Reviews

Summary

(1) Girsa—pronounced geer-sha and meaning “young girls ” in Gaelic—is a group of eight Irish American teenagers, two generations removed from the Emerald Isle, who live in and around Pearl River in Rockland County. Their new, eponymous compact disc is as refreshing as a cool drink of spring water on a sweltering summer day. (2) “Seeking out a region’s folk tales and legends offers more than entertaining reading,” Melanie Zimmer explains in Central New York and the Finger Lakes: Myths, Legends, and Lore. “It offers a piece of ourselves." This book is a celebration of the regional identity of central New York as developed and preserved through folktales.