Anne Scarpa McCauley moved with her family to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains at age four. She began making honeysuckle baskets as a girl while out tending goats. The goats loved the bitter taste of the honeysuckle leaves and often she and the goats would run together to places where it grew best. At age twelve she made a little basket with her own pattern. It is the same pattern she uses today.

Anne has never taken lessons, read books, or talked with other basket makers for ideas on making baskets. Anne received no schooling. She lives outside Charlottesville, Virginia, an area with beautiful mountains, valleys, and hillsides where honeysuckle loves to grow.