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Upcoming Presentations
October 19, 2024
The Allegheny County Historical Society will be hosting Rattlesnake Colonel in Cumberland, Maryland at 400 Mechanic Street on Saturday, October 19 at 2:00 pm. Tickets are available on the ACHS website.
October 24, 2024
Senior Commons at Powder Mill will be hosting Across the River, Murder at Accomac on October 24th at 5:00 pm at 1775 Powder Mill Road in York, Pennsylvania. Seating is limited and RSVP's required. See website for details.
February 27, 2025
Rattlesnake Colonel will be presented at the Ephrata Cloister, 632 W. Main Street in Ephrata, Pennsylvania on February 27th, 2025 at 10:45 am. More information will be posted on their website when available.
March 18, 2025
Rattlesnake Colonel will be hosted by the Spring Grove Historical Preservation Society on March 18, 2025 at 7:00 pm at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 201 S. Main St, Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Details will be posted on their website and on their facebook page when available.
April 30, 2025
A presentation of Rattlesnake Colonel is scheduled for April 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM at OLLI at Penn State York. Additional information and registration information will be available on the OLLI website.
Festivals and
Sales Events
December 7, 2024
An Author's Book Signing is tentatively scheduled for December 7 at the York County History Center, 121 N. Pershing Ave in York, Pennsylvania. Both Rattlesnake Colonel and Across the River will be available for purchase. More details will be made available on their website when available.
Meet the Author
Michael Maloney is a native of York County, Pennsylvania, and currently resides with his wife and beagle in Red Lion. Now retired, he was the Director of Technical Services for Lifetime Brands (the former Pfaltzgraff Company) since 2005. Although he grew up in York, both his parents and many of his relatives are from Marietta and Mount Joy in Lancaster County. Consequently, he spent many summers along the Susquehanna River at his grandparent’s house, exploring the river shore and the surrounding hills. After learning of a gravesite behind the Accomac Inn, his curiosity led him to research the Accomac ferry crossing, the town of Marietta,and the murder of Emily Myers at the hand of John Coyle, Jr. on Decoration Day, 1881. His love of local history led him to write his first book, Across the River, Murder at Accomac, released in 2012 for the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the borough of Marietta. His second non-fiction book, Rattlesnake Colonel Thomas Cresap - An American Paradox, is a detailed biography of Thomas Cresap's contradictory and often controversial life. Cresap's life experiences in Pennsylvania and Maryland are used to narrate the complicated political and military conflicts of eighteenth-century Colonial America in a comprehensive yet understandable way.
