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Tales My Father Never Told
Walter Edmonds' last book brings together a series of anecdotes about his early years and rural upbringing. It is the story of a father and his son, and the deep and real love that …
Tales My Father Never Told
These are the memoirs, told in a series of vignettes, of the well-known author's childhood, spent between a big house on West 11th Street, New York and a thousand-acre summer place …
Mother Donit Fore the Best
These letters from the Albany Orphan Asylum in New York demonstrate how institutions in the late 19th century provided a social service. The volume comprises letters from parents …
Adirondack Wilderness
An account of the history of the nation's largest public park includes how man's changing attitudes toward nature have affected our interaction with the park.
The African Burial Ground in New York City
In 1991, archaeologists in lower Manhattan unearthed a stunning discovery. Buried for more than 200 years was a communal cemetery containing the remains of up to 20,000 people.At …
The Adirondack Park
In The Adirondack Park McMartin has aptly likened the various wild forest, wilderness, recreation, and primitive areas to a patchwork quilt, with landscapes connecting to jagged …
Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution
Moses Hazen, commander of the Second Canadian Reiment, was an unusual and influential man during the period of the American Revolution. The Tories who fled to Canada have received …
The War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley
This is the story of marching men and clashing ships, of suffering, and of occasional heroic deeds. As in wars past, and for similar reasons, Lake Champlain and the region …
Body, Boots, and Britches
A superb blend of good story-telling and sound scholarship this book provides a fascinating record of what "country New Yorkers" have had to say and sing about themselves as they …
Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company
In 1800, the Holland Land Company assigned surveyor Joseph Ellicott the task of selling at a profit 3.3 million acres of land west of the Genesee River in New York State. By 1821, …
Seneca Ray Stoddard
An exploration of the Adirondack photographic and literary work of Seneca Ray Stoddard. It examines how it influenced and was influenced by changing attitudes toward wilderness in …
Prints and Printmakers of New York State, 1825 1940
For well over a century, New York has been a microcosm of the art and craft of American printmaking. Until 1825, printmaking in America was almost entirely an artisan's craft. …