Introduction

Biography

Katharine was the wife of Will­iam Stu­art An­nin (mar­ried 1920).

She gra­du­at­ed from Miss Fine’s School, Prince­ton, New Jer­sey (1910), and Bryn Mawr Col­lege (1914).

She stu­died mu­sic with An­ge­la Dil­ler and Eli­za­beth Quaile in New York City, and at the Tho­mas Whit­ney Su­ret­te Sum­mer Mu­sic School in Con­cord, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

The An­nins moved in 1924 to the Berk­shire Hills of west­ern Mas­sa­chu­setts, where Will­iam raised Guern­sey pure­bred cat­tle, and lat­er joined the ed­it­or­i­al staff of the Berk­shire Ea­gle, a dai­ly news­pa­per in Pitts­field, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Katharine taught el­e­ment­a­ry grades in pri­vate schools, was lib­ra­ri­an for the Rich­mond, Mas­sa­chu­setts, pub­lic lib­ra­ry for 11 years, and di­rect­ed the Rich­mond Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church choir for many years.

She was known as Rich­mond’s lo­cal his­tor­i­an and wrote a Tues­day col­umn for the Berk­shire Eagle, ti­tled Our Berk­shires, from at least 1957–71.

Works

• Concord Hym­nal for Day School, Sun­day School and Home, with Eli­za­beth Mac­La­ren Ro­bin­son (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: E. C. Schir­mer Mu­sic, 1920)
• Richmond, Mas­sa­chu­setts: The Story of a Berk­shire Town and Its Peo­ple 1765–1965 (Rich­mond, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Rich­mond Ci­vic As­so­cia­tion, 1964)
• Berkshire Sea­sons of Cel­e­bra­tion, 1982
• Country Sea­sons (Car­da­mom Press, 1989)