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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.
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.
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. Â
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.
Paperback, 128 pages
Overcoming the physical challenges of mountain life and the societal obstacles they faced because of their gender, Catskills’ most fearless women are revealed by local historian Richard Heppner.Â
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, 200 pages
This fascinating new history of the Catskills of New York showcases more than two hundred of the best, most evocative vintage postcards available. From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication. Many of the postcards produced during this “golden age,” and even some from later years, can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores and five and dimes across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in America’s history.
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.
A historical guide to 325 sites throughout all 20 townships and the city of Kingston in New York State’s Ulster County illustrate the variety and changing architectural styles that have appeared over nearly 300 years in the Hudson River Valley and Catskill Mountains. Includes 340 Illustrations and a foreword by Joan K. Davidson Ulster County, New York. Paperback. By William B. Rhoads. 376 pages.
