Gilboa: New York's Quest for Water and the Destruction of a Small Town.(Book review)

From: Social Forces | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Perz, Stephen G. | Copyright information

Gilboa: New York's Quest for Water and the Destruction of a Small Town. By Alexander Thomas University Press of America, Inc., 2005. 205 pages. $34 (paper)

There are many ways one might read this book, for it focuses on New York City and its hinterland but provides many angles from which to view the issues at hand. The ostensible core of Gilboa is a chronicle of the construction of a dam to create the Schoharie Reservoir during the 1920s, which destroyed the village of G...

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