(Mass Appeal) – Westfield is known as the Whip City and many in the city have worked to ensure that the history of whip making is never forgotten. Bruce Cortis, an author, historian and independent ...

WESTFIELD - A valuable collection of unused 125-year-old whips, most of them made by the Searle Whip Co. in Westfield, came home to the Whip City this week thanks to local historians Bruce Cortis, ...

SOUTHWICK – Historian Bruce Cortis has done a lot of research on Westfield’s climb, and fall, as the worldwide leader in whip manufacturing, and what surprised him most was the city’s success in ...