Wild souls, free spirits, and savage thoughts live on in the remarkable attic of a young girl growing up in the mountainous Pennsylvania Wilds, during the 1960s and 70s, among the grand, historic remains of a turn-of-the-1900s Boomtown. (Richly Illustrated text) The Great Aunt Alice Collection presents tall tales and telling truths told in rural, Elk County, PA, from the late 1870s to the late 1970s. "If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." Pearl S. Buck Author Megan Schreiber-Carter is a third-generation native of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains and a career writer.