Grandfather Stories Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams A collection of stories first heard in childhood by the author, told by his grandfather. The tales span the towns and hamlets of the old Erie Canal, from the "canawlers" to the gracious, leisured living of Rochester's Third Ward, the infant days of baseball, Mr. Montague's first detachable collar, of witchcraft on the water, of the young gentlem... more »an named Eastman with his strange photgraphic ideas, through the racy atmostphere of archaic saloons, to the homes of the gentry, with literary lights and charlatans, roustabouts and body snatchers, members of the Underground Railroad and daring performers like Sam Patch.« less