Brown School walkathon

For three years Vincent and I have circulated through the neighborhood, as Vincent took orders from neighbors for items from a holiday catalog. The Parent Teacher Student Association at Vincent’s school, the Brown School, got a cut from the sales, and this money financed field trips, scholarships, gifts for teachers, and other activities at Vincent’s school. But participation by Vincent’s middle school and high school classmates in this fund-raising activity has ebbed, and the PTSA has shifted to a new fund-raising strategy, a Saturday morning, March 29 (two-mile) walkathon and picnic at Old Louisville’s historic Central Park (picture above in a turn-of-the-century post card), one of the city’s Olmstead-designed parks. I’m helping out a little planning the event, and we’ll hope to raise more money than catalog sales have and join together for a fun event that will draw kids from the K-12, parents and family members, and school supporters. Feel free to join us Saturday morning, and please pledge/contribute money to the Brown PTSA as a reward for Vincent walking the 2 miles in the walkathon. E-mail me about sending us a check, bring us cash, or use your PayPal account to send money directly to us using the ChipIn widget below. Brown is a great K-12 school that combines the informality and close family feeling of a small school with the diversity and downtown location of an urban school and academic rigor of a selective admissions school. But schools around the country are watching their budgets drop (note entry about Indiana schools below) and the Brown School needs all the help it can get. Support Brown!