BERLIN (NBC 26) — More than 200 decorated trees fill Nathan Strong Park in Berlin, a tradition that’s especially meaningful for a local, 96-year-old dance teacher.

The walls in the basement of Beverly Keelor’s house are filled with memories– from newspaper clippings to concert photos.

It was once the home of Beverly Ann’s School of Dance.

Keelor ran the school out of the basement of her parents’ house- the same house she grew up in and the same house she lives in now.

“Walking down the street and people go ‘Miss Beverly, how are you?’ and that really makes my day,” Keelor says.

She held adult and youth dance classes for 35 years.

“I just know that she’s made such an impact on not only my childhood but generations of little girls and little boys growing up in Berlin,” Greta Hoesley, a

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