Fort Life: Historic Communities
$8.95Coveted for their strategic military locations, forts often changed hands many times. Forts played a vital role in the settlement of the New World and were a means of refuge…
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The Improbable Community
$19.50The Improbable Community tells the story of the people whose dreams created Camp Woodland and whose talents enabled it to succeed. It tells the story of the rural neighbors whom…
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Underground Empires: Two Centuries of Exploration, Adventure & Enterprise in New York’s Cave Country
$21.95This book explores the wonder and drama in the history of the caves and describes the remarkable personal and engineering accomplishments that turned some into popular tourist destinations. It is…
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Rest Awhile Here: Poems of the Rondout Valley
$12.50A book of poems by Margaret Smith Louise Dolan written throughout her life about the Rondout and Neversink Valley.
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Bittersweet Memories: Catalog
$15.00This beautiful catalog includes all of the paintings, photos, historical information on the lost towns from our Bittersweet Memories exhibit… and when the Artivive app is downloaded on a smart device, the Augmented Reality works, too!
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A World in a Drop of Water: Exploring with a Microscope by Alvin and Virginia Silverstein
$5.95Paperback, 66 pages
Within every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the help of this book and a microscope, you can bring these tiny creatures into focus and discover the ways in which they live.
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The Whim-Wham Man by John Dwaine McKenna
$15.00Paperback, 170 pages
May 1940, Husted Colorado, a few miles from Colorado Springs an unspeakable crime takes place and the Whim-Wham Man begins. The Whim-Wham Man, a murder mystery that has it all . . . A crime you can’t forgive, a plot you can’t imagine and a character . . . you’ll never forget. Read the novel author Dick Kreck calls Gut Punching . . . one helluva yarn!
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Written in Stone by Chet and Maureen Raymo
$16.95Paperback, 176 pages
In this journey through 500 million years,Written in Stone translates the slow motion of geologic time into a gripping account of the tearing down and reconstruction of the land, fossil records, past climates, the birth of oceans, the rifting of the ocean floor, the movement of glaciers, the evolution of plants and animals, and the coming of man the forces that shaped our familiar landscape from New Jersey to Maine.
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Burr, Clinton and the Falls of General Benjamin Hovey by Karl Connell
$14.75Paperback, 212 pages
Burr, Clinton and the Falls of General Benjamin Hovey highlights the triumphs and falls of Vice Presidents Aaron Burr, George Clinton and a minuteman, General Benjamin Hovey, as well as chronicling the land boom and canal mania that followed the Revolutionary War.
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Water for New York City
$12.50Written in 1917, this book is a 300 year history of NYC’s water needs and the attempts to provide an adequate water supply for the inhabitants. The establishment of the NYCFD, pumps, wells, fires, epidemics, Manhattan Company Water works, the old and new Croton Systems and the Catskill System are covered including the Catskill Aqueduct, an engineering feat unequaled in its time. By Edward H. Hall, softcover, 124 pp., illustrations.
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Wicked Ulster County, Tales of Desperadoes, Gangs and More
$19.99From murders and mobs to an alligator in the Ellenville sewer, these are Ulster County’s most wicked stories, including gangs hiding in the Shawangunk Mountains and the Ashokan Slasher’s bloody crimes. By A.J. Schenkman, softcover, 123 pp., maps and illustrations.