{"id":75,"date":"2005-10-02T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2025-06-28T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:51:25","slug":"eagles-mere-and-the-sullivan-highlands-j-horace-mcfarland-and-robert-b-mcfarland-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2005\/10\/eagles-mere-and-the-sullivan-highlands-j-horace-mcfarland-and-robert-b-mcfarland-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Mere and the Sullivan Highlands &#8211; J. Horace McFarland and Robert B. McFarland, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subtitle: &#8220;Origin and History of the region. Illustrations and descriptive text of this vacation-land of Pennsylvania.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060225012458\/http:\/\/www.eaglesmere.org\/\">Eagles Mere<\/a> is less than two hours from here. The name itself fascinated me initially, and my first visit gave the impression of a magical, romantic place away from everyday life. Alas, a subsequent visit revealed that there&#8217;s not much &#8220;there&#8221; there for a day visit, unless you love browsing little shops (a little goes a long way for me). But this book (which I checked out from the library basement when we were weeding the collection) reveals that there used to be more, especially for residents and long-term visitors. The hiking trails must still be there, and the &#8220;lake on top of a hill&#8221; is still beautiful. There&#8217;s lovely architecture as well, although a number of hotels described in this book have since burned or been torn down. The book is full of beautiful black-and-white photographs, on surprisingly nice paper (considering it was wartime). This type of old guidebook\/souvenir\/coffee table book has a relaxed and uncommercial feel compared to its tightly-marketed equivalents today. The McFarlands skip leisurely from topic to topic; they are sometimes conversational or anectodal, sometimes didactic and tedious. They basically toss in everything they know or could find: descriptions of all the Eagles Mere hotels, an analysis of the lake water (&#8220;pH: 6.2. Amorphous matter: Considerable.&#8221;), a poem about Joe Pye weed.<\/p>\n<p>Just found the <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.libraries.psu.edu\/digital\/collection\/digitalbks2\/id\/19885\/\">whole thing online<\/a>! Yay Penn State!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subtitle: &#8220;Origin and History of the region. Illustrations and descriptive text of this vacation-land of Pennsylvania.&#8221; Eagles Mere is less than two hours from here. The name itself fascinated me initially, and my first visit gave the impression of a magical, romantic place away from everyday life. Alas, a subsequent visit revealed that there&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}