“The weather was so nice we just kept going,” said Rachel Gibson Hunt, who led the group of carolers around Shooter’s Hill, where caroling groups have gone raising money for Children’s Hospital for half a century. Rachel was one of the original carolers who started the activity all that time ago as a way for school children to do something in the vacation period between Christmas and New Years.
This year the group received $1,009.70. People have tried to add .30 to make it come out even but I wanted to print just what we really received.
Amy and Holden Swindell joined Richard Bussey in the record-setting trip. A group of Rachel’s friends from Silver Spring came to help. This tradition started with cocoa drinking provided by Marian Thomas, who no longer lives on Park Road but who we miss. The carolers ate a potluck supper at 310 Park Road, where they had started, to celebrate another year of help for the hospital.
NEW YEAR’S DAY BIRD CENSUS
Dakota Kelso Hunt and her aunt Lucy Hunt spent an exhausting six hours counting birds for the annual bird census.