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The Birth of American Tourism
New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1835
Publication Year: 2008
Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
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Copyright Page
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Table of Contents
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Francis Dallam took only two weeks of vacation in the summer of 1827. He could have taken much more: he was from an old-line Maryland family, with solid wealth; rents from land holdings in Maryland, Tennessee, and Kentucky; several slaves; and a position as the collector of taxes for the city of Baltimore.1
Chapter 1 - Laying the Foundation
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One day in 1792, Nicholas Low, one of America's richest men, began an unusual project. He ordered that a substantial inn be built, complemented by a bathhouse, on one of his poorer and more remote properties, a tract of sandy, forested land in upstate New York. What made this even more unusual was that the inn was to be located near another inn, one that had itself just been improved at consider...
Chapter 2 - Inventing the Resort: Saratoga Springs
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While Ballston Spa was being built, the nearby springs at Saratoga remained quite rustic, despite the higher regard in which connoisseurs held the waters.1 The springs had first come to the attention of outsiders after a legendary 1771 visit by Sir William Johnson, when one of the springs, High Rock, supposedly cured him of the lingering consequences of an old war wound, a cure so efficacious that the previously crippled hero purportedly walked the fifteen miles back to...
Chapter 3 - The Revolution of Seeing: Tourism and the Founding of the Hudson River School
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A trip up the Hudson River to Albany reveals a series of spectacular sights. Once clear of the New York City metropolitan area, the river cuts between steep mountains and sharply cut valleys. At times it opens into large bays, at others the cliffs close in tight to the water. Parts of the journey, even today, closely resemble what a traveler of 1820 might have seen, particularly at the river's wildest parts. To our modern eyes, this seeming wilderness is spectacular and exciting; we revel...
Chapter 4 - Travel Literature, the Fashionable Tour, and the Spread of Tourism [Includes Image Plates]
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pp. 70-84
By the 1820s, a huge change had begun among those who could afford to travel. In Great Britain, the idea of travel for leisure had been widespread among the prosperous classes for more than thirty years. For a number of reasons, however, it had been very slow to gain any ground among Americans of that class. There were a number of reasons for that. In the 1790s...
Chapter 5 - Expanding Tourism beyond the Springs: The Catskills and Niagara
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As other writers noticed the Catskill references in Irving and Dwight and Cooper, they, too, began incorporating references to the area in their works. For example, James G. Percival, a minor poet, issued his second book of poetry, Clio (volume 1), in 1822, and in it was "A Picture, Catskill Valley," which in turgid lines described a storm-tossed night as witnessed by an overheated, sensitive youth...
Chapter 6 - Tourism and Literature: James Fenimore Cooper and Others
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During the summer and fall of 1825, the same year that Thomas Cole made his seminal journey up the Hudson, James Fenimore Cooper's career hit a rocky patch. The Pioneers had been as big a success as he had hoped for when it was published in 1823. The following year, his next book, The Pilot, was also a success. When the editor and poet William Cullen Bryant first met Cooper in April 1824, he described him as "a little giddy."1 At that point, Cooper's next book, Lionel ...
Chapter 7 - The First Tourist Guidebook War
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Had Gideon Minor Davison's 1822 tourist guide, The Fashionable Tour, not faced any competition, it would have been just a novelty and curiosity, destined to land into the dustbin of history. For three years, it was just about that.1 But the tourist fad in literature led others to Davison's guide, and by 1825 two competitors had appeared. Like the authors of travel and tourism-related fiction, the new guidebook authors hoped to create...
Chapter 8 - Tourism's Broader Audience
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Nathaniel P. Willis's "The Vacation," published in the 1828 Atlantic Souvenir, begins predictably enough. The narrator is a wealthy young man just freed from the bonds of study at Yale. Standing in the yard of the college, "twirling my empty purse round my forefinger," he is the image of leisure and fecklessness. Why not...
Chapter 9 - Skeptics
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Even as tourism crested in the late 1820s, it raised the hackles of critics. Skeptics saw tourism from a variety of negative angles: some felt it exemplified the commercial and consumerist changes the United States was experiencing in the 1820s, changes that would come to shape American culture profoundly; others viewed tourism as typical of the worst of their times, artificial, manufactured, superficial. And one ob
Chapter 10 - The Next Big Thing
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The cumulative discontent with the Hudson Valley route—its overexposure, the rising crime, the large number of "would-be ultra-genteels"—meant that some began to look for new fields for tourism, for places that could deliver the promise of...
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Print-ISBN-13: 9781558496644
Print-ISBN-10: 1558496645
Page Count: 240
Publication Year: 2008
OCLC Number: 756933062
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- Adequate land ranks as top concern of young farmers
- Lifetime farmers
Securing adequate land to grow crops and raise livestock was the top challenge identified in the latest survey of participants in the American Farm Bureau Federation's Young Farmers & Ranchers program.
