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October is having a party, and you're invited! The forest is changing. Bright greens of trees are turning to dusty golds, crimsons, and oranges. The whispering voice of October is blowing through the branches...
The air is getting colder; the leaves are starting to change. The animals are flitting and scurrying and preparing in anticipation, but for what? Join Mouse, Chickadee, and Chipmunk, Loon, Bear, and Moose, Beaver, Fox, and Squirrel, and all the creatures and critters of the forest as they prepare for Autumn in this beautifully illustrated children's book by author and illustrator Caitlin Friebel.
October is Having a Party is a reminder to look deeper into the nature around us and find beauty in the falling leaves, humble pinecone, and moss-covered branch. Through gorgeous watercolors and a playful story of Fall forest festivities, Friebel showcases the wonder and magic of the changing seasons. All are invited to October's party!
Reading Rainbow is one of the most successful PBS children's series in television history, earning numerous national and international awards including 26 Emmys and a Peabody Award. But perhaps more important than anything else, Reading Rainbow helped generations of children cultivate a love for books.
Reading Rainbow is very much a story of humble beginnings and enormous perseverance. Over five summers, Tony Buttino Sr. and his colleagues at WNED-TV, the public television station in Buffalo, New York, worked in collaboration with educators and librarians to experiment with summer reading programs. But after trialing these programs, the WNED team realized there was a big need for a new children's literacy series and believed they could create a new show with local and national collaborators and friends. After fits and starts, and enough twists and turns to fill a children's book, Reading Rainbow premiered in the summer of 1983 and captured the attention of 6.5 million young viewers.
Creating Reading Rainbow explores the many intriguing and homespun stories that, when woven together, reveal how this groundbreaking and iconic television series came to be. What led to the series being called Reading Rainbow? How did the road to Reading Rainbow wind its way through Mister Rogers' Neighborhood? How did a public television station in Buffalo spearhead a movement in education and spark the passion for reading in millions of children? And, what does lasagna have to do with it?
46 High Peaks in 18 Hikes: The Complete Guide to Hiking the Adirondack High Peaks takes readers through each of these towering giants mountain by mountain. Equal parts information, entertainment, and storytelling, it offers readers everything they need to know to climb each of these peaks safely and successfully.
New York State's famous Adirondack landscape is immense, spanning over six million acres of public forests, lakes, rivers, mountains, and private lands. In full color featuring hundreds of detailed maps and photos, Mapping the Adirondacks celebrates it all with the first clear account of the original surveyor who explored and fully comprehended it--Verplanck Colvin. Everywhere below, Colvin wrote, were lakes and mountains so different from all maps, yet so immovably true.His monumental accomplishment helped motivate the citizens of New York in 1894 to legally protect it for generations to come.
As an eighteen-year-old budding travel writer, explorer and surveyor, Colvin began personally mapping a half-million acres of true Adirondack wilderness in 1865. Then, shortly after the state began partially funding his audacious project, Colvin reinvented himself as the Superintendent of a Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness and hired another equally intrepid surveyor to help--his ever-dependable friend Mills Blake. They extended the scope and granularity of their survey several times, hired hundreds of Adirondack guides and other talented people to assist, and devoted twenty-eight years to the challenge of professionally surveying the Adirondacks.
Author Thatcher Hogan has carefully gleaned narratives and illustrations from Colvin's notoriously dense annual reports and reassembled them with additional historic photographs to chronicle a compelling, true story of rugged exploration. After a novice's explanation of Colvin and Blake's surveying terms, the book follows their progress with one hundred of Hogan's new maps and summit views. The Adirondack landscape remains formidable and fascinating--many of the views are those that Colvin first discovered. Along the way, Hogan uncovers a story of intense ambition, physical hardships, and a weatherproof friendship.
The state's meager investment in their work paid off many times over. Colvin and Blake's surveys provided New York with the incontrovertible evidence needed to prevail in hundreds of complex Adirondack land disputes. Most significantly, it enabled the state to consolidate and expand its extraordinary Adirondack Forest Preserves--the prized mountains, forests, and waters of today's beloved Park.
The Finger Lakes Drinking Guide is a comprehensive guidebook to every major winery, brewery, cidery, and distillery in New York State's Finger Lakes region - a world-class wine destination and rising star in beers, ciders, and spirits alike.
