While growing up in western Kentucky, I felt a strong tug toward the northern Virginia region that I would one day write about. Using a paper map, I zeroed in on Warrenton and Fauquier County. At age twelve I wrote my first story featuring Polly and Brad and the land they loved. I imagined the town's history, the coming of a railroad and the impact of Civil War, and wove those elements into my tale.
During my first visit to Warrenton three years later, I felt I had come home. There I also purchased a local history book that confirmed my childhood imaginings. My detailed foreknowledge of landscapes, historic places, names and dates goes unexplained to this day. I am a former public school teacher, school librarian, and social studies textbook author for three major U. S. publishers. My textbook "Virginia" was taught in public schools across the commonwealth.
But my heart is in my adult fiction: "View Tree Mountain" serial saga.
During my first visit to Warrenton three years later, I felt I had come home. There I also purchased a local history book that confirmed my childhood imaginings. My detailed foreknowledge of landscapes, historic places, names and dates goes unexplained to this day. I am a former public school teacher, school librarian, and social studies textbook author for three major U. S. publishers. My textbook "Virginia" was taught in public schools across the commonwealth.
But my heart is in my adult fiction: "View Tree Mountain" serial saga.
