Leatherstocking Ghosts: Haunted Places in Central New York, by Lynda Lee Macken (TPB, 2005, $1.50)
Leatherstocking- What is a Leatherstocking? Think back to high school and James Fenimore Cooper. Remember The Last of the Mohicans? Well, actually, The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in the series, The Leatherstocking Tales. Leatherstocking refers to the central Upstate NY area. This is Macken's 12th book on NY/NJ ghosts. (That doesn't include her books on Salem, Mass. and Baltimore.) I liked the book. What I did not like is the absence of information on western NY. All she would have to do is to move over two counties and she'd be in Monroe, my home county. Come on Macken, there have got to be ghosts somewhere in Rochester or Buffalo just waiting to be written about!
Look for this book (even if it does not include our wonderful Rochester ghosts) in the local section, avail. 3/2.
