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| BookwormMG |
Posted - June 20 2010 : 3:21:04 PM
While waiting at O'Hare for a repair to be completed on the jet that was to take us to Albuquerque, the woman next to me and I struck up a conversation. Her name was Sally Keehn, she's from Allentown, and she told me that she had written a children's book called "I Am Regina." The book is a fictional account of the kidnapping by Indians, at the beginning of the F&I War, of 10-year-old Regina Leininger and her sister, Barbara, following the raid on their home that's become known as the Penns Creek Massacre. That event occurred in Snyder County, PA, where I'm from! "It's a small world" -- trite but true. Has anyone here read the book? The reviews on Amazon are very good. Sally's website is: http://www.sallykeehn.com
She's written several other children's books, one of which, "Moon of Two Dark Horses," concerns the struggle for the loyalty of the Delaware Indians in 1776. All in all, an interesting way to start a vacation! |
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| Seamus |
Posted - June 21 2010 : 06:26:30 AM
We ended up not going to G'bg.....no one interested.
I have been in David Breckinreach's (Breckenridge's) log house near Conneaut Lake, where he settled after the hostilities, as it was lived in by friends of ours when we lived in Meadville; David and Sue Breckinridge we met in our church and became fast friends, I got my first Beagle dog, Molly, from him. I think you have met sweet Molly dog. They and 2 of their 3 kids have been to our home on Honeysuckle Lane several times. We still hear from them from time to time. The farm is still in Breckinridge hands, as their one son works it. Long time for land to remain in one family. David found an OLD flintlock rifle hidden in the barn one time, and I have held it in my hands! It talked to me.....
The captives passed through there with Shingas on their way toward the Ohio country, and the 4 of them escaped not long afterwards. Owen Gibson, the other Englishman, ended up about 5 miles from Kittanning and his family farm is still "The Gibson Farm" across the creek from my dad's home at Brick Church (btw, it has been in our family nearly 175 years), and his descendant and namesake, Owen, I played with when we were kids and visiting grandma and grandpa.
Wish I had known this story back then................didn't encounter it until we came out here to the beautiful Central Susquehanna and learned about the Penn's Creek Massacre! It's been downhill ever since!!! (and only gets better.) |
| BookwormMG |
Posted - June 21 2010 : 05:57:50 AM
It's an even smaller world! I didn't know of your connection with the English captives. Nor did I know how successful the book was. I'll have to venture into the children's section of the library and borrow it.
Glad to see you survived the weekend's heat and humidity, which must have been even worse in Gettysburg than it was here. |
| Seamus |
Posted - June 20 2010 : 3:44:52 PM
Several schools around here use it, Mary, and several more I spoke to over the last 6 years or so at AHEC Spring Field Trips (4500-5000 kiddies, ages 6 to 15, per Spring!) on the F&I War have it in their curriculum. I tell them all it really happened here near me and then the real story so they can compare. It IS a good story for them, however, and does plant seeds of interest in their fertile little minds. Did I ever tell you about the connection I have with the two Englishmen who escaped with Barbara Leininger and Marie LeRoy? BTW...the were at Kittanning, actually at Shingas' Town across the river from the Kittanning, when Armstrong raided it. |
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