Aerial view of Main Street in Cooperstown, New York. The Catskills have always been a retreat—first for 19th-century painters and writers, later for city escapees chasing mountain air and summer swims ...

CHANNEL FIVE. CATSKILLS IS SPECIAL BECAUSE IT IS SO PROTECTED. IT’S NEVER GOING TO BE THE HAMPTONS. IT IS A PHENOMENAL COMBINATION OF FOREVER WILD AND THEN A BURNING INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC ...

CATSKILL — Getting a classroom full of elementary school kids to focus on math equations for two hours isn’t an easy task. Put them in a swimming pool and things change in a hurry.

The Catskills' patchwork of mountains, forests, and lakes has provided a rural respite for generations of East Coast residents, including my own family. This summer, my husband and I vacationed at an ...