A Danville, Pennsylvania, man found a plug of hair inside an old apple tree in 1920. What was its purpose? Plugging illness into trees was part of older Pennsylvania folk-healing traditions. Similar remedies were used for ailments such as croup, whooping cough, asthma, seizures, paralysis, and other lingering illnesses.
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Most of the colorful tales about Davey Lewis appeared seventy years after his death. By then, seventy years had passed, giving memory and imagination plenty of time to transform an outlaw into a champion of the poor, as Pennsylvania's own Robin Hood.
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A Danville, Pennsylvania, man found a plug of hair inside an old apple tree in 1920. What was its purpose? Plugging illness into trees was part of older Pennsylvania folk-healing traditions. Similar remedies were used for ailments such as croup, whooping cough, asthma, seizures, paralysis, and other lingering illnesses.
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For generations, an old stone structure in Snyder County has been associated with one of Pennsylvania's frontier defenses of the French and Indian War. The problem is that Fort Pomfret may never actually have been built.
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