Myths, Legends & Lore: Central New York & The Finger Lakes will transport you into a land of history, legend and mystery located here in
the heart of the Empire State.
Learn of a time before this land’s existence, and before people lived on the earth.
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Witness fugitive slave “Jerry” escape North as thousands of abolitionists
in Syracuse gather to set him free with the aid of a battering ram. |
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Read the strange tale of George “Bill” Bailey, the American mummy, a man
not buried until 72 years after his death. |
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Wonder at the story of the man who believed he was France’s lost Dauphin. |
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Relive the famed derailment known as the Chocolate Train Wreck. |
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Read about a Native American woman on the path to sainthood. |
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Marvel at the discovery of ancient golden tablets from a local drumlin. |
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Discover the destiny of a painting sold by a church for the price of its
frame that later was to be valued at over seven million dollars. |
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Hear tales old and new about the famed 2000 pound Empeyville Frog, denizen
of Central New York. |
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Relive the legend of the Scythe
Tree and the man who never returned from the Civil War. |
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Laugh over the tale of the whiskey embalmed whale that headed up the Erie
Canal, offering tea service in its mammoth mouth. |
These stories and many more are included in Myths, Legends
& Lore: Central New York & The Finger Lakes. This
book contains one hundred sixty pages of important and also little known tales from New York State and includes
fifty photographs. It’s yours for $19.99. This book is in limited supply. Buy yours now!
This book was reviewed in the Fall-Winter, Volume 35:3-4 edition of Voices The Journal of New York Folklore by Constance R. Sullivan-Blum of the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
Please contact Melanie Zimmer for book signings or readings for Myths, Legends
& Lore: Central New York & The Finger Lakes. |