Fall- Winter 2008-2009
Dear Woodstock Friend and Neighbor,
Why, might you ask yourself, would you want to own a memoir of a local family?
The Woodstock that the founding families moved to and raised generations of families in has essentially evolved into something new. Descendants of the founding families are aging, memories and recollections are fading, the essence of “old Woodstock” is at risk of being lost to the rush of modern life. Let me introduce you to my latest local history book, American Tapestry, The Mowers of Maple Lane.
The book was self published thru ANAM CARA PRESS in 2007.
Copies are available thru me at $16.00 each. 845-679-6744, lifesjourney@hvc.rr.com. They can also be purchased at Golden Notebook, Lotus Fine Art, and Readers Quarry in Woodstock as well as Book Trader in Saugerties.
I also have copes of the Arcadia Publishing Images of Woodstock and Woodstock Revisited available for purchase at 20.00 each.
The story of a Woodstock family, 100 years of property ownership, and Mower’s flea market
selected excerpts:
#1 Post Civil War era Woodstock- Saugerties area is gradually becoming a summer get away for people living in the city of New York. Local historians have done a tremendous job of portraying the exciting times during which Noah and Mary Catherine were raising their young family. The great Catskill Mountain houses were being built on the southern and eastern most ridges of the beautiful mountain range. Any local person with an entrepreneurial eye could choose from a variety of service business to set up, with the hope of earning a living as a result of this influx of people from outside the Ulster County area. Noah continues to farm and work the quarries. The family attends worship services at Christ’s Lutheran Church, located high on the rock ledge just outside the village of Woodstock, near Chestnut Hill Road. Walter and Nelly were baptized at this church. Their little daughter Rachel’s passing at one and a half years old is recorded in Christ’s Lutheran Church records. Rachel, named after her grandmother, died at home; her cause of death was listed as teething. She was laid to rest on a beautiful June day in 1881, along side her Sitzer relatives in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery.
#2 Now part of the summer season ritual, John resumes his regular habit of stopping at the Maple Lane house to check for trespassers. Any local resident driving down Deanies Alley can see that the John and Esther’s gardens are now over grown, with the flowerbeds gone to seed. A stately deep purple lilac tree stands tall in the center of the field. It serves as a reminder of the shrieks of laughter and the gentle flow of country life that was once visible on Maple lane. At the time of Al’s death, in order to retain the property and the house, insurance money had been used to purchase it from the facility where Esther Jones Mower had been in residence for twenty years. The pressure to sell the property including the empty dilapidated building was mounting, and the taxes were due.
#3 A Memorable September, 1999 Storm: Hurricane Floyd
John was away in New Jersey attending a two day accounting conference the night that Hurricane Floyd, a category 4 storm, descended on the New York metropolitan area. No one gave the storm much thought other than it might bring some welcome rain to the Hudson Valley. The first indication that something was wrong was when a phone call came in from Maple Lane neighbor, Dorothy Telson.
“Janine there was a loud swoosh and crash on the property” said Dorothy.
Signed copies are available from the author for $ 16.00 each.
845-679-6744, lifesjourney@hvc.rr.com
Dear Woodstock Friend and Neighbor,
Why, might you ask yourself, would you want to own a memoir of a local family?
The Woodstock that the founding families moved to and raised generations of families in has essentially evolved into something new. Descendants of the founding families are aging, memories and recollections are fading, the essence of “old Woodstock” is at risk of being lost to the rush of modern life. Let me introduce you to my latest local history book, American Tapestry, The Mowers of Maple Lane.
The book was self published thru ANAM CARA PRESS in 2007.
Copies are available thru me at $16.00 each. 845-679-6744, lifesjourney@hvc.rr.com. They can also be purchased at Golden Notebook, Lotus Fine Art, and Readers Quarry in Woodstock as well as Book Trader in Saugerties.
I also have copes of the Arcadia Publishing Images of Woodstock and Woodstock Revisited available for purchase at 20.00 each.
The story of a Woodstock family, 100 years of property ownership, and Mower’s flea market
selected excerpts:
#1 Post Civil War era Woodstock- Saugerties area is gradually becoming a summer get away for people living in the city of New York. Local historians have done a tremendous job of portraying the exciting times during which Noah and Mary Catherine were raising their young family. The great Catskill Mountain houses were being built on the southern and eastern most ridges of the beautiful mountain range. Any local person with an entrepreneurial eye could choose from a variety of service business to set up, with the hope of earning a living as a result of this influx of people from outside the Ulster County area. Noah continues to farm and work the quarries. The family attends worship services at Christ’s Lutheran Church, located high on the rock ledge just outside the village of Woodstock, near Chestnut Hill Road. Walter and Nelly were baptized at this church. Their little daughter Rachel’s passing at one and a half years old is recorded in Christ’s Lutheran Church records. Rachel, named after her grandmother, died at home; her cause of death was listed as teething. She was laid to rest on a beautiful June day in 1881, along side her Sitzer relatives in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery.
#2 Now part of the summer season ritual, John resumes his regular habit of stopping at the Maple Lane house to check for trespassers. Any local resident driving down Deanies Alley can see that the John and Esther’s gardens are now over grown, with the flowerbeds gone to seed. A stately deep purple lilac tree stands tall in the center of the field. It serves as a reminder of the shrieks of laughter and the gentle flow of country life that was once visible on Maple lane. At the time of Al’s death, in order to retain the property and the house, insurance money had been used to purchase it from the facility where Esther Jones Mower had been in residence for twenty years. The pressure to sell the property including the empty dilapidated building was mounting, and the taxes were due.
#3 A Memorable September, 1999 Storm: Hurricane Floyd
John was away in New Jersey attending a two day accounting conference the night that Hurricane Floyd, a category 4 storm, descended on the New York metropolitan area. No one gave the storm much thought other than it might bring some welcome rain to the Hudson Valley. The first indication that something was wrong was when a phone call came in from Maple Lane neighbor, Dorothy Telson.
“Janine there was a loud swoosh and crash on the property” said Dorothy.
Signed copies are available from the author for $ 16.00 each.
845-679-6744, lifesjourney@hvc.rr.com
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