In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
Presents guidance and tools for visitors to New York State, including trip planning information, "best of" lists, itineraries, lodging and dining suggestions for different budgets, and details on history, culture, and things to see and do.
Discusses the activities of the Green Mountain Boys under the leadership of Ethan Allen, first working as a private part-time army to defend land ownership rights in the colony which later became Vermont, and then fighting in the Revolutionary War in various areas in the northern colonies.
Living in rural New York state during the 1930's, Hannah begins to see her parents and herself in a different light as they settle into their new apartment behind the Grand View Restaurant.
Nineteenth-century town librarian Glynis Tryon, a veteran of a number of political crusades, becomes involved in battling discrimination against the Seneca Iroquois by white settlers, but when one of her Iroquois friends is accused of murder, the fight becomes personal.
Eighteen-year-old Sami Granger moves to New York from Elk Lake, Minnesota, with dreams of becoming a fashion designer, but when her first job ends in disaster she is forced to accept employment at a naughty lingerie store where she learns to redirect her talent, life, and love.
Sixteen-year-old Riley Swain, pushed into spending spring break at an upstate New York camp for overweight teens by her father's fiancee, is happy with her weight but finds she has a lot to learn about friendship and love.
