The Sensible Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• The most favored Dutch cookbook of the seventeenth century, The Sensible Cook (De Verstandige Kock) had a major impact on the foodways of the Dutch in... Lees meer

Marietta Holley

Kate Winter

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Aims to recover the buried reputation of one of America's most popular writers from 1873 to 1914. Lees meer

At the Fountain of Youth

William Pearson Tolley

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• For those who have known Chancellor Tolley, it is clear that he is a rare and gifted educator. Not only has he discovered education to be the fountain... Lees meer

Fanny Seward

Trudy Krisher

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• On April 14, 1865, the night of President Lincoln's assassination, Booth's conspirator Lewis Powell attempted to assassinate Secretary of State Willia... Lees meer

Delaware and Hudson

Jim Shaughnessy

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Here, in a pictorial history, Jim Shaughnessy turns an eloquent photographer's eye to the Delaware & Hudson, the line that began in 1823 as a canal sy... Lees meer

Reflections from Canoe Country

Christopher Angus

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• These reflections on canoe and kayak and ski journeys though the Adirondack Park, New York State, represent both observation of habitat and wildlife, ... Lees meer

A Taste of Upstate New York

Chuck D'Imperio

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Upstate New York is the birthplace of many of America's favorite foods. The chicken wing was born in a bar in Buffalo, the potato chip originated in t... Lees meer

J. S. Wooley

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• In 1880, Jesse Sumner Wooley, an energetic and entrepreneurial thirteen-year-old farm boy from Saratoga County, took a job as an errand boy for a pair... Lees meer

Adirondack Fishing in the 1930's

Vincent Engels

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Documents the decline in Adirondack fishing in the '30s. The author offers a nostalgic view of the Adirondack wilderness 50 years ago, capturing the m... Lees meer

Reservoir Year

Nina Shengold

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a challenge: to walk the path surrounding the Catskills' glorious Ashokan Reservoir ever... Lees meer

Defending the Wilderness

Paul Schaefer

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Defending the Wilderness brings together the best of Paul Schaefer's writings on the Adirondacks. It provides a fascinating account of the history of ... Lees meer

Beaver River Country

Edward I Pitts

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• Encompassing the lands immediately surrounding the upper reaches of the Beaver River from its headwaters at Lake Lila to Beaver Lake at the settlement... Lees meer

The Complete Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning

Estelle Sinclaire, Jane Shadel Spillman

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• This history of the Corning glass industry is a rich storehouse of information for anyone trying to identify pieces of cut or engraved glass. It combi... Lees meer

Clear Pond

Roger Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• The winner of the John Ben Snow Prize delves into the life of a 19th-century Adirondack millwright and arrives at a greater awareness of his own reali... Lees meer

They're Off!

Hotaling Edward

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• This is the story of how one of America's first national resorts gave birth to the first national sport of horse racing. It introduces a parade of cha... Lees meer

Get Off Your Knees

John Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Growing up, John Robinson never considered himself an inspiration to others. He was born a congenital amputee and stands three foot eight as an adult.... Lees meer

Joseph Ellicott & the Holland Land Company

William Chazanof

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• In 1800, the Holland Land Company assigned surveyor Joseph Ellicott the task of selling at a profit 3.3 million acres of land west of the Genesee Rive... Lees meer

REV. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman

Jermain Wesley Loguen, J W Loguen

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• The Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen was a pioneering figure in early nineteenth-century abolitionism and African American literature. A highly respected le... Lees meer

Things That Go Bump in the Night

Louis C Jones

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Hailed as one of the best books of ghost stories in the country when it was first published in 1959, Things That Go Bump in the Night is a timeless re... Lees meer

The Decoration of Houses

Edith Wharton Wharton, Ogden Codman

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as ... Lees meer

Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution

Allan S Everest

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Moses Hazen, commander of the Second Canadian Reiment, was an unusual and influential man during the period of the American Revolution. The Tories who... Lees meer

The Gilded Age on Syracuse's James Street

Dennis Connors

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• From the 1890s to 1930s, stately mansions lined Syracuse's James Street, their elegant gardens, architecture, and streetscapes a point of city-wide pr... Lees meer

Open House

Chuck D'Imperio

• Hardcover | Engels | New York State
• Celebrated Upstate New York author Chuck D'Imperio takes readers on a unique tour of some of the most fascinating and little-known historic homes acro... Lees meer

Blacks in the Adirondacks

Sally E Svenson

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History tells the story of the many African Americans who settled in or passed through this rural, mountainous region of ... Lees meer