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Artist and educator Carol Young died peacefully at her home in Essex on Nov. 16. Born March 11, 1945, she grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, daughter of Elizabeth P. Arms and Charles S. Arms. She graduated from The Hathaway Brown School in 1963, then earned her degree in art history (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.

During the next decade, while raising a young family and living in Tarrytown, New York, she became a tireless proponent of women’s rights, working for Planned Parenthood, rising from physician’s assistant to chairman of fund raising for Westchester County.

According to Carol, the most rewarding years of her life came with the opportunity to found a children’s art school in Westport, that she called Imagination Unlimited. Here, in a garage-turned-art-studio, she and her husband Skip Crane worked with groups of children to create a sequence of imaginary worlds, turning her basement into Ancient Egypt and her back yard into such unlikely places as Bear Park, Westport Main Street, and Stonehenge.

After Carol and Skip moved to Essex, she became deeply involved in and supportive of the many local libraries, historical societies, and live theater groups in and around the Essex area. Later, she joined with a group of local artists to help organize and operate Maple and Main, a Gallery of Fine Art featuring the creative outpouring of dozens of local illustrators, painters, sculptors, and workers in various other media.

Carol is survived by her brother Myron Arms (Cecilton, Maryland); her eldest son Roger G. Young (San Francisco, California); and her youngest son Adam Lucas Young and his wife Elise Young (both of Forest Hills, New York). Carol is also survived by two grandchildren, Evan Young and Mia Young, (both also of Forest Hills, New York), and by Hildegarde, the most loving lab in the Western Hemisphere.

A small gathering of family and friends will take place next summer in Marion, Massachusetts, to celebrate Carol’s life and to conclude with a scattering of her and Skip’s ashes in the waters of Buzzards Bay. Attendance will be by invitation and will take place on a date and time to be announced.