Fifty-one pieces about New York State by Carl Carmer include a
garden variety of "undefined gleanings." There are pieces about the
country, upstate and down; about its institutions, Chautauqua, the
Baseball Museum at Cooperstown; about its people, poetizing
farmers, rattlesnake hunters, mountain climbers, Shakers, Mormons,
Perfectionists. There are personal mementoes ("The Civil War and
Me") and memorials to great men, Melancthon Woolsey Stryker of
Hamilton, fellow classmate John Weaver the poet, La Guardia. There
are the stories of the waters (the Hudson, the Erie Canal, Lake
Champlain) and the mountains (the Catskills, the Adirondacks), of
causes lost (the Indians) and won (Boscobel, a house), and of
ghosts well known and local. In New York City there is the mad poet
of Broadway, the years of Grace Church. There are reviews and
dialect stories and now and then a poem. All are written with
fluency that makes for easy pick-up, and put-down, reading. (Kirkus
Reviews)
This work spans 30 years and reaches from Niagara Falls to Montauk
Point. It consists of folklore, character sketches, ghost stories
and pieces of regional history. Special attention is given to the
fate of Native Americans and the erosion of the State's natural
beauty.
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