6TH ANNUAL HISTORY OF THE CATSKILLS CONFERENCE
August 25 - 27, 2000
Kutsher's Country Club
Monticello, New York
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY
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SATURDAY
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SUNDAY
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- 6-7 PM
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Cocktail Party for Conference Participants
- 8:30-10:00 PM
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Intro & Welcome to the Conference Phil Brown
History & Future of the Catskills
Helen Kutsher
Greetings from a Veteran Hotelkeeper
Mark Kutsher
The Future of the Catskills
Marge Schneider(Catskill Resort Group)
The Redevelopment of the Concord and the re-emergence of Sullivan County as a Destination Resort
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- 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
Terry Kay
Reading from his 1994 novel SHADOW SONG, set in the northern Catskills
- 11:30 AM-12:45 PM
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Sidney Offit
Reading from his novel HE HAD IT MADE, a 1959 novel set at the Aladdin Hotel, just republished in 1999
- 2:15-3:30 PM
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Tania Grossinger
Reading from GROWING UP AT GROSSINGERS and talking about growing up as a "staff kid"
- 4:00-5:15 PM
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Henry Foner & Larry Rivkin
Chester's Zunbarg: A Focal Point of Progressive Culture in the Catskills
- 8:30-9:45 PM
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Irwin Richman (Penn State)
Catskill Color: A View through Postcards
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Room rates and reservations: call Kutsher's Country Club at (914) 794-600 or (800) 431-1273; or write at Kutsher's Country Club, Monticello, NY 12701
Full conference $50; single day $25; single event $10 (half price for CI members)
Catskills Institute: Box 1916,Brown University, Providence RI 02912
catskills@brown.edu
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