I N T R O D U C I N G T H E E D I T O R
by
E.L.R.
Lauren Anne is third generation East coast American
from
and from
the South of France - Marseille, Bouches-Du-Rhone, and
Born during a blizzard in
she considers herself half Yankee from
Growing up playing in the
she graduated from
after twenty years in the mountains - the heart of the
Shenandoah Valley in
she now resides fourteen miles from the Gulf of Mexico
in
with musicians Earl and Forrest Ragland of “Subject to Change”
Her parents live on Cape Cod in
three
siblings are spread from
son Andreas Addison and his love Kristin are thriving
in
___________
Writing poems at age eight : “one could
comprehend, colors never end”
Always a reader and interested in history, she has
penned two private genealogical collections
“Hunting Henslee’s -
Hensley’s” and “
__________
Why spend
two and a half years tabulating and one year editing
out of print and inaccessible records from
when your family is not even in the book ?
The mountains, music and caves of
since living in
sixty miles apart as the bird flies - but four hours
as the loaded truck slowly weaves
After a seven month cross country trip centered in
Earl, Lauren and Forrest settled in Faulkner, on
Shaver’s Fork of the
During their first week they were reunited with the
Burke’s from Alpine Lodge,
met
Earl’s assistant the popular gandydancer, “Mayor of Bowden”
Peck Vance,
then
Lauren met a Lambert, and a Kerns from Kerens,
all names from her own family
Small world
- Enjoy!