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Paperback, 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.
Paperback, 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.
Written 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.
From 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.
A book about quilters in the Catskill Mountains of Ulster, Sullivan, Greene, Schoharie and Delaware counties. By Steve Hoare, 248 pages, illustrated
This fully indexed book is the complete regimental roster service history of every member of the Sullivan County unit. 239 pages.
The story of the frantic, often chaotic, and sometime comical medical drama. It takes you behind the scenes for the inside story of everything from the tragic deaths of two…
The story of the American Quilt Trail movement. Quilt squares appear on more than three thousand barns scattered along 120 driving trails in the U.S. and Canada. By Suzi Parron,…
The story of Dr. Connell who invented the Connell Gas Mask and saved the lives of tens of thousands of American Soldiers during WW1. By Karl Connell, Jr., hardcover, 195…
A history of the schools in the Rondout and Neversink Valleys from the early 1900s to 2001. Published by the Tri-Valley Central School District.
“Reminds us forcibly of how much of the Hudson we have lost, and how urgent it is that we preserve the … beauty that remains along its banks.” — The New York Times: 1971
