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Author : Frank Lee Du Mond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Tall Tales of the Catskills written by Frank Lee Du Mond and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juvenile fiction.
Author : Esterita Blumberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Remember the Catskills written by Esterita Blumberg and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125021766
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1963 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Author : Virginia Wales Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Catskill Fairies written by Virginia Wales Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa LaMonica
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625840896
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Haunted Catskills written by Lisa LaMonica and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the ghosts who wander these upstate New York mountains—includes photos! Washington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a “spellbound region”—and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving's intuition. In Hudson, Maggie Houghtaling’s ghost haunts the Register-Star building, where she was hanged in 1817 for murdering her child—a crime for which she was later cleared. The ghost of a young Native American girl haunts Claverack Creek, where she threw herself into the water when her father forbade her to be with the man she loved. In Greenport, Peter Hallenbeck was murdered by his nephews in his home, where his spirit still lingers. Discover these and other eerie tales of hauntings in the Catskill Mountains in this collection of fascinating stories and local lore.
Author : Karen Emily Miller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439677964
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Ghostly Tales of the Catskills written by Karen Emily Miller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories from New York's upstate towns have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! Welcome to the spooky Catskills! Stay alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms. Did you know the ghost of a colonial solider still haunts a home in Kinderhook? Or that the place where Washington Irving wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is just as spooky as that famous story? Can you believe New York's Catskill Mountains are home to a shape-shifting witch? Pulled right from history, these ghostly tales will change the way you see the Catskills and have you sleeping with the light on!
Author : Tania Grossinger
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1626369607
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Growing Up at Grossinger's written by Tania Grossinger and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To be devoured in one non-stop gulp...fascinating reading."—The New York Post From 1919 to 1986, Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel provided a summer retreat from the city heat for New York's Jews, and entertained the great, the near-great, and the not so great, Jews and Gentiles alike. A melting pot of the Borscht Belt, sports, and show-biz worlds, loyal visitors included Red Buttons, Rocky Marciano, Eddie Fisher, and Jackie Robinson. Tania Grossinger grew up there. In her fascinating insider's account of life in the hospitality industry, she sheds light on how hotel children keep up with the frenetic pace of life, and how they come to grips with the outside world (which intrudes now and again), sex (happening in every room), and, occasionally, their intellectual interests. Growing Up at Grossinger's is both a wonderful coming-of-age story and a sentimental reading of a chapter of the Jewish experience in America that has now closed. 25 b/w photographs. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : James McMurry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Catskill Witch and Other Tales of the Hudson Valley written by James McMurry and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing freely from New York folk and Indian lore, from literature, history, and his own imagination, James Burton McMurry has fashioned sixteen fanciful tales of unforgettable characters inhabiting the region of the Hudson Valley. Some of the stories, here retold in a simple and lucid style, are old favorites. They are joined by nine new stories which take their places here naturally and compatibly. Readers of Washington Irving will recognize the major figure in "Anthony's Nose," who here returns from the shores of Spuyten Duyvil to find a wife and a whole new set of adventures. "Pokepsie" and "The Saranac Wizard" are based on the old Indian legends, as was the title story, and "The Ramapo Salamander" has roots in an old English or German tale. McMurry notes that the terrible Ogress of Claverack recently passed through those parts again, enabling the author to get the story first hand, and ruins of the troll house under the White Clay Kill bridge are still there. The children of Tivoli have reported that the troll Eyesore can be seen just as it's getting dark at night. The mists of fable gather here around the storyteller on the banks of the beautiful Hudson River, to the delight of children of all ages. After experiencing these tales, the reader might be able the better to see old Teunis, the Dutch-speaking giant who roars in the Catskills." -- Provided by Publisher
Author : Jonathan Kruk
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233195
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley written by Jonathan Kruk and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A storyteller examines Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and the lore that inspired it, as well as other local legends of the Hudson Valley. The story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman is one of America's best-known fables, but what other stories does the Hudson Valley hold? Imps cause mischief on the Hudson River, a white lady haunts Raven Rock, Major Andre’s ghost seeks redemption and real headless Hessians search for their severed skulls. These mysterious and spooky tales from the region’s past inspired Irving and continue to captivate the imagination to this day. “Kruk has been enchanting audiences with his dramatic, enticing storytelling ability for 20 years.” —Suzanne Rothberg, Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch
Author : Christine Wade
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451674708
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Seven Locks written by Christine Wade and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Catskills on the eve of the Revolutionary War, a spare, haunting, and beautifully written debut for readers who loved "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle." In the years before the American Revolution, a woman's husband mysteriously disappears without a trace, abandoning her and her children.
