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Author: Patricia Suter
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0811705609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigation into a child's gruesome murder. New findings on a justice system that failed a young woman. The real story behind the legend.
Author: Patricia Earnest Suter
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0811740587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK• Investigation into a child's gruesome murder • New findings on a justice system that failed a young woman • The real story behind the legend The unfortunate Susanna Cox gained notoriety for killing her illegitimate infant son. The fatal episode led to her hanging in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1809, the last public execution of a woman in the commonwealth. But was Susanna really the culprit? The legend of her fate, repeated in Pennsylvania German broadsides by the generations that followed, suggests she herself was a victim. Now, in this first full-length investigation into the tragedy, new evidence reveals some startling facts about how indifference, an undeveloped court system, and the inexact science of nineteenth-century forensics combined to determine Susanna's tragic fate. A full look at how Susanna's "sad song" became romanticized through broadside ballads follows, complete with illustrations.
Author: Henry Miller Cox
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 882
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Russell D. Earnest
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781584561453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The 134 illustrations in Flying Leaves and One-Sheets demonstrate the typographical skills of German-language printers in North America from the mid 1750s to 1876. Selected for graphic appeal, range of subject matter, and historic interest, these broadsides show the attitudes and literary appetites of Pennsylvania Germans as expressed in printed matter. Known for their love of color and decoration, Pennsylvania Germans often hand-illuminated broadsides so that many are classified as fraktur. Flying Leaves and One-Sheets will appeal to readers in Pennsylvania German visual arts, culture, and history."--BOOK JACKET.
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 766
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 928
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Korson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1512803413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author: Daniel Miller
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Columbus Croll
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 768
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David J. Puglia
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1614237336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPowwow practitioners of York County, the headless ghost of a murdered girl that roams the back roads of Schuylkill County and the Hummelstown Hermit who still lingers in Indian Echo Caverns--these tales are all part of the lore of South Central Pennsylvania. Such legends offer a fuller history of the region, from the folkways of the Pennsylvania Dutch to the stories of the rocky relations between German and English settlers and local tribes. Folklorist David J. Puglia reveals this lore to a new audience and explores the region's more recent legends like the "Wizard of Cumberland County" and Milton Hershey's narrow miss with the Titanic. Join Puglia as he tracks through the hills, houses and hollows of South Central Pennsylvania in search of its legends and lore.
