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2-Way Intercom between rider and passenger. Compatible with all Bluetooth phones. Fits virtually any motorcycle helmet. Receive, initiate and reject calls by voice.
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Upstate South Carolina sits atop the Blue Ridge Escarpment, a geological formation known to the Cherokee people as "The Blue Wall." In this region, nearly every river, creek, or stream at some point forms a waterfall Many of them are spectacular, and most are accessible to the average hiker on a day hike. This guide includes 92 hikes ranging in length from a few hundred feet to 6 miles round-trip. Each leads to a destination like the famous Whitewater Falls or Bull Sluice, or a lesser-known cascade like Pigpen Falls or Bee Cove Falls. Each entry covers everything you need to know to get out and hike: photos, detailed driving and hiking directions, estimated hiking time, and trail difficulty, as well as waterfall class, rating, height, and more..
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Not so long ago, residents of the Upstate thought only the Lowcountry was full of ghosts and hauntings John Boyanoski s 2006 collection of Upstate ghost stories changed that, and now he is back with More Ghosts of Upstate South Carolina. From a haunted former hospital to the historical witches of Fairfield County to the many ghosts of Winthrop University s Tillman Hall, Boyanoski s collection wanders the back roads and back hallways of the Upstate to tell the stories of a truly haunted region.

Haunted houses are scattered throughout, some still lived in and some abandoned long ago. Boyanoski also tells of a skeleton in a window, haunted railroad tracks in Spartanburg, a shadow no longer attached to its owner, a ghost that played with the family dog, the many ghosts of a Main Street Greenville art studio (including one Civil War soldier who held his bayonet to the artist s throat), and more.

"These are stories that have never been talked about publicly," Boyanoski says. "They are family stories, rather than legends that have been passed around for years."

One of the most amazing hauntings in the book is Greenwood s Inn on the Square not because the ghost is scary, but because he is defective. Bill, as the ghost is commonly known, likes to frequent the hotel bar, where he often plays tricks on new patrons. (The regulars have learned to ignore him.) So why is he defective? At closing time, if the bartender forgets to remind him to leave, Bill gets locked in. He can t pass through the door like most ghosts! And when Bill gets locked in, he gets testy. After his worst fit there were knocked over chairs and tables, a television ripped off the wall, and the security camera video to prove it!

"So many of these stories are so believable," Boyanoksi says. "Multiple sources, multiple witnesses. That s unusual in ghost books."

Greenville, Greenwood, Simpsonville, Spartanburg. All are haunted. So is Abbeville, and Rock Hill, and Newberry. And Anderson, Pickens, and Chester. And Iva, Pendleton, and Piedmont. It is hard to find a town that isn t. One Spartanburg County firehouse gets advanced warnings from its ghost, while in Travelers Rest, just between Greenville and the mountains, you ll find a man who talks with ghosts almost daily. One even asked him to kill.

Scarier than the original, More Ghosts of Upstate South Carolina will keep you awake at night. And like the man in Travelers Rest, it may even haunt you in your dreams..
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The hundreds of rural cemeteries in Upstate New York are the bucolic final resting places of a plethora of legendary Americans from the recent and distant past. For over a decade, Chuck D'Imperio traveled to research the beautiful and historic region in search of some of the most famous (and infamous) figures in American history. The product of this labor of love is Great Graves of Upstate New York: Final Resting Places of 70 True American Legends. Many of the names are familiar to any American William Rockefeller, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known as Mark Twain), Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, and Harriet Tubman, and four U.S. presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, and Chester Arthur. An equally colorful host of local characters who shaped the culture of Upstate New York are also featured, including: Kate Smith, "The God Bless America Girl"; mafia figure Joe "Joe the Barber" Barbara; Dr. Mary Walker, America's only female Congressional Medal of Honor winner; Jennie Grossinger, "The Catskill's Innkeeper"; and Ernie Davis, "The Pride of the Syracuse Orangemen." From Syracuse to West Point to Binghamton, and on to Cooperstown, Niagara Falls, and Lake Placid, Great Graves of Upstate New York is not only a fact-filled volume on the region's cemeteries, museums, and historical sites, but a peek into the lives of 70 distinguished individuals who have shaped American history..
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"This is a haunting and insightful work that transcends the picturesque to approach the profound "—Robert Stone

Route 22 is a 350-mile highway that connects Manhattan and Montreal. One day while driving on it, Benjamin Swett was struck by the contrast between the landscape he could see through his car window and the more romantic one he remembered from his childhood. Without any particular plan, he set out to discover how the upstate New York of James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole became this other place—a seemingly lost, untended region of Off-Track Betting Parlors and Tattoo Emporiums, abandoned diners, and ancient buildings crumbling into forgotten canals. The result of his exploration is this book—an insightful and deeply personal meditation on this complicated and beautiful landscape, accompanied by ninety evocative photographs. 90 duotone photographs..
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The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York is a profile of a flourishing Hindu temple in the town of Rush, New York. The temple, established by a charismatic nonbrahman Sri Lankan Tamil known as Aiya, stands out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligious iconoclasm. The vitality with which devotees participate in ritual themselves and their ready access to the deities contrasts sharply with ritual activities at most North American Hindu temples, where (following the usual Indian custom) ritual is performed only by priests and access to the highly sanctified divine images is closely guarded. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, Dempsey weaves traditional South Asian tales, temple miracle accounts, and devotional testimonials into an analysis of the distinctive dynamics of diaspora Hinduism. She explores the ways in which the goddess, the guru, and temple members reside at cultural and religious intersections, noting how distinctions between miraculous and mundane, convention and non-convention, and domestic and foreign are more often intertwined and interdependent than in tidy opposition. This lively and accessible work is a unique and important contribution to diaspora Hindu Studies..
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Upstate New York: Towns That We Love is an illustrated history of the countryside in the Upper Hudson River Valley, including six towns that played an important role in the American Revolution. It is a "travel" book that discusses the life and times of the people who live there now and who lived there in days gone by..
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