The House At Hess And Douglass

When Catherine Lunt Hooverman was a young mother, she entertained her son with stories of what life was like when she was a little girl. When she was ninety-six, he asked her to tell the stories again so he could write them down and preserve them.
Catherine speaks of a girlhood spent in a simpler time, when she’d go ice skating with her sisters and later snuggle into a bed warmed by a brick heated on the coal stove. She remembers her parents’ neighborhood grocery store in Saginaw, Michigan,...