Tuchahoe Marble

History

Torres, L.

World

Purple Mountain Pr Ltd

The mystery and magic of reverine marshes and swamps, their solitude and wildness, as well as their ecological significance, are depicted in a new book, Changing Tides: Tivoli Bays, A Hudson River Wetland by award-winning Rhinebeck photographer and writer Esther Kiviat. The book is a month-by-month natural history of the Tivoli Bays, protected fresh-water tidal coves on the east shore of the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve. Illustrated with more 150 of the author's black-and-white and full-color photographs, and drawings by Kathleen A. Schmidt, Changing Tides provides fascinating glimpses of the prolific wildlife and vegetation of the Bays and adjacent uplands in both words and pictures. Changing Tides is based on Esther Kiviat's observations and experiences in the bays over the past ten years, supplemented by research and walks and talks with biologists and others.

Changing Tides: Tivoli Bays: A Hudson River Wetland

Science & Math

Kiviat, Esther

Earth Sciences

Situated in the northwest corner of Ulster County, New York, the Town of Shandaken is today mostly New York State Forest Preserve and offers few employment opportunities for its citizens, but at one time Shandaken prospered as the "most richly productive" township in the county.

Shandaken, New York: A Pictoral History

Arts & Photography

Gale, Bonnie

Gale, Ruth

History & Criticism

The Last of the Handmade Dams tells the story of building New York City's first great Catskill Mountain Resevoir, largely built by pick-and-shovel work. It was a triumph of engineering but with profound consequences for more than 2,000 persons in the flooded Ashokan Valley. Elevem communites were razed for the mammoth project. 2,000 graves were disinterred and relocated. The story is told in all aspects: political, social, engineering. It tells of immigrant laborers and their problems, of the dislocations and the lore of the drowned valley all that remained as the waters rose.

The Last of the Handmade Dams: The Story of the Ashokan Reservoir

Bob Steuding

Nature & Ecology

Two Stones for Every Dirt: The Story of Delaware County, New York

DeNatale, Douglas

Americas

Delware County Historical Association

The building to the Sloop Clearwater, that splendid replica of a Hudson River sloop, was the direct result of a tattered copy of the 1908 edition of this book reaching the hands of Pete Seeger. In his introduction he tells how the boat and the movement to clean up the Hudson River got started.

The Sloops of the Hudson

Verplanck, William E.

Collyer, Moses W.

Military

This is the story of Mike Todd, largely as he told it himself. It forms a true folk biography or, more exactly, an autobiography. During the years since Mike recorded his story, I have supplemented his recollections with testimony from people who knew him at various stages of his life." 
Mike Todd(1877-1960) was a bear hunter, a fire observer, a water witch, a raftsman, a quarryman, a musician, a poacher, but most of all, he was a storyteller, the central Catskills most famous.

A Catskill Woodsman: Mike Todd's Story

Todd, Mike

Studer, Norman

A Tour of the Hudson, the Mohawk, the Susquehanna, and the Delaware in 1769

SMITH, RICHARD

The Romance of the Hudson

LOSSING, BENSON J.

Travel

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