Monthly Archives: March 2020

Mar
23
2020

Was Giles Weaver Really J.D. Salinger?

by Gary Sanderson

Who was that mysterious stranger occupying Room 34 of South Deerfield’s “Warren Hotel” in September 1970? His byline appears as Giles Weaver in the Winter 1970 revival edition of The Phoenix, a small literary magazine published after a 40-year hiatus by James Cooney at his West Whately Morning Star Press. Cooney introduces Weaver to his Phoenix readers as […]

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Mar
10
2020

Valley Fishing Calendar Has Changed Little Since Colonial Days

by Gary Sanderson

Friend Peter Thomas is back at it, nose to the grindstone. The good doctor of anthropology and archaeology is at his core an historian. These days the retired author of In the Maelstrom of Change: The Indian Trade and Cultural Process in the Middle Connecticut River Valley, 1635-1665 is photographically digitizing the Sylvester Judd Manuscripts at Northampton’s Forbes Library […]

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