The bear tree and other stories from Cazenovia's history / Erica Barnes, Jason Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Erica, author.

Emerson, Jason, 1975- author.

Series:

New York State

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature.

Cazenovia (N.Y.)--History--Anecdotes.

Cazenovia (N.Y.).

Cazenovia (N.Y.)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2021]

Summary:

""The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia's History" examines and illuminates the unknown, unheralded, inaccurately told, and long-forgotten stories of Cazenovia, New York"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The bear tree and other tales

The sunken canoe and the legend of the Indian lovers

Former slave, Revolutionary War soldier who cooked for General Washington settled in Cazenovia

In the shadow of abolition : the unknown lives of the Johnson family, slaves to Cazenovia's founding father

Jonathan Forman : with Washington throughout the Revolutionary War

1816 : the year without a summer

First grammar book of Ojibwe language written and published in Cazenovia

A history of heartbreak : who was 'Crazy Luce'?

Susan Blow, the mother of American kindergarten, and her time in Cazenovia

William J. Hough helped create the Smithsonian Institution

Elizabeth Smith Miller, the original "bloomer"

The story of William Madge, Cazenovian who escaped from rebel prison during the Civil War

The men behind the famous Cazenovia G.A.R. photograph

Former Cazenovia resident, seminary president had historic connections to Abraham Lincoln

Lucia Zora Card, "the bravest woman in the world"

When President Cleveland came to Cazenovia

The Cazenovia mummy, Robert Hubbard, and generations of interest

Theodore Roosevelt's 1900 campaign whistle stop in Cazenovia

A family of patriots : the Kent brothers and their World War I service

"Nothing further remains but our duty" : Cecil Donovan's letters from the Western Front

Circus man Jim Fitch a colorful Cazenovia character

One of the great American novels written by a Cazenovia high school teacher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815611325

0815611323

OCLC:

1237652252