Adirondack Experience, the museum on Blue Mountain Lake, edited by Eugenia Bell
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Adirondack Experience, the museum on Blue Mountain Lake, edited by Eugenia Bell
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
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no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Adirondack Experience
Oclc number
1057306384
Responsibility statement
edited by Eugenia Bell
Sub title
the museum on Blue Mountain Lake
Summary
"The Adirondack Park in New York State offers a rare combination of breathtaking natural beauty, surprising and inspiring stories and rich traditions of progress and preservation. Created in 1892, the park is the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States and draws between seven and ten million visitors yearly. Since 1957 Adirondack Experience (formerly the Adirondack Museum) has shared stories of the people who lived, worked and played in the Adirondacks through their rich collection of objects, photographs, books, manuscripts and historical records. This fully illustrated book shares the region's unique history, while celebrating the transformation of the Adirondacks from wilderness to mineral and lumber resource to resort community to recreation getaway"--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Foreword / by David Kahn -- Life in the Adirondacks -- Wilderness stories -- Call of the wilderness -- A peopled wilderness : native people of the Adirondacks -- Roughing it : living in the wilderness -- Adirondack tough : work in the wilderness -- Our Adirondack park -- Woods and waters : outdoor recreation in the Adirondacks -- Marion River Carry Pavilion -- Work in the woods : logging the Adirondacks -- Boats and boating in the Adirondacks -- The log hotel : Merwin's Blue Mountain House -- A new museum -- General information
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