Joe Farrell was born in Brooklyn and raised on the mean streets of Queens. He attended and graduated from Catholic schools in New York and went on to College at St. Vincent College where he graduated with a degree in Psychology. He studied Clinical Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Public Administration at Shippensburg University. He went on to an unusual 48 year career in State Government and two fortune 500 companies. He started in maximum security prison and ended his career at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
His first book "Jesus Runs Away" is a memoir of his youth. A very humorous and poignant account of attending Catholic Schools in New York in the 60s when the world seemed to have gone mad. Since teaming up with Joe Farley they have written over a dozen history books. They are very proud of their work especially since the nuns told them they would never amount to anything.

Joe Farrell and Joe Farley explore the cemeteries (and pubs) of Pennsylvania in search of interesting graves and stories about the interred. Included in this volume:
William Law Anderson "Golf's Forgotten Legend"
James Buchanan "Pennsylvania's Only President"
Pearl Buck "The Good Earth"
John Burns "The Hero of Gettysburg"
Simon Cameron "Pennsylvania's Political Kingmaker"
James Crowley & Harry Stuhldreher "Half the Horsemen"
Congressman Dan Flood "Dapper Dan"
Benjamin Franklin "The First American"
John White Geary "An American Success Story Few Have Heard"
Frank Gorshin "What Does It All Mean?"
Zane Grey "Rider of the Purple Sage"
Harry Norbert Kalas "That Ball's Outta Here!"
Mary Jo Kopechne "What If?"
David L. Lawrence "Pittsburgh's Renaissance Man"
Lincoln Colored Cemetery "Gone But Not Forgotten"
Connie Mack "The Tall Tactician"
Jayne Mansfield "The Blonde Bombshell"
Vance Criswell McCormick "A Harrisburg Hero"
George Meade "The Old Snapping Turtle"
Thomas Mifflin "A Pennsylvania Patriot"
The Molly Maguires, Black Jack Kehoe and Franklin Gowen
Gifford Pinchot "Pennsylvania's Forester"
Bob Prince & Myron Cope "The Voices of Pittsburgh"
General John Fulton Reynolds "A True American Hero"
Frank Rizzo "The Cop That Would Be King"
Jim Thorpe "The Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century"
Bill Tilden "Big Bill"
Ginnie Wade "A Tragic Love Story"
Andy Warhol "The Pope of Pop"
Fred Waring "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing"
... and some very Unusual Tombstones