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  • The Gristmill: Historic Communities by Bobbie Kalman

    The Gristmill: Historic Communities by Bobbie Kalman

    $8.95

    Paperback, 32 pages

    In this newly revised edition of The Gristmill, young readers will discover that people would travel from far and wide to visit the gristmill for the essential service of having their grain ground.

  • The Whim-Wham Man by John Dwaine McKenna

    The Whim-Wham Man by John Dwaine McKenna

    $15.00

    Paperback, 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!

  • Wawarsing: Postcard History Series by Pamela Kuhlman

    Wawarsing: Postcard History Series by Pamela Kuhlman

    $21.99

    Paperback, 232 pages

    The vintage postcards in Wawarsing provide views of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, the Ontario and Western Railroad, and a glimpse back to a quieter time when the mountain and valley landscape provided picturesque locations for lovely hotels and boardinghouses.

  • Murder & Mayhem in Ulster County by A.J. Schenkman

    Murder & Mayhem in Ulster County by A.J. Schenkman

    $19.99

    Paperback, 129 pages

    In 1870, the” New York Herald” proclaimed that Ulster County was New York’s “Ulcer County” due to its lawlessness and crime. The columnist supported his claim by citing that in only six months, “it has been the scene of no less than four cold blooded and brutal murders, six suicides and four elopements.” Hannah Markle–the bane of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union–ran a Kingston saloon where murder and violence were served alongside the whiskey. John Babbitt confessed on his deathbed to murdering Emma Brooks, and Willie Brown–reputed member of the Eastman Gang–accidentally shot his best friend. The infamous Big Bad Bill, the “Gardiner Desperado,” lashed out more than once and killed in a drunken rage. Discover the mayhem and murder that these and others wreaked on one of New York State’s original counties.

  • Picturesque Ulster by Richard Lionel De Lisser

    Picturesque Ulster by Richard Lionel De Lisser

    $35.00

    Paperback

  • Gone Missing in New York by Marianna Boncek

    Gone Missing in New York by Marianna Boncek

    $19.99

    Paperback, 160 pages

    Each year, hundreds of New Yorkers disappear under mysterious circumstances never to be heard from again, with their families and loved ones waiting painfully, as the years crawl by, for some word of what happened to them. This book explores this painful epidemic by highlighting individual stories of the missing and their families, among them a 22-month-old baby and a noted judge. Sections include unidentified missing human remains found in New York State, investigation procedures, and the pros and cons of hiring a private detective or a psychic. Perhaps one of these touching accounts will offer hope that someone, somewhere, might have the missing piece to one of these devastating puzzles and help bring any one of these missing persons home.

  • O. & W.: The Long Life and Slow Death of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway by William Helmer

    O. & W.: The Long Life and Slow Death of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway by William Helmer

    $16.95

    Paperback, 232 pages

    The Ontario & Western, the O&W, or, as both boosters and detractors referred to it in its later years, the “Old & Weary,” operated from 1869-1957 and ran from Oswego on Lake Ontario to New York City, passing through the midlands and southern counties of New York State, with spurs to Utica, Kingston, Port Jervis, and Scranton, PA. Filled with colorful characters and miscellaneous machinery, O. & W. chronicles almost a century of alternating hope and heartache, prosperity and poverty, dignity and degradation. Her passing was mourned for a variety of economic and sentimental reasons, but the loss was deeply felt in an intangible way. The rambling, elderly, inefficient, accident-prone, irritating old railroad was a part of a way of life now gone from the American scene.  

  • Stop at the Red Apple: The Restaurant on Route 17 by Elaine Freed Lindenblatt

    Stop at the Red Apple: The Restaurant on Route 17 by Elaine Freed Lindenblatt

    $19.95

    Paperback, 280 pages

    An entertaining inside story of how Reuben Freed’s roadside eatery became the famous Red Apple Rest.

  • Pleasant View Memories by Susan Akers Reichman

    Pleasant View Memories by Susan Akers Reichman

    $10.00

    Paperback

  • Sullivan County: A Bicentennial History in Images by John Conway

    Sullivan County: A Bicentennial History in Images by John Conway

    $21.99

    Paperback, 128 pages

    First inhabited by the Lenape Indians and settled by European colonists in the seventeenth century, New York’s Sullivan County has experienced several ages of prosperity and growth over the last two hundred years. Locals conceived of timber rafting in the eighteenth century to support the shipbuilding industry, followed by a prosperous tanning boom in the nineteenth century that supplied leather to the Union army. Finally, two periods of tourism, known as the “Silver Age” and “Golden Age,” capitalized on the area’s fresh air, clean water and magnificent scenery. In this collection of images, local author and county historian John Conway provides a comprehensive look at this much-celebrated region.

  • Seeking the Northwest Passage

    Seeking the Northwest Passage: The Explorations and Discoveries of Champlain and Hudson by Don and Carol Thompson

    $8.50

    Paperback, 88 pages

    A colorfully illustrated account of the two explorers, Champlain and Hudson, for older children.

  • Sullivan County Borscht Belt by Irwin Richman

    Sullivan County Borscht Belt by Irwin Richman

    $21.99

    Paperback, 130 pages

    Sullivan County, the Borscht Belt, the Catskills-all are synonyms for the greatest American Jewish resort area, the playground of about one million visitors a year during its peak from 1920 to 1970. The Sullivan County of Borscht Belt legend really consists of the eastern part of Sullivan County and a bit of southern Ulster County.