Preface
My mother, Lucy Dennis, with me (lower right) and my younger sister, Barbara, and brother, Roger, at Boundary Park, 1943
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Acknowledgements
I wish to express my heartfelt appreciation to the many friends whose help and encouragement have sustained me during the writing of this memoir. Thanks to Dolores Jardine for the photograph of Victoria Beach Station, to Joan Newton for many hours spent editing the manuscript, to my granddaughter Margaret Rugg for her photography skills, to Shirlee Anne Smith and Mary Thomas for researching archival photos, to the members of the Penhandlers for their continued interest and support, and to my husband Bill for his assistance in promoting this project.
Also many thanks to Barbara and Dawn Huck of Heartland Associates for their invaluable advice and assistance.
Margaret Dennis Owen
August 2011
For Barbara and Roger
and in memory of Victor and Lucy Dennis
