"Farewell to Eldred" concludes the story of the families who
settled on either side of Halfway Brook, in the Town of Highland,
New York, first read about in "The Mill on Halfway Brook," and
continued in "Echo Hill and Mountain Grove." Through the eyes of
her Austin and Leavenworth relatives, Louise Smith weaves an
account of the daily lives of the descendants of early settlers
(Austin, Leavenworth, Eldred, Myers, Bodine, Bradley, Bosch, Clark,
Gardner, Hallock, Mills, Boyd, Horton, Parker, Greig, Stege,
Sergeant, and Tether) who still lived in one of the the five
hamlets: Eldred, Highland Lake, Yulan, Barryville, or Minisink
Ford, in the Town of Highland (originally Lumberland). We meet
newcomers (Frey, Hensel, Theuer, Pankow, Hainzl, Bertram,
Lorphelin, and Mellan), often from New York City, who purchase and
run established boarding houses still vital to the area's economy.
The Erie Railway, Barryville Glass Factory (for a short while), and
(later) Narrowsburg Lumber also offered employment. Some 50
first-person reminiscences tell of stills, baseball teams, radio
KDKA, the arrival of electricity, boarding house life, flooding,
the Depression, the search for employment, and World War II, in the
years 1920 to 1950. Daily life-its joys and sorrows-is told through
1,100 photos, postcards, and documents, 150 letters, four diaries
(shared by over 100 contributors) interwoven with World, National,
and Local News; and Boarding House Ads. "Farewell to Eldred," the
third and final book in the "Memoirs from Eldred, New York,
1800-1950" Series, includes original maps of boarding house
locations, an extensive Appendix (with 1920, 1930, and 1940
Censuses), and an Index of some 2,550 people, places, and events.
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