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= = ** Linnea's Cohort 3 Wiki ** //Welcome to my first wiki page ever! //  If you want to join or continue the discussion about school reform, click the "Overcoming Barriers" link to the left  Hi, my name is Linnea Koons Mathews. I teach 10th grade Biology at Mount Blue High School in the Mount Blue Regional School District. The school is located here in Farmington. The building itself was opened in 1970 and everybody talks about how old it is. Well, not to date myself, but... I remember the area before the school was built. When I was a kid, my family would go to Titcomb ski slope and later to Sugarloaf, by way of Farmington. I remember when Route 2 was rebuilt and redirected to where it is now. Driving around Farmington is still like going into a haunted house - there are ghosts of places everywhere.

Here's one example. When I take the right fork off Route 2 to go past the fairgrounds on the way to class, the cemetery is on my left. I drive a shorter distance past the cemetery on this road, than I would if I followed the current Route 2. I am able to hold my breath all the way past the cemetery when I drive past the fairgrounds, but not when I drive on the current Route 2. Why would I notice such a thing? My family had a silly game where you needed to hold your breath all the way past a cemetery. If you didn't, something bad would happen to you. Occasionally, my father would drive very, very slowly past that cemetery, but he was never able to drive so slowly that by brothers had to give up (as the youngest, I seemed to be exempt from this requirement). That is, until the day they opened up the new Route 2.

I can still remember the car slowing down, my brothers struggling to hold their breath, turning purple, yet not yielding… until…And then my parents’ laughter. Ours was an evil family.
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