In 2008, she settled in Lincoln where she lives with her husband, historian and storyteller Drew Gomber, and their two goats and five dogs (Elise and Drew hope to add two horses to their family in the future).  Elise has written several pieces, including articles on Billy the Kid and the McSweens.  She is currently completing a biography of Dick Brewer.  Elise is a member of the Wild West History Association and on the board of the Lincoln County Historical Society. Elise envisions the Ruidoso River Museum as an excellent opportunity for people to learn who the individuals who helped carve out a life in Lincoln County truly were – their ideals and morals, their courage and fears, their traditions and hopes for the future in which we now live.  She aims that the public will be able to see these people as whole, and understand both their ways of life and their actions.