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The tavern lamps are burning : literary journeys through six regions and four centuries of New York State / selected by Carl Carmer.

PS548.N7 T38 1996

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Format:: Book
Contributor:: Carmer, Carl, 1893-1976.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: American literature--New York (State).; American literature.; New York (State)--Description and travel.; New York (State).; New York (State)--Literary collections.
Genre:: Literary collections.
Physical Description:: xix, 567 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:: New York : Fordham University Press, 1996.
Summary:: New York State has had its share of writers who have, at some point in their careers, taken New York as their subject. The writings compiled here by Carl Carmer, a native of New York State and one of its finest folklorists, celebrate what he calls the "undefined gleanings" of this great state, spanning four centuries and six regions.; Carmer writes in his Foreword: "I have long held that 'York State' is a country, that its people have specific characteristics that make it distinctive." Tavern Lamps gives us 98 British and American authors (with a biographical listing of the authorship in the back of the book) and over 150 selections celebrating the rich culture and heritage of the state. In the collection, we read Rudyard Kipling on Buffalo's grain elevators, Edith Wharton on the Hudson River country, Theodore Dreiser on Owego, Herman Melville on the Erie Canal, Henry James on Saratoga, Washington Irving on Knickerbocker, Samuel L. Clemens, DeWitt Clinton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and many more. This collection, complemented by 40 paintings from the collection of the New York State Historical Association, gives us upstate New York from a myriad of its inhabitants and visitors, a multi-faceted portrait of an area about which Carmer hopes "the peppered reader will be convinced that there is an over-all one of a kind nonesuchness that separates upstate from the rest of the world."
Contents:: Book I The Hudson The Catskills The Taconics; The Hudson 5; 17th Century; A Month of Fair Weather on the "Great River of the Mountains" / Robert Juet 5; Along Hudson's River / Daniel Denton 11; Knickerbocker's New York / Washington Irving 14; 18th Century; I Go to a Famous Gathering at the Patroon's Manor House / Harold Frederic 21; What Is an American? / J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur 27; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving 31; 19th Century; Albany / Mrs. Basil Hall 57; Danskammer / Margaret Armstrong 60; A Landed Aristocracy / Henry Christman 63; The Grave of Major Andre / L. Maria Child 67; Breaking Up of the Ice on the Hudson River / Mrs. (Anne) Grant 70; / George William Curtis; The Hudson and the Rhine 72; Saratoga 74; Lake George 77; Conversations with Washington Irving / Fredrika Bremer 79; Harriet Tubman / Earl Conrad 80; "Saratoga" / Henry James 86; / John Burroughs; A River View 87; The Friendly Rocks 91; Adventures at Various Springs / Marietta Holley 92; Steamboat Annie of Nyack / Edmund Pearson 96; River Men / A. J. Liebling 99; 20th Century; / Charles Norman; A Poem in Praise 101; The Lake 102; The Willows / Edith Wharton 103; Where We Began / Marion Edey 109; Small-Town Parade / Phyllis Mc Ginley 111; The Catskills 113; The Kaatskill Mountains / Washington Irving 113; Freedom Ware / Oriana Atkinson 113; Leather-stocking Remembers When / James Fenimore Cooper 120; At the Mountain House / Tyrone Power 122; The Catskill Mountains / Nathaniel P. Willis 124; The Cauterskill Falls / William Cullen Bryant 125; Catskill / George William Curtis 128; "The Spectral Looking-Glass" / Reverend Dr. Murdoch 132; Seasons in The Vly / Edmund Gilligan 133; Smoke from a Valley Cabin / Brooks Atkinson 136; The Taconics 143; William Prendergast, Agrarian / Henry Noble Mac Cracken 143; Thoroughfare of Freedom / Henry Noble Mac Cracken 150; Old Bet / Anne Colver 155; Lebanon; The Shaker Village / Charles Dickens 157; Steepletop / Edna st. Vincent Millary 162; 1) Even you, Sweet Basil: even you 162; 2) Nothing could stand 162; 3) Borage, forage for