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Peg-Leg Pete is both pirate and ghost... and our young hero is afraid of neither. Intelligent poems and stories to read to children or for adults to enjoy. Kate Greene had an easy way with iambic pentameter and other verse forms. Here we provide her illustrated pirate poem, several other children's poems and her story about Witch Louise and the Special Moondance.
About the author
Kathy Arlene Greene was born on April 16, 1950 in Monmouth County to an old New Jersey family. She attended Ocean Township schools, Monmouth College and American Academy. Married in 1973 to Attorney and Minister Ralph Fucetola JD, the couple has one child, Drew Adriel Greene Fucetola.
Kathy was descended from George Washington's stepson, from the Lees of Virginia (including Robert E. Lee's sister) and the Greene's of Rhode Island and Monmouth County, NJ.
Her Greene ancestors were dissenters from first coming to America in the 1640s. One relative was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for "ogling women at Sunday Service" and another was among the defendants in the 1647 trial of Anabaptist followers of Ann Hutchinson in Rhode Island, America's first political trial. Later the family provided several Revolutionary War commanders including Gen. Nathanial Greene.
She and her husband co-founded the New Age Non-Denominational LifeSpirit Congregational Church in 1974 - www.LifeSpirit.org. Rev. Greene was the Chair of the Church from its founding until her sudden passing on April 14, 2021.
Kathy wrote under the name Kate Greene.
