Family: My husband Jim; and a daughter, Tara; a son, Jimmy; another daughter, Kelley; and another son, Owen; a son-in-law, Ryan; and grandchildren Margot, who’s 5; Palmer, 1½; and August, 14 months.

How did you meet your husband? We met in college, our senior year. We were both on spring break in Key West, and when we went back to school we started dating. We’ll have our 45th wedding anniversary August 15.

Pets: We have a 7-year-old white Siberian husky named Rime.

How long have you lived in Newtown? We’ve lived in Newtown for 34 years.

Work: By profession I was a banker, but for the past 26 years I’ve done the books for my husband’s law firm. That really worked out well for me because I had that flexibility. If one of the four kids was sick I was able to be home with them. I got out of the house and worked, but I had the best of both worlds because I could be with the kids whenever needed.

Are you an active member of any clubs, organizations, and/or communities of faith? I’ve been on the Borough of Newtown Historic District Commission since its inception in 1996. I’ve served as chair since 1998.

For 23 years I was also on the Newtown Scholarship Association board. I served as the awards chair and president.

What do you like to do with your free time? I like to garden, both flowers and vegetables. I’ve also belonged to a book club for 25 years, ten women from town, and we really do discuss the books.

What is the most recent book you’ve read? My recent book, through the book club, was The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett. She also wrote The Help.

Do you have a favorite author? This one’s so hard, there are so many. My favorite author is Abraham Verghese, who wrote Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water. I also like Amor Towles, who wrote A Gentleman in Moscow, and Barbara Kingsolver, who wrote Demon Copperhead and The Poisonwood Bible.

Who would you like to be stuck in an elevator with? A firefighter that can get me out.

If you could spend the day with someone, living or deceased, who would you choose and why? My grandfather, Aristide Piccini. He was a marble sculptor from Carrara, Italy, and he was commissioned by The Vermont Marble Company to come to America and do sculptures. He was sent to Washington, D.C., and he did most of his work on the Jefferson Memorial, but he also did the eagles on the Supreme Court building, the wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and he did work on the Lincoln Memorial.

I would like to ask him one question: Is the family story true, that he modeled Abraham Lincoln’s hands after his own?

What is your favorite thing about Newtown? The people, and Halloween.

What is something you would like to see The Newtown Bee cover? I would like you to keep doing exactly what you’ve been doing the last 150 years.

Do you have a personal credo? Believe in yourself; keep learning.