Falmouth resident and grade school art teacher Karyn H. Phares paints bright red plump hearts on various sized rocks and under the cover of night places them around town. It started at the beginning of the pandemic as a way to bring joy, especially during a time of uncertainty and adversity. She began by painting hearts on rocks and leaving them in her front yard in North Falmouth for passersby to take or simply admire. She also delivers the rocks to locations around Falmouth and has enlisted her family to help.
A year later, over 700 rocks have been distributed around town and also now sit in public locations such as Main Streetâs Peg Noonan Park, near the Falmouth Village Green, in front of the high school, Mullen-Hall and Lawrence schools. There is a tree stump near the entrance of the Main Street branch of the post office adorned with a large heart, as well.
Ellen Brown KAREN B. HUNTER/ENTERPRISE
For three years while at Barnstable High School, Sandwich resident Ellen T. Brown, 32, took a food training class through which, for extra credit, she volunteered to make meals for the homeless at the Noah Homeless Shelter in Hyannis.
This experience, she said, engendered a lifelong passion to get involved, and to realize that she could make a positive difference in peopleâs lives.
âMy main passion is trying to lead by example whenever I think I can help,â Ms. Brown said during a recent interview at a local coffee shop.
A graduate of Barnstable High School and Cape Cod Community College, Ms. Brown is also a veteran of the United States Air Force, where she taught nutrition.
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