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'A Paradise for Boys And Girls': Children's Camps in the Adirondacks

By: Hallie E. Bond, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Leslie Paris

Price: $27.95

Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd): June 2006

Seller ID: 147551

ISBN: 0815608225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

For over a century children have spent their summers at sleepawaycamps in the Adirondacks. These camps inspired vivid memories andcreated an enduring legacy that has come to be a uniquely Americantradition. In A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children's Camps in theAdirondacks, a complement to the Adirondack museum exhibit of thesame name, the authors explore the history of Adirondack children'scamps, their influence on the lives of the campers, and their impact onthe communities in which they exist.
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002: NIAGARA FALLS VOLUME II (Images of America)

By: Daniel M. Dumych

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing: May 1998

Seller ID: 149505

ISBN: 0752412019

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

002: NIAGARA FALLS VOLUME II (Images of America)

By: Daniel M. Dumych

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing: May 1998

Seller ID: 149520

ISBN: 0752412019

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

20 Bicycle Tours in the Finger Lakes: Scenic Routes to Central New York's Best Waterfalls, Wineries, Beaches, and Parks

By: Mark Roth

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Backcountry Pubns: December 1986

Seller ID: 139670

ISBN: 0942440390

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

25 Bicycle Tours in the Adirondacks: Road Adventures in the East's Largest Wilderness

By: Bill McKibben, Sue Halpern, Mitchell Hay, Barbara Lemmel

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Countryman Press: April 1995

Seller ID: 178216

ISBN: 0881503185

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Adirondack State Park is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and Glacier National Parks combined. The park's 6 million acres offer plenty of diverse and scenic terrain for bicycling. In addition to tours in the famed and rugged High Peaks region, where New York State's tallest mountains predominate, the authors lead you to routes along the gentler roads of the park. They meander around scenic lakes and through pine forests, pointing out a variety of wild and unspoiled vistas along the way. Many rides also lead to hiking trails, swimming holes, and fishing spots along seclu...
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25 Mountain Bike Tours in the Hudson Valley: A Backcountry Guide (25 Bicycle Tours)

By: Kick, Peter

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Countryman: June 2006

Seller ID: 210098

ISBN: 0881503606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Few areas have more to offer the mountain biker than the Hudson Valley, with its scenic beauty, intriguing history, and abundance of trails, organizations, and facilities created expressly for fat tire devotees. Kick's selection of 25 tours is as diverse as their settings. They range from Lake George to Yonkers, from family outings to challenging peak climbs, from rail trails to canal towpaths to heritage bikeways. Each tour description includes complete directions, a comprehensive map, a list of bike shops nearby, and a wealth of details about the land and cityscapes. Written with sensitivity...
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25 Mountain Bike Tours in the Hudson Valley: A Backcountry Guide (25 Bicycle Tours)

By: Kick, Peter

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Countryman: June 2006

Seller ID: 239343

ISBN: 0881503606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

25 Mountain Bike Tours in the Hudson Valley: A Backcountry Guide (25 Bicycle Tours)

By: Kick, Peter

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Countryman: June 2006

Seller ID: 307827

ISBN: 0881503606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

By: Ziegelman, Jane

Price: $7.95

Publisher: HarperCollins: June 2010

Seller ID: 226131

ISBN: 0061288500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York's immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round." -- Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World

97 Orchard is a richly detailed investigation of the lives and culinary habits--shopping, cooking, and eating--of five families of various ethnicities living at the turn of the twentieth ce...
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A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time [1853]. a Facsimile Edition with an Added Fo

By: Franklin Benjamin Hough

Price: $49.98

Publisher: Clearfield: June 2013

Seller ID: 230372

ISBN: 0806379804

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Boatman's History of the Hudson River

By: Norman A. Tardiff

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Beacon Publishing Corp.: April 2002

Seller ID: 257819

ISBN: 0963189530

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Brief History of Saugerties

By: Smith, Michael Sullivan

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.: June 2016

Seller ID: 258613

ISBN: 1467135941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Beginning as a Dutch settlement, Saugerties is scenically positioned between the Hudson River and the base of the Catskills. In 1609, the great explorer Henry Hudson's first mate, Robert Juet, recorded a meeting with Native Americans in the area. In its early days, the land was part of the Kingston Commons, one of the first municipalities in the colonies to be governed by an elected body. The town's history was shaped by industry. In the nineteenth century, bluestone quarries and paper and lead mills drove its economy, and a century later, Saugerties became a commuter town for IBM's plants. Mi...
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A Brief History of Saugerties

