Favorite Books

FRONTIERS AFLAME  by Eugenia Campbell Lester (great-great-great granddaughter of Jane Cannon Campbell) and Allegra Branson allows you to relive a traumatic part of America's frontier by following the historical account of Colonel Samuel Campbell's family of Cherry Valley, NY during 1776-1783.  Every student of history should read this dramatic daily existence of Campbell  family during the Revolutionary War.  It will help
you to appreciate America's precious freedom as we know it.   
You won't want to put this exciting book down.

Heart of the Lakes Publishing - Copyright 1987

 

Living History - Drawing on the Past by Cathy Johnson
"a Re-enactor's Sketchbook of Artifacts and Sights"

The format of this book is as a field scrap book in pencil sketches and hand-written notation.  The highly talented artwork and informative research on the daily tools implemented in households, and many trades make this work a valuable tool in creating your persona from 18th and early 19th centuries.  

 Graphics/Fine Arts Press - Copyright 1994

 

Tidings from the 18th Century by Beth Gilgun

Beth Gilgun uses first person narrative as if she were writing to her "Dearest Friends" on the frontier. Keeping them informed on whatever events, occasion, needs or news there is to share of her day to day living.  She gives instruction, illustrated with photos and pattern sketches, to make clothing fashions for men, women, and children.  In addition, keeping house, marketing, and daily life of Colonial times.

Rebel Publishing Co., Inc - Copyright 1993

Adirondack Album by Barney Fowler
The photo-journaling of newspaper reporter Barney Fowler covers chapters on Adirondack wildlife, So Proudly We Sailed (on Lake Champlain), Bounty Hunter.  The two articles that caught my eye were 'Goliaths in Green' article on Rogers' Rangers and Frontier Forts.

Outdoor Associates - Copyright 1982

 

Cherry Valley Country by writer Emily Williams and photographer Helen Cardamone

This work follows the Great Western and Cherry Valley Turnpikes capturing the beauty of the old structures and priceless architectural heritage that remains in upstate New York from Albany, Duanesburg, Cherry Valley, Bouckville, Cazenovia to Manlius.  The author stirs up life from the history of the beautiful stately mansions to historic barns and frame homes and churches and businesses along this frequently passes corridor of Route 20 and nearby areas.  You will begin to 'pay attention' to what remains of our history.

Brodock Press Inc - Copyright 1978

 

Everyday Dress of Rural America 1783-1800
With Instructions and Patterns by Merideth Wright and Illustrated by Nancy Rexford

A rich resource for those interested in Post-Revolutionary period clothing giving thorough description and scaled drawings of patterns and full instruction.  Settlers garments and New England's Abernaki Indian garments of soft tanned deerskin or moosehide decorated with dyes, complex embroidery of dyed porcupine quills are covered.

Dover Publications Inc - Copyright 1990

 

  Photo of brass 1750 Sundial Compass, 
      an 18th century reproduction  only  $19.95  S & H       

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