![]() ![]() But in concept, too, it took something others might have thrown away forever. In the literal sense, the hotel had once been the doctor’s residence and the small town hospital. Like nearly every hotel I would see over the following week in June, across the Catskills from the edges of Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, Seminary Hill was design-forward, a boutique hotel that didn’t throw away its past, but spun it into treasure. The hotel at Seminary Hill & Cidery had brought me to Callicoon, and was itself something of an antique. And at every turn a sign, a scrawled placard announcing an antique sale or a shop. But here, they had antiques - spilling out on the sides of roads, in the back and front yards, in tiny downtown storefronts. On New York City’s streets, we have trash. Beckoning me to follow their directions, and purchase their wares. ![]() But even here, driving way out in the countryside, I was seeing plenty of signs of life. The landscape hits you like an agriculture-themed coloring book, a panorama of grain silos and farmhouses, more the feeling of heartland America than the mountains of upstate New York. It’s not the Borscht Belt - it’s where the Borscht Belt sourced its meat. But this far west isn’t the Catskills that comes to mind for most. Callicoon hugs the border of Sullivan County, one of four counties considered part of this famous mountain region north of New York City. My sprint through the Catskills began as far west as anything you could reasonably call the Catskills. The history of the region extends through their doors. Window._PLUGIN_STATE_ = JSON.Hotel Lilien - Tannersville, New York New hotels keep opening in the Catskills, and they know why the people keep coming. ![]()
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