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The literary remains of writer Nelson J. Scribner (1899-1926) are not extensive. His published work consists of one story—“The Luck of Lucky Joe”—which appeared posthumously in a pulp fiction magazine in 1927. Copies of...
A rock is just a rock until its secret is known—or as they used to say in olden times, until its guardian spirit is teased out. The ancient Romans had a term for it—genius...
Cedar Grove was the home of Thomas Cole from 1836, when he married the proprietor’s niece, until 1848, when the artist unexpectedly died of a lung ailment. Of the original structures that adorned the...
Frederic Edwin Church was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1826. At a young age, he expressed passionate interest in becoming a landscape artist. His father, Joseph—a silversmith by training and later a founder and...
Frederick F. Hapeman is but one of the many forgotten artists of the Catskill Mountains. We know he was an artist because that’s what he told the army captain who came through Windham, New...
Well begun is half done, they used to say. As in the course of human events, so too with rivers. Make a good start and it’s downhill the rest of the way. Consider, for...
In the summer of 1958, thirty-nine-year-old Roland Van Zandt—former U.S. Air Force bombardier, husband, father of four, and doctoral student of American history—was hiking in the vicinity of North Lake when he stumbled upon...
On Saturday, May 27th, 1961, an estate auction took place on the Tryon farm just outside the hamlet of Norton Hill in the Town of Greenville. The weather that morning was unseasonably cold, gray,...
The materials for a full and satisfying biography of Olive Eliza Cheritree probably no longer exist. What remains are fragments, the scatterings of a creative life gone awry—a couple of photographs, a handful of...
Often I am permitted to return to a meadow as if it were a scene made-up by the mind, that is not mine, but is a made place ...
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