Modeled on the famous "Spoon River Anthology" this collection of elegiac epitaphs taken from tombstones in a cemetery near Gettysburg, PA is a imagined town history of "war heros, honest lawyers, faithful fathers, virtuous widows, chaste daughters and prodigal sons." Poems which read like a Dickens novel or oral history being passed around a pot-bellied stove in a rural Pennsylvania country store. A humorous truthtelling of falsehoods chiseled on family tombstones.
Modeled on the famous "Spoon River Anthology" this collection of elegiac epitaphs taken from tombstones in a cemetery near Gettysburg, PA is a imagine...
In nineteen forty eight, when I was a mere sapling of eight, I was reared in the provincial Buchanan Valley of Adams County, a rifle shot from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and some fifty years removed from Philadelphia. All elementary students in our valley were reluctantly incarcerated in a two room schoolhouse of eight grades of mostly mayhem named Strasbaugh School, full of tight fisted boys and precocious giggling girls; an environment wherein a six year old ruffian could enthusiastically learn the wicked ways of the eighth grade boys, and the six year old girls would . . . but never mind...
In nineteen forty eight, when I was a mere sapling of eight, I was reared in the provincial Buchanan Valley of Adams County, a rifle shot from Gettysb...
