Bio
Wendy Drake is an adventurous endurance athlete, a 30+ year veteran of the IT industry, and Chief Human to Scout, a border collie. Originally from the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohio’s, she is now based in Boulder, Colorado, with the love of her life, Jorge Latre.
A lifelong learner, Drake holds an undergraduate degree in economics and an MBA from The Ohio State University. She has completed writing workshops in Colorado, Washington, and Alaska. Her debut memoir, Running to Thousand Letters, explored 100 of 1,000 letters written from a mother to a daughter in the early 1900’s.
Her current project is Another Thousand Letters, a YouTube channel supplemented by Instagram images. She shares what happens as she opens a family storage unit. The overwhelming volume of vintage clothes, linens, photos, writing from her grandparents’ time on the staff of The New Yorker magazine, and, as the project title implies, another thousand letters took a year to unpack and sort.
In 2022, her focus is converting the fragile photo collection into high quality images and the 700 of the letters written during WW2 during Charles Cooke’s assignment to an Army Air Corps Intelligence unit.
Online Mentions
Janet Gallin has been producing and hosting Love Letters Live since its inception on KUSF in 2005. She also leads workshops and provides consultation to private and corporate clients. Her two heaven-sent daughters and granddaughter have taught her most of what she knows about life.
Joe Catalano’s website on New York City’s first train station model builder, Arthur Weindorf, featured ‘Episode 13 – Back to the Writing Bin’ of Another Thousand Letters. In the episode, Drake unpacks an article Helen Cooke drafted for The New Yorker in 1932. The extensively researched article was rejected by the magazine.
Joe Catalano is the great grandson of Arthur Weindorf. He launched the Arthur Weindorf blog in 2013 to collect information about his great grandfather’s artwork.
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