Writers in the Mountains (WIM) presents The Amherst Method, a generative writing workshop with poet Sharon Israel, the last Friday of the month from 3 to 5 pm at the Roxbury Library, 53742 State Hwy 30, Roxbury, NY. The first session will be held on March 29. Advance registration is recommended. Never written before? Know you have a writer’s soul but haven’t yet been able … Continue reading The Amherst Method Creative Writing Workshop
Rebecca Rego Barry reads from and signs copies of her latest book The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells (2024) at the Emerson Resort in Mt. Tremper, NY. You can read about Rebecca’s book in the Saturday Evening Post at https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/01/considering-history-americas-forgotten-women-writers-carolyn-wells/ and Publishers Weekly at https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/editorials/article/94384-rebecca-rego-barry-on-mystery-author-carolyn-wells-and-the-erasure-of-women-in-literary-history.html Barry’s articles and essays about books, history, and collectibles have appeared in Financial Times, Literary Hub, CrimeReads, Atlas Obscura, Lapham’s Quarterly, Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, … Continue reading Rebecca Rego Barry Book Reading and Signing Event
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“Art in The Catskills Coloring Book: Revised Edition” is an interactive project for colorists of all ages to better appreciate and enjoy the tranquility of the country life. The book includes twenty illustrations printed on one side only that depict the everyday life in the Catskill Mountains, Upstate New York. REVIEWS My family has been vacationing in the Catskills for generations. This book brings back … Continue reading ART IN THE CATSKILLS COLORING BOOK: REVISED EDITION
The Zadock Pratt Museum hosted a lecture by Edward Renehan, author of Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons (2006), and John Burroughs: An American Naturalist (1992) on Saturday, May 27, 2023. In his lecture, Renehan explored the tangled and calamitous tale of Gould’s first large business venture of the 1850s, a venture transacted in league … Continue reading Edward Renehan, Biographer of Jay Gould and John Burroughs, to Speak at the Zadock Pratt Museum
Journey to the Catskills: I’ve actually been here for generations! My grandparents owned Boris Bungalow Colony in Glen Wild in the 1940s -1960s. My parents met while they were both working for a hotel in Loch Sheldrake over their summer break in 1950. After a few years in the City, they settled in the Hudson Valley, and even though I was away for a while, … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Laurie Boris
Journey to the Catskills: I was an Idaho girl living in Manhattan for a decade. I was very happy there. Love brought me to the Catskills. I met a man named Michael in NYC. He owned a historical country house in Walton situated on 100 acres that we visited most weekends, and it was the best of both worlds. He promised we would never completely leave … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Jessica Reed
24-year-old Mae McCain flees from New York City at the beginning of the COVID lockdown to her great-grandparents’ abandoned farmhouse in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York. In the attic of the old house, Mae finds a family secret and gradually discovers why it was hidden for so long. Ruth is an aviator of another time, blazing new history as she breaks through old boundaries. Silver Dollar Girls, … Continue reading Book Release: Silver Dollar Girls by Margaret DiBenedetto
FULL COURT PRESS announces the release of EBONY BEAR, A NURTURING URSINE LEARNS A LESSON by Margaret DiDenedetto with illustrations by Fabia Wargin. Meet Ebony, a black bear and new mother of three cubs, and take a peek at their adventures as they learn to share the world with humans. Ebony Bear is the first in a series of wildlife books that are based on research … Continue reading Book Release: Ebony Bear, A Nurturing Ursine Learns a Lesson by Margaret DiBenedetto
Art in the Catskills 