The PTA for the Dutch Neck School has created a Walk of Fame, a garden pathway on the school grounds leading to an arboretum and amphitheater. The PTA sold bricks that were engraved with the purchaser’s name and/or personal message to someone special, and these bricks were permanently incorporated into the walkway.##M:[more]##
The garden pathway is part of an ongoing land beautification/usage project started several years ago by Principal Scott Feder and children’s author and environmentalist Lynne Cherry.
“When Ms. Cherry came to Dutch Neck as part of our visiting author program, we spoke of the wonderful grounds we have around the school and what a great site this would be to create an outdoor learning space,” said Feder. “We brainstormed on topics such as planting, reforesting, and integrating science and math in nature’s classroom. Since then we’ve formed a garden committee and have had two planting phases, resulting in saplings decorating a once empty grass lot.”
