Editor
Madonna Dries Christensen, genealogist
and family archivist, lives in Sarasota with her husband. She has volunteered with Doorways since
1994. Three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her articles and short stories have appeared in more than 100 publications.
She is Contributing Editor to Yesterday’s Magazette and Writer's
Magazette, a columnist for Extra Innings, and the author of Swinging
Sisters, Masquerade: The Swindler Who Conned J. Edgar Hoover, The Quiet
Warrior, and she compiled and published Dolls Remembered and Toys
Remembered. Visit her Web site at: www.madonnadrieschristensen.com
Contributing Editor
Ned Burke has been in the publishing business for more than
30 years. Besides serving as editor for various newspapers in Florida and Pennsylvania, he was the editor/publisher
of Yesterday's Magazette, New Writer's and Writer's
Guidelines and News magazines. He lives in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife, writer Carrillee Collins
Burke, and has published four novels and numerous articles and short stories. Currently, he is the editor/publisher of
the online version of Yesterday's Magazette and Writer's Magazette. He's
also a media consultant. See links for all his enterprises at www.authorepburke.com.
Contributing Editor
After
graduating from the University of Kansas, Lindsay Peterson moved to New York City, where she spent three years working
at Woman’s Day magazine by day and at a jazz club at night. She left New York to get a master’s
degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, in Columbia. After working at the Wichita (Kans.)
Eagle-Beacon and the Pensacola (Fla.) News-Journal,
she came to The Tampa Tribune, where she has won state and national awards for her coverage
of aging and health care. While covering aging, she edited the Tribune’s “Prime Time”
page and weekly “I Remember it Well” memoir feature. For the past two years she has worked on the Tribune’s
enterprise team, covering a variety of subjects from immigration to state politics.
Liaison,
Senior Friendship Centers
Barbara Celnar is Senior Friendship Centers Director of Community Services
for Sarasota County. Barbara is our link to the Dan Howe Life History Writing Project, Doorways.
