Loretto came to this country in 1959 with her mother Anne Shadbolt and her brother Gerard Shadbolt. Her father Robert Shadbolt had come over one year prior to prepare the way for the family. She will always remember that first plane ride when her mother said the rosary the whole way! They were allowed only one suitcase each. She always felt saddened by what her mother had to leave behind in Ireland. They had to sell everything. They came into America with $31 and fifty cents. At first they resided on Baltimore Street in Baltimore Md. Later they moved for a year to Armistead Gardens. Her parents managed to buy a house in Irvington and resided there till there untimely deaths in 1963 and 1971. �My parents were hard workers� she says, �They never went on assistance no matter how hard it was. My mother didn�t mind scrubbing floors. �It�s good for the soul she would always say�. My mother who was a writer and had had a book published in England titled The Adventures of Gay, Loretto raised her brother Jerry from the age of nine. He resided with her on and off till he was 33. He moved to LA to try his luck as a song writer. He returned soon after settling into the Dundalk area where he was a cab driver for the Emerald Cab Company till his tragic death in 1994 at the age of 40. He was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Gerard had lost his only child a little boy named Robbie when he was 25. Robbie was named after his grandfather Robert Shadbolt. He is survived by his wife Nanette Shadbolt who still lives in the Dundalk area. Loretto considers New York her second home. She will never forget the sight of the Statue of Liberty as their plane landed near the city. She spends a good part of each year there where she has met many friends in the film business. Her company McDonagh-Davis Associates is named after her mother�s and grandmother�s maiden names. She has been involved with many films and video productions including; The Family Treasures with her friend Miki Tatum who was the Producer. She was the assistant to the producer for the New York segments. MDA has produced many shorts and promos and cast into numerous productions shot in Baltimore. Loretto won a Telly Award for a 57 minute documentary titled The Loneliest Journey she made in collaboration with Sylvia Schildt. She was also the Co-Producer for the 90 minute film Stage fright which was directed and produced by Brad Mays. The film was invited by the New York Endowment for the Arts to the Berlin Film Festival. It received a number of outstanding reviews. Loretto finished her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Maryland in Baltimore; and a second Minor Degree in Writing which she attributes to her mother�s dying wishes that she go to college and make something of herself. She has been writing since 1969 when by accident her mother�s writings were burned. Through memory she re-wrote most of them and in the process became she hopes herself a writer. She memorialized this even in the book she wrote title The Burning of the Bag and What it Begot which was a compilation of her mother�s works and her own. She has written hundreds of works including children�s stories, plays, screenplays works on esoteric, essays and of course poetry. Two other published works are Dragons N Things and Witches N Things. Angels N Things and Ghosts N Things are due out next year. Loretto who is the mother of six beautiful children currently resides in Baltimore MD in the Fells Point Area her husband Lou of 39 years where they produce a number of local cable television shows including The Top of the Morning; 1000 episodes, Teens Are Talkin with Shawnte Campbell, The Senior Scene with Ms. Verna Day Jones and After Midnight. They also produce the Children�s program titled �The Children�s Corner� with host Zoh Meyerhoff. The Children�s Corner is in its 180th episode. They have to date won 14 Telly Awards for their local cable shows 4 Silver and 10 Bronze. She is was a founding mother of Women in Film and Video in Baltimore and is a member of the IFP in New York. She has been listed for 5 years in Who�s Who of America. She was appointed by Mayor Martin O�Malley to the Board of Conveners for Public Access channel 75 in Baltimore and served for 14 months. Currently she is on the board of the Women's Heritage Center in an advisory capacity. She is also a member of the Academy of American Poets. Two other organizations that she created are The Order of Angelical Reformation which focuses on Angels and societies relationship to them and Abracazen which includes services such as Tarot Reading, Horoscopes and many esoteric interests. Both have sites listed below. The website for the Children's Corner is http://the_childrens_corner.tripod.com The website for The Order of Angelical Reformation is http://oar1999.tripod.com The website for Abracazen is http://abracazen.tripod.com She is also an artist and her art site is http://brassfarthing.tripod.com The e-mail address is mcdonagh_davis@msn.com The website for McDonagh Davis is http://mcdonagh_davis.tripod.com You can reach McDonagh Davis at 410-732-8263 or e-mail at mcdonagh_davis@msn.xom Other books by this author are Dragons N Things, Witches N Things, The Burning of the Bag and What is Begot, Angels N Things, The Angel/ Witchry Grub Cookbook, the Order of Angelic Reformation, The Observations of an Idiosyncratic or Molestation of the Little People, and The Twelve Step Program to Writing a Book. Most can be found through Amazon.com or Xlibris Publishing or e-mail the author at or e-mail at: mcdonagh_davis@msn.xom