4/26/09

Fish Swim on the Red Cedar Campus


In celebration of our 20th anniversary we created an environmental art project that symbolizes both the strength of the community and the uniqueness and voice of each student at Red Cedar. Parent and sculptor Larry Stearns suggested the idea and provided the support to make it possible. He milled 200 fish and fitted them with glass eyes. The students and staff hand painted them. The fish project was installed on Friday, April 17, at the end of our annual Arts Immersion week. 

Fish once swam where Red Cedar now stands. 12,000 years ago Lake Vermont, formed by glacial melting, lapped at the foot of the Green Mountains. Fish are now swimming - in the wind - where the waters once flowed.

Larry and some of his crew pound in stakes for the fish. Evan starts to attach fish on dowels that stick above the stakes. The fish swing freely and move with the wind.

Gabe and Isaac working with Larry.

Sam helps to hammer in a stake.

Anoushka and Gabe push some of the boxes of painted fish over to the hillside.

Margot attaches a fish.





Swimming uphill into a northerly wind.




4/1/09

Red Cedar Bus Makes Inaugural Run

Our bus began its morning and afternoon commutes today for Red Cedar's Chittenden County students.
Miranda gets off the bus at school this morning.

Our bus driver, Bernie Perron!

Brendan and Jacquie are getting licensed now, too, and will soon be driving the bus for field trips. 

Roll on, Red Cedar!