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June 18, 2015 I The Lovell Chronicle 13
Lindsay brings old manuscript to life
BY PATTI CARPENTER
Lovell Elementary
School kindergarten teach-
er Lindsay Lindsay recent-
ly self-published her first
book entitled "Here Come
the Clowns." Ironically, she
wrote the book as a student
at LES many years ago, as
part of a class assignment.
"I actually wrote the
book when I was in fifth
grade," explained Lindsay.
"I wrote the book in Ann
Hinckley's class and she is
still here teaching at the
school. We had a little com-
petition in class to see who
was the best author and I
ended up winning a blue
ribbon for the book."
Lindsay decided to dust
offthe old manuscript about
five years ago after having
it stored away for about 20
years. With the encourage-
ment of her husband Chad,
she approached her broth-
er-in-law Kenneth Cutler of
Rock Springs to create the
illustrations for the book.
"My brother-in-law is an
amazing artist," she said.
"He went through my pages
and created an illustration
to go with the descriptions
on the pages."
Lindsay said she loved
the illustrations but got
busy and put the project on
the "back burner" again for
a few more years.
In the meantime she be-
came a kindergarten teach-
er and started an ambitious
master's degree program
in her spare time. One of
the assignments in her pro-
gram was to create an orig-
inal story and present it
PATTI CARPENTER
Lovell Elementary School kindergarten teacher Lindsay Lindsay holds up a
book she self-published entitled "Here Come the Clowns."
with illustrations. Again,
she dusted off the old man-
uscript, which she sub-
mitted, this time with the
very professional looking il-
lustrations created by her
brother-in-law.
"I put it all together and
printed it out," said Lind-
say. "I brought a copy into
my classroom and my kin-
dergarten kids just loved
it. It was fun to watch them
reading my book."
The book got even more
exposure when some of
Lindsay's master's degree
program classmates, who
are teachers in Powell, used
the book during a circus
they held at their school.
Lindsay said the book
was so well-received by the
children and her profes-
sional peers that she decid-
ed to self-publish about five
hardcover copies, which she
may use to find a publisher
for the book. She said she is
also considering the option
of just publishing more on
her own.
"I only printed five be-
cause I wanted to see what
the book would look like,"
she said. "I just did it all my-
self, at my own expense."
Lindsay said, as a teach-
er, she has found the book
has many components that
are compatible with how
reading is taught in today's
classrooms.
"The book teaches fluen-
cy, it teaches rhyming, pho-
nemic awareness," she said.
"That's something I can use
in my classroom."
Her former teacher, and
now fellow teacher, Ann
Hinckley said she is im-
pressed with the book.
"It's a simple story, but
sometimes that turns out to
be the best," she said. "I love
it. I think it's awesome, col-
orful and bright and appeal-
ing from beginning to end."
Hinckley said Lind-
say always stood out as a
student.
"She was a good stu-
dent and now she is a great
teacher and I don't take a
bit of credit for that. It's all
her," she said.
Cowley News
Local family takes exciting tri,l) to New York City
BY DRUE TEBBS-MEEK rine. Schuyler, Ann, Hunter, the streets there were peo- enjoyed each other's compa-
307-548-6901
The weather always just
throws us for a loop. First,
it's so hot that you have to
start your air conditioners,
then it rains in the after-
noon, deluging the ground,
flowers and lawns, then the
wind blows and makes you
want to start your furnace
for an afternoon. Howev-
er, the lawns and fields and
flowers look so fresh and gor-
geous that in the long run
it just doesn't matter. This
is the time that summer is
here and we're all enjoying
the weather, strange as it is.
Lauren Hinckley,
daughter or Schuyler and
Ann Hinckley graduated
from Lovell High School this
spring, and her Aunt Mau-
rine Hinckley Cole gave her
a superb present for grad-
uating with all her schol-
arships and honors. It was
a plane ticket to New York
City.
Lauren's Aunt Alex H.
Cramer lives near there,
so all the family decided
to buy tickets and go along
with Lauren and Mau-
Lauren and Thomas, plus
Frank and Karen Hinckley,
all flew to New York togeth-
er for a week. Alex came to
New York from her home
and they all toured the hot
spots of New York.
They went to the Soci-
ety of Illustrators and saw
Alex's late husband, Doug
Cramer's, many medical il-
lustrations and artwork,
took pictures of the wall and
took pictures of whatever
they saw. They ate fine food,
visited the Museum of Nat-
ural History, went to the top
of the Empire State Build-
ing and saw the Statue of
Liberty in all its glory. They
also went to the One World
Trade Center Tower, the
Freedom Tower and saw the
one tree that survived the
attack by the terrorists. Ann
and Schuyler showed me
the pictures of the Freedom
Tower and in certain light
it glistened golden with an
aura of beauty.
They saw St. Patrick's
Cathedral and on Memo-
rial Day attended High
Mass in the glorious build-
ing. As they were walking
ple dressed up as statues,
such as the Statue of Lib-
erty, or important people in
our country.
