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Adirondack Experience the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake / Adirondack Experience in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc   Author:  Adirondack Experience author Title:  Adirondack Experience the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake / Adirondack Experience in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc Publisher:  New York, NY Scala Arts Publishers, Incorporated 2019 Copyright:  ©2019 Description:  60 pages illustrations (chiefly color), color maps 23 cm 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"-- 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 Local Note:  DONOR NOTE: Purchased from the C. Michael Gooden Endowment Subject:  Adirondack Experience -- Catalogs Adirondack Park (N.Y.) -- History Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- History Adirondack Park (N.Y.) -- Histoire Adirondack, Monts (N.Y.) -- Histoire New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains New York (State) -- Adirondack Park Genre:  Catalogs History Added Author:  Bell, Eugenia editor ISBN:  9781785511905 1785511904 Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status   F127.A2 A1764 2019 Museum Studies Research Library 39088020176897 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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