Articles by 'Linda Twichell'

The Westminster Park Board of Trustees carefully planned every aspect of their new island community: the placement of th...

Last month’s installment of the stories of the early families of Westminster Park detailed the history of the cott...

Introduction: Linda Twichell likes to share recommendations of those books she thinks should be on a Thousand I...

We all know the adage: “Don’t believe everything you read in newspapers.” Nevertheless, the nineteenth...

From its inception, the Westminster Park Community was spurred along by the astute cultivation of a relationship with th...

The stories of the network of Westminster Park’s families continue to unfold: The Northrup’s, the Peckham&rs...

Last month we told of the influence of Rev. Dr. Philemon H. Fowler, minister of the Utica Presbyterian Church, in recrui...

The founders of Westminster Park were savvy entrepreneurs. They carefully laid a framework for the community, establishi...

...In August 1891, plans for the new chapel at Westminster were accepted by the Trustees. Dr. Jamieson,

In 1875 a consortium of Presbyterian ministers and businessmen announced their intention to build a summer community on ...

In the early nineteenth century, the world’s fancy was captured by the sport of competitive rowing. By the 1870’s, it wa...