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Title: The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Colt, S. S
Subjects: New York Central and Hudson River Railroad New York (State) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Albany, N.Y., Ed. and pub. by Mrs. S. S. Colt
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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inducethe visitant to adopt the yea and nay —the grotesque attireand whirling religious services of the Shaker band. Stuyvesant, formerly known as Kinderhook Landing, is tenmiles north of Hudson. Kinderhook, five miles east of the Land-ing, was the birthplace of our eighth president, Martin Van Buren.His estate of Lindenwald, where he passed his closing years oflife, is situated two miles south of the village. The records of the old towns upon the Hudsons banks willnever be fully written. Irving pencilled notes which commingledfact, fiction, and pure humor. The real and passionate stories oflife in these old peculiar places have never been put in print. News-paper reporters give publicity to bare facts once in a while—therise, progress and ending of village comedies and tragedies, isseldom arrived at. Perhaps it is as well. Yet ere leaving thisregion of country, so rich in tradition and history, we cannot refrainfrom saying that there is a wide field for the novelist, which is as
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THE HUDSON, SIX MILES BELOW ALBANY. . THE TOURISTS GUIDE. 69 yet untrodden, in the annals of the North river towns. To justifyour assertion we will relate one only, of the numerous stories whichhave been told in our hearing, in hushed tones, by winter eveningfires. In Kinderhook, in the last century, a beautiful girl marriedin defiance of her parents wishes. Her run-away match createdquite a stir in those primitive days. Her lover was a wealthyfarmer, haughty and handsome, and a man of overbearing temper.No blessing followed their union. Imperious commands on hispart; quick retorts and bitter words on hers, rendered their livesmiserable. Again and again the wife resolved to return that softanswer which turneth away wrath, or to keep silence. As oftenas she made this vow it was broken. At last, when she was themother of ten children, some of whom were grown up men, theunhappy woman, not in passion but in despair, with a sharp knifecut off the tip of that unruly member, her tongue. The

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