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Mountain Memoirs and Historical Essays

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  • Mountain Memoirs and Historical Essays
  • Growing Up in a Catskills Resort Hotel — by Marc Stier (PDF)
  • A Shtetl in America: Mountaindale, NY 1930-1945 — a memoir by Seymour Perlin on life on a farm/hotel
  • Catskills Cooking — by Janet Forman
  • Spring Glen Synagogue History — by Dorothy Shapiro
  • Once Upon a Time in the Catskills—A Memoir of Summer, 1958 — by Phil Ratzer (PDF)
  • Bungalow Life — a collection of essays by Arthur Tanney
  • Camp Life — a collection of essays by Alan Stamm
  • Monticello Memories — a memoir by Allen Kurtz / The Great Water Gun Fight by Ellory Kurtz (PDF)
  • Lenny Bruce & My Father — an essay by Mark Kramer
  • A Deck of Cards — a memoir by Jack Landman
  • Breaking In: Busing at Ehrenreich’s Play-Rest Hotel — by Jules Trachten
  • Ellenville Always — by Robin C. Westmiller
  • Private Bath — a memoir by Rae Young
  • Heiden Hotel — a memoir by Shirley Jacoby Paris (PDF)
  • Julie Oshins, a Catskills Tumler — by Mel Oshins
  • A Place in the Country — a story about Grine Felder by Martin Boris reprinted with permission by Jewish Monthly

This project was created using the CERES: Exhibit Toolkit with help from the Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library.

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