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100 Years of 100 Things: Catskills Hotels

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The Brian Lehrer Show Podcast

PlayerFM, May 2025

Phil Brown, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Science at Northeastern University, founder and president of the Catskills Institute and the author of several books, including Catskill Culture: A Mountain Rat’s Memories of the Great Jewish Resort Area (Temple University Press, 1998), takes us through the last 100 years in The Catskills — the hotels, the camps and the people.

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