Ballet
Joan Scoffield was creative, social, always busy – and maybe a bit of a perfectionist
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An early photograph of Joan shows her on pointe shoes, knobby knees below the ballerina tutu, arms raised to hold a silky scrap of scarf behind her. She was about five years old. Apparently, her mother was holding her waist behind the curtain to keep her upright. I don’t think she actually took …