By: Smith, Michael Sullivan

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.: June 2016

Seller ID: 259970

ISBN: 1467135941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Brief History of Saugerties

By: Smith, Michael Sullivan

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.: June 2016

Seller ID: 270130

ISBN: 1467135941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A canal bibliography with a primary emphasis on the United States and Canada

By: Albright G Zimmerman

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Pennsylvania Canal Society: January 1991

Seller ID: 161605

ISBN: 0930973119

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Dream Fulfilled: City and Suburban's York Avenue Estate

By: Andrew S. Dolkart,Sharon Z. Macosko

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Coalition to Save City & Suburban Housing: January 1988

Seller ID: 247122

ISBN: B000725M2M

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A historical sketch of the town of Clermont

By: Thomas Hunt

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Kinship: January 1984

Seller ID: 224267

ISBN: 1560120673

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A history of agriculture in the State of New York (American century series)

By: U. P Hedrick

Price: $39.98

Publisher: Hill and Wang: December 1965

Seller ID: 157567

ISBN: 0809000822

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park: How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City's Waterfront

By: Nancy Webster, David Shirley

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Columbia University Press: October 2016

Seller ID: 94036

ISBN: 0231171226

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

By the 1970s, the Brooklyn piers had become a wasteland on the New York City waterfront. Today, they have been transformed into a stunning park that is enjoyed by countless Brooklynites and visitors from across New York City and around the world. A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park recounts the grassroots, multivoiced, and contentious effort, beginning in the 1980s, to transform Brooklyn's defunct piers into a beautiful, urban oasis. The movement to resist commercial development on the piers reveals how concerned citizens came together to shape the future of their community.

After win...
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A History of Golf in New York's Capital Region

By: Douglas A. Lonnstrom

Price: $9.98

Publisher: CML Press: December 1997

Seller ID: 150043

ISBN: 0966847202

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A history of Schenectady during the Revolution: To which is appended a contribution to the individual records of the inhabitants of the Schenectady district during that period

By: Willis T Hanson

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc: January 2000

Seller ID: 198681

ISBN: 0788415875

Binding: Unknown

Condition: New - New

A House in Time

By: Susan N. [Nichols] Pulsifer

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The Citadel Press: January 1958

Seller ID: 247440

ISBN: B000ONGPJS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Kayaker's Guide to Lake George, the Saratoga Region & Great Sacandaga Lake

By: Dunn, Russell

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Black Dome Press: April 2012

Seller ID: 313597

ISBN: 1883789699

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A NYS-licensed guide and author of 10 books on the great outdoors of eastern New York and western New England, Russell Dunn leads the way on nearly 60 paddling adventures along the beautiful waters of the Lake George/Saratoga region, including the upper Hudson River, the Champlain Canal and the Glens Falls Feeder Canal, and the region's history-rich lakes and streams. Dunn tells you where to launch and what you'll experience for the best paddling adventures on Lake George, Great Sacandaga Lake, the Champlain Canal, the Sacandaga River, Saratoga Lake, Glens Falls Feeder Canal, the upper Hudson ...
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A Kayaker's Guide to the Hudson River Valley: The Quieter Waters--Rivers, Creeks, Lakes and Ponds

By: Aber, Shari

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Black Dome Press: March 2007

Seller ID: 227420

ISBN: 1883789532

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A guide to great kayak adventures in the heart of New York's Hudson River Valley--Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, Putnam, Columbia, Greene, Westchester and Sullivan counties. Paddles include journeys through such magnificent waterways as Tivoli Bays, Constitution Marsh, the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, RamsHorn-Livingston Sanctuary, the Delaware, Wallkill, Tenmile, Croton, & Neversink rivers, the Esopus, Wappinger, Otter Kill, Black, Stockport, Catskill, Bashakill, DuBois, Fishkill & Rondout creeks, plus 37 lakes, ponds and reservoirs. Meet bald eagles, blue heron, swans, and beavers on ...
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A Kayaker's Guide to the Hudson River Valley: The Quieter Waters--Rivers, Creeks, Lakes and Ponds

