New York Folklore Quarterly: Volume X, No. 1

"Rattlesnake "Pete," Peter Gruber, according to Arch Merrill, was Rochester’s most colorful character. He is noted for his amazing saloon-museum, situated at 8-10 Mill Street, which was dismantled after he died in 1932. He was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1856, a son of a saloon keeper, but for a number of years found employment in his young manhood as an ironworker. His hobby of snakes was an obsession with him, and he became expert in handling them and in curing snake bite. He also was believed to have cured a good many other human afflictions including goitre, deafness, croup, and rheumatism." (from "Folklore Figures of Rochester" by W. Stephen Thomas)

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. X, No. 1, Spring, 1954
CONTENTS

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President’s Page 2	Editor’s Page 4
ARTICLES
Folklore Figures of Rochester, N.Y.	W. Stephen Thomas	9
Folkways of Old Broome Co.: The Crocker Manuscript	Edith E.Cutting	18
N. Y. Folklore Society, Inc., By-Laws		30
Irish Lore from N. Y. State’s Capital District	The Editor	35
GLORY HOLE
Lore from Setauket, L.I.	Miss Kate W. Strong	40
A Long Island Whale Story	Nathaniel R. Howell	42
On the Erie Canal	Georgiana Prtichard	45
A Grace from the North Country	A. T. Shorey	47
Old Alb Wins a Bet	Arthur C. Parker	48
A Pioneer Tale of the Finger Lakes	Mrs. Mary C. Puffer	50
DEPARTMENTS
Songs: "Gypsy Davy" (Child, 200)	Ruth C. Wright	52
Epitaphs: New York Stories in Stone	Charles L. Wallis	54
Neighbors: Lore of Worcester, Mass.	Jane Kimberly	57
Review: Dorothy C. Hogner’s Herbs, From The Garden	Janet R. MacFarlane	68
Upstate, Downstate	B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell	70
Contributors		80

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