Nearly every Saturday and Sunday morning at Steamboat Landing, you will see the faithful browsing the nationally renowned Ithaca Farmer's Market in search of the freshest and most beautiful produce, filling bags and baskets with fixings for the week's home meals, encouraging farmers and growers to extend their culinary reach. Celebrating a historic milestone at the Market's current Pavilion location, Ithaca Farmers Market captures the energy and history of the market through colorful narratives, vivid historical and contemporary photos, detailed recipes, and helpful shopping and prep guides.
A far cry from the rag-tag brigade selling off the backs of pick-up trucks in 1973, today's bustling pavilion hosts an array of social enterprises, meeting the demand for fresh, locally grown vegetables and fruits, meat from pastured animals, and handcrafted wines.
Farmers and growers engage in sustainable practices to produce healthy food for those of
us who are concerned with not just what we eat, but how and where it is produced.
Ithaca food activist Michael Turback showcases the delicious possibilities of cooking with local produce at the height of flavor and freshness throughout the growing seasons, taking readers on a year-round culinary tour from spring to early and midsummer to the bursting harvest of late summer, then ebbing into winter. Practical, valuable advice on shopping for fruits and vegetables in accordance with peak growing seasons reconnects marketgoers with the cycles of nature in our region, offering recipes for fresh and delicious dishes made with ingredients that reflect their truest flavors. Natives and new visitors to the Market alike will discover why the Ithaca venue has been cited as one of the country's most influential farmers markets.
Celebrate 200 Years of the Erie Canal with this guide offering 200+ dining and attraction highlights along the historic path.
Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal spans 363 miles across New York State to connect Albany and Buffalo, which made it an indispensable tract for commerce 200 years ago. While the canal's use as a primary means of moving commercial goods across the state has been replaced by trucks and trains, its recreational usage has increased exponentially since then. The Canal Path that parallels the waterway has become a mecca for hikers, bikers, and runners of all ages. In celebration of the Canals' 200th anniversary, The Erie Canal Traveler's Guide features more than 200 restaurants, pubs, and attractions for the entire family and the curious traveler alike, all within 'a stone's throw' - or, to be precise, 445 feet and ten inches - of the Canal Path.
Across 14 counties and many more towns and cities, establishments located along the Canal flourish. This helpful and handy account is bursting with over 200 listings with location and menu details, descriptions, and photos: explore Lockport's Upside-Down Train Trestle in Niagara County; have breakfast at local gems such as The Village Coal Tower Restaurant in Monroe County; visit Kirby's Cider Mill in Orleans Country; hike through the Mohawk Valley Welcome Center in Montgomery Country and afterwards, quench your thirst with an ice-cold glass of milk at The Dairy Bar.
Visitors to Upstate New York will discover a plethora of new favorite places alongside the Canal, and locals that know how special the Erie Canal Path is will find even more to love with The Erie Canal Traveler's Guide.
Bursting with photos and insider tips, this fun and fascinating guide to the Adirondacks showcases over 100 obscure and off-the-beaten-path sites in and around The Blue Line.
In a world where young men are seeking direction, veteran educator Paul Cumbo offers a transformative roadmap to authentic manhood that bridges traditional values with modern understanding.
Based on more than two decades of experience teaching and mentoring, Cumbo delivers an essential guide that speaks directly to today's teenage boys and young men with both warmth and challenge. This is not another shallow man up manifesto - it is a nuanced, apolitical exploration of what it truly means to grow into a man of strength, wisdom, and purpose. Through practical wisdom and engaging storytelling, A Path to Manhood addresses core issues young men face:Endorsed by leading experts in psychology, education, and spirituality including Leonard Sax, Michael Reichert, Michael Gurian, and Fr. James Martin, SJ, this compact guide speaks to both the head and heart of a young man navigating his journey to adulthood. Whether you are a young man seeking direction or someone who cares about one, this book provides the perfect balance of encouragement and challenge needed for today's generation.
In the fall of 2002, dramatic events engulf three ninth graders (not the best of friends), their passionate Scottish headmaster, and an unlikely pair of desperate escapees from a nearby prison. The inevitable collision of these forces demonstrates that age and experience has no monopoly on bravery or vulnerability.
