Hardcover: $45.00 Release Date: January 2009 192 pages
ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7703-8
Paperback: $14.95 Release Date: January 2009 192 pages
ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7704-5
Fascinating stories based on the author’s exploration of eight rivers in New York and Québec.
In Living Waters, Margaret Wooster canoes, portages, camps beside, and wades into eight Great Lakes watersheds across New York and Québec, returning with her pockets full of original stories from these beautiful, boggy, and prehistoric waterways.
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Paperback: $24.95 Release Date: March 2009 270 pages
ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-4384-2684-6
New York’s fascinating history as presented in song.
In New York Sings, musicologist and folklorist Jerry Silverman has compiled a remarkable collection of songs about the people, places, and events of New York’s 400-year history—from Henry Hudson’s Half Moon to Pete Seeger’s Clearwater, from Montauk to Niagara Falls, from the sidewalks of New York to the lumber camps of the Adirondacks.
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Family Place, A A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family
Paperback: $14.95 Release Date: April 2009 318 pages
ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-4384-2760-7
One woman’s journey to uncover her family’s history and understand the ties that bind us to a particular place.
Encompassing three centuries of manor lords and tenant farmers, Civil War heroes and renegade aunts, award-winning author Leila Philip tells the story of her ancestral Hudson Valley home, Talavera, and the mystery of her attachment to it.
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Woodstock The Oral History, 40th Anniversary Edition
Paperback: $19.95 Release Date: July 2009 367 pages
ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-4384-2974-8
The definitive oral history of the Woodstock rock festival.
“The definitive study of the mega-concert.” — Rolling Stone
“Woodstock comes alive here, even if the music itself seems almost incidental to the backstage dramas.
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Hardcover: $30.00 Release Date: May 2009 465 pages
ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-4384-2613-6
Tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation from small city to urban region.
The history of growth, decline, and revitalization in Poughkeepsie, New York, parallels that of many other small northeastern cities. Main Street to Mainframes tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation over the past three centuries—from an agricultural market town, to a small city with a diversified economy centered on Main Street, to an urban region dependent on the success of one corporation—and how this transformation has affected the lives and landscape of its inhabitants.
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