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Joe Farrell and Joe Farley explore the cemeteries (and pubs) of Pennsylvania in search of interesting graves and stories about the interred. Included in the volume:
Richie Ashburn “His Whiteness” Dick Winters & Joe Toye “Band of Brothers” Bonneville “Bert” Bell “Modern Football's Founding Father” Smedly Butler “The Fighting Quaker” Michael Cheslock “The Lattimer Massacre” Billy Conn “The Pittsburgh Kid” Jim Croce “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” Stephen Foster “The Music Man” Robert Morris & James Wilson “Founding Fathers” Josh Gibson “The Black Babe Ruth” Eddie Plank & Christy Mathewson “Hall of Fame Hurlers” Winfield Scott Hancock “Hancock the Superb” Milton S. Hershey “The Chocolate King” Herman Webster Mudgett aka Dr. Henry H. Holmes “America’s Answer to the Ripper” Johnstown Flood Victims “An Act of God?” Philip Livingston “A Little Known Founding Father” Saints Katharine Drexel & John Neumann “Philadelphia Saints” Michael Maggio, Antonio Pollina, Angelo Bruno, Philip Testa & Salvatore Testa “Philadelphia’s Sinners” Fred Rogers “America’s Favorite Neighbor” Bessie Smith “The Empress of the Blues” Thaddeus Stevens “The Dictator of Congress” General John Sutter “After the Gold Rush” Charles William Tate “Tuskegee Airman” George Taylor “An Indentured Servant Who Became a Founding Father” Harry Kendall Thaw “Murder at Madison Square Garden” John Wanamaker “A Business Pioneer” Medal of Honor Recipients Unusual Tombstones