The Tulip Treatment
In the fight against breast cancer in Maine, one woman proves that flowers can foster hope — and raise money — one pink tulip at a time.
Aurelia C. Scott
When Laurie Ellis, band director of Kennebunk Middle School, returned to work last spring after treatment for breast cancer, a ribbon-shaped garden of pink tulips greeted her arrival. The garden symbolized the resolve that had sustained her during surgery and chemotherapy. It also helped fight the disease with which one thousand women in Maine are diagnosed each year.
Planted by the school’s one hundred and fifty students the previous October, “Laurie’s Garden of Hope and Inspiration” is part of the Pink Tulip Project. [for the rest of this story, see the March 2008 issue of Down East.]
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