Mohonk Mountain House Indigenous Culture

Mohonk Mountain House Indigenous CultureImages of America Series. Mohonk is a name of Native American origin first given to a lake high in the Shawangunk Mountains of Ulster County. Mohonk Lake was sculpted eons ago by the crushing weight of advancing glaciers. Nature's handiwork resulted in a crystal blue lake rimmed by stately hemlock trees and sheer conglomerate cliffs. Mohonk Mountain House was established at the lake in 1869 by Quaker twins Albert and Alfred Smiley. They and younger

Heather Navy

but over the years

A celebrated author-illustrator team tells the story of one of the most unique and courageous women in American history

and poultices is described

He explores what it was like to be a Huguenot living in a “state within a state

the Shawangunk Mountains inspired fear rather than awe

and especially the obscured and ignored aspects of that history

In the 1870s

Along the way she offers tidbits of food history

Or that the Dutch brought enslaved Africans to North America in the merchant ships of the West India Company

engage in political activism

Mohonk Lake was sculpted eons ago by the crushing weight of advancing glaciers