Lifetime farmers
More than 94 percent considered themselves lifetime farmers, while 90 percent would like to see their children follow in their footsteps.
The informal survey reveals that 84 percent believe their children will be able to follow in their footsteps.
The survey points out that 64 percent of YF&R members consider communicating with consumers a formal part of their jobs. Many use social media platforms as a tool to accomplish this.
The popular social media site, Facebook, is used by 82 percent of those surveyed who use the Internet. Thirty percent of respondents said they use the social networking site Twitter, and 18 percent use YouTube to post videos of their farms and ranches.
"Use of technology to improve production practices on the farm and to interact with consumers — our customers — continues to grow," Hunnicutt said.
"Having instant access to information and communication tools is the 'new normal' and that's not going to change," he said.
Nearly 80 percent of young farmers and ranchers surveyed said they regularly use mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets to communicate. That's up from 66 percent last year.
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Computers and the Internet remain vital tools for the nation's young farmers and ranchers, with 92 percent surveyed reporting using a computer in their farming operation.
Nearly all of those surveyed, 94 percent, have access to the Internet. High-speed Internet is used by 65 percent of those surveyed, with 22 percent relying on a satellite connection and just over 2 percent turning to dialup.
The survey also shows that America's young farmers and ranchers are committed environmental caretakers, with 64 percent using conservation-tillage to protect soil and reduce erosion on their farms.
AFBF President Bob Stallman said the annual YF&R survey underscores his belief that the future of U.S. agriculture is in good hands.
"The future looks bright for American agriculture and our nation as a whole, thanks to the commitment and solid knowledge base held by today's young farmers and ranchers," said Stallman.
The informal survey of young farmers and ranchers, ages 18-35, was conducted at AFBF's 2013 YF&R Leadership Conference in Phoenix, Ariz., in February.
The purpose of the YF&R program is to help younger members learn more about farming and ranching, network with other farmers and strengthen their leadership skills to assist in the growth of agriculture and Farm Bureau.
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AT&T Invests More Than $2.6 Billion Over Three-Year Period To Enhance Local Networks In Dallas-Fort Worth Area
DALLAS, March 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* has invested more than $2.6 billion in its best-in-class wireless and wired networks in Dallas-Fort Worth between 2011 through 2013, driving a wide range of upgrades to enhance speed, reliability, coverage and performance for residents and business customers.
Advancing its Project Velocity IP (VIP), an investment plan to expand and enhance its wireless and wired IP broadband networks, AT&T in 2013 made 741 network upgrades in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including new cell sites, addition of wireless and wired network capacity, and new broadband network connections. Additionally, AT&T expanded the reach of its network, providing access to U-verse Internet and video services to 72,000 new customer locations and delivering powerful fiber-optic connections to 17,736 business locations at 588 multi-tenant business buildings and business parks.
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While anything short of the Super Bowl is to some extent a disappointing season, the year the Minnesota Vikings had after going 6-10 in 2010 and 3-13 in 2011 is worthy of praise.
Of course, as the ultimate goal was unmet, there remains work to be done, and like any other team done playing for the season, the work starts now for the Vikings.
There are a ton of storylines and choices to follow this offseason, but these five are the ones burning most hotly into my brain.
"AP" carried this offense in the second half of the season, and they rode him into the playoffs. He set career highs in yards and yards per carry as well as his second-highest totals in receptions and touchdowns.
All coming off massive knee surgery in under a year.
How can he do that again?
Well, hopefully he won't have to. Peterson's conditioning is now the stuff of legend, but 300-plus carries is not anything I want repeated. Not if I want Peterson to keep being Peterson for the long haul.
For me, it will come down to him still having high yards-per-carry and yards-after-contact averages. The total yards amount isn't as crucial as his health and a high yards-per-carry average.
That's especially true when you figure the total will come down because the offense improves around him.
If the Vikings want to head into the playoffs again, it will have to.
Speaking of which...
Two steps forward, one step back, three steps forward, eight steps back—that was how the season looked like it went for Christian Ponder.
We can break down the stats—and we will, as the season goes—but the question the staff has to ask itself is: Did he take enough of a step forward?
The middle of the season was terrible, but clearly they wanted to hang with Ponder (though let's address the elephant in the room that Joe Webb is awful).
Is Christian Ponder the franchise Qb the Vikes need?
And then Ponder had his best game in the last week of the season, when he was a huge part of the reason for the Vikings beating the Packers and getting into the playoffs.
I would have loved to see if Ponder could have replicated that in the playoffs, but he went down with an injury, and that was that.
