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To The Mountains by Rail Manville Wakefield NYO&W w DJ
To The Mountains by Rail by Manville Wakefield NYO&W.
Hard Cover with dust jacket Has plastic covering
Copyright 1970
415 pages indexed
People, events and tragediesNew York Ontario & Western Railway and the famous Sullivan County resorts.
Table of contents: aerial views, Weehawken to Bloomingburg; Bloomingburg High View; high view tunnel, Mamakating, Wurtsboro, Summitville, Mountaindale, Sandburg, Centerville, Woodridge, Fallsburgh, South Fallsburgh. Kiamesha Lake, Pleasant lake, Monticello, Fallsburgh, Old Falls, Woodborne, Grahamsville, Luzon, Hurleyville, Loch Sheldrake, Ferndale, Liberty Falls. White Sulpher Sprints, Jeffersonsville, White Lake, Swan lake, Stevensville, Neversink, Parksville, Livingston Manor, Roscoe, Rockland, More. Maps, aerial views, graphs, more. 415 pages. Indexed.
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
A railroad came to the mountains! TO THE MOUNTAINS BY RAIL tells that dramatic story in word and picture.
In most instances photographic treasures were hard to come by. In many regions photograph and negative collections have been passed down generation to generation to adequately record the evolution of a country's heritage. Not so in Sullivan County.
The extensive negative collection of Monticello photographer, Howard Thompson, was demolished by fire. The Otto Hillig glass negative collection, or a part of it, was purchased by an itinerate artist, so the story goes, for use as a painting surface, after removal of the precious picture-bearing emulsion. Koonz of Wurtsboro's collection has simply vanished. Whittaker and Aldrich's files are seemingly non-existent. About the only negative collection to survive into the mid-20th century is the Howard Wood collection in Hurleyville.
One newspaper fared better. The Liberty Register has been deposited at Cornell University. The Monticello Republican Watchman was not so lucky - its stored issues being virtually wiped out by fire in 1942.
After years of reviewing old picture collections (many of marginal quality), documents, scattered collections of old newspapers, books and personal diaries, an overview picture has emerged of a hilly wooded region that was transformed by a railroad into a summer resort area, one that has become a byword in the hotel industry - the Sullivan County Catskills.
Intimately entwined in the story is the emergence of the Jew breaking away from the ghettos of the Lower East Side to establish a place in the sun.
The pioneer all-Christian stock saw the county transition through various modes of transportation: the coming of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, the turnpike era, the O. and W. and the gradual infusion of Kosher flavoring, the highway-expressway era up to the air age.
TO THE MOUNTAINS BY RAIL picks up where James Eldridge Quinlan left off in his 1873 history. The reader is taken on a nostalgic journey as the book traces the railroad-resort story with photograph, map, line drawing, and text that transports him to an unhurried bucolic era that can never return.
This aesthetic interpretation of Sullivan County history may establish a standard for works of its kind.
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