Mountain's worth of blogging

I have a mountain's worth of stuff I want to blog about and already I've gotten some "user-generated" material in the form of pics and links. I'll get those up soon. For now, I'm doing something like bushwhacking before this blog is up and running. My husband will be posting, too. His Catskillian interests these days are anything that pertains to building fires in our new fireplace insert (chopping wood, stacking logs, bundling kindling, etc.), and hiking, snowshoeing, skiing, staying warm, and as always, the history of music here in the Catskills (Dylan, The Band, etc.) and how it lives on in certain bands today, including his own, Two Dark Birds.  

Here's a list of things to come:

• Pics - coming soon!
  
• Listings of local businesses and events
  
• Profiles of people who live here and the odd ways (and some not so odd ways) they make their living (i.e. Life of a transplant, Life of a weekender, Life of a local)
  
• Local economy - how small towns and the people who live in them are surviving in the midst of a global financial crisis
  
• New grocery store (coming soon) to Margaretville - so long A&P!
  
• New pool and recreation center coming soon to Arkville, to be built by the Gould family of John Jay Gould fame
  
• New Water Discovery Center (coming soon) to Arkville
  
• Brief history of NYC's water supply and the Catskill towns that were displaced so the reservoirs could be built
  
• A look at the artists, writers, & musicians who make the Catskills their home or home-away-from-home