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Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast

Silver Hollow Audio

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast is a biweekly series featuring Catskills culture, history, sustainability, local interviews, literature, and the arts. Shows are hosted by Brett Barry and produced by Silver Hollow Audio, in the heart of the Catskills. Subscribe and experience what reviewers have called “delightfully informative” storytelling with “great production quality.” Voted “Best Regional Podcast” three years in a row. Episode archives, transcripts, and a robust search engine at kaatscast.com

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01:04:05

Nick Lyons: A Life Well Fished

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2020/07/07

We recorded 85-year-old Nick Lyons at the Jerry Bartlett Angling Collection in Phoenicia, NY, as part of its "Sporting Legends of The Catskills" series. From that event: "Nick began to fish as a child during summers at the Laurel House in Haines Falls, when the hotel was owned by his grandfather. He went on to wet a line just about everywhere he could find water — from Steeplechase Pier in Brooklyn to the Catskill Mountains, and beyond. Nick is widely known for his popular “Seasonable Angler” column

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00:42:58

The Quarry Fox: and Other Critters of the Wild Catskills

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2020/06/23

In The Quarry Fox, Leslie T. Sharpe chronicles the seasons and the vibrant wildlife of a landscape she cherishes, offering her keen insights in an engaging narrative that celebrates the splendor of the natural world. From crafty foxes and hibernating bears to vulnerable monarch butterflies, The Quarry Fox explores the creatures of the Great Western Catskills in loving, lyrical detail. Heir to John Burroughs, who tramped through these mountains more than a hundred years before her, Sharpe revisits

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00:11:03

Platte Clove and Elka Park

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/06/09

Platte Clove is a steep and narrow valley, accessed by Platte Clove Road between Tannersville and West Saugerties, NY. Part of the road is seasonal use only, offering a gorgeous (and hair-raising) drive April through October. John Farrell and Paul Dibbell are no strangers to this valley, and they talk to us about Elka Park, a 19th-century Victorian community; hiking and driving through the valley; and reminiscences of days past. Produced with support from the Mountain Cloves Scenic Byway, Mama's Boy

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01:05:57

Catskills Artist Christie Scheele

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/05/26

Christie Scheele is an artist living in the Catskills, whose art is collected nationally and internationally by hundreds of private and public collectors. She says, "The single most distinctive aspect to what I do as a landscape painter lies in my ability to reduce a scene to its essentials. This gives the viewer what is important, without the distraction, or visual clutter, of too much detail. Both by providing this overview and by using soft, scumbled edges, these paintings can quiet a viewer's

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01:08:39

Joan Wulff: “First Lady of Fly Fishing”

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2020/05/12

On October 27, 2018, at the Phoenicia Library's Jerry Bartlett Angling Collection, “First Lady” Joan Wulff and her associate Jen Grossman took the floor to tell the story of Joan's remarkable life and career in the angling world.Hooked on fishing at a very early age, she rose to prominence as a National Casting Champion, winning competitions for both distance (161 feet!) and accuracy from 1943-1960. In the late 1970s, she and her husband, Lee Wulff, opened the Wulff School of Fly Fishing in Lew

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00:32:00

Catskill Forests, Trees, Hemlocks

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/04/28

Forest historian Michael Kudish talks trees and forest composition in the Stony Clove, bridging Ulster and Greene Counties. Then, a conversation with forest entomologist Mark Whitmore, on an invasive threat to our Catskill hemlocks. Thanks to our sponsors, Greene County Soil & Water; and the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway.

