Upstate Echoes (Arch Merrill's New York Series, 9)
Publisher: Heart of the Lakes Pub
Published: September 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781557870032
Subjects: New York - Local History
Table of contents: title: ABSTRACT: 15 CHAPTERS, AS FOLLOWS - “Bird in a gilded cage” tells of President Martin Van Buren’s son John, Maria Ameriga Vespucci and their home in Ogdensburg. “A king in the woods” tells of Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother Joseph & Lake Bonaparte. “Grand seigneurs” discusses James Le Ray Chaumont & Baroness Defriet and how their names linger on. “Fra Elbertus” is about Elbert Hubbard & the Roycroft workshops. “Missionary martyrs” tells of Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, Henry Spalding & the Oregon Trail. “Silver-tongued infidel” states that Dresden, NY is the birthplace of Robert Green Ingersoll & discusses his life. “Sha-lot” is  how residents of Rochester, NY pronounce the name of the “Coney Island of the West”: Charlotte, NY. “Hollywood on Cayuga” recalls when Ithaca, NY was a center for movie making from 1913-1920 and states that the “Perils of Pauline” was filmed there. “Call of the “thunder water” recalls names associated with Niagara Falls: Major Lloyd Hill, William “Red” Hill, Sr., Anthony “Jiggs” Ruffrano, Sam Patch, Mrs. Anna Edward Taylor, William Lyon Mackenzie, Tightrope walkers Blondin & Farini, plus sailing ships Caroline & Michigan. “Scythe tree” discusses how a tree grew around a scythe after Waterloo, NY resident Wyman Johnson departed to fight in the Civil War and never returned. “Last council house” is the oldest building in Genesee County: a Seneca council house in Letchworth State Park. “Last of the covered bridges” mentions locations of some of NYS  covered bridges, including those  in Bennington & Cowlesville and discusses the building style. “The last sextuplet” is about Mrs. Alincia Bushnell Parker and gives some odds for multiple births in a time before fertility drugs. “Some history-haunted houses” mentions Granger House in Canandaigua and Belvidere Mansion near Belvidere, NY. “Wonderful man” refers to Bernarr McFadden of Dansville, NY.