Fun Facts:

Little known facts about Margaret  —

• Has played for over 7,500 Beverly Hills afternoon teas.

• Played harp for afternoon tea on a ship while crossing the Panama Canal.

• Viewed some of the rainforest from a rickety boat on the Amazon River.

• Enjoyed a view of Mt. Fuji as she played the harp in the Crown Restaurant of the Palace Hotel.

• Lived with a Buddhist priest and his family on the Japan Sea.

• Played harp in Scotland at a Ceildh

• Built her own medieval style Celtic lap harp.

• Played harp for horse race luncheons at Churchill Downs

• Played My Old Kentucky Home at midnight for the inauguration of Kentucky Governor Wilkinson.

• Was a VISTA volunteer (domestic Peace Corps).

• Integrated her harp music in her position at an institution for physically disabled children.

• Through playing and singing familiar songs, helped a woman with dementia relearn how to speak.

• Was a community organizer in South Central and Watts in a program under Mark Ridley Thomas.

• Received a gift of an old family quilt days before being asked to play the harp in the musical, “Quilters”.

• Published writer for the Indiana Genealogist.

• Has a passion for family history and the music of her heritage.