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Catskills’ Brickman Hotel Story Told in New Book

August 23, 2023 by John Conway Leave a Comment

My View of the MountainsShortly after emigrating from Russia in 1908, Abraham and Molly Brickman fled the overcrowded tenements of New York City and purchased land in the Catskills just outside South Fallsburg, in Sullivan County, NY. [Read more…] about Catskills’ Brickman Hotel Story Told in New Book

Filed Under: Books, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Catskills, Fallsburg, Jewish History, Sullivan County

The Ice Pick Murder of Gangster Walter Sage

July 2, 2023 by John Conway Leave a Comment

BigGangiMugshotsLate in the afternoon of Friday, June 21, 1940, a jury of 11 men and one woman delivered a verdict in one of the most famous trials ever conducted in Sullivan County Court. They found Irving “Big Gangi” Cohen not guilty in the ice pick murder of gangster Walter Sage nearly three years before. [Read more…] about The Ice Pick Murder of Gangster Walter Sage

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Fallsburg, Gambling, Sullivan County, Vice

Not Until 1937 Could Women Serve On Juries in New York

April 5, 2023 by John Conway 1 Comment

J. Maxwell KnappWomen’s inexorable march toward equality in politics and government in this country has been one of small steps, and there have been many obstacles to overcome. Sometimes in looking back, it is difficult to believe that certain milestones along the journey took so long to achieve. For example, it wasn’t until 1937 that women were eligible to serve on juries in New York State. [Read more…] about Not Until 1937 Could Women Serve On Juries in New York

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Fallsburg, Forestburgh, Legal History, Livingston Manor, Monticello, Rockland, Sullivan County, Women, womens history

Catskills Ski Resorts’ Early History

February 14, 2023 by John Conway 1 Comment

A promotional postcard for the ski area at the Concord Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, Sullivan County, NYThe history the Catskills as a winter sports destination dates back to at least the 1920s, but the attempt to create a year around vacationland did not meet with immediate success. In fact, some spectacular showings at a few of the hotels over the ensuing years notwithstanding, the effort was still largely hit or miss well into the 1950s.

Grossinger’s had entertained more than 850 guests over the Christmas-New Year holidays in 1929, and had its largest weekend ever up until that time, winter or summer, on Washington’s Birthday weekend in 1941, but no hotel – not even Grossinger’s – was able to do that kind of winter business on a regular basis. [Read more…] about Catskills Ski Resorts’ Early History

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation Tagged With: Catskills, Fallsburg, ice skating, Liberty, skiing, Sullivan County, Thompson, winter sports

The Doomed 1979 Hurleyville Music Festival

September 11, 2022 by John Conway Leave a Comment

Leon Greenberg in the 1970sThe weekend of August 24th to 26th in 1979 was supposed to be a significant one in Sullivan County, NY history. Plans had been made for some of the top musical acts in the business to appear at the site of the defunct and burned out Columbia Hotel in Hurleyville for a three-day festival that was envisioned as the precursor to an upscale performance venue that would have reversed the area’s sagging economic fortunes. [Read more…] about The Doomed 1979 Hurleyville Music Festival

Filed Under: Arts, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Catskills, Fallsburg, Music, Musical History, Performing Arts, Sullivan County, Woodstock

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