Thank you for this great program and your discussion of “Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland.”An unusual path led me to the Borscht Belt from Rhode Island, which was a kind of different way to access the area. My mother and uncle both attended a Jewish socialist camp in the Catskills in the early 1930s.The Catskills were mentioned in that regard while I was growing up. My direct link to the area came when I traveled in and out of Swan Lake in 1971 and got to go to the Stevensville while spending some weekends in a vacation home directly across from that hotel. I had planned to return to the area last summer, 2023, for the dedication of the historical marker in Swan Lake, but was not able to go. I see from the presentation that there is one more marker event this summer and perhaps I can go. Here’s a bit of nostalgia and a cliché: You can take the woman or the man out of the Catskills of the Borscht Belt era, but you can’t take the Borscht Belt era out of the woman or the man.
Thank you for this great program and your discussion of “Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland.”An unusual path led me to the Borscht Belt from Rhode Island, which was a kind of different way to access the area. My mother and uncle both attended a Jewish socialist camp in the Catskills in the early 1930s.The Catskills were mentioned in that regard while I was growing up. My direct link to the area came when I traveled in and out of Swan Lake in 1971 and got to go to the Stevensville while spending some weekends in a vacation home directly across from that hotel. I had planned to return to the area last summer, 2023, for the dedication of the historical marker in Swan Lake, but was not able to go. I see from the presentation that there is one more marker event this summer and perhaps I can go. Here’s a bit of nostalgia and a cliché: You can take the woman or the man out of the Catskills of the Borscht Belt era, but you can’t take the Borscht Belt era out of the woman or the man.