MOUNTAIN DALE, N.Y. — When Butch Resnick was growing up in this small working-class hamlet in the town of Fallsburg, he never imagined that decades later, he would be standing in the town’s former grocery store, eying a five-foot-tall painting of a naked Buddha. Micheline Gingras, the curator of the Grocery Store, a new gallery, said she wanted to put the Buddha in the window. “It’s a little too risqué for Mountain Dale,” he said. At 70, she had happily left her Brooklyn apartment for a small piece of the Catskills. Six years ago, he bought 31 buildings in Mountain Dale — nearly all of them vacant — hoping to revive the town.

Source: New York Times November 03, 2018 10:00 UTC