Nature's Way: Observations of a Good Earthkeeper (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781879384736)

Marion Dusoir was born in upstate New York on a small farm not equipped with electricity, plumbing, or central heating. Her parents, immigrants from Germany and Belgium, came to the US after World War I. In 1930 the family moved to New York City where Marion was educated in the public schools. While a cultural affairs reporter for radio station WNYC, she married and began a family of her own. With her two daughters in school, Marion earned her BS and MSW degrees from Hunter College and began a lengthy career as a psychiatric social worker. After retiring, she moved back to upstate New York and taught at Columbia-Greene Community College. Later, throughout the East, she conducted a series of "Circuit Seminars in Child Care" for staff of child-care and foster-care agencies. Marion was a theater and music aficionado, a gourmet cook, a community activist, a textile designer-weaver, and an amateur ornithologist turned natural sciences writer. After a full life of seventy-seven years she died at her home in Fort Bragg, California in 2002.