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Our Time at Foxhollow Farm
Author | : David Byars |
Publsiher | : Excelsior Editions |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438462816 |
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Our Time at Foxhollow Farm is a remarkable pictorial history of an eminent Hudson Valley family in the early decades of the twentieth century. Illustrated with the family's extensive collection of personal albums compiled during the nascent years of photography, it provides a fascinating insight into the regional, social, and architectural history of the era. In 1903 Tracy Dows, the son of a successful grain merchant from Manhattan, married Alice Townsend Olin, whose Livingston forebears had settled in the Rhinebeck, New York, area in the late 1600s. Dows purchased and combined several existing farms to establish his estate, Foxhollow Farm, next to Alice's ancestral home. He commissioned Harrie T. Lindeberg, a sought-after architect trained under Stanford White, to design the family home and other buildings on the property, and the Olmsted Brothers to landscape its rolling hills. The Dowses raised their three children on the estate, and led a busy social life of tennis tournaments, weddings, dinners, and dances with such friends and neighbors as the Roosevelts and the Astors. Tracy Dows devoted himself largely to the pursuit of agricultural and civic affairs at home and in the Rhinebeck community. Olin Dows, Tracy and Alice's son, became a notable painter active in President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. Our Time at Foxhollow Farm follows the Dows family from 1903 through the 1930s, documenting their life at home, social activities, and travels in America and Europe. An enthusiastic amateur photographer, Tracy Dows took many of this book's photographs himself, offering a vivid and warmly intimate perspective on privileged early twentieth-century American life.
Out Doors at Idlewild or The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
Author | : Nathaniel Parker Willis |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781438486246 |
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During the 1850s and '60s, by far the most prominent author in all of New York State was the writer, editor, and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867). Nearly as prominent as Willis himself was his Hudson Valley estate, Idlewild, where literary elites gathered and about which Willis himself wrote and published extensively. In 1846, Willis founded the Home Journal, which would go on to become Town and Country. In Out-Doors at Idlewild, first published in 1855, Willis chronicled the creation of his estate at Cornwall-on-Hudson (near West Point), as well as life amid its countryside. The land afforded brilliant views of the river and the mountains to the East. Calvert Vaux, the famed architect of both landscapes and houses, designed the elaborate and ornate Gothic Revival home, which Willis named Idlewood (whereas he called the estate Idlewild), and into which the Willis family moved in July of 1853. Here, Willis wrote a series of papers for the Home Journal documenting life at the seventy-acre estate. These papers were gathered together in Out-Doors at Idlewild, a celebration of Willis's home and estate.
A Family Place
Author | : Leila Philip |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2009-04-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781438427713 |
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One womans journey to uncover her familys history and understand the ties that bind us to a particular place. Encompassing three centuries of manor lords and tenant farmers, Civil War heroes and renegade aunts, award-winning author Leila Philip tells the story of her ancestral Hudson Valley home, Talavera, and the mystery of her attachment to it. After her fathers death in 1992, Leila and her family struggled to find the means to keep their farm intact. This uphill battle led her to examine the forces that compel a family to sacrifice almost everything to hold onto a particular piece of land. Newly republished with a folio of historic photographs and an epilogue that updates the story of the farm and the family to the present, A Family Place addresses the tensions between memory and recorded fact, inviting readers to take a new look at their own sense of home. Philip is an extremely gifted writer who doesnt skirt somber emotional notes. She has created a brave, eloquent, and beautifully constructed memoir of a remarkable place and the remarkable family that belongs to it. Chronogram Author Leila Philip presents a tribute to her familys long and illustrious history, revealing a piece of Americana that is hard to replicate. A Family Place is recommended reading for anyone who wants to see the evolution of the American family first hand. Reviewers Bookwatch Philip grafts history, natural history, and autobiography into a stunning performance. Maureen Howard, author of Big as Life Mesmerizing Both narrative threads are profoundly personal. Braided together with insight, they pay homage to the ideals of home and family with a resonance that should extend beyond her home region. Publishers Weekly an unpretentious, subtly shaded story of the importance of understanding the ghosts and heroes that reside in every ancestral home. New York Times An exquisite rendering of a Hudson Valley family farm, as detailed and colored as a Persian miniature. Philips family history is alarmingly transporting, and her sense of place so rich you can taste it. Kirkus Reviews(starred review) Riveting one of the most finely written family histories available. Library Journal
The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm
Author | : Richard Estep,Robert Graves |
Publsiher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-09-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780738760797 |
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Fox Hollow Farm, the infamous Indiana property where Herb Baumeister allegedly murdered at least eleven men, has a grim past and an unsettling present. This riveting book pieces together the story of the tragic case and explores the paranormal encounters that continue to this day, delving into the psyche of a suspected murderer and the terrifying supernatural activity that lingers in the aftermath of such unspeakable evil. The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm provides detailed insights from the original criminal investigation as well as the perspectives of the man who survived Herb's attempt on his life. This chilling book also features actual supernatural evidence—from EVPs and psychic confirmations to first-hand accounts of the disembodied hands and voices that regularly manifest on the estate.
A Pinprick of Light
Author | : Carl R. Byron |
Publsiher | : Stephen Greene Press |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105037677221 |
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Our Little Adventures
Author | : Tabitha Paige |
Publsiher | : Paige Tate & Company |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781950968015 |
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"Follow along with Little Fox as he plans a surprise picnic for his friend Owl,"--
The Tragedy at the Loomis Street Crossing
Author | : Chuck Spinner |
Publsiher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2012-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781468555936 |
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The Tragedy at the Loomis Street Crossing After five years of intense research, Author Chuck Spinner has written the definitive story of the Naperville Train Wreck of April 25, 1946. He has uncovered the histories of the 45 victims of the tragedy, interviewed two surviving eye witnesses of the event, and talked with survivors and helpers at the scene. His family lived just a block from the crossing where the accident occurred. Spinner was born at St. Charles Hospital in Aurora, Illinois on October 22, 1946. Thomas Chaney, severely injured in the train wreck, was released from this same hospital on December 18th, 1946. Perhaps, during his recovery, Thomas may have viewed John and Louise Spinner's infant son in the nursery. If so, Chaney would have never imagined that he was viewing the person, who 66 years later would write the story that he had just lived! It came fast. I watched it horrified. The train came on bigger and bigger. I saw a man climbing down from the engine cab, and start down the ladder. That's all I saw. I turned and ran yelling warnings toward the front of my coach. The next second it hit. - Raymond Jake Jaeger When the crash came I was thrown to the top of the car, turned a somersault and came down. A pile of people fell on me. I kicked out a window and climbed out. I think a woman behind me was killed. - Sol Greenbaum I didn't think I'd make it through the war. ...I went through all that in the Pacific only to come home and have this happen. We were in the rear car and our seats faced forward. I got up to put my coat in the (overhead) rack and looked back to see the other train coming. - Henry Faber It was worse than anything I ever saw in war! - George Whitney That was some wreck. I wonder how many people who live in Naperville now even know the wreck happened. - Rosie Hodel Image Caption: Chuck Spinner and his wife Patrice are pictured with their son Scott, Scotts wife, Ellen and their two grandchildren Caleb (left) and Joshua.
Rip Van Winkle s Neighbors
Author | : Thomas S. Wermuth |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2001-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 079145083X |
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Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.