Colonial Life: Historic Communities by Bobbie Kalman
$9.95Paperback, 32 pages
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In the Barn: Historic Communities by Bobbie Kalman
$9.95Paperback, 32 pages
This newly revised edition of In the Barn uses full-color pictures to show how the barn was the center of activity on an early farm. Different kinds of barns are clearly detailed from the English and bank style barns in wooded areas to the sod barns of the western prairies
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Schoolyard Games: Historic Communities by Bobbie Kalman
$8.95Paperback, 32 pages
Because settler children were expected to help out with chores at home, there was often little time for play. Recess time at school gave children the opportunity to play Schoolyard Games.
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The Kitchen: Historic Communities by Bobbie Kalman
$9.95Paperback, 32 pages
This newly revised edition describes how the kitchen was the center of family activity in the old days. Here families ate their meals, played games, and told stories with only the fireplace and a few candles for warmth and light.
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The Gristmill: Historic Communities by Bobbie Kalman
$8.95Paperback, 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.
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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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Wawarsing: Postcard History Series by Pamela Kuhlman
$21.99Paperback, 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.
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Murder & Mayhem in Ulster County by A.J. Schenkman
$19.99Paperback, 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.
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Gone Missing in New York by Marianna Boncek
$19.99Paperback, 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.
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O. & W.: The Long Life and Slow Death of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway by William Helmer
$16.95Paperback, 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.