Carol March McLernon grew up in the land of Gray Gold and likes to tell children she attended  school in a ghost town.  She graduated from Platteville before the college of education and the  mining school became part of the university system. She participated in a teacher exchange  program in the Borders of Scotland. While there, she visited the walled city of York, Herriot's  country and School Master Pasture.  She also earned graduate credits while biking through   Ireland while working on her master's program at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater. McLernon taught children in the Lake Geneva Schools for many years.  She and her husband, Robert, raised their three children on a farm near that tourist town.