Blogs in June 2024

Birdeye 15th June 2024

One chilly April morning a stranger shows up at a commune in the Catskill Mountains, upstate New York. Conor is greeted by Liv, sixty-seven years old, mother, cancer survivor and founder of the once pilgrimage-worthy Birdeye Colony, now well...

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He Lost It In The Catskills 20th March 2022

In “He Lost it in the Catskills”, author Jerry Greenfield takes us back to the final years of the so-called “Borscht Belt” — the area in the mountains just north of New York City that was, for generations, a...

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My Side of the Mountain 13th September 2021

Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods-all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and...

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Last Summer at the Golden Hotel 31st May 2021

Set in the “Borscht Belt” In its heyday, The Golden Hotel was the crown jewel of the hotter-than-hot Catskills vacation scene. For more than sixty years, the Goldman and Weingold families – best friends and business partners – have...

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Girls of Brackenhill 22nd October 2020

Haunted by her sister’s disappearance, a troubled woman becomes consumed by past secrets in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year. When Hannah Maloney’s aunt dies in a car accident, she returns...

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