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Though far from the battlefields, the Civil War brings many changes to Jayne’s family and neighbors in the Hudson Valley of New York. As she struggles to keep her family united in the midst of a country torn apart, Jayne seeks God for answers and protection to keep her heart from falling for a mysterious Southern preacher who appears on the scene.
123) Deep water
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Willow Mixed Media
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Celebrates the history of the Catskill water system with rare archival films, vintage photographs and interviews with historians and residents. Tells the story of the building of the Ashokan Reservoir, Shandaken Tunnel, Schoharie Reservoir, and the Catskill Aqueduct. Documents how several Catskill Mountain towns were destroyed and flooded, how immigrant workers built the dams and tunnels, and how brilliant engineering and political maneuvering allowed...
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Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"At one time, New York State had over 300 covered bridges, but over the years, floods, fires, and modernization have claimed all but 32 of them. Both the Hyde Hall Covered Bridge and the Old Blenheim Bridge are proud record holders. Located in Glimmerglass State Park, the Hyde Hall Covered Bridge is the oldest existing covered bridge in the United States. The Old Blenheim Bridge was the longest single-span covered bridge in the world until it was...
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Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water system in 1842, it began to expand the network, eventually...
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2018
Language
English
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For almost four years, from 2012 through 2016, “Kingston’s Buried Treasures” explored the people, places and events that made New York’s first capital one of America’s most unique communities. With inspirational tales of meteoric rise, and cautionary woes of equally spectacular falls, Kingston’s history tells more than just the story of a city- its arguably the story of a nation. Through war and peace, boom and bust, Presidential candidates,...
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Black Dome Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"What happens when a giant high-tech corporation opens a massive new plant on the outskirts of a small, rural, historic city? And what happens when it just as suddenly leaves? Rising quickly in 1954-1955 on a 200-acre former dairy farm, the new IBM location near Kingston, New York, was a major event for the city and the entire Mid-Hudson Valley, at that time a quiet area supported by apparel companies, a dying brick-making industry, agriculture,...
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Publisher
Black Dome Press Corporation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Studio photographer Nora Scarlett hiked for over ten years throughout the Gunks (the Shawangunk Mountains of New York State) on a quest for the unusual trunk, stump, root, and log. She looked for intriguing formations, humorous characteristics, improbable locations, surprising shapes and other wondrous growths. She became awed at scene after scene displaying how life adapts to adversity and how it succeeds in astonishing ways. Tiny seedlings emerge...
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Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
©2009
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English
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"Americans flocked to the movies in 1945 and 1946 - a critical juncture in American history and American cinema and the central point of the three-decade heyday of the studio system's sound era. Best Years recaptures this transformative time through a rich blend of screen genres - from the battlefront to the home front, the peace film to the woman's film, psychological drama, and the period's provocative new style, film noir. In Atlanta and Detroit,...
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Black Dome Press Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"The successful grassroots fight to stop the construction of a 400-room hotel/conference center and 500 condominiums around Lake Minnewaska in New York State s Shawangunk Mountains in the 1980s was a landmark victory for Hudson Valley environmentalists and became a blueprint for subsequent struggles to preserve open space against encroaching development in a uniquely beautiful landscape that The Nature Conservancy in 1991 selected as one of the 75...