From Tim Carpenter, Founder and Executive Director of EngAGE:
I started my work teaching a writing class at four affordable senior housing communities in 1998. My first prompt to get students to write and tell their stories was, “A penny for your thoughts.” (I know, not Shakespeare.) One of my first students, Bertha Dyar, gave me this the night of our first performance, our first culminating event, 18 years ago. A colleague found it in our office and gave it back to me today. Bertha, you were the reason I kept going in the early days. Look at where we are now, huh?
