From Sunset to Cock’s Crow
Woodstock Folklore
By Neva Shultis
From the Introduction:
In the pages which follow Neva Shultis has given Woodstock people of today and of the future a gift of endless delight and lasting value. Her collection of the folklore of our town presents a series of vivid little pictures of an older Woodstock now gone forever or rapidly disappearing. In these stories the pioneers in their homemade deerskin jackets come to life again, the men sit once more around the stove at Snyder’s store and swap yarns, old-time blacksmiths swing their heavy hammers, long forgotten farmers plan flax and corn, busy housewives make butter while tending babies. And because these stories are folklore, they give us far more than pictures of the past. They give us also an insight into how the people who preceded us in our valleys and on our mountainsides thought and felt. ~ Alf Evers.