This week’s genealogy quote comes from Madeleine L’Engle  – an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science. (Wikipedia)

Madeleine L. Engle

 Madeleine L’Engle Camp was born in New York City on November 29, 1918, and died in Litchfield, Connecticut, September 6, 2007. She married actor Hugh Franklin in 1942 and they operated a small general store in Crosswicks, Connecticut, while living in a 200-year-old farmhouse and rearing their family.

Madeleine L’Engle was a prolific writer, and according to Wikipedia won numerous awards, medals and prizes “. . . these included being named an Associate Dame of Justice in the Venerable Order of Saint John(1972);^[ the USM Medallion from The University of Southern Mississippi (1978), the Smith College Award “for service to community or college which exemplifies the purposes of liberal arts education” (1981), the Sophia Award for distinction in her field (1984), the Regina Medal (1985), the ALAN Award for outstanding contribution to adolescent literature, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English(1986), and the Kerlan Award (1990).”

Genealogy quote from Madeleine L’Engle

If you don’t recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are. 

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