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Book Synopsis My Side of the Mountain by : Jean Craighead George
Download or read book My Side of the Mountain written by Jean Craighead George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book
Book Synopsis The Catskills by : Stephen M. Silverman
Download or read book The Catskills written by Stephen M. Silverman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes, the skies, waterfalls, pastures, cliffs . . . refuge and home to poets and gangsters, tycoons and politicians, preachers and outlaws, musicians and spiritualists, outcasts and rebels . . . Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America: Henry Hudson’s first spotting the distant blue mountains in 1609; the New York State constitutional convention, resulting in New York’s own Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and its own constitution, causing the ire of the invading British army . . . the Catskills as a popular attraction in the 1800s, with the construction of the Catskill Mountain House and its rugged imitators that offered WASP guests “one-hundred percent restricted” accommodations (“Hebrews will knock vainly for admission”), a policy that remained until the Catskills became the curative for tubercular patients, sending real-estate prices plummeting and the WASP enclave on to richer pastures . . . Here are the gangsters (Jack “Legs” Diamond and Dutch Schultz, among them) who sought refuge in the Catskill Mountains, and the resorts that after World War II catered to upwardly mobile Jewish families, giving rise to hundreds of hotels inspired by Grossinger’s, the original “Disneyland with knishes”—the Concord, Brown’s Hotel, Kutsher’s Hotel, and others—in what became known as the Borscht Belt and Sour Cream Alps, with their headliners from movies and radio (Phil Silvers, Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, et al.), and others who learned their trade there, among them Moss Hart (who got his start organizing summer theatricals), Sid Caesar, Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Joan Rivers. Here is a nineteenth-century America turning away from England for its literary and artistic inspiration, finding it instead in Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” and his childhood recollections (set in the Catskills) . . . in James Fenimore Cooper’s adventure-romances, which provided a pastoral history, describing the shift from a colonial to a nationalist mentality . . . and in the canvases of Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederick Church, and others that caught the grandeur of the wilderness and that gave texture, color, and form to Irving’s and Cooper’s imaginings. Here are the entrepreneurs and financiers who saw the Catskills as a way to strike it rich, plundering the resources that had been likened to “creation,” the Catskills’ tanneries that supplied the boots and saddles for Union troops in the Civil War . . . and the bluestone quarries whose excavated rock became the curbs and streets of the fast-growing Eastern Seaboard. Here are the Catskills brought fully to life in all of their intensity, beauty, vastness, and lunacy.
Book Synopsis Making Mountains by : David Stradling
Download or read book Making Mountains written by David Stradling and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
Download or read book Catskill Culture written by Phil Brown and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Catskill Mountain House by : Roland Van Zandt
Download or read book The Catskill Mountain House written by Roland Van Zandt and published by Black Dome Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catskill Mountain Guide by : Peter Kick
Download or read book Catskill Mountain Guide written by Peter Kick and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed guide provides complete coverage of more than 300 miles of trails in the beautiful Catskill Mountains.
Download or read book Catskill Crafts written by Jane Smiley and published by Crown. This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist Jane Smiley offers an affectionate, informative group portrait of the 15 craftsmen and -women in the Catskill Mountains towns where their native arts and crafts are flourishing. 16 full-color and 36 black-and-white photos.
Download or read book Faun-Fa written by Clara Ingersoll Waring and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Catskill Forest by : Michael Kudish
Download or read book The Catskill Forest written by Michael Kudish and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Catskill Mountains by : Ulster & Delaware Railroad Co. Pass. Dept
Download or read book The Catskill Mountains written by Ulster & Delaware Railroad Co. Pass. Dept and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around by : Charles Rockwell
Download or read book The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around written by Charles Rockwell and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catskill Mountain Waltzes and Airs by : Molly Mason
Download or read book Catskill Mountain Waltzes and Airs written by Molly Mason and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 62 original waltzes and airs by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason including their classics: "Ashokan Farewell," "The Lovers' Waltz," "The Snowstorm," "Love of My Life" and many more. Jay & Molly live in New York's Catskill Mountains where they run the legendary Ashokan Music & Dance Camps. Highly influenced by music taught at Ashokan, their infectiously playable original tunes reflect a wide variety of styles and moods from Western waltzes, to French Musettes, to Celtic airs, to Scandinavian and Eastern European sounding melodies. Each tune is complete with chord symbols, a descriptive paragraph, and several include illustrative photos.
Book Synopsis The Scenery of the Catskill Mountains as Described by Irving, Cooper, Bryant, W.G. Clark, N.P. Willis, Miss Martineau, Tyrone Power, Park Benjamin, Thomas Cole, Bayard Taylor and Other Eminient Writers by :
Download or read book The Scenery of the Catskill Mountains as Described by Irving, Cooper, Bryant, W.G. Clark, N.P. Willis, Miss Martineau, Tyrone Power, Park Benjamin, Thomas Cole, Bayard Taylor and Other Eminient Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Painter's Path Through the Catskill Mountains by : Robert Selkowitz
Download or read book A Painter's Path Through the Catskill Mountains written by Robert Selkowitz and published by Ruder-Finn Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of pastels, Selkowitz's gentle landscapes easily transport the viewer to the lush hills and valleys of the Catskill Mountains.
Download or read book Catskill Mountains written by H. Schile and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catskill Peak Experiences by : Carol White
Download or read book Catskill Peak Experiences written by Carol White and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty-eight different mountaineers/writers offer 101 true tales of high adventure in the Catskill Mountain High Peaks, as compiled and edited by Carol Stone White. The stories are divided into sections that include: Marathon Hikes, Wildlife Encounters, Wild Weather, Navigating in the Wilderness, Misadventures, Winter Adventuring, Lost in the Wilderness, Mysteries, Reminiscences, and Catskill Mountain Highs.Since 1962, mountain climbers in the Northeast have joined the quest for membership in the Catskill 3500 Club, reserved for hikers who summit all thirty-five Catskill Mountain peaks over 3,500 feet high. Adding to the challenge, four peaks must be climbed in winter, and thirteen of the peaks are trailless. (A special, separate membership badge is awarded to those who summit all 35 peaks in winter.) Despite these obstacles, the Catskill 3500 Club has over 1,700 members, and membership continues to flourish. It?s no surprise that many seekers after this hikers? Holy Grail come out of the wilderness with tales to tell. Some of these tales of success and failure, misery and exultation, rejuvenation and near-death, make their way into the Club?s quarterly newsletter, the Catskill Canister (named for the canisters the club has placed on the trailless peaks to pinpoint the summits). Carol Stone White, a Club member (summer and winter) and accomplished writer and editor of hiking guidebooks, sifted through 45 years of Canister issues and solicited stories from current hikers to come up with over 100 tales that run the gamut from exhilaration to sheer terror.
Download or read book Catskill Resorts written by Ross Padluck and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the most famed resort destination of the world, the Catskills, New York's bygone Borscht Belt district, helped shape American culture and history. Through 363 images, take a trip back in time to relive the stories behind the theaters and nightclubs, the lavish lobbies where bellhops welcomed celebrities, and the vacuous dining rooms that served thousands of rich kosher meals each day.