Author : Chris Gethard
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781402733833
This book is a travel guide of sorts to New York's local legends and best kept secrets, filled with crazy characters, cursed roads, abandoned sites, and bizarre roadside attractions that the author feels reflect the shared modern folklore of our time.
Author : Long Island Dolls
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2017-04-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781545554111
I was born on Long Island, New York. I love New York and I love history. As I started to think about the next book I wanted to write, I thought to myself, why not bring my two loves together. In this book, you will find cool, interesting and sometimes strange facts about the New York and Long Island area. All these facts and stories are all true. Dive into the world of Ghosts, early New York History, strange tales about some of the founders of New York and more. And most of all a traveler's guide!
Author : Ralph F. Brady
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614235902
New York's Long Island is long on history from land to sea! Ralph Brady covers well known and unknown sites, events, homes, places and people. Everyone lucky enough to live on Long Island already knows that it's like nowhere else in the world. From lighthouses and a one-hundred-year-old carousel to World War II camps and missile sites, Long Island native Ralph Brady reveals the secrets to what makes this little-big island so special with a tour of some of Nassau and Suffolk's most historic locations. Walt Whitman, William Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt and many others occupied remarkable homes around the island. Charles Lindbergh made his historic flight to France from what is now a shopping mall. For many years, a Long Island factory gave the world the game of Scrabble. Even the waters teem with history, with the modern submarine making its start off the coast. Come explore these and other settings from Long Island's past.
Author : John Leita
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1614239347
John and Laura Leita delve in to the oddities that make Long Island unique and it may be more odd than you thought possible! Long Island's history is well known, but often overlooked are the island's unique and bizarre stories and treasures--the most interesting locations and darkest legends. From hidden haunts and legends like the Indian Princess of Lake Ronkonkoma to well-known events like the Amityville Horror House murders, this collection chronicles the tales of restless spirits, unrequited loves and otherworldly visits that riddle the island. There is much to be seen along the roadside, too, including the beloved Big Duck, the Riverhead Indian and even the grave site of Nixon's dog, Checkers. Through history, pictures and the personal experiences of a ten-year endeavor, authors John and Laura Leita brings to life Long Island's abandoned structures, including psychiatric hospitals and other ruins waiting to be rediscovered. Join the Leitas as they go in search of the delightfully quirky side of Long Island.
Author : Mark Moran
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402766886
Covering all 50 states, "Weird U.S." takes an unconventional look at the oddities, outcasts, and just plain strange things to see or do in America.
Author : Mark Moran
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2006
Category : New Jersey
ISBN : 1402739419
New Jersey is even WEIRDER than we thought! From the authors of Weird N.J.—with more than 125,000 copies sold—comes a second amazing collection of the wonderful weirdness that fills every inch of the Garden State. One of the bestselling books ever to hit New Jersey was Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran’s Weird N.J. The book was such a phenomenon that it began a whole series of Weird state books, each one a bestseller. But the Marks, as they are called, always knew that there were more, bizarre stories lurking in their own home state. So back they went, camera and notebook in hand, to travel the highways and byways of New Jersey to chronicle more weirdly bizarre stories. And what did they find? How about the pathway of a doctor’s office paved with tombstones? Or a pumpkin-shaped house? Then there’s the Hub Cap Tree, the Birdsville Church (yes, a church for birds), and the bowling ball pyramid that graces one proud resident’s front lawn. Fun too are the haunted houses to visit, the ghosts to chat with, and the cursed roads to travel down. It’s all part of the long, strange trip known as Weird N.J.
Author : Stacy Mandel Kaplan
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772761696
Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? began in 2008 when two lifelong friends from Oceanside, New York started a Facebook group to share pictures and history of Long Island's iconic places, themes and landmarks. Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? is now one of the largest New York history groups on Facebook with more than 142,000 members sharing pictures and information about Long Island's colourful past. Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? offers us a window into the past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. With more than 130 photographs, many of them seen here for the first time, Hey Long Island... Do U Remember? offers a stunning portrait of this one-of-a-kind place.
Author : Scott Lefebvre
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780764328145
Take a tour of the myths, legends, and ghost stories of spirited Long Island, including the infamous Amityville where murder and mayhem shocked a small town; abandoned and haunted lunatic asylums, the historically chilling witchcraft trials, creepy lighthouses, and the many "Mary" hauntings. Shudder as you read over 35 haunting tales of Long Island's supernatural history.
Author : James Nevius
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1493008404
NYC tour guides and authors James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of 20 iconic New Yorkers—from Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant to Alexander Hamilton, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.—and use them to guide the reader through four centuries of the city’s story. Beginning with the oldest standing building in the city, , a 1652 farmhouse in Brooklyn, and journeying all the way to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, the book follows in the footsteps of these iconic New Yorkers. The authors tell the stories of everyone from slave traders and long-forgotten politicians to the movers and shakers of Gilded Age society and the Greenwich Village folk scene. One part history and one part personal narrative, Footprints in New York creates a different way of looking at the past, exploring new connections and forgotten chapters in the story of America’s greatest metropolis. Visit www.footprintsinny.com for more.
Author : Wesley Treat
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402766879
"If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."
