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I was born in Revere, Massachusetts in 1943, descended from English/Irish stock who settled in Boston and Cambridge. My maternal grandmother was the only one of eight children in her family to be born in America, my paternal grandmother, was, truly, little orphan Annie (Kelly).

In those early years we lived in Malden then in Lynn and I remember country weekend drives; when I was eight years old we moved into the rural southeastern New Hampshire town of East Kingston where I spent many happy hours exploring woods and fields developing a rich appreciation for the trees and plant material around me. I have vivid memories of my mom weaving baskets she had learned at home extension meetings, she wove cornucopias for the holiday tables and vases of round material formed over Boston Baked Bean jars. Years later my mom taught me some of her basketmaking skills, melon, egg and “fanny” baskets woven with colorfully dyed reed, grapevine, palm tree racemes and other natural materials.

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