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The Sullivan County Historical Society was established on September 18, 1886 to preserve the history of Sullivan County for the enlightenment of future generations.

06/05/2026

RETROSPECT
by John Conway
June 5, 2026

“RED TACTICS AND TEACHINGS” IN SULLIVAN COUNTY?

It was June of 1954, and Sullivan County was abuzz about an investigation revealed in a series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune newspaper that Communists had infiltrated the Catskill resort industry.

The articles, written by Herbert A. Philbrick, a Boston advertising executive who had become involved with the American Communist Party as an informant for the FBI, were entitled, “I Led Three Lives” which the author later used as the title of his autobiography, as well as for the name of a 1950s television series based on his life.

“Sullivan County harbors at least three Communist front summer camps—one of the favorite devices for indoctrination and recruiting—at White Lake, Kenoza Lake, and Jeffersonville,” the Liberty Register quoted Philbrick in an article about his Herald Tribute story.

“The camps named by Mr Philbrick are camps currently being advertised In ‘The Sunday Worker’--White Lake Lodge, Pine Lake Lodge at Kenoza Lake and the City Slicker Farm in Jeffersonville. Mr. Philbrick also names Brlehls, at Wallkill, Camp KInderhook and Camp Lakeland at Sylvan Lake, and Arrow Farm at Monroe,” the Register reported in its June 17, 1954 edition.

In his articles, Philbrick reported that the White Lake Lodge had enlisted Hollywood actor Lionel Stander as its social director.

“Stander has been Identified by a number of government witnesses as a former member of a secret professional unit of the party known as 'Z-l00 In Hollywood. Sander will have as his rlght hand lieutenant at White Lake Lodge Tony Traver, former special events director tor Columbia Broadcasting," Philbrick wrote.

He also noted that one of the principal devices of “red tactics and teachings” was the use of summer “camps, colonies and resorts” to “turn non-Communists into Communists.”

Philbrick’s articles in the Herald Tribune caught the eye of the New York State Legislature, and sparked an investigation and hearings by its Joint Committee to Study Charitable and Philanthropic Agencies and Organizations. The hearings were widely covered by newspapers throughout the state, including the New York Times.

“Eight more witnesses invoked the Fifth Amendment yesterday before the Joint Legislative Committee to Study Charitable and Philanthropic Agencies and Organizations,” the Times reported on August 24, 1955. “The committee is seeking to show Communist subversion in summer camps for children and adults.”

The Times noted that among the eight witnesses at the hearings at Foley Square in New York City the previous day were two of the three owners of the Pine Lake Lodge in Kenoza Lake, Abraham Hamburger and Sam K***t, along with Hamburger’s daughter, Naomi Colow, who managed the place, described as “a family resort with 17 rooms accommodating 35 persons.”

Nearly a year after the hearings, the Liberty Register ran a follow up story about the Pine Lake Lodge, quoting another of the owners of the lodge, Manya Hamburger, as denying any connection to the Communists.

Mrs. Hamburger said she had run the Pine Lake Lodge for the past eight years along with her husband Abraham, and their partner, Sam K***t. She claimed that the lodge was not a summer camp at all, but a small hotel, with 18 rooms accommodating about 40 guests.

“It’s not a camp, and it’s not Communist,” Mrs. Hamburger told the Register.

Although in its final report it did not specifically name the Pine Lake Lodge—or the other Sullivan County resorts implicated in Philbrick’s Herald Tribue articles— the Legislative committee apparently did not agree.

“A state committee that investigated Communist subversion of summer camps concluded yesterday that the ‘factually silent arrogance’ of witnesses had enabled it to make its point,” the New York Times reported on May 28, 1956. “The point was, the committee declared, that it had long been high-level Communist policy to exploit children and youths at summer camps.”

Quoting from the Committee’s final report, which was made public to encourage parents to be vigilant in choosing summer camps for their children, the Times noted that by "wielding the privilege against self-incrimination in an almost unparalleled manner, witnesses with a considerable degree of success left the committee without facts as to the operation, ownership and financing of these camps.

“But by this determined silence, the report continued, ‘these witnesses, in a larger sense, made it possible for the committee to see and demonstrate, with greater success than would otherwise have been possible, the ultimate fact that there exists a long-continued Communist conspiracy, planned and directed by the highest echelons of the party, to utilize the device of operating summer camps.’"

