Clesson S. Bush

Episodes from a Hudson River Town (eBook, ePUB)

New Baltimore, New York

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2012 Award for Excellence presented by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network

The seemingly unremarkable Hudson River town of New Baltimore has had its ups and downs, you could certainly say that. Here, generations of families have worked the fields until the yield tapped out, built and repaired ships and barges until the steam age died, and harvested ice until refrigeration made "icebox" a quaint colloquialism. Yet despite the various economic, social, and military forces that have transformed the town, New Baltimore and its residents have endured, celebrating their triumphs and enduring their tragedies. Drawing on original town board minutes, Greene County surrogate and land records, federal and state military records, land patents, colonial documents, conversations with local residents, censuses, and period newspapers, town historian Clesson S. Bush provides an authentic portrait of a small-town community, making the routine-and drama-of small-town life on the Hudson River come alive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438440354
• Artikelnr.: 60492708

Autorenporträt

Clesson S. Bush is Historian for the Town of New Baltimore. He has held a variety of positions in state and local government, and for twenty years worked in the New York State Education Department's congressional liaison office. He received his Master's in Information Science and Policy and his PhD in Public Administration from the University at Albany-SUNY, as well as a Master's in Urban Studies from Long Island University, Brooklyn.