Rochester Sketchbook

Binghamton, New York: Creek Books / Vail-Ballou Press, Inc, 1946. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 0x0x0. Tears to jacket mended with tape, ink name on front endpaper. 1946 Hard Cover. 182 pp. 8vo. A collection of Merrill's writings about the history of Rochester. "Others have written about Rochester before and since Arch Merrill but it took a newspaper man to write the story of Rochester as a story. When Merrill writes of Nathaniel Rochester in the lucid, fast-moving, easily-digested style which has put Merrill's books on top of the reader list,you see the City's Founder; you feel his presence, you imagine him surveying today's scene from the four corners. When Arch Merrill writes of Sam Patch,the leaper of cataracts, the Fox Sisters, purveyors of Spiritualist rappings, you become projected in retrospect through the century of Rochester's pale birth to the era of six wars and the deep etch they left on the community. For those contemporaries who remember, Arch Merrill brings back the days of the old Driving Park, the Free Academy, the Lyceum Theater, Rattlesnake Pete, the Glen House, the Sidepaths and other landmarks that now are memories." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 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...Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City. It is the county seat for Monroe County.