Latino Writers in the Catskills
Latino literature and writing has long flourished in the Catskills region. In this tour, visit Catskills sites associated with important Latino and Latin American writers and critics.
Catskill Mountain House
or La Casa del Monte
The first of the grand resorts in the Catskills region, the Catskill Mountain House opened to the public in 1824 and quickly rose to become one of the most famous hotels in nineteenth-century America. Built on an impressive mountaintop ledge, known as Pine Orchard, in the hamlet of Haines Falls,…
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José Juan Tablada Bungalow
Literature & the Arts
The Mexican writer José Juan Tablada's house in the Catskills was an expression of his aesthetic vision as well as of his nostalgia for his Mexican homeland. It was here that Tabalada wrote many of his most famous works and indulged his passion for the natural world.
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Juan Flores and Miriam Jiménez Román House
Literature & the Arts
The former summer home of the major Latino critics and researchers Juan Flores and Miriam Jiménez Román, it was built by Juan's father, Angel Flores, himself a major critic of Latin American and world literature.
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