Catskill Game Farm
According to the handwriting on its faded blue cardboard mount, the slide was “Taken at Game Farm in Catskills, July 1954.” An item acquired off eBay for a few dollars. It was included among...
Monthly Archive: September 2018
Resorts of the Catskills
He showed up in Windham—with his camera—sometime after Labor Day in 1977. That was the time of year he preferred to work. Most of the summer vacationers were back home by then, at their...
The Widow Jane Mine
The Widow Jane Mine. Nobody knows how it got its name. Jane—as well as any connection she might have had with this long-idle natural cement mine in Rosendale, New York—is lost to history. What...
Steepletop
Moldering books. The smell greets you as soon as you step into the house. Thousands of them are up there in the library, at the top of the stairs on the left side of...