The Legislative Committee concluded that the Communist Party used its summer children’s camps in rural New York and New Jersey to:
· Reinforce and reinvigorate the indoctrination of the children of Communists and their sympathizers.
· Enmesh other youth into the circle of Communist and fellow-traveling activities.
· Train new generations of Communist leadership.
· Provide centers and rallying points for Communist activities.
· Provide employment for the "faithful" in areas of activity that advanced the purposes of the Communist party.

The Times article concluded by making it clear that “the committee took pains to make clear that only ‘a comparatively small number’ of camps were involved.”

John Conway is the Sullivan County Historian. His Retrospect column appears every Friday in the Sullivan County Democrat newspaper. Email him at [email protected].

PHOTO CAPTION: Herbert A. Philbrick (Los Angeles Times photo)

06/03/2026

RETROSPECT
by John Conway
September 12, 2025

THE CONFUSING SAGA OF CHESTNUT WOODS

On September 5, 1778, a small contingent of colonial militia from Fort Honk near present day Napanoch, were ambushed near where the Chestnut Brook flows into the Pepacton Creek in what is today the town of Neversink, but was part of Ulster County at the time.

The incident has become known as the Battle of Chestnut Woods, and to this day remains one of the most confusing events of the Revolutionary War.

It is not particularly unusual for various accounts of occurrences that took place during the Revolutionary War to differ in detail, but few incidents have resulted in such widely disparate versions as what transpired that day at Chestnut Woods.

The series of events began with a Loyalist attack on a settlement known as Pine Bush. This is not the current hamlet with that name, but an older place in the town of Rochester. The attack resulted in the death of two men from the settlement, some destruction of the buildings there, and a possible kidnapping of a young boy. Many accounts of this attack place the responsibility for it on the Mohawk Joseph Brant and his marauding band of Loyalists and Iroquois, but although the means and methods employed during the attack bear some resemblances to Brant’s tactics, it is most unlikely that it was his work.

As often happens throughout history with personalities that are larger than life, Brant became a bogeyman, with many atrocities unjustly assigned to him. But the discrepancies do not stop there.

Most sources tend to agree that troops were ultimately dispatched from Fort Honk, led by Lt. john Graham (or was he a sergeant?). The men under Graham’s command numbered either 18 or 19 or 20 or perhaps even 21.

In relating what is now generally regarded as a highly questionable account of the incident in his 1873 “History of Sullivan County,” James Eldridge Quinlan wrote that “there were several hundred troops stationed at a fort on Honk Hill. Their commander, on learning what had occurred, at once resolved to dispatch a part of his men to intercept the savages at the Chestnut Woods, about thirteen miles from Napanoch. Volunteers were called for, when an officer named John Graham, stepped forward, and offered to go with a sergeant's guard, consisting of eighteen privates and a sergeant and corporal. He was offered more, but refused to take them. But one of those whom he proposed to lead on a hazardous expedition, was an expert Indian-fighter. The name of this man was Abraham Van Campen, and he was a near kinsman of the noted Major Moses Van Campen. The others were from the old settlements east of the Shawangunk, and unused to border-warfare.”

Although most accounts of the battle, including the marker and the bronze plaque on the site, list just three men killed at Chestnut Woods, Quinlan records that all but three of the men in the contingent, including Graham, were killed. That would mean 18. The best research into the events of that September suggests that neither of those numbers is accurate.

To complicate matters further, two of the men listed on the bronze plaque, erected by the citizens of the county in 1920, apparently did not exist. The plaque lists John Graham, Adam Ambler, and Robert Temple as the deceased, but there are no military records for either of the latter two names. In all likelihood, they are Adam Embler and Robert Semple. Curiously, Adam Embler is also listed among those killed at the Battle of Minisink on July 22, 1779. Given the difficulty of finding accurate accounts of incidents like Chestnut Woods, such inaccuracies are understandable, but nonetheless frustrating.

Quinlan writes that the tragic debacle was in large part the result of the inexperience of Graham, who led the men into an ambush by encamping in a place that was easily surrounded by the enemy.

