Rooted in Rock : New Adirondack Writing, 1980-2000

by GOULD JIM (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780815607014
• ISBN10: 0815607016
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

An anthology of works by established & emerging authors that includes essays, literary nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, & excerpted fiction about the Adirondack Mountains.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Rick Bass
Foreword	xix
Jacqueline F. Day
Preface	xxi
Introduction: The Case for a True Adirondack Literature	xxiii
Christopher Angus
Day Trip	1	(4)
The Osgood River	5	(3)
Russell Banks
Excerpt, Mitchell Stephens, Esquire	8	(7)
Excerpt, Cloudsplitter	15	(6)
Richard Beamish
Adirondack Smithsonian	21	(3)
Joseph Bruchac
The Last Stand	24	(1)
Adali Wassak	25	(2)
Carving	27	(1)
Into the Cedar River	28	(1)
Coming Down from Hurricane Mountain	29	(1)
Fitting the Ground to Plant	30	(9)
Charles Brumley
The Future of Adirondack Guiding	39	(3)
Cyber Woods and Virtual Mountains	42	(4)
Neal Burdick
A Century Wild	46	(6)
Thurston Clarke
The 1812 Homestead	52	(4)
Michael Coffey
The Saranac River	56	(2)
Adirondack Sounds	58	(1)
Shadow Limb	59	(2)
Adirondacks, Easter Sunday	61	(1)
Cassie Pickett's Molasses Cookies	62	(1)
Jon Dallas
In and Out	63	(1)
When the Weather Turned Around	64	(1)
She Starts from Sleep in Winter	65	(1)
Night Skiing	66	(1)
Standing in a Canoe	66	(1)
Michael DiNunzio
Islands in the Sky	67	(4)
Elizabeth Folwell
Why We Bagged It	71	(7)
Phil Gallos
The Vanishing Cure Cottage	78	(4)
Tyson's	82	(8)
Alice Wolf Gilborn
The Proving Grounds	90	(3)
Birds	93	(1)
Transit	93	(1)
The Night Rockwell Kent Showed Me His Etchings	94	(2)
Amy Godine
Jewish Peddlers	96	(5)
Jim Gould
The Wolf at the Door	101	(4)
A Letter to My Father in Winter	105	(4)
Great Blue	109	(5)
Sue Halpern
The Place of the Solitaries	114	(6)
Solo	120	(7)
Civic Literacy: The Johnsburg Library	127	(3)
Mary Hotaling
A Bacillus Grows in the Adirondacks	130	(6)
All Aboard	136	(3)
Tom Hughes
The Seven Months of Winter	139	(4)
Paul Jamieson
American Adam	143	(8)
Pen and Paddle	151	(7)
Christine Jerome
Preface, from An Adirondack Passage	158	(5)
Excerpt, Old Forge to Inlet	163	(8)
Edward Kanze
Rite of Passage: Why the Salamanders Cross the Road	171	(4)
An Adirondack Wilderness: The West Canada Lakes	175	(7)
Maurice Kenny
Preface, from Is Summer This Bear	182	(1)
Listening for the Elders	183	(1)
Archeologist	184	(1)
Walking Woods with Dogs: After a Snow Fall	185	(3)
Garden	188	(1)
James Howard Kunstler
A New Blueprint for Adirondack Towns	189	(3)
The Man Who Would Be King	192	(11)
Anne LaBastille
Opening Camp	203	(2)
Like a Kestrel	205	(7)
Brian Mann
Ninety Miles into the Adirondacks	212	(6)
Bill McKibben
Deeper Twilight Still	218	(4)
Save the Black Flies, Sort Of	222	(8)
Home	230	(6)
Home Again	236	(3)
Forty-Six---But Who's Counting?	239	(3)
Barbara McMartin
It's Not a Model; It's a Mess	242	(11)
Roger Mitchell
How It Starts	253	(1)
Reuben Sanford and John Richards, Surveyors, Make Their Report, October 1827	254	(2)
I Do Not Know What I Did Do	256	(7)
Around Here	263	(4)
Tam Lin Neville
Glistening Slug on a Mountain Road	267	(1)
Water	268	(1)
Waking Alone in Winter, 5 A.M.	269	(1)
Joan Potter
Diners, Drugstores, and Dives	270	(3)
Twenty-Five Years to Life	273	(8)
John Quenell
How Cold Was It Last Night?	281	(5)
Paul Schaefer
The Old Log Cabin	286	(2)
A Day in the Wilderness with Zahnie	288	(3)
The Plantations	291	(2)
Preface, from Adirondack Explorations: Nature Writings of Verplanck Colvin	293	(7)
Christopher Shaw
Empty at the Heart of the World	300	(18)
Alex Shoumatoff
Camp Life	318	(18)
The Real Adirondacks	336	(11)
Natalia Rachel Singer
A Girl in Winter	347	(4)
Mason Smith
You Hear Loons Calling	351	(12)
Lone Watch in a Gold-Fobbed Forest	363	(10)
J. Curt Stager
What Should You Do When You See a Bear?	373	(8)
Snowfleas	381	(8)
Bert Stern
Early Autumn in Keene Valley	389	(1)
White-Throated Sparrow	390	(1)
Fisher	390	(1)
Tea	391	(1)
Fred G. Sullivan
What's So Funny?	392	(5)
Philip Terrie
A Crisis Looms	397	(12)
Chase Twichell
Kerosene	409	(1)
Snow	410	(1)
Visitors	411	(1)
Walking Meditation	411	(1)
Ghost Birches	412	(2)
The Pools	414	(2)
Bear on Scale	416	(2)
William K. Verner
Early Bear Season	418	(3)
The Adirondack Painters	421	(4)
Jack Wikoff
When It's Carrion Time in the Adirondacks	425	(1)
Two Existentialists	426	(3)
Acknowledgments	429