Blue Eyed Six in Popular Culture
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was inspired by the Blue Eyed Six moniker for his Sherlock Holmes short story, "The Red-Headed League"
- The story of the Blue Eyed Six is recounted in a stage play, which plays locally in Pennsylvania, and in a documentary film of the same name, by Bruce and Brian Kreider.
- Author/novelist Gary Ludwig speaks to groups about the infamous Lebanon County 19th century murder. Ludwig’s four-part magazine series about the murder was published in 1979. The magazine articles were subsequently published in booklet form.
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“The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die
The broken cartwheel on the hill.”
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A timid lady-bird to our bird-bath
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