AN UNYIELDING WOMAN

About the Book

Antoinette, the unyielding woman, nicknamed Toni by her older brother, was born to a patriarch father and a subservient mother. She grew up on a New England farm where the test of her character to face down trials put upon her by her father and later in her married life would have been to much for many young woman to overcome. Her father had fled France with his parents and brothers during WW1 and setteled in Canada. After a brief marriage to a French Canadian, he moved to the United States where he settled in Rhode Island and became a citizen. It was in South County, Rhode Island where he met Emily and had seven children, one of them died at child birth. Toni was number four of the six who lived. There were four girls, but Toni was singled out to be abused mentally and was treated like a farm laborer. Later as a young attractive single adult and then as a widow with three children, the challenges on her character and patience seemed as if they would never stop. For a short while after Toni met an old boyfriend, a swave world traveller by the name of Whitey and married him, life seemed as it was going to finally be worth living, but that was not to be. This story also takes the reader through the period of WW11 and her"s and her two brother's contributions.

About the Author

Country boy, born in New England in the 1938 hurricane. Told he would be no more than a bum by his teachers. He later became a successful entreprenauer. He has raced outriggers 26 miles across the Catalina Channel, board surfed the California coast for 3 years, Moved to Alaska where he hiked and skied the mountains, fished the wilderness rivers, and voluntered with his wife on the Iditarod, the 1160 mile dogsled race across Alaska. He and his wife rode second sleds for the first Russian teams to race the Iditarod. Since he was a teenager he has kept physically fit by weight trainning and has competed in Power Lifting competition, winning a first and second place in his weight class at state meets. Loves reading non-fiction and is thinking about writing another book.