Hometown: Louisville, KY, a great city full of interesting history and the people who made it happen. This appreciation passed to me by my paternal grandmother, Elinor Fromang Maloney, a history afficianado, genealogist, collector, antiquer and digger.

Important to me to preserve the bits and pieces that make up our history for future generations, whether the tiniest scrap of an old document, the preservation of a single building or the bigger historical picture - that all combine to make up the larger whole.

Personal - live in two early 1800s interconnected buildings in an area of Louisville known as Nulu, a neighborhood full of shops, restaurants, bars, hotels and homes near the Ohio River. The primary building, affectionately known as the "Taj" as in Taj Ma Loney, is a four-story building, built ca. 1845 by German immigrants, home to a popular bar, called Taj Louisville. The other, Casa Mia, is a ca. 1840, camelback shotgun house that was renovated in 1997, but still needs some TLC. Housed in both are bits and trinkets that focus on family past, and Louisville, Kentucky, German and Irish items.