Penelope Butterfield Young:  

Gosh, where do you start to catch up after 50 years? I guess the place to start is after high school. I went to Sonoma State University, then known as Granola U. I settled on Environmental Studies with an Education emphasis, but not without some detours along the way. One of these included working in Paris as an au-pere and traveling for a summer in 1976. And, In 1985, I worked for a Spring with the Young Adult Conservation Corps out at Pt. Reyes National Seashore as the only woman on the carpentry crew. We were charged with upgrading the park superintendent's office and I was hanging sheetrock with the best of them. This led me to qualify to work for a summer for the same program in Southeast Alaska. We worked on conservation projects in conjunction with the Forest Service there and had many adventures. How could you not with grizzly bears and bald eagles for neighbors? I finished my B.A. at S.S.U. and worked briefly for the Nature Conservancy as an Environmental Educator at their North Coast Range Preserve working with local elementary kids in the area. I worked for a year and a half as a weaver in Marin County. Yes! Loved this job, the people, the independence, and the creativity involved. I made decent enough money at the time for such a thing, too. I am still in close touch with several of the weaving clan of those days. Living the life of an environmental educator was so demanding and limiting that I decided to go back to SSU and got my Multipl...Expand for more