Volunteer Services:
Facilitator, Founder of Great Books Series, Urbanna Library 1989-present
Chairman, Urbanna Planning Commission, 1989
Facilitator and Founder of Middlesex Poets, Urbanna Public Library 1988-93
Director of Rotary Club of Urbanna-Middlesex 1997-1998

Additional Information:
Author of the following published books:
"Pleasant Living", March-April 2006
"Love Stories," Rappahannock Press
"Rappahannock River Journeys," Rappahannock Press
"Help! I'm Being Held Captive in Virginia!," Rappahannock Press
"Return to the Rappahannock," Rappahannock Press
"To Love A Virginian," Rappahannock press
"Sunrise on the Rappahannock," Rappahannock Press
"The Great Rappahannock River Race," Rappahannock Press
"One Woman's Opinion," The Story of a Small Town Writer, October
"Bringing in the Wood," the Way it Was at Chesapeake Corporation, December, Book nominated for Virginia Book Award.
"Bound for Urbanna," Stories about Life and Love in Virginia's Historic Port Town.
("Smoke, " unpublished play )

Professional speaker: Sampling of speaking appearances and seminars:
The New Virginians, Richmond, VA
Deltaville Women's Club, Deltaville, VA
Rappahannock Sail & Power Club, Deltaville, VA
Library Friends Author's Luncheon, Tappahannock
Chesapeake Writer's Conference, RCC, speaker
Christopher Newport College Writer's Conference, speaker
Smithfield Public Library Friends program, speaker
AAUW Book and Author Luncheon, Fredericksburg, speaker
RCC Friends Book and Author Dinner, Lancaster, speaker
Unitarian Fellowship, Newport News, speaker
Tuckahoe Women's Club Book and Author Luncheon, Richmond, speaker
Chesapeake Bay Writer's Club, speaker
Peninsula Women's Network, speaker
King and Queen Woman's Club, 3 appearances
Gloucester Woman's Club, speaker
The Virginia Writer's Club, VCU Campus Library, Richmond, speaker
Gloucester Book and Author Luncheon, speaker
Ginter Park Women's Club, Richmond, luncheon speaker
WNIS talk radio interview, Norfolk, VA.
WFRI, talk radio, Roanoke, VA.
Rappahannock Community College, Glenns, VA., Woman's Studies Seminar,
Valley Writer's Club, Roanoke, speaker
Abington Woman's Club, Gloucester, speaker,
Westminster -Canterbury, Richmond and Irvington residences, speaker
National Council of Jewish Women, Newport News, speaker
Tuckahoe Women's Club, Richmond, "Six Women Authors,"
Mathews Library, Jan. Author's Book Talk
Mathews High School, Apr, Seminar on Writers
Ginter Park Women's Club, speaker, "Women Writers"
Urbanna Kiwanis Club, 2 appearances
Delta Kappa Gamma international education association, annual multi chapter lunch meeting speaker, March, Ford's Colony, Williamsburg.
AAUW, Book and Author luncheon, fall, CNU

Book reviews on her past work have appeared in the Norfolk Ledger Star, Fredericksburg Free Lance Star, Williamsburg Gazette, Gloucester Gazette, Daily Press, Southside Sentinel, Rappahannock Record, and Richmond Times Dispatch.

Sampling of what the critics have said about the early comedy of Mary Wakefield Buxton:
"I call her an iconoclast...she writes strong stuff." Parke Rouse, Daily Press.

"She provides a mission as sentry alert to the inconsistencies, prejudices, and paradoxes in life. No one, as poet Wordsworth said of a host of daffodils, could be but gay in such jocund company." Guy Friddell, Norfolk Ledger Star, Richmond Times Dispatch.

"She likes to poke fun at rigidity. She writes tongue-in-cheek commentary spoofing Virginia and Virginia thinking." Ruth Coder Fitzgerald, Free Lance Star.

"Buxton is a local voice with a universal megaphone...on the cusp of change, somewhere between the imagined Norman Rockwell homemaker and the vaunted Betty Friedan professional of the future. Having been a bit of both, she bears witness at ringside, well able to lampoon the limitations of each." Bill Ruehlmann, The Virginian Pilot and Norfolk Ledger Star.

"This writer pokes fun and criticism at southern genteel...she is not the 'How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb' school we each and severally find tedious, but the insightful and purposeful scribbler of an enlightened pen." Werner Saemmler Hindriches, FredericksburgCitiLimits.