Melvin W. Williams, 88, of Lancaster, passed away on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at Lancaster General Hospital. Born in Georgetown, PA, he was the son of the late Verna (Gregg)
NORTHAMPTON — Two newsroom staff members at the Daily Hampshire Gazette recently won awards from the New England Newspaper & Press Association in its 2022 New England Better Newspaper Competition.Photographer Carol Lollis won a third-place award in...
"Dear Mister Ward" is a collection of unearthed letters from almost 100 years ago, written to the complaint department of Montgomery Ward, a full-service mail-order catalog, the Amazon of its time. They recently were read aloud by actors at a theater in western Massachusetts.
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Out on the windswept prairie in the depths of the Great Depression, on isolated farms and in small towns, you could get a little lonely.One way to combat that loneliness was to write to the venerable mail-order business Montgomery Ward, even if it was...