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Billy McCann was sent to The Cove Schools residential school in 1962 because he had severe behavioral issues and learning disabilities that his parents could not manage alone. So Billy was sent quite literally 500 miles from home to one of the only schools prepared to deal with such a dynamo. After all, this was before special education, well before the ADA, and there were no suitable schools for Billy in either Lexington or Kentucky. Yet after just a few months at The Cove, Bill began to emerge; over the following years he acquired abilities that would allow him to become both an Eagle Scout, BSA, and a high school graduate-- achievements that neither The Cove's teachers or Bill's parents could ever have imagined. Relying on historical documents-- including letters home, educational, and medical records, personal memories and family photographs, Yearnings: A Memoir in Prose and Poetry is the inspiring story of his evolution. Today, William H. McCann, Jr. is a playwright, a member of the Dramatists Guild, a poet, flash fiction writer, essayist, and an occasional radio host. Mr. McCann holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, an M.Ed. from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, an MA in theatre from the University of Kentucky and an AB in history from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. And all of these achievements and more, he directly attributes to his good fortune to have attended The Cove Schools, Racine, Wisconsin. |
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William H. McCann, Jr.
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Billy McCann was sent to The Cove Schools residential school in 1962 because he had severe behavioral issues and learning disabilities that his parents could not manage alone. So Billy was sent quite literally 500 miles from home to one of the only schools prepared to deal with such a dynamo. After all, this was before special education, well before the ADA, and there were no suitable schools for Billy in either Lexington or Kentucky. Yet after just a few months at The Cove, Bill began to emerge; over the following years he acquired abilities that would allow him to become both an Eagle Scout, BSA, and a high school graduate-- achievements that neither The Cove's teachers or Bill's parents could ever have imagined. Relying on historical documents-- including letters home, educational, and medical records, personal memories and family photographs, Yearnings: A Memoir in Prose and Poetry is the inspiring story of his evolution. Today, William H. McCann, Jr. is a playwright, a member of the Dramatists Guild, a poet, flash fiction writer, essayist, and an occasional radio host. Mr. McCann holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, an M.Ed. from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, an MA in theatre from the University of Kentucky and an AB in history from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. And all of these achievements and more, he directly attributes to his good fortune to have attended The Cove Schools, Racine, Wisconsin. |
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