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Author : Scot Dahms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692792711
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Adirondack Dick written by Scot Dahms and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William J. O'Hern
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493078909
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A Classic Adirondack Paddle written by William J. O'Hern and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1946, a troop of Boy Scouts from Wayne, Pennsylvanian began planning a canoe paddle that none would ever forget. Paoli Troop 1’s route took them on what is today the Adirondack Ninety-mile Canoe Classic from Old Forge to Saranac Lake. This is also the first section of today’s Northern Forest Canoe Trail, considered the waterway equivalent of the Appalachian Trail, which extends via rivers, streams, lakes, and carries to Fort Kent, Maine. Three of the scouts, Herb “Hobey” Henderson, George Aman, and Bill McClear compiled the photo journal and dedicated it to future scouts who might read it. Hobey kept the log and the memories of the fifteen scouts’ experiences in a bureau drawer for decades, finally presenting it in 2011 to Paoli Troop 1 on its 100th anniversary. It seems somewhat of a miracle that Author William J. O’Hern discovered the journal, with the help of Dick and Hobey Henderson, and realized that its publication would be especially meaningful to those who enjoy canoeing and hiking in the same area today. Readers can only imagine how much the boys in the journal – now elderly men – enjoy reliving the adventure that was carefully preserved in words and photographs by their fellow scouts and now will be further preserved for later generations in this small publication.
Author : Brad Edmondson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501759035
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Wild Idea written by Brad Edmondson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. The North Country's environmental movement started among a small group of hunters and hikers, rose on a huge wave of public concern about pollution that crested in the early 1970s, and overcame multiple obstacles to "save" the Adirondacks. Edmondson shows how the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had never been attempted before. The team and the politicians who supported them worked around the clock to draft two visionary land-use plans and turn them into law. But they also made mistakes, and their strict regulations were met with determined opposition from local landowners who insisted that private property is private. A Wild Idea is based on in-depth interviews with five dozen insiders who are central to the story. Their observations contain many surprising and shocking revelations. This is a rich, exciting narrative about state power and how it was imposed on rural residents. It shows how the Adirondacks were "saved," and also why that campaign sparked a passionate rebellion.
Author : Scot Dahms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692077085
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)
Download or read book E. J. Dailey written by Scot Dahms and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Doyle
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815607724
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Forestport Breaks written by Michael Doyle and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of Forestport was struggling just to survive. Then the canal levees started breaking, and the boom times returned. The Forestport saloons flourished, the town's gamblers rollicked, and the politically connected canal contractors were flush once more. It was all very convenient until Governor Theodore Roosevelt's administration grew suspicious and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency began investigating. They found what a lawman called one of the most gigantic conspiracies ever hatched in New York. In The Forestport Breaks, Michael Doyle illuminates a fresh and fascinating chapter in the colorful history of the Erie Canal. This is the canal's shadowy side, a world of political rot and plotting men, and it extended well beyond one rough and tumble town. The Forestport breaks marked the only time New York officials charged men with conspiring to destroy canal property, but they were also illustrative of the widespread rascality surrounding the canal. For Doyle, there is a story with a personal dimension behind the drama of the canal's historical events. As he uncovered the rise and fall of Forestport, he was also discovering that the trail of culpability led to members in his own family tree.
Author : Paul Schaefer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Defending the Wilderness written by Paul Schaefer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays written and pictures taken by the author over the last fifty years represent an anthology of his wilderness philosophy. No index. No bibliography. Cloth edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Christopher Angus
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815608942
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Extraordinary Adirondack Journey of Clarence Petty written by Christopher Angus and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and naturalist Christopher Angus profiles for the first time the adventurous life of Clarence Petty, one of the great pioneer conservationists of the Adirondack Mountain region of New York State. Raised in the heart of the Adirondack wilderness between Tupper and Saranac Lakes, Petty overcame his humble beginnings and pursued a variety of careers as wilderness guide, forester, Civilian Conservation Corps camp director, World War II pilot, district ranger, and aerial forest-fire fighter—ultimately leaving his indelible mark as a lifelong advocate for the protection of the wilderness. The story of Petty's life reads like a Horatio Alger novel. His father moved to the mountains in the 1880s to work as a guide. His mother was a cook for one of the popular sportsmen's hotels in the area. Young Clarence and his brothers enjoyed the kind of childhood freedom and independence that today's youngsters can only dream about. Their father's sense of self-reliance and their mother's drive to educate her sons led all three to attend college. Clarence followed a path of service to the American landscape. His influence on state policy regarding the Adirondack Park and especially its millions of acres of wilderness has been profound. His life story provides a window into the politics of conservation in the Adirondack region from the early days of the twentieth century to the present.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Adirondack Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara McMartin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815608950
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on the Adirondacks written by Barbara McMartin and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara McMartin narrates the history of Adirondack environmental policy in depth, beginning with the 1970 formation of the Adirondack Park Agency, set up to regulate private development and to oversee the planning of public terrain. Although hailed as the most innovative land-use legislation of its time, it ignited a wildfire of controversy, creating a landscape of conflict. Park residents protested. Government stood firm. Over the decades, disparate groups have sought to shape an effective program to protect Adirondack wildland but cannot seem to work together. This is the first comprehensive account of that ongoing drama: a stirring story of the environmental movement, public action, and government failure and success.
