On Pearl Harbor day (the Pearl Harbor day, December 7, 1941), Barbara was hugged by Woody Guthrie.

Her parents and Peter’s parents hit it off immediately and were fast friends.

Peter taught her to drive a tractor years before she ever drove a car.

Before Barbara and Peter moved to Colorado, they lived in Brooklyn in a one-bedroom apartment. Their rent was $40 a month.

Barbara played the piano and the guitar—and she sang, too!

In the Pete Seeger movie, To Hear Your Banjo Play , Barbara is one of the folk dancers. She appears briefly but clearly (right after the shadows on the wall at 14:11 , she swings across the screen, the next girl you see).

She claimed her mother never made anything but healthy food, except for the one time she made a cake.

Barbara never drove a car in New York. She only learned to drive after moving to Colorado. Her first Colorado friend, Joy, taught her to drive.

One day there was a knock at the front door. It was Joan Van Ark, asking to use the phone because her car had broken down. (She wasn't famous yet.)

Barbara’s first principal at Mapleton Elementary was Jack Kaufman. Jack was also originally from New York. Some time after the school year began, she and Jack were talking, and it didn't take long to discover they’d lived on the same street when they were little kids, but not just the same street, as it turned out. On the same block. Also, he knew Barbara’s childhood best friend.

When she was teaching, Barbara would keep her guitar in her classroom, and would play and sing for the kids.

She kept animals in her classroom for the kids (it probably wouldn’t be allowed today). At various times through the years, she had guinea pigs, lizards, salamanders, turtles, and lots of fish. Peter cleaned all the fish tanks and terrariums.

At least two of Barbara’s former students are well-known writers, both of whom have published popular books.

One of Barbara’s former students played in the NBA.

Barbara said she learned how to cook from Peter’s mother and aunt.

For decades, Barbara and Peter delivered holiday goodies to friends all over town every Christmas Eve.

One year for Christmas, Carla gave her parents the Vanguard Ian and Sylvia double album and the book The Family of Man (a superb photo essay), and these were the two presents they gave to her as well.

Barbara inspired many of her friends to become quilters or return to quilting.

Everyone in our whole family has more than one quilt she made.

For years, every time anyone in her circle of friends had a new baby, Barbara would make them a stuffed patchwork doggie (see the photo gallery).

She made Greek food for many special occasions, using recipes she'd learned from Peter’s aunt Elda and his mother, Franny.

Within a day of moving into her apartment at Golden West Senior Living in Boulder, she and a neighbor from one floor below, Ruth Basis, discovered they had attended the same summer camp as little girls.

She was one of three Barbs living on her floor at Golden West when she moved in.

She never did figure out how to use the keycard for the clothes driers at GW.