Lucy Hale Tapley left her home overlooking the Bagaduce River in Brooksville, Maine, at age 33. Like the seafaring Tapley men, she sought adventure and to make her mark on the world. Arriving in Atlanta, she joined a fledgling school for Black women and girls recently freed from slavery. Over the next four decades, Lucy set the school on a course to become one of the country's most prominent historically Black colleges. While retaining her ties to...