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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A young French explorer never provided a written record of his exploration of the Susquehanna River or its valley. Historian can only piece together his trip through the records of Samuel de Champlain.
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Camp meetings were part of the great wave of evangelical Christianity that swept across America during the early nineteenth century. Methodists, United Brethren, Evangelicals and other denominations discovered that an outdoor gathering could bring together farm families scattered across miles of countryside such as rural Perry County.
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Daniel Ott was born near Selinsgrove on May 27, 1820. He lived nearly a century in the Susquehanna Valley. The veteran wildlife hunter experienced two very different versions of Pennsylvania.
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