Author : Timothy Starmer
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN 13 : 0897328647
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Five-Star Trails in the Adirondacks written by Timothy Starmer and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each hike through the Adirondack Park is rated for scenery, difficulty, trail condition, and accessibility for children. Individual trail maps, elevation profiles, and GPS trailhead coordinates aid in navigating the myriad of unnamed roads. Featured trails range from easy strolls for the family to bone-crunching vertical ascents for the fearless hiker.
Author : Adirondack Mountain Club. Bibliography Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Adirondack Bibliography written by Adirondack Mountain Club. Bibliography Committee and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dick Amadon
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1682892255
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (828 download)
Download or read book My Piseco My Life written by Dick Amadon and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much life has changed the place that is referred to as “My Piseco”. The place he knew as a kid through those years growing up that we all go through, where life just happened to begin in a small upstate New York town in the least populated county of Hamilton in the heart of the Adirondacks. On that dead end road where so many other kids did the same. Then to be led away from “My Piseco” as an adult and responsibilities that took him to various construction projects that were farther and farther away from this great place, but finally returning and then getting involved with various groups in the town and yes, even the town politics. Time flies by and the town goes through the motions of being “My Piseco,” but the change has happened to this hometown like so many others throughout the Adirondacks and this great nation. Gone was the self-reliant feeling of those days from the 1940s through the 1960s that saw our towns and communities grow up.
Author : Catherine Henshaw Knott
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731661
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Living with the Adirondack Forest written by Catherine Henshaw Knott and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attitudes about land use, Catherine Henshaw Knott suggests, may reflect profound differences in class, religion, and life experience, pitting urban Americans who see nature at risk against rural Americans whose lives are dominated by nature's forces. She documents the thoughts and feelings of people whose lives are intimately connected to the forest, including loggers, trappers, craftspeople, and guides, as well as tree farmers and maple syrup producers. After describing the key players in the conflict and chronicling battles and bridge-building between stake-holders, Knott concludes that the participation of local people in decision making is the only process that can shift an increasingly hostile cycle toward resolution.
Author : Michael Downing
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582432546
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Shoes Outside the Door written by Michael Downing and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close-up look at the scandals that rocked the San Francisco Zen Center, a leader in alternative religious practice and the counterculture in America, and their repercussions. The remarkable forty-year history of the people who established the first Buddhist monastery outside of Asia in the history of the world has never been told. Michael Downing wondered why. "I'm living proof of why you better not speak out," explained one ordained Zen priest. "The degree to which I was scapegoated publicly was most effective in keeping everyone else quiet." In 1959, a Soto Zen priest took leave of his family in Japan to minister to the congregation of a Buddhist temple in San Francisco. Alan Watts and others spread the word that an authentic Zen Roshi was living there, and students, poets, drifters, and seekers began to attend his lectures. Impressed by their sincerity and commitment, Suzuki Roshi began to offer instruction in zazen (meditation) and other Buddhist practices to these devoted young spiritual pioneers. The San Francisco Zen Center was born. And then, in 1983, meltdown. A sex scandal rocked Zen Center, and it triggered tragedies and headlines about abuse of power that called into question the whole matter of alternative religious practice in America. Overnight the most prominent community of Buddhists in the West found itself at the vanguard of a cultural revolt against spiritual authority. For Shoes Outside the Door, Michael Downing spent three years studying documents and interviewing more than eighty people who were there, at ground zero. As engaging as any mystery, as mysterious as any political campaign, as political as any family gathering, this story will haunt and challenge readers as they unravel this essential chapter of American history.
Author : Richard Beamish
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801848957
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Getting the Word Out in the Fight to Save the Earth written by Richard Beamish and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1995-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the author, environmentalists have not been sufficiently savvy about communicating their message. This field guide and instruction manual for activists, philanthropists, and organizers discusses how to recruit members and donors through the mail; how to communicate with your constituents to keep them involved, active, and renewing; how to publicize your cause; and how to obtain major gifts. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Harper's Young People written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478712282
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (122 download)
Download or read book When Maples Turn Red written by Richard King and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Adirondack Mountains of up-state New York following WWII, the story focuses on the family and life of James Coulbron from adolescence to young adulthood. He is the fourth generation Coulbron to inhabit the area. Despite having been molested and mentally abused by his psychologically-weak mother, Lillian, he is strongly attached to his father, who provides love, nurturing, and a sense of stability. He learns about the life of his forefathers on their land, and develops a great pride in his heritage. Stark reality arrives with his father's sudden death and Lillian's increasingly psychotic episodes. She invites her long-time lover to move in with them, and Jimmy learns that this man, a Mohawk Indian, is actually his biological father. Stunned and wounded, Jimmy realizes that he has not only lost his beloved father, but he is not a Coulbron, and his heritage no longer ties him to the land he loves. When Lillian's condition deteriorates, she is incarcerated in an asylum, and young Jimmy must learn to live with his biological father. As the story unfolds, the strength of his character is repeatedly tested, and ultimately, a new sense of heritage is formed.
