Adirondack Reflections
On Life and Living in the Mountains and the Valleys
Published on 28. May 2013
94 pages
978-1-62584-570-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Adirondacks have been written about since they were first spied by Europeans more than five hundred years ago. Yet for most of the intervening centuries, few of those writers lived in the region of which they wrote--they were not part of the landscape. That has changed in recent years as writers have moved to the Adirondacks and formed a literary community. Perhaps inspired by these writers, longtime residents have discovered that they, too, could be part of such a community. From scratching out a living in the harsh landscape to the wonders of a moonlit cross-country ski, these writers celebrate life in the Adirondacks. In this remarkable collection of essays, the experiences of Adirondack natives are interwoven with the land in a part of America that is both demanding and rewarding.
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Neal Burdick has been a writer, editor and writing instructor since 1977. He has published essays, reviews, interviews, feature articles, poems and a short story; almost all of the pieces have focused on the Adirondacks. He is a member of Traditional Arts in Upstate New York and the Adirondack Mountain Club. Maurice Kenny has been a writer and teacher all of his life. A National Book Award winner and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, he is the author of Tekonwatonti: Molly Brant: Poems of War; Backward to Forward; the poetry collection Is Summer This Bear; and many historical and literary essays.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Land
- The Pleasures of Lowland Hiking, by Rich Frost
- We Came, We Stayed: Building an Adirondack Life, by Edward Kanze
- From Wasteland to Wilderness, by Alan L. Steinberg
- Winter Blues and Darkness: Lost and Found, by Jennifer Duffield White
- The People
- Music of the Mountains, by Dan Berggren
- Full Circle: The Journey of One Artist, by Tim Fortune
- The Tao of Woodpiles, by Phil Gallos
- In the Shadow of the Walls, by Lita Kelly
- Moving Forward, by Margaret Olsen
- The Flora and the Fauna
- Adirondack Goat Boy, by Jonathan Collier
- Sightings, by Maurice Kenny
- Bogs, Berries and Beyond, by John Radigan
- The Blue Bear, by Christopher Shaw
- Afterword. Rivers, by Neal Burdick
- About the Editors
- About Our Contributors
- About Our Illustrators
