The 1788 Morristown Ghost Hoax

Author : Peter Zablocki
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439675465

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The 1788 Morristown Ghost Hoax by Peter Zablocki Pdf

A Fabulous Fable of the Supernatural Kind The saga of the Morristown ghost has been told around campfires and dinner tables in Morris County for generations. Local legend claimed British Loyalists secretly buried stolen Patriot treasure on Schooley Mountain as they fled the oncoming forces of George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Years later in 1788, a former school teacher from Connecticut, Ransford Rodgers, convinced local prominent Morristown families that a ghost was protecting the true location of the treasure and he alone could exercise it. Little did the victims know, Rodgers was perpetuating an elaborate hoax and eventually extorted large sums of money from the embarrassed local elite. The tale has been recounted in various sensational pamphlets and publications ever since, leaving behind a mystery of what is true or myth. Author Peter Zablocki separates fact from fiction in the story of the great Morristown ghost hoax.

Author : David Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Folklore
ISBN : OCLC:746791607

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The Wonderful History of the Morristown Ghost by David Young Pdf

Author : David Steven Cohen,Barbara Smith Irwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Reference
ISBN : IND:39000005820670

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Folklife in New Jersey by David Steven Cohen,Barbara Smith Irwin Pdf

Author : Grace D. Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Printing
ISBN : NWU:35556005412473

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Early Morristown Imprints by Grace D. Rose Pdf

Author : New Jersey Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : New Jersey
ISBN : IND:30000105332203

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Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society by New Jersey Historical Society Pdf

Author : Peter Zablocki
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467148344

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Denville 13, The: Murder, Redemption and Forgiveness in Small Town New Jersey by Peter Zablocki Pdf

Denville in the 1950s was an idyllic place to live, yet a dark chapter in the era's history has remained uncovered. During the summer of 1953, a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet as a convicted sex offender arrived in town to continue his misdeeds. A group of thirteen local boys ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two took it upon themselves to teach the man a lesson and drive him out of town. What resulted was his brutal death and the largest number of people ever indicted for murder in the nation at the time. The harrowing trial and its aftermath revealed a town forced to grapple with how to protect its youth and come to terms with the gruesome incident. Local historian Peter Zablocki covers the crime and a small town's path to redemption.

Author : Peter Zablocki
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439674123

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Terror over Elizabeth, New Jersey by Peter Zablocki Pdf

With safety protocols in their infancy and the jet engine still in development, early commercial flight above American cities was too often deadly. Between December 1951 and January 1952, three separate plane crashes barreled down onto Elizabeth, New Jersey. Many dozens perished as the crashes destroyed entire city blocks and wreaked havoc throughout various neighborhoods. Frightened residents turned to the nearby Newark Airport for blame as a groundswell of political pushback occurred in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to stop the airport's expansion. President Truman formed an airport safety commission in response that recommended better zoning around airports and runways. Author Peter Zablocki tells the harrowing story of one of the most unique and tragic series of plane crashes in the nation's history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0001898659

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The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Ward Dean,George Folsom,John Gilmary Shea,Henry Reed Stiles,Henry Barton Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012553590

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The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America by John Ward Dean,George Folsom,John Gilmary Shea,Henry Reed Stiles,Henry Barton Dawson Pdf

Author : John Ward Dean,George Folsom,John Gilmary Shea,Henry Reed Stiles,Henry Barton Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118844682

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The Historical Magazine by John Ward Dean,George Folsom,John Gilmary Shea,Henry Reed Stiles,Henry Barton Dawson Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382822019

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The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Peter Zablocki
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476689463

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Bullets That Changed America by Peter Zablocki Pdf

One gunshot by a single person could be powerful enough to move a whole nation. Well known are the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, William McKinley, and Martin Luther King Jr., and their long-lasting consequences. History, however, is littered with lesser-known gunshots that have had equally echoing outcomes. Some were small mistakes or misjudgments, others intentional acts that sparked events documented in our history textbooks. A single bullet serves as the catalyst for each of the stories in this book. We may or may not know who fired it but we know each bullet's end point and the effects it had on America's trajectory: the wars, social movements, and political and economic paradigm shifts. The names of those involved may not to many be recognizable but the events their acts precipitated are etched in American history.

Author : Williams T. Blair
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1527632296

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The Michael Shoemaker Book by Williams T. Blair Pdf

Excerpt from The Michael Shoemaker Book: Schumacher Among the husbandmen and vine dressers, enumerated above, the follow ing other trades were also represented: Carpenters 11, cooper 1, clothier 1, gardener 1, hunter 2, joiner 1, mason 1, shoemaker 1, tailor 2, tanner-1, tobacco planter 1, linen and cloth weaver 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Charles Fort
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781304998705

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New Lands by Charles Fort Pdf

New Lands was the second nonfiction book of the author Charles Fort, written in 1925. It deals primarily with astronomical anomalies. Fort expands in this book on his theory about the Super-Sargasso Sea - a place where earthly things supposedly materialize in order to rain down on Earth - as well as developing an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. As evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including strange "mirages" of land masses, groups of people, and animals in the skies. He also continues his attacks on scientific dogma, citing a number of mysterious stars and planets that scientists failed to account for.

Author : Katharine A. Harmon
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Design
ISBN : 1568984308

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You Are Here by Katharine A. Harmon Pdf

Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deepseated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps to popular culture, from Gulliver's Island to Gilligan's Island. There are speculative maps of the world before it was known, and maps to secret places known only to the mapmaker. Artists' maps show another kind of uncharted realm: the imagination. What all these maps have in common is their creators' willingness to venture beyond the boundaries of geography or convention. You Are Here is a wide-ranging collection of such superbly inventive maps. These are charts of places you're not expected to find, but a voyage you take in your mind: an exploration of the ideal country estate from a dog's perspective; a guide to buried treasure on Skeleton Island; a trip down the road to success; or the world as imagined by an inmate of a mental institution. With over 100 maps from artists, cartographers, and explorers, You are Here gives the reader a breath-taking view of worlds, both real and imaginary.