The book I am looking for is NOT:   Lovely Summer, The by Marc Simont (Mar 1, 1992).  The book is about two rabbits Gladys and Tyrone, Globby the Woodchuck, two vacationing humans with a cocker spaniel, and a conflicts in use of a garden.  Pub. in 50s or 60s (?)
b & w illustrations, blue cloth cover

I read a book in the late 60s or early 70s about a young girl that went to live with someone (perhaps aunts). She went out for a walk and to a house down the street where she met a family that had children near her age. She visited them and but came to find out they were actually from the past

This is one of two books I read in elementary school – more than 50 years ago, circa 1960 that connected me with thoughts and feelings way beyond my tender years. I’ve never forgotten them & would love to read them again.

The first one followed a salmon from his birth and throughout his life to his serenely accepted death. The part I remember most vividly is when he swims to the ocean where he meets a whale with an aura about him, a whale who, although the book never expresses it outright, is more than just a whale. The salmon comments on the aura, and the whale is impressed – very few animals are able to see it.

The book ends at the pond where the salmon was born. He comments (via the 3rd person narrator) how it looks so much smaller to him now than when he was young; and then peacefully lets same fisherman he eluded back then catch him, ending the story.

I did an Amazon search and came across several books tracing the life of a salmon (both fiction and non-fiction), but none of them was the one I’m looking for. A few years ago I read a review of a book with a similar theme and wrote the author asking if the book I’m trying to locate was an inspiration for him, but he had no knowledge of it.

Another ghost story.  The “ghost” is also from the Revolutionary War.  The ghost was murdered for some reason and his body hidden (in a well, I think).  He befriends a human modern-day boy and together they solve the mystery of the ghost’s demise.

The first book is about a modern day boy who lives in New England.  Every time the fog rolls in, a mysterious village of Revolutionary War era appears in the woods.  The boy develops a relationship with the villagers and eventually realizes that his own father also had a similar experience.  Either the boy or his father was gifted a pocketknife by the ghost villagers.