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During this year’s Kid Pan Alley residency, Rappahannock musician Paul Reisler along with his assistants Siobhan Quinn, Lorraine Duisit and Frances Miller wrote 13 songs with over 250 students at Rappahannock County Elementary School and Hearthstone, Belle Meade and Mountain Laurel schools.

This was part of an intergenerational residency in partnership with the Aging Together program where seniors from the Rappahannock Senior Center went to RCES and told stories to the children about growing up in the area. The children wrote four songs about the experiences of the seniors.

Then students from Hearthstone went to the senior center and told stories about their experiences and the seniors wrote a song from the children’s stories.

The cross-generational songs were fascinating and deep. Some of the seniors told the children stories

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