Product Description: Artist Mary Whyte's Down Bohicket Road includes two decades worth of watercolors--depicting a select group of Gullah women of Johns Island, South Carolina, and their stories. In 1991, following Whyte's recovery from a year of treatment for cancer, she and her husband moved to a small sea island near Charleston, seeking a new home where they could reinvent themselves far removed from the hectic pace of Philadelphia...read more

Product Description: "Never at sea" was the motto of the WRNS, but this soon became outdated. Wrens were required to handle the coded signals received on board the "Monsters", the peace-time liners stripped for war-time action that brought over the American Forces for the build-up to D-Day, prime targets for German U-boats...read more

Product Description: Dancing on the Waves is more than an unusual account of one woman in uniform. Behind the light-hearted approach is the author's interest in the changing roles and attitudes of women, which the opportunities of war created. "Never at sea" was the motto of the WRNS, but this soon became outdated, for the Wrens were required to handle the coded signals received on board the "Monsters", the peace-time liners that brought over the American Forces for the build-up to D-Day...read more