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Hitty! The delightful favorite of my girlhood! When our book group decided to focus on "a book you loved as a child", there was no doubt what I would bring to our next gathering. Rereading at age 66, remembering reading at age 10, I was charmed again. What a wonderful surprise to find that Hitty was "born" in Maine, the state I have adopted only in the past 8 years. Another surprise: Hitty traveled on the whaling ship Diana! Did I even make those connections as a little girl?
Research, now made easy on the internet, revealed more surprises. The Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, here in Maine, has created a website, HittyPreble.com, with all sorts of wonderful information about Rachel Field's discovery of Hitty in a New York antique shop in 1927, Rachel's summers on Cranberry Island where the Preble house still stands, and the many inspirations Cranberry Island held for the eventual story released in 1929. And to learn that Hitty, that lovely little ash wood doll, resides in the Stockbridge Library Museum in Stockbridge Mass. was yet another exciting discovery. I plan to visit her there on our next jaunt through Massachusetts!
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Hitty Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
diane b, January 18, 2010
Hitty! The delightful favorite of my girlhood! When our book group decided to focus on "a book you loved as a child", there was no doubt what I would bring to our next gathering. Rereading at age 66, remembering reading at age 10, I was charmed again. What a wonderful surprise to find that Hitty was "born" in Maine, the state I have adopted only in the past 8 years. Another surprise: Hitty traveled on the whaling ship Diana! Did I even make those connections as a little girl?Research, now made easy on the internet, revealed more surprises. The Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, here in Maine, has created a website, HittyPreble.com, with all sorts of wonderful information about Rachel Field's discovery of Hitty in a New York antique shop in 1927, Rachel's summers on Cranberry Island where the Preble house still stands, and the many inspirations Cranberry Island held for the eventual story released in 1929. And to learn that Hitty, that lovely little ash wood doll, resides in the Stockbridge Library Museum in Stockbridge Mass. was yet another exciting discovery. I plan to visit her there on our next jaunt through Massachusetts!