Hotel Balmoral on Mount McGregor: A resort with all the necessary improvements for comfort and health of patrons in 1883

Hotel Balmoral on Mount McGregor... Enter the nineteenth century world of a hotel on Mount McGregor north of the resort village of Saratoga Springs, New York, as it is seen in everyday events that could have happened if a young boy, Patrick, had joined his Irish parents to work at the summer seasons of the Hotel Balmoral in 1883, 1884 and 1885. This book is realistic fiction. Patrick is not a person from the pages of history; however the events his stories tell about are based upon things that did happen on Mt. McGregor...the narrow gauge railroad from Saratoga Springs to the mountain top, the grand hotel with hundreds of rooms and magnificent vistas, a visit by Mark Twain and the last days of Gen. U. S. Grant's life . In this short volume boyhood adventures and dreams are recorded. Such are the events to which a child can relate. Adults with a memory, or a bit of imagination, can also share his experiences. Patrick's education and career were shaped by the things that happened to him at Mt. McGregor. Nineteenth century American values, and understandings of the ways that immigrants became Americans are not presented by Patrick. There are lessons to be learned from Patrick and from his parents that define options for present day living, education, citizenship, and the humanizing of contemporary American values.