VERMONT
VTdigger.com
September 20, 2020
By Anne Galloway
Sep 20 2020, 4:10 PM
Growing up on the family farm in North Walpole, New Hampshire, Carolyn Blake Bradshaw lived on candy, scavenged apples and sandwiches from teachers. She remembers the constant, gnawing hunger.
Her mother put her into foster care, and by the time she reached the age of 10, she had lived in five different homes. At one point, Bradshaw was sent to the Weeks School, a reform school for children in Vergennes, even though she doesn’t recall having done anything wrong, except to have been born into a family with no means.
It wasn’t until she was sent to the New England Kurn Hattin Homes for Children that she ate three square meals a day.
But it was also there at the residential girls school in Saxtons River that for the first time, Bradshaw says, she was routinely abused.
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