ALONG THE LAKE Dougherty edits anthology of Erie writers May 27, 2005 The Erie Bookstore recently was host for a reception and reading in honor of the publication of "Along the Lake: Contemporary Writing from Erie, PA" (Ye Olde Font Shoppe 2005). The anthology is the three-year-long researched effort of editor Sean Thomas Dougherty, a lecturer in the BFA program for creative writing at Penn State Erie and himself one of the nation's leading young poets. The anthology is the first of its kind to conduct a national search for writers who have lived and worked in Erie County sometime over the last 30 years. The anthology includes work from ex-Erieites as far away as Oregon, Texas and Connecticut, as well as more than a dozen writers who still work and live in the county. The book is published by Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press of New Haven, Conn., a small press that has put out nearly 60 titles, and whose founder, poet Victoria Rivas, is an old east-sider from Er...