new york (state)

In this fictionalized future of American civilization, the terminal decline of oil production and the fall of the central government has made life in the small town of Union Grove, New York, remote until a radical religious sect, the New Faith order, clashes with the locals, and Robert Earle, a former software executive turned carpenter, is sent off to recover the missing crew of a trading boat.

Two teen-aged girls become friends in their small New York town as they attempt to make sense of their families and neighbors in the years leading up to World War II.

Natty Bumppo, the Leatherstocking, now on the threshold of old age finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed becomes private property, and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature.

Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.

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.

The diary of a ten-year-old girl who lived in western New York during the 1850s records her family and school life, clothing, transportation, and views on women's rights. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.

Prsents adaptations of three stories of the Catskill Mountains by Washington Irving, including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in which a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman.