Alice Hoffman: Queen of Bogue Banks

by Kathleen McMillan Guthrie

"Alice Queen of Bogue Banks" is the unbelievable historical account of a too-large-for-life woman who decides to forge her own way in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hoffman’s adventure centers around a clash of cultures, a legal battle in a small Southern courthouse, and a decades’ long contention between two completely different Hoffman’s high society of New York and the fishing communities of Bogue Banks, North Carolina.- How did a New York City socialite drastically change a small NC fishing village?- Why did a small Eastern North Carolina county sue President Theodore Roosevelt’s grandchildren?- How long does it take to lose freedom and a way of life? And what happens when it is lost?Kathleen Guthrie has uncovered a can’t-miss story for the ages and collected it in a well-researched account of a true American original.

232 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 29, 2015

Reviews

[Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read about where I go on vacation every year. All these years visiting this eastern NC beach and I had no idea Bout the history of it. Last summer, as our family waited to eat at the Crab Shack in Salter Path, we perused the local Salter Path museum located in a trailer beside the restaurant. I learned a lot about Alice Hoffman and the Roosevelt trust and the history that surrounds this beautiful island.

[Jessi Waugh · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted more PKS, got more Hoffman, but that is my fault not the author's. She clearly had a bias against Hoffman, which shines through despite her attempts to sugar-coat the heiress' callous ways.