Lucretia P. Hale (1820-1900) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She was an American journalist, author, and literature devotee. She published numerous stories in periodicals and newspapers, some of which have been collected in books.
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The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an appealingly roundabout way, fails, and is ev... SEE MORE