Tate Fallon, R3 Features Editor
Tate Fallon is the Features Editor for R3 and has adored journalism since a young age. Outside of room 111, she loves to hang out with friends, listen to her Spotify playlists and read poetry. Tate also is a huge advocate for mental health and serves as a teen representative on the town’s committee, with the mission of ending the stigma and starting a conversation with those struggling. She’s ecstatic for this year to explore her creative outlet and make memories with the ‘19-’20 staff.
![KATHLEEN SCRANTON -BAGS. For 12 years now, Scranton has been searching, acquiring and constructing purses out of some material and vintage book covers, from around the globe. The best part, is when you buy the purse, that book comes with it. “First thing I do is take [the book] apart with a scalpel, so it’s whole and then I rebind it. Then I put the serial number into a database so that [both the purse and book] have the same serial number. Then I put the books in bins so that my husband can find them when I sell [the purses].” For the new covers, Scranton uses plain white, as she informed me that you cannot make any copy of a book due to copyright infringement. “I went to look for leather straps for my purses, but leather that you buy off of the internet is ‘PU,’ that’s called polyurethane leather, it’s fake, which I can rip with my own hands. So, I have horses and I went somewhere and asked if I could buy reins wholesale, because I can get two purses out of one set of reins. So these cost a little more money because they have the leather strap.” Scranton also pays attention to the smallest detail of each purse, making sure each of them has the perfect button-- naming herself a button-holic-- saying she will buy a whole jar of them if she sees only three she truly likes.](https://hiseye.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IMG_3622-900x675.jpg)
