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Joseph and Sarah Longhurst, the patriarch pioneers of my family are buried in Perth County, Ontario.

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Upon visiting their gravesite, my husband noticed there was an epitaph stone buried beneath the grass. As we pulled it away and cleaned it, this is what it said.

Our parents here lie underground,

The dearest friends we ever found,

But through the Lord's unfailing Love,

We hope to meet in realms above

I was born in rural Ontario, Canada and immigrated to the United States in 1995. Since retiring in April of 2022, my husband and I enjoy spending time with our children and grandchildren. We are also Pickleball enthusiasts.

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I spent the first two years of retirement researching and writing The Petworth Project. The research findings kindled a passion to fictionize this story of what it may have been like to journey from England across a turbulent sea to a New World of promise and peril.

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