Saratoga Springs
Saratoga Springs

Author: Timothy A. Holmes

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9780738504384

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Brilliant afternoons awash in sunshine . . . health, history, and horses . . . this is the experience Saratoga Springs spreads out for visitors, year after golden year. From the long distant past, the powerful waters from deep in the earth made this place a wellspring of the healing arts. The allure of meeting in the healthy country environment brought society first from the eastern cities and then from all points of the globe. Society itself became an object for summer entertainment, and connecting with living history came to be a recreational pursuit. Nestled in the foothills of the Adirondacks, Saratoga Springs, across two centuries, has been the midsummer mecca. There is more to Saratoga Springs. While the Spa City opens its arms to all travelers, along with the charms there stands a robust, cheerful, and stalwart core of residents who have over the years transformed a northern wilderness into an oasis of leisure and elegance. Behind the grand hotels of Broadway and America's Monte Carlo are the mansions of Union Avenue and Circular Street, the winter play, and the personalities shaping a place of character, comfort, and culture. Saratoga Springs: A Historical Portrait is their story--the small town at the heart of the City in the Country.

Saratoga Lost
Saratoga Lost

Author: Robert Joki

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781883789152

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World-famous as the Queen of Spas, Saratoga Springs entered a golden age in the Victorian years and the world flocked to its doorstep every summer. The rich and famous rubbed elbows with a growing post-Civil War middle class popularizing a new concept, the summer vacation. They came ostensibly to take the waters at the bubbling mineral springs, but what they really came for was to see and be seen on the grand piazzas of the magnificent, colossal hotels that lined Saratoga's Broadway, and to share in the limelight of glittering balls and fabulous parties.The grace and opulence of America's Victorian era faded with the dawn of the twentieth century, and almost all of the buildings and views in this book have long since disappeared in clouds of dust from the wrecker's ball or in spectacular cataclysmic infernos, but in Saratoga Lost, Robert Joki takes the reader on a guided tour of that grand era with hundreds of historic photographs from the author's extraordinary private collection, complemented, by period artwork.

The Big Thirst
The Big Thirst

Author: Charles Fishman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1439102082

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Fishmen examines the passing of the golden age of water and reveals the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor.

Supernatural Saratoga
Supernatural Saratoga

Author: Mason Winfield

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009-09-30

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1614235236

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The ghost walk tour leader and contributor to Haunted Rochester heads east for the horse races, famous springs, and a flood of paranormal phenomena. Author Mason Winfield, operator of Saratoga’s Haunted History Ghost Walks, chronicles the Spa City’s spookiest legends, from the Iroquoian zombie-like vampires to Benedict Arnold’s Halloween apparitions. The heart of the city brims with lore, as covens work in secret in the Devil’s Den neighborhood and phantoms linger at the Arcade on Broadway. In the shadow of the Adirondacks, spectral lights appear on remote Snake Hill, and the Woman in White haunts Saratoga Spa State Park. Explore the creepiest legends of Saratoga history, where some gamblers never leave and demons lurk in the forests. Includes photos!

Saratoga and How to See It
Saratoga and How to See It

Author: R. F. Dearborn

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13:

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This travelog titled 'Saratoga and How to See It' by R.F. Dearborn provides information about the village of Saratoga, with a focus on the mineral springs and Saratoga as a watering place. The book is divided into two parts, with Part I providing information about the Saratoga mineral springs, including their discovery, commercial and medicinal value, individual characteristics, and history and properties of each spring. Part II focuses on Saratoga as a watering place, including places of interest, hotel accommodations, the climate, churches, real estate, amusements, and Saratoga society. The book also includes directions for drinking the water, hack fares, drives and walks, and a routine for a lady visiting Saratoga.

They're Off!
They're Off!

Author: Ed Hotaling

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1995-07-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780815603504

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As much social history as sports history, this is an account of how America's first national resort, Saratoga Springs, gave birth to and nurtured its first national sport and in the process had significant impact on American cultural life. Fine bandw photographs, etchings, and drawings illustrate the text. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die
1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die

Author: Patricia Schultz

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2007-06-07

Total Pages: 1202

ISBN-13: 0761149694

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It's the phenomenon: "1,000 Places to See Before You Die" has 2.2 million copies in print and has spent 144 weeks and counting on "The New York Times" bestseller list. Now, shipping in time for the tens of millions of travelers heading out for summer trips, comes "1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die." Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska's Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas City--from Arthur Bryant's to Gates to B.B.'s Lawnside to Danny Edward's to LC's to Snead's. There's the ice hotel in Quebec, the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, cowboy poetry readings, what to do in Louisville after the Derby's over, and for every city, dozens of unexpected suggestions and essential destinations. The book is organized by region, and subject-specific indices in the back sort the book by interest--wilderness, great dining, best beaches, world-class museums, sports and adventures, road trips, and more. There's also an index that breaks out the best destinations for families with children. Following each entry is the nuts and bolts: addresses, websites, phone numbers, costs, best times to visit.

Saratoga in Bloom
Saratoga in Bloom

Author: Janet Loughrey

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781608932603

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Saratoga Springs is colorful not only culturally and historically, but also literally. Come spring and summer the historic resort town is filled with lush plantings in the public parks, around private homes from the grandest to the most modest, at the Saratoga Race Course grounds and the Skidmore College campus, and even throughout the business district along Broadway. Rather than discouraging Saratoga's green thumbs, the challenging northern climate only inspires residents to celebrate the return of warm weather and the horse-racing season each year with joyful displays of gardens, fountains, and flower-filled containers of every description. "History, health, and horses," the city's motto, neatly sums up Saratoga's most famous attributes. In this celebration of the region's gardens and the people who create them, photographer and writer Janet Loughrey shows us that "horticulture" should be added to that list.