People & Places of the Adirondacks & Foothills, Volume 6

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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…

• An Amazing Rescue on Wallface Mountain
• For Ogdensburg’s Joe Bromley, An Arm and A Leg were Enough
• Robert Henry Perkins: Glens Falls Opera Star
• William Rush Merriam of Wadham’s Mills: Master of the Census
• Mirror Girl of Saranac Lake
• “Oops” Stories … Didn’t See THAT Coming!
• Charles Monroe Dickinson: Lowville’s Poet and Diplomat
• Ella Frances Lynch: Minerva’s Education Reformer
• Battle of Plattsburgh Celebrations from the Past
• Theodorus Bailey: Chateaugay’s Civil War Hero
• Hog-Pen Charley: The Story of Notorious Horse Thief Henry Thornton
• Norman Kingsley of St. Lawrence County: Father of Modern Orthodontics
• Fun with Regional Advertisements
• Port Henry’s Benjamin R. Stickney: Man of a Trillion Stamps
• For Alonzo Clark, Every Horse was a Gift Horse
• Benny Rolfe: The Boy Trumpet Wonder from Brasher Falls
• Cornelius Carter: Poet of the Adirondacks
• Edward G. Shortt: Prolific Inventor from Carthage
• Bishop Doane Leads the Fight Against Women’s Rights
• Six North Country Fish Stories, with Truth Included