to enroll at the high school and the other Georgetown schools. The students received moral support from a group of community members, including some Southwest-ern University professors and their spouses. Paulette and her classmates would have been the first black stu-dents to integrate Georgetown schools. Additionally, Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, which gave them hope. “When we got to George-town High, we were told we couldn’t go there, so I finished my senior year at

Carver. Harvey Miller filed a denial of admittance lawsuit,” Paulette says.

off to colleGePaulette went to Prairie View A&M,

a predominantly black college. Her home economics teacher at Carver had taken Paulette and her class on a field trip there, so she felt comfortable on campus. Additionally, Paulette’s Aunt Minnie had attended Prairie View and was the first in her family to graduate from college.

Paulette hunted and pecked while the other students zoomed through their typing assignments. She spent hours teaching herself how to type and became the teacher’s assistant. “I was only going to go for two years for sec-retarial science,” Paulette says. How-ever, every January, her family scraped together enough money for her to finish another year. She graduated with a four-year business education degree.

Her first job out of college was for the newly-launched Head Start pro-gram, where she became head teacher and taught children of various racial backgrounds. Paulette learned that she had a passion for helping children and excelled at teaching those with emo-tional and learning challenges.

After Paulette had taught four years at Head Start, Jack Frost, the district superintendent and Frost Elementary School’s namesake, offered Paulette a position as a special education teacher with the Georgetown Independent School District. The position required additional certification, so Paulette enrolled at the University of Texas and earned her teaching credentials. Paulette eventually obtained a mas-ter’s degree in human services from St. Edward’s University in 1987. She retired in 2002 from GISD after thirty-one years of service. She also ran the after-school program at the Willie Hall Center for sixteen years, providing tutoring ser-vices to neighborhood children.

Paulette Taylor has received many awards, including the State Achievement Award for teachers and two Elementary Teacher of the Year awards from GISD. If you visit Carver Elementary School, you’ll find a monument in her honor.

Today, Paulette can live anywhere she chooses. But she chooses to live in the same Georgetown neighborhood where she walked to the old Carver School. This community, now integrated, reminds her that the best schools and the best societies are those that include everyone.

For additional information about desegregation in Georgetown, check out the following online resources:

Oral histories by Paulette Taylor and Harvey Miller are available at www.files.georgetown.org/files/2009/03/harvey-miller-1-transcript.pdf

Remembering Desegregation: Online Interviews can be found at www.mainstreet.georgetown.org/remembering-desegregation-interviews-now-online/

Local History Page: Georgetown Library www.library.georgetown.org/services-you-may-need/local-history-resources-2/

(Left) Paulette standing in front of the former “white” high school.

(Above) Paulette’s high school graduation photo.


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For Nathan Exley, a se-mester off from college didn’t involve the usual hiatus-inducing activi-ties: traveling, a quest for

self-discovery, or the need for an extended period of hibernation. Instead, the twenty-year-old spent last spring in Austin, guarding the freedoms of Texas families during the 83rd Regular Legislative Ses-sion.

Nathan participated in the Texas Home School Coalition’s Watch-men program. Working with five other home school graduates, Nathan lobbied the Texas Leg-

islature on behalf of homeschooling families and for the parental rights of all Texans. “It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to go down there and lobby and

do it with some really fantastic friends,” says Nathan.

Last January 5th, Nathan and his fellow Watchmen—having been trained in Texas’ legislative process—surveyed the approach-ing 83rd Session. A legislative onslaught loomed before them: approximately 9,700 bills to scour for those involving parental rights, vast arrays of legal procedures and maneuvers, as well as scores of clamoring special interest groups. Most important was the daunting task of informing and trying to persuade 181 lawmakers to vote certain ways on various bills.

But the Watchmen weren’t focused just on reaching out to lawmakers. As publicity manager and head of public relations for the Watchmen, Nathan sounded the call to the public on impor-tant pieces of legislation. From arranging press conferences and rallying news media to initiating

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and directing a town hall meeting, Nathan ensured that the lawmak-ers’ constituents and the general public were informed on potential bills affecting Texas parents. He stayed on mission, never forget-ting his motivation for coming to Austin.

“I enjoy politics, and I feel obli-gated to [lobby] because my abil-ity to parent freely in the future is being threatened,” Nathan says.

During the 83rd Session, the THSC Watchmen tracked more than 125 bills pertaining to pa-rental rights. While many bills strengthened the legal bonds be-tween parents and their children, Nathan and his friends stood ada-mantly against bills that sought to strip away parental rights. One such bill, Senate Bill 303, designed to address the rights of patients making end-of-life deci-sions, would have given doctors permission to place DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders in a child’s medical records when death is imminent, without parental consent and against the parents’ wishes.

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mistaken for legislative interns—rallied enough legislative support to defeat a total of twelve bills, including S.B. 303. Nathan didn’t let the thrill of victory cause him to slip into a trap of selfish pride. Yes, he was one of the young-est lobbyists at the Capitol wielding a mighty sword of influence, but he didn’t see himself as powerful.

