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Friday, July 11, 2008

Echoes of an Earlier Time on a Glimmering Lake (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By JOHN MOTYKA
Published: July 11, 2008

Long before there was a Baseball Hall of Fame, Copperstown was a pilgrimage site as the home of James Fenimore Cooper, the early 19th-century superstar author whose wildly popular novels, including “The Deerslayer” and “The Last of the Mohicans,” put a haze of romance on an upstate New York frontier that had already vanished.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/travel/escapes/11american.html?8dpc

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