Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art and the growth of the

and the growth of the legend of Rip Van Winkle

Morris Longstreth

Kaaterskill Falls

Just one year later

Join Larry Tompkins in this photographic tour Out Windham Way and see this “Gem of the Catskills” as it was from the 1880s through the 1940s

Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art and the growth of theAuthor: Raymond Beecher Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art features little known lore and a wealth of rare images of the scenic domain that inspired Americas greatest 19th century landscape painters and spawned the first mountain resort hotels in America. In the 1800's Kaaterskill Clove was a mandatory stop on the American Grand Tour and as famous and familiar to world travelers as Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park or the Grand Canyon are today.