Instead, Nathan explains, “I really saw myself as blessed. THSC is a very influential organization; there are a lot of home school families supporting it. The community behind us is what gave us the power and influence that we had. We weren’t going in on our own power. We were going in there with God’s grace.”

As Nathan heads back to Texas A&M University to finish his double major in rangeland ecology and geographical in-formation services, he takes with him a 140-day adventure few college students get to experience. But would he venture back to the Capitol and lobby for the rights of families again?

“Politics is hairy, but I learned that it’s so much easier to influence legislation than I thought. I could probably go back and do it again whenever I need to. And that—I think—is priceless because now I have the tools I need to be an active citizen in government,” Nathan says.

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Floral FantasiesCreativity flourishes at the Garden Club flower show

The day before the 2011 Georgetown Garden Club Flower Show, peo-ple bustled in and out of the Georgetown Com-

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“The show in 2011 was called ‘In the Abstract,’” says George-town Garden Club President San-dra Miller. “The design portion of the show included four separate categories within the ‘Abstract’ theme that contestants could choose from, each with its own set of rules.”

Sandra and other GGC members had arrived earlier that morning to set up a host of tables for the show. Sandra continued to run about, setting out display jars and filling them with water. Her aunt, a ninety-year-old woman who has been creating designs for a num-ber of years, arrived with her own box of unique assortments.

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“It’s a madhouse the morning of the judging,” Sandra says. “Some contestants show designs and horticulture. They’re bringing in irises, roses, getting them all set up and finishing up their designs in time to get out before the judges come in.”

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Since the first show in April 1945, The club has held a show almost annually in conjunction with Arbor Day. Catch this year’s show on April 23 at 10 a.m. in Georgetown Community Center, San Gabriel Park, 445 East Mor-row. It is open to the public for free from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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finishing touch that never disappoints. The possibili-ties for variations are infinite, since the sauces are all based on only a few simple formulas. The five basic liquids for sauces are milk, white stock, brown stock, tomato puree, and clarified butter. From these, our leading sauces are brought to life.

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Béchamel sauceA white sauce made by combining hot milk with a roux (a cooked mixture of flour and fat), widely used for egg, vegetable, and gratin dishes. The trick here is to make sure your milk is hot when it’s added to the butter and flour (roux).

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adding the remainder of the butter, 2 tablespoons at a time.7. Serve immediately. The sauce is no good after 4 hours

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velouté sauceA blond sauce made with chicken, veal, or fish stock and thickened with a white roux. This sauce is similar to a béchamel, with stock used instead of hot milk.

Ingredients:3 Tbsp butter, unsalted3 Tbsp all-purpose flour, sifted2 bay leaves2 cups chicken stockSaltWhite pepper

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i’m not sure when I started thinking of it as “soup exchange.” It began when my neighbor, know-ing I was working on deadline, knocked at my door and handed me servings of a pasta dish and a salad of jicama, mint, and melon. No soup

was involved. But this lunch treat began a practice of sharing that came to feature soup often—hence, soup exchange.

I live among estimable neighbors. They’re kind, interesting, ready to step up at the slightest need. But the neighbors next door have a particular place in my heart. Perhaps it’s because our kids have grown up together. Perhaps it’s because, in this intergenera-tional household, I find friendship and guidance, sym-pathy and advice. But I’m certain that soup exchange is part of it.

Since that first offering of pasta and salad, we’ve shared many samplings from our kitchens. When I make a pot of soup, especially if it’s a new or favor-ite recipe, I cart a few servings next door. Back to my door, a few days later, will come another kind of soup or some other tasty treat. Since soup exchange got underway, I’ve come home some days to find a bowl heaped with cherry tomatoes or a container of tiny, sweet jalapeño peppers, fresh from a gar-den that, under my neighbors’ care, laughed at the drought. Half loaves of warm banana bread, studded

with chocolate chips, have made their way from my kitchen to my neighbors’ door. Once, I found a crystal vase artfully arranged with fresh herbs—basil, rose-mary, chives, and oregano—on my doorstep. When I returned the vase, soup went with it. Cake cookies, which my teenaged son can devour without conse-quence, come my way; herbed bread goes the other. Ingredients, too, make the trip, when one household or the other is short an egg or a few tablespoons of Dijon mustard. At what point, I’ve sometimes won-dered, should we just merge our kitchens?

And so it has gone, for several years now. But no more. This generous household has grown, and my neighbors move this month into a larger house. I’m very happy for them. They need the space, and they’ll be only a few miles away. Still, I’ll miss the easy back-and-forth of shared daily life that we’ve had. The not-quite-thirty steps (yes, I’ve counted) from porch to porch are quickly traversed. I intend to make an effort to keep the exchange going, though now I’ll have to drive, with the soup du jour precariously positioned on the floorboard.

To my neighbors, thanks for the years of gracious side-by-side living. I’ll miss having you just steps away. And to the folks about to move in next door, welcome to our block of Georgetown! Know any good soup recipes?

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