A future art teacher or graphic designer, or maybe both, Grace Delfino has put her own spin on Dolly Parton’s advice that “if you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” And yes, it has something to do with her love of art.
Grace, 12, a seventh-grader at Haddonfield Friends School, began painting and leaving rocks and shells outside her family’s home on 15th Street in Surf City during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last summer.
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