{"id":5537,"date":"2022-02-27T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T06:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2022-06-07T20:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T02:19:44","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-784-featuring-victoria-tentler-krylov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5537","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #784: Featuring Victoria Tentler-Krylov"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“When she became an adult, Kip practiced the lessons
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\nGrowing up during the Great Depression, Kip Tiernan lived with her grandmother and watched as she gave food to whoever knocked on her kitchen door, despite having plenty of people to feed in her own home. “I don’t have to know them to know that they’re hungry,” she told Kip. “We’re a lot better off than the people who come to our door.” Kip, as an adult, carried these lessons with her and opened the first homeless shelter for women in the U.S., Rosie’s Place<\/a><\/strong>. Author Christine McDonell<\/a><\/strong> and illustrator Victoria Tentler-Krylov<\/a><\/strong> bring Kip’s story to life in Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Candlewick, March 2022). <\/p>\n

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Readers spend a few spreads in Kip’s childhood, watching Kip learn from her grandmother. We then read that, as an adult, she is moved by speakers in the year 1968 who were calling for “a change in America, urging people to help bring an end to poverty and war.” Here, Tentler-Krylov depicts an anti-war rally (pictured above). Kip decides to sell her advertising business and work at Warwick House, which is in a low-income neighborhood in Boston. There, she notices that many of the women in line for food are concealing their appearance, dressing in men’s clothes. As she moves her way through the city, she notices this more often: more homeless women with no place to go. When she asks city officials for help for these women, she is repeatedly told, “homelessness isn’t a women’s problem.” After visiting Dorothy Day’s Saint Joseph’s House of Hospitality in New York City, where Dorothy opened the door to “anyone in need,” Kip learns she has a gift for connecting with the homeless people there. She decides:<\/p>\n

… to open a sanctuary with flowers and music where women wouldn’t be reminded they were poor, a shelter with no chores, no questions asked, just good meals and warm beds. She hoped the volunteers at her shelter would listen to the guests. When you listen to others, you show respect; you learn who they are and what they need.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Boston, Kip turns an abandoned supermarket, Rosen’s Market, into Rosie’s Place. It opens on Easter Sunday, 1974. <\/p>\n

McDonnell, who teaches English to immigrant women at Rosie’s Place, tells Kip’s story with reverence and admiration. The lengthy text includes many of Kip’s words (“Who decides who gets the condo and who gets the cardboard box?”), vividly capturing her as the determined, compassionate, and empathetic woman she was. The expressive mixed-media illustrations of Tentler-Krylov, who also lives in the Boston area, depict women of all ages, sizes, and skin color who benefitted from Kip’s ability to reach out to people in need. The book’s palette gradually brightens as Kip sees her dream to help women in need come to fruition. The book’s generous backmatter provides more detailed information about Kip, the causes of homelessness, and much more. <\/p>\n

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“One night Kip was serving food to a line of hungry people. As she dished stew onto plates, she saw that the last person in line was a slim figure with small hands \u2014
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“Kip hoped to open a women’s shelter different from the dreary ones she had seen, where men slept with their shoes under their pillows to keep them from being stolen. …”
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\nSANCTUARY: KIP TIERNNAN AND ROSIE’S PLACE, THE NATION’S FIRST SHELTER FOR WOMEN. Text copyright \u00a9 2022 by Christine McDonnell. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2022 by Victoria Tentler-Krylov and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n

* * * Jules’s Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font>
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Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n

World news is distressing this week, isn’t it, dear Imps? I had a long, busy, and tiring work week, but at least I don’t have to take up arms in my own neighborhood to defend my country. I was reminded this morning that, if you want to help, you can donate to the International Rescue Committee here<\/a><\/strong>. So I now pass that on here to you all. <\/p>\n

My kicks, one to seven, are badass women of action like Kip Tiernan. <\/p>\n

What are YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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