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 visited this amazing place. Still, as I was editing pages I saw things that I have forgotten. So I am re-reading the whole book.

Mr. Merrill has a chapter on veterans of the Confederacy that are buried in this area.

The picture on the right is the statue of Mercury that was originally on top of a smoke stack for the Kimball tobacco company. After that factory closed that factory became a shirt collar factory then it was City Hall Annex. Mercury got taken down in 1951 and sat in a warehouse for many years. He eventually got put up on the top of Lawyers Co-op which is right across the street from where he was before.

There is a chapter about the carillon at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. I was a student at SUNY Alfred across the valley from 1967 and 1969 and remember hearing the bells of the carillon playing.

Lots of interesting chapter for you to read in this book.