Pennsylvania Fireside Tales Volume 4 - Frazier, Jeffrey R.
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Volume Four of the Pennsylvania Fireside Tales series contains more of the old-time Pennsylvania mountain legends and folktales collected by the author over the last fifty years. Just like in his previous editions, this volume will entertain those who enjoy reading about Pennsylvania's early "highlanders" and their stories that have come down to the present day over the currents of oral history and tradition. Readers will find themselves transported back to the times when the state's mountains were still inhabited by wolves, panthers, witches, ghosts, Indians, and other "throw-backs" to a…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Volume Four of the Pennsylvania Fireside Tales series contains more of the old-time Pennsylvania mountain legends and folktales collected by the author over the last fifty years. Just like in his previous editions, this volume will entertain those who enjoy reading about Pennsylvania's early "highlanders" and their stories that have come down to the present day over the currents of oral history and tradition. Readers will find themselves transported back to the times when the state's mountains were still inhabited by wolves, panthers, witches, ghosts, Indians, and other "throw-backs" to a harder yet simpler age. Today that era still seems to beckon to us from the depths of cool mountain hollows and from the windy heights of Pennsylvania's tradition-steeped peaks. And as the frantic pace of modern-day life increases, the allure of the old tales seems to grow stronger, drawing us back to a seemingly pleasanter and slower time when a good storyteller was appreciated as much as a good book is today. In this volume:Will-o'-the-Wisp The Ghostly Lantern Punxsutawney A Trophy Buck God's Warriors Man's Best Friend(ly Ghost) Raven's Knob Big Cats of the Big Woods The Beaver Dam Witch Council Rocks Frozen in Time Spitzbuben Maids of the Mist Bear Tracks White Lady of the Gyp Stragglers
Autorenporträt
Jeffrey R. Frazier was born and raised in Centre Hall, Centre County, where he says he grew up in a "Tom Sawyer sort of way", later graduating with a BS from Penn State in 1967, and then an MBA from Rider University in New Jersey in 1978. Some of the fondest memories of his boyhood include explorations of out-of-the-way spots in the mountains and accounts of the legends that seem to cling to them, and beginning in 1970 he began collecting those same kind of anecdotes from all over the state; ranging from the Blue Mountains of Berks and Lehigh Counties, the South Mountains of Adams County, the "Black Forest" area of Potter and Tioga Counties, the Alleghenies of Clearfield and Blair Counties, and the other counties in the middle. He has compiled his vast collection of tales into a series titled Pennsylvania Fireside Tales. This volume is a continuation of his work, written in a format that the average reader can enjoy, especially those who love the green valleys and cloud-covered mountain peaks of Pennsylvania as much as he does.