One fish, two fish, red fish, 25-foot-long giant segmented puppet fish.

All this and more can be found at the 11th Annual Trout Parade, Saturday, June 14 at 1 p.m., on Main Street in Livingston Manor.

The parade features the art and wit of local businesses who create trout-themed costumes, floats, puppets, signs and more. This year's o-fish-al theme is “steampunk,” offering up a science fiction twist to the community fixture. Folks can expect monocled and top-hatted fish and gears galore, among the cast of festival fare.

“Think Jules Verne on Mars, or Sherlock Holmes with a steam-powered robot sidekick,” reads the parade’s website. 

Above: A room at the Arnold House. Photo courtesy of the Arnold House. 

For over a century, urbanites have found refuge in the Catskills. But the heyday of the grand Victorian mountain hotels is over, and the era of Borscht Belt resort kitsch is passing away. These days, our downstate neighbors are looking for something a bit more off the beaten path in their country getaways.

A new breed of hotel is cropping up in the hills: small, laid-back escapes that cater to a design-conscious clientele. Emboldened by the success of the Graham & Co., a former Phoenicia roadhouse that re-opened as a chic motel last year, several new hotels have seized on the concept of the Catskills as a hipster's alternative to the Hamptons -- a drum New York Magazine has been beating for nearly a decade.