By: Aber, Shari

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Black Dome Press: March 2007

Seller ID: 287390

ISBN: 1883789532

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Kayaker's Guide to the Hudson River Valley: The Quieter Waters--Rivers, Creeks, Lakes and Ponds

By: Aber, Shari

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Black Dome Press: March 2007

Seller ID: 313593

ISBN: 1883789532

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens

By: Susan L. Klaus

Price: $22.95

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: May 2004

Seller ID: 182176

ISBN: 155849443X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, spine strong, light wear to edges.
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A Post Card Portrait with Memorabilia of John Burroughs Literary Naturalist

By: N/A

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Hope Farm Press: January 2004

Seller ID: 278780

ISBN: 0910746338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Post Card Portrait with Memorabilia of John Burroughs Literary Naturalist

By: N/A

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Hope Farm Press: January 2004

Seller ID: 279119

ISBN: 0910746338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Rural Carpenter's World: The Craft in a Nineteenth-Century New York Township (American Land and Life Series)

By: Wayne Franklin

Price: $29.98

Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr: June 1990

Seller ID: 268755

ISBN: 0877452776

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (American Century)

By: Paul E. Johnson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 1979

Seller ID: 206460

ISBN: 0809001365

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The religious revival that flourished in the early nineteenth century and changed American life found its most spectacular expression in Rochester, New York. The revival, in Rochester and elsewhere, made the United States the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and had an enormous influence on many Northern antebellum reform movements, including abolition and temperance. But although many historians have discussed its profound and wide-ranging effects, we know very little about its causes. "A Shopkeeper's Millennium" not only explores the interconnections between these vitally important...
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A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley (Codhill Press)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Codhill Press: August 2013

Seller ID: 56597

ISBN: 1930337736

Condition: New

This volume celebrates the contemporary prose and poetry of more than a hundred women from New York's Hudson Valley. Drawing on writers from the eastern border of New York State to the foothills of the Catskills, and along the length of the Hudson River from Westchester to Albany, editors Laurence Carr and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt bring together a wide variety of female voices that evocatively address issues that touch not only women, but also every reader who desires insight into the human experience.

A Slant of Light is divided into five sections, each addressing a theme of women's liv...
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A Tour of the Hudson, the Mohawk, the Susquehanna, and the Delaware in 1769

By: Richard Smith

Price: $13.98

Publisher: Purple Mountain Pr Ltd: April 1989

Seller ID: 232617

ISBN: 093579610x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A War to Petrify the Heart: The Civil War Letters of a Dutchess County, N.Y. Volunteer

By: Van Wyck, Richard T., Kaminsky, Virginia Hughes

Price: $14.94

Publisher: Black Dome Pr: June 1997

Seller ID: 87513

ISBN: 1883789117

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A West Parker Remembers When

By: Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Riverby Books: December 1986

Seller ID: 118482

ISBN: 0945677030

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Abandoned Catskills: Deserted Playgrounds

By: Vasko, Cindy

Price: $23.99

Publisher: America Through Time: August 2019

Seller ID: 289610

ISBN: 1634991443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

For decades, the New York Catskills and its resplendent mountains was one of the most favored vacati
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Abandoned Catskills: Deserted Playgrounds

By: Vasko, Cindy

Price: $23.99

Publisher: America Through Time: August 2019

Seller ID: 311870

ISBN: 1634991443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

For decades, the New York Catskills and its resplendent mountains was one of the most favored vacati
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Abandoned New York

By: Vasko, Cindy

Price: $24.99

Publisher: America Through Time: October 2018

Seller ID: 289590

ISBN: 1634990668

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Take a journey through some of New York's abandoned sites and see the soul of what once was. The elegant architecture of Roosevelt Island's Smallpox Memorial Hospital accepts the beautiful embrace of wild vines, while the desolation and debris of Dead Horse Bay reveals a cautionary statement about our environment. Exploring the Catskill Old Game Farm allows one to envision the menagerie of wild animals and the glee of children running through its rolling hills. The halls of the Ellis Island Hospital still hold the spirits of optimistic immigrants in search of the American dream. The majesty of...
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