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Author : Cheri Farnsworth
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811736213
This part of New York, straddling the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, is rife with stories of the paranormal.
Author : Judith Richardson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0674018524
Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with an array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place."The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End."-J. J. Benardete, Choice
Author : Linda Zimmermann
Publisher : Spirited Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0971232601
A colection of true ghost stories from the Hudson Valley region, by Ghost Investigator Linda Zimmermann. These are the revised and updated versions of those stories previously published in four separate books "Ghosts of Rockland County", "Haunted Hudson Valley", "More Haunted Hudson Valley" and "Haunted Hudson Valley 3."
Author : Judith RICHARDSON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674042700
The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper
Author : Linda Zimmermann
Publisher : Spirited Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Haunted places
ISBN : 0964513358
Author : Lynda Lee Macken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736006959
The landscape of the Hudson River Valley lends itself to the likelihood that ghosts exist. Native Americans storied the territory with mysterious legends. Early Dutch settlers imprinted the strange new scenery with scary fables. Washington Irving's writings enlivened the folklore and added more fuel to the already smoldering supernatural mix. Where there's smoke there's fire, the saying goes, and surely there seems to be truth to the spookiness as evidenced by the plethora of haunted houses. Welcome to the haunted Hudson Valley where some ancient stone dwellings, church rectories, tourist hotels, military barracks, libraries, museums, mansions, and even a castle, claim a resident ghost - or two.
Author : Lynda Lee Macken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0975524445
The landscape of the Hudson River Valley lends itself to the likelihood that ghosts exist... Native Americans storied the territory with mysterious legends. Early Dutch settlers imprinted the strange new scenery with scary fables. Washington Irving's writings enlivened the folklore and added more fuel to the already smoldering supernatural mix. Where there's smoke there's fire, the saying goes, and surely there seems to be truth to the spookiness as evidenced by the plethora of haunted houses. Welcome to the haunted Hudson Valley where some ancient stone dwellings, church rectories, tourist hotels, military barracks, libraries, museums, mansions, and even a castle, claim a resident ghost… or two.
Author : Marianna Boncek
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Haunted places
ISBN : 0764333844
Take a ghostly tour of New York's Hudson Valley and learn about its history, legends, and resident spirits. Meet the ghost of servant girl Anna Dorthea Swarts who was savagely dragged to her death by an enraged master. Visit historic Hugenot Street, one of the oldest and continuously inhabited streets in America, where every house is haunted--from a vicious "Axe Man" to a headless woman who wanders the streets. Read the elegy of Maria Deyo, who calmly murdered her three children and killed herself. Learn basic ghost hunting skills and visit the "guaranteed" haunted places for yourself!
Author : Judith Ann Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 0493216057
Author : Eagle Press
Publisher : Spirited Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0964513390
Author : Dennis William Hauck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0142002348
Describes over 2,000 sites of supernatural occurances in the United States, including places visited by ghosts, UFOs, and unusual creatures.
Author : Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1642377945
Mysterious Beauty: Living with the Paranormal in the Hudson Valley begins by providing a brief but thorough brief survey of the unique natural and cultural history of paranormal experience in the Hudson Valley region, including Native and early colonial reports. It then profiles select individuals whose lives have been touched by the paranormal, either as experiencers, investigators, or both. This isn't a book for tourists or a field guide, but rather detailed survey of individuals who, by virtue of their history and place, have become accustomed to living with extraordinary experiences and/or encounters with the paranormal. From ghosts to aliens, Bigfoot to ancient ceremonial sites, time displacements and spiritual visions, the testimony of witnesses and investigators speak of mysteries encountered in the legendary, wonderous beautiful landscapes of the Hudson Valley in New York.
Author : Lisa LaMonica
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625840899
Discover the ghosts who wander these upstate New York mountains—includes photos! Washington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a “spellbound region”—and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving's intuition. In Hudson, Maggie Houghtaling’s ghost haunts the Register-Star building, where she was hanged in 1817 for murdering her child—a crime for which she was later cleared. The ghost of a young Native American girl haunts Claverack Creek, where she threw herself into the water when her father forbade her to be with the man she loved. In Greenport, Peter Hallenbeck was murdered by his nephews in his home, where his spirit still lingers. Discover these and other eerie tales of hauntings in the Catskill Mountains in this collection of fascinating stories and local lore.
Author : Michael Norman,Beth Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781466805149
Haunted America takes you on a grand tour of ghostly hauntings through the U.S. and Canada, sweeping from terrifying battle-field specters at Little Bighorn to a vaudeville palace in Tampa, from ghostly apparitions in President Garfield's home in Ohio to the White House in Washington, DC. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Todd Atteberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1714000613
Discover the haunted landscape of the Hudson River Valley and explore the history, legends and folklore of the region that Washington Irving wove into an American archetype. From Sleepy Hollow to the Catskills, these travelogues inform as well as entertain, and act as a guide to this mystical region. Including Irving and Christmas ghost stories, a haunting in New Amsterdam and walking and dining in the footsteps of Poe in New York City. With over 100 original images, plus excerpts from Irving and other literary giants.