Doris Burn

The Summerfolk was my favorite book as a kid-I picked it up from a Scholastic Book Club in Florida and it was one of the first books I read myself, though my mother read it to me as well. The quirky illustrations of the improvised boats and watercraft and the storytelling kept it a favorite book throughout my Elementary school years, into my Middle school years and even into adulthood. Something always pulled me back to not only this book, but to Andrew Henry´s Meadow as well. I didn´t know...

The father's and the mothers, the sisters and the brothers, even the cats and the dogs of the missing children all ran kitty-corner after him. They climbed up over Blackbriar Hill and went across Worzibsky's Swamp– and in through the deep woods until they came to a meadow. It was Andrew Henry's meadow.

Doe was a wonderful friend and a beloved Christian lady. As mentioned in her obituary she had a spiritual vision for those she knew and she told wonderful stories about her family. She loved living on Guemes, then in Bellingham, and before those places each place she'd ever lived especially Waldron Island. I thought she sometimes tended to downplay her amazing artistic and writing abilities while I stood in awe of those abilities and made sure I have a copy of each of the books she...