Scheduled Interviews with Patricia Brooks:

November 30, 2004	Sacramento, CA Radio program
December 1, 2004	Guest on the Ralph Bailey Show, Bakersfield, CA
December 7, 2004	Interviewed by Rick Pezzullo of the North Country News out of Yorkstown Heights, NY
December 8, 2004	Interviewed by Sharma Howard of the Lyne Times of East Lyme, CT
December 9, 2004	Guest on the Katherine Zox Show of WSXBH, Cobleskill, NY
December 9, 2004	Interviewed by Robin Caudell of the Press Republican out of Plattsburgh, NY
December 10, 2004	Interviewed by Meg Morley of Adirondack Life, Jay, NY
December 14, 2004	Interviewed by Whitney Jackson of the Valley News out of Elizabethtown, NY

Patricia Reiss Brooks was born in Lake Placid, the youngest of Daisy and Julian Reiss’s six children. She is a graduate of St. Bernard’s Grammar School in Saranac Lake, Lake Placid Central High and LeMoyne College in Syracuse.

She spent most of her childhood and teenage years exploring the Adirondack fire trails and logging trails with first her pony (at age ten) and progressing on to a horse (at age 13). During those wonderful school-free days she would saddle up right after breakfast and find something to do with her horse all day; tying him to a tree when it was time for lunch, or taking a dip in the lake with him on a hot afternoon.

Patti, as she is known to her family and friends, started writing as soon as she could spell and was a frequent contributor to her grammar school publication, "The Clarion." At age 16, she sold her first article to a nationwide magazine for $3.00! She now has over 500 published articles in regional and national magazines and papers including "Good Housekeeping," "The Hartford Courant," "The Morgan Horse," "Yankee Pedlar," "Equine Journal," etc.

Today Patti lives on a Morgan Horse Farm in East Lyme, CT. where she and her husband, Bob, have raised and trained hundreds of Morgan Horses. Her novel-in-progress is set in the horse world.

In the Prohibition era, roads were identified by bands of color on trees and posts, not route numbers. The fancy hood ornaments were actually a temperature gauge. Cars had balloon tires and the inner tube would pinch, so it was imperative to carry extra inner tubes. Extra gasoline was also strapped to fenders as service stations were sparse. For on the road repairs for Model T Fords, all the driver needed was a hammer and bailing wire. Basic repair toolkit contained a wrench, pliers, screw driver, and bailing wire.