Arrowhead

History & local legend

Arrowhead, the Milford home associated with literary agent Virginia Kidd and science-fiction writer James Blish, also became home to a story about an unusually diligent ghostwriter. Literary agent Vaughne Hansen recounted it at the town’s 2024 Readers & Writers Festival.

Hansen would turn off an electric typewriter at the end of the working day. When she returned the following morning, she repeatedly found it running again. Eventually she addressed whoever she imagined was using the machine, asking them to switch it off when they were finished.

After that request, Hansen said, she never again arrived to find the typewriter running. Fellow panelist Lawrence C. Connolly recorded the anecdote in his September 23, 2024 account of the festival.