John ffrench was born and raised in Ireland.

Primm Turner was born and raised in the U.S.A.

We met in Florence, Italy, where we both studied ceramics and lived in the Villa Fabricotti, an international student house.

Years later, we were married in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Primm moved to Ireland where our three daughters were born. John, a potter, worked in the Arklow Studio Pottery.

In 1969 we returned to Stockbridge where we taught art and are now retired. We spend every June, July and August in our Irish cottage near Kinvara.

Felicitas, our eldest daughter, attended local schools and finished secondary school in London. She went to California and graduated from U.C. Berkeley after having her junior year in Trinity College, Dublin. She majored in English Literature. She then went to Stanford Law School and worked in Law until the multiple sclerosis she contracted prior to attending Berkeley became aggressive. Her M.S. has progressed to the point of her becoming incapacitated, but she is still very much a part of the family and lives nearby.

Crispina, our middle daughter, studied weaving in Vancouver and at Masachusetts College of Art in Boston. After graduating she started her own business, Crispina Designs, making toys, blankets, pillows, pot-holder carpets and some clothing, all from recycled woolen sweaters and/or blue jeans. See her website www.crispina.com.

She married Chris Swindlehurst and they have two baby girls, Lucy and Violet. They all presently live in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Ben Paley, Crispina's first-born, is 15 and has designed calendar months for several years.

Sofia, our youngest daughter, is married to Pat Hughes and lives just around the corner from us with their daughter Lily Rose. Sofia attended Keene State College in Keene, N.H. and then got her masters from Lesley College in Boston, studying Early Childhood Education, and is now teaching kindergarten in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Lily, now 9, has designed calendar months since she was 4 years old (a record!)