Legacy of a Weymouth Woman is the story of Lillian May Henshaw, a resourceful and talented woman, an advocate for education and an early feminist who, perhaps, was just a little bit ahead of her time. Growing up in the shipbuilding community of Weymouth, she had a penchant for stories about the exploits and adventures of the local ships and the men who sailed them. She often wrote about them as a young freelance correspondent for the Halifax Chronicle Herald near the end of the golden era of sail.

She was also a creative and astute business woman, who crafted fashionable ladies hats and opened her own millinery and ladies wear shop in Weymouth while still in her teens. In her adult life, while raising five children, she was a persuasive and effective political campaign worker, first for the Progressive Conservatives and later for the CCF (now NDP) as campaign manager for one of the first CCF candidates to run in western Nova Scotia. A strong advocate for education, she endured many hardships and challenges to ensure that her children had access to a high school education. In the 1940s, alone in rural Nova Scotia with three young children, she once shot a menacing moose with a .22 calibre pistol. She was also well known as a "death sitter," often called upon to sit at bedside with people who were dying.

Blain Henshaw has been a writer since publishing his own penny newspaper in Grade Three at age nine. His professional writing career began at CKBW radio in Bridgewater in 1966 where he wrote news and covered courts, municipal council, and community events. In the 1970s and 80s while working for the Atlantic Television System (now CTV Atlantic) he won a number of radio and television awards for his documentary work, including an Atlantic Journalism award. His first book was published in 2016 and since then there have been three more, including the 2021 regional bestseller Madam of the Maritimes: The Life and Times of Ada MacCallum. He is also a prolific songwriter, having composed more that 100 songs and recording four CDs of original material. In 2017 he was inducted into the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame.

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