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John Burroughs' Exhibit of 1998
A Special Exhibit was held on Catskills Naturalist John Burroughs
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PRATTSVILLE, NY -- The Zadock Pratt Museum The exhibit featured Burroughs' artifacts with text, on July 5, 1998, accompanied by lecture and outdoor nature programs. The grand opening was planned as a family event, and there was a special hands-on children's exhibit featuring the flora and fauna of the Catskills. Burroughs's biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr. was on hand from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. to meet the public and autograph first edition paperback copies of John Burroughs: An American Naturalist (Black Dome Press, 1998). Refreshments was offered during the reception for Mr. Rehenan. |
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During Burroughs's lifetime,
he was lionized by the reading public. He was a celebrity author, as famous
then as the literary, political and industrial luminaries he consorted
with--men like Jay Gould, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Edison, John Muir, Walt
Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Ford. By 1912, special editions of his
nature essays were used as reading primers in almost every school district in
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In his critically-acclaimed biography, available from Black Dome Press, author Edward J.
Renehan, Jr. draws on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts,
journals and letters to portray the man Henry James called "a more
humorous, more available and more sociable Thoreau." Robert McCraken
Peck declared in the Sunday New York Times Book Review that Rehehan reveals
"a far more complex and interesting man than other biographers have
described...we are shown the once sainted 'Sage of Slabsides' as a
flesh-and-blood traveler in a now-vanished world." And intimate look at one of
the Catskill/Hudson Valley's most remarkable and accomplished native sons. |
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The Zadock Pratt Museum is housed in the 1824 mansion of the Honorable Zadock
Pratt, U.S. Congressman and leather-tanning tycoon. The Museum is dedicated to
the preservation and dissemination of the history of the Catskill Mountains,
particularly the history of the nineteenth-century leather-tanning enterprises
of Pratt and others, and the history of Prattsville and immediate environs. The
village of Prattsville is located in western Greene County, less than half an
hour from Burroughs' mountain retreat, Woodchuck Lodge, and his childhood home,
both of which are just outside of the village of Roxbury, Delaware County.
The Museum is located on Main Street (Route 23) in the village of Prattsville,
Greene County. For information on the exhibit or directions to the museum, call
Carolyn Bennett, Director/Curator, (518) 299-3395. For more information on John
Burroughs: An American Naturalist, call Black
Dome Press, (518) 734-6357.
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