when getting ice mean cutting it out of the lake
Subzero temperatures are predicted for this weekend for much of New England where lakes and ponds are icing up and thank your stars you don't live in yesteryear when this
the importance of supporting a small town newspaper
Our town is one of the lucky ones coming through a world-wide pandemic with its hometown newspaper intact. The Lakeville Journal has been serving NWCT since 1897, but in
how old letters played a part in the book
A few years ago, I came across letters that my late great-uncle Edward wrote to my mother, beautiful recollections of growing up on the West Side of Chicago in the
The Latecomers in the Lakeville Journal
Reporter Alexander Wilburn delves into the history of the house that inspired The Latecomers, accompanied by "Flat Malcolm", a whimsical paper cut-out of former town historian Malcolm Day Rudd whose
saved by the (ma) bell
You might think a book is finished when the final manuscript goes to the editor, but a lot of back and forth still remains. The editor marks up the
a sad anniversary
Today is the 107th anniversary of the 1911 fire at the Shirtwaist Factory in New York. 146 garment workers died because the owners locked doors to stairwells and exits to
Hawthornden
Greetings from Scotland where I'm finishing THE LATECOMERS in a 15th century castle--there isn't any place more conducive to finishing a novel set in yesteryear. I'm here with four other
maternity corsets
The new novel I'm working on (Hollingworth) is set in an ancestral house in Connecticut where a crime that took place in the 1920s comes to light when something is