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Adirondacks Page 3

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ADIRONDACKS

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This page is basically unindexed (please scroll away), except for the 1929 Stevens House brochure, but other Adirondack links are noted on the main page.

See the preceding page.

There is a section on Adirondack Guide Boats on page 2.

See also the separate page for the Marion River Carry Railroad.

If you love the great outdoors and the Earth, itself, you must read (if you haven't long since)
Chief Seattle's Letter, one of the greatest environmental pleas ever written
(even if it is phoney).

If you love the North Country or the Adirondack Mountains, especially the area around the Fulton Chain of Lakes and the Eckford Lakes, Raquette Lake and Blue Mountain Lake, you'll love the Adirondack Museum smack dab in the heart of the Adirondacks at Blue Mountain Lake, New York. It tells the story of the Adirondacks far better than any book could. I heartily recommend a visit! If you can't get there, at least look at one of my major sources, Harold K. Hochschild's Township 34 (1952), reprinted in several monographs by the Adirondack Museum ca. 1962, and available as a the boxed set or individually. The set of seven monographs are noted on the preceding page.

Here, then, is a further continuation of the original Adirondacks Page.

Stevens House

I was given a a mint, heavily-illustrated, 1929 Stevens House brochure. Stevens House was a luxury lodge sitting 200' above Lake Placid. The brochure measures 8½" x 5", with 22 saddle-stitched 2-color pages plus a gold-embossed blue Fabrikoid cover.

(13 Nov 07)

Whoo! It is awful! Vile. Some samples:

"Here, one will always find well-bred friendly companions - - - ".
"Socially selective".
"It is a select and restricted resort - ".
"For over thirty years, the clientele has been entirely Christian."

Then, about the Lake Placid Golf Club:

" - - - with no other restrictions than apply to members of the Club itself. The absence of everything ornate or tawdry creates an atmosphere that holds no appeal to the loud, the coarse or the selfishly aggressive."

Yuck! Jesus himself (who would have been denied admittance) would have been appalled at their idea of Christianity!

Still, it does show the area at its best (even if the denizens weren't), so I'm posting the whole thing:

Outside Front Cover
(from the collection of S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved;
click on thumbnailed images for larger images)

Pp. 1-2

Pp. 3-4

Pp. 5-6

Pp. 7-8

Pp. 9-10

Pp. 11-12 (centerfold)
(from the collection of S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved;
click on thumbnailed images for larger images)

Pp. 13-14

Pp. 15-16

Pp. 17-18

Pp. 19-20

Pp. 21-22

{The inner and back covers are blank}

Stevens House management (Raymond J. Stevens and family) may have been morally deplorable but the place was otherwise a dream, with trails, mountains, sports, good food (and drink?), all sorts of amenities, horses, boats, rail connections, and even hydroplane service.

For some more Adirondacks links, see the links on the preceding page.

* - I created (29 Jul 99) a page to commemorate the late (1946-53) lamented Champlain College of Plattsburgh, New York.

This is a continuation page for the original Adirondacks Page.