Y.E.S. BOOK

On October 15, 2020, the Yountville Arts Commission, and Town Council, unveiled the Yountville Elementary School Sculpture, in front of Town Hall. This sculpture commemorates Yountville Elementary School’s over 160 years of educating Napa Valley Children, after closing in 2020. Designed by artist Richard Starks, the work takes the form of a thick ,hardcover book, its open pages, stamped with the handprints of the final class, including students, teachers, and staff.

The following is poem inspired by this sculpture:

Y. E. S. By Marianne Lyon

Rainbow hands all that are left. Throughfare my thoughts back to the Yountville Elementary School. Memories galaxy around. How kids were taught how to think not what to think. Classrooms sang playgrounds whooped recess cupolaed their arms to the sky.