Faded Page => Hardy Boys

The Faded Page https://www.fadedpage.com/ was mentioned previously:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/01/faded-page.html

Recently they've been posting more Hardy Boys books, faster than I can read them.  Here is a page of some of their Stratemeyer (see: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-mystery-of-edward-stratemeyer.html) books for kids:

While an actual death is rare in the Hardy Boys books they do actuate my old pet peeve: the conk on the head causing unconsciouness.  If a real life Hardy boy had actually been conked on the head to unconsciousness all those times I shudder to think what their true ability would have been to do any detective work after all that head trauma.  CTE wasn't a coined term then but people knew that fighters often became "punchy".  

Maybe I'm just spoiling innocent fun ?  It's not meant to be taken that seriously.
 

Recently I read The Hooded Hawk which is Hardy Boys book 34.  One item of interest was that it talks about falconry.  There is a dedication at the front of the book to John J. Craighead, an expert on falconry.  That name, Craighead rang a bell so I did the usual search and found this wiki entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_and_John_Craighead

John was a twin to Frank but also a sibling to: Jean Craighead George:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Craighead_George

That's why I remembered the name: Craighead.  She was the author of My Side of the Mountain:

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Side_of_the_Mountain
 

A terrific book which I read in grade school.  And falconry is a topic covered in the book.

The Craigheads appear to have been a very interesting family.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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