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01:17:50

John Burroughs' Heart of the Southern Catskills

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2020/04/14

Full audio edition of John Burroughs’ classic essay, "The Heart of the Southern Catskills." In 1886, Princeton geology professor Arnold Henry Guyot determined by survey that Slide Mountain, far to the southwest of the Hudson-hugging mountaintops, was the highest peak in the region, reaching over 4,000 feet. The opening of resorts like the Catskill Mountain House and the Grand Hotel at Highmount drew tourists upstate, and John Burroughs’ account of his 1885 ascent of Slide Mountain offered

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01:14:16

John Burroughs' Pepacton

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/03/31

This audio edition of John Burroughs’ classic essay, "Pepacton: A Summer Voyage," isthe story of Burroughs’ journey down the meandering river he called Pepacton, the name native people gave the stream. Burroughs was in his 40s when he made the trip, on a raft-type craft he fashioned himself, a grown man playing Huck Finn, traveling his personal Mississippi. This 19th-century Catskills taleis pure Burroughs, filled with the values and ideas that are at his core: simplicity of life, joy in small

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00:42:51

Special: COVID-19

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/03/21

Thousands infected, businesses shuttered, social distancing, and closed schools. In this special, unscheduled episode, listen in on 5 interviews on the pandemic, and how the Catskills are responding. •Lissa Harris, reporter for The River Hudson Valley Newsroom • "Rachel," a recent college grad who's battling COVID-19 head-on • Ulster County Economic Development director, Lisa Berger •Local restaurateur Mike Cioffi • Onteora school superintendent Victoria McLaren Thanks to our interviewees; stay

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00:16:02

Lights... Camera... Catskills!

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/03/17

The Catskills, with its beautiful scenery and quirky towns, offers ready-made backdrops for movies and TV. Add talented local crews and substantial tax credits, and it's no wonder increasing numbers of film and television productions are setting up here. In this episode, we speak with the Hudson Valley Film Commission's Laurent Rejto, and with a local innkeeper whose B&B was a key location for an upcoming film about werewolves. Thanks to our sponsors, the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway and the

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00:15:21

The Loop: Haines Falls to Tannersville

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/03/03

We tour "the loop," of Routes 25 and 23c, that connects Haines Falls to Tannersville, via the mountaintop. Hear from Cyndi LaPierre and Dede Thorpe on historic homes and the origins of Onteora Park; famed residents like Maude Adams (Peter Pan); visiting the Mountain Top Arboretum; and a church that served as a quarantine during the 1914 influenza epidemic (history certainly does repeat itself).

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00:11:22

Jan Sawka: Polish Refugee in the Hudson Valley

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/02/18

In 1976, renowned artist Jan Sawka fled communistPolandwith his wife Hanna, and baby daughter, also named Hanna.They eventually settled in High Falls, NY, and Jan woulddraw inspiration for his paintings fromthe Ashokan Reservoir and Catskills Mountains. We spoke with Jan’s family at an exhibition of hiswork at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, at SUNY New Paltz.

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00:13:34

Grand Hotels and Railroad Travel

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/02/04

In this episode, hear from Jon Ham and Bob Gildersleeve about the grand hotels that attracted visitors at the turn of the century, and the trains that got them there. Also... "mutton?!" How one hotel's refusal to serve chicken led to the construction of a famous competitor.

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00:24:16

The "Kaat"skills, the Dutch, and Kaaterskill Falls

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast ·

2020/01/21

In this episode, you’ll hear from historian Cyndi LaPierre on the history ofthe word "Catskills," and if you’re wondering why Kaatscast starts with a“K,” insteadof a“C,” this segment should help clear things up. In the second half of the show, we’ll travel to Kaaterskill falls with geologist Bob Titus, who takes us backeven further, to when the Catskills felt more like… the Bahamas!

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00:24:33

Mountain Cloves Scenic Byway - Palenville to Hunter

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2020/01/07

Welcome to Kaatscast –– a biweekly podcast delivering interviews, arts, culture, and history, from New York's Catskill mountains. Please subscribe, and be the first to hear all the great content, from quick interviews with Catskills locals, tofull-length audio driving tours and fully-produced audiobooks. In this first episode, we take you on a tour of the Northern Catskills’ Mountain Cloves Scenic Byway.You can listenanywhere, but forthe best experience, it’s designed for a westward drive from

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00:00:47

Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast (Trailer)

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2020/01/06

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