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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Ashlyn Hanley learned from her Hilltown elders and wrote a book of their stories
Description: Ashlyn Anne Hanley, who graduated in June from Berne-Knox-Westerlo, has put the life stories of nine Hilltown elders into a book she hopes kids at her school will read and learn from.“There’s a lot of kids moving up to the Hilltowns that weren’t here before,” she says. “And I want them to know … how it’s changed.” She said of the stories in her book, “This may be like grandparents or great-grandparents of some of the kids because our community is so tight-knit up here.”Her book is called, “Then and Now … Growing up a Hilltowner...