{"product_id":"the-sticks-a-profile-of-essex-county-new-york","title":"The Sticks: A Profile of Essex County, New York","description":"\u003cp\u003eFar north of New York City, up near the Canadian border, lies Essex County, New York-a massive, mountainous chunk of almost forgotten real estate, a keystone of the Adirondack North Country, or what the city people call The Sticks, A county with probably more history than any other in the nation, with natural resources that made some of America's earliest for-tunes, and with wild beauty unsurpassed in the East, Essex is now a region that has heavily suffered the plight of so much of present-day America. Indeed, it is a microcosm of what is known as the Appalachian Condition: dying farms, closed mines, abandoned mills, and proud rugged individualists, the children of pioneers, forced into the grinding, degrading trap of poverty and welfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurton Bernstein has lived in Essex County and knows its people, from the broken farmers, miners, and mill hands to the new tourist-attraction elite. Such disparate folk as a retired rumrunner and the late artist, Rockwell Kent, are included, and Bernstein reports their trials and joys with accuracy, feeling, and concern. He presents here a profile of an essential and symbolic part of America and its citizenry, a profile in The New Yorker tradition of thoroughness and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burton Bernstein, Marcia Erickson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48477659332858,"sku":"NEO1\/14\/03162026","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/3387\/5450\/files\/IMG_7861.jpg?v=1773674144","url":"https:\/\/flippedpages.com\/products\/the-sticks-a-profile-of-essex-county-new-york","provider":"Flipped Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}