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LISTING The Skies over Rhinebeck: A Pilot's Story By Richard A. King, Stephan Wilkinson, editor. 1st Edition, published June 1997. 275 pages, Hardcover. ISBN: 0966133501

Pilot Richard King's personal accounts of flying at one of the world's unique aviation attractions, including anecdotes of Cole Palen, the internationally renowned curator, collector and pilot of his vintage aircraft collection.
Review excerpt ...a collection of stories about a very special place in the annals of aviation history. The book recalls a glorious time and place where aviation history is re-lived, remembered and re-created.
Peter Jakabs, Air & Space magazine, National Air and Space Museum "... dozens of action photographs of the striking aircraft that have rolled down the runway at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome for four decades. Readers will be turning the pages for hours long after they devour the rich and informative text."

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Chaining the Hudson: The Fight for the River in the American Revolution. By Lincoln Diamant. Paperback, 233 pp. Published 1994. ISBN: 080651535X

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The Lost Treasure of Captain Kidd. By Peter Lourie, Michael Chandler (Illustrator). Reading Level: Ages 9-12. Paperback. ISBN: 1885482035

Card catalog description: Two boys living along the Hudson River track historical clues and try to elude a crazed treasure-hunter as they search for bounty rumored to have been hidden in 1699.

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New York Central in the Hudson Valley: The Water Level Route in Steam and Diesel (Golden Years of Railroading). By George H. Drury. Published 1995. Paperback, 127 pp. ISBN: 0890242305

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Long Hammering: Essays on the Forging of an African American Presence in the Hudson River Valley to the Early Twentieth Century. By Albert James Williams-Myers. Paperback, 186 pp. Published 1994. ISBN: 0865433038 (Special order)

Essays that explore the integral role played by African-Americans in the development of the Hudson River Valley. "Particularly valuable for the light it throws upon the economic roles and domestic lives of slaves in rural New York." — Jack P. Greene, JHU Annotation by Inland Book Company

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