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Article: LEONARDO, GREEN LAKE'S PERIPATETIC `PROFESSOR'.(News)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 27, 1999
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Two sounds penetrated the gauze on Seattle's Green Lake one morning this week. Ducks sharing a laugh at the grim joggers pounding past. And Leonardo, the strolling Spanish teacher, describing the trees to a student straining to match his accent.
Regulars at Green Lake are accustomed to the sight of the elegant older man in the vest fashioned from a pillow case. Others tend to gawk at what Leonardo, himself, describes as an apparition.
But even through the mist, it's easy to read the bright orange letters, front and back, that say ``Spanish Lessons.''
Fit and charming at 73, Leonardo has been walking students around the lake - and on many a ...