Blossoms to Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Wingspan, a Harker student magazine, on Jan. 28, 2015.
WORDS BY ALYSSA AMICK ’15 AND PRISCILLA PAN ’15 PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHAY LARI-HOSAIN ’16
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blanket of white enveloped the valley, which extended for miles as far as her eyes could see. It was summer in the Valley of Heart’s Delight, which would later be better known as the Silicon Valley, where endless blossoms marked the transition from spring into the beginning of a season when she would excitedly pick cherries. Ten-year-old Kristin Giammona ’81, now Harker’s elementary division head, frequently rode her bike down the lanes of cherry orchards in her Willow Glen, San Jose neighborhood in the 1970s. Year after year, though, she noticed more and more houses replacing the fruit trees, usurping the green, empty vastness of the Valley of Heart’s Delight.
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