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Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to many fine readers including Susan Scarf Merrell, Judy Karasik, Virginia Hartman, Jody Hobbs Hesler, Katey Schultz, and friends at The Bennington Writing Seminars, The Bethesda Writers Center, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Linguist Barbara Smith Vargo’s experienced eye and ear were invaluable. Gerrie Sturman of Goldfarb & Associates believed in this book. Vicki Blier, Beth Hess, my husband Harold, and my children Martha, Tim, and Rebecca Pskowski believed in me. I am grateful to the memory of my late parents, John and Nelle Campbell, who introduced my brother Don and me to the rugged beauty of the foothills of the Alleghenies in Pennsylvania, near my paternal grandfather’s birthplace. There are many stories and mysteries in that region; this book was inspired by the Bedford Springs Hotel, almost a ruin as I began to write; restored and re-opened before I finished.