Grew up in NJ in Congregational and Presbyterian churches, but fascinated by Quaker and Mennonite heritage thanks to Aunt Grace, my Father's Stepmother, a practicing Quaker. Also, my Maternal Grandmother's strong ties to the founding Mennonite Herr family in Lancaster Co., Penna. Became a Quaker. Soon a family historian with a passion for the culinary and artistic traditions of the Swiss and German Anabaptist settlers. 60 years of research led me to their reality as people, not just religious refugees. Other passions from childhood include nature (grew up rural), gardening, creating art, reading, Cape Cod, justice and skating. Would have been a nerd from elementary school onward. Loved all subjects even Math if I could turn it into art. High School turned me into an athlete, artist, and taught me to do serious research and how to write and think. Ursinus College was a liberating experience and the University of Denver Library school provided a career. Married Glen Hay just out of college for 7 years and moved to Vermont (1976) for a job as library director at the Springfield Town Library the day the divorce was finalized. On the way to retirement I was active in Library organizations, Quaker and then UU congregations, read endlessly, especially children's literature, YA books, and researched & created local history and woodlands ecology curriculum materials for Brattleboro. Taught courses for CCV and UVM undergraduate and graduate. I also acquired a "homestead" in Guilford in 1986 where I have planted both food and flower gardens and built a colonial inspired energy efficient solar powered home for myself. Maintain family ties, active in Grange, ASCUU church, environmental and social justice organizations. Support Becca Balint and Bernie Sanders and have had meetings with all Vermont's US congresspersons since Senator Stafford. The Vermont Wilderness Association, in which I was the only woman activist of 8 leaders, preserved multiple areas in the Green Mountain Forest as Congressionally designated Wilderness in the 1980s . Extensive travels on foot in the UK and a "backdoor tourist" in Germany, Scandinavia, and Paris.