The summer before, I had met Jules and Glenn. Only a year or so separated any of us and we all played together. Every day of the summer, the fields and pine forests submitted to us and our revelry.
He felled the biggest bear in the Catskill woods while just a tot, carried a gun that never missed and out-talked anyone who took him on. "When he was thirteen he could outguess and outsmart any ring-tailed roaring man." But who was Johnny Darling?
“It becomes very difficult to separate fact from fiction when we talk about the Native Americans,” said Sullivan County Historian John Conway, explaining that Lenape didn't leave anything in writing. “So who’s to say what’s legend and what’s fact?”
This story was originally published in the 2019 Fall edition of Upper Delaware Magazine.
Folk music is enigmatic: regional yet universal, artistic but utilitarian, belonging to no one and …
This story was published in the Fall 2019 edition of Upper Delaware Magazine.
This tale is one of several the famed Pennsylvanian folklorist Charles Skinner collected in his book, “Myths and …
In the 19th and early 20th century, like now, people got sick. Like now, sometimes they died. But this was before antibiotics, before most vaccines, and those deaths were often from conditions that would now be preventable, curable, or at least treatable.
