Cooke Township

Lewis the Robber

Photo of eighteen young people sitting and standing around Lewis Cave at Doubling Gap, Pa.

From a likely fictional confession written a day before his death, Pennsylvania’s Robin Hood tells the story of David Lewis, better known as Lewis the Robber from his birth on Hanover Street in Carlisle on March 4, 1790 to his capture and eventual death in jail in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania on July

“My War” by Yoshikuni Masuyama as retold by his daughter, Miyuki Hegg

Toward the end of WWII, the Pine Grove Furnace POW Interrogation Camp was used to house Japanese prisoners.  One of those prisoners, Yoshikuni Masuyama, wrote a memoir of of his war time experiences after the war.  This was later transcribed by his wife, Fumie Masuyama.  Subsequently, the memoir was retold in English by his daughter Miyuki Hegg.

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