The Hundred Year Stretch and Beyond

About the Book

At least twice in the past thirty years I have described to my grandson, Aaron, what I consider to be a remarkable fact of personal history. If I stand with my arms outstretched and hold my right hand with my daughter Jan’s left and she holds her right hand with Aaron’s left and then my mother, Lena, holds my left hand with her right hand and my grandfather James Henry Andersen, her father, holds her left hand with his right hand, there will be five immediately related people standing in a row stretching one hundred years. My grandfather was born in 1879 to my left and my grandson was born in 1979 to my right. I find this fact starkly but exhilaratingly interesting from a number of different perspectives.

About the Author

The lives of Doris Marie Chapin Nanney Bailey and generations before her are in this book. She is motivated to write the family history for the generations to come. The author now lives in Sitka, Alaska, with her two daughters, Jan and Gayleen and Jan’s ten year old son Bradley.