Made to Last Forever: A Family. A House. A Nation. - Paperback

McKenny, Sharmin Fairbanks: - Sharmin Fairbanks McKenny grew up on a traditional family farm and continued her ancestor's pioneering legacy by soloing in an airplane before earning her driver's license. With a master's in nursing, she cared for early kidney transplant, severely burn and trauma patients. Sharmin was one of the first civilian nurses on a hospital-based emergency helicopter. Ms. McKenny has visited her ancestor's historic homes and workplaces, staying at their early 1600s ancestral house in England and visiting the 1637 Fairbanks House in Dedham, MA., where she now serves as a board of director and acting historian for the Fairbanks Family in America, Inc. Sharmin has published articles for her community newspaper, historical societies, museum newsletters, and newspapers. She received an award for her historical fiction, "Soles of War," from the Daughters of the American Revolution. At home, she enjoys golf, walking, biking, reading, painting, traveling, managing her Orphan Orchid Project and researching and sharing family and national history. Of her many pets, her favorites were Harvest, a spaniel, and Tiki, a monkey. She cherishes her husband, John, and two children, Aaron and Macy.