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Author : Brian M. Freed
Publisher : Author House
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496923783
"A teenage love triangle is the catalyst for murder in this mystery set against the backdrop of the Adirondack wilderness"--Back cover.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : WISC:89102493640
Author : Thomas A. Gates
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738535249
The lakes of the Adirondack region are explored in this superb collection of masterful images, most of which are previously unpublished. The photographs in Adirondack Lakes were taken by well-known and lesser-known photographers of the region, including Seneca Ray Stoddard, George W. Baldwin, H. T. Hull, Katherine E. McClellan, William Kollecker, William L. Distin, and Henry M. Beach. Dating from 1858 to 1948, they are clear, focused, visually engaging, and historically significant. They show the men and women who developed the Adirondacks, from monied entrepreneurs to manual laborers, from hoteliers to roadside attendants, from vacationers to year-round residents-a cast of characters reflecting nearly a century of Adirondack activity.
Author : David R. Starbuck
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512602630
While numerous books have been written about the great camps, hiking trails, and wildlife of the Adirondacks, noted anthropologist David R. Starbuck offers the only archeological guide to a region long overlooked by archeologists who thought that "all the best sites" were elsewhere. This beautifully illustrated volume focuses on the rich and varied material culture brought to the mountains by their original Native American inhabitants, along with subsequent settlements created by soldiers, farmers, industrialists, workers, and tourists. Starbuck examines Native American sites on Lake George and Long Lake; military and underwater sites throughout the Lake George, Fort Ticonderoga, and Crown Point regions; old industrial sites where forges, tanneries, and mines once thrived; farms and the rural landscape; and many other sites, including the abandoned Frontier Town theme park, the ghost town of Adirondac, Civilian Conservation Corps camps, ski areas, and graveyards.
Author : Christopher Angus
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815608943
Author and naturalist Christopher Angus profiles for the first time the adventurous life of Clarence Petty, one of the great pioneer conservationists of the Adirondack Mountain region of New York State. Raised in the heart of the Adirondack wilderness between Tupper and Saranac Lakes, Petty overcame his humble beginnings and pursued a variety of careers as wilderness guide, forester, Civilian Conservation Corps camp director, World War II pilot, district ranger, and aerial forest-fire fighter—ultimately leaving his indelible mark as a lifelong advocate for the protection of the wilderness. The story of Petty's life reads like a Horatio Alger novel. His father moved to the mountains in the 1880s to work as a guide. His mother was a cook for one of the popular sportsmen's hotels in the area. Young Clarence and his brothers enjoyed the kind of childhood freedom and independence that today's youngsters can only dream about. Their father's sense of self-reliance and their mother's drive to educate her sons led all three to attend college. Clarence followed a path of service to the American landscape. His influence on state policy regarding the Adirondack Park and especially its millions of acres of wilderness has been profound. His life story provides a window into the politics of conservation in the Adirondack region from the early days of the twentieth century to the present.
Author : William Henry Harrison Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHKQF
Author : Sally E. Svenson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780815655855
Just as the new technology of photography was emerging throughout the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, it caught hold in the scenic Adirondack region of upstate New York. Young men and a few women began to experiment with cameras as a way to earn their livings with local portrait work. From photographing individuals, some expanded their subject matter to include families and groups, homes, streetscapes, landmarks, workplaces, and important events—from town celebrations to presidential visits, train wrecks, floods, and fires. These photographers from within and just beyond the park’s borders, as well as those based in the urban areas from which tourists came to the Adirondacks, have been central in defining the region. Adirondack Photographers, 1850–1950 is a comprehensive look at the first one hundred years of photography through the lives of those who captured this unique rural region of New York State. Svenson’s fascinating biographical dictionary of more than two hundred photographers is enriched with over seventy illustrations. While the popularity of some of these photographers is reflected in the number of their images held in the collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the Getty Museum, little is known about the diverse backgrounds of the individuals behind their work. A compilation of captivating stories, Adirondack Photographers provides a vivid, intimate account of the evolution of photography, as well as an unusual perspective on Adirondack history.
