As you may well surmise, the recent and very sudden passing of Kathryn Kerr caught many of us, myself included, as a complete surprise. I had visited with Kit on the afternoon of December 18th and found her to be in good spirits and her usual jolly self. ...

Having been a teacher, I know the joy of being in a classroom. Mrs. Kerr shared that joy with almost all of us. She was such a connected teacher. Her examples and her ability to help us create a realistic vision of the skills she was trying to develop in us...

Math was never my favorite subject, and “word problems” were the bane of my existence. I simply didn’t care where or when (or even if) a train leaving Washington, DC, at 4 pm, traveling north at a speed of 60 mph, and another leaving New York at 6...

As a city kid who moved to NHHS in the 10th grade, I shared with Kitty my feelings of the unimaginable darkness of the country at night. I never knew how beautiful the sky looked without ground-clutter light. Now, when I look up at the night sky, I'll know...

Ms. Kitty as I knew her, was a wonderful sweet woman. She called me every time she received flowers to tell me that she just couldn't get them to die. It was always a pleasure to talk to her and it was even a greater pleasure to meet her. She will be missed....

From my childhood bedroom window, I can see the red farmhouse that served as the place for so many memories. Growing up across the street from the Kerr farm provided a place to play hide and seek in the corn fields, to sled through the fields, and sit on ...