Monthly Archive: February 2019

The Catskill Mountain House

In the summer of 1958, thirty-nine-year-old Roland Van Zandt—former U.S. Air Force bombardier, husband, father of four, and doctoral student of American history—was hiking in the vicinity of North Lake when he stumbled upon...

The Farm

On Saturday, May 27th, 1961, an estate auction took place on the Tryon farm just outside the hamlet of Norton Hill in the Town of Greenville. The weather that morning was unseasonably cold, gray,...