On Rosy Lane

By Rose Elaine

Fans of small-town women's fiction will swoon when they read ON ROSY LANE's addictive series debut! Join this tale of a budding romance and inspiring female friendships in the East Coast's sweetest sprawling manor. Nestled in a small, idyllic town in Delaware lies the Rose Elaine Manor, embellished with fabulous flower gardens that attract trave

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rose Elaine LLC
• Release date: Apr 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781951165666

Rose Elaine

Rose Elaine spins beauty out of pain, giving hope and joy to women around the world who need a reprieve from their daily lives. Passionate about self-love and community, Rose Elaine inspires tenderness and self-care through creating her line of Rosy Lane-inspired teas, coffees, body scrubs, and lotions for busy women who deserve to pamper themselves. When she's not writing or creating her luxury goods, she lives a full, heartwarming life with her husband, adult children, eleven cats, and her stunning watercolor paintings. Learn more about Rose and pamper yourself with her creations at https://roseelainepublishing.com/!

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On Rosy Lane

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ISBN: 978-1-951165-64-2

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Table of Contents

Family Legend

The Boogman Family

Journals

Rose Elaine

Rose Elaine Manor

Betsy

Guests Arrive

Jim

Fishing.

Margaret

Love Blooms

Jim Learns More

The Storm

Surveying the Damage

A Pacific Island Party

A Wedding

Jim Proposes

Nancy’s Recipes, From our Home to Yours

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On Rosy Lane

Family Legend

In 1637 Europe was pregnant with possibilities, but David Boogman was concerned. As a Dutch merchant, he had grown rich on trade through the Dutch East India Company, but his fortune had blossomed with the tulip. There is speculation and rumor about how the family managed to survive the Tulip crash of 1637. No one knows for sure, but the family legend suggests that David had been at The Menniste Bruyloft. Dutch tulip merchants called bloemisten met to do business in this well-known tavern. He had overheard rumblings of shady, backroom deals and intuitively knew that he should shelter his wealth. Others believe that he was just lucky. Whatever the case, in 1655, the family left Holland and moved to New Amsterdam, the southern tip of Manhattan Island, in the New World. Roos and David Boogman purchased two hundred acres of land in Delaware for $25.00 in 1889; in 2019, the property was worth over $1,000,000. David named the property Rosy Lane because of the many roses that grew wild along the dirt road.

David was a horticulturist and grew the family wealth by importing tulips from Holland. A family business, a family fortune cultivated by flowers. His wife’s name was Roos, which translated from Dutch into English meant rose. David and Roos celebrated their good fortune by naming their six children after flowers and plants, all of whom grew and added so much to the life they had enjoyed.

Daisy was their first child; she was headstrong, willful, and independent. Lily represented rebirth, and Violet symbolized good luck. Their first son was named Guilford, referring to where the marigolds grew. He was followed by Hadley, which meant heather-covered meadow, invoking an evergreen shrub that covers the land. And finally Brandon, referring to broom on the hill and a gentle nod to the Robert Luis Stevenson poem,

In Romance, the poet mentioned a beautiful yellow weed called broom.

I will make you brooches and toys for

your delight

Of bird-song at morning and star-

shine at night.

I will make a palace fit for you

and me,

Of green days in forests and blue days

at sea.

I will make my kitchen, and you shall

keep your room,

Where white flows the river and bright

blows the broom,

And you shall wash your linen and

keep your body white

In rainfall at morning and dewfall at

night.

And this shall be for music when no

one else is near,

The fine song for singing, the rare song

to hear!

That only I remember, that only you

admire,

Of the broad road that stretches and

the roadside fire.

The family enterprise had been around for centuries. In the late sixteenth century, tulips were introduced to Europe. The family filled their pockets with coins because everyone was wild about Tulips. Tulips became an expensive and favorite flower with bright colors and wine glass shape.

The Boogman Family

The Boogman family was thrifty in life and wise in business. David ensured that the property would be entrusted to his six children. He also made provisions that the family could not sell the land unless there was a 100 percent agreement in the family. And, getting more than one independent, headstrong person to agree to anything was impossible. The land remained intact.

Roos Boogman was a no-nonsense woman; she liked things done well. She was organized and understood early on that she would need some help with a family with