Lynn McElfresh was born into a family of storytellers and married into a family with a story to tell. Her husband’s family has summered on Grenell every summer without fail since 1875. Grenell 1881 is the first of a nine-book series. The Thousand Island Series combines three of Lynn’s passions: family history, the Thousand Islands, and writing. Lynn has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines since she started writing in the 1980s, including over one hundred articles for the online magazine, ThousandIslandsLife.com. She has also published seven contemporary middle-grade novels. Grenell 1881 is her first historical fiction.