bees 163; Book II The Adirondacks The St. Lawrence; The Adirondacks 168; The Fourth Voyage: Lake Champlain / Morris Bishop 168; 1842 Journal / Francis Parkman 174; Campbell of Inverawe / Francis Parkman 181; The Capture of Ticonderoga / John Pell 182; Old Phelps / Charles Dudley Warner 186; Dark Trees, Dark Water / Theodore Dreiser 192; The Most Haunted House / Louis C. Jones 195; Adirondack Year / William Chapman White 198; The Betwixt and Between Season / Robert F. Hall 207; The St. Lawrence 211; Sword of the Border / Fletcher Pratt 211; The Grande Dame of Great Bend / T. Wood Clarke 215; First Kiss / Chard Powers Smith 220; The Garden Party / Walter Guest Kellogg 225; The Ten Treasures / Irving Bacheller 229; The St. Lawrence / Henry Beston 234; Book III The Mohawk Valley The Erie Canal; The Mohawk Valley 242; Panoramic Views of the Valley; Upstream / Hislop Codman 242; The Valley Itself / T. Wood Clarke 248; The Iroquois Federation / James Thomas Flexner 250; Too Old to Change? / Robert W. Chambers 253; Revolution in the Valley / John Tebbel, Keith Jennison 255; Adam Helmer's Run / Walter D. Edmonds 261; Letters from the Valley / Codman Hislop 265; Country Life / Marquise de La Tour Du Pin 272; To the Falls of the Mohawk / Thomas Moore 278; My Existography / Chester Harding 279; A New "Vision of Sin" / Charles Dudley Warner 284; High-Handed Outrage at Utica / Artemus Ward 290; "Children's House" / Pierrepont B. Noyes 291; Horse and Buggy Lawyer / Arthur Train 295; / W. W. Christman; The Pines 304; Religion 306; Blenheim 306; / Clinton Scollard; Cricket 308; Harding Hill 308; The Enchanted Landscape / John Cowper Powys 309; / Lansing Christman; They Too Were Meadows 313; Sorting Apples 313; The Erie Canal 314; A Trip on the Erie Canal / Willis Gaylord Clark 314; Water Never Hurt a Man / Walter D. Edmonds 316; Death in Albion / Walter D. Edmonds 323; "Moonlight All the Way" / John V. A. Weaver 330; Journeyman / William Harlan Hale 334; "Canallers" / Herman Melville 335; Book IV The Finger Lakes; The Eat-All Dinner / Alexander Mc Ginn Stewart 340; Munk Birgo and the Carcagne / Samuel Hopkins Adams 343; The Man in the Dungeon / Earl Conrad 350; A Finger Lakes Boyhood / Samuel Hopkins Adams 354; A Hoss Trade / Edward Noyes Westcott 359; / Warren Hunting Smith; The Misses Elliot 368; The Misses Elliot and the Glorious Fourth 375; / Roger Burlingame; "Summer Devils" 378; 1915 379; The Picnic 380; 1920 381; 1924 382; The Importance of Buckwheat / Romeyn Berry 385; Book V Western New York; 16th Century; The Origin of the False Faces / Jesse Cornplanter of the Senecas 392; The White Woman of the Genesee: Mary Jennison 1743-1833 / James E. Seaver 397; The Universal Friend / Thomas Morris 399; The Cataract of Niagara, in Canada, North America / Oliver Goldsmith 400; A Reply to a Missionary Agent, 1811 / Red Jacket of the Senecas 401; Hibernicus on "Rattle Snakes" / De Witt Clinton 403; Walk-in-the-Water / Harlan Hatcher 408; A Trip to Niagara / Frances Wright 411; The First Case / Bellamy Partridge 417; Niagara / Nathaniel Hawthorne 425; A Girl of the Genesee Valley / Jessie B. Rittenhouse 426; Buffalo's Wheat Elevators / Rudyard Kipling 429; / Henry W. Clune; Linden Street 431; Golden Plow 434; The Jumping Bass of Oak Orchard Creek / Helen E. Allen 435; The Happy Valley / Mrs. Winthrop Chanler 439; Buffalo / Rexford G. Tugwell 442; How Dr. Faustus Came to Rochester / Paul Horgan 455; The Wadsworths of the Genesee / Alden Hatch 469; Old Legends Never Die / Arch Merrill 472; Book VI Southern Tier; A Letter to William Sampson, Esq. / Judge Cooper 482; Captain Charles Williamson of Bath / Guy H. Mc Master 486; Letters from Under a Bridge / Nathaniel P. Willis 491; Elmira Anthology 495; Mark Twain's Courtship / Samuel L. Clemens 495; Mark Twain's Elmira / Max Eastman 501; The Hero as Parent / Max Eastman 510; A Society for Truth and Beauty / Russell Lynes 514; Sinclairville / Rexford G. Tugwell 515; Blind Sam, the Sailor / Harold W. Thompson 522; Owego / Theodore Dreiser 527.
Notes:: Reprint. Originally published: New York : D. McKay Co., [1964]; Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:: 0823216977; 0823216985
OCLC:: 187459033

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