Thursday, January 14, 2016
The Kramer family -- five boys, their parents, and assorted animals -- lived a few houses over from Harts in the mid-1970s and will always remember Mary Hart as a defining personality in our lives and the life of our neighborhood. Coming from the midwest, we had been warned that New Englanders were cold and aloof. Mary Hart put that notion to rest almost immediately. We will always remember her intellect, wit, compassion, thrift, and what is now called resilience, and the way she welcomed us as we spent hours playing games inside the Hart home and hiking through the woods out back. For the Kramer brothers, Cheshire was our boyhood, and Mary Hart played a leading role.
