I read Betsy Wyeth’s The Stray to my sons years ago. Westen couldn’t read when he posed for this picture, but it became a treasure map for us as we explored #MyBrandywine. —-
Betsy’s story didn’t treat children as fragile eggs to spare from the rough and tumble of her anthropomorphic world and Jaime’s illustrations were alive with the characters of Chadds Ford.
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Betsy was no small part of our burgeoning love of museums, explorations, and narrative.
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Thank you, Betsy, may you rest in peace.
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Thank you, Brandywine River Museum of Art, for being home to beauty and wonder.