Scale model of the Highland Hotel |
At the turn of the last century, a young Laurence Gieringer, age 5, gazed out his bedroom window at what appeared to him as a miniature building atop Neversink Mountain, near Reading, Pa.
One fateful night the youngster crept out of his home into the darkness, convinced that the Highland Hotel was actually a doll house with twinkling lights inside. Quickly he became lost in the woods, and was not found until the next day by frantic searchers.