Skaneateles and St. James’ tells more than 100 stories, among them: a cold welcome for the son of Benedict Arnold, a visit by Washington Irving, the women’s circle hosts at Fuller’s Tavern, “When Rectors Attack,” a Civil War hotbed of sedition, “The Troubled Pew of Ellen Dodge,” “The Baby Plague of 1916,” “The Priest with a Purple Heart,” “The Bookworm,” “The Bug” and more. This volume also includes four early histories of St. James’, never before published in book form, as well as a parishioner’s memoir that has been out of print for more than a century, with notes for the contemporary reader. In the companion book, The Windows of St. James’, Skaneateles, you will find full-color photography of the church’s historic Tiffany and Henry Sharp windows and the stories of those they memorialize.