Ruth freemason biography

I grew up in Chester County outside Philadelphia at a time when there were fields with cows, woods with streams, and barns with hay to play in.

Ruth freemason biography

My father built rooms onto our house and my mother painted and gardened. My sister and I spent a lot of time outside exploring and inside making up stories for our dolls and stuffed animals. And I read, read, read as much as I could!

When I was twelve, my parents took us to Europe for a year.

My father, who was a school teacher, and my mother taught us while we wandered from Scandinavia to Sicily. I missed seventh grade–hooray!

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Instead of putting on my first stockings and thinking about boys, I read books and played with dolls. I also discovered the world was a bigger and far more interesting place than I had known before. We saw how people had lived in Pompeii, we saw gypsy caravans, and villagers cooking dinner outside their front doors.

Ever since then, I’ve been curious about people in other parts of the world.

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