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Search - Ghost Whispers - Tales from Haunted Midway [LARGE PRINT]

Ghost Whispers Tales from Haunted Midway - LARGE PRINT
Author: William Gorman

In your hands you hold a bit of a curiosity, a personal offering from me to you. Folk tales and legends have always drawn me, rich in their language, mysterious in their telling and retelling. At a very young age I came to appreciate the familiar, rhythmic relating of forgotten lore, of childhood fear. Of ghost stories. Contemporary ones as well... more » as the more traditional variety. The Midwest is alive today still with such tales. It always has been: spectral lost souls sorrowing forsaken down dimly lit Victorian corridors, portals flickering unseen between worlds, iridescent fog creeping eerily through the lacy darkness of crumbling Illinois cemeteries. Where does one begin? We could start I suppose with our locale, the city of Rockford and her nearby environs, a place which was first called Midway back in 1834 by a Connecticut land speculator named Germanicus Kent (although rumor has it that it was actually Mrs. Kent’s suggestion, the former Miss Arabella Amiss) who found that the village boundaries lay roughly midway the distance between Chicago and Galena. The following stories come from a variety of people and places, persons just like yourself who reside in sleepy, practical neighborhoods like your own, scattered all throughout the Rock River Valley and over most of north-central Illinois. It is they to whom this book belongs, the ones that cautiously offered up their tales, the ones who christened their own bit of legacy and in doing so helped contribute, if only a jot, to the historic and the folkloric character of this place once upon a time known as Midway. The township was later renamed Rockford by Dr. Josiah C. Goodhue (because of our mighty river’s splendid, rock-bottom ford) but is also widely heralded as the Forest City due to its majestic abundance of trees, and has since settled into the esteem of being third largest city in Illinois. At its roots, however, there remains today an underlying mist of consciousness from that first little village of thriving yet superstitious immigrants so long ago; echoes of the stories their fathers brought with them, of the songs their mothers sang to them at bedtime. Sure, the impulsive Dr. Goodhue was once accused of desecrating the final resting spot of American Indian chief Big Thunder and making off with the corpse’s skull. And true, somewhat peculiarly, the good doctor did later meet his own demise by falling down a well on New Year’s Eve. But this only adds to the town’s charm.

ISBN-13: 9780976919322
ISBN-10: 097691932X
Publication Date: 10/1/2005
Pages: 172
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Publisher: Helm Publishing (IL)
Book Type: Paperback
Large Print: Yes
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Elizabeth O. (MaineNana14) reviewed Ghost Whispers - Tales from Haunted Midway [LARGE PRINT] on 7/7/2006 + 14 more book reviews

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True stories about ghosts around Rockford, Illinois. Mr. Gorman dusted off the volumes of lore into the dead of night.

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