Pete Droge & Elaine Summers
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Sixteen years ago, Pete Droge went looking for his birth mother; instead, he found her obituary. Rather than marking the end of the story, though, that discovery launched a remarkable journey of personal growth and healing, one that would find Droge reuniting with long-lost relatives, battling a mysterious illness, and finding himself in the process. “It’s been transformational,” Droge reflects.
When I moved to Puget Sound's Vashon Island with my husband and musical collaborator Pete Droge in 1995, it was clear we'd landed in a unique spot. The island offered gorgeous, rural landscapes and a small community of progressive, artistic residents living in a quirky, small town, just a 15–minute ferry ride from Seattle. Vashon was the perfect respite from our hectic lifestyle as touring musicians.
