Recipes 5/19/11

Meet Mary Chastain, LaCrosse

When Mary Chastain was in seventh grade, her choir teacher told her mother to get Mary a piano so she could take lessons. She did and Mary took piano and voice lessons, beginning a long deep relationship and love of music that she now passes on to younger generations.

“I knew from about the seventh grade I wanted to be a music teacher,” she said.

Mary continued to take piano lessons through high school and was in the choir through all her school years and into college. She attended California State University at Sacramento and graduated in 1974 with a degree in mus...