Rhoda

By the early 2000s, that legacy is in the hands of Rhoda Sawbrook, who’s desperately trying to preserve the family’s way of life against encroaching developers and vacationers who have overrun the land and raised property taxes to unsustainable levels: “Take that away from me,” Rhoda says of the Sawbrook land, “and I can’t tell you who I am. I wouldn’t even know my name.”

But eldest daughter Lucy, a park ranger, has committed for Rhoda the worst transgression of all by putting her share of Sawbrook property into a conservation trust.

Rhoda’s character was inspired by my mom.

But, like Babs Dionne’s, Rhoda’s family is hanging by a thread.

Any role models for your fierce matriarch, Rhoda Sawbrook?