Remembering Charles Dornbusch
You can still see it there along the side of a seldom-traveled road in the hamlet of Cornwallville, a haunted house of sorts, or rather a low shed “with a history,” green-shingled and isolate,...
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Kaaterskill Falls in Winter
During the bitter winter of 1843, the artist Thomas Cole made an arduous day trip by sleigh from his home in the village of Catskill to the precipice of Kaaterskill Falls. He and his...
Students are Crops, Forests are Customers
Catskill mountain. Trailless peak. No Parnassus. Rip Van Winkle. Far-off dream. Second growth. Frozen fountain. Winter chill. Contour lies. Wrong turns. Twists and tropes. Thin air. Wanton lines. Loose rule. Tongues tied. Breath short....
Red Apple Rest
Red Apple Rest was a famous highway stop along Route 17 in Tuxedo, New York. The cafeteria-style eatery opened in 1931 and for decades did a booming business. Several generations of vacationers regarded this...