Diane Davies, award-winning author of Life in the Neck: New Friends and Jeannie Ann's Grandma Has Breast Cancer, lives in the Neck, right next to the animals making their home there. You'll find her in one of the Neck's two houses with her husband, Papa Butch, and right next door to her granddaughter Elsie, grandson Eli, and their mom and dad. The whole family enjoys their life on the St. Croix River.