While Ponder is clearly not perfect, and he may never become Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady or even Joe Flacco, I think we've seen enough good to move into next year with him.
I also think we've seen enough bad to warrant getting a good, reliable veteran to put behind him and protect the team in case he either gets hurt again or completely falls apart.
This team might be close enough to being in the hunt each year that they have to worry about not protecting themselves for either eventuality.
I am very curious to see what—if anything—they do at the quarterback position this offseason.
Maybe that sounds a bit too Dr. Phil, but it's a real question.
I still think it odd that he was absent from the facility during a very critical part of the season and that he wasn't around for the playoff game.
That said, I have no idea that it means anything.
All I do know is we keep hearing murmurs that he is unhappy on a semi-regular basis.
The injury certainly frustrated him, but I'm not sure what (aside from more money) he wants if the constant targets and use in the first half of the season didn't please him.
Aside from Peterson, nobody was more valuable to this offense, and perhaps this team, than Harvin.
Sure, the team says everything is fine. If I hear that once, fine. If I have to hear it two or three more times, well I start to worry.
And at some point I have to wonder—is Harvin hellbent on leaving Minnesota? Is it a case where no matter how much the coaching staff and playbook and ownership is focused on appeasing him, it won't be enough?
That makes me very nervous. Harvin is critical to this offense, and they need to find a way to make this work.
Harvin cannot go—if he does, the impact on this team could be huge.
So how do they keep him there?
Actually, this one might be the most critical storyline this offseason.
For the most part, Musgrave did a good job this season, although one could debate that it's hard to screw up "hand it off to Peterson and go left, hand it off to Peterson and go right."
By that same token, there were times when the offense was very oddly structured, and as good as his plan was against the Packers in Week 17, it was awful on Wild Card Weekend.
I get that everyone hoped Ponder would play, but Joe Webb ran the first-team offense all week.
Did they really not see how bad his accuracy was? His pocket presence? Could they not come up with some "option" plays to run beyond the four or five times they eventually ran throughout the game?
How much of that falls on Musgrave? How much on head coach Leslie Frazier?
We can also talk about Ponder's up-and-down play while we're at it, and putting him in some bad positions throughout the season.
This storyline isn't getting as much talk as some others, but I find it interesting. What will he do differently heading into 2013, and how critical is it that he have more success by the end of the season?
Aside from whether Harvin will return, the Vikings have some issues at wide receiver.
It's safe to say by now that Jerome Simpson is probably not the vertical threat they were hoping for, though his injury certainly held him back. He's cheap and he's decent, so retaining him seems like the smart move.
Jarius Wright showed a ton of promise but remains raw.
Michael Jenkins and Devin Aromashodu are no great shakes.
There are some intriguing free agents we'll get into later this week, but this is the one area where I feel like there are a bunch of options, be it in the draft or in free agency.
How they approach the problem will have a tremendous impact on how next season plays out.
Some Other Stories Worth Considering
We'll get to these over the course of the offseason.
- How will the team improve the cornerbacks?
- What will Kyle Rudolph do to improve?
- Who gets paired with Harrison Smith at safety?
- What is the next step in building the offensive line?
- How much does Jared Allen have left?
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Colgate's Baum Leads Rookies in Patriot League
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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — Colgate University freshman Peter Baum (Portland, Ore.) was named the Patriot League Men's Lacrosse Rookie of the Week for the week ending March 21. This is Baum's first career weekly award and the first for the Raiders this season.
Baum garnered the honor after scoring five goals last week. Baum scored three times against No. 14/11 Harvard on Tuesday, and then added two more goals against Fairfield on Saturday.
Baum now has 13 goals on the season, which is the most posted by a freshman since Brandon Corp '09 posted 19 in 2006.
The Raiders return to action this Saturday, March 27 as they host Navy at Andy Kerr Stadium. The game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. with live stats and video provided on the Colgate Athletic website.
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Your Style Rocks! The pattern for the Eva Dress is a free download! I'd love to hear what you guys think of it. Go on over and check it out : ) The pleat/tuck detail in the back wasn't my original design. I just thought they would do a basic darted bodice back, but the pleat will be easier to fit and sew. They have detailed instructions HERE. It looks like they didn't make the skirt asymmetrical like my original drawing. That's not a big deal, I'll end up lengthening the hem when I make it myself anyway.
THESE shoes to wear with the dress when I get it finished! I've been looking for a closed toe sandal for so long - I love this style ; )
Update 2012:
The lady at Your Style Rocks shot me an e-mail to let me know that my Eva Dress has been their most popular pattern! How exciting : )
Here's a couple that I found on the web:
Grey by Lazylichen in Finland
Floral by Katja in Germany
Red by Mema in Germany