Home
Search transcripts:    Advanced Search
Notable New     Yorkers
Select     Notable New Yorker

Frances PerkinsFrances Perkins
Photo Gallery
Transcript

Part:         Session:         Page of 654

which was built in your yard, better than they like any of the others on the same model.

The State of New York was an entity in itself, with great beauty. Al Smith loved the variety of scenery of the State of New York. I've heard him talk about that. Just within the State of New York you could get every kind of scenery that was available anywhere. I used to say, “but not like the coast of Maine, because although we have an ocean front, it is not the rock-bound coast.” He would have to admit that we had no rock-bound coast like the New England coast, but we had the ocean front, magnificent beaches, inland waters of sounds and estuaries, the mighty river, which is tide river clear to Albany. I hadn't been west then, but after being to Iowa, Illinois, and so forth, I didn't see any variety of scenery at all. In New York, as Al would say, you get upstate into Cherry Valley, into the Mohawk Valley, and you've got the most beautiful, rich farmland. You come across a piece of rolling land. You look over great valleys and you see the most beautiful rich farmland, fruitland. You go up into the Adirondacks and see the most rugged mountains - really terrific mountains with the greatest variety of scenery. You go down along the southern tier into the Finger Lakes area. It's the most amazing scenery. Even when you're crossing





© 2006 Columbia University Libraries | Oral History Research Office | Rights and Permissions | Help