In Where I’m From Marjorie Pagel draws from memory spanning three-quarters of a century, celebrating people and places that have enriched her life. The barn on the front cover, from an original oil painting by her mother, Vivian Johnson, symbolizes the title poem because her childhood on this small Wisconsin farm helped shape the girl into the woman she became: I am still a girl at heart – loving both the country and the city/ loving busy streets and quiet lanes, old friends and new/ drawing memories to me for company. The poems and short prose selections in the first part are all a remembrance of her life on the farm and in the nearby towns of Harrisville and Westfield, Wisconsin.