Phil Whitney’s family ties to Great Cranberry Island stretch to the 1700s, yet he’d never heard of Hitty Preble until he retired there and helped open the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society ...

IN the eyes of a large and quarrelsome circle of admirers— people who either know the dif ference between a chichevache and a bicorne or know where to look it up —Mrs. Elizabeth S. Kingsley is the ...

THERE are long stretches in the course of the Connecticut River, where its tranquil current assumes the aspect, of a lake, its sudden bends cut off the lovely reach of water, and its heavily wooded ...

STOCKBRIDGE -- The venerable Stockbridge Library will be transformed into a doll house this weekend in honor of Hitty, the tiny matriarch of toyland whose global adventure story is read by children ...