This is the story of Marion Henrietta Brown, from Carterton, New Zealand. It is the story of her life that she wrote by hand for her family a number of years ago. Well into her nineties at the time, it was a gargantuan effort. She didn't expect it to be anything more than someone transcribing her handwriting into a word processed format and for it to live on that way. The family decided to honour her on her 100th birthday by producing a book that became not only a way of putting her story into a more permanent form, but also allowing the family to share in the only set of family images, the earliest photograph dating back to 1885. She says she is no author. In the strictest sense that is true, but they say you should write what you know, and she knows this story cover to cover.