The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society has recently added three local history books to its Museum Store shelves for holiday giving or winter doldrums reading.

David L. Richards has authored Masten: Lumber Giant, Charles W. Sones and the Story of a Pennsylvania Lumber Ghost Town, 1906-1930. The book explores the rise and fall of the town of Masten, which at one time boasted “two sawmills, a clothespin factory, a lath mill and nearly a thousand people.” Today, it is little more than a ghost town. The book, profusely illustrated with historical photographs. sells for $29.99 plus tax.

Catamount Press has recently acquired the publishing rights to the works of Herbert Stover, former supervising principal of Lewisburg School System and the author of seven historical novels. Stover’s reprinted Song of the Susquehanna is available for $19.99 plus tax. The main character of the book Peter Grove encounters Conrad Weiser and Governor Morris, as well as becoming embroiled in the events of the French and Indian War.

Guy Graybill, well-known author of books on bootlegger Prince Farrington, has explored and dissected the life of folklorist Henry Shoemaker in his latest work, Henry Wharton Shoemaker: Scoundrel of the Susquehanna, debunking the folktales included in Shoemaker’s numerous books. This book is available for $19.95 plus tax.

The Museum Store is open for business during operational hours of the Museum, Tuesdays through Fridays, 9:30am until 4:00pm and Saturdays, 11:00am until 4:00pm. For additional information, please visit our website tabermuseum.org or telephone 570.326.3326.