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March 23, 2004



         
PO Box 307
273 Main Street
Grahamsville, NY 12740
Phone
845-985-2262
ext. 313
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845-985-7686


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Nature & Geology, Native Americans, Recreation, Shawangunk, Ulster County, Watershed & Folklore
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The Catskills: A Geological Guide
Learn about the great geological history of almost 400 million years ago, hidden in the region's rocks and landscapes. Here is the story of continental collisions, lost mountain ranges and primitive fossil creatures in an ancient sea. By Robert Titus, 127 pages, illustrated. |
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The Other Side of Time: Essays by "The Catskill Geologist"
Geological insights from the Catskills and Hudson Valley. By Robert Titus, 152 pages, illustrated. |
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The Catskills in the Ice Age
The Catskill Mountains are the legacy of the massive forces of ice, glacial lakes and fossil rivers. Virtually all Catskill Mountain villages are built where they are because glaciers made that land habitable; our best agricultural lands are the floors of glacial lakes; much of our recreational hiking and climbing leads to scenery carved by the passing ice. By Robert Titus, 123 pages, illustrated. |
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Indian Tribes of Hudson’s River - Vol. I (To 1700)
First half of the only complete history of ALL the tribes that were located in New York! Readers will learn about Native Americans' customs, organization, wars and treaties. Volume I begins with Dutch explorer Henry Hudson's arrival and reconstructs the history of dozens of tribes in the Northeast. It includes the nations of the Lenni Lenape, the Mohicans and the Iroquois. By E.M. Ruttenberger, 208 pages. |
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Indian Tribes of Hudson’s River - Vol. II (1700 to 1850)
The second half of this monumental work takes us through the wars to displacement of the tribes. It deals with their battles, provides biographies of noted Native Americans and explores Native American languages. It includes a 100 page appendix of language and additional bios. By E.M. Ruttenberger, 246 pages, indexed. |
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The Delaware Indians
The Delaware Indians or Lenni Lenape as they called themselves, was originally the most powerful Native American group in the east, perhaps in the Americas. E.J. Adams, a descendant of Delaware Indians, presents this sketch of the history, language, legends and government of the tribe of his ancestors, circa 1906. Includes footnotes, appendix and new index. |
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Chainbreaker’s War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution
This authentic narrative of a Seneca war chief recounting his experiences during the American Revolution has been edited for readability, freeing at last the clear, strong voice of the Seneca leader known to American colonists as Governor Blacksnake, who, together with the Mohawk chieftain Joseph Brant and other leaders of the powerful Iroquois Confederation scourged the New York and Pennsylvania frontiers from 1777 to 1783. Edited by Jeanne Winston Adler, 224 pages, photos, illustrations, maps and index.
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John Burroughs: An American Naturalist
John Burroughs (1837-1921) emerged from an obscure boyhood in the Catskill Mountains to write more than thirty books, create the genre of the nature essay, and become the preeminent nature writer of his day. Edward J. Renehan, Jr. draws on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts, journals and letters to portray the man Henry James called "a more humorous, more available and more sociable Thoreau." Renehan reveals Burroughs's complex and enduring relationships with such notables as Jay Gould, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Edison, John Muir, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Ford. By Edward J. Renehan, Jr., 384 pages, photos and index. |
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Catskill Summer Things
The very best hikes, family walks, road and mountain bike tours, flat water and whitewater adventures and swimming holes to be found in the Catskills. By Pete Senterman, 104 pages, illustrated. |
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The Catskills: A Winter Sports Guide
This winter enjoy the splendor and serenity of the Catskills and Shawangunks! Included are 35 great places for cross-country and downhill skiing, tobogganing and snowshoeing with skill levels, directions, maps and scenic views. There are tips for acquiring the right equipment and clothing; weather advice and a history of skiing in the Catskills. By George Quinn, 112 pages, indexed, illustrated. |
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Shawagunk
Chains, Links and Gavels: The Surveyor in the Courtroom
Land surveyor Norm Van Valkenburgh shares two boundary disputes that ended in trials, one in the western Catskills and one in the Shawnagunks. By Norman J. Van Valkenburgh, 109 pages. |
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Mohonk: It’s People and Spirit
A History of One Hundred Years of Growth and Service
An illustrated history of the famous Shawangunk Mountain resort, which has been owned and operated by the same family for more than a hundred years. By Larry Burgess, 126 pages, illustrated. |
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Gunks Trails: A Ranger’s Guide to the Shawangunk Mountains
Ed Henry interprets the forest ecology, wildlife biology, botany, geology, and human history of the Gunks trails while leading hikers from the trailheads to the best vistas and points of interest. Hikes include Eagle Cliff, The Trapps & Skytop, Indian Rock, Gertrudes Nose, Lake Minnewaska & Beacon Hill, Lake Awosting, Verkeerderkill Falls & High Point, Millbrook Mountain, Bonticou Crag, Three Falls & High Peters Kill, Hamilton & Castle Points, Stony Kill Falls, Red Hill, and Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge. Each hike is accompanied by a trail map, a photo, and a key to the hike supplying information on directions, parking, GPS points, and a short synopsis of the route itself. By Edward G. Henry, 208 pages, photos and maps. |
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Picturesque Ulster
This classic turn-of-the-century pictorial work on Ulster County townships contains over 1000 black and white original illustrations, and a horseback travelogue of the back roads including interviews and bits of history. Never before or since has the architecture, people, and their various occupations been documented in such detail. By Richard Lionel DeLisser with an introduction by Alf Evers, 300 pages. |
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The Last of the Handmade Dams: The Story of the Ashokan Reservoir
This book tells the social history of the construction of the first and the largest of New York City's Catskill Mountain reservoirs, the Ashokan, and of its impact on the more than 2,000 inhabitants it displaced. By Bob Steuding, 128 pages, illustrated. |
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Water for New York City
This is a 300 year history of NYC's water resources "...very timely, fun to read and informative. It makes for fascinating reading ...with a slew of interesting side aspects..." By Edward Hall, 124 pages. |
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Another Day, Another Dollar: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Catskills
In the Catskills, at CCC camps, city boys and their country cousins transformed the Catskills by planting millions of trees, fighting stream and soil erosion, and building roads, fire towers, hiking trails, ski trails, and campsites. This is their story: who they were, where they came from, what they did, and the legacy they left behind. By Diane Galusha, 224 pages, 100 illustrations.
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The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand
One of the most important American artists of the nineteenth century, Asher Durand was an artist, a founder of art institutions and acknowledged leader of the American Landscape school. By John Durand, 256 pages, 14 illustrations.
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