This is a great guide. It briefly describes the history of African-Americans in New York City, and highlights cultural sites in each of the boroughs. It also lists information about annual events, books, organizations, and media. Some items may be outdated. Be sure to call ahead before you venture out, so you really enjoy the vast amount of places to go and things to do.

I grew up in Maine, and, in the early eighties you weren't living in the state unless you owned a copy of the Bert and I (a record) and How to Talk Yankee (the book). How to Talk Yankee is a brilliant spoof of the dictionary, the Yankee dialect, and Linguistics as a study.

Material covered in this book includes grammar "So don't I" pronunciation "there are no R's in the middle of words... hahse, Cah, except where they don't belong," Ayuh "THE WORD!" and inevitability, "You'll never fool a yankee, but you may fool other 'summer people'..."

The art in the book only adds to the humor, the cover (someone from "out of town" looking at the book and trying to translate "Ayer") illustrates perfectly how exasperating it can be to try to understand a "down-easter" who speaks "English."

The book in it's manner spoofs not only the language of the "yankee" but is really a spoof of guidebooks and their genre. I can't recommend this book highly enough, a must for everyone who has ever been to Maine, taken a linguistics class, or tried to use a "convenient guidebook."

I spend half my time in the Hudson Valley countryside. It is lush farm country with great local crops, cheeses and livestock (and the resurgent Hudson River is giving up fish again), all of which support a thriving restaurant and hospitality trade. This book offers authentic recipes for Hudson Valley cuisine, and is written for informed cooks who aren't afraid to braise, plank-roast and otherwise experiment. Malouf cooks in the region, and his work reflects a knowledge of, and affection for, the area's bounty. These selections are best enjoyed in the Fall and Spring, when the local vegetables are at their best. And, if you like Shad, this may be the best cookbook you've ever seen for preparing that fish.

I read this book some years ago and found it invaluble to anyone who hunts wild turkey in the new england states. Instead of giving general turkey hunting info or focusing on southern states as many books do, this one tells about tactics for the northeast and gives a lot of historical turkey data for each of the new england states. Unfortunately, I lost my copy a few years back and since I was able to locate it at Amazon.com I will be buying a new one. Mike Koffink

This book prepares you a bit for what is to be expected in the New England mountains. If you are hiking on the Appalacian trail or doing hikes up the various peaks in New Hampshire, Vermont or Maine ,then you will want to read this first. It tells of mishaps (including several deaths), and of terrain and weather conditions of the various peaks. An example is Mt. Washington in New Hampshire , where the bad conditions are second only to those of Mt. Denali in Alaska. If this book doesn't scare you out of hiking in New England, then it will definetly prepare you for what lies ahead!!! Good Luck to all of you who take the challenge and hike these peaks!!!

This is a good book for anyone interested in seriously understanding the business of I-banking with its history and future implications. The portrayals of the different firms and the system as a whole are very informative. A Great text.

The crisp blue waters that fill the pale seaweed laden rocks of the Maine coast are simply breathtaking. This book is yet another example of how words just can't do justice. The area covered in this title is some of the hardest to write about without relying on amazing facts of the historical importance of the Maine coastline, yet the author does an outstanding job of putting the historical, artistic and wildlife qualities into context. As a guide for the area and for pleasure reading, this book has exemplary qualities to keep you interested from front cover to the last page. The one shortfall that I found was there wasn't enough of it, which is probably good since the point of the book is for you get out and see this "Gods Country" for yourself! Overall I can completely recommend this book if you are a "Mainiac," or just on vacation in this part of the world (believe me you'll feel like you're out of the USA). Read it, love it, put it down and experience it !

This book provides a lovely pictoral of early Italian settlers' journey to RI and the beautiful world they created once here. This book will thrill anyone, especially Italian Americans who want to see and read about their beginnings. I was happy to see many of my relatives and their friends as they were when they were young starting out as laborers, grocery owners, and politicians. Readers will gain an appreciation for the life of these early RI Italians and the great strides they and their children have made in the 20th Century.

This book contains excellent choices from the writings of Jonathan Edwards, the first great philosopher in the American colonies, including some of his earliest writings, mostly just philosophical or biological musings. It reflects some interesting developments in the maturation of his thinking. It also has letters to friends, colleagues, and family members. Some of his most well-known sermons are alongside some representative samples of his sermons. Unfortunately, there is room for only excerpts from his longer works, such as The Religious Affections, but that can't be helped in an affordable popular anthology. If you want all of his works, but the complete works from the same publisher. If you just want a representative sample of some of the best works of this great theologian and philosopher, get this.

As a budding genealogist, I have depended upon this text for invaluable leads on my families and some of the history of early Hampton, NH. I have discovered a few mistakes here and there, but having access to so many more sources, I have been able to substantiate them. I give Mr. Dow and all those who took the time, many kudos for at least attempting to set history down. It boggles one's mind to think just how terribly tedious and self isolating this task was. I am descended from many of the original settlers of Hampton ie Clifford, Dow, Griffin, Hilliard, Tilton, Moulton, Brown, not to mention my favorite; Reverend Stephen Batchelder and his nemesis, Reverned Timothy Dalton.