The Great Aunt Alice Collection

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)

“When my Aunt Alice was a teenager,” Mom said, “she hopped on the train with her boyfriend, headed to New York City, with the intention of getting married.  Her mother, your Great-Grandmother Lulu Muldoon, was on the next train and determined to stop them, which she would have, but she lost them in the New York train station…."

“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.  Her bio and more of her writing may be found at www.megansdesk.net. 

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, and hands out “pearls of wisdom from the living, breathing, soul-filled past.” (Richly Illustrated.)

“I looked for the Ghosts of the Forest, when we ice skated on the frog pond in the deep woods, but never saw them.  ‘Those will come alive in the spring, when it thaws,’ Dad told us about the frogs—clearly frozen, mid-sprawl, in the ice under our feet.  Now, who could believe that?  Those frogs were certainly dead.  This frog tale was just like the yellow-brown salve Dad put on our cuts—‘Mrs. McKinley’s bear salve.’  Really?  From a bear?….”

“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.  Her bio and more of her writing may be found at www.megansdesk.net. 

Hi, I'm Megan Schreiber-Carter. I grew up in the Allegheny Mountains, a northern division of the Appalachian Mountain Range, along the eastern U.S.. My siblings and I were the third generation of our family in a small, old town full of history and surrounded by the forests of Elk County, Pennsylvania. Our grandfather, who came from a large family of lumberjacks, was the first judge in the county. Our parents were teachers and our father was a WWII veteran, as well as our Borough's Manager.

I studied writing, at the University of Pittsburgh, and earned a Master's in Journalism, at American University in Washington, D.C.. I also completed the Warner Brothers' Sitcom Workshop. Then, I grew up some more.

I'm a writer of many genres--I've developed, written and produced award-winning documentaries for Discovery Networks and National Geographic; I've written and produced commercial spots for radio; and, for print, I've written news, feature, non-fiction book proposals, ghostwriting, award-winning promotional copy, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

The creative writing is my favorite, and I'm currently completing a collection of short stories, called "Megan's Mostly-True Stories," as well as a series of fictional novels. Recently, at the Downtown Writing Studio, in Fredericksburg VA, I read a stand-alone excerpt, from the fictional novels, called "Thanks fer Shootin' Danny."

I've taught at American University, George Washington University, The University of The District of Columbia, The International Center for Language Studies, and as a Calvert home-school teacher when my child was in kindergarten and first grade.

My family and I live in a wooded area along the Potomac River, near D.C.. We also spend time along the RI shore and in my hometown, in Elk County, PA. One of our family's businesses is The State Theatre, a restored, historic theatre, inside the D.C. beltway, that presents music and other events.

My other interests include living with a pleasant dog, being out of doors, reading great stories to myself or aloud, capturing photos, enjoying great food and drink, using herbs and oils, drawing, painting, singing, having time to think, engaging in good conversation, and sitting by the fire.

​More of my writing may be found at www.megansdesk.net, which I set up to show you some of the remarkable things that come across my desk. ​ Out here, Megan