Saving the Shawangunks An American Aristocracy tells the

An American Aristocracy tells the intimate story of this influential New York family from first settlement through the Revolution and the founding of the republic

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Saving the Shawangunks An American Aristocracy tells theAuthor: Carleton Mabee Photographs by: Nora Scarlett The successful grassroots fight to stop the construction of a 400 room hotel conference center and 500 condominiums around Lake Minnewaska in New York State s Shawangunk Mountains in the 1980s was a landmark victory for Hudson Valley environmentalists and became a blueprint for subsequent struggles to preserve open space against encroaching development in a uniquely beautiful landscape that The