By Peter Costa/Staff Writer
GateHouse News Service
Westford —The Cambodian orphans had never seen scissors.
Some held them by the closed blades and looked through the finger loops as if they were silver spectacles Even after being shown how to hold scissors properly, few kids could make a cutting motion.
“It took a while but they caught on and were able to cut some paper and make paper chains and we helped them make masks,” said Barbara Peacock, a Westford photographer who taught art and photography in Cambodia this past summer.
Peacock is a founder of a nonprofit organization called The Nightingale Project, which helps the disadvantaged through art. She was accompanied on her trip to Cambodia by her friend, Tamison Rose, who is an artist and former Westford School Committee member.
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