Author Biography
Ann Y. Tyler has completed a longtime promise made to her Uncle Julius Dunbar Eastman, to finish the story of her Grandma Julia Mae Jones Eastman. The Eastman Clan during Ann's growing up years, lived and flourished in the Bronx. Ann studied and eventually became a music teacher after earning her B.Mus.Ed. from Howard University in Washington, D. C. Ann's early interest in her family's history, past and present, grew all while she was using her parents' old Eastman Kodak accordion style box camera. The family pictures and photo albums, filled over the years, came from New York, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, and Florida. After earning her M. Mus. Ed. from Howard (1976), Ann retired finally in 2001, and completed her Ed. D. from Orlando's University of Central Florida in 2002. In between traveling, singing and playing for church and community, then dabbling in commercials as a senior artist over 60, she decided to finalize GRANDMA JULIA. With this exciting, historical family story from the handwritings of her uncle's mother, Ann has fulfilled her promise.
