Dana, B. J.

The author and her husband have three sons and seven grandchildren. She realized during her grammar school years that she enjoyed writing children's stories and learned to save, in memory or on paper, the wonderful things that children say and do. Her stories are fiction based on these memories. On May 14, 1990, The Tennessee Historical Commission awarded this author a Certificate of Merit for having made significant contributions to the preservation of historical and architectural heritage of Tennessee.