Mary Hurst
Spanish

Mary was born in Connecticut and grew up in the Berkshires in Norfolk, Connecticut, home of the Yale Art School, where she and her seven siblings participated in summer art lessons and attended the summer concerts at their music shed. She received her BSED in Spanish with a minor in English from the University of Georgia and received her Master of Science degree in Spanish at Central Connecticut State University. She taught all levels of Spanish and reading for many years in private and public schools at the middle school, high school, and college level and had the opportunity to visit Spain, Mexico, and Costa Rica with her students. Mary moved to Ocala, Florida in 2011 where her daughter and son-in-law own a horse farm and train polo ponies. She is now tutoring, writing, and engaged in nature photography in the Ocala area.