4TH ANNUAL HISTORY OF THE CATSKILLS CONFERENCE
August 28 - 30, 1998
Sunny Oaks Hotel
Woodridge, New York
The Fourth Annual History of the Catskills Conference will once again be a great way to end the summer. Join us at Sunny Oaks Hotel in Woodridge, one of the last remaining Catskills hotels. As always there will be presentations by social scientists, historians, novelists, and Catskills veterans. There is no better way to remember the glorious Catskills than to join with a hotel full of people celebrating this wonderful summer eden. This year it's the weekend before Labor Day weekend, so you have time to get back to school and work.
FRIDAY
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SATURDAY
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SUNDAY
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- 11:00 AM-12:30PM
Amy Godine
"From Haimishe to Highbrow: The Adirondack Alternative" (comparing Adirondacks and Catskills Jewish resorts)
- 2-3PM
Martin Boris-author of Woodridge, 1946 "Grine Felder: The Yiddishist Bungalow Colony"
- 3:20 - 5:00PM
Eileen Pollack--University of Michigan, author of The Rabbi in the Attic Reading from her novel, Paradise, New York (to be published in October)
- 8:30-10:00PM
Myra Armstead--Bard College; "Seeking Our Fortune in the North: The African-American Population of Sullivan County from 1930 to 1980"
- 10:00-11:30PM
Film: Sweet Lorraine
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- 10:00-11:00 AM
Phil Brown--Brown University; Hotel Stories from the Golden Years
- 11:30 AM-1:00PM
Steve Stern----Skidmore College, author of Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven, A Plague of Dreamers, and Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground; Reading from his novella "The Wedding Jester," based in the Catskills
- 2:00-3:15 PM
Film-- Let's Fall in Love: A Singles Weekend at the Concord
- 3:30-5:00PM
Henry Sapoznik --Klezmer: the First 500 Years
- 6:00-7:00PM
Film to be announced
- 9:00-11:00PM
Klezmer Concert -- Freylekh! Freylekh! Margot Leverett(clarinet/alto sax),Owen Davidson (accordion), Henry Sapoznik (banjo and vocal), Jason Sypher(bass).
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Room rates and reservations: call Sunny Oaks Hotel at (914) 434-7580 or (800) 679-4387; or write at Box 297, Woodridge, NY 12789
Full conference $50; single day $25; single event $10
Catskills Institute: Box 1916,Brown University, Providence RI 02912
phil_brown@brown.edu
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