Posts Tagged ‘Pacific Grove’
She saved monarch memorabilia the way a mother saves all of her firstborn’s artwork and school assignments. Boxes and boxes of letters, handouts, and newspaper clippings. If it had to do with the monarch butterflies of Pacific Grove, California, Ro Vaccaro put it in a box and kept it.
“I wear a butterfly every day, at least somewhere-but usually multiple butterflies. I have a butterfly watch, butterfly earrings, butterflies on my shoes and socks.”
Ro Vaccaro, the “Butterfly Lady” of Pacific Grove, lived and breathed monarch butterflies.
She came upon her first-in the shape of an exquisite pin-many years earlier, at an estate auction. She picked up the pin and held it in her hand. She was in the middle of a divorce at the time, and she said to her sister, Beverly, “I feel better just holding it.” That was the beginning of a metamorphosis that would transform her life.
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