Anonymous

This representation of Rebecca Lee Crumpler’s name dialogues with the Museum’s basement and the namesthere, her name there on wood, her name also in granite since 2020 in Fairview, MA after resting unmarkedfor 125 years. It dialogues with her studies in mathematics at the West Newton English and Classical Schoolsince this repurposed paper fell out of the binding of a disintegrating 1833 edition of Euclid’s Elements. I seethis Museum and our Writer’s Group as a place where dialogue starts and unfolds. History, present, andfuture in dialogue, as dialogue. Rebecca Lee Crumpler’s name written in Braille is likely foreign andincomprehensible at first to many people. May it confront, create a pause, rupture the habitual, open aspace to “experience anew.”