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Title: Brainardsville, NY: A History of an Adirondack Town and its People
Author: Janet Hoy Sterling
Category: History Biographies & Memoirs Nonfiction
Price: $ 18.50
Language: English
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Number of Pages: 186
ISBN Number:
Publication Date: Aug, 2012
Website:
Email: writeone@writeonepublishing.com
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About this Book:
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Who were the pioneers who settled the wild and uninhabited forests in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in early 1800s? This book uses historical sources and personal recollections to tell of the farmers and millers and loggers and miners and merchants who settled the area. It tells the genealogical background of the pioneers, some of whose descendants are still living where their ancestors put down roots nearly 200 years ago. It tells about some truly remarkable people such as the country doctor who delivered 2000 babies without one case of septicemia, and a “renaissance woman” who was a writer, florist and taxidermist of exceptional ability. These early citizens and their neighbors are worthy of remembrance.
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About the Author:
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Janet Hoy Sterling, with her twin sister Joanne, was born in Brainardsville in 1932. A teacher, she has always been interested in history and genealogy. Sterling documents the founding of Brainardsville and the people who contributed to the vitality of this little town in the Adirondacks. Her personal connections to many of the families and their stories makes this a rich glimpse into rural life of the past.
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Book Review:
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The reader will be surprised at the wealth of information in the book, from details about the migration of its residents to the cultural and economic contributions of those who settled this small town and helped build its civic buildings, worked in such businesses as the hairpin factory and prize-winning creamery. Dave Johnson's barber shop, Fred Hoy's sawmill, Harold Moore's gas station, and many more are described in this fascinating and valuable record of Brainardsville's long history.
—Joanne Hoy ORoark (editor of "An Adirondack Boyhood Remembered," by Ralph L. Hoy)
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