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Socialism in the borscht belt
From pages 89-93 of Catskill Culture: In the Catskills, comics often made jokes about college activists, and the guests seemed to share negative opinions about those antiwar groups, such as Students...
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A weekend in Hudson
Louis Proyect and Lucas Jedrzejak My primary purpose in going to Hudson, NY was to attend a screening of Lucas Jedrzejak’s documentary “Ketermaya” on Sunday, August 6th, a film I first saw at the...
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COUNTERPUNCH, NOVEMBER 17, 2017 When I was about ten years old, my mother took me to see the Mighty Atom’s legendary strong man act at the Panoramic Health Farm, a bungalow colony he owned in...
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Yitzy the Pupa photographer
On Wednesday and Thursday, I was up in Sullivan County—once the home of the now mostly defunct resort hotel industry—to work with a drone pilot I had hired to capture the sights of the Catskills from...
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Silver Lake in Woodridge, NY. Filmed by Jeremy Hansen of Devotive In March, 2017, I covered a number of films being shown at the Socially Relevant Film Festival including “Ketermaya”, a really...
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In the Spirit of the Departed Munsees
COUNTERPUNCH, AUGUST 10, 2018 Four years ago the Stockbridge-Munsee Indians decided to cancel plans to build a gambling casino in Sullivan County since Gov. Andrew Cuomo had approved another...
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Left, Gay, and Green
From my comic book memoir: COUNTERPUNCH, JANUARY 18, 2019 Just over five years ago an article I had scanned from the July 20, 1947 PM newspaper titled “Utopia in the Catskills” appeared in...
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Review of Allen Young’s “Left, Gay, and Green: a Writer’s Life”
The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture Volume 11, 2018 A New Dawn for the New Left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the Long Sixties By John McMillian, For many years –...
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A Child’s Christmas in Woodridge
No matter how old I get, I’ll always have vivid memories of being a small boy in Woodridge, NY and doing all the things small kids do. Like walking in the woods, swimming in the ponds and rivers,...
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I confess that I have not watched all the films about the Borscht Belt but I am sure that nothing will ever top the 1999 “A Walk on the Moon” (universally available as VOD) since it captures the...
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