Mary Wood Forman lived only what could be described as an exotic - well traveled life. She was born to American Presbyterian missionaries that were stationed in India and was born in Mussoorie. It is located north of the capital of New Delhi and at the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. During her childhood it was a scenic place of beauty, likewise a place where she was captured by the cross-culture of being an American child in a truly foreign land, even though Britain ruled India at this time. Her parents returned to Columbus, Ohio in 1923 so the children could attend school. Forman went on to get a degree from Ohio State University (1940) and a graduate degree in Social Work from Western Reserve University in 1944. After college she spent many years abroad, lived in New York City, and then moved to Hartford, CT in 1956. It was in Connecticut that she become interested in photography. She continued with her travels to Europe and the American West, recording what she s