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.".]]> Also includes names of guests from September 12, 1981; September 17 1988; September 16, 1989; September 19, 1992; 1994; September 23, 1995; September 21, 1996; October 1, 2000 - see continuing guest books. These are all annual meetings.]]> Of use for a future school house display.]]> The schoolhouse was used as a residence for a few years for drivers for Henry Snyder's Express. Tommy Stone's family of four occupied it at one time. There was apparently a second floor; water was obtained from nearby brook.]]>