Curly and her husband, Sandy Lieber, spend over 5 months on the island each year. Sandy's mother, Bodine Lamont, was well known for being an early advocate of conservation on Vinalhaven, in Maine, and elsewhere. When not on island the Liebers live in Lyme, CT, which also has a very active land trust. Curly serves on several nonprofit boards there, and for the past 12 years she has been a horticultural consultant to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund at Pocantico Hills, New York, with responsibility for the gardens at "Kykuit".