Delivering Bad News and Bearing It
| Is there any hope for a novel that begins as "The Postmistress" does?" In the fall of 1940 a 40-year-old spinster named Iris James goes to visit a Boston doctor. She wants a written document attesti...
Wartime before the Information Age
| Today, when story plots advance through text messages, e-mails or even an ill-advised voice-mail, the premise of Sarah Blake’s novel The Postmistress (Putnam, $25.95) is simply inconceivable. | But ...
Migration Tied To More Economic Stress
Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population growth in the nation that year. | Namec...
More Migration Has Meant More Economic Stress
Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population growth in the nation that year. | Namec...
Our love-hate relationship with taxes
| It's hard not to wonder about them, as they drive north to New Hampshire, blinded by plasma screens and home furnishings. As we are all painfully aware, Massachusetts -- "Taxachusetts" to political ...
AP: More migration has meant more economic stress
| Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population growth in the nation that year. | Nam...
AP: More migration has meant more economic stress
| In this Jan. 20, 2010 photo, realtor Dennis Stone stands in a subdivision... | Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomer...
AP: More migration has meant more economic stress
| Nameche liked the farms around her new neighborhood, the fact that she could see the stars at night and the chance to raise her two children with other young families who were pioneering this far-fl...
The Wolffs at the door
| They were youthful sweethearts who, after separate lives and failed marriages, had found each other again later in life. They settled in an idyllic Cape Cod cottage she had inherited from her father...
Casting blame in striper dispute
| The wily striped bass - admired by New England fishermen for centuries - nearly disappeared from East Coast waters in the early 1980s. A series of fishing moratoriums restored the stocks, and today ...
AP: More migration has meant more economic stress
By MIKE SCHNEIDER | Associated Press Writer | (AP) - Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 ...
Finds in translation
| Like foreign films, books translated into English from other languages frequently face difficulties in finding an audience. It is estimated that such works account for no more than 3 percent of the ...
AP: More migration has meant more economic stress
| Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population growth in the nation that year. | Nam...
AP: More migration has meant more economic stress
| MIKE SCHNEIDER | The Associated Press | Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in populati...
AP: More Migration Has Meant More Economic Stress
| Filed at 12:01 a.m. ET | Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population growth in th...
AP: More migration has meant more economic stress
Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population growth in the nation that year. | Namec...
AP: More migration has meant more economic stress
| Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population growth in the nation that year. | Nam...
Female characters deliver
| Classified by some as a "romantic novel," Sarah Blake's "The Postmistress" undoubtedly rises to the more prestigious category of literary historical fiction. It vividly portrays ...
Influx of new residents as recession started worsened its effects, AP review of IRS data shows
| Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population growth in the nation that year. | Nam...
Cape Cod base cleanup team to meet
| SANDWICH, Mass.-The public is invited to a meeting of the task force overseeing the environmental cleanup of the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod. | The base cleanup team's meeting is ...
