Journey to the Catskills: I was born and raised in NYC. I’ve been coming up to the Catskills since the early 1970s. I had moved to work in LA and stayed there for 14 years until I decided that LA was not the place I wanted to live in for the rest of my life. In 2002 I came back to New York but moved … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Vic Tannenberg
Journey to the Catskills: My journey here has been a back-and-forth from the Hudson Valley to the Catskills from the start. In the 1990s, my father would travel every weekend to the mountains for downhill mountain bike races and meets at Plattekill. He met my mother, who was “his mountain flower,” and soon I came along. I was dubbed “The Plattekill Baby” among their friends. … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Rhiannon Radu
Journey to the Catskills: In 1983, I brought my art school college boyfriend (who I had only known for about three weeks) to meet my sister (who lived in Mt. Tremper) by bus via Adirondacks Trailways. She sent us out on an errand in her car to get wild rice from Jane’s in Phoenicia (which later evolved into the famous Jane’s Ice Cream). We were so thrilled … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Jen Dragon
Journey to the Catskills: I first came to Woodstock in 1999 with my then-wife Flo to ride out the week of that new year (and its much-vaulted dread of global computer crash) at a mutual friend’s place on Mink Hollow Road in Lake Hill. We had a blast, coming from the city, though a cold one, in the country – we came and went – … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Sam Truitt
Journey to the Catskills: Growing up on farms in Harford County, MD, I was used to wide open spaces. After high school, much to the sorrow of my identical twin sister, I followed a boy and relocated to Bucks County, PA. That relationship ended. Still, I stayed for 18 years, apprenticing with designer Carolyn Fell and eventually landed my dream job as set stylist at … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Rebecca Andre
Journey to the Catskills: Impulsiveness. Irresponsibility. Vocation: Writer. Reader. Editor. Publisher. Professor. Avocation: Walking. Gazing. Happiness Is: A balancing act. Favorite Dish: I am ravenous for nothing in particular. Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Jared Fagen
Journey to the Catskills: My husband, Dick Demenus, and I were invited up to the Catskills in the summer of 1996 to visit a friend who had a house in Shandaken. We weren’t familiar with the area at all, although Dick had done some hiking around Hunter Mountain and Woodland Valley years before. I remember swimming in the Pine Hill Lake and just being enchanted … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Jan Albert
Journey to the Catskills: I was born here in the Catskills along the upper East Branch of the Delaware River. My whole world view began and ended in the hills and hollows during my growing years. Trips to either Oneonta or Kingston, NY were trips to the City. I was fortunate to be raised by a whole community of farmers, loggers and local merchants and … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Rudd Hubbell
Journey to the Catskills: In 2012 I bought a house on 6.3 acres in a village I had never heard of. A broker from Olive kept taking me further and further down Route 28. I was a full-time art professor in Tribeca, and a native of Brooklyn. After spending many summers in Lake Luzerne (the Lake George region of NY), and spending three wonderful years … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Miguel Martinez-Riddle
Journey to the Catskills: I came to Bovina in 1989. I was exiting yet another marriage and needed a place to ride motorcycles and drink beer. Back then Bovina was an unknown sleeping beauty. It was my escape from NYC until I started the farm in 2008. Then the full-time labors/learning began in an agricultural habitat not designed for Citi/idiots like me. Vocation: My wife … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Steve Burnett
Art in the Catskills 