Born Carole Utley in Holyoke, to the late William Utley and Ann Utley- Deline, Carole grew up in Holyoke, where she started her family before moving to Belchertown. After her children were grown, she lived in Port Deposit, Maryland, where she delighted in spending time with her many relatives there. Carole eventually moved to Colrain where she vigorously pursued her passions to the fullest, which were tending to her animals, gardening, making soaps and salves, herbal remedies, rug hooking and spinning wool from her sheep to make fine woolen wear that she sold to people at the many crafts fairs she attended locally, and up and down the east coast. Carole’s wool output was so prolific that she had a special “loom room” in her house to store the abundant rainbow-colored yarn spools, antique spinning wheels and table looms.