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The Journal of New York Folklore was published 1975-1999. Back issues are still available.


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The New York Folklore Quarterly was published 1946-1974. Back issues are still available.

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. II, No. 2, May, 1946

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UNION COLLEGE GHOST
James G. Shaw, Jr.

MANY years ago, the story goes, just after the Dutch settled in the Mohawk Valley and when Schenectady was still a cluster of rude cabins, one of the more independent colonists settled with his daughter near the Scotia end of the present B. and M. railroad bridge.

He was a quick-tempered old fellow, as irascible an old curmudgeon as ever chased an ardent suitor from the side of an attractive daughter....



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