My interests include:

• Whodunnit novels, especially

Agatha Christie's Jane Marple and

Dorothy Sayers's Peter Wimsey

• Genealogy and Family History

Three of my ancestors are Roger Williams, Philip Sherman, and Cassandra Burnell Southwick. I am related to Texas hero Henry Millard and to U. S. President Millard Fillmore.

• History of New England, especially Rhode Island and Vermont.

My favorite New England people are Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and Ethan Allen.

• Christianity and the History of Christianity

Friends

Mennonites

Early Baptists

Holiness movement

Christian and Missionary Alliance

I am a participant in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

• Biography

Eric Baker (activist)—co-founder of Amnesty International

Joel Bean—Quaker minister

William Coddington—early governor of Rhode Island

John Coggeshall--early leader of Rhode Island

Mary Fisher--early Quaker missionary

Joseph John Gurney—banker and activist

Jester Hairston—choir director, composer, singer, actor

Edward Hicks--painter

Christopher Holder--early Quaker preacher

Elizabeth Hooton--early Quaker preacher

Francis Howgill—early Quaker preacher

Rufus Jones—author, editor, and college professor

Thomas R. Kelly—Quaker missionary, teacher, and author

Phoebe Knapp—composer of hymn tunes

Henry Millard--Texas hero and my distant cousin

Phoebe Palmer-—leader in the Holiness Movement

Edward Pease (1767-1858)--railway owner

John Sanford (ca. 1605-1654)--a founder of Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Robert Pearsall Smith--proponent of the Holiness Movement

Hannah Whitall Smith-—speaker and author in the Holiness Movement

Alys Pearsall Smith--wife of Bertrand Russell, humanitarian

Cassandra Burnell Southwick--Quaker martyr, and my direct ancestor

Leroy S. Starrett-—inventor and businessman

M. Carey Thomas-—former president of Bryn Mawr College and suffragist

Mary Vaux Walcott-—naturalist and illustrator

Isaac Wilbour--governor of Rhode Island

• Geography

Firbank Fell-—a hill in the Lake District of England

• History

Gaols Act 1823—prison reform act of the United Kingdom

Portsmouth Compact--a founding document of Rhode Island

• Religion

Blessed Assurance—Christian hymn

Testimony of Equality—Quaker principle

Testimony of Integrity—Quaker principle

Testimony of Simplicity—Quaker principle

Valiant Sixty--a group of early Quaker preachers

Higher Life movement--Christian Holiness movement in the United Kingdom

Conservative Friends--a branch of Quakerism

• Literature

List of female private detective characters