Upstate Echoes: Being an Assemblage of Stories about Unusual People, Places and Events in the Upstate New York of Long Ago and of Only Yesterday

152 pp. 8vo. Includes eight black-and-white photographic plates. A collection of stories about Upstate New York, including mention of the North Country, the Niagara Frontier, the Southern Tier, Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters, Ithaca, the Finger Lakes, Charlotte, etc. Arch Merrill (August 5, 1894 - July 15, 1974) was a newspaper reporter for the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle from 1923 to the late 1960s. He was a prolific writer, best known for his articles in the Sunday paper on history and folklore of the Genesee Valley and the Finger Lakes of upstate New York.