Neil Chandler

The Daggett Dramas Neil Chandler

Maggie and Cornell discover a packet of stories about the residents of Addledtown hidden in the lining of an old trunk as they prepare it for sale at Ye Olde Antiques & Junk Shoppe. Former owner Terwilliger J. Perkins' hurried attempt to recover the trunk, encourages them to save and read the stories. Historian Basil C. DeMilde had expected, through those papers, to present Addledtown's uncovered history at the village's corrected sesquicentennial anniversary, improperly celebrated some years previously. But as readers accompany Maggie and Cornell's progress through the stories of current villagers and their ancestors, they will conclude many residents, as well as the former owner of the trunk, might also wish the material to be forever lost.