I want to thank you both for this wonderful book. i have been reading it
like a novel and the only complaint I can have is that you must move on
leaving much about each time tantalizingly unsaid.  I have been driving over
the Gowanus canal near the mill dam  over which the patriots retreated
almost daily and the imagined cries of the wounded soilders blends with the
thought of oysters as big as dinner plates enlivening that now muted place.

Thank you for enriching my understanding of my home.
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From: "Edwin G. Burrows" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: NY CITY History
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 08:53:13 -0500

Thanks to Lanah and Beverly for plugging GOTHAM! Mike and I would be
delighted to hear from others on the list, too--comments, corrections,
questions, criticism, whatever.

Ted Burrows



At 12:04 PM 1/5/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Lanah De Witt wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 99-01-05 09:30:33 EST, you write:
>>
>> Have you looked at the book "GOTHAM" .... The
>> authors are Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. I bought the book thru
The-
>> Book-of the-Month Club, but I think I also saw it at Barnes & Noble or
else at
>> Walden's Book store.
>>
>
>The book is spectacular, available virtually everywhere and according to
>publishing scuttlebut, going into its third printing.  Ted Burrows is a
list
>member and congrats to him and to Mike Wallace.  All that said, Emily
Leonard's
>point is well taken.  It's interesting to see how much more info is
forthcoming
>about upstate NY than about the city.  And I add with a big grin that that
battle
>has been going on at least since the English took over the province - and
there
>was doubtless some similar diversion of views among Fort Orange and New
Amsterdam.
>
>Beverly Martin
>
>