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15 unusual facts about Catskill Mountains


Alf Hjort

After the completion of these projects, Hjort was engaged with the Degnon Contracting Company of New York City, in the task of building part of the Catskill Water Supply Project, which was used to supply New York City with water.

Amanda Aday

She attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center, a summer theatre/dance camp in the Catskill Mountains in New York, from 1990 through 1996, and then graduated from the prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy in California.

Andrea Callard

In 1985, she founded the Avocet Portfolio with Jollie Stahl at Art Awareness, a multi-arts center in the Catskill Mountains.

BarBara Luna

Its opening night, at Freddie's in New York City, drew rave reviews and led to engagements at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills and at clubs in Atlantic City and Los Angeles.

Bobby Gardiner

On his weekends off, he would visit the Catskill Mountains in New York where he played with renowned musicians such as Joe Cooley, Sean McGlynn and Andy McGann.

Egyptian American

An early Egyptian immigrant is mentioned in the accounts of the Dutch settlers of the Catskill Mountains and recorded in the 1884 History of Greene County, New York.

Gary Hume

Besides his London studio, Hume maintains a second studio in a converted barn on the grounds of a former chicken farm in New York's Catskill Mountains region.

Gilboa-Conesville Central School

The Gilboa-Conesville Central School District is a small, rural school located in the Northern Catskill Mountains.

Isaac Perlmutter

Early in his career, Perlmutter met his wife Laurie J. Perlmutter at a Catskills resort and they married soon after.

Israel Nash

The album was recorded during the summer of 2010 on a small farm located in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

Julius Fast

His 1988 semiautobiographical novel What Should We Do About Davey? described a gawky teen at a Catskill Mountains summer camp for boys.

Rilla Askew

Askew is married to actor Paul Austin, and they divide their time between Oklahoma and the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk

Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk is combination live performance, community event, and radio broadcast based in the New York's Catskills region.

Sarah J. Mahler

Sarah J. Mahler was born in York, Pennsylvania but spent most of her formative years in rural Upstate New York in the western Catskill Mountains.

The Kook

Fa is a gentle and unassuming member of an eccentric religious sect cloistered in the Catskill Mountains.


Appalachian Plateau

The main physiographic sections (generally ordered from the northeast to the southwest) of the plateau are named the Mohawk section, the Catskill section, the southern New York section, the Allegheny Plateau section, the Kanawha section, the Cumberland Plateau section, and the Cumberland Mountains section.

E. Charlton Fortune

As she sought out further outdoor venues, she was invited by Spencer Trask to paint at Woodstock in the Catskill Mountains.

Edward Leigh Chase

Graduating from the Art Students League, the Chase brothers headed upstate to the Catskill Mountains to join in an experimental Bohemian commune of a style, organized by Ralph Whitehead in Woodstock, New York.

Giovanni Bonventre

That same year, Bonanno and Bonventre purchased a dairy farm near Middletown, New York in the Catskill Mountains.

Hervey White

In 1902 White joined forces with Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead (1854–1929) and painter-lithographer Bolton Brown to found the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony in Woodstock, New York, conceived as a utopian community of studios, workshops, and artistic gatherings which would nurture creative freedom in the idyllic setting of the Catskill Mountains.

Magda Rurac

Magda was married to Vinnie Rurac, who served as the tennis pro at the Concord Resort Hotel in Kiamesha Lake (in the upstate New York Catskill Mountains "Borscht Belt") during the 1970s.

Robert William Wood

Wood was at the peak of his fame in the 1950s through 1970s when his scenes of the Catskill Mountains in New York, the California coast, the Grand Tetons, the Rocky Mountains, the Texas Hill Country and the Cascades were most popular.

Rondout Reservoir

It is located 75 miles (120 km) northwest of the city in the Catskill Mountains, near the southern end of Catskill Park, split between the towns of Wawarsing in Ulster County and Neversink in Sullivan County.

Shall Noise Upon

The record, which went under 'Mysteries of the Old Soul' as a working title, was recorded during the summer of 2007 in the Catskill Mountains, in a "house inhabited by spirits" and located next door to the home of the original Uncle Sam.