The 15th Annual Catskill Preservation & History Conference

The 15th Annual Catskill Preservation & History Conference
The Catskills-Miami Beach Connection: The Hotels, the People and Their Architecture

9:30 am Registration/Breakfast

10:00 am: Jeff Gold: From Bungalow Colony Baby to Innkeeper: a discussion of my life-long relationship with the Catskills.

11:00 am: John Conway: In the Beginning: The Catskills-Miami Beach Connection

12:00 pm: Luncheon Keynote: Irwin Richman: A Bungalow Boy Remembers Miami Beach

1:00 pm: Barry Lewis: The Catskills and Miami Beach

2:00 pm: Ross Padluck: Catskills Resorts: Miami Architecture

3:00 pm: Victor Dadras/Robert Dadras: Creating landmark districts at individual Catskills Resort sites

4:00 pm: Marisa Scheinfeld: The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland (Cornell University Press, October 4, 2016)

5:00 pm: Opening of Images of the Catskills Exhibit and The Fourth Annual Catskills Preservation Award

6:00 pm: Conference concludes

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