VSA Festival Celebrates “COOL Ways to Play”
South Boston is known for its celebrations. We call them “Southie times”; they celebrate many, many notable happenings - achievements, community awards, successful fundraising, lives well spent, and so on. On June 9, about 80 young students in Grades K, 1st, and 2nd from the Condon School on D Street joined with their counterparts from the Ellison Parks and Pappas Rehab Schools at a celebration called the “COOL Ways to Play” Festival. This Festival was held in the Children’s Museum by South Boston’s Fort Point Channel on Congress Street. What better place for a young peoples’ Festival? And the weather was perfect. VSA Massachusetts was the 2016 “COOL Ways to Play” Festival sponsor. VSA (does that stand for “Very Special Arts”?) is a Boston-based organization [...]