People & Places of the Adirondacks & Foothills, Volume 5

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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…

• The USS Plattsburg: Forever Linked to the Titanic
• The Ol’ Bait and Switch: Humorous Trickery in Advertising
• Studley Hill: The Waterloo of all Cars
• The Great Canine Court Caper: In Dogged Pursuit of Justice
• Enos Dudley: A Great-Grandfather Becomes a Dad
• Lincoln’s Avengers: North Country Men Who Captured John Wilkes Booth
• John Greeley Viall: Top Civil War Quartermaster
• The Civil War Draft: Paying to NOT Fight
• George Chahoon: The Richmond Imbroglio and a Historic Tragedy
• The “I’s” of Dean Van Clute: Ill-Fated, Irrepressible, Inspirational
• Helen Redmond: Makin’ ’em Laugh
• The Bailey-Kerr Romance: Shotgun Wedding with a Twist
• Lewis County’s Ottilia Beha: Cream of the Teaching Crop
• M. William Bray: Farmer to Lieutenant Governor
• Benjamin Wood Haynes: Deacon Architect of the North Country
• Albany Jim Brady: Legendary Debonair Gentleman Bandit
• Willis Wells: Community Icon and Lake Placid Santa Claus
• Charles P. Shaw: Ace Attorney from Jay
• Charles Giblyn: Watertown’s Show-Biz Pioneer
• Do Eagles Snore?
• Unintended Humor from Regional Newspapers
• Whitney Armstrong, Ticonderoga Athlete, TV Star, Twiggy’s Husband
• Vermin Laws of 1919