ONBOOKS | OPINION: Summer reading comes with rise of summer vacations

June 1, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

by Philip Martin

An illustration from William Henry Harrison Murray's guide book “Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks,” a book that caused thousands to inundate the woods in. what the press called “Murray's Rush” in 1869. (Public domain)
An illustration from William Henry Harrison Murray's guide book “Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks,” a book that caused thousands to inundate the woods in. what the press called “Murray's Rush” in 1869. (Public domain)


In early 1868, William Henry Harrison Murray, the 29-year-old pastor of Boston's Park Street Church, began a series of Sunday evening lectures in a local music hall about the joys of the Adirondack Mountains.

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