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Over a barrel : the rise and fall of New York's Taylor Wine Company / Thomas Pellechia.
- Title
- Over a barrel : the rise and fall of New York's Taylor Wine Company / Thomas Pellechia.
- Author
- Pellechia, Thomas, 1945-
- Publication
- Albany, NY : Excelsior Editions , [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HD9379.T39 P45 2015 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 244 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In 1880, Walter Stephen Taylor, a cooper's son, started a commercial grape juice company in New York's Finger Lakes region. Two years later, wine production was added, and by the 1920s, the Taylor Wine Company was firmly established. Walter Taylor's three sons carefully guided the company through Prohibition and beyond, making it the most important winery in the Northeast and profoundly affecting the people and community of Hammondsport, where the company was headquartered. Drawing on archival research as well as interviews with many of the principal players, Thomas Pellechia skillfully traces the economic dynamism of the Finger Lakes wine region, the passion and ingenuity of the Taylor family, and the shortsighted corporate takeover scenario that took down a once-proud American family company. In addition to providing important lessons for business innovators, Over a Barrel is a cautionary tale for a wine region that is repeating its formative industry"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Arrivals -- ch. Two War And Prohibition -- ch. Three Rebirth -- ch. Four The Rise -- ch. Five The Competition -- ch. Six Successful Choices -- Photo Gallery Follows -- ch. Seven Expansion -- ch. Eight Offspring -- ch. Nine Trouble Ahead -- ch. Ten The Big Leagues -- ch. Eleven Fraying -- ch. Twelve Unraveling -- ch. Thirteen The Fall.
- ISBN
- 9781438455495
- 1438455496
- 9781438455518 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014014919
- OCLC
- 878224848
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library