Originally, RKO slated Katharine Hepburn to star in this picture. She had just been declared a "box office deterrent" by the Independent Theater Owners Association. She refused the role and consequently bought out her contract from RKO.
Toward the end, Mrs. Pauline Fuller (Margaret Hamilton) and Mr. Clarence Fuller (Harvey Clark) spend significant screen time together in the same bed, despite the Hays Code's specific prohibition against such behavior. [This might have been allowed because the couple is married.]
At the beginning, there is a recruiting poster for the "War in Cuba." This would date that time in the film as being during the Spanish-American War --- from April to August 1898.
Kate Douglas Wiggin is the same author of the novel that inspired Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938).
The Disney movie Summer Magic (1963) is a version of this movie starring Hayley Mills and Burl Ives and directed by James Neilson ... with a few minor changes.