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Mountaindale is a
The hamlet is also famous for the "Yeshiva Zichron Mayir of Mountaindale", a school founded by Rabbi Yehuda Davishttp://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/rav_yehudah_davis_v12.pdf in 1960 in Brooklyn, NY. The school was moved to Mountaindale in 1974, and passed down to Rabbi Rothenberg, who died in early 2013.
The Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue was listed on the
Bach to Rock Festival
a concert intended to rival Woodstock in both scope and size. Some musicians and bands that were scheduled to perform in July 1970 were: The Kinks, Kathy Smith, Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, The Band, and more. For the month of August in 1970 the hamlet played host to over 50,000 hippies until a court order halted the concert less than one day before it was to open.
documents the thoughts behind the changes.
hamlet
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(and census-designated place) in the town of Fallsburg
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in Sullivan County, New York
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History
Mountaindale changed drastically in character from a rural farming hamlet, beginning with the arrival of the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad, and the name change of the local post office, in December 1880, from Sandburg(h) to Mountain Dale. Around that time a number of farmhouses that were more hotels than farms opened, and beginning in 1899 the ethnic character of the area began to change from predominantlygentile
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to predominantly Jewish
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By the time of the train crash of 1929
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, several Jewish welfare organizations were engaged in resettling Jewish families whose breadwinners were unable, due to health reasons, to make a living in the New York City sweatshop
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s, onto subsistence farms in the Mountaindale area. While good-hearted this effort may have been, in some cases it simply replaced urban poverty with an even more extreme form of rural poverty
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Helen Brown, principal of Mountaindale High School in 1931, told stories of children being sewn into their long underwear
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In t ...
in October to be cut out in April, and one particularly poignant story of a young man who played on Mountaindale High School's basketball
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team who broke a leg going up for a rebound when her husband had taken them to New York City to scrimmage the Columbia freshmen. The broken leg simply did not heal. Ultimately, it was discovered that the young man's diet at home did not contain any of the necessary nutrients—in fact, it consisted of little more than flour
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and water. Discovering that the poverty in the homes of most of the basketball players was equally dire, they undertook the practice of feeding the basketball team each Friday evening at their home in Liberty
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In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...
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The hamlet is also famous for the "Yeshiva Zichron Mayir of Mountaindale", a school founded by Rabbi Yehuda Davishttp://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/rav_yehudah_davis_v12.pdf in 1960 in Brooklyn, NY. The school was moved to Mountaindale in 1974, and passed down to Rabbi Rothenberg, who died in early 2013.
The Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2001.
Bach to Rock Festival
Mountaindale came within hours of hostinBach to Rock Festival
a concert intended to rival Woodstock in both scope and size. Some musicians and bands that were scheduled to perform in July 1970 were: The Kinks, Kathy Smith, Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, The Band, and more. For the month of August in 1970 the hamlet played host to over 50,000 hippies until a court order halted the concert less than one day before it was to open.
Revitalization
Though there have been several attempts over the years to revitalize the hamlet, since 2018, Mountaindale has been experiencing a bit of a renaissance with new restaurants, retail and experiences opening up.documents the thoughts behind the changes.
Restaurants & Provisions The Dale Retail Witchey Handmade Apothecary Experiences Wild Bower Studio Parks and recreation Mountain Dale’s O&W Rails to Trails References External links
- featured b
Eater
as a top place to eat in the Catskills
High Voltage
Sanburg Trading Post
Cinder Tracks
trailhead is located next to the hamlet’s basketball courts and Train Station-turned-Visitor Center, adjacent to the bicycle shop
The trail
leads trail users into the Village of Woodridge next to Krieger Park- passing a small waterfall and large lake on the way.
Mountain Dale Park and Campground
offers Camping, pool, propane station, picnic table, dog obstacle course/run, playground, recreation bldg., fishing, boating, boat launch.
Local Mountaindale news
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