“No rat ever walked more unconsciously into a trap than did the brave but rash Graham. Without knowing it, he and his party were as completely in the power of the enemy as if they had been a covey of partridges under a fowler's net. The Indians and Tories occupied the elevations on every side, where they were securely posted behind tree trunks, and awaited the signal of death from their leader.”

In a dispatch to New York Governor George Clinton written on September 9, 1778, Colonel John Cantine, who had ventured to survey the scene of the carnage when the men did not return to Fort Honk, had a slightly different take.

He wrote: “But what could have induced them to choose a place so disadvantageous to themselves I cannot account for. The place in my opinion was neither calculated for Defence [sic] or to save a Retreat. They had been there about half an hour, and heard the enemy coming. An Indian came about thirty Yards before the rest, and when he came opposite to them, he perceived them, as they were in no way properly concealed. The Indian on seeing them squatted, and then Abraham Vancamp shot at him. Several of the others came within forty Yards of our men, who then discharged their pieces upon them, but I believe did little or no Ex*****on, at Least I could see no signs thereof.”

So exactly what happened at Chestnut Woods that September in 1778 is still a mystery, and it would be fitting to clear it all up now that the county— and the nation— has begun the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War.

Stay tuned.

John Conway is the Sullivan County Historian and co-chair, with his wife Debra, of the Sullivan County RevWar 250 Commission. Email him at [email protected].

PHOTO CAPTION: The plaque commemorating the Battle of Chestnut Woods near Grahamsville was erected in 1920. It lists three men who were killed in the ambush. It is more likely there were at least 11 killed.

05/22/2026

RETROSPECT
by John Conway
May 22, 2026

REMEMBERING COMPANY H

“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.” —Abraham Lincoln

On May 22, 1861, Company H of the 28th NY Volunteer Regiment was officially organized in Albany, NY with soldiers—mainly recruited from Monticello by John H. Waller—mustered in for two years of service in the Union Army’s Eastern Theater.

Over the next two years, the 28th would take part in some of the fiercest fighting of the Civil War, including Antietam, Bull Run, Chancellorsville, and the disastrous defeat at Cedar Mountain.
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Waller was just 31 years old when he raised Company H a few weeks after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter and President Lincoln issued his proclamation calling for troops. Unfortunately, although Company H was the first group of soldiers from Sullivan County organized to fight in the War Between the States, its service is often overshadowed by the contributions of the 143rd and 56th, later regiments made up largely of Sullivan County men.

In August of 1902, when the surviving members of the 28th held their annual reunion at the National Cemetery in Culpeper, Virginia, Waller was one of two men from Sullivan County to attend, as he was joined by William McIntyre of Mongaup Valley.

McIntyre had been 28 years old when he enlisted in Monticello on April 30, 1861, and mustered in as a private three weeks later. He was one of nearly 100 men who left Sullivan County with Waller that May to join the Union cause, meeting up with the rest of the regiment in Albany before heading south.

Among the orders of business at the meeting portion of that 1902 reunion, held almost 40 years to the day after the Battle of Cedar Mountain had occurred on that site, was the dedication of a massive new monument to those members of the 28th Regiment who had lost their lives in that bloody confrontation. The granite monument stood 25 feet high, weighed 40 tons, and cost $2,500 to erect (that would be nearly $100,000 today).

The battle at Cedar Mountain, on August 9, 1862, was the first clash between Robert E. Lee’s vaunted Army of Northern Virginia and Union General John Pope’s newly formed Army of Virginia. The heavily outnumbered Union forces made a valiant stand that day, but were eventually routed, and the 28th had taken heavy casualties.

All battles are brutal, but few matched the intensity of Cedar Mountain, in which the regiment had 213 men either killed, wounded or missing out of 339 engaged. Of those, 41 men from the regiment were killed that day.

Members of Company H who had enlisted in Monticello and were killed at Cedar Mountain included John P. Carpenter, George Egner, Abram Neer, James A. Palmer (who was also sometimes referred to as James A. Parmer), and Sergeant Alfred Pierson. In addition, Corporal Matthew Linsen (or Linson), who was severely wounded in the battle, would succumb to those wounds in a hospital in Culpeper, Virginia a few months later.

Twelve members of Company H were wounded at Cedar Mountain, and another eight were taken prisoner.

