Inside the Green Lobby
(February 2022)
The Fight to Save the Adirondack Park Bernard C. Melewski - Author
Home as Found
(November 2021)
James Fenimore Cooper - Author Stephen Carl Arch - Historical introduction, notes, and text
Outdoors at Idlewild
(November 2021)
The Building of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson Nathaniel Parker Willis - Author Edward Renehan - Introduction
Chronicles the creation of a picturesque home and landscape on the Hudson River by one of the nineteenth century’s leading authors.
During the 1850s and 60s, by far the most prominent author in all of New York State was the writer, editor, and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867). Nearly as prominent as Willis himself was his Hudson Valley estate, Idlewild, where literary ...(Read More)
Classic works by naturalist John Burroughs on his beloved Catskill region.
Henry James called John Burroughs (1837–1921) “a more humorous, more available, and more sociable Thoreau.” Walt Whitman in turn extolled Burroughs as “a child of the woods, fields, hills—native to them in a rare sense (in a sense almost a miracle).” Throughout his many books and essays, Burroughs was never ...(Read More)
The Water-Witch
(September 2021)
Or, The Skimmer of the Seas James Fenimore Cooper - Author Thomas Philbrick - Edited and with an introduction by Marianne Philbrick - Edited and with an introduction by
An exciting tale of nautical adventure on the waters of colonial New York Harbor.
Chiefly set on the waters and islands of New York Harbor in the early years of the 1700s, James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Water-Witch (1830) paints a vivid picture of life in the little colonial port. It was familiar territory for Cooper, who a century later had served as a junior officer on ...(Read More)
Blacks in Niagara Falls
(August 2021)
Leaders and Community Development, 1850-1985 Michael B. Boston - Author
A detailed study of the history of African Americans in a small upstate New York city from the days of the Underground Railroad to the deindustrialization of the 1980s.
Blacks in Niagara Falls narrates and analyzes the history of Black Niagarans from the days of the Underground Railroad to the Age of Urban Renewal. Michael B. Boston details how Black Niagarans found themselv...(Read More)
Meander
(August 2021)
Making Room for Rivers Margaret Wooster - Author
Draws on the author’s own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.
Meander tells the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. Drawing on her own experience as a watershed planner,...(Read More)
Seeing Symphonically
(August 2021)
Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planning, and the Utopian Image of New York Erica Stein - Author
