Mary Grace Legg makes her living as a videographer with mad creative and technical skills, but we also call her a storyteller, a documentarian, a performer, a writer, a farmer, a mail artist and an enthusiast for the rare and unusual. More than anything, Legg has an eye for hidden treasures — for the quality Ralph Waldo Emerson was getting at when he said, ”A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.”
One of Legg’s most beautiful enthusiasms is the civic health club Warm Cookies of the Revolution, where she serves on the board and contributes video content that furthers the organization’s mission to bring people together over cookies and questions about how government works. Lately, as Warm Cookies has had to devise more socially distanced programs, Legg is documenting neighborhood heroes and creating a video community almanac.