Author : Christine Jerome
Publisher : Breakaway Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A paddling classic back in print with new maps, photos, details, and afterword. Christine Jerome walked into the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, and promptly fell in love with a 9-foot, 10½-pound canoe named the Sairy Gamp. More than a century before, in 1883, the Sairy Gamp had been paddled and portaged through the Adirondacks by a sixty-one-year-old writer named George Washington Sears (his pen name was Nessmuk). The more Jerome learned about Sears, the more she wanted to follow his route, despite her lack of camping or canoeing experience. In August 1990 she embarked in a 9-foot canoe made of Kevlar and, with her husband, John, accompanying her in a slightly larger boat, set off to retrace Sears’s journey. An Adirondack Passage is part social history, part natural history, part biography of Sears, and part chronicle of a voyage. Summer turns to fall while the Jeromes make their way north, through sunshine and storms, down cottage-lined lakes and lonely wild streams. Gusting winds bully their light canoes and by mid-September the days are colder and shorter; but the longer they paddle, the more attached they become to the beauty around them. Canada geese fly overhead, monarch butterflies flutter southward, and on the larger lakes, young loons gather for their first migration to the sea. Along the way the author pauses to tell us what Sears saw when he passed by, and what happened to his favorite haunts in the ensuing century. As the history of the region unfolds we meet hermits and millionaires, hunting guides and society women, hotelkeepers and dime-novel writers, and one lost dancing bear. Christine Jerome has given us a memorable wilderness experience that readers who have never lifted a paddle will find fascinating and invigorating. This new release from Breakaway Books is the third edition, revised and updated with extra photos, maps, and a new afterword. PRAISE FOR AN ADIRONDACK PASSAGE “A fine piece of work and a great delight. ” —John McPhee “An enchanting record of a canoe trip.” —The New Yorker “A writer of fine and watertight prose. . . . An Adirondack Passage is uncategorizable—at once history, naturalism, sociology, and a love story—but unfailingly graceful.” —Boston Globe “Personal, witty, and thoughtful—one of the best introductions to the area ever produced.” —Audubon “As refreshing a break from the busyness of life as I’ve come across in awhile.” —Newsday “The writing . . . is a constant pleasure. Jerome has a style that suits her subject, quiet and gentle as a paddle in still water. She delivers her lore with wit and whimsy, with fine descriptions and without shrill preaching or righteous posturing.” —Smithsonian “The closest thing to a national nonfiction best-seller that the region has seen in ages, and deservedly so.” —Adirondack Life “A captivating account. . . . She takes us into a world of hermits and millionaires, of wild streams and glorious mountain scenery.” —Publishers Weekly “A delightful tale. . . . An informative, readable adventure whose history and environmental lessons are taught well.” —Library Journal
Author : Stuart D. Ludlum
Publisher : Merriam Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Coral Sea, Battle of the, 1942
ISBN : 9781576380857
Author : Catherine Henshaw Knott
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Adirondack Forest Preserve (N.Y.)
ISBN : 0801485002
In the land-use controversy, some voices have still not been heard. Catherine Henshaw Knott interviewed residents of the Adirondacks on the complex issues of conservation. Knott concludes that the participation of local people in decision making is the only process that can shift an increasingly hostile cycle toward resolution. 19 photos.
Author : Sandra Weber
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625841346
The Adirondack Mountains captivate inhabitants, fostering deep roots and rich memories. In this diverse collection, local author Sandra Weber celebrates this enduring bond with the region and explores its roots and routes--such as women's feats, the naming of mountain peaks and the fight to save forests and tiny alpine plants. From Heart Lake and Caribou Pass to Mount Marcy and Lake Tear, ride an Olympic bobsled run, unearth the destruction of a devastating fire and discover the healing powers of the mountains. Retrace the paths of Theodore Roosevelt, Martha Reben, Edwin Ketchledge, Grace Hudowalski and many others who have lived in and loved the Adirondacks. Unearth hikers' tales, nature's secrets and local legends in this collection of Weber's finest reflections on Adirondack historical adventures.
Author : Richard Beamish
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0801848954
According to the author, environmentalists have not been sufficiently savvy about communicating their message. This field guide and instruction manual for activists, philanthropists, and organizers discusses how to recruit members and donors through the mail; how to communicate with your constituents to keep them involved, active, and renewing; how to publicize your cause; and how to obtain major gifts. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jeanne Robert Foster
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0815602057
Adirondack Portraits: A Piece of Time is a moving poetic statement about the Adirondack wilderness and the people who fought the mountains’ relentless environment to settle there at the end of the nineteenth century. The book is also about the remarkable Jeanne Robert Foster (1879–1970). Born in poverty in the Adirondacks, as a young woman she emerged in the center of the literary and artistic circles of her day, an associate of Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and the Yeatses, father and son. Adirondack Portraits gives us a glimpse into the early life of Jeanne and some of the influences that helped her step from a harsh physical existence into the unforgettable world of New York, Paris, and London in the 1920s. Above all, her poems and prose pieces are, in the words of Alfred Kazin, “an attempt to recover a vanished time, to record with love and admiration and enduring wonder a life of hardship, endless exertion, and perhaps above all, the kind of isolation that used to dominate country life in America.”
Author : Bryant Franklin Tolles
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584650966
An architectural study of the large Adirondack hotels that focuses on the cultural history of travel and tourism.
Author : Philander Deming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN393F