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Heritage Commission Book of the Week: GATH’s Literary Work and Folk

Staff Writer June 13, 2022Culture, Police & Fire, RSS-Culture

George Alfred Townsend, known by his pen-name Gath, was one of Delaware’s most famous writers of the 19th century. Born the son of a Methodist pastor in Georgetown, Townsend would work as a war correspondent during the Civil War, write for several newspapers, and publish several books, both fictional and biographical. Many of Gath’s works […]

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