Boarding House Reach: North Carolina's Entrepreneurial Women - Softcover

Alice E. Sink & Nickie Doyal

9780978624866: Boarding House Reach: North Carolina's Entrepreneurial Women

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978624866 ISBN 13: 9780978624866

Publisher: Dram Tree Books, 2007

In times past, if a woman found herself suddenly on her own, there were very few options for her to make her way in the world. Widowhood, abandonment and other circumstances often forced women to turn to one of the only respectable avenues of income available to them - opening a boarding house. In this unique volume, Alice Sink and Nickie Doyal tell the stories of resourceful women across North Carolina who opened their homes to strangers out of necessity, and in the process created a kind of family for people who were of no blood relations. Featuring boarding houses from the colonial period through modern times, stretching across the entire state, it is North Carolina history from a new and different perspective! Illustrated with great pictures and recipes that would have graced the boarding house table.

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About the Author:

Alice E. Sink is the published author of three books and numerous short stories, articles, and essays in anthologies and in trade and literary magazines. Her M.F.A. in Creative Writing is from UNC-G. She is Associate Professor of English/Communications at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina, where she received the Meredith Clark Slane Distinguished Teaching/Service Award in 2002. The North Carolina Arts Council and the partnering arts councils of the Central Piedmont Regional Artists Hub Program have awarded Mrs. Sink a grant designed to share "Boarding House Reach: North Carolina's Entrepreneurial Women" with our state's men, women, and children. Nickie Doyal graduated from High Point University at the age of 56. She has been published in the literary magazine "Apogee," written articles for the "Chronicle," and placed in the short story category of the Phoenix Festival. Nickie began work on "Boarding House Reach: North Carolina's Entrepreneurial Women" during her senior year. She graduated summa cum laude, and received the Best All Around award from the university's English Department. Currently she is a realtor in Greensboro, N.C., where she lives with her family.

Review:

"Boarding House Reach reminds us of one of the most important truths of life: There are no ordinary people! Every story here is fascinating - and every one importantly belongs to history. Alice Sink and Nickie Doyal have delivered the goods. Thank you!" --Fred Chappell

"...a marvelous collection of anecdotes and memoirs that, taken all together, gives a pretty broad picture of the kinds of things that made up life in boarding houses." --Orson Scott Card

"Boarding House Reach (is) North Carolina history the likes of which has not been done before...fascinating and fun to read...I m going to buy copies to mail to cousins out of state..." --Ruth Moose

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