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Linda Barreira passes at 67 Longtime Rock Hall Museum director created new programs Throughout her life, she held her family and its Italian traditions sacred. Linda Barreira cared for and In 1985, shortly after the birth fussed over Lawrence’s Rock of her first daughter, Erica, BarHall Museum for 37 years, 27 of reira began her career at the them as its director. museum. Within 10 She created new proyears, her attentivegrams, and made an ness, creativity and 18th-century plantacare for Rock Hall tion-turned 20th-cenearned her a promotury museum into a tion to museum lively place that director from an attracted children administrative posiand adults with tion. activities, concerts During her tenand an annual twoure, she created the day Country Fair. Garden Club and the Barreira, a longCountry Fair. She time resident of organized educaLawrence, died on tional lectures, April 27. She was 67. musical performancBarreira was a es, summer concerts daughter, a sister, a and vinta g e car mother, a g randshows, “gathering mother, a friend and the community a pillar of her com- eRICA PARISe around her to share munity. She walked Daughter with them the things onto the grounds of that brought her the museum four joy,” her daughter, decades ago, never imagining who is now Erica Parise, wrote that she would call it home, and in an email. Barreira got to changed it forever. know community members Born in Glen Cove on Feb. 18, young and old through these pro1955, Barreira grew up with her grams. Italian parents, Paul and RoseShe created a “family” at mary Foti, two brothers, Robert Rock Hall, said Interim Director and Rick, and a sister, Carol. Continued on page 16
By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
Courtesy Robert Verone
lAwReNCe HIGH SCHool’S first-period studio art class, which did the Wellness Room prep work, with art teacher Robert Verone in the finished room.
Students create Wellness Room Lawrence High School debuts new space By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
Art students at Lawrence High School in Cedarhurst recently turned a cluttered storage closet into a Wellness Room for their peers in the Life Skills special education program. “During Covid, it was very tough for our kids with disabilities, because their regular routine was completely turned upside down,” Lawrence High art teacher Robert Verone said. So studio art and advanced sculpture students decided to create a space for students having difficulties readjusting to in-person school. In the middle of the school year, Verone’s advanced sculpture students were having trouble completing their projects, with clay not taking form as they planned or blowing up in the kiln. The idea of a Wellness Room had already come up, but it was clear to everyone in March that it was time to start working on
it, and take on something new. The art students knew they wanted to help their peers in the Life Skills program, whom they had seen struggling to readjust. “I mean, with the whole culture — the whole fabric of this school knows our kids with special needs,” Verone said. “That’s something that’s very unique about Lawrence.” “They created this room,” Assistant Principal Kathleen Stanley said, “for the Life Skills students to come in when one of the students needs to be changed or students need to just decompress if they’re having a difficult time.” “We did what’s called a site-specific sculpture,” Verone explained. “We actually took this space, which was a closet, and recreated it into a working space.” The first step was a complete “rip-out job,” he said, of the closet, which is near the sculpture room. “The first period of the studio class,” made up of 20 students, “spent about Continued on page 23
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hile some of you may not have known her personally, it is almost certain she has impacted your life in some way for the better.