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Kutsher's Sports Academy (KSA) was a summer sleepaway camp in Monterey, Massachusetts, for children ages 7–17. It was originally "conceived and developed by Milton and Joseph Kutsher and legendary basketball coach Clair F. Bee in 1968." [1] The land was originally the Harmony Country Club. [2]
The Borscht Belt, or Yiddish Alps, is a region which was noted for its summer resorts that catered to Jewish vacationers, especially residents of New York City. [1] The resorts, now mostly defunct, were located in the southern foothills of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York, bordering the northern edges of the New York metropolitan area.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has run the De Bruce Environmental Education Camp, for youth who are 12 to 14 years old in De Bruce. Situated on over 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of land adjoining the Catskill Forest Preserve, Camp De Bruce has been in operation since 1948. Formerly a private estate and fish hatchery, the De ...
Room 950 in 1977. Milton Kutsher was active in sports circles, making the hotel the Catskills home of legendary Celtics coach Red Auerbach, Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain, [9] who worked at Kutsher's as a bellhop, and Hall of Famer, Joe Lapchick, who played for the Original Celtics and coached the New York Knicks.
To manage the land, the state had created a Forest Commission, making New York second only to California in having a state-level forestry agency. Most of its members were either openly or covertly connected to timber interests, however, and routinely approved dodges around the legislation to make sure logging would continue.
The Mike Lee Holiday Basketball Bash in Farmington is one of the largest holiday basketball tournaments in New England. This year's event kicks off Tuesday and features 24 teams (14 boys and 10 ...
The Catskill Park is in the Catskill Mountains in the U.S. state of New York. It consists of 700,000 acres (280,000 ha; 2,800 km 2 ) of land inside a Blue Line in four counties: Delaware , Greene , Sullivan , and Ulster .
The Ashokan Center (formerly the Ashokan Field Campus, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as the Ashokan Field Campus Historic District, [1] is a 385-acre (156-hectare) outdoor education, conference, and retreat center located in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Schools have explored and been inspired by Ashokan's ...