Have you ever driven down a back road and noticed one of those old shifting-to-the-side-run-down houses? Have you wondered about the folks whose footfalls used to creak the floors, whose faces used to be framed inside the now windowless panes? Jeanne Robert Foster's stories and poems, while written about the people, poverty, and places of the remote Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, give voice to themes which are universal and timeless. Jeanne's own story began in 1879 in the Great North Woods. She became a model for Charles Dana Gibson and Harrison Fisher, an art agent for John Quinn who was the promoter of the famous Armory Show of 1913, a writer/editor for Albert Shaw, as well an advocate for housing for the poor and elderly. She was a woman who touched many lives including that of the editor of ADIRONDACK PORTRAITS: A Piece of Time, Noel Reidinger Johnson whose labor of love made this volume possible. For more information about Foster, watch for future publication of her biography by Janice Huddleston Londraville.