This is the final post relating to my verse-tale, Annals of the Dear Unknown.
I dedicated the book to Rachel Tyler Munson, whose twelve children included my direct ancestor, Walter Munson.
May she now truly rest in peace.
Love and Peace,
Catherine Chandler
Acknowledgments
Prior to and during the writing of Annals of the Dear Unknown, I drew invaluable historical information from hundreds of print and online sources (refer to the Selected Bibliography), some of which are listed below.
However, I wish to especially thank the following persons for their generous assistance: Mark and Amanda at The Luzerne County Historical Society; Sarah and her colleagues at The Lackawanna Historical Society; The Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library; Aaron McWilliams, Pennsylvania State Archives; Mark Dziak; Professor L.H. Roper, State University of New York, New Paltz; Mary McTamaney, City Historian, Newburgh; Bonnie Farver, Tom Adams, and Linda Sult, for details on post-revolutionary Berwick; Ed Bishop, for additional information about Wilmot Munson; Laura Redish, for assistance with Lenape orthography and pronunciation; David Mason, poet, for advice, insights, and suggestions on the writing of historical narrative blank verse; Tom Munson, Historian of the Obadiah Clan of the Munson family, to which the author belongs.
Finally, my deep gratitude to poets Natalie Diaz, David Mason, and Gabrielle Calvocoressi as well as Wilkes University and Daniel Hoffman’s representative at Random House, who have granted permission to include selected lines as epigraphs in this book. Those by Robert Frost and Gabriela Mistral are in the public domain.
