Download or read book Paul Smith s Adirondack Hotel and College written by Neil Surprenant and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1859 to the present, the name Paul Smiths has meant different things to visitors and residents of the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. In the 19th century, the name was synonymous with a grand hotel on the shores of Lower St. Regis Lake and the wilderness guide who was its founder. In the early 20th century, the hotel business expanded to include land sales, a railroad, a telephone company, and the Paul Smiths Electric Power and Light Company, which became the first electric provider in the region. After World War II, Paul Smiths College was founded to provide quality liberal arts and technical associate-level degrees to returning veterans and recent high school graduates. Today Paul Smiths College attracts students from across America to the only baccalaureate-degree-granting institution in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park.
Download or read book Paul Smith s Adirondack Park written by Paul Smith's Hotel Company and published by . This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adirondack Moments written by James Kraus and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgeous photographs of one of America's most beloved park and vacation destinations. The six million acres of the Adirondack Park in northern New York State is one of the largest protected parks in the United States. Treasured for its awe-inspiring mountain views, breathtaking lake vistas and diverse wildlife, the park is home to black bears, white-tailed deer, common loons, bald eagles, beavers, coyotes, trout, landlocked salmon and other wildlife. Its forests contain hardwood and softwood trees, including maple, beech, balsam fir and pine. Scenic trails, historic homes and forts and numerous campgrounds attract millions of tourists each year. In this superb publication, James Kraus expresses his deep connection to this landscape by sharing his most compelling and beautiful photographs. Personal introductions to each section and intriguing and informative captions capture the exciting spirit of this spectacular nature reserve. Residents, visitors and general readers will treasure this book, the result of a lifelong love affair with one of America's most beautiful parks. James Kraus is a widely published photographer and writer. He taught forest recreation at Paul Smith's College for 30 years and lives in the Adirondacks year round. colour photographs
Download or read book A History of the Adirondacks written by Alfred Lee Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Axe written by Brett McLeod and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bronze axes of the Viking conquests to the American homesteader’s felling axe, this is a tool that has shaped human history like few others. American Axe pays tribute to this iconic instrument of settlement and industry, with rich history, stunning photography, and profiles of the most collectible vintage axes such as The Woodslasher, Keen Cutter, and True Temper Perfect. Combining his experiences as a forester, axe collector, and former competitive lumberjack, author Brett McLeod conveys the allure of this deceptively simple woodcutting implement and celebrates the resurging interest in its story and use.
Download or read book In the Adirondacks written by Matt Dallos and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immersive journey into the past, present, and future of a region many consider the Northeast’s wilderness backyard. Out of all the rural areas of the United States, including those in the West, which are bigger and propped up by more pervasive myths about adventure and nation and wilderness and freedom, the Adirondacks has accumulated a well-known identity beyond its boundaries. Untouched, unspoiled, it is defined by what we haven’t done to it. Combining author Matt Dallos’s personal observations with his thorough research of primary and secondary documents, In the Adirondacks rambles through the region to understand its significance within American culture and what lessons it might offer us for how we think about the environment. In vivid prose, Dallos digs through the region’s past and present to excavate a series of compelling stories and places: a moose named Harold, a hot dog mogul’s rustic mansion, an ecological restoration on an alpine summit, a hermit who demanded a helicopter ride, and a millionaire who dressed up as a Native American to rob a stagecoach. Along the way, Dallos listens to locals and tourists, visits wilderness areas and souvenir shops, and digs through archives in museums and libraries. In the Adirondacks blends lively history and immersive travel writing to explore the Adirondacks that captivated Dallos’s childhood imagination while presenting a compelling and entertaining story about America’s largest park outside of Alaska. The result is an inquisitive journey through the region’s bogs and lakes and boreal forests and the lives of residents and tourists. Dallos turned toward the region to understand why he couldn’t shake it from his mind. What he learned is that he’s not the only one. In the Adirondacks explores the history and future of the most complicated, contested park in North America, raising important questions about the role of environmental preservation and the great outdoors in American history and culture.
Download or read book Rooted in Rock written by Jim Gould and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past twenty years the Adirondacks have inspired a resident population of writers who have gained regional and national prominence using the Adirondack region as their primary setting and subject matter—or at least as a significant point of departure. Rooted in Rock is the first collection of its kind in more than twenty years, since Paul Jamieson's Adirondack Reader. What makes the volume unique, though, is the number of contributors who not only make the Adirondacks their subject, but who make their homes in these mountains. The works in this volume include contemporary essays, literary nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and excerpted fiction and are a mix of new and previously published writings by forty-three authors, established as well as emerging, including Bill McKibben, Sue Halpern, Russell Banks, Alex Schoumatoff, Chase Twichell, Curt Stager, Amy Godine, and Jim Gould, to name a few.
Download or read book The Adirondacks written by Thomas Morris Longstreth and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why the Adirondacks Look the Way They Do written by Mike Storey and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report Adirondack Park Agency written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saranac Lake written by Neil Surprenant and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first settlers came to Saranac Lake beginning in 1819 to make a living from the forests of the Adirondacks. In the 1870s, wealthy city dwellers discovered the hunting, fishing, boating, and hiking available in these beautiful mountains, and Saranac Lake became the hub for local tourism. By 1900, Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau had established the fresh-air cure for tuberculosis, and Saranac Lake became America's "Pioneer Health Resort." A culture of excellent medical facilities, an active arts scene, and a great library and educational system combined with traditional Adirondack values to make Saranac Lake "the Little City of the Adirondacks," a special place to everyone who got to know it. Later in the 20th century, the focus shifted from health to scientific research, education, state government offices, and the more middle class tourist industry of the post-World War II era. This designated All-America City has retained that special character.
Download or read book The Adirondacks Illustrated written by Seneca Ray Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Adirondacks in Eighteen Days written by Martin V. B. Ives and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adirondacks written by Seneca Ray Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program written by Heidi Kretser and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps Camps written by Martin Podskoch and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Adirondacks written by Alfred Lee Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
