Pat Jenkins
Writer Pat Jenkins, a Long Islander who started out as a photographic model and is the last living Armstrong Girl of renowned calendar artist Rolf Armstrong, a contemporary of George Petty and Alberto Vargas fame. She is featured in the coffee table book THE GREAT AMERICAN PIN-UP written by Louis Meisel.
She longed to escape her middle American life and experience the remote corners of the world so she traveled to all seven continents visiting the Antarctic, Indian Tibet, Easter Island, The Australian Outback, Tasmania, Greenland, Northern Kenya, Siberia and more, where she frequently stayed with native families. Travel to many of these locations, at that time, was rare.
Pat did not start out with the dream of writing as the goal of her unusual travel choices but once, on her first excursion out of the US, when her foot touched down on Iceland's inky-black, volcanic soil she knew she had to share these journeys. Thus, a career as a Travel Journalist emerged out of Iceland's volcanic ashes. Her first article, “When Children Meet Unexpected Warmth In Such a Cold Place" was published in the New York Times. For many years she worked freelance and on assignment with the New York Daily News, New York Post and other periodicals.
Graduating from the University of Life, Pat Jenkins now resides in New York City where, in leaner days, she once drove a yellow cab.
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