FRIDAY

6-7 PM

Cocktail Party for Conference Participants

8:30-10:00 PM

Introduction and Welcome to the Conference - Phil Brown

“A Panel on the History and Future of the Catskills” – featuring:

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

10 AM-11:15 AM

Terry Kay

Reading from his 1994 novel Shadow Song, set in the northern Catskills

11:30 AM-12:45 PM

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

Reading from Growing up at Grossingers and talking about growing up as a ‘staff kid’

SATURDAY (continued)

4-5:15 PM

Henry Foner and Larry Rivkin

8:30-9:45 PM

Irwin Richman (Penn. State University)

"Catskill Color: A View through Postcards"

SUNDAY

10-11:15 AM

Jack Landman

“Sports in the Catskills”

11:30 AM-12:45 PM

Arthur Tanney

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Room rates and reservations: call Kutsher’s Country Club at (914) 794-6000 or (800) 431-1273 (or write Kutsher’s, Monticello, NY 12701)

Full conference $50; single day $25; single event $10 (half price for Catskills Institute members)

Catskills Institute: Box 1916,Brown University, Providence RI 02912 catskills@brown.edu

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