Charles Frederic Adams: Man Against the Machine
On a cool, moist, spring evening in 1904, the outspoken lawyer and idealist Charles Frederic Adams (1851-1918) was...
On a cool, moist, spring evening in 1904, the outspoken lawyer and idealist Charles Frederic Adams (1851-1918) was...
Indigenous to the port area of New York, the double-ended ferry was a quick adaptation of steam power....
The first steam-powered pile driver in the United States is believed to have been a direct-acting type patented...
New England was a male-dominated Puritan society in which women could not vote, own property or hold a...
As heir to a log cabin in the Adirondacks, I have caught myself imagining the mile-high glacier that...
From forest edges and thickets on late spring mornings in the Northeast comes what sounds like an exhortation...
In the middle of the eighteenth century we find that New Yorkers were fond of all kinds of...
The tugboat, as a distinct vessel type, dates back to Scotland with the construction of the Charlotte Dundas...
The scarcity of timber following the American Revolution somewhat diminished the Staten Island shipbuilding trade. After the war,...
A new edition of Breaking Trail: Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks is now available from Purple Mountain Press....
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