Author Description

Alf Evers, who completed this work months shy of his 100th birthday, was perhaps the foremost chronicler of the history and color of the Hudson Valley region. Inhabited by Indians since pre-history, colonized by Dutch traders in the seventeenth century, oppressed by British Colonial rule, and an important locus of action during the American Revolution, Kingston was also the home of progressive thinkers in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A fascinating history told by the region's most distinguished historian, Kingston will delight all readers of American history and Americana.