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American Folklore Is More Than Just Scary Stories; It Carries a Value System

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American Folklore Is More Than Just Scary Stories; It Carries a Value System
Sunset over the Appalachian Mountains. Clark Wilson/Unsplash.com
Salena Zito
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DONEGAL, Pennsylvania—It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland–Somerset county line. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have a little more than a mile to go, mostly uphill, before you are out of the deep forest and in the clearing.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.