Taylor James

Age: 18

Birthday: April 7, 1989

Hometown: Sunapee, New Hampshire

College: Dickinson College

Email: jamesta@dickinson.edu

Schools Attended

• Shawsheen Elementary School
• Bancroft Elementary School
• Sunapee Middle High School
• Holderness School
• Dickinson College

I attended Shawsheen Elementary School from K-2 grade. Since Shawsheen Elementary School only went to third grade, I attended Bancroft Elementary school from 3-5 grade. After Bancroft I went to Doherty Middle School for grades 6 and 7. Then my family decided to move to Sunapee, New Hampshire. I attended Sunapee Middle High School for my 8th grade year. For my four years of high school I went to Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Holderness is a boarding school located about one hour from my house in Sunapee. After graduating from Holderness School this past Spring, I now attend Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Family

The James family is quite unique, or at least we think so. I have a dad named Steve James and my mom is Laura James originally Laura Richards. I have two sisters, Carter James (but she goes by Tink) and Sarah Filler. Tink is my real blood sister, and Sarah is someone I consider my sister. She started working as a nanny at the ripe young age of 13. She started lived very near us and eventually began staying at our house quite frequently. She moved in with us regularly and began to go to the Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts as well as helping my parents whenever possible with nannying. She is now married and lives in Watch Hill, Rhode Island with her husband and three children. I grew up in the town of Andover, Massachusetts until I was 13. We then moved to Sunapee, New Hampshire. We had always spent the weekends during the winter in Sunapee at my grandparents house skiing and spent at least one month in Sunapee during the summer. We moved up and lived at my grandparents house for a little less then a year and moved into a house we built the spring of my eighth grade year. We have lived in Sunapee ever since. My dad lives and works in Boston during the week. We have an apartment next to the Museum of Science and he commutes back and fourth on weekends.

Pets

Throughout my lifetime I have had many pets. From dogs to cats, frogs, hamsters, bunnies, rats, fish, horses, pigs, hermit crabs, and snails. My family loves animals, especially my mum and my sister, Tink. My mom used to show dogs before she had children and has recently tried to persue that interest. It is hard to buy a "perfect" dog, which you essentially need for showing. To us, the dogs we have recently gotten are perfect, but lack important qualities needed for showing. For now my mom has stopped her interest in showing but maybe later she will pick it up again. She also used to house dogs before they had an owner. She also has trained dogs in the past which is why our dogs now are so well behaved. Now we have four dogs, Pipian, Rossignal, Talulah, and Mogul. Pipian is a red, short-haired dachshund, Rossignal is a black lab, Talulah is a black and tan, wire-hair dachshund, and Mogul is a chocolate lab. They enjoy running around in our front yard, which is where they spend most of their days. The "big dogs" as my dad calls them love going on runs, going out on the boat and swimming, and car rides. Talulah also enjoys car rides. They are all very well behaved dogs and I enjoy their company very much. I love them and miss them a lot when I am at school!

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