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In this book, “old times” means “good times”


In this book, “old times” means “good times”

Over 30 years ago, I read Helen Hooven Santmyer’s And Ladies of the Club, a riveting book about life in small-town Ohio from the post-Civil War period to the early 1930s. Through her attention to detail and keen eye for customs and traditions, Santmyer created an era that seemed so far removed from the late […]