Coffee!

An order of veal parmigiana arrived sizzling hot, covered by a tremendous slab of melting, bubbling mozzarella, on a platter the size of a satellite dish. Now, lots has already been written about the Red Apple, and it would be fool- hearty of me to assume I had anything unique to add to the prior tomes of memoirs and anecdotes. You feel a chill in the hot summer night, like someone has reached inside you and tickled your heart, and for just that moment your legs are wobbly and weak, and you grab the rail just to be sure.Your mind begins racing, but it has a long way to go to catch up to your heart. While most of our games were grounded in sports-softball, stickball, volleyball, tetherball, slap ball, kickball, basketball, paddleball, punch ball, handball-that hardly defined the parameters of what we considered games, or play.

Unless, of course, you succeed in convincing your parents to stay the extra day next weekend, and go home on Monday. "Do you remember the daisies we pulled from the earth, to hold them in our still small hands, plucking petals and counting the cadence, "she (he) loves me, she loves me not..." Until just two or three petals remained, and how exhilarating to count ahead and discover that she did, indeed, love you?Do you recall the smell of your first baseball mitt, held up close to cover your face while you dawdled in the field waiting for someone to hit the ball to you?

I was in high school in the Catskills in the 90’s. Afterwards some dads carpooled to Monticello Raceway, hurrying to be on time for something called "the double."

Ruby is gone now.

She is smiling and slightly squinting in the sunlight. But who exactly were they? They gave the appearance of being old as the mountains, though in looking back I realize they were likely no older than I am today--late thirties, early forties. After he passed on his wife and kids operated a store in Woodbourne, turning out the same remarkable product. Each colony boasted of it's men's softball team, and truth be told, the best teams in the mountains were often fielded by the smallest, least populated colonies. It was halfway between Liberty and Livingston Manor. I went to Skopp’s bungalow colony next to the Brickman’s down the road from the Pines. There, within the dappled shade, where it was cool and dark and wonderfully mysterious, we became Buffalo Bill and Davey Crockett, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. With the advent of affordable air travel in the post WW II era, destinations like Miami Beach, the Caribbean and Hawaii began to divert travellers from the Catskills. Its been more than 30 years now, but I can still vividly remember the way the film would crackle over that screen, breaking up, as it counted down from 10, to 1, just at the moment before the color would appear.

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