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Author
Publisher
Black Dome Press Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Mohonk and the Smileys: A National Historic Landmark and the Family That Created It chronicles the history and enduring legacy of a unique resort whose aim has always been to create and sustain a peaceful, contemplative environment for the betterment of human relations and for improved relations between people and the world around them. It is a story that includes the creation of the largest privately owned nature preserve in New York State, international...
Author
Series
Publisher
America Through Time
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Shawangunk Mountains -- The Gunks -- are renowned for stunning landscapes on and off the ridge in a region that has remained a favorite destination for visitors since the middle of the nineteenth century. While the mountain elevations are not high -- nowhere exceeding 2,240 feet -- they present rugged topography with glistening grey-white escarpments, jumbled boulders at the base of cliffs, deep crevices, as well as precipitation-fed "sky lakes."...
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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When Molly and her parents attend a conference at Mohonk Mountain House, Molly begins to fear that she is being watched by the very man who kidnapped and tried to kill them all the previous year.
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"New York's Historic Restaurants, Inns & Taverns explores the history of over forty institutions throughout New York City and the Hudson Valley that are still in existence today. Travel to the tavern where George Washington hosted a farewell dinner for his officers at the close of the American Revolution. Eat steak at one of the city's oldest steakhouses. Rest your head in one of the original houses built by Dutch colonists in the Hudson Valley. Part...
Author
Publisher
Black Dome Press Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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...