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KINDLE E-BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE! All six "Adirondack Attic" books are now available as e-books on Kindle, the e-book platform for Amazon.com. They are titled: "Tales from the Adirondack Attic." WARNING: They are text-only versions and do not include any photographs or extra stories. To see the photos and read the extra stories, please purchase the print versions listed below. See our E-BOOK SECTION.

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New York State's Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic, Volume 6
Andy Flynn
This book includes the 53 "Adirondack Attic" columns written in 2008 plus a chapter on Andy Flynn's Adirondack Attic Time Machine chair made for the Lake Placid Center for the Arts auction. The 240-page book includes more than 70 photographs. Stories about the artifacts at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY. Adirondack History, New York History, U.S. History.
Price: $18.00
Paperback: 5.5x8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0-9754007-6-0
Publish date: June 2010
What's in the book? See the Table of Contents (pdf)

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New York State's Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic, Volume 5
Andy Flynn
This book was released in 2008 and includes the 52 "Adirondack Attic" columns written in 2007. The 240-page book includes more than 70 photographs, winning essays from the 2007 Adirondack Attic Local History Contest, and a five-year look back at the Adirondack Attic History Project.
Price: $18.00
Paperback: 5.5x8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0-9754007-5-3
Publish date: June 2008
What's in the book? See the Table of Contents (pdf)

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New York State's Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic, Volume 4
Andy Flynn
This book was released in 2007 and includes the 52 "Adirondack Attic" columns written in 2006. The 240-page book includes more than 70 photographs, one Self-guided Adirondack History Driving Tour (Fulton Chain of Lakes), and features on the Adirondack Gilded Age Heritage Tour (Adirondack Museum, Great Camp Sagamore, Raquette Lake Navigation Company) and the Goodsell Memorial Museum in Old Forge.
Price: $18.00
Paperback: 5.5x8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0-9754007-3-9
Publish date: June 2007
What's in the book? See the Table of Contents (pdf)

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New York State's Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic, Volume 3
Andy Flynn
This book was released in 2006 and includes the 52 "Adirondack Attic" columns written in 2005. The 240-page book includes more than 70 photographs, three Self-guided Adirondack History Driving Tours, and features on the Six Nations Indian Museum in Onchiota and the Saranac Laboratory in Saranac Lake.
Price: $18.00
Paperback: 5.5x8.5 inches
ISBN: 0-9754007-2-X
Publish date: June 2006
What's in the book? See the Table of Contents (pdf)

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New York State's Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic, Volume 2
Andy Flynn
This book was released in 2005 and includes the 52 "Adirondack Attic" columns written in 2004. The 240-page book includes more than 70 photographs, an artifact-inspired short story, and features on Fort Ticonderoga, the Lake George Historical Association Museum and The History Museum in Lake Placid. Enjoy stories from around the Adirondack North Country region.
Price: $18.00
Paperback: 5.5x8.5 inches
ISBN: 0-9754007-1-1
Publish date: June 2005
What's in the book? See the Table of Contents (pdf)

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New York State's Mountain Heritage: Adirondack Attic, Volume 1
Andy Flynn
This book was released in 2004 and includes the 45 "Adirondack Attic" columns written in 2003. The 184-page book includes more than 50 photographs and an artifact-inspired short story. Enjoy stories from around the Adirondack North Country region in this first issue of the Adirondack Attic book series.
Price: $16.95
Paperback: 5.5x8.5 inches
ISBN: 0-9754007-0-3
Publish date: June 2004
What's in the book? See the Table of Contents (pdf)

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Adirondack Family Time: Tri-Lakes & High Peaks Regions
Diane Chase
Diane Chase is the author the Adirondack family activity guidebook Adirondack Family Time Tri-Lakes and High Peaks: Your Four-Season Guide to Over 300 Activities (with GPS coordinates). Covering the towns of Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake, Jay/Upper Jay, Keene/Keene Valley and Wilmington, this comprehensive guide lists over 33 mini-hikes, 19 swimming holes, 26 historic sites, seasonal events and activities, performing arts centers, trivia and more.
Price: $17.95
Paperback: 5.5x8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0-9754007-9-1
Publish date: July 2011

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Actively Adirondack: Reflections on Mountain Life in the 21st Century
Randy Lewis
This is a collection of essays and poems about life around her home in Paul Smiths, N.Y. She celebrates life as a mother, daughter and wife and her connection to the natural wonders of the Adirondack Mountains in New York state.
Price: $18.95
Paperback: 5.5x8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0-9754007-4-6
Publish date: June 2007

In Chapter 1, "Adirondack Living: Engaging With Place," Randy Lewis explores life as a true Adirondack woman in essays such as "Mother's Day," "Rhythms," "Rainwalk," "Celestial Season," "Community Spirit" and "Waterfalls." Chapter 2, "Life Around Here: Saranac Lake and Environs," includes the essays "Once, in a Blue Moon," "Filling in the Empty Spaces," "Spring Cleaning," "After Earthquake," "Adirondack Archeology" and "Running." Chapter 3, "Mountain Culture: What We All Understand," features the essays "These Mountain Roads," "Biting Flies," "Father's Day," "Summer Camp," "Indian Summer," "Rituals of Winter" and "Tax Time and Picnics." In Chapter 4, we see "Three Views of Black Bears." Chapter 5 is filled with "A Handful of Adirondack Poems."

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Mostly Spruce and Hemlock
By Louis J. Simmons

This reprint of the 1976 classic history of the village of Tupper Lake and town of Altamont, Franklin County, in New York State's 6-million-acre Adirondack Park includes a new index by author Carol Payment Poole and a foreword by Tupper Lake Free Press Publisher Dan McClelland. It was written by the late Louis J. Simmons, Free Press editor for more than 40 years and former Tupper Lake historian. It includes many pictures from the Tupper Lake community from the 1890s to the 1970s. Themes include: logging, railroads, early hotels, pioneer families, schools, churches and health care facilities.

Price: $24.95
Paperback: 6x9 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0-9754007-7-7
Publish date: November 2009

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