All of them rode the
subway and I saw the pic-
tures of the people and the
dirt that kind of oozed out of
the cab, but in the stations
there were street perform-
ers who danced, did acrobat-
ics, sang with a guitar and
one young man who was
playing classical music on
his portable piano. He was
most talented. They all had
their hats out for people to
give them coins for their tal-
ent. All this I witnessed on
those miracle phones, which
recorded the music, dance
and acrobatics. It is a mar-
vel to see. I felt like I was
there with them and hav-
ing all those wonderful ex-
periences with them. It was
amazing.
They went for a ride
on a ferry boat and saw El-
lis Island and the Brooklyn
Bridge, walked and ate at
Sardies' and visited other
wonderful places to buy ex-
otic food. They stayed in ex-
pensive motels and hotels,
ny with love and affection
and made happy memories.
Schuyler told me the
high point of the whole trip
was to go to BB King's blues
bar named "Lucille," after
his guitar, which had the
same name. It is situated
on Times Square. I've prob-
ably missed some of their
experiences, as all of them
talked and showed me pic-
tures during a great half
hour spent with the Hinck-
ley family as they experi-
enced a trip that all of us
dream about.
The group also went
to Alex's home, ate, sang,
played the piano, listened
to great music and spread
themselves all over her
house, with cots and sleep-
ing bags, but they didn't
care as long as they were to-
gether in laughter, love, eat-
ing together, sleeping close
to one another and loving
each other. Thanks to the
pictures I saw on their cam-
eras and their excited talk
about the trip. I took vicar-
ious pleasure in seeing the
Hinckleys together in an
unforgettable gathering.
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Quilters honored for Mustang Days
BY PHYLLIS BRONKEMA
As Lovell's Mustang
Days Celebration rapidly
approaches, the North Big
Horn Senior Center has a
bright new idea. Rather
than picking one or two in-
dividuals to be VIPs in this
year's parade, we have de-
cided to honor the center's
thriving quilting program.
These caring people have
produced innumerable
quilts for our community
and elsewhere for many
years. A story about the
group's ongoing efforts will
be featured in next week's
Lovell Chronicle.
All active quilters from
2005-2015 will be honored
on a float in the Mustang
Days parade to be held on
Byron News
Saturday, June 27. Thus,
the Center is requesting
all those who have actively
been a quilter at any time
during the past 10 years
and who would like to ride
on the float to call the Cen-
ter at 548-6556.
On another note, the
Senior Center has realized
that it is time to refresh its
pool of applicants for its oc-
casional full-time employ-
ment positions. No specific
positions are actively open
at this time, but, more
than likely, there will be
positions open in the fu-
ture. If you are at all in-
terested in working for
the Center, you are invit-
ed to stop in and fill out an
application.
Flock of flamingos invade
BY PAMELA COZZENS
HOPKINSON
307-272-8979
pamhopkinson@gmail.com
With summer final-
ly settling in, I took a spin
around town to gawk at the
beautiful yards and flow-
ers early Monday morn-
ing. When what to my
eyes should appear but a
lawn full of pink flamin-
gos at Chris and Ludene
Guenther's residence. By
my quick count there were
about 40 birds covering
their yard. What a colorful
sight.
Upon further inves-
tigation, it turns out the
birds are available to any-
one willing to donate to the
FBLA (Future Business
Leaders of America). The
FBLA students from Rocky
Mountain High School are
fundraising to go to nation-
als in Chicago. One can pay
$30 and send the flamin-
goes to a friend's yard or for
$10 you can purchase in-
surance against having the
flamingo attack. According
to Ludene, Trevan Lytle
ordered the bird delivery.
By the way, these flamin-
gos are not the live tropical
bird, but a pretty good plas-
tic replica.
I began to think about
all of people who had plant-
ed flowers, but my list got
too long, as so many folks
have planted or nurtured
their perennials. Mary Jen-
sen's daisies gave me en-
couragement to plant a few.
Linda NeVille, Savannah
Nash and Karma Sanders
have beautiful patches of
peonies in full bloom. Wild
yellow roses are also just
beginning to blossom.
I noticed our town guys
are out planting the bar-
rels along Main Street. Be-
fore long, they will be look-
ing good. Several have said
they are going to miss the
hanging baskets, but there
are some who have hung
baskets at places along
Main Street to add some
beauty to our town. when
I saw the baskets Alan and
Mary Bair have hung near
their home, I thought they
had decked out their rab-
bit hutch pretty fancy, but
alas, upon further check-
ing, the rabbits have fled
the coop and are nowhere
to be seen. Amy Hessen-
thaler planted color in the
middle patch at the recre-
ation center and we appre-
ciate her donation of time
and flowers. That spot looks
beautiful.
With threats of a thun-
derstorm and mosquitoes
blown in from earlier, the
outdoor movie night sched-
uled for Monday was moved
to Thursday, June 18, on
the recreation field at 8:30
p.m. Free fun and conces-
sions will be available.
There will be no flooding of
the field for water fun until
after Byron Days, but there
will be an open gym bounce
house on Saturday morning
at 10 a.m.
It seems with our lon-
ger days, the nights are
short and the birds begin
chirping way too early. I
heard someone say that as
they have gotten older it
takes longer to recover from
a job than it does to do the
job. Working outside will
do that to you.
Be sure and put Byron
Days on your calendar. It
is right around the corner
July 6-11. If anyone is in-
terested in helping with the
family carnival call 272-
8979. We need help.
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