This may come as a shock to the teens who have nicknamed their quiet little village “Slow Motion Goshen” because of the pace at which life unfurls here, but there was a time when Goshen was synonymous with speed. Reckless, hair-raising, devil-may-care speed! Savage displays of raw horsepower! That’s literal horsepower. In the late 1700s, […]
Long before Men’s Journal called it a “dream town” in 1997, long before investors opened the first ski lodge on Cave Mountain (1963), Windham had earned its place as Gem of the Catskills—and the Thompson House, family-owned for its first 140 years, was undoubtedly a gem’s gem. “I knew it was a Wylder the first […]
Sims Foster grew up among the pines and trout-rich creeks of the Sullivan County hamlet of Livingston Manor. The DeBruce, among the many hotels and restaurants now run by Foster and his wife, Kirsten, as part of the Foster Supply Hospitality group, celebrates that sylvan setting with four-star service and a restaurant that’s earned accolades […]
T.S. Eliot clearly never went to the Catskills. Here, April is not the cruelest month, it’s the start of trout season. As the birthplace of American fly-fishing, there’s no better place to be on April 1st than wading into the spot in the village of Livingston Manor where the Willowemoc Creek, Cattail Brook, and Little […]