adirondack mountains region (n.y.)

A guide to the hundreds of museums, historic sites, forts, and homesteads found in northern New York that includes information about each site's location, history, events, hours, and cost.

Maps, photographs, appendices, and text chronicle the participation of abolitionists in the Adirondack region in the Underground Railroad, profiling key contributors, abolition meetings and conventions, and Underground Railroad stations in each county.

A young woman raised on a commune in the Adirondack Mountains recalls her feelings and observations as she came of age during the 1960s in a community that was deliberating destroying convention and creating a new, "pagan" lifestyle to replace it.

Provides evidence from different branches of science to portray the changes in climate that may be expected, and the effects that those changes will have in the Adirondacks, and includes photographs, maps, and charts.

Archival photographs and text describe the history of the Adirondack Trail in New York.

Explores the early development of the Adirondacks in New York, with two hundred rare photographs illustrating the roadways, bikeways, ski slopes, airports, railways, amusement parks, and golf courses constructed for the use of visitors.