Alice Turner Curtis

There was but a narrow bed in the corner, covered with a patchwork quilt, and the wooden stool where Anne had put her bundle. The one narrow window looked off across the sandy cart tracks which served as a road toward the blue waters of Cape Cod Bay. It was early June, and the strong breath of the sea filled the rough little house, bringing with...

AMANDAS MISTAKE ""Do you think I might go, Aunt Martha?"" There was a pleading note in the little girls voice as she stood close by Mrs. Stoddards chair and watched her folding the thin blue paper on which Rose Freemans letter was written. ""It is a pleasant invitation, surely,"" replied Mrs. Stoddard, ""but the Freemans have ever been good frie...

A LIBERTY POLE Anna and Rebecca Weston, carrying a big basket between them, ran along the path that led from their home to the Machias River. It was a pleasant May morning in 1775, and the air was filled with the fragrance of the freshly cut pine logs that had been poled down the river in big rafts to be cut into planks and boards at the big saw...