Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art the Erie Canal

the Erie Canal

Morris Longstreth

Twenty-six private gardens are presented here

scrambled and bushwhacked throughout the Shawangunk Mountains for over ten years to create this visual story of a region she so loves her own big backyard a diverse area of glaciated slabs dotted with gnarled pitch pines

Kaaterskill Falls

Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art the Erie CanalAuthor: Raymond Beecher Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art features little known lore and a wealth of rare images of the scenic domain that inspired Americas greatest 19th century landscape painters and spawned the first mountain resort hotels in America. In the 1800's Kaaterskill Clove was a mandatory stop on the American Grand Tour and as famous and familiar to world travelers as Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park or the Grand Canyon are today.