Graduation Weekends
May is the time for graduation in the valley. All five of colleges send the next wave of eager young adults off into the world to make the most of their education. This year we celebrate with them as our own KeriAnne Shaw graduates from Smith College. KeriAnne will continue to work at Northampton Wools through the summer and into the fall. Congratulations KeriAnne!!
We celebrate every year. Graduation and the reunions that occur at the same time, fill our little town with people from all over the world. It is always a happy time for me, welcoming back some familiar faces that have been gone for a while. I get to see and hear about the life since graduating of some of our favorite Smith and Mt Holyoke alumni, meet their husbands and children, and take a proud look at how much their knitting skills have grown.
Some mothers of these students have made visiting with us a part of the visit to their daughter or son at every opportunity, and I am sad to see graduation and moving day come because I know I will probably not ever see them again. On the other hand I had a customer tell me last weekend that her daughter was graduating and that she had come into the store when she dropped her daughter off as a freshman and now when she was picking her daughter up at the end of her four years. At least her attendance at the store was 100% when she was in town.
No matter how often people visit town, I am happy that they choose to make us a part of their knitting adventure.