her writing career when she figured out how to cut a fidgety two-year old's hair.
Do it when she is asleep. Her first national magazine credit was with Teacher
Magazine where she offered a survival guide to substitute teachers: "Don't be
found standing between the class and the door when the recess bell rings."As a transplanted Californian, she found herself right in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement when she moved to Arkansas in 1966. She and her husband chanced to be in Memphis the night of the King assassination. She decided to add to her education in Arkansas colleges with a decided bent towards history.
For the past twelve years, she has coalesced her love of history with a love of travel and produced hundreds of print and broadcast pieces that go deeper than local attractions. "I don't just want to see a new hotel," she says, "I want to interview the man whose house was torn down o build it."
Repass and her photographer husband have traveled the length of the Louis and Clark trail over the past few years. She has firsthand material available to editors interested in that great expedition of the Corps of Discovery. She has recently researched and prepared material on Jesse James and the James Gang. jjrepass@juno.com