Barbee oliver carleton biography of albert
Barbee Oliver Carleton Entries include a typed biography and welcoming letters of correspondence.
Albert Ray Barbee was born in Tuttle, Oklahoma, on November 12, 1917, the son of Mrs. Maude Baggett Barbee and the last Albert Ray Barbee.!
A brooding, dark, and suspenseful children's novel by Barbee Oliver Carleton, originally published as simply The Witches' Bridge, this book tells the story of young Dan Pride, orphaned and sent to live at his old family home in the salt marshes of Massachusetts...a home of dark secrets, ancient feuds, long-lost treasure, a mysterious curse, and an unsolved mystery which threatens to ruin any future happiness for him and bring his family down.
The mansion at Pride's Point has a number of strange legends about its owners—an ancestor in Puritan times who was accused of witchcraft, a fiddler's ghost that haunts the Witches' Bridge linking the island to the mainland, and a curse that strikes whoever hears the Fiddler.
Dan Pride, come to stay with his isolated uncle, believes all these stories are just superstition—until he is told that many years before, his grandfather (and namesake) suffered an unexplained death in the shadows of the bridge's arches while the Fiddler w