The New Paltz Historical Society
Invites you to a screening of the film
“The Catskill Mountain House and The World Around”
Presented by award-winning filmmaker Tobe Carey
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
7:00 pm
New Paltz Community Center
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The Catskill Mountain House and The World Around is the fascinating story of America's first great mountain top hotel, romantic tourism, and cut-throat competition in New York's Northern Catskills.
For 140 years, from 1823 to 1963, The Catskill Mountain House stood atop the Catskill High Peaks as a symbol of the Gilded Age. Beginning in the 1850's, The Laurel House, The Hotel Kaaterskill, The Overlook Mountain House and The Grand Hotel also became world-famous vacation spots that attracted business tycoons, artists and Presidents.
The story of the rise and fall of the Catskill Mountain House is a compelling tale of steamboat and railroad empires, bitter rivalries, exclusive private preserves, fabulous art and picturesque landmarks that celebrated the Catskills as part of the American "Grand Tour” and as America's "First Wilderness."
Topics covered in this 80 minute documentary:
Early Catskill's history;
Kaaterskill Falls;
Hudson River School Paintings;
19th and early 20th century art - photographs, postcards, poetry and literature;
Steamboats and Railroads;
Hudson River/Catskill Mountains music;
Prominent personalities including - Thomas Cornell, S. D. Coykendall, George Harding, and
Charles L. Beach.
The Catskill Mountain House and The World Around is written, produced, and directed by Tobe Carey, an independent film producer, director and photographer whose documentaries and art projects have been seen in film festivals and on cable and broadcast television and are available for streaming on Vimeo-on-Demand. Carey is an award-winning filmmaker with more than 50 years’ experience. His Catskill Mountains/Hudson Valley documentaries include: Luis Moses Gomez and His Mill House; The First Artist in America; Rails to the Catskills; The Catskill Mountain House and The World Around; Sweet Violets; Stanley's House; Woodstock Summer of '94;, and Deep Water (with Robbie Dupree and the late Artie Traum).
Carey's projects also include a 20-year collaboration with performance artist Linda Mary Montano, films such as Poetry of a Watershed Stream, Waste, Fraud and Abuse and Paper or Plastic, available online.
He is president of Willow Mixed Media a not-for-profit arts organization working on issues of social concern, such as Sing For the Silenced with musician Marc Black and All Politics is Local, documenting two years of political events in Woodstock and Kingston.
His latest project is a documentary about the Esopus Watershed, now in production.
For additional information contact: video@hvc.rr.com , or online at http://documentaryworld.com/
A selection of Tobe's films, including the following five titles are usually available at his shows: The Catskill Mountain House and The World Around; Rails to the Catskills; Deep Water: Building the Catskill Water System; Sweet Violets; and The First Artist in America: The Life and Times of John Vanderlyn - Artist. The show pricing is $20 each, 3 for $50, 4 for $60, tax included.
Join us on Wednesday, September 4, 2019,
for the story of The Catskill Mountain House.
7:00 pm
New Paltz Community Center
3 Veterans Drive,
New Paltz, NY
Refreshments will be served.
This event is free and open to the public.
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