
Supping on porcini ravioli and sipping the house red, Ms. Allen conferred with Nick, a freshman at Bard, about his paper on Frederick Douglass.
After dessert, 10-year-old Flynn looked up from his chocolate cake and offered Ms. Allen an unsolicited review of the film. “The funny thing about the movie is that you punch him and then you kiss him,” he said.
“Well, that’s love,” Ms.
Allen
said.
-WINTER MILLER