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Book Synopsis Hudson Valley and Catskills Mountains by : Joanne Michaels
Download or read book Hudson Valley and Catskills Mountains written by Joanne Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains by : Joanne Michaels
Download or read book The Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains written by Joanne Michaels and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete guidebook to the burgeoning area of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains includes information on the best inns, bed and breakfasts, restaurants, country auctions, antique shops, historic sites, museums, state parks, fishing, hiking, country fairs, and more. 11 maps.
Book Synopsis Explorer's Guide Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains: Includes Saratoga Springs & Albany (Eighth Edition) (Explorer's Complete) by : Joanne Michaels
Download or read book Explorer's Guide Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains: Includes Saratoga Springs & Albany (Eighth Edition) (Explorer's Complete) written by Joanne Michaels and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling and most complete guide to the gorgeous Hudson Valley is back in a new, totally revised edition. Rich with historical and cultural attractions and natural beauty, the Hudson Valley has become a choice getaway. Local author Joanne Michaels guides you through its treasure trove of restaurants, cozy inns, galleries, antiques shops, and wineries, and to its many outdoor activities. Completely revised; from the most respected travel writer in the region.
Book Synopsis Explorer's Guide Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains by : Joanne Michaels
Download or read book Explorer's Guide Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains written by Joanne Michaels and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the attractions, historic sites, accommodations, restaurants, and outdoor activities of the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains.
Book Synopsis The Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains by : Joanne Michaels
Download or read book The Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains written by Joanne Michaels and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Explorer's Guide Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains: Includes Saratoga Springs & Albany (Seventh Edition) (Explorer's Complete) by : Joanne Michaels
Download or read book Explorer's Guide Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains: Includes Saratoga Springs & Albany (Seventh Edition) (Explorer's Complete) written by Joanne Michaels and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many guides claim to be 'insider' takes on travel, but few deliver truly out-of-the-ordinary info. This one does . . . many listings will surprise even natives."—New York Daily News Rich with historical and cultural attractions, the Hudson Valley and Catskills area will be celebrating its 400th anniversary in 2009. The region will commemorate Henry Hudson’s sail up the river, Robert Fulton’s first successful commercial steamship operation, and many more nationally significant events. The region is also a treasure trove for travelers seeking outdoor recreation, five-star dining, cozy bed & breakfasts or comfy inns, as well as galleries, antiques shops, wineries, farm stands, and places to hike, kayak, and canoe. In this completely revised seventh edition, author Joanne Michaels, the most respected travel writer in the region, includes hundreds of places to dine and stay, along with a wealth of information about things to see and do—all within driving distance of New York City, Boston, and beyond. With detailed maps and hundreds of honest reviews about accommodations, eateries, and activities that will appeal to both affluent travelers and those seeking special value, Michaels’s advice will aid in planning an unforgettable trip.
Book Synopsis Explorer's Guide - The Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains by : Joanne Michaels
Download or read book Explorer's Guide - The Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains written by Joanne Michaels and published by Countryman Press. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended by the New York Times, this is the "insider\'sguide" to the Hudson Valley and Catskills, including the best ofSaratoga Springs and Albany.R Rich with historical and cultural attractions, the Hudson Valleyand Catskills region is also a burgeoning mecca for travelersseeking outdoor adventure and family fun; five-star dining and thebest American cuisine using the freshest locally grown produce;luxurious resorts, cozy bed & breakfasts and inns; as well asgalleries, antiques shops, wineries, farm stands, hiking and biketrails, and places to kayak and canoe. With detailed maps andhundreds of honest reviews of accommodations, eateries andactivities to appeal to independent travelers and those seekingvalue for money, this guide casts a wide net to cull the best thisdynamic region has to offer. 13 maps, 75 black & whitephotographs, index.
