Allentown, Pennsylvania -- A 21-foot cedar totem pole installed last month at Muhlenberg College is bringing attention and maybe even good luck to the campus.
Joseph A. Francello, the head of Muhlenberg’s department of sociology and anthropology, acquired the pole in 1986. It was made at the turn of the century by a Tuxekan Indian for a Pittsburgh doctor, who put it on his lawn.
Traditionally, totem poles celebrated good fortune, and the one at Muhlenberg has brought Mr. Francello some good luck already. After the installation, he learned that a book on American Indian culture on which he had been working for 10 years would be published.
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