House at Royal Oak: Starting Over & Rebuilding a Life One Room at a Time. This item is unavailable.House at Royal Oak: Starting Over & Rebuilding a Life One Room at a Time

A memoir about one couple's project to renovate a rickety Victorian house and rebuild their own lives - one room at a time. This is a charming, funny and beautifully crafted memoir about a middle aged couple who threw financial caution to the wind to follow their dream of converting a run-down farmhouse into a thriving B & B. Because they had to do the bulk of the work themselves, the project threatened to tear the couple apart, but ultimately brought them closer together - and closer to the rural community into which they had moved. The book is partly an inspirational account about reinventing yourself late in life, part love story and partly a book about a home.

Carol Eron Rizzoli first visited the Chesapeake Bay to interview James Michener as he was starting work on his epic novel Chesapeake. She taught at Boston University, served as book editor for the Washington Post, and was a managing editor of publications for the National Gallery of Art in Washington,D.C. Her articles, reviews, essays, and profiles have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, the Washington Post, Readers Digest, The International Herald-Tribune, The St Louis Post-Dispatch, the Boston Globe, and many other publications. She and her husband run Royal Oak House (royaloakhouse.org) on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.