Ghosts of Penn's Woods (ePub)

Jeffrey R. Frazier and his wife Helen currently live in Centre Hall, their hometown. Mr. Frazier is author of seven books in a series titled Pennsylvania Fireside Tales. To many folks the title evokes images of an old log cabin sitting somewhere in an isolated and little-settled valley somewhere in the Pennsylvania mountains seventy-five or more years ago. A crackling fire in an ancient stone fireplace makes the interior a cozy place to be on a cold winter's night, especially in those unhurried days before electricity and automobiles forever changed the times that we now refer to as the "Good Old Days".

No television, radios or computers to break the monotony of the long evenings in those days. Entertainment then was often provided by an old patriarch sitting in his special chair in front of the fireplace. Surrounded by youngsters anxious to hear tales of the olden days, he would begin to talk about Indians, hunters who trailed the wolf and the mountain lion, ghosts, witches, gypsies, moonshiners, and other characters of the long ago; tales the author describes as the "soul" of these dark and rugged hills that we call home. It is these stories that Mister Frazier preserves in his books.

The author was born and raised in Centre Hall, Centre County, where he says he grew up in a "Tom Sawyer sort of way". Some of his fondest memories of that boyhood include explorations of out-of-the-way spots in the mountains and accounts of the legends that seem to cling to them. After graduating from Penn State in 1967 and moving out of state, he realized how much he loved the Pennsylvania mountains and their stories. It was this "home-sickness" that inspired him to collect and write the old-time tales. Since that time he has collected those same 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

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