ELLENVILLE- Did you ever visit one of the famous Catskill Resort Hotels of Sullivan or Ulster Counties? Do you remember the golf courses and swimming pools, well-manicured lawns, ballrooms, and theaters? Of course, we cannot also forget the famous or someday-to-be famous comedians and other performers who entertained the guests and the delicious food that has traveled around the world. With more and more of these hotels vanishing to decades of neglect, it is often through the wide range of artifacts they produced that memories are treasured and shared.
Come remember these memories with Alex Prizgintas at the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, NY on Sunday, April 7, 2024, at 1 p.m. A historian, musician and lecturer who focuses on neglected history of the Catskills and Hudson Valley region, Alex serves as president of the Woodbury Historical Society in Orange County, NY and an advisory board member of the Catskills Borscht Belt Museum. He has been published in works such as the Hudson River Valley Review, the New York Archives Magazine, and the Orange County Historical Society Journal. A preservationist, Alex stewards the Richard L. Benjamin Collection of Borscht Belt Tourism History, which contains hundreds of documents, postcards and ephemera from the Borscht Belt era. Many of these items will be brought to the lecture for attendees to view live accompanying his PowerPoint program complete with vintage images and audio clips from sounds of the past.
