America's Grandest Hotel
Roland Van Zandt
Paper, $19.95 ISBN:0-9628523-6-8
Cloth, $31.95 ISBN:0-9628523-0
416 pp, 94 illustrations, 9 maps
Captures the birth, glory, and fiery death of America's premier mountain resort. Best known for inspiring the Hudson River School of painting, for 140 years the Catskill Mountain House stood on a rock shelf above the Hudson Valley and facing the River. The Catskills Mountain House is the story of a love affair--love at first sight. Mr. Van Zandt follows the great days of the famous hostelry with pride and the days of its decay with heartbreak.-- The New York Times