Charles (1858-1939) and Elaine Goodale (1863-1953) Eastman lived with their six children at Lodestone from 1911 to 1919, the period in which Charles published nine of his eleven books and Elaine published three of her seven books. Charles was born…

"Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?"
-Helen Hunt Jackson

   Life 
Helen Hunt Jackson was born Helen Maria Fiske on October 14, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She spent her childhood in Amherst and was a…

"Having lived here the years that are my best,
I call it home. I am content to stay.
I have no bird's desire to fly away.
I envy neither north, east, south, nor west."
-Robert Francis   Life
Robert Churchill Francis was an American poet and essayist,…