After her grandfather's death in the fall of 1871, twelve-year-old Jessie bravely helps her mother take care of the lighthouse her family has kept for generations on South Manitou Island in Lake Michi
Brother Giovanni is a happy man, content to do what he knows best: baking. But all is not well at his monastery, where the monks are trying to teach the children their prayers in time for a very impor
In 1914, Anderson Mullins, a farmer, sent three golden apples from a single apple tree to Stark Nurseries in Missouri, and, using a graft from the twigs of the tree, the Stark brothers produced what w
