Author: William Preston Gates
Publisher: W.P. Gates Publishing
ISBN: 9780967239781
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Millionaires' Row on Lake George, NY
Author: William Preston Gates
Publisher: W.P. Gates Publishing
ISBN: 9780967239781
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher: W.P. Gates Publishing
ISBN: 9780967239781
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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The Great and the Gracious on Millionaires' Row
Author: Kathryn E. O'Brien
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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My Recollections of Old Cleveland
Author: Warren Corning Wick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cleveland (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Publisher:
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Category : Cleveland (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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A Wild Idea
Author: Brad Edmondson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501759035
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. The North Country's environmental movement started among a small group of hunters and hikers, rose on a huge wave of public concern about pollution that crested in the early 1970s, and overcame multiple obstacles to "save" the Adirondacks. Edmondson shows how the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had never been attempted before. The team and the politicians who supported them worked around the clock to draft two visionary land-use plans and turn them into law. But they also made mistakes, and their strict regulations were met with determined opposition from local landowners who insisted that private property is private. A Wild Idea is based on in-depth interviews with five dozen insiders who are central to the story. Their observations contain many surprising and shocking revelations. This is a rich, exciting narrative about state power and how it was imposed on rural residents. It shows how the Adirondacks were "saved," and also why that campaign sparked a passionate rebellion.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501759035
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. The North Country's environmental movement started among a small group of hunters and hikers, rose on a huge wave of public concern about pollution that crested in the early 1970s, and overcame multiple obstacles to "save" the Adirondacks. Edmondson shows how the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had never been attempted before. The team and the politicians who supported them worked around the clock to draft two visionary land-use plans and turn them into law. But they also made mistakes, and their strict regulations were met with determined opposition from local landowners who insisted that private property is private. A Wild Idea is based on in-depth interviews with five dozen insiders who are central to the story. Their observations contain many surprising and shocking revelations. This is a rich, exciting narrative about state power and how it was imposed on rural residents. It shows how the Adirondacks were "saved," and also why that campaign sparked a passionate rebellion.
Lake George
Author: Gale J. Halm
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738544984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Pioneer photographers Seneca Ray Stoddard and Jesse Sumner Wooley, along with other local professional and amateur photographers, visually recorded life at Lake George around the beginning of the twentieth century. With artistic clarity and astuteness, they created a pictorial diary of this well-known resort area, as our grandparents and great-grandparents would have known it. Many of the nearly two hundred images in Lake George have rarely been seen before and serve as more than a road map through the area's past. They capture life at natural moments. The clothing, the modes of transportation, and the recreation that were once quite common appear in page after page of breathtaking photographs and brilliant narrative. This pictorial history explores the bays and byways of the lake, its year-round residents, and the vacationers who made it their temporary home every summer. Replete with images of moments, hideaways, and people that no longer exist, Lake George is a new experience in an old familiar place.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738544984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Pioneer photographers Seneca Ray Stoddard and Jesse Sumner Wooley, along with other local professional and amateur photographers, visually recorded life at Lake George around the beginning of the twentieth century. With artistic clarity and astuteness, they created a pictorial diary of this well-known resort area, as our grandparents and great-grandparents would have known it. Many of the nearly two hundred images in Lake George have rarely been seen before and serve as more than a road map through the area's past. They capture life at natural moments. The clothing, the modes of transportation, and the recreation that were once quite common appear in page after page of breathtaking photographs and brilliant narrative. This pictorial history explores the bays and byways of the lake, its year-round residents, and the vacationers who made it their temporary home every summer. Replete with images of moments, hideaways, and people that no longer exist, Lake George is a new experience in an old familiar place.
Longstreet Highroad Guide to the New York Adirondacks
Author: Phil Brown
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1563525054
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The indispensable guide to the best the New York Adirondacks have to offer.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1563525054
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The indispensable guide to the best the New York Adirondacks have to offer.
Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks
Author: Bryant Franklin Tolles
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650966
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An architectural study of the large Adirondack hotels that focuses on the cultural history of travel and tourism.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650966
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An architectural study of the large Adirondack hotels that focuses on the cultural history of travel and tourism.
The Statesman and the Socialite: Carl Schurz and Fanny Chapman
Author: Peter Lubrecht
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669863360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Carl Schurz was a larger-than-life public figure whose exploits, real and concocted appeared in newspapers nationwide during the nineteenth century. His letters to Fanny Chapman, his secret love, leave a picture of an age of turmoil, corruption, social graces, and artistic explosion. It took a renaissance man like Carl Schurz to travel among the greats in the literary, artistic and political arenas with grace and judgement. The tragedy of his life, if there was one, is that he is nearly forgotten in the modern world in the face of revisionist history. He was a fighter for human rights including all races and creeds and a pioneer muckraker in a corrupt city of a “Gilded Age”. Lost are his educational contributions, his unpopular and prophetic political stance for Civil Service reform and his fight against a trend toward national imperialism.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669863360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Carl Schurz was a larger-than-life public figure whose exploits, real and concocted appeared in newspapers nationwide during the nineteenth century. His letters to Fanny Chapman, his secret love, leave a picture of an age of turmoil, corruption, social graces, and artistic explosion. It took a renaissance man like Carl Schurz to travel among the greats in the literary, artistic and political arenas with grace and judgement. The tragedy of his life, if there was one, is that he is nearly forgotten in the modern world in the face of revisionist history. He was a fighter for human rights including all races and creeds and a pioneer muckraker in a corrupt city of a “Gilded Age”. Lost are his educational contributions, his unpopular and prophetic political stance for Civil Service reform and his fight against a trend toward national imperialism.
Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe
Author: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334309X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
"The definitive life of O'Keeffe." —Hilton Kramer, Los Angeles Times Georgia O'Keefe (1887?-1986) was one of the most successful American artists of the twentieth century: her arresting paintings of enormous, intimately rendered flowers, desert landscapes, and stark white cow skulls are seminal works of modern art. But behind O'Keeffe's bold work and celebrity was a woman misunderstood by even her most ardent admirers. This large, finely balanced biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth. Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334309X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
"The definitive life of O'Keeffe." —Hilton Kramer, Los Angeles Times Georgia O'Keefe (1887?-1986) was one of the most successful American artists of the twentieth century: her arresting paintings of enormous, intimately rendered flowers, desert landscapes, and stark white cow skulls are seminal works of modern art. But behind O'Keeffe's bold work and celebrity was a woman misunderstood by even her most ardent admirers. This large, finely balanced biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth. Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.
The Automobile Blue Book
Author:
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Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Publisher:
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Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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