“When we were very little, it was all folk music—Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger. Actually, Pete Seeger was my invisible friend—along with six or seven other invisible friends that I used to hold the door open for. They’d come to sing to me. It was funny, because I could really see them. I could imagine that Pete was singing all these songs as I was falling asleep—and all the invisible people singing and playing instruments and stuff like that. I guess the older I get, the more aware I am of how much a part of my life that music was. That was a gift.”

Leslie’s songs touch the heart and lift the spirit. Her song ‘There’ll Always Be Me’ has become a Generations theme song, and her song ‘Making Paper From The Wood’ was a gift to the paper mill workers of Maine. She has helped to found and run the Union Street Brick Church open mike coffeehouse, and in her spare time teaches children to paint. She sings with various musicians in the area, and lives with her son Ted, her wiener dog Petey, and three cats, Otto, Ornch, and Basil, in the yard. As Graham Nash sings, it's “a very, very, very nice house.”