Dublin Core
Identifier
2006a-198
Title
Childhood Memories - Alice Cudworth Steele
Description
Ivory, soft-coverd booklet with black print, of childhood memories by Alice Cudworth Steele, with sketches by Olive Morey Thayer; original signatures of Alice C Steele and Olive M. Thayer, printed by Daily Hampshire Gazette for the Cummington Historical Commission.
Alice Cudworth Steele was born in Worthington, Mass., in 1803. Now, at the age of ninety-three, she is the holder of Cummington's gold-headed cane as the oldest resident in the town. All her years have been lived in these two hilltowns, so she knows the area well.
She and her late husband, Frank Steele, owned an antique shop in Cummington until the late 1950s. Following that, they collaborated on making miniature rooms that depcted country life in Western Massachusetts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A total of 303 rooms were made, of which seventeen....... (please read more)
"Childhood Memories" is a collectioin of excerpts from "Aunt Teeks in Memory Land:" written by Alice C. Steele, and originally published as four books by the Progressive Club of Windsor, Mass., between 1959 and 1963. With Mrs. Steele's permssion, these excerpts have been edited by Daphne Morris for the Cummington Historical Commisson
The cover depicts the Cudworth Farm on Cudworth Road, Worthington, (currently owned by Jeffrey and Karen Rida). See also.Dan Porter, "Forty Houses.".
Alice Cudworth Steele was born in Worthington, Mass., in 1803. Now, at the age of ninety-three, she is the holder of Cummington's gold-headed cane as the oldest resident in the town. All her years have been lived in these two hilltowns, so she knows the area well.
She and her late husband, Frank Steele, owned an antique shop in Cummington until the late 1950s. Following that, they collaborated on making miniature rooms that depcted country life in Western Massachusetts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A total of 303 rooms were made, of which seventeen....... (please read more)
"Childhood Memories" is a collectioin of excerpts from "Aunt Teeks in Memory Land:" written by Alice C. Steele, and originally published as four books by the Progressive Club of Windsor, Mass., between 1959 and 1963. With Mrs. Steele's permssion, these excerpts have been edited by Daphne Morris for the Cummington Historical Commisson
The cover depicts the Cudworth Farm on Cudworth Road, Worthington, (currently owned by Jeffrey and Karen Rida). See also.Dan Porter, "Forty Houses.".
Type
Document
Format
15.2 x 20.3 x 0.2 cm (6 x 8 x 0.1 in)
Date
1986
Publisher
Worthington Historical Society
Date Available
2006-09-02
Medium
Paper
Mediator
bfs
Abstract
Publication - Book, "Childhood Memories," by Alice C. Steele
Source
Diane Brenner
Date Accepted
2008-04-06
Date Modified
2012-12-05
Has Part
Box 30a
Book Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Physical Dimensions
15.2 x 20.3 x 0.2 cm
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