Karen Pennebaker was born in Clarksburg, WV. She lived in WV until her parents moved to OH when she was 10 years old. However, she insisted that they drop her off in WV after school let out to spend the summers there! When she was 14, they moved to Harrisburg, PA.
   Karen went to Bucknell for her first year of college and hated it there. She transferred to Penn State where she majored in Art. She was offered a graduate assistantship in Art History, so she tried that for a year and although she had a 4.0 average in Art History, decided that just wasn't what she wanted to do.
   Then she married her first husband, had 2 sons (one born in PA and the other in CA). That didn't work out, so she went to Lancaster, PA, where her parents were. A few years later, she met Ken (who was never going to get married and Karen had said she was never going to get married again). Well, they've been happily married for 35 years - so much for "never". Their son, his wife and 3 children live with them on 112 acres of "Almost Heaven" that they purchased in 1981 - took them a lot of years to get here permanently! Ken's 91 year old mother recently moved in and now there are 4 generations under one roof.
   Karen has homeschooled her granddaughters for over 10 years. She was encouraged to do this by all of the public school teachers she worked with in the past.
   Over the past 45 years, Karen has been a self employed artist and typesetter. She has done volunteer work in elementary schools both as a teacher's aide and teaching art. Presently, Karen is a member of the WV State Folk Festival committee, the "Something Old, Something New" craft show committee, the Gilmer County Historical Society, and the Trillium Arts Guild in Doddridge County.

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