Thanks, I'll  take a look into this sufi styled
eccentric.  I'd welcome any other references like this
if anyone else knows of any.

Sarah

--- George Myers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> One that might be interesting, though a little
> further east, in the
> Appalachia's could be the history of "Prince"
> Gallitzin. As one comes to the
> top of the Alleghenies, one passes a spring with his
> name. He perhaps may
> have been a tsar of Russia, but left with his mother
> to Holland and became
> an ordained Catholic priest. He apparently preached
> up and down the
> Alleghenies and said the water at the spring the
> best he ever tasted. A
> nearby artificial lake is named after him, flooded
> for recreational use, not
> far from the infamous events at Johnstown, PA. A
> Catholic college is also
> nearby the spring and the NPS maintains the
> "Allegheny Portage Railroad
> Historic Site" in the Lemon Tavern, built by Irish
> immigrants it's said,
> (the NPS hires someone (or did) to give a speech
> Charles Dickens once gave
> there, every summer) Some of the archaeology done
> there has been published
> by the NPS in "Applied Archaeology" I had the
> opportunity to help decipher
> parts of it's modern modifications as part of an
> archaeological crew there
> one spring, to return it to its historic context.
> Some of the other
> archaeology may be published elsewhere as canal
> boats were hauled up
> inclined planes to the top of the mountain there
> (good thing coal was found
> near the surface nearby!) on tilted rails held with
> limestone blocks a
> locust peg insert for the rail spike in the rail
> bed. Small steam engines
> pulled the rope, then cable attached to the flatcars
> holding the canal
> boats, where once at the Lemon Tavern, they
> continued on to Pittsburg, PA.
> before the great "Horseshoe Bend" was built for the
> railroad nearby above
> Altoona, PA.
>
> Anyway, it seems "Prince" Gallitzin had big
> influence on the formative
> community IMHO.
>
> George Myers
>
>
>
>
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