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Joan Adelaide Ashdown was born at the beginning of WW II in a small town west of Boston, MA.

She knew the city before skyscrapers, when the old John Hancock building told the weather,when the circus came to Boston Garden, when the Old Howard was in Scollay Square. She watched Johnny Kelley run the Boston Marathon, shopped at Filene's basement, rode the Swan Boats, ate at the famed Union Oyster House and walked the cobbled streets of old Boston. 

    Write what you know an author once told her, so she did!

      She now divides her time between family in Florida and family on Cape Cod.