Of course, the 28th Regiment was just one of many who took part in the fighting that day, as approximately 8,000 Union troops and twice as many Confederates, including Stonewall Jackson, were involved.

The battle has become well known among Civil War historians for a couple of firsts: for one, it marked the first official field duty for the nurse Clara Barton. Barton had treated wounded soldiers on her own initiative after the battle at Bull Run the year before, and received official permission to accompany the U.S. Army to the front lines on August 3, 1862, just six days before the clash at Cedar Mountain. She spent two days and nights on the battlefield tending to the wounded, including Confederate prisoners, after her arrival on August 13.

Cedar Mountain was also the first time that photographs of dead horses on an American battlefield were seen by the American public, as the result of the work of photographer Timothy O’Sullivan, who photographed the aftermath of the battle. A month later, at Antietam, O’Sullivan would shoot and publish the first photos of dead soldiers on a battlefield.

The volunteers of the 28th Regiment had enlisted to serve for two years; mustering out in Albany on June 2, 1863. Some of them went on to fight with other units for the remainder of the war. Waller, a Captain with the 28th, was promoted to Major in December of 1862, and went on to serve with the 132nd Infantry, spending the remainder of his service mainly in North Carolina. After the war, he returned to Monticello, where he published the Sullivan County Republican newspaper and became known simply as “the Major.” He lived until 1919, and is buried in St. John’s Cemetery in Monticello.

On this Memorial Day weekend, it is appropriate that along with all of those who have given their lives in the service of our country, we remember the long forgotten sacrifice of the men of Company H killed at Cedar Mountain: John P. Carpenter, George Egner, Abram Neer, James A. Palmer, Sergeant Alfred Pierson, and Corporal Matthew Linsen.

As President James A. Garfield famously noted: “For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”

John Conway is the Sullivan County Historian. Email him at [email protected]. He will be a featured speaker after the Fremont Center Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 25.

PHOTO CAPTION: The monument to the 28th NY Regiment, erected at the site of the Battle of Cedar Mountain in 1902.

05/16/2026

RETROSPECT
by John Conway
May 15, 2026

THE GODFATHER OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE

On May 23, 1789, Nathaniel Sackett sent a long, rambling letter to newly inaugurated president George Washington. The letter informed Washington that Congress had denied Sackett’s proposal that he be granted federal lands in order to create a new state bounded by the Ohio, Scioto, and Muskingum Rivers and Lake Erie.

Sackett was hoping that the letter would convince his old friend to intervene on his behalf, or at the very least to appoint him to a position in the new government, but firmly believing it was not his place to do so, the President refused both requests.

Sackett was living in Fishkill, in Dutchess County, at the time of his letter to Washington, but he eventually moved to the home of his eldest son, Ananias, at Sackettborough in the town of Thompson in what was to become Sullivan County. He died there on July 28, 1805, his 68 years filled with the successes and failures of an adventurous man.

Nathaniel Sackett was born in Orange County on April 10, 1737, the son of the Reverend Samuel Sackett and Hannah Hazard Sackett. By the time of the American Revolution, he was serving in the New York Provincial Congress, where his abilities and ambition caught the attention of two of his colleagues, the estimable John Jay, and William Duer, a representative to the Continental Congress and a Colonel in the Colonial Militia.

When General George Washington decided he needed to create an intelligence network, or spy ring, both men were quick to recommend Sackett.

“John Jay, later the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, had been running counterintelligence as head of the New York State Committee and Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies,” Nina Strochlic writes in an article entitled “The Letter That Won the American Revolution” in National Geographic magazine. “One of Jay’s operatives, a merchant named Nathaniel Sackett, had experience in secret writing and codes.”

Based on Jay’s recommendation, and his own observations of Sackett’s skills with codes and cyphers, Duerr wrote a letter to Washington on January 28, 1777.

“I beg Leave to introduce to your Excellency's Acquaintance Mr. Sacket, a member of the Convention of the State, a Man of Honor, and of firm Attachment to the American Cause,” Duerr wrote. “He will communicate to your Excellency some Measures taken by him, and myself which if properly prosecuted may be of infinite Utility to the present military Operations. I have therefore recommended it to him to wait on you in Person in hope that some Systematical Plan may be adopted and prosecuted for facilitating your Manoeuvres against the British army.”

