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Halloween and Hermit’s Cave

[caption id="attachment_271748" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Kris Soffa as the "Woman in the Wilderness" at the Hermit's Cave. Photo by David Soffa.[/caption] It’s Halloween, a normally festive holiday that’s been made even scarier by the pandemic. Lots of Halloween events have sadly been canceled this year out of care and caution; one of those was typically set in a very special place in Roxborough: The Hermit’s Cave along the Wissahickon. Which amazingly was created by a Philadelphian who immigrated here from-- you can’t make this stuff up-- Transylvania. You may have heard of the legend that a hermit lived in a cave…

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