Last Chance Alaska 2: Grayscale Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781519620538)

The Author was born in upstate New York just before Pearl Harbor in 1941. Her family was relocated from Rochester, NY to northern NJ due to job opportunities in the mid 1940's. Several years would pass until an additional move was necesssary to a more advantageous place for piano students to study. Nellie was a music teacher. The Douglas Music Studios in Pompton Plains, NJ was soon born. It is during this time that the Author began her ten year career in ballet. After high school, Jill studied at Fairleigh Dickenson University with a major in English and attended additional studies at Montclair State College in upper Montclair, NJ. Out of the blue an irresistable call came in from Radio City Music Hall asking her to begin rehearsing for their next show featuring The PINK PANTHER vovie. "It must have been that audition I took a year ago,"Jill said. Jill, too, married had children and opened a school. Hers was The Titusville Ballet Center in Titusville, Florida, opening 1976. In 2000-02 a quest began to repeat some photography takeen in 1935-36 by her father on his way to and while up in Alaska searching for gold and, Jill's long dormant writing career began to take off. LAST CHANCE ALASKA was followed by NELLIE'S HILL which includes Nellie's first ever cross-country road trip, repeat photographing from Florida to Seattle, WA.