The Montessori School of Central Vermont observed what has become a Thanksgiving tradition: serving stone soup. It started as a folk story involving hungry travelers who come to a village. No one is willing to share food with the strangers. The travelers respond by telling the villagers that they will teach them how to make soup out of stones. One by one, villagers make an offering to the soup of various ingredients until a feast is born. At the Montessori School in Berlin, children this week acted out the story, each bringing an ingredient and making their own stone soup, biscuits, and flower arrangements. The lesson, said school administrator Lana Bodach-Turner, is that when everyone contributes even just a little, something bigger can be created. (AP)
Berlin, Vt.