North Crawford is a town in New Hampshire. It is the setting for all or part of four short stories—"Who Am I This Time?", "The Hyannis Port Story", "Lovers Anonymous", and "Rome"—and implied as the setting for part of another, "Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son".[1]
Businesses and Public Institutions[]
- Miller's Hardware Store[2]
- Phone company office[2]
- Consolidated Junior-Senior High School[3]
- North Crawford Public Library, with a meeting room on the second floor[4]
- Unitarian Church[3]
- North Crawford Mask and Wig Club[5][6]
- Lions Club, whose chairman in the early 1960s was a Barry Goldwater supporter[7]
- Storm window showroom[8]
- Drug store with lending library and cosmetics counter[9]
- The Better Mousetrap, a gift shop owned by Sally St. Coeur[10]
Residents[]
- Will Battola, plumber and member of Lovers Anonymous[9]
- Hay Boyden, a building mover and wrecker and member of Lovers Anonymous[9][11]
- Selma Deal, counter server at drug store[9]
- Lydia Miller, Verne's wife who played Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire[12]
- Verne Miller, husband of Lydia and owner of the town's hardware store[13]
- Harry Nash, the shy clerk at Miller's Hardware Store but the most versatile actor in town[5]
- Reva Owley, widow who runs the lending library and cosmetics counter at drug store[14]
- Kennard Pelk, chief of police and member of Lovers Anonymous[8]
- Sally St. Coeur, owner of The Better Mousetrap and occasional Mask and Wig Club director[6]
- Doris Sawyer, the usual director for the North Crawford Mask and Wig Club who was unable to do so for A Streetcar Named Desire due to her mother's ill health[15]
- Helene Shaw, a once roving instructor of a new phone company billing machine, she stays in town after falling in love with Harry Nash while they both performed in A Streetcar Named Desire[5]
- John Sherwood, the town "tomcat" known for his acting and dancing abilities[6]
- Al Tedler, carpenter and member of Lovers Anonymous[9]
- Herb White, bookkeeper and Korea vet who married Sheila Hinckley[16]
- Sheila White nee Hinckley, brilliant and beautiful, she married Herb White but later came to desire a more fulfilling and stimulating life[16]
- ↑ "Who Am I This Time?" and "Rome" are about productions of the North Crawford Mask and Wig Club. Both "The Hyannis Port Story" and "Lovers Anonymous" feature an unnamed narrator who is an installer of combination aluminum storm windows and screens as well as bathtub enclosures who lives in North Crawford, New Hampshire. "Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son" takes place in New Hampshire and is narrated by a storm window installer, assumed to be the same character. While the primary setting is an unnamed location in New Hampshire, in two scenes the installer returns to his home, presumably in North Crawford.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Who Am I This Time?", Complete Stories, pg. 373.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Who Am I This Time?", Complete Stories, pg. 374.
- ↑ "Who Am I This Time?", Complete Stories, pg. 375.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Who Am I This Time?", Complete Stories, pg. 373-382.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Rome", Complete Stories, pp. 426-437.
- ↑ "The Hyannis Port Story", Complete Stories, pg. 472.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Lovers Anonymous", Complete Stories, pg. 262-263.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 "Lovers Anonymous", Complete Stories, pp. 264-265.
- ↑ "Rome", Complete Stories, pg. 427.
- ↑ "The Hyannis Port Story", Complete Stories, pg. 473.
- ↑ "Who Am I This Time?", Complete Stories, pp. 379-380.
- ↑ "Who Am I This Time?", Complete Stories, pg. 379.
- ↑ "Lovers Anonymous", Complete Stories, pg. 266.
- ↑ "Who Am I This Time?", Complete Stories, pp. 373-379.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Lovers Anonymous", Complete Stories, pp. 261-269.