Coming soon: Kingswood Hall of Fame
April 01, 2021WOLFEBORO Over the years, Kingswood has had some great teams, athletes and coaches.
And soon, there will be a place to honor those who have starred on the courts, fields, tracks, trails and courses.
Athletics Director Aaron House brought together a committee to help found a Kingswood Hall of Fame and if all goes as planned, the first class should be enshrined at Kingswood s Homecoming this fall. The first year, it will be a work in progress in terms of making it the event we want it to be, House said.
The Hall of Fame Founding Committee consisted of Paul Doran, Barbara Garabedian, Terri Drew, Tom Merrell, Bob Coolidge, Alyssa Freeman and House. The group includes Kingswood alums, parents of current Kingswood students, current and former teachers and both the middle school and high school athletic directors.
It’s serendipitous that this is the 25
th anniversary of Cave Canem. You can read a significant exploration of the organization’s history written by one of the early faculty members, Kwame Dawes, on the Cave Canem website. What follows is definitely not that. It’s more of a meditation on the ways we build community and what they might be good for while we’re all out here in the wilderness.
Because revisionism aside, Black poetry stayed in the wilderness in the 20
th and early 21
st century. We look back and talk about the Harlem Renaissance as the major movement and it was for Black people. The work being done earned that distinction even as it was a curiosity for readers outside of our community. We look at the Black Arts Movement and