Beautiful Lake Bomoseen Tapa blanda - 1999

Castleton, VT: Castleton State College, 1999. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover, Large quarto, 277 pp. illustrated in black/white. Beautiful Lake Bomoseen tells the story of a Vermont Lake during its golden age, when it was a popular resort. Based on the work of more than thirty students, it is based on irreplaceable interviews with people who grew up around the lake or who summered on its shores and features nearly 150 old photographs and postcards. Gift inscription on copyright page..

Castleton, VT: Castleton State College, 1999. PB. good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 1567150748 The story of this Vermont lake during its golden age when it was a popular resort. 227pp.

Castleton VT: Castleton State College, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. light wear to the book, page edges spotted, else clean and unmarked. Scarce. First printing, no others noted. Bomoseen is the largest lake completely within the borders of Vermont. It is the principal vacation lake of central Vermont but has a long and storied history told in this volume. Millions of years ago, clays that accumulated on the ocean floor compressed into shale. When the ocean floor uplifted to form the Taconic Mountains, heat and pressure metamorphosed the shale into much harder slate. Lake Bomoseen nestles in a valley surrounded by some of the lower hills on the western side of the range. The Taconics are the slate-producing region of Vermont, and the area's history parallels the rise and fall of Vermont's slate industry.Bomoseen State Park has several quarry holes and adjacent colorful slate rubble piles. These quarries provided slate for the West Castleton Railroad and Slate Company, a… Leer más