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Article: TEACHERS AT THE FREE SCHOOL REMEMBER SPIRIT OF THE '60S.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 1, 1988
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Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer
Off Elm Street, the wooden railing leading upstairs has been rubbed as shiny as glass and as smooth as leather by untold thousands of tiny, groping hands.
The signs on the door of the second-floor landing read: "Please be quiet. Sleeping Babies. Thanks." and "No Smoking. Fetal Growth in Progress."
The doors open into The Free School, a child of the 1960s, alternative, vital, experimental, still daring to be different while trying to traverse the troubles of the teenage years - caught between the freedom of adolescence and responsibility of adulthood.
"Close your eyes, monarchs," Betsy Mercogliano, ...