Book of the Week #12

When Women and Mountains Meet: Adventures in the White Mountains by Julie Boardman (Etna, NH: Durand Press, 2001)

"This book tells the story of the women who helped shape the rich history of New Hampshire's White Mountains. I was inspired to write it when I began looking into the life of Lucy Crawford, the author of a famous history of the region. As I learned something about Lucy's accomplishments, I realized that she had never recieved the attention that she deserves, and I wondered if other women might have suffered a similar fate. ...the women whom I have chosen to write about had a special feeling for mountains. The loved being in the mountains, were curious about them, and looked to them for adventure, inspiration, or solace. Some were hikers and mountaineers, while others enriched the region as writers, artists, scientists, conservationists, explorers, innkeepers, or simply as characters." [preface, p. vii]

Julie Boardman's work has appeared in Appalachia, the Sierra Club Magazine, Connecticut Magazine, Connecticut Audubon, and many other publications. Since moving to New Hampshire in 1990, she has hiked extensively throughout New England and climbed the New England 4,000 footers.