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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 5:43 pm
Forget the palatial estate with horse barn, swimming pool and five-bedroom Victorian. Today's hot Catskills property is a moldering cabin on 30 brushy acres, with Plexiglas windows and "BRIAN SHOT A BUCK 11/16/08" chalked on the door.
Don't believe me?... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 11:48 am
Pina Jackson in Mercemoriam: Foofwa d'Imobilite's Tribute to Merce Cunningham, Michael Jackson and Pina Bausch
Dear readers: Please believe us when we tell you we'd never inflict a mime on you in our weekend picks if he wasn't going to be brilliant. A... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 - 12:17 pm
Image: Summer Landscape, 1869, Julie Hart Beers
Artists, if you're seeking to toil in obscurity and ensure that your work lies neglected for centuries, here's how to do it: 1. Be a woman. 2. Paint trees.
Such has been the fate of the women of the Hudson... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 26, 2010 - 1:04 pm
A genealogy junkie named Alanna just made a shocking discovery in her family tree:
Joseph Wood in a suspected fit of suspected rum induced jealousy killed his wife with a hatchet ... My GrGrGr Grandfather murdered his wife….my GrGrGr Grandmother. I... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 2:39 pm
Flickr user jeffs4653 snapped this photo of the historic Center Theatre -- which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places -- in June. The old movie theater is in Woodbourne, in Sullivan County, which was apparently close enough to the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 12:06 pm
A few years shy of a century ago, Congregation B'nai Israel was founded by Jewish families from Fleischmanns and Margaretville. Its 1918 incorporation date makes the historic synagogue, located on Wagner Avenue in Fleischmanns, one of the oldest in the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 9, 2010 - 11:55 am
On Wednesday, the Woodstock Playhouse Board President, Joan Spitz Roberts, put out a plea on the Playhouse's Facebook page in which she begged for help staving off a looming foreclosure:
In February 2010 one of our Mortgagors felt it necessary to begin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 8:53 pm
Yes, it's already the weekend -- no doubt you're still digesting those candied apples and that funnel cake from the Fourth. But there's no rest for the hungover or the over-carnivaled: There's some awesome stuff to do this weekend. Here's what we're... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 1:55 pm
July marks the start of two months of a Jewish population boom across the Catskills, and what better way to celebrate that with a little sentimental storytelling? Ronald Pies at The Jewish Magazine tells a fable of two warring brothers set in the old... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 10:52 am
With the last Kutsher on the verge of retirement, the resort that inspired "Dirty Dancing" was poised to follow its Borscht Belt brethren into a long twilight of decrepitude. But in a lucky break for the 103-year-old hotel, caterer Mickey Montal and... Read more
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