Books with author Henry W. Shoemaker

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Excerpt from Allegheny Episodes, Vol. 11: Folk Lore and Legends Collected in Northern and Western PennsylvaniaIn my last foreword I emphasized the value of folk-lore. Its significance grows upon me with age. I have now come to regard it as a kind of appendix to Scripture. Outside of mere magic, an abuse of correspondences, as Swedenborg calls it, there is in folk-lore a digest of the spiritual insight of the plain people. It also contains actual facts boiled to rags. For instance, in 1919 the dying Horace Traubel saw in vision his life-long idol, Walt Whitman, and the apparition was also seen by Colonel Cosgrave, who felt a shock when it touched him.The flimsy modern paper whereon the scientific account of this is printed will soon perish, and then there will be nothing left but loose literary references and memories to witness that it happened. Any skeptic can challenge these, and the apparition will become folk-lore. As it is in its scientific setting in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research for 1921, it is a side light on the Transfiguration. For if Whitman appeared to Traubel in 1919, and Sweden borg appeared to Andrew Jackson Davis in 184 - 1, why should not the great predecessors of Christ appear also to him?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from South Mountain Sketches: Folk Tales and Legends Collected in the Mountains of Southern PennsylvaniaOR some years the compiler of these. Pages desired F to complete his researches into the traditional history and' folk-lore of the Pennsylvania Moun.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lang:- eng, Pages 414. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back[1920]. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions.Original Title:- South Mountain sketches; folk tales and legends collected in the mountains of southern Pennsylvania 1920 [Hardcover] Author:- Shoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton), b.

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Excerpt from Two Addresses: Some Extinct Pennsylvania Birds, And, Observations on Wild Animals: Delivered Before the Audubon Society, and the Boys' Science Class, of Williamsport, Penna., High School, Longfellow's Birthday, February 27, 1923 Recently' the newspapers Of Central Pennsylvania were en riched by a widely copied article by that brilliant young exponent of Conservation, jfherbert Walker, of Altoona, telling Of his observations Of a pair Of Ravens which make their home in some of the wilder-recesses of romantic Poe Valley, in Centre County, a very appropriate place for Ravens to frequent, for Edgar Allan Poe is said to have gone there at one time to seek a legacy from some, well - to - do relatives for whom the valley was named. W' hen Mr. Walker asked your speaker his Opinion Of the merits of the article in question he replied that it was the finest outdoor article that he had read for a year, if only itt did not have the effect Of sending a group of professional egg collectors into po-e Valley to disturb the ravens. Though the raven cannot today be classed as one of the extinct Pennsylvania birds, it is so rare that the great majority of persons living in the State have never seen one and probably many here this afternoon did not know Of their exist ence-and that they nest on the Raven's - burg and in several locali ties within a dozen miles of vv-illiamspor-t. The raven is protected by law as it is a valuable insect destroyer and scavenger, and use ful to the hunters as ou-many occasions when deer which have been shot and got away and died later have been located by the Eircling of the sable birds. Never plentiful, they might still be with us in fair numbers were it not that there is a brisk demand for their eggs by collectors and the professional egg hunters have trailed them to their secluded nests on high cliffs, and pillaged them unmercifully. One individual, formerly Of the State Col l-ege faculty, deserves the credit, or rather the discredit, of having done more than any other agency to exterminate the raven in Pennsylvania. In an issue Of an ornithological mag azine, he openly stated that he had visited a raven's nest two or three times in one season, every year for eight years, taking eggseverv time. Until the parent birds. Wearie and (llslolii' ed aban doued the countrv. The raven. So immortalized bv. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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