Mrs. Cohen was my senior English teacher at Hillsborough High School in 1975-76. I remember her typing furiously before (and sometimes a little after!) the bell rang to start class as she worked on her next book. She wrote a weekly column for the Somerville Messenger Gazette while I wrote and did photography for the Hillsborough Beacon and Princeton Packet. For my senior project she allowed me to write and direct a "comedy" version of Hamlet!!! When the school's primitive video tape machine conked out she personally drove me from the high school to the main library in Somerville to borrow theirs, so we could show the film to the class. I've written a few books myself now, and there isn't a session in front of the keyboard where I don't think of, and fondly remember with appreciation, Barbara Cohen.
Mrs. Cohen was my senior English teacher at Hillsborough High School in 1975-76. I remember her typing furiously before (and sometimes a little after!) the bell rang to start class as she worked on her next book. She wrote a weekly column for the Somerville Messenger Gazette while I wrote and did photography for the Hillsborough Beacon and Princeton Packet. For my senior project she allowed me to write and direct a "comedy" version of Hamlet!!! When the school's primitive video tape machine conked out she personally drove me from the high school to the main library in Somerville to borrow theirs, so we could show the film to the class. I've written a few books myself now, and there isn't a session in front of the keyboard where I don't think of, and fondly remember with appreciation, Barbara Cohen.