Haunted Newport (Open mind)
Eleyne Austen Sharp was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1955. An Air Force brat, she was raised in Mississippi, Alaska, Texas, Italy and Germany.  Following a career in her twenties as a professional singer, she spent many years as a journalist, editor and copywriter, and worked for public and syndicated television.  She moved from Washington, D. C. to Newport, Rhode Island in 1990 and founded the national Community Writers Association in 1994.  Eleyne Austen Sharp lives in Newport with her yacht captain husband, Nick, and their psychic kitty, Jag.