The Hall in the Grove (Grace Livingston Hill Library)

The good folk of Centerville were scandalized! Mrs. Fenton, a simple housewife, was having gatherings in her parlor, where she had the gall to mix idle, uneducated folk with members of the well-educated upper class. There, along with a law student and an eminent professor, sat a housemaid and the cigar-smoking, good-for-nothing Ward boys and their equally idle companion Paul! The reason for their monthly gatherings? To form Centerville's own chapter of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Soci...