This was Kristen on her first day of nursery school, September 3, 1975. She had just turned three. She went on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9-12 with three boys from our neighborhood - Chris Fitzpatrick, Chris Laplante, and Michael Tassinari. I wrote in her baby book that she loved it, and was not scared a bit!
Below is the back of the Feeding Hills Congregational Church in the center of town where the nursery school was. It was called Building Block Learning Center, and her teacher was Miss Pat.
I took this picture this past Fall but the nursery school hasn't been there for years. t have no pictures of the school, or the teacher!
Mark also went to this nursery school when he turned 3. Unfortunately, I have no picture of his first day of school (second child syndrome?). He went with several kids from the neighborhood, Mark Taylor, Tony Tassinari, Billy Strycharz, Katie Fitzpatrick, and Missy Marieb.
For the second year of nursery school, a few of them went to the YMCA in Westfield.
They had a pool there and offered swimming lessons. He loved it. Only a few of the group changed to the Y - Mark, Mark Taylor, Missy Marieb, and I think Billy Strycharz. The rest stayed at Building Block.