The Adirondack Park is filled with a lore unlike anywhere else in the world. Maybe it's the beauty that surrounds the Park thanks to the thousands of mountains, lakes, and rivers within. Maybe it's the history of woodsmen struggling to survive in a place that's been aptly nicknamed, dismal wilderness. Hard to say, really. But everyone who visits this rugged, beautiful mountain country will agree; there is a mystery about the Adirondacks.
In this collection of spooky and supernatural stories set in the Adirondacks - and perfect to tell around a roaring campfire - author James Appleton taps into the lore of the Park from its well-trodden towns and trails to hidden places off the beaten path. Adapted from Appleton's popular podcast, Adirondack Campfire Stories features spooky stories, both fiction and non-fiction, that take place in the mountains, on the trails, and at the lakes of real places here in the Park. Tapping into the folklore of this majestic region, Adirondack Campfire Stories will give readers haunting experiences under the stars for years to come.
Featuring rich storytelling, generous illustrations, historical and contemporary photographs, and detailed maps old and new, The Great Genesee Road is a fascinating trip through the making of New York State, the expansion of a young country, and a piece of history that readers can still explore today.
From the hauntings of dilapidated country manors and castles, unexplained phenomena along the Valley hillsides, and strange apparitions found lingering within ancient Quaker cemeteries, this collection of stories reveals the otherworldly legacy of the Hudson Valley as a place of ancient spirits.
A love letter to the Adirondacks, revealing the hidden wonders and interconnected lives of its wildlife by one of the region's most prolific and prominent residents.
The Nature of the Place is storied Adirondack nature writer Edward Kanze's invitation to slow down, smell the roses, and get to know fellow creatures with more longstanding claims to this landscape than we have. Theirs is the real internet, a web of life that weaves together an almost infinite number of threads into a fabric that's a wonder to behold and something close to a miracle in a largely hostile universe.
In these dazzling pages, readers meet the big charismatic animals of the Adirondacks, the black bear and the moose. We encounter little creatures, too, all of which lead fascinating lives while nearly unseen: tiny fish that live in exquisite mountain streams; the infuriating and almost invisible biting insects called no-see-ums; centipedes; millipedes; and earthworms. Discover an orchid that pays a steep price for its rough treatment of bumblebees; plants so desperate for nitrogen they've taken to catching animals and eating them; poison-ivy and the reasons why we might want to exchange our dislike of it for love; and a common wildflower that goes through serial sex changes. Loons, owls, falcons, eagles, and songbirds pour out effusions of apparent ecstasy here, along with much about bobcats, foxes, snowshoe hares, beavers, and flying squirrels. Snakes, frogs, salamanders, and big predatory fish make appearances also, as well as fungi that produce light in the dark, and bacteria that manipulate the atmosphere to their own advantage, even causing rain and snow to fall.
The Nature of the Place is Kanze's love letter to his home, the Adirondacks. Gathering materials from his decades-long column at the Adirondack Explorer and elsewhere, extensively revised and rewritten for this book, Kanze's singular meditations on the flora and fauna of his home resonate far beyond his own beautiful, beloved, biologically vibrant neck of the woods.
Venture into the unknown in this collection of mysterious short stories set in the mountains and lakes of the Adirondack Park. This installment edited by Dennis Webster features thrillers and mysteries by popular Adirondack authors, award-winning crime fiction writers, and locals born and raised in the shadows of the high peaks.
In this first photography book on Lake George, award-winning photographer, Carl Heilman, has worked to capture the essence of the beauty and features of the lake, as well as the energy of life and activities that make Lake George one of the top tourist destinations in the country. While many visitors only see the lake in the splendor of the summer, Carl's photographs offer a look at the wonder and drama of the region throughout the year. The landscape format of the book offers a unique perspective for the 160 standard and panoramic images that portray the dynamic diversity of the region. From the historical re-enactments and snowstorm scenes in Lake George Village to panoramic views of the lake from the ridgeline of the Tongue Mountain Range, this book provides a look at the wonders of Lake George through the eyes of one of the region's best known photographers.
With detailed trail and waterway maps for each hike along with on-the-ground photographs taken by the author, Wilderness Camping in the Adirondacks is the perfect companion to any weekend getaway or multi-night journey in the lakes, mountains, rivers, and trails of the Adirondacks.
