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Ellen Hayes

Wild Turkeys and Tallow Candles

Hardcover (Forgotten Books Feb. 6, 2019)
Excerpt from Wild Turkeys and Tallow CandlesAs regards material for Part I, all who are acquainted with Bushnell's History of Granville will recognize my indebtedness to that work; and next to Bushnell's book I am under obligations to Isaac Smucker's various historical writings. Both of these authors rendered Signal service to Licking County and so to Ohio itself by their timely collection of historical material. It is perhaps not necessary to mention other writers of Ohio history - a rather long list has been consulted - but from all their books I single out one, now unfortunately out of print: Morris Schaft's Etna and Kirkersville, a book as charming as it is unpretentious, written by a man whose experiences in cities and on battlefields seem to have rendered only the more unfading and imperishable the recollections of his pioneer boy hood. I have kept this book at my elbow to remind me constantly that I am not writing history in Part II; I am only developing some negatives personally acquired long ago. General Schaff has the advantage of me by eleven years' seniority; he remembers more things and remembers them in greater detail than I do. Yet it will be seen that I share with him the happy distinction of belonging to the pioneer epoch. We lived in different though neighboring communities; and I can at least hope to supplement his narrative with further sketches of those tallow candle days.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.
ISBN
0267838824 / 9780267838820
Pages
178
Weight
13.9 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.4 in.

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