Book Description
The life story of Reverend A.L. Byron-Curtiss.
Author : William J. O'Hern
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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The life story of Reverend A.L. Byron-Curtiss.
Author : Barbara McMartin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780815608950
Barbara McMartin narrates the history of Adirondack environmental policy in depth, beginning with the 1970 formation of the Adirondack Park Agency, set up to regulate private development and to oversee the planning of public terrain. Although hailed as the most innovative land-use legislation of its time, it ignited a wildfire of controversy, creating a landscape of conflict. Park residents protested. Government stood firm. Over the decades, disparate groups have sought to shape an effective program to protect Adirondack wildland but cannot seem to work together. This is the first comprehensive account of that ongoing drama: a stirring story of the environmental movement, public action, and government failure and success.
Author : Harvey H. Kaiser
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781567920734
The author does a thorough job in explaining the beginnings of rustic architecture and why it has a permanent place in the culture. The mix of social background and the history of the early Adirondack camps provides a designers guidebook.
Author : Barbara McMartin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780932052995
A largely forgotten history is brought to life in this well researched book.
Author : Brad Edmondson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1501759035
A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. The North Country's environmental movement started among a small group of hunters and hikers, rose on a huge wave of public concern about pollution that crested in the early 1970s, and overcame multiple obstacles to "save" the Adirondacks. Edmondson shows how the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had never been attempted before. The team and the politicians who supported them worked around the clock to draft two visionary land-use plans and turn them into law. But they also made mistakes, and their strict regulations were met with determined opposition from local landowners who insisted that private property is private. A Wild Idea is based on in-depth interviews with five dozen insiders who are central to the story. Their observations contain many surprising and shocking revelations. This is a rich, exciting narrative about state power and how it was imposed on rural residents. It shows how the Adirondacks were "saved," and also why that campaign sparked a passionate rebellion.
Author : Philip G. Terrie
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815605706
This work shows how expectations about land use, combined with interactions with nature have defined the Adirondacks. Outlining the disputes for the control of the land, the author introduces the key players from the residents, landholders, to preservationists and developers.
Author : Anne Labastille
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1991-10-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0140153349
Ecologist Anne LaBastille created the life that many people dream about. When she and her husband divorced, she needed a place to live. Through luck and perseverance, she found the ideal spot: a 20-acre parcel of land in the Adirondack mountains, where she built the cozy, primitive log cabin that became her permanent home. Miles from the nearest town, LaBastille had to depend on her wits, ingenuity, and the help of generous neighbors for her survival. In precise, poetic language, she chronicles her adventures on Black Bear Lake, capturing the power of the landscape, the rhythms of the changing seasons, and the beauty of nature’s many creatures. Most of all, she captures the struggle to balance her need for companionship and love with her desire for independence and solitude. Woodswoman is not simply a book about living in the wilderness, it is a book about living that contains a lesson for us all.
Author : Jeanne Robert Foster
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1986-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780815602057
Adirondack Portraits: A Piece of Time is a moving poetic statement about the Adirondack wilderness and the people who fought the mountains’ relentless environment to settle there at the end of the nineteenth century. The book is also about the remarkable Jeanne Robert Foster (1879–1970). Born in poverty in the Adirondacks, as a young woman she emerged in the center of the literary and artistic circles of her day, an associate of Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and the Yeatses, father and son. Adirondack Portraits gives us a glimpse into the early life of Jeanne and some of the influences that helped her step from a harsh physical existence into the unforgettable world of New York, Paris, and London in the 1920s. Above all, her poems and prose pieces are, in the words of Alfred Kazin, “an attempt to recover a vanished time, to record with love and admiration and enduring wonder a life of hardship, endless exertion, and perhaps above all, the kind of isolation that used to dominate country life in America.”
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Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Wilderness areas
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Author : William Henry Harrison Murray
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 1874
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