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The Susquehana River is the longest river in the eastern United
States, running 444 miles from its headwaters in the Appalachian
Mountains of New York to its outlet in Chesapeake Bay. Its storied
history includes the early native populations of Susquehannock and
Iroquois peoples, the key roles it played in the Revolutionary and
Civil Wars, and environmental degradation brought on the by
industrialization in the 19th century.
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."
A prolific writer of prose, poetry, and regional history, Carl
Carmer first gained national attention with Stars Fell n Alabama, a
book about Alabama folkways. But it is his writings about upstate
New York, where he was born and lived for much of his life, that
firmly established him as a folk historian and master storyteller.
The Hudson, originally published in 1939, is the most popular of
these writings. Best of the Rivers of America series, The Hudson is
less a formal historical account of the discovery and development
of the river that a personal, anecdotal view of it. Included are
tales of white-sailed sloops and steamboats racing from Albany to
New York; of old whalers and trader sea dogs of the Catskill shore;
of showboats playing anti-rent meoldramas to incite farmers against
their landlords; of great disasters and heroic deeds; of the
efforts of the Hudson River School to capture "sublimity" on
canvas; of the quarrelsome, rough-and-tumble life of the Dutch
along the river's banks, and many more. This commemorative fiftieth
anniversary edition features 16 new drawings by Hudson River artist
Edward J. McLaughlin, a foreward by New York historian Louis C.
Jones, and an afterword by Roger Panetta, professor of history at
the College of New Rochelle.
A prolific writer of prose, poetry, and regional history, Carl
Carmer first gained national attention with Stars Fell n Alabama, a
book about Alabama folkways. But it is his writings about upstate
New York, where he was born and lived for much of his life, that
firmly established him as a folk historian and master storyteller.
The Hudson, originally published in 1939, is the most popular of
these writings. Best of the Rivers of America series, The Hudson is
less a formal historical account of the discovery and development
of the river that a personal, anecdotal view of it. Included are
tales of white-sailed sloops and steamboats racing from Albany to
New York; of old whalers and trader sea dogs of the Catskill shore;
of showboats playing anti-rent meoldramas to inctie farmers against
their landlords; of great disasters and heroic deeds; of the
efforts of the Hudson River School to capture "sublimity" on
canvas; of the quarrelsome, rough-and-tumble life of the Dutch
along the river's banks, and many more. This commemorative fiftieth
anniversary edition features 16 new drawings by Hudson River artist
Edward J. McLaughlin, a foreward by New York historian Louis C.
Jones, and an afterword by Roger Panetta, professor of history at
the College of New Rochelle.
This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
"A beautifully written informal account of the Tampa Bay
region."--Library Journal "A colorful history of Tampa Bay, the
Hillsborough River which flows into it, and the cities of Tampa and
St. Petersburg, together with their smaller satellite
communities."-- Publishers Weekly From its idyllic source in the
Green Swamp, the Hillsborough River winds past columns of cypress
and matted shrubs and opens into Tampa Bay, part of Florida's
urbanized, publicized western Suncoast. The river is not a long
one, but the size of its legend in contemporary America is
far-reaching. Many factors have made the area special: its natural
history; its successive waves of immigrants; its wars, booms, and
depressions. The cigar industry, banana exporting, cattle raising,
fishing, and retirement have attracted many settlers in search of
the "Golden Ibis." All too often the vision has proved elusive, but
for some, like Henry Plant and Doc Webb, the spectacular was
possible. For others, like the Seminoles, a way of life ended. In a
narrative that is as exciting to read as it is historically
compelling, Gloria Jahoda traces the Hillsborough River's origin to
prehistoric times, chronicles the arrivals of the conquistadores,
the missionaries, and the marauders greedy for civilizing and for
treasure, and points out how 20th-century ambitions threaten to
destroy the environment as surely as earlier encroachment
annihilated native peoples. Gloria Jahoda, who lived in
Tallahassee, Florida, was the author of The Other Florida, The Road
to Samarkand, and the novels Annie and Delilah's Mountain. She died
in 1980. River of the Golden Ibis was originally published in 1973.
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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