Story Of The Paltz PDF Download

Excerpt from Story of the Paltz: Being a History of New Paltz, N. Y.;A Compilation We love our mountain with its patchwork sides of cultivated fields and woodland and its rugged crown of rocks. It is beautiful in autumn when lines of blazing sumac mark the fence rows and its woods are the color of wine and mahog any; and in winter when the glow of sunrise and the mists that creep up from the lowlands 'paint its blanket of snow with rose and amethyst. But we love it best in June when the woods are the fresh green of early summer and the wind goes billowing through its fields of daisies and yellow ripening grain. It was in June two centuries and a half ago that Catharine dubois clambered wearily up and down its steep Sides and all about her thelaurel must have been bursting into bloom. But she had little heart for the beauty of it then, with Baby Jacques pressed close in her arms, for they were captives of the Indians and the story of their rescue is the story of how New Paltz came to be settled by our ancestors. Yes, the stranger must summer and winter our moun tain and then he will begin to understand why our peace-loving forefathers tarried on in the valley at its feet for generation after generation with little inclination to drift back into the world outside. For a harsh, cruel world it had been to them for many a long year, driven as they had been from pillar to post and from post to pillar because of their religious belief. Cruelly persecuted, they had ed from their sunny, native France to the Palatinate in Ger many where they found safety for a time. Soon the soldiers of the wicked French King crossed the border and began harassing the poor Hugue nots there and so our ancestors made their way to Holland and one by one or in small family groups set sail for the New World in some such slow sailing Dutch craft as carried Hendrick Hudson a little more than half a century before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."