6th Annual History of the Catskills Conference August 25 - 27, 2000 Kutsher's Country Club Monticello, New York Schedule of Events Friday, August 25 6:00-7:00pm Cocktail Party for Conference Participants 8:30-10:00pm Phil Brown: Intro & Welcome to the Conference, 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” Saturday, August 26 10:00-11:15am Terry Kay: Reading from his 1994 novel Shadow Song, set in the northern Catskills 11:30am-12:45pm Sidney Offit: Reading from his novel He Had It Made, a 1959 novel set at the Aladdin Hotel, just republished in 1999 2:15-3:30pm Tania Grossinger: Reading from Growing up at Grossingers and talking about growing up as a "staff kid" 4:00-5:15pm Henry Foner & Larry Rivkin: “Chester's Zunbarg: A Focal Point of Progressive Culture in the Catskills” 8:30-9:45pm Irwin Richman, Penn State: “Catskill Color: A View through Postcards” Sunday, August 27 10:00-11:15am Jack Landman: “Sports in the Catskills” 11:30am-12:45pm Arthur Tanney: “Bungalow Stories” 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 Conference Fees (half price for CI members) Full Conference Single Day Single Event $50 $25 $10 Catskills Institute: Box 1916, Brown University, Providence RI 02912;
[email protected] 1 “Kitchen Lit” By Martha Mendelsohn The Jewish Week: September 1, 2000 The "mountains" evoke marathon meals rather than literary salons, but writers whose books are set in the borscht belt served up verbal schmaltz spiked with cynicism at Kutsher's Country Club last weekend.