When Milton’s Connor Eaton was growing up, he and his grandfather, John Cushing, shared a love of woodworking and made several birdhouses together. So when Cushing was diagnosed with dementia caused by Lewy body disease and his cognition started to deteriorate, Eaton, now 16, decided to work with him on more birdhouses. They made one […]
Leila duMont
Leila duMont (Green Mountain Summer Journalism Institute), 16, is a junior at Rice Memorial High School. She loves to write and perform in theater productions. Her Grammy, Jessie duMont, died from Alzheimer's in 2018 and inspired her granddaughter's interest in this story.