Description
We continue to explore yet another area of our beloved Mount Gretna through our Glimpses of the Past series. This booklet, Summers on the edge of the Woods, is #8 in the series. Its focus is on Abraham Kauffman’s Heights. The author is Elizabeth Wein, an award-winning author. Most importantly, she has deep roots in Mount Gretna as she spent many summers with her great-grandmother, Mae Berger Saylor, who was a Heights resident. Elizabeth now lives in Scotland but makes yearly visits to Mount Gretna Abraham Kauffman was quite the entrepreneur, and this booklet uncover many unknown facts about him as a person as well as his ventures into amusement park developer, hotelier, dance hall operator and more. Other key players in the development of the Heights are introduced along with the challenges of building the infrastructure that exists today. Be ready to learn how the term “riff raff” is used in this entertaining and informative newest publication.
