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In this, Arch Merrill's eleventh book, you will find a compilation of tales about unusual people, events, and even buildings, which have cast strange shadows on the wall of York State time.
Storyteller Merrill is at his best when he recounts the lore and legends he has gathered from many corners of this Upstate country.
These new tales of York State are written in the vein of his earlier popular Upstate Echoes. In the pages of this book you will encounter such fabulous characters as Niagara County's seven Sutherland Sisters with the longest hair in the world. Rochester's Rattlesnake Pete whose curious museum was known in many lands and Rulloff, the scholarly "Fiend of the Finger Lakes."
You will meet a family of daredevils parachuting from the skies, some Mormon exiles and the mysterious bars one of them put on his windows, a Rebel Spy in the "enemy country" in 1865, and the Congressman who was taken prisoner at Bull Run.
You will know Auburn's William H. Seward in his finest hour and learn about the Upstate ancestors of Britain's Winston Churchill. You will visit deserted mansions, ghost towns, and a lost Utopia. You will cross the trail of Presidents and First Ladies and a people who never voted, because of their religious principles, all in one Genesee Valley town. And, believe it or not, you will read that the first jinrikisha in the world was made, not in Japan, but in a little wagon shop above Keuka Lake.
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