Author : Kathy Stevens
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628730382
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Where the Blind Horse Sings written by Kathy Stevens and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than anything else, this is a book about love. In this deeply moving account, you will hear about Rambo, a sheep who informs the staff when another animal is in trouble; and Paulie, a former cockfighting rooster who eats lunch with humans; Dino, an old toothless pony who survived a fire; and many more. Alongside these horses, roosters, pigs, sheep, rabbits, cows, and other animals is a staff of loving humans for whom every animal life, even that of a frog rushed to the vet for emergency surgery, has merit. Reading this book can profoundly—and joyously—change your life.
Author : Airian Eastman
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (546 download)
Download or read book Among Giants written by Airian Eastman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Giants is a family friendly collection of tall tales from New York State. From the Cardiff Giant to the Gnomes of the Catskills and beyond. These stories will captivate the imagination of young and old alike.
Author : Karen Emily Miller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467197319
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book The Ghostly Tales of the Catskills written by Karen Emily Miller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories from New York's upstate towns have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! Welcome to the spooky Catskills! Stay alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms. Did you know the ghost of a colonial solider still haunts a home in Kinderhook' Or that the place where Washington Irving wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' is just as spooky as that famous story' Can you believe New York's Catskill Mountains are home to a shape-shifting witch' Pulled right from history, these ghostly tales will change the way you see the Catskills and have you sleeping with the light on!
Author : Bob McCue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781523259175
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (591 download)
Download or read book In a Catskills Gone by written by Bob McCue and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the 1890's, the height of the "Gilded Age" where vast fortunes are being made by giants whose mantra is bigger, higher, faster. No mountain is too high, and no ocean too vast. America, the great industrial machine, is a beacon for waves of immigrants searching for a better life in the fabled land beyond the ocean. Two of these are Agnes Gale, and her twelve-year old son, Thomas, nicknamed "Fiver." The sea that is not yet through with the Gale family will put Agnes's son amid a cast of character, events and machines, the likes of the grandest Irish tale could not imagine. Set in the legendary Catskill Mountains, the land of Rip Van Winkle. Half history, half tall tale, many of the pictures pay homage to the towns lost to the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir. "If there were a Mount Rushmore for the Catskills the first faces on it would surely have to be from the Hudson River School of Art. Thomas Cole, Fredrick Church, just to name two. Their artwork of the natural beauty of 19th century America told a story on canvas in a way that had not been done before or since. The first generation of artists opened the world's eyes to the beauty that lay to the north, far from the confines and of Manhattan Island, both natural and man-woven. In that same affection, Washington Irving would admit to never venturing into the Catskill Mountains, but three words from his pen would forever place him in a special place on the Catskill Rushmore-Rip Van Winkle. So many times has this legendary tale been retold that the Rip and the Catskills are as much intertwined as Hendrik Hudson and the river that is named for him. In another century and another age, a generation of historians would immortalize a golden age of the Catskills. Not with canvas and a brush, but print and photos. This golden age was when generation after generation of summer vacationers came by rail and steamboat to the grand hotels that lined virtually every Catskill peak and every back Catskill Road. Passengers unboarded from majestic Hudson River sidewheelers onto waiting trains of wooden coaches and snorting, hissing steam locomotives. Sullivan County Historian, Manville B. Wakefield would publish in 1970, a history of the heyday of the Catskill Hotels and the railroads of Sullivan County. The title would coin in five words a bucolic era we shall never see again -"TO THE MOUNTAINS BY RAIL.""
Author : Judith RICHARDSON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674042704
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Possessions written by Judith RICHARDSON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper
Author : Paul Robert Walker
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613243599
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Big Men, Big Country written by Paul Robert Walker and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of American tall tales featuring such legendary characters as Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill.
Author : Norman Cazden
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873955805
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Folk Songs of the Catskills written by Norman Cazden and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional songs from the Catskill area of New York State are accompanied by detailed discusssions of their roots, development, musical structure, and subject matter
