The Wallkill Valley in art and story . Announcement. 1417553 18891899 DECADES PASS in rapid succession and the panoramaof life yields little of its detail if even its outline, tothe generation that follows. It is but a brief intervalsince the aboriginal denizens of the forests held unrestrictedsway over the mountain fastnesses and intervening valleys ofSoutheastern New York. It has been said that, in America, our local history hasnot yet received its full development. We have been carelessof our traditions, monuments and relics, which, if of a dif-ferent sort from those of Europe, are no less
The Wallkill Valley in art and story . Announcement. 1417553 18891899 DECADES PASS in rapid succession and the panoramaof life yields little of its detail if even its outline, tothe generation that follows. It is but a brief intervalsince the aboriginal denizens of the forests held unrestrictedsway over the mountain fastnesses and intervening valleys ofSoutheastern New York. It has been said that, in America, our local history hasnot yet received its full development. We have been carelessof our traditions, monuments and relics, which, if of a dif-ferent sort from those of Europe, are no less interesting andimportant to preserve. The following pages are too few to make any pretenceto being a history of the Wallkill Valley. They may serve,however, to record much that might otherwise pass with theforgotten and unknown, and hence are merely offered as acontribution to the growth of local song and story to clinglike green vines about the broken fragments of the past. The response to former publications of this characterhas met with such com
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