Living North Country : Essays on Life and Landscape in Northern New York

by Singer, Natalia Rachel; Burdick, Neal S.

• ISBN13: 9780925168801
• ISBN10: 0925168807
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: North Country Books Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xix
SETTING
North Country Idyll	3	(17)
Neal Burdick
Postcards of My North Country	20	(21)
Homer Mitchell
North Country Seasoning	41	(14)
Lynn Case Ekfelt
The Nature of the North Country	55	(5)
Chris Angus
Island Frequencies	60	(7)
Bill McKibben
GROWING UP
Rumblings	67	(23)
Peter Owens
Pontiac Memories	90	(11)
Ken Lawless
Water in a Paper Bag	101	(18)
Roger Mitchell
The Old Pump House	119	(3)
William Gadway
North Country Girls	122	(8)
Elizabeth Inness-Brown
An African in the Adirondacks	130	(20)
Alice Paden Green
Groceries	150	(7)
Tam Lin Neville
Mohawk Women Remember	157	(10)
Randall T.G. Hill
A Letter to My Father in Late Winter	167	(8)
Jim Gould
NEIGHBORS
The Minnow Man	175	(2)
Mary Blake
The Amish: Quiet Immigrants	177	(19)
Betsy Tisdale
Wedding Day at Birdsfoot Community	196	(11)
Peter Van de Water
Katie	207	(14)
Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
A Fred Exley Fan's Notes	221	(11)
Peter J. Bailey
Doing Time in the Adirondacks	232	(11)
Joan Potter
Taekwondo and the Prison Guard	243	(12)
Constance Jenkins
GHOSTS
The Fair	255	(18)
Jonathan Mairs
Last Day at the Mines in Moriah	273	(9)
Tom Van de Water
Becoming the Past	282	(5)
Harry W. Paige
Whistles in the Night	287	(7)
Arthur L. Johnson
A Girl in Winter	294	(7)
Natalia Rachel Singer
SKELETONS
Blood Memory, Blood Ritual	301	(8)
Heather Allison-Jenkins
Coming Home a Stranger	309	(10)
Shirley McFerson
LOOKING FOR HOME
Tremolo	319	(11)
Maurice Kenny
Memories from the Shadow of Mr. Baker	330	(9)
Carolyn Boggs
John W. Van de Water: A North Country Gentleman Farmer	339	(12)
John W.
Peter Van de Water
Afterword	351	(2)
About the Authors	353	(9)
Credits	362