Remember the success of the dark horse, Stars Fell On Alabama? Here
is the second book by the same author, with the upper reaches of
New York state as his "proving ground" this time. Perhaps because
the theme seems to work constantly around to all sorts of strange
creeds - perhaps because we Northerners are inclined to assume that
our northern states offer less glamorous material - whatever the
cause, we feel that this book, while interesting, and original, and
good reading, hasn't quite the same chance for success the earlier
book had. (And we picked the earlier one as a winner). Granted New
Yorkers emerge as a motley crew, unexpectedly remote from the
conventional channels, we did not feel that we drew such far flung
contrasts. Their very differences canalized themselves into the
traditions of freak twists of religious manias, creeds old and new.
He succeeds in bringing the folk quality out of his material, as in
the other book. He tells many an anecdote of odd human interest.
And the book will have a good send-off on several counts:- its
sheer merits, the impetus of the earlier success, the "magic date"
on which Farrar & Rinehart sets off successive firecrackers.
Upper New York special interest - good Americana - and again, good
reading, Count on a good looking book, with Roy Baldridge
illustrations. Advertising backing. (Kirkus Reviews)
In this classic book, Carl Carmer describes the social life and
customs of his native New York. Wandering from Buffalo to the
Adirondacks across upstate New York, he heard folk tales, tall
tales, stories of religious fervor and scandal. A born storyteller
himself, Carmer writes about the beautiful Genesee, the Seneca and
Tuscarora, the Cardiff Giant and the Loomis Gang, and the story of
the Murdered Bride of Rensselaer County.
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