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A Mountain View: Childhood Summers on Upper Saranac Lake (New York State Series)

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A colorful portrait of a vanished time and an approach to life filled with many memorable characters. As a child within the 1930s, Spence spent several summers on Upper Saranac Lake, over which his imperious blue-blooded Kentucky grandfather presided. The use of his grandfather as a point of interest, the writer depicts the construction, decor and way of life associated with the great camps. Whilst his grandfather indulged a lifetime of patrician arrogance by recasting his ancestors as Civil War heroes and cultivating the local elite, Bud, the young scion of his line, took up more practical pursuits. His tutor was once the camp’s handyman and erstwhile guide, an uncouth Swede who relished profanity and waged day by day battles with a tin boat.

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