by Annette Ballou
Paul H. Brainard was a Bach scholar and musicologist as well as a fine violinist. He taught at both Princeton and Yale in their graduate music programs. Bob Ballou was a middle school educator and administrator of a number of schools both in Kansas and Connecticut. Annette says, "I was privileged to have been married to each of them, for they added joy and a richness to my life and to the lives of everyone they touched."