“In February 1777, Washington wrote a letter to Sackett in which he offered him $50 a month—out of his own pocket—to establish the first formal apparatus for the ‘advantage of obtaining the earliest and best Intelligence of the designs of the Enemy,’” Strochlic writes.

Although he lasted just six months in his job—Washington fired him for lack of tangible progress-- Sackett put together the network of spies that would eventually prove invaluable in winning the war, and he personally trained Benjamin Tallmadge, the man who would not only succeed him, but far outstrip his accomplishments in the espionage game.

It was Tallmadge who organized and adroitly managed the group that has become known as the Culper Spy Ring, but Sackett’s contribution to the war effort was significant enough for some historians today to refer to him as “the godfather of American Intelligence.”

After he was relieved of his position as spymaster-in-chief, Sackett finished out the war as a sutler, an officially sanctioned merchant who followed the army and sold goods directly to the soldiers.

Following the war, in 1785, he came up with his proposal to establish a new state, roughly approximating the current boundaries of Ohio, "for the relief of all our distressed and neglected citizens" but he could not convince Congress to go along with the plan, even after he presented them with a petition with 340 signatures supporting it.

Meanwhile, the oldest of Nathaniel’s five children, Ananias, who had served as a private in the Revolutionary War, was hired in 1792 to build a road to access some remote lands owned by the Livingston family. What became known as the Sackett Road was the result, and it was so well laid out that much of it served as sections of the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike when that road was constructed several years later.

Ananias was paid for his work with 700 acres of land southwest of Monticello, and he built his residence near the pond that now bears his name. He conceived a prosperous community he called Sackettborough, but despite his vision, it never grew beyond a few houses.

“This borough was intended to perpetuate his name and deeds, but amounted to nothing more than a frail monument of the vanity and folly of human hope and ambition,” James Eldridge Quinlan wrote in 1873 in his “History of Sullivan County.” “No one can now point out the location which once bore the name of Sackettborough, and no individual now residing in the county can claim the once respectable patronym of Sackett.”

Ironically, Ananias Sackett eventually moved to Ohio, which had become the 17th state in 1803. He was living there at the time of his death on September 2, 1838.

The saga of Nathaniel Sackett will be the subject next Saturday. May 23 of the first Bold Gold Media Speaker Series program at Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History in Narrowsburg, NY. This columnist, your Sullivan County Historian, will present: “The Godfather of American Intelligence” at 5:15 p.m. in the event tent behind the Fort. The program is free and open to the public.

Fort Delaware is located on the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway at 6615 Route 97 in Narrowsburg. It opens for the 2026 season tomorrow, Saturday, May 16. It is open 10-5 weekends through the end of June and then Thursday thru Sunday in July and August and weekends again in September and October. There are many special events scheduled to commemorate America’s Semiquincentennial, some taking place at the Minisink Battleground. Visit thedelawarecompany.org for more information.

John Conway is the Sullivan County Historian. Email him at [email protected]

PHOTO CAPTION: Fort Delaware opens for the season at 10 a.m. tomorrow, May 16. John Conway presents "The Godfather of American Intelligence" next Saturday at 5:15 p.m. The program is free and open to the public.

04/25/2026

RETROSPECT
by John Conway
April 24, 2026

CAPITALIZING ON CONVENTIONS

On April 16, 1959, Jack Paul, the President of the Sullivan County Hotel Association, announced that the 11th annual Sullivan County Hotel Show scheduled for the Laurels Country Club in May, was a complete sell out. Since the show was not open to the general public, and admittance was restricted to members of the hotel, bungalow, camp, restaurant, hospital and catering industries only, this meant that every booth available for an exhibit at the show was rented. Paul noted that it was the largest show ever put on by the Association.

At that point in Sullivan County’s history, absent the long talked about county convention center, such a show could only have taken place at the Laurels, whose casino, overlooking Sackett Lake, featured the largest exposition space in the region.

That was because the Laurels was among the very first Sullivan County hotels to recognize the profitability of soliciting convention business to its year around facility. In fact, it is likely that of all the 538 hotels of Sullivan County’s Golden Age, none were as innovative as the Laurels.