Book Synopsis The Best of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains by : Joanne Michaels
Download or read book The Best of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains written by Joanne Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features of this guide to Connecticut include: an alphabetical What's Where subject guide to aid in trip planning; 19 regional and downtown maps; and handy icons that point out family-friendly attractions, wheelchair access, special value, and lodgings that accept pets.
Book Synopsis The Catskills by : Stephen M. Silverman
Download or read book The Catskills written by Stephen M. Silverman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 0 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 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 At Home in Hudson Valley by : Allison Serrell
Download or read book At Home in Hudson Valley written by Allison Serrell and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been called America's Loire Valley, the Napa Valley of the East, and the new Hamptons. Deemed by the US Congress "the landscape that defined America," New York's Hudson River Valley is a region rich in history, boasting exceptional architecture, celebrity residents, lush landscapes, and a burgeoning art and cultural scene. Each year, 50 million visitors flock to the counties along the river to escape the frenzy of city living and to rejuvenate in quiet, idyllic surroundings. Many stay and buy second homes, and many more dream about it. At Home in the Hudson Valley takes an intimate tour of 20 exceptional dwellings, including Karim Rashids Carl Koch Tech Built house in Croton on Hudson, an original Marcel Breuer home in Salt Point, and architect Peter Franck's celebrated residence with its breathtaking views of the Catskills. Magnificent color photographs (250 in all), an extensive resource list, and map of the region make this a gorgeous visual excursion and valuable resource for residents and tourists alike.
Download or read book Gardens of the Hudson Valley written by and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majesty of the Hudson River has captivated both artists and visitors for generations, and the gardens along its banks have a special character. Those created for the Gilded Age estates are more formal; private gardens respond directly to the rolling landscape and mature forests. The area is a crucible for the development of American landscape design since the major figures—Alexander Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Beatrix Farrand, and Fletcher Steele—all worked in the Hudson Valley. Gardens of the Hudson Valley focuses on the historic landscape and how gardens have been integrated into it. Photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daly have selected twenty-five gardens between Yonkers and Hudson, including famous estate gardens like Kykuit, Boscobel, the Vanderbilt Mansion, and Olana (all open to the public) and private gardens that combine sweeping views and lush plantings. Garden writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner describe each of the gardens in detail, focusing on the history of the site and the strategies for design and plant materials.
Book Synopsis Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by : Washington Irving
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.
Download or read book The Hudson Valley written by Susan Wides and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 2011 with total page 55 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 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.
Book Synopsis Moon Hudson Valley & the Catskills by : Nikki Goth Itoi
Download or read book Moon Hudson Valley & the Catskills written by Nikki Goth Itoi and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hudson Valley is a breath of fresh air: explore historic estates, hike wild mountain terrain, and bask in small-town charm with Moon Hudson Valley & the Catskills Strategic, flexible itineraries, from day trips from New York City to week-long road trips, designed for outdoor adventurers, history buffs, art-lovers, foodies, and more Must-see highlights and unique experiences: Cycle along rolling hills and quiet country roads, hike to rushing waterfalls, hit the slopes in the winter, or discover the best spots to see the striking fall foliage. Take a tour of Washington Irving's romantic home, admire the historic Rockefeller Estate, go antiquing in Cold Spring Village, or stroll through Sleepy Hollow. Take a cooking class at the Culinary Institute of America, browse for produce at a local farmers market, sip your way along a Hudson Valley wine trail, or savor innovative cuisine at a farm-to-table restaurant The best hikes in the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, with detailed maps, mileage and difficulty ratings Honest advice from Catskills native Nikki Goth Itoi on when to go, where to eat, and where to stay, from full-service resorts and historic inns to secluded cabins and campsites Full-color photos and detailed maps throughout Thorough background on the culture, weather, wildlife, and history, plus tips on getting there and getting around by car and public transportation With Moon Hudson Valley & the Catskills' practical tips, myriad activities, and local know-how, you can plan your trip your way. Exploring more of the Northeast? Check out Moon New England. Headed to the Big Apple? Try Moon New York City or Moon New York Walks.