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  • Being a teacher in the local junior high school at Onteora and having hosted dinner for Bob and Sarah Dylan -- she served coq au vin -- Robin revealed many tales of the community that was and is Woodstock now.

    Stewart Nusbaumer: Wrapping-Up Woodstock: A Film Festival with Character 2009

  • Instead, in July the family rented a cottage in a colony of wealthy friends, the Onteora Club near Tannersville, New York, in the Catskills.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Instead, in July the family rented a cottage in a colony of wealthy friends, the Onteora Club near Tannersville, New York, in the Catskills.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • "If you take the Garfield line and change at Ironton to the Onteora branch, it'll bring you back on the other side of Bellevue, and Bellevue ain't so big but what it won't be a very long walk to where you live."

    The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • When the summer came again, Mark Twain and his family decided for once to forego Quarry Farm for a season in the Catskills, and presently found themselves located in a cottage at Onteora in the midst of a most delightful colony.

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

  • With a surprised, timid manner he faltered that he had met my wife and daughter at Onteora, and they had asked him to call.

    Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910

  • Just a little pause, then the band burst out into an explosion of weird and tremendous dance-music, a Hungarian celebrity & his wife took the floor; I followed -- I couldn't help it; the others drifted in, one by one, & it was Onteora over again.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • When the summer came again, Mark Twain and his family decided for once to forego Quarry Farm for a season in the Catskills, and presently found themselves located in a cottage at Onteora in the midst of a most delightful colony.

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Just a little pause, then the band burst out into an explosion of weird and tremendous dance-music, a Hungarian celebrity & his wife took the floor; I followed -- I couldn't help it; the others drifted in, one by one, & it was Onteora over again.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • The illustration called "The Onteora Rug" is made by using a proportion of a half-pound of blue rags to the two and a half of white required to make up the three pounds of cotton filling required in a six-foot rug.

    How to make rugs Candace Wheeler 1875

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