Ah, the mysteries of Upstate New York's cemeteries! The hundreds of rural cemeteries in Upstate New York are the bucolic final resting places of a surprising number of legendary Americans. Author Chuck D'Imperio has spent more than five years and traveled thousands of miles around this beautiful and historic region in search of the graves of the famous (and infamous!). Great Graves of Upstate New York! is a fascinating, fact-filled, guide to the regional gravesites of a wide spectrum of recognizable names from the near and ...
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Ah, the mysteries of Upstate New York's cemeteries! The hundreds of rural cemeteries in Upstate New York are the bucolic final resting places of a surprising number of legendary Americans. Author Chuck D'Imperio has spent more than five years and traveled thousands of miles around this beautiful and historic region in search of the graves of the famous (and infamous!). Great Graves of Upstate New York! is a fascinating, fact-filled, guide to the regional gravesites of a wide spectrum of recognizable names from the near and distant past. And all in Upstate New York! And the list is nothing short of incredible: singer Kate Smith, The God Bless America Girl; Mafia figure Joe the Barber Barbara; John Burroughs, The Father of the American Conservation Movement; Annie Edson Taylor, Niagara''s REAL Maid of the Mist; Dr. Mary Walker, America's first and only female Congressional Medal of Honor winner; Jennie Grossinger, The Catskill''s Innkeeper; Virginia O. Douglas, Yes, Virginia! There is a Santa Claus; Tim Murphy, The Savior of Schoharie; Sam Patch, The Yankee Leaper; Matthew Vassar, The Brewer Philanthropist; Lucille Ball, The Queen of Comedy; Ann Trow Lohman, The Wickedest Woman in New York; Ernie Davis, The Pride of the Syracuse Orangemen; and many more, including four U.S. Presidents, one Kentucky Derby winning horse and the most famous one-legged tap-dancer in the world!
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VG. Size: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches; Solid retired library book with usual library treatments; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Overall, a very nice clean copy. The hundreds of rural cemeteries in Upstate New York are the bucolic final resting places of a plethora of legendary Americans from the recent and distant past. For over a decade, Chuck D'Imperio traveled to research the beautiful and historic region in search of some of the most famous (and infamous) figures in American history. The product of this labor of love is Great Graves of Upstate New York: Final Resting Places of 70 True American Legends. Many of the names are familiar to any American William Rockefeller, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known as Mark Twain), Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, and Harriet Tubman, and four U.S. presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, and Chester Arthur. An equally colorful host of local characters who shaped the culture of Upstate New York are also featured, including: Kate Smith, "The God Bless America Girl"; mafia figure Joe "Joe the Barber" Barbara; Dr. Mary Walker, America's only female Congressional Medal of Honor winner; Jennie Grossinger, "The Catskill's Innkeeper"; and Ernie Davis, "The Pride of the Syracuse Orangemen." From Syracuse to West Point to Binghamton, and on to Cooperstown, Niagara Falls, and Lake Placid, Great Graves of Upstate New York is not only a fact-filled volume on the region's cemeteries, museums, and historical sites, but a peek into the lives of 70 distinguished individuals who have shaped American history. Editorial Reviews About the Author Chuck D'Imperio lives and works in Oneonta, serving as a morning radio host for WDOS-AM. 168 pages.
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