Shadows on the Wall: Tales of York State (Arch Merrill's New York Series Book 11)

152 pp. A collection of regional history stories in New York State, featuring Niagara County's Sutherland Sisters, Rattlesnake Pete, Rulloff the 'Fiend of the Finger Lakes', Mormon exiles, a Civil War Rebel spy, William H. Seward, Winston Churchill, etc. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Arch Merrill (b August 5, 1894, d July 15, 1974) was a newspaper reporter for the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle from 1923 to the late 1960s. He was a prolific writer, best known for his articles in the Sunday paper on history and folklore of the Genesse Valley and the Finger Lakes of upstate New York. Merrill was born in Sandusky, New York, attended high school near Buffalo, and attended for one year in 1915 Hobart College in Geneva, New York. After one year of college Merrill enlisted in the Army and served in France during World War I. Upon returning to the States after the war, Merrill worked as a newspaper journalist in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Michigan; and New York City. While working in New York he married Katherine Marie Towell. The Merrill's had a daughter named Marion who was born in 1923. He retired from the D&C in 1963, but continued to write a history column for the paper. He is buried in the Old Brighton Cemetery at the end of Hoyt Place in Rochester, New York. He was sometimes called The Poet Laureate of Upstate New York. He authored a number of books, most of which are collections of his articles. Possibly his most famous was the 1943 A River Ramble, which is an account of his walk of the entire length of the Genesee River, along with his notes on local history, folk tales, and people he met along the route."