Knowing Maple Street by Heart
“I suppose that moment had been gaining on us secretly, like a new piece of music played while you sleep. One day you hear it - strange song yet one you
know by heart.” Leif Enger, Peace Like A River Maple Street is always creating original finger paintings, marker drawings, stories, dances, [...]

In September 2010, the doors of the Lefferts Gardens Charter School will swing wide, bringing children in the neighborhood — and the entire borough — a new elementary and middle school focusing on environmental sciences in partnership with two local institutions: the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Prospect Park Zoo.)
At least, that’s the vision of [...]

Each edition of The Rag, we’ll sit down with a new Maple Street School family. In December, our news team posed some hard-hitting questions to Susan Boyle and Benton Brown, whose daughter Nora is downstairs in the Rocks class. Here are their answers:
*** BENTON ***
Born and raised: Nashville, Tennessee
Current neighborhood: Crown Heights
Neighborhood before that: Clinton [...]