The Great Aunt Alice Collection

Wild souls, free spirits, and savage thoughts live on in the remarkable attic of a young girl growing up in the mountainous Pennsylvania Wilds, during the 1960s and 70s, among the grand, historic remains of a turn-of-the-1900s Boomtown. * "When my Aunt Alice was a teenager," Mom said, "she hopped on the train with her boyfriend, headed to New York City, with the intention of getting married. Her mother, your Great-Grandmother Lulu Muldoon, was on the next train and determined to...
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Wild souls, free spirits, and savage thoughts live on in the remarkable attic of a young girl growing up in the mountainous Pennsylvania Wilds, during the 1960s and 70s, among the grand, historic remains of a turn-of-the-1900s Boomtown. * "When my Aunt Alice was a teenager," Mom said, "she hopped on the train with her boyfriend, headed to New York City, with the intention of getting married. Her mother, your Great-Grandmother Lulu Muldoon, was on the next train and determined to stop them, which she would have, but she lost them in the New York train station. * "The Great Aunt Alice Collection presents tall tales and telling truths told in rural, Elk County, PA, from the late 1870s to the late 1970s, and hands out "pearls of wisdom from the living, breathing, soul-filled past." * "I looked for the Ghosts of the Forest, when we ice skated on the frog pond in the deep woods, but never saw them. 'Those will come alive in the spring, when it thaws,' Dad told us about the frogs--clearly frozen, mid-sprawl, in the ice under our feet. Now, who could believe that? Those frogs were certainly dead. This frog tale was just like the yellow-brown salve Dad put on our cuts-'Mrs. McKinley's bear salve.' Really? From a bear?" * "If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." Pearl S. Buck * (Great Aunt Alice Collection reviews may be found and left on Amazon.com) * Author and photographer Megan Schreiber-Carter is a third-generation native of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains. Her bio and more of her work may be found at www.megansdesk.net.