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Article: Finding the song that's in everyone; Apple Tree Arts celebrates.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2008
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Byline: Donna Boynton
GRAFTON - When Lauren Almy was in the second grade, her class was assigned a project: Each student was to tell a fairy tale creatively. Some were told through poems; others, dioramas.
Lauren, however, chose to write a song and play the piano.
To do so, Lauren tapped into music lessons she has been taking since she was a toddler with Apple Tree Arts, a nonprofit arts organization headquartered in Grafton.
Lauren, now in fourth grade, is just one of the students who has benefited from the organization since it began 20 years ago in the basement of the Evangelical Congregational Church on the Grafton Common.
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