Released on = July 2, 2007, 5:59 pm

Press Release Author = Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = Albany Scrapbook examines life and lore in New York's
capital city


Press Release Body = For Immediate Release
July 1, 2007
Contact: Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises
845-679-2452
gellescolelit@aol.com


Colorful cast of characters populates regional history book

Albany Scrapbook examines life and lore in New York's capital city


WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK- Where do Henry Hudson, a slave named Pomp, Mario Cuomo, Philip
Schuyler, the inventor of basketball (perhaps), a nineteenth century detective
named Elisha Mack, an eighteenth century geographer named Simeon DeWitt, Charles
Dickens, the putative Dauphin of France, Fidel Castro, Herman Melville, a
renaissance man named Solomon, Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Evers, early stage star
Joseph Kline Emmet, both Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth, and a host of other
colorful and compelling characters cross paths?

In the annals of Albany, New York, one of America\'s oldest and most fascinating cities.

And in the pages of Albany Scrapbook by Kenneth Salzmann, now available from
Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises

The book explores the history and-sometimes-the folklore of Albany through four
centuries, according to a press release from Woodstock-based publisher Gelles-Cole
Literary Enterprises. In chapters that look at everything from old Albany's early
days as an important outpost for Dutch fur traders to the settlement's first
homicide to the region's early theatrical fare and its rich political history,
Albany Scrapbook expands upon a series of magazine columns Salzmann, a freelance
writer, wrote for the 1980s weekly magazine, Albany, New York.

The new book, priced at $12.95, is the first of two scheduled volumes.

Excerpts of the book appear online at www.albanyscrapbook.blogspot.com.

Albany Scrapbook Vol.1 also can be ordered online at www.literaryenterprises.com or
by writing to Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises, Box 341, Woodstock, NY, 12498.


"Albany Scrapbook is wide-ranging in topic, occasionally whimsical, always
well-written, and
the total effect is a montage of life in Albany, past and present."

-Wendell Tripp
New York History



Web Site = http://albanyscrapbook.blogspot.com

Contact Details = Contact: Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises
845-679-2452
gellescolelit@aol.com