County Chronicles: A Vivid Collection of Pennsylvania Histories, Vol.II - O'Hanlon-Lincoln

COUNTY CHRONICLES: A VIVID COLLECTION OF PENNSYLVANIA HISTORIES, VOLUME II. 2006 by Ceane O'Hanlon-Lincoln. The second of five volumes in this award-winning series of fascinating chronicles touches on stories from all across Pennsylvania. Meticulously researched, yet written in conversational style, each compelling chapter is a vibrant selection from this state's rich, layered past. Not a chronological history, COUNTY CHRONICLES: A VIVID COLLECTION OF PENNSYLVANIA HISTORIES, VOLUME II, like the first and subsequent volumes, is rather a bright tapestry of assorted people, places and events that affected and shaped Pennsylvania's exciting story. The author not only reveals the true history, but takes you there. She has visited each site in Pennsylvania about which she has written, and has added information crucial to today's traveler. The premier volume has thus far garnered three prestigious awards, the Athena Award from the author's hometown of Connellsville, a Citation/Special Recognition Award from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and a Congratulatory/Special Recognition Award from the Senate of Pennsylvania. Within each of the chronicles in this volume, O'Hanlon-Lincoln takes us back to the inventive days of Ben Franklin in Philadelphia, as well as to the perilous Colonial frontier when the Indians captured James Smith near Bedford and Mary Jemison near Gettysburg. This talented author captures the heroism of "Captain Molly" Margaret Corbin, who took over the firing of her dead husband's cannon during the Revolutionary War, and the untold heroics of the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) during WWII. In her unique narrative style, the author recounts the volatile summer of 1892 in Homestead and writes with passion of the "infamous" Irish coal miners, the Molly Maguires. She relates the romantic tale of Mrs. Katherine Soffel, who joined the Biddle Boys in their flight from the Allegheny County Prison in Pittsburgh through Butler County to a shoot-out near Prospect. She portrays the bitter-sweet life of pilot Charles Lindbergh (whose connection to her home area is noteworthy), as well as the inspiring lives of Pennsylvania luminaries: actor and pilot Jimmy Stewart, greatest-athlete-of-the-twentieth-century Jim Thorpe, Eastern frontier artist extraordinaire Robert Griffing, Pulitzer-prize-winning author David McCullough, as well as tycoons Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon. The author delineates the destruction of Hanna's Town near present-day Greensburg and the horrors of the catastrophic Johnstown floods. She tells the stories of the Overholt Gristmill and Distillery in West Overton and of three historic churches located in Philadelphia and Uniontown. With her great gift for bringing history alive, O'Hanlon-Lincoln, as she did in all of the series' volumes, has even included a few chilling tales of Pennsylvania's haunted sites. You will be amazed to discover what "Firsts" Pennsylvania has contributed to our nation's history. COUNTY CHRONICLES, with their self-contained chronicles, are the perfect bedside/fireside readers, ideal for today's busy people who like to read. We feel certain that by the conclusion of this second volume, those of you who live in Pennsylvania will see home with new eyes, to wit with appreciation and admiration; and those readers from afar will have become cognizant of a "magical land", once known as "Penn's Woods". Printed on archival quality, acid-free paper, each volume in this set is hand-sewn (Smyth-sewn), ensuring strength and durability throughout the years. The covers feature the beautiful artwork of award-winning artist Helen Alt, and are printed in a rainbow of colors - a handsome set in anyone's library. Each volume is limited to 1,000. 288 pages, 7½ x 10½ hard cover ISBN-13: 978-0-9760563-4-8 LOC: 2005937779 -Read an abstract from "The Long Flight Home", about Jimmy Stewart- Read what other readers have to say: Read More