History
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 - 2:14 pm
Oh, who am I kidding? I love Dirty Dancing, that glorious 1987 dance-romance flick set in the fading glory of the 1960s Catskills, as much as anybody.
News broke yesterday that Kenny Ortega, the man responsible for High School Musical, has been tapped to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 3:35 pm
There are some things that just go together. Ice and tea. Beans and cornbread. Hobart and horseshoes.
Back in the late 1700s, local lore tells, Hobart pioneer Foote More was the first in the nation to manufacture those square nails once used to keep the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 6:42 pm
Photo of bluestone sculpture at Opus 40 in Saugerties by Flickr user Insignifica. Published under Creative Commons license.
In the Daily Freeman today: A letter from the supervisor of Saugerties announced today that the town is pulling out of an effort to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011 - 8:54 am
Quick: Where is Bedell, NY?
According to the Historical Society for the Town of Middletown's Tin Horn blog, there used to be an enormous sign with letters 20-feet high answering that question for strangers approaching the intersection of Little Red Kill... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 8, 2011 - 2:13 pm
Astute WP reader Laurie McIntosh alerted us to a fun fact today: In the past week, National Public Radio has been crawling with Catskillians.
Case in point: David Krajicek, front man of Blues Maneuver, a Catskills band that features a horn section to die... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 1, 2011 - 5:11 pm
Above: A photo of John Lennon, taken in 1972 by Lou Gaudiosi, from a series to go on exhibit this weekend at Andes Art and Antiques.
Tomorrow, a set of photographs taken of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, which apparently have been languishing unseen for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 29, 2011 - 9:06 am
Photo by Flickr user Danielle Tsi.
The fate of borscht, the purple beet-based soup, seems inextricably tied to the fate of the Catskills. Both the soup and the region had their glory days in the 1950s, when the term "Borscht Belt" sounded glamorous,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 27, 2011 - 12:20 pm
They vacation up in the Catskills.
Yesterday, the New York Post ran a story about a "horse hotel" in Monticello that caters specifically to Central Park carriage horses, who retire to the upstate farm for their mandatory 5-week vacations. Er, make that "... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 24, 2011 - 11:59 pm
But, as you might guess, everybody's paying attention to the New York Senate's historic vote to legalize gay marriage tonight.
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2011 - 9:57 am
Excerpt of a map showing life expectancy for women in rural counties in America. Counties in yellow are seeing female life expectancy dropping. Source: Daily Yonder.
Sometimes, living in a rural place like Delaware County is like living in a Third World... Read more
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