Know Your Neighbor: Audrey Hopper
Oswego resident Audrey Hopper participated in the McDonald's Thanksgiving parade as a Highland Dance through her school, Thistle and Heather Highland Dancers.
Thanksgiving morning, as many were putting their turkey in the oven or loading the car for a trip to visit relatives, eight-year-old Audrey Hopper was downtown, participating in the Thanksgiving parade as a Highland dancer. Audrey is in second grade in Oswego. She began Highland dancing just three months ago. “She was tired of ballet and thought it would be fun to learn Highland dancing since I started taking bagpipe lessons,” said her father, Sam Hopper. “I’d been seeing it for a while and thought that is so cool and so cool how fast they go,” Audrey said of wanting to learn Highland dancing. Sam Hopper searched the internet for Highland dance lessons and found Thistle and Heather Highland Dancers of Chicagoland. Nancy Strolle is the …