The Laurels, the brainchild of Hyman and Sadie Novick, had started out modestly enough, but by the early 1930s, when Grossinger’s was just beginning to eclipse the Flagler as the Catskills’ premier resort and the Concord was not yet a twinkle in Arthur Winarick’s eye, the hotel with the unrivaled location on one of the county’s most beautiful sheets of water had already begun booking conventions. Organizations as diverse as the New York State Credit Union League, the New York Public Welfare Association, the Retail Workers Union of America and the Young Republicans would regularly gather at the Sackett Lake venue over the next four decades.

Beginning in the mid-1930s, the Laurels was remaining open all year around. They had Olympic speed skating trials on Sackett Lake and engaged in a highly publicized legal battle with arch-rival Grossinger’s – which they lost– over the services of world renown speed skater Irving Jaffee, who eventually became the director of winter sports at "the G" and set a speed skating record on Grossinger Lake.

By 1940, the hotel was advertising itself as "the smartest all-year-round playground in the Catskills for young folks." The Novick family– which by that time included sons Joseph and Ben and daughter Lillian Brezner– purchased the nearby Drake estate and built a picturesque golf course and ski area. The Laurels was so busy, that in 1943, when the Defense Department imposed travel restrictions because of the war and the hotel was forced to cancel five conventions in the month of June alone, it didn’t miss a beat.

In 1949, when the Laurels opened its new outdoor pool, it announced that the pool was so large it was required by law to have three lifeguards on duty at all times. Grossinger’s had opened its own "Olympic sized pool" that summer, but there were few other pools in the region of that magnitude.

In the 1950s, the hotel made headlines when it became the first of the famed "Borscht Belt" resorts to offer lobster on its menu. By that time, the family had changed its name to Novack and Ben had long since left the hotel, eventually ending up in Miami Beach where he first renovated the Sans Souci and then built the magnificent Fontainebleau Hotel. Hyman Novack died in May of 1955, and Joseph just over a year later, by which time the hotel accommodated more than 1500 guests, more than any other Sullivan County resort.

Under the direction of young Charles Novack, who had taken over as general manager, the Laurels became the place to go for late, late, night entertainment, and its stage was often still occupied– and its 1000 seat nightclub still crowded– when the sun came up. It became such a popular hotspot that famous performers like Billy Eckstine would often walk on stage unannounced and put on an impromptu show.

But Sullivan County’s Golden Age hotels, with their nightclubs and indoor swimming pools, were site independent, and before long the edge the Laurels had always enjoyed because of its spectacular location on Sackett Lake, where speed boats and water skiers once spent warm summer days, meant less and less. A succession of unseasonably warm winters wreaked havoc with the hotel’s winter sports schedule, often forcing cancellation of events such as the innovative MG sports car races held on the ice of the lake.

By the 1970s, Sullivan County’s heyday had passed; many hotels– including some large resorts such as the Youngs Gap in Parksville– had closed, and most others were struggling to survive. The Laurels had just 125 guests registered on July 20, 1973, when the operation came to a screeching halt. A State Supreme Court judge vacated a month-long stay of foreclosure, allowing the hotel to be turned over to a receiver.

Even those who doubted that the county’s Golden Age had come to an end, were finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the evidence.

Much of the Laurels was destroyed in a July, 1980 fire. Today, just the swimming pools and some crumbling foundations remain.

John Conway is the Sullivan County Historian. E-mail him at [email protected].

PHOTO CAPTION: The Laurels Country Club had an unrivaled location on picturesque Sackett Lake.

04/24/2026

We’re proud to announce five new historic marker dedications for 2026, continuing our effort to honor and preserve the legacy of The Borscht Belt.

Each historic marker highlights a different town or hamlet and the unique stories of its hotels, bungalow colonies, and tourism legacy, giving history a place. Like totems, each marker says: this happened here.

Here’s where we’ll be:

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟖: 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐞
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟏: 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐞
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟏: 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥 & 𝐆𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝
𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟒: 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲
𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟖: 𝐖𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐨, 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐥𝐞𝐧 & 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐰

With these additions, the Borscht Belt Historical Marker Trail will include 𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒚 historic markers across Sullivan County and Ulster County. Each dedication will feature lively arts and cultural programming: artist and historian talks and panels, illustrated slideshows, film screenings, cocktail hours, and more- inviting audiences deeper into the Borscht Belt’s illustrative past.

Join us in the Catskills this summer…and take our trail, please! 🤍

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