F StanleyAn easterner by birth but a southwesterner at heart, Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola had as many vocations as names, says his biographer, Mary Jo Walker. As a young man, he entered the Catholic priesthood and for nearly half a century served is church with great zeal in various capacities, attempting to balance the callings of teacher, pastor, historian and writer. With limited money or free time, he also managed to write and publish one hundred and seventy-seven books and booklets pertaining to his adopted region under his nom de plume, F. Stanley, The initial in that name does not stand for Father, as many have assumed, but for Francis, which Louis Crocchiola took, with the name Stanley, at the time of his ordination as Franciscan friar in 1938. All of F. Stanley's titles have now reached the status of expensive collector's items. Read More Read Less