Penn's Grandest Cavern: The History, Legends and Description of Penn's Cave in Centre County (Metalmark) - Softcover

Shoemaker, Henry W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271022663 ISBN 13: 9780271022666

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005

Synopsis

The Penn State University Press is pleased to introduce Metalmark Books, a joint imprint of the Press and the University Libraries at Penn State. Books published under this imprint are selected from the collections of the University Libraries. They may be viewed online or ordered as print-on-demand paperbacks. Initially, books published under the Metalmark imprint will be chosen from the Libraries' extensive Pennsylvania holdings. Over time, the scope will broaden to include other significant out-of-print titles.These five Metalmark reprints preserve and make available once again some of the early writing of folklorist Henry W. Shomaker. He authored hundreds of pamphlets and books on nature, history, and folklore. He was publisher of several influential newspapers in Pennsylvania, including the Altoona Tribune and the Reading Eagle. He became the first state folklorist in America, one of the first chairs of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and an influential member of the State Forest Commission and the State Geographic Board.

About this title

About the Author

Henry W. Shoemaker (1880–1958) was the author of over twenty volumes of popular Pennsylvania literary folklore and numerous narrative volumes about Pennsylvania’s disappearing wildlife during the first half of the twentieth century. He also served as Pennsylvania’s first State Folklorist from 1948 to 1956.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271022663
• ISBN 13: 9780271022666
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128