Runty's Adventure: A Story of Love

Castleton, Chaffee

Chaffee K. Castleton traveled all over the world writing about her adventures. She lived in East Africa for four months and fell in love with those animals. She also worked for the Red Cross in Korea. In 1948 she married Henry Castleton, a concert violinist, and had one daughter, Julia. She also wrote poetry for the Christian Science Monitor and had a weekly travel column in the Van Nuys News. During these same years she was a drama critic and a film reviewer for several Southern California newspapers. She had a life-long love for animals and this was her last writing.

Through many years of painting alongside renown surrealist John Pitre, who himself studied at the world famous Art Student League in New York, Dana Queen developed the classical Old Masters technique of oil painting.