“I’m honored,” said Boswell. “I wish it would’ve happened a long time ago. There was several deserving woman then and now that would’ve been great captains as well.”
Back in the 1970s, Saundra Tomlinson was the only female working at Natural Tunnel State Park. In a field where only men were employed, she took a chance and applied for an opening at the park.
Orlean Puckett lived to be around 100 years old. While she lost more than 20 children of her own over the course of her lifetime, Puckett delivered hundreds of babies as a mountain midwife.