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Mix-a-box Crayola giveaway marks National Crayon Day in Easton (PHOTOS)
Updated Mar 31, 2021;
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Forks Township-based Crayola LLC began its 1 million crayon giveaway Wednesday to celebrate National Crayon Day at its five Crayola Experience locations, including in Easton.
Each family who registered in advance it’s sold out got to fill a 32-crayon box with their pick of colors from a wall 40-feet wide and 8-feet high holding nearly half a million crayons in 74 different colors.
The Crayola Store in each of the five Crayola Experience locations across the country is giving away 6,250 custom 32-count crayon boxes over the next several weeks.
Harvard Law
I read with keen interest “The Education of a Harvard Lawyer” (January-February, page 38) by Nancy Boxley Tepper, my classmate. As I recall, she was one of five women in the class and I was one of three blacks. I noted with interest her comments about the phenomenon (“harassment”) of “Ladies Day” and the women’s invitation as 1L’s to Dean Griswold’s home for dinner and tea. She noted that her black male classmates were not singled out for “harassment” on our “day.” She is correct. I note however (ironically) that we three blacks were not invited to Griswold’s for dinner and tea. Was that a plus or a minus? I don’t know even yet!
Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection
Few realize that the sale of Binney & Smith Crayola crayons, those staples of so many childhoods, helped fund one of the largest physical donations of art in the history of Houghton Library’s Harvard Theatre Collection (HTC). The 1986 bequest of 10,000 dance prints from Edwin Binney, 3rd, ’46, Ph.D. ’61, who became the HTC’s honorary curator of ballet, contributed significantly to its becoming one of the largest and most prominent performing-arts collections in the world.
The Binney family fortunes began with an English immigrant, Joseph Walker Binney, founder of a chemical plant that specialized in the red oxide pigment used to paint barns. His son Edwin Binney Sr. and a cousin, C. Harold Smith, co-founded Binney & Smith, creating the first dustless white blackboard chalk in 1902 and producing the first box of Crayola crayons in 1903. That portmanteau name combines