Yes, I scanned Our Goodly Heritage by Arch Merrill. This book is from 1956 and uses his columns in the D&C with some minor edits. I know that I have read all of the Arch Merrill books. This book has a chapter on chimney Bluffs and after I read the chapter many years ago, I …
I scanned another book by Arch Merrill last week. This one is Shadows on the Wall. It was his 11th book. Part of these stories had appeared in his news paper column. The stories in this book are from all over western New York. It starts out with the story of the seven Sutherland sisters …
Yesterday I shared the new pictures of the construction of War Memorial from the early 1950s. First thing to be done was to knock down the old buildings of the Kimball Tobacco Co. Sitting on top of the smokestack for that company was the statue of Mercury. I could write about the statue but instead …
Last week I scanned Arch Merrill’s book The White Woman and Her Valley (1955). This book is almost all about tales from Genesee River valley and Livingston County. The first and longest chapter is about Mary Jemison who was called the White Woman of the Genesee. She was captured by Indians and became part of …