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Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Myths and Legends by : Kara Hughes
Download or read book Pennsylvania Myths and Legends written by Kara Hughes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Myths and Legends series, Myths and Legends of Pennsylvania explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Pennsylvania’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Pennsylvania's history. Featuring stories about the notorious Murder Swamp, the coal mine that turned a vibrant town into a virtual ghost town, the USS Eldridge vanishing from the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and many more.
Book Synopsis Legends & Lore of Western Pennsylvania by : Thomas White
Download or read book Legends & Lore of Western Pennsylvania written by Thomas White and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas White spins a beguiling yarn with tales that reach from the misty hollows of the Alleghenies to the lost islands of Pittsburgh. Oppaymolleah's Curse. General Braddock's buried gold. The original man of steel, Joe Magarac. Such legends have found a home among the rich folklore of Western Pennsylvania. White invites readers to learn the truth behind the urban legend of the Green Man, speculate on the conspiracy surrounding the lost B-25 bomber of Monongahela and shiver over the ghostly lore of Western Pennsylvania.
Book Synopsis Supernatural Lore of Pennsylvania by : Thomas White
Download or read book Supernatural Lore of Pennsylvania written by Thomas White and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local legends and paranormal mysteries of Pennsylvania—photos included. Strange creatures and tales of the supernatural thrive in Pennsylvania, from ghostly children who linger by their graves to werewolves that ambush nighttime travelers. Passed down over generations, Keystone State legends and lore provide both thrilling stories and dire warnings. Phantom trains chug down the now removed rails of the P&LE Railroad line on the Great Allegheny Passage. A wild ape boy is said to roam the Chester swamps, while the weeping Squonk wanders the hemlock-shrouded hills of central Pennsylvania, lamenting his hideousness. On dark nights, the ghosts of Betty Knox and her Union soldier beau still search for each other at Dunbar Creek. Join Thomas White and company as they go in search of the truth behind the legends of supernatural Pennsylvania.
Book Synopsis South Central Pennsylvania Legends & Lore by : David J. Puglia
Download or read book South Central Pennsylvania Legends & Lore written by David J. Puglia and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powwow practitioners of York County, the headless ghost of a murdered girl that roams the back roads of Schuylkill County and the Hummelstown Hermit who still lingers in Indian Echo Caverns--these tales are all part of the lore of South Central Pennsylvania. Such legends offer a fuller history of the region, from the folkways of the Pennsylvania Dutch to the stories of the rocky relations between German and English settlers and local tribes. Folklorist David J. Puglia reveals this lore to a new audience and explores the region's more recent legends like the "Wizard of Cumberland County" and Milton Hershey's narrow miss with the Titanic. Join Puglia as he tracks through the hills, houses and hollows of South Central Pennsylvania in search of its legends and lore.
Book Synopsis Allegheny Episodes by : Henry W. Shoemaker
Download or read book Allegheny Episodes written by Henry W. Shoemaker and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Weird Pennsylvania by : Matthew Lake
Download or read book Weird Pennsylvania written by Matthew Lake and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pennsylvainia Songs and Legends by : George Korson
Download or read book Pennsylvainia Songs and Legends written by George Korson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Book Synopsis North Mountain Mementos by : Henry W. Shoemaker
Download or read book North Mountain Mementos written by Henry W. Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Myths and Mysteries of Pennsylvania by : Kara Hughes
Download or read book Myths and Mysteries of Pennsylvania written by Kara Hughes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Myths and Mysteries series, Myths and Mysteries of Pennsylvania explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Pennsylvania’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Pennsylvania's history.
Author :Henry W B 1880 Shoemaker Publisher :Franklin Classics Trade Press ISBN 13 :9780344558498 Total Pages :406 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (584 download)
Book Synopsis Allegheny Episodes; Folk Lore and Legends Collected in Northern and Western Pennsylvania by : Henry W B 1880 Shoemaker
Download or read book Allegheny Episodes; Folk Lore and Legends Collected in Northern and Western Pennsylvania written by Henry W B 1880 Shoemaker and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Allegheny Episodes by : Henry Wharton Shoemaker
Download or read book Allegheny Episodes written by Henry Wharton Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegheny Episodes: Folk Lore And Legends Collected In Northern And Western Pennsylvania This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
Book Synopsis Allegheny Episodes by : Henry W. Shoemaker
Download or read book Allegheny Episodes written by Henry W. Shoemaker and published by Metalmark Books. This book was released on 1922-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penn State University Press is pleased to introduce Metalmark Books, a joint imprint of the Press and the University Libraries at Penn State. Books published under this imprint are selected from the collections of the University Libraries. They may be viewed online or ordered as print-on-demand paperbacks. Initially, books published under the Metalmark imprint will be chosen from the Libraries extensive Pennsylvania holdings. Over time, the scope will broaden to include other significant out-of-print titles. These five Metalmark reprints preserve and make available once again some of the early writing of folklorist Henry W. Shomaker. He authored hundreds of pamphlets and books on nature, history, and folklore. He was publisher of several influential newspapers in Pennsylvania, including the Altoona Tribune and the Reading Eagle. He became the first state folklorist in America, one of the first chairs of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and an influential member of the State Forest Commission and the State Geographic Board.
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts, Legends and Lore by : Charles Jesse Adams
Download or read book Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts, Legends and Lore written by Charles Jesse Adams and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Fireside Tales by : Jeffrey R. Frazier
Download or read book Pennsylvania Fireside Tales written by Jeffrey R. Frazier and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pennsylvania written by Matt Lake and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A illustrated collection of tales about weird places and folk traditions in Pennsylvania to be used as a travel guide.
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Mountain Stories by : Henry W. Shoemaker
Download or read book Pennsylvania Mountain Stories written by Henry W. Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Mountain Stories by : Henry W. Shoemaker
Download or read book Pennsylvania Mountain Stories written by Henry W. Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
