This inaugural blog post is dedicated to my mémère, Olive Anita (Plante) Buchanan. Olive, the eighth of nine children, was born to proud French Canadian parents Hormisdas (1878-1950) and Mucy (Forget) Plante (1878-1977) in 1914 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In 1945 she married the love of her life, a crimson-haired sailor in the United States…