As I research stories for my Susquehanna Footprints website, I often find short anecdotal stories that include topics that include strange, as well as comical topics. Here are a few that could make you scratch your head, smile, or both. Between 1831 and 1844, on the basis of his study of Bible, William Miller, a rural New York farmer and Baptist lay preacher, predicted and preached the return of Jesus Christ to the earth. Stories appeared in newspapers and books.
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In July of 1860, thirty-one Danville residents, most well-known, respectable citizens, “pulled a fast one”, strung them along, and “pulled the wool over the eyes” of their fellow townsmen. Half a century after the Japanese Embassy Hoax, one of the few remaining participants still surviving described the incident, coinciding with the arrival of real Japanese Embassy officials in the United States.
During the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening (1784–1830), Reverend Asa Dunham was among the many circuit-riding preachers sent out by denominations to minister to early settlers in the Susquehanna Valley. Dunham’s meetings resulted in founding the Hidlay Presbyterian Church in Columbia County.
