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Up on a Hill and Thereabouts

Childhood recollections of life in the Adirondack Mountains during the Great Depression.

A Slant of Light

A collection of contemporary prose and poetry by women writers from New York’s Hudson Valley.

Pardee Holler

Follows hapless private eye Easy Taylor as he investigates an eco-terrorist plot to stop development in the Catskill Mountains.

Key to the Northern Country

Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley’s role in the American Revolution.

The Kingdom of the Kid

Recalls a childhood on Long Island as the counterculture sixties were sliding into the seventies and the Hamptons were still a middle-class sanctuary.

Opening Statements

Explores the influence of Dutch law and jurisprudence in colonial America.

Running on Empty

Explores how Southampton College went from “the jewel in the university crown” to an “albatross around the university neck. ”

Saving Eagle Mitch

When a Navy SEAL and former Army Ranger rescue a wounded eagle in war-torn Afghanistan, a writer learns what it can take to do one good deed in a seemingly wicked world.

Life on a Rocky Farm

A folksy look at farm life in rugged Putnam Valley just as it was being transformed by industrialization and mechanization.

Tuscarora

The definitive history of the Tuscaroras and their return to western New York.

Governing New York State, Sixth Edition

Comprehensive overview of New York State’s politics, political institutions, and major public policies.

The Untold Story of Champ

The definitive account of a Lake Champlain legend.

The Middle of Everywhere

A young man’s quest to keep his hometown’s paper mill from closing turns into an odyssey across a rural upstate New York county.

Russel Wright

Explores the work and philosophy of renowned industrial designer Russel Wright, whose former home in the Hudson Valley—Manitoga—is now a national historic landmark.

An Uncommon Cape

Three mysteries precipitate an investigation into an otherwise ordinary suburban property, revealing a past inextricably woven into four centuries of American history.

Farmingdale State College

Fascinating history of the oldest public college on Long Island.

Liberty Street

By Peter Josyph
Subjects: History
Series: Excelsior Editions

A haunting record of the destruction and rebirth of the neighborhood surrounding Ground Zero.

John Emmett Connors

An artist’s appreciation of the Collar City, Troy, New York.

Still in the Hamptons

More encounters with sometimes rich, sometimes famous, but always quirky residents of the Hamptons, by the editor and publishers of Dan's Papers.

Richard Varick: A Forgotten Founding Father

The life of a prominent Dutch-American patriot.

The Jarring Interests

Examines the process by which most of New York’s modern boundaries were created.

Eugene Ludins

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same title, held at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, presenting a retrospective view of the seventy-year career of Woodstock painter and draftsman Eugene Ludins.

Grand Isle

A tragedy in early June sets off a cascade of deception for the summer people from Manhattan and the local teens on Grand Isle.

Borderland

Provocative essays on the distinct history and culture of Buffalo and the Canadian border region.

J'aime New York, 2nd Edition

A guide to the important but half-forgotten chapters of New York State’s French history.