September is centennial of the birth of New Hampshire author Grace Metalious
read more…: September is centennial of the birth of New Hampshire author Grace MetaliousIndian summer is like a woman. Ripe, highly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases…” Such is the opening line of Peyton Place, the controversial novel published in 1956 that eventually sold 20 million copies, was turned into a sanitized 1957 major movie that garnered nine Academy Award nominations, and became a prime-time soap opera that ran for 524 episodes and debuted both Mia Farrow and Ryan O’Neal.