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The Tavern Lamps are Burning - Literary Journeys Through Six Regions and Four Centuries of NY States (Paperback)
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The Tavern Lamps are Burning - Literary Journeys Through Six Regions and Four Centuries of NY States (Paperback)
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New York State has had its share of writers who have, at some point
in their careers, taken New York as their subject. The writings
compiled here by Carl Carmer, a native of New York State and one of
its finest folklorists, celebrate what he calls the "undefined
gleanings" of this great state, spanning four centuries and six
regions of its upstate region. Carmer writes in his foreword: "I
have long held that "York State" is a country, that its people have
specific characteristics that make it distinctive." Tavern Lamps
gives us 98 British and American authors (with a biographical
listing of the authorship in the back of the book) and over 150
selections celebrating the ruch culture and heritage of the state.
In the collection, we read Rudyard Kipling on Buffalo's grain
elevators, Edith Wharton in the Hudson River Country, Theodore
Dreiser on Owego, Herman Melville on the Erie Canal, Henry James on
Saratoga, Washington Irving on Knickerbocker, Samuel L. Clemens, De
Witt cLinton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and many more. This
collection, complemented by 40 paintings from the collection of the
New York State Historical Association gives us upstate New York
from a myriad of its inhabitants and visitors, a multi-faceted
portrait of an area about which Carmer hopes "the peppered reader
will be convinced that there is an over-all one of a kind
nonesuchness that separates upstate from the rest of the world."
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