Adirondack & North Country Gold: 50+ New & True Stories You're Sure to Love
- Publication Date:2011
- Publisher:Bloated Toe Publishing
- ISBN-10:0983692513
- ISBN-13:978-0983692515
- Format:Paperback
- Dimensions (WxH):6 x 9 in
- Pages:352
$26.00
- Abanakee Studios
Route 28 & LaVergne Rd
Indian Lake, NY 12842
518-648-5013
abanakeestudios1@verizon.net - Adirondack Museum Store
Routes 28N & 30
Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812
518-352-7311 x123
adkmuseumstore@adkmuseum.org - Adirondack Reader
156 Route 28
Inlet, NY 13360
315-357-2665 - Arnold's Grocery
182 Pleasant St
Keeseville, NY 12944
518-834-4692 - Battenkill Books
15 East Main St
Cambridge, NY 12816
518-677-2515
info@battenkillbooks.com - Bill's Bait & Beer Shop
2392 County Rte. 24
Brainardsville, NY 12915
518-425-0333 - Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza
1475 Western Ave
Albany, NY 12203
518-489-4761 - Brookside Grocery
160 West Church St
West Chazy, NY 12992
518-493-3540 - Charlie Johns Store
111 Elm Lake Rd
Speculator, NY 12164
518-548-7451
info@charliejohns.com - Chez Madeleine - Gifts & Collectables
44 Finney Boulevard
Malone, NY 12953
518-481-8219
chezmadeleinegifts@yahoo.com - Conroy's Organics
8173 Rte. 9
West Chazy, NY 12992
518-562-2333 - Corner-Stone Bookshop
110 Margaret St
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
518-561-0520 - Cornerstone Drug & Gift
72 Champlain St
Rouses Point, NY 12979
518-297-3784
info@cornerstonedrug.net - Crossroads
40 Dixon Rd
Chestertown, NY 12817
518-494-3821
info@crossroadsoutdoors.com - Dick's Country Store
7429 Rte. 11
Churubusco, NY 12923
518-497-3253 - Friends of Lyon Mountain Mining & Railroad Museum
Standish Rd
Lyon Mountain, NY 12952 - LaChute Books
113 Montcalm St
Ticonderoga, NY 12883 - Maggy Pharmacy
1165 Rte. 374
Dannemora, NY 12929
518-492-7130 - Mountain Mart
27 Woods Falls Rd
Altona, NY 12910
518-236-5446 - Peru Health Mart Pharmacy
2940 Main St
Peru, NY 12972
518-643-2318 - Post Office Pharmacy
61 Main St
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
518-891-2233 - Rescued Treasures (Elmore SPCA Thrift Shop)
37 Clinton St
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
518-563-7722
rescuedtreasures37@yahoo.com - Saranac Country Store
3346 State Rte 3
Saranac, NY 12981
518-293-1234 - Visitor Interpretive Center (VIC)
8023 State Rte 30
Paul Smiths, NY 12970
518-327-6241 - Write One
162 East Main St
Chateaugay, NY 12920
518-497-3455
writeone@writeonepublishing.com
Description
There is no other book out there like Adirondack & North Country Gold. Within these pages are 51 original stories about remarkable people, places, and events from the Adirondacks and foothills. Included are four anchor chapters that together are large enough to fill a volume: the life stories of Garrett Cashman, Michael Donovan, Harry Elkes, and Eben Rexford.
Though they may be unfamiliar names, their accomplishments are legend. Cashman was history's second cluster balloonist who, in the 1950s, captured the imagination of the entire nation. Donovan was a world-champion athlete whose achievements rank among the rarest in sports. Elkes was a beloved world-champion cyclist with a brilliant and tragic career. And the modest and unassuming Rexford wrote one of the most enduring songs in American history, a best-seller for more than half a century.
There's so much more among the other 47 stories. You'll find humor (The Great Canine Court Caper); inspiration (the Dean Van Clute story); romance (Love So Strong, It's Criminal); mystery (New York's Legendary Vanishing Judge); and the offbeat (Alligators in the Adirondacks, and Rock Eaters? No Way ... But Anything Else Will Do!).
There's plenty of pure history, too, in Lincoln's Avengers: The North Country Men Who Hunted Down John Wilkes Booth, and Jehudi Ashmun: Founder of Liberia.
You'll find quantity as well as quality—Adirondack & North Country Gold has more than twice the content of the average Adirondack book. It's filled with remarkable stories that will amuse, amaze, entertain, and educate.