Opening Dinner * Hotel Minisink * Port Jervis, NY * 1925 + Minisink Indians

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This is a wonderful Menu for for the Opening Dinner at the Hotel Minisink in nearby Port Jervis, New York. It was Thursday, December 10th, 1925. Inside behind tissue-type paper, is firdst page with gorgeous print of the new hotel. Text says: "The Hotel takes its name from the Indians who were the earliest inhabitants of this section. The name Minisink, derived from "Minsi" and "Ick" as properly interpreted means "minsi" "land from which the water has gone" or, "the stone or rocky highlands" and "ick" "the low lands or marsh beyond or nearby, from which the water has gone". The Minsi were a subdivision of the great Lenni-Lenape nation who claimed themselves to be "the original people" - "the manly people." In the latter part of the sixteenth century, they located in this region and remained in possession of the section until the Revolution. They were subjugated by the warlike Mohawks and became part of the Iroquois confederacy. ....... The next page contains the Menu for the dinner with: Green Turtle Soup Amontillado ... Lobster Thermidor ... Breast of Guinea Hen, Minisink ... New Green Peas ... Persillade Parisienne Potato ... Coeur D'Artichoke ... Framean Coulis Gribische ... "Teedysqeung" Glace and more. ....... On the following page is the Program with Musicale ... Speakers: Samuel Cuddeback, President of Port Jervis Hotel Corp.,...  Rev Charles DeMoody, ... Mr. Leroy Brooks, ... Honorable Horace A Sheldon, Mayor of Post Jervis and ... Edward M. Tierney, Founder of Arlington Hotel, Binghampton, NY, former President of the American Hotel Association of United State and Canada. It obviously was a big event in Port Jervis' history. There is a final page titled Autographs, which is empty, followed by the creased tissue type paper at back. The menu is bound with a white string tassle. There is a considerable amount of soiling on covers, evident in my photos. Please examine closely. The inside pages are excellent. It measures 7" x 9 1/2".