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 Tales Told in the Shadows of the White Mountains
by Charles J. JordonCharles Jordan has spent many years keeping his ear to the ground for stories of the weird and wonderful of northern New Hampshire. Now, in this singular volume, he has collected tales varying from Native American apparitions, witches, ghosts, local characters and cranks, to murder and even the apocalypse! As writer and editor of Northern New Hampshire Magazine, Jordan has covered many stories concerning strange, eerie, and supernatural tales of the region. Tales Told in the Shadows of the White Mountains presents fourteen stories featuring unsolved mysteries, supernatural meanderings, and other tales of intrigue - some well known and the stuff of local legend, others newly unearthed and offered to the reader for the first time. Petrified yet? This collection is sure to put you into a granite state. "Charles Jordan knows the remote mountains and out-of-the-way villages of northern New Hampshire the way Mark Twain knew the Mississippi River. Tales Told in the White Mountains abounds with wonderful stories never told before, featuring backcountry hermits, lost hamlets, haunted buildings, unsolved mysteries, and even an electrically charged woman - not to mention a Civil War battle waged in the sky over the White Mountains. Original, lively, unfailingly entertaining, and frequently touching, Tales Told in the Shadows of the White Mountains is a terrific read by one of New England's finest cultural historians. "
--Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger in the Kingdom and Northern "Do you enjoy being mystified? Baffled? Then you'll find these rather curious true tales of the North Country, as thoroughly investigated by a local reporter/writer, to be fine rainy-night reading. "
--Judson D. Hale Sr., Editor-in-Chief, Yankee Magazine  224 pages - 6" x 8" - (11/03)
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