“As New Englanders, that just was not a familiar custom to them,” said Julie Bartlett Nelson, archivist at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum in Northampton. “For them ...

Stephanie Johnson shows off her playhouse last week. Johnson has been collecting raccoons since 1972, when she bought a ...

Calvin Coolidge was an admirer of animals and had ... The family had dogs, cats, and birds, along with a friendly raccoon ...