In addition to homemade jams and jellies, a bluegrass jam, and seasonal food, the “Jammin’ Jelly” Fall Festival will provide the opportunity to meet our talented local authors and purchase their fine publications.
Rick Bodenschatz, past-president of the Historical Association of Tobyhanna Township and frequent speaker at Greene-Dreher Historical Society, will be on hand to sign his two most recent book releases, First at Arlington: The William Christman Story (2nd Edition) and The Revolutionary War Over the Pocono Plateau: The Road to Battle.
Tammy Lee Clause, a local attorney with offices in the historic Newfoundland Bank Building, has published five books, including a novel, Surviving Life’s Storms and Poetry of Conscious Thought, Volumes I, II, and III. Her children’s books are The Tobyhanna Leprechaun and Goodnight Lovebug.
Michael P. Gadomski, a third generation Wayne County native, is the author of coffee table books, The Poconos: Pennsylvania’s Mountain Treasure, Scenes From the Country Fair, and many others.
Michelle Jacques has published a book about the Delaware Valley Railway, which operated in Bushkill from 1901 to 1937. Known as The Dinkey, this railway brought vacationers by the carload in the summers, and in the winter it hauled out lumber to markets in Philadelphia.
Sally Wiener Grotta is the author of numerous books, including The Winter Boy, nominated for the prestigious Locus Award, and Jo Joe, a Jewish Book Council Network book. She has been recognized by X-Rite as one of “The World’s Top Professional Photographers.”
Suzanne Fretz McCool wrote a memoir about growing up in Paradise Township in the 1950s where her parents owned The Airport Hotel, a gathering spot for local politicians. The Fretz family home was filled with music, and Suzanne still sings in four community choral groups.
Albert “Ab” Rutherford has researched and lectured extensively on prominent local historical figures. His books include the story of George Woodward—Forgotten Son of Bethany, 175 Years of Banking, a history of the Honesdale National Bank, and Raymond State’s The Pride and the Lion, which relates the history of two of the four locomotives that the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company imported from England in 1829. Rutherford served as the U.S. research assistant to State, a British railroad historian.
Tammy Schane — Author and historian Tammy Schane lectures on 18th- and 19th-century cemeteries to historical societies, including the Greene-Dreher Historical Society, and in 2016, she published a book called, Engraved: The Meanings Behind 19th-Century Tombstone Symbols. Tammy has worked for Heritage Conservancy in Doylestown and currently volunteers as a tour guide at Doylestown Cemetery.
Diane Smith is a Greentown native whose recent book, Mills on the Wallenpaupack, tells the stories of the area’s first industries, the water-powered gristmills and sawmills of the early to mid-1800s. She also co-authored a book about our rural one-room schools and has edited two collections of essays, all published by the Greene-Dreher Historical Society.
Join us at the Fall Festival to enjoy this book-signing and all the activities going on throughout the day.
