Barbara Sherrill could think of no better place to donate a portion of her prized matryoshka doll collection.
Sherrill, a retired third-grade instructor at Lincoln Elementary School, was on hand to give away 20 such dolls at a Tuesday assembly.
A matryoshka, or nesting doll, is a small, hollow and ornately decorated wood doll that opens to reveal a smaller version inside. The smaller doll, in turn, has another figure inside it, and so on, until the smallest doll is easily dwarfed by the largest.
Sherrill began collecting the dolls in the mid 1990s, at the same time of her…
Nesting doll collection donated to Lincoln
