Bodacious Belles News Today

BEAUFORT, N.C. — Martha Barnes’ home was buzzing. It was a Saturday in little Beaufort, North Carolina, time to get ready for the town’s Mardi Gras parade, and women were zigzagging around the house, applying makeup, laughing and calling out repeatedly for the Fireball Cinnamon Whisky sitting on the kitchen counter. “If you want to say something,” a woman hollered above the din, “you better scream it!” Barnes’ home is not a sorority house &...

The Bodacious Belles, a women’s group in Beaufort, N.C., shows the difference a network of support can make in an aging America.