Journey to the Catskills: I came to the Catskills with my girlfriend Jackie because we wanted an escape from New York City. We started looking in the Berkshires and finished looking in Andes, NY. I still love the first house we saw in Great Barrington, MA. Vocation: I do woodworking as a job, specifically cabinetmaking. Avocation: I am a photographer of long standing having started as … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Christopher Moore
Journey to the Catskills: When I was a very young child, I spent summers at my grandparents’ home in Woodstock. Ever since, the Catskills have been calling me home. I moved here from Brooklyn in 2001 so I could hear myself think and practice. Vocation: I am a musician and a producer. Avocation: I have always loved radio. I’ve produced music documentaries for public radio … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Elly Wininger
Journey to the Catskills: While I began life in the hustle and bustle of a Boston neighborhood, I went to Vermont after college and started a weekly paper. I got into the rural groove there, but I decided that as a young reporter I needed more action around me (along with dental benefits) so I relocated to Albany for my next gig. After a long … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Joe Mahoney
Journey to the Catskills: On a summer day in 1973, on the Columbia University campus, I was chatting with another mother while our preschoolers splashed hands in the fountains. She told me of a place that sounded magical. Her family had recently pooled resources with four other families to buy part of a mountainside up near the Rondout Reservoir in Sullivan County – and they … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Shaune Bornholdt
Journey to the Catskills: Over 25 years ago I inherited a property in the Bronx from my Aunt Margaret. I was living in the Lower East Side in Manhattan at the time and couldn’t see myself making a move to the Bronx. A lot of people I knew were moving to the Phoenicia area then, so I sold the Bronx house and came Upstate to look … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Patrice Lorenz
Journey to the Catskills: My husband and I moved to Hobart in October 2014. For a couple of years, we had been looking for an area in which to retire. We were living in the suburbs of Washington DC, and we did not want to stay in that area when we retired. Too crowded, too busy, too expensive, too much traffic, too hot and humid in the … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Kathy Duyer
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
Art in the Catskills 