Journey to the Catskills: I grew up a Jewish boy in the suburbs of Baltimore. However, from a very early age, I daydreamed about carrying a Winchester into the Rocky Mountains and living as a mountain man. Don’t ask me where that notion came from, but there it was (and is). The Jewish ‘burbs of B’more were a far piece from the Rockies, so I … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Stephen H. Foreman
Journey to the Catskills: My wife bought a fixer upper in Andes without telling me. My accountant at the time “mentioned“ she was buying the house. When I asked her about it, she said “don’t worry, it won’t cost you a dime.” Anyway, we would end up moving up here as an experiment about seventeen years ago. For the first ten years or so I … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Joe Damone
Journey to the Catskills: I love motorcycling and many years ago I would ride up here, so twelve years ago, when I was looking for a place to get away from the city, this became a natural place to look upstate. It’s the greenest place on earth in the summer and being Danish I can even embrace the winters here. Vocation: I’m a keynote speaker … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Jeanette Bronee
Journey to the Catskills: We came here initially to visit my lovely wife Jane’s sister in Margaretville (whose wonderfully funky farmhouse went up in a flurry of flames and gunfire) – that was halfway between our home in Stamford (CT) and Syracuse (NY) where my son was attending college. When we discovered there was no radio station here, we gathered up the support to start … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Joseph Piasek
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: 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: 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
Art in the Catskills 