Shoe Town

244 pp. "The glory days of Endicott, New York, a show town, passed like a shooting star. For the briefest of moments in the long sweep of time, the little village nestled along the Susquehanna River, two hundred miles north of Manhattan, commanded notice not only as the home of the Endicott-Johnson Corp, but as the birthplace of IBM. The added luster of great parks, vintage wooden carousels that could be ridden for free, a formidable shipping district and powerhouse high school football teams made Endicott "The Magic City." And then there were no more rabbits in the hat; the show, alas, was over."--jacket