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Mt. Moosilauke tip top news, 1880-1916, Robert W. Averill, editor

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Mt. Moosilauke tip top news, 1880-1916

Robert W. Averill, editor

The Moosilauke history project, 7

"Continuing the story of the westernmost peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Mt. Moosilauke Tip Top News, 1880-1916, is an illustrated collection of the many accounts penned about Moosilauke and the hotel atop its treeless summit. They were written by visitors to the newly-expanded summit house, that appeared in various publications of the time, and which have rested in obscurity for more than a century. The more thab 250 illustrations include engravings, period maps, andf photos. This limited-edition anthology is the seventh in the Moosilauke History Series, following In Search of Amos Clough (2019) and Daniel Clement's Moosilauke Journal--1879 (2020), completeing the three-book set detailing the history of the 19th-century Moosilauke summit house."--Dust jacket"A variety of visitors sought out the summit of this high-mountain peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: teachers and college professors; ministers and scientists; writers, reporters, and poets; city-tired families from afar. Many wrote about their experiences with mountain weather, the challenges of ascending to the peak of a bare-topped mountain nearly 5000 feet above sea level, their encounters with fellow-pilgrims on the mountain and at the summit house. The scrapbook kept at the Tip Top House is here transcribed in a readable, modern type-face. These essays had been sent to newspapers and magazines, even beyond New England. They entertained readers a century before our modern electronic age. More than 250 illustrations--engravings, period maps, photos--bring these essays into even clearer focus. The growth of North Country tourism during this era depended on the newly-built railroads as well as horse-drawn stages and buckboards. Many visitors to Moosilauke's summit packed their trunks for a summer-long stay at small and large hotels, boarding houses and cottages, and at the enlarged farmhouses, conveniently nearby. This period was Moosilauke's golden age of prose and poetry, well represented by the contributions of Lucy Larcom from Beverly, Massachusetts. Some of the essays failed to include the author's name--only a single initial, or a nickname, or a blank--leaving, as anonymous gifts, glimpses of a special world within its own time and perspective."--Front and back jacket flaps

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