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This book recreates the life-and-times of thirteen inspiring and independent women in fascinating, brief biographies. Meet Marguerite Tante Blanche Thibodeau Cyr, the mother of Madawaska, whose bravery and kindness during one brutal winter saved her frontier settlement; botanist-artist Kate Furbish, who tramped Maine's wilderness, collecting, classifying, and painting all of its flowering plants; and Florence Nicolar Shay, a Penobscot basketmaker who demanded and succeeded in gaining rights for her people.

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Kate Kennedy is a writer, teacher, and freelance editor who has lived in Maine since 1977. Her novel, End Over End, was published in 2001. She taught writing at Portland High School for twenty years and continues to run fiction workshops around the state. She and her husband live in Cape Elizabeth.

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