Appalachian Mountain Dreams

Bungalow Kid: A Catskill Mountain Summer

“For a 1950s kid from the Bronx, `The Mountains’ (Sullivan County, New York) was a familiar, essential, alternate universe. Philip Ratzer’s nexus was Pesekow’s Bungalow Colony on the shores of redundantly named Loch Sheldrake Lake. His affectionate, vivid recollections center on this small summer resort and the adjacent village of Loch Sheldrake. Ruby the Knish Man, who stopped at Pesekow’s,

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