Document Type
Notes
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Date
1960
Keywords
rhyme, bleeding, rag peddler, Bucks County, Himmelsbrief, Thomas Wood, Muncy
Description
A set of handwritten notes from a newspaper column and The Devil in Bucks County, compiled and transcribed by Alfred L. Shoemaker, dating from circa 1960. Within, Shoemaker details a variety of topics ranging from a character known as the "rag peddler" to an old verse from Dr. Thomas Wood's lecture book.
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Packet 758-30
Transcription
Now and Then
April 1945 Verse from lecture book of Dr. Thomas Wood, who settled in Muncy in 1801
p.13: “Is people sick, to me apply, I blisters, bleeds and sweats ‘em. If after that they choose to die what’s that to me, I lets ‘em.”
Oct, 1947, pp. 244-247 The Rag Man
p. 244 photograph of “Rag Peddler” wagon at Cooperstown
Jan., 1948 Editor:
p. 284 “I once heard an amusing story of 75 years ago having to do with a small country boy who met a peddler at the entrance to his father’s lane. He burst into the room where his mother was, claiming that there was a peddler outside and that he has cun-pishins and everything.”
The Devil in Bucks County by Edmund Schiddel
(Simon and Schuster, New York, 1959.
Page 336-337 “There had always hung, in the parlor, a Himmelsbrief that had been in the family a long time, something that had been brought from the old country; literally a letter assuring that the soul if its owner would pass into heaven.
[In the Hutschnecker family]
Language
English
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Recommended Citation
Shoemaker, Alfred L., "Notes From "Now and Then" Columns and The Devil in Bucks County" (1960). Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents. 239.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/239
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