Beginning artists are given easy step-by-step instructions on how to draw the wild animals of the Adirondacks. Birds, mammals, insects, amphibians, reptiles, and fish are included. Simple enough for a child to follow but complete enough to satisfy naturalists, parents, and classroom teachers. Accompanying text tells about each animal while pointing out special physical features that make their shape distinctive for drawing. Educational entertainment for all ages.

Drawing Adirondack Wildlife: For Kids, Parents, Classroom Teachers, Beginning Artists, and Naturalists

Arts & Photography

Amsel, Sheri

Drawing

Nicholas K Burns Pub

Relive the heart-wrenching story of one of the most famous crimes in New York’s history; the murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake. Made famous by a media frenzy fueled by the sensational newspaper reporting of 1906, this "crime of the century" seeped into the American culture. The story of Chester and Grace was the inspiration for Theodore Dreiser’s novel An American Tragedy and the Hollywood movie A Place in the Sun. Brownell and Enos deliver a fascinating day-by-day account of the events leading to the death of Grace Brown, the media hyped, sensational trial of Chester Gillette, and the cultural immortalization of an Adirondack Tragedy. 
Adirondack Tragedy features 32 black and white photos, 16 maps and drawings, and the never before published reproduction of the original "last letter" of Grace Brown to Chester Gillette from the archives of the Hamilton College Library. Three chapters are devoted to Drieser’s novel, the Hollywood versions of the story, and a comparison with the facts of the case.

Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case 1906

Biographies & Memoirs

Brownell, Joseph W.

True Crime

The culture. The beauty. The glamour. Over one million people watched Thoroughbred racing at the Saratoga Race Course during the 2001 season. Thousands more visited the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Yaddo, the museums, the mineral springs, and historic downtown. This insider's guide to historical Saratoga, New York is jam-packed with information, activities, and advice. It includes detailed sections on cultural and educational sites, horse racing, museums, downtown walking tours, shopping, and indoor/outdoor fun. It's also easy to find the right restaurants and places to stay as vacationers discover the excitement and culture of Saratoga year-round.

Saratoga: The Family Place to Be

Travel

Roy, Jennifer Rozines

Rozines Roy, Jennifer

Specialty Travel

Bella's Saratoga Summer

Bella the elephant visits sites in Saratoga, New York, with her friend Lily Duck, ending with a ride on Mayzie the racehorse.

Children's Books

Sattler, Jennifer Gordon

Animals

Jennifer Gordon Sattler

This book is an imaginative, historical, exciting, and often humorous ride through the region in the southern Adirondacks that was forever changed when a river valley was transformed into the twenty-nine-mile-long Sacandaga Lake. One of the most spectacular engineering projects in New York State’s history was the creation of the Great Sacandaga Lake in 1930. The swift, indelible change to the geography of this southern Adirondack region is the spark that ignited the imagination of author Russell Dunn. His second home is on the Sacandaga at Diamond Point, where he is inspired to write of life on the lake and its unique past. 
History and imagination are just a part of this book, though, as he and his wife, Barbara, share their adventures hiking, canoeing, parachuting, skijaking, caving, white-water tubing, and scuba diving. His essays are creative, informative, and funny—they will inspire you to visit The Great Sacandaga Lake and experience it all for yourself!

Adventures Around the Great Sacandaga Lake

History

Dunn, Russell

Americas

Nehasane Fire Observer is a first-hand account of what it was really like to be a fire observer in the Adirondacks of New York State. In 1942, the superintendent of Nehasane Park, the vast preserve west of Long Lake, New York owned by the wealthy Webb family, asked twenty-three-year-old Frances Boone to be the observer in the Park's fire tower. This is the story of that summer in the wilderness--a young woman finding her way in life alone in a fire tower, thinking of her boyfriend at war, immersed in her beloved outdoors, and coping with the ever present danger of living alone in the woods. 
This memoir, simply written and full of dialogue, brings one back to a time in the Adirondacks when people used railroads to travel and wealthy businessmen owned vast private preserves for the enjoyment of their family and friends. Through conversations with the author's co-workers, readers get a feel for the straightforward, congenial personality of the native Adirondacker. As Frances Seaman remembers her experiences in the woods, the reader sees what it was really like to live in the Adirondack wilderness sixty years ago.

Nehasane Fire Observer: An Adirondack Woman's Summer of '42

Seaman, Frances Boone

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