Around Crownsville: Eagle Scout project provides a place to read

Reading. We all want our kids to learn to do it well.

All some children need to entice them to read is the proximity of a book. Others need urging, coaxing, cajoling, even bribing.

The students at Millersville Elementary have a new reason to read.

On the next nice day, their new reading patio will beckon them to go outside and read.

The patio started more than a year ago with a discussion between aspiring Eagle Scout Kenneth Crisp and Millersville's then-principal Dr. Dianna Stroehecker, who had been principal at Millersville when Kenneth started kindergarten there.

Now she was talking with a young man...