MEDFIELD – On May 6, the Montrose School's class of 2016 will present a hand-painted mural that spans an entire wall of the cafeteria and features one very special former classmate as a remembrance from the community of her peers.
Under a blue sky and rolling green hills made up of the handprints of classmates, a young girl dressed for a Montrose soccer match runs across the sward, tugging a cluster of brightly colored balloons. The figure represents Elizabeth Schickel, who would've turned 18 that May week. But she died in February 2014 after a year-long fight with an aggressive brain tumor.
According to Google Maps, the distance between Wayzata, Minnesota, and Boston, Massachusetts, is 1,408.2 miles. They say following I-90, with no traffic, it would take 20 hours and 58 minutes to drive between the two cities. Sally Ankeny Reiley has followed a more circuitous route to Boston than the one highlighted by Google. Her path from Lake Minnetonka into Copley Square added plenty of traffic, a lot more miles, and has taken a few decades to get from "Theaaah" to "Heaaah."
