Format and Purchasing Information
Paperback
Where to Buy
- Online:
- The North Country Store
- Stores:
- See List
- Price:
- $20.00
- Dimensions (WxHxT):
- 5.2 x 8.2 x 0.6 in
- Weight:
- 0.8 lbs
- Pages:
- 208
- Illustrations:
- 53
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Publisher:
- Bloated Toe Publishing
- ISBN‐13:
- 978-1939216151
- ISBN‐10:
- 193921615X
Description
The People & Places of the Adirondacks collection contains a variety of story types: original works of hard history, the lives of unusual people, noteworthy accomplishments, groundbreaking inventions, remarkable mishaps, oddities, and humor.
They all have one thing in common: each is rooted in the North Country, defined here as the Adirondacks and foothills. The region’s past is filled with relative or complete unknowns who were, in fact, highly accomplished individuals. Many of the chapters here reveal their stories, which are well worth preserving. Those and others are presented with a purpose that is threefold: to educate, amuse, and entertain.
In this volume…
- Massena Earthquake: Worst in New York State History
- Ethel Dale: The North Country Girl with America’s Most Perfect Legs
- President Harding’s Chair Carved from North Country History
- Eliakim Briggs, Inventor & Abolitionist
- Jehudi Ashmun: Founder of Liberia
- Charles Watson Murdock, Holland & Lincoln Tunnel Engineer
- Commodore Robert S. Haggart: A Record of Exemplary Service
- Nancy “Nettie” McCormick, Noted Philanthropist
- Lafayette Spaulding: Fiddlin’ Around on Broadway
- George Davies: A Tough Iron Miner’s Memories
- No Bones Were Broken: Near-Fatal Accidents
- The Whiteface Mountain Cog Railway?
- Michael Henry Donovan: The World at His Feet
- Jesse Knight: The Only Judge to Imprison Butch Cassidy
- Love So Strong, It’s Criminal
- Benjamin Franklin Taylor: Writer, Poet, Lecturer Extraordinaire
- The Churubusco Live-In: Woodstock’s Sequel (Almost)
- Carry of the Great Rope
- The Battle of Plattsburgh’s Unusual Link to Pearl Harbor
- Joseph Force Crater: New York’s Legendary Vanishing Judge
- Dynamite Dimwits: Explosive “Oops!” Stories
- Windmill Déjà Vu: Power Towers from the Past
- Johnny Dempster: The Watertown Boy with the Wonderful Mind
- Bernard Frederick Champagne, Legendary Criminal Impersonator
- Marjorie Harrison: Teen Queen of the Links
- What are the Odds? The Unlikeliest Stories of Twins
- Battle Over the Weekly Pay Law
- McKeever Rail Calamity: An Engineer’s Deadly Errant Thumb