Scott Sell

Scott Sell continues his multiple roles on Frenchboro, returning for a second year to complete projects with the Frenchboro Elementary School, Frenchboro Pre-School, Frenchboro Library, and the Frenchboro Historical Society as well as the Town of Frenchboro. Scott will continue assisting at the school and teaching "specials" such as music, art, creative writing and physical education. In addition, Scott will continue assisting library and historical society volunteers with organizing and cataloging their collections and helping the selectmen with working-waterfront, municipal-building and healthcare projects.

Scott Sell received his B.A. in English, with a concentration in Writing, from Goucher College in Maryland. He spent an intensive semester with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, conducting documentary fieldwork, interviewing and archiving. Scott worked as a production assistant for the American Masters Program on Thirteen/WNET, New York, NY, as a freelance reporter/correspondent for the Shelton Weekly, Shoreline Productions in Connecticut, a fiction editor with Vagabond, a Baltimore-based art and literary magazine and as a producer/host for "Those Who Stand on Tiptoe," a program through Goucher Student Radio. Scott received the Kratz Center for Creative Writing 2005 Summer Fellowship, and The Bomb 2004 Fiction Prize, in the summer of 2004.

Scott is from Orange, CT and wrote this in the Frenchboro Annual Report:
I've been fortunate enough to be spending nearly every day with the students of the Frenchboro School, seeing how they grow as learners and become members of the community. I've been helping both teachers with writer's workshop classes, assisting Becky with gym classes, offering a weekly music class and lending a hand wherever it needed to be lent. I also have been helping to catalog the library's collection, organize the historical society's materials, create after-school activities for the children, and find funding for several town and school projects. But more importantly, I think, I managed to dance successfully with Marilyn at the contra dance. I got to dig for clams in the flats and cooked them for supper that night. I've figured out what kind of mood Monte is in based on how much cigar he's got left. I learned that colliding into Chris on hockey skates is like running into a brick wall. I've gotten to take care of the Lenfestey's chickens and ducks, steal their eggs and get attacked by their rooster. I've been watching as several kids become quite talented at reading and playing music. I've shared wonderful meals and cups of coffee with many of you. I've been able to watch John dance to Ernest Tubb while cleaning out traps. I was asked to come out and "play" in the clubhouse after school by a few first-graders. I learned that the cushions for the chairs set out during select board meetings were there for good reason. I've been able to practice for a future of fatherhood with preschoolers trying to steal my breakfast while I'm eating it. I could go on, but I only have a page. In short, it's become clear that this job and living here has been more fulfilling and meaningful than I ever imagined.

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