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Daniel S. Dickinson: Defender of the Constitution by Marjory B. Hinman.\
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Daniel S. Dickinson was an outstanding statesman from Binghamton serving as the first President of that city, then a State Senator (1837-1840), Lieutenant Governor (1842), and US Senator (1844-1851). He introduced the principal of \"Manifest Destiny\"--that it was our country's destiny to extend from sea to sea, taking in the California Territory and portions of Canada.\
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In 1852 he turned down the nomination for President because he had already pledged to Lewis Cass at the Democratic convention. As a candidate he would have been acceptable to the South as he upheld the Constitutional right of slavery. In 1861 he was appointed Attorney General of the Southern District of New York. During the Civil War he threw his all into holding the Union together, speaking and recruiting throughout.\
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Illustrated, cloth, 226 pages, 1987\
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Of A Boy and His Valley by Arnold W. Cook.\
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First hand account of rural life during the Great Depression (1929-1936) told from the perspective of a pastor's son growing up in the parsonage where he was born. With humor and sensitivity, the author deals with a broad spectrum of daily living and community activities in Cattaraugus County's Brooklyn Valley near East Otto.\
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Illustrated with original drawings, paper, 181 pages, 1991\
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Son Rise by Gus Tillman.\
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Take a farm brat born during the Depression in rural upstate New York and watch him weave his way through an education that could have easily ended long before he became the family's first college graduate. The settings are Hammondsport in the fabled Finger Lakes Region of New York and the New York State College for Teachers at Albany.\
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The trip was neither an uneventful nor easy path but was filled with wonderful and zany friends who created a panorama of equally wonderful and zany experiences. It is a semi-fictional wandering through the nostalgia of the Depression and World War II as seen through the eyes of a child. It highlights the penalty of being bright in a small rural school and then describes being nearly lost in a small, but unfamiliar, college setting. It will not be hard for readers with a similar background to find some of their own trials and triumphs in this book.\
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Paperback, 342 pages, 2001.\
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Mid Day by Gus Tillman.\
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Continuing his story from Son Rise, by passing through a graduate year at Albany before teaching high school in the village of Dundee, and then teaching at Dutchess Community College, earning a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and working as an Environmental Specialist and Coordinator of Wildlife at the Cary Arboretum of the New York Botanical Garden. This second volume contains an array of weird friends, interesting jobs, cars, and dogs and puts the author on the first step of a long and rewarding career in international environmental work, ending up with more frequent flier miles than brains.\
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Paperback, 368 pages, 2002.\
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Son Set by Gus Tillman.\
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The final book in the trilogy of a man's life including the final assignments and the joys of retirement back in the hills of Schuyler Co., NY with his wife, Marie, and faithful dog, Tor.\
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Paperback, 380 pages, 2003\
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A Farm Girl in the Great Depression by Ruth Myer.\
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Following the stock market crash in 1929, the United States found itself in the throes of the Great Depression. While many people found jobs with newly created social programs such as the WPA and CCC, most farmers chose to stay home and work their farms. They were challenged by flood and drought disasters, but few gave up. Instead the depression brought out their thriftiness, faith and ingenuity.\
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\"Mother was good at crocheting old scraps of cloth into rugs. We must have had one of her handmade rugs in every room in the house at one time or another. She tried to teach me how to crochet and I actually did crochet a blue beret once. Knitting went slowly for me also, but I did make a few scarves for Christmas presents. It was a good occupation on a cold snappy night, seated about a foot from the big old pot bellied stove. Creating something with your own hands was saving money; it gave one a virtuous feeling.\"\
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Paper, 189 pages, 1998, ISBN: 0-9666196-0-9\
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J. Alden Loring: A Naturalist Afield by William O. Lay.\
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The life's journey of a local naturalist, authored by the Curator Emeritus of the Tioga Historical Society. 1999.\
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Chronicles of an American Home by John Stuart Coonley.\
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The interesting story of five generations of a family in the small village of Wyoming, NY and their \"Hillside\" home which they shared to many a city resident who longed for a retreat from their day to day lives.\
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Today Hillside continues to be a special place who now visit and enjoy the warmth as a Bed & Breakfast.\
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The publication is a joint effort of the local historical society and the owners of Hillside.\
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304 pages, case bound, 2008.\
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Just for Fun\
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Thoughts on being a Mommy by Karla Borglum Santoro.\
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Not a \"how-to\" book, but a \"so-this-is-what-motherhood-is-like!\" book, written in entries one sentence to three pages in length for an easy fit into short motherhood time allowances. For every woman who is, or is about to become, a mother, this book could very well be your best friend. You'll laugh, you'll cry because these thoughts are just your feelings written down, straight from the heart.\
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Paperback, 96 pages, 1992\
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Historical Fiction\
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Wildflowers in the Clay by Garry F. Douglass.\
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An historical novel centered around Mary Elizabeth Fitzconner and Billy Savage--two children of the Erie Canal. The story traces their eventful lives as each finds a means of escaping the bounds of the canal, while confronting and overcoming the challenges of injustices, war, zealotry, and class conflict along the way. Add doses of history, romance, murder, and intrigue, and then lace it all together with a great secret which only reveals itself at the concluding climax, and Wildflowers in the Clay becomes an epic story which will appeal to readers of many different genres.\
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Includes original illustrations by artist Mark Davison. 158 pages, paperback, 1995\
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