Diane Stevenson Stone's personal story started in Los Angeles, California, and has taken her around the world from Boston, Massachusetts, to French Polynesia; to Glendale and subsequently Modesto, California; through France and England, and finally back to California's central coast in Pebble Beach, where she now resides with her husband, Tom. Her works of art have been exhibited at the American Embassy in Paris, France, where she studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Her art work has also been featured in galleries from Papeete, Tahiti, to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, though she claims her eight children as her very finest works of art. Diane's talent for storytelling is enjoyed by all,… but especially by her twenty-eight grandchildren. More recently, she has been privileged to serve as chair of the Leadership Council for the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University. Her first book, A Big Family Reunion for Sarah Lucy, is also available through Amazon. Diane has often wondered about her forefathers. How did they live their lives? What were their dreams? What did they think of heaven and earth? Every story ever told is a family story, and this is how her book came to be. Diane explains, "My father, Stanley Walker Stevenson, researched numerous ancestors who made that treacherous journey on the Mayflower to the New World. Before he died, he asked me if I would write a story about our brave young progenitor, Mary Chilton. In doing so, I have gained a deeper appreciation for the hopes and dreams of those early Pilgrims and the struggles they endured in creating the initial foundation for the United States of America." She hopes that each reader of Mary's story will likewise be touched and inspired to expand and enhance the cherished freedoms of our beloved America.