[identity profile] morgan1.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my. [livejournal.com profile] richardf8's family used to own a summer house in Sullivan county, in Wurtsboro Hills, just up highway 17 from Liberty.

[identity profile] davidfcooper.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Olam katan. I wonder if he recognizes the shul in question.
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[personal profile] richardf8 2005-09-19 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I might have attended a service there when I was too small to remember. We had a place in Kauneonga lake, not far from there, before we shifted our summerhome to Wurtsboro Hills.

It looks like the kind of property the Lubavitchers would buy trying to build a new community. That area's starting to become NYC's outer ring. Helluva commute, but I've known others who've done longer.

It's a nice little shul. It's a pity there isn't a community to support it, but we, the children and grandchildren of that generation have become farther flung.

It's sad, the way the Catskills have changed, but inevitable. I vacation in Northern Minnesota and go to shul in south Minneapolis. Aunts, Cousins, Friends have all found their way to corners of the globe, except my High School friend Franny, who is raising a family of her own in her family's ancestral apartment in Maspeth.

[identity profile] davidfcooper.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I was born in the Bronx, grew up in Westchester, and now live in Brooklyn. I have siblings in Westchester, Binghamton, NY and Jacksonville, FL, and cousins in Rochester, NY, Long Island, CA, TX, WI, Uruguay, and Israel. That seems to be the way of the world.

[identity profile] lilikoimahina.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! It is beautiful! Are you going to buy it?

[identity profile] davidfcooper.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
As [personal profile] richardf8 mentioned there is no community there to sustain it.

[identity profile] shullie.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
a me for sale....?? :)

but wow... it looks beautiful... wish 1. I lived ther and 2 I could aford it... it would be shullie's shul...



[identity profile] davidfcooper.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be cool, shullie. Will we see each other on this side of the pond in the near future?

[identity profile] shullie.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s looking good... we should be still in NY the weekend after thanksgiving - I will let you know more details when I have them :)

[identity profile] davidfcooper.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
We're free that Sunday. Looking forward to seeing you.

[identity profile] ragecarnuu.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Only synagogue on EBAY! What a marketing tool!