One of the most intriguing lots-for-little examples is a grand old manse nestled in the Catskill Mountains of New York.

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Ruffalo, an Academy Award-nominated actor, made the switch to solar last year on his property in New York's Catskill Mountains, also near gas reserves.

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From the 1930s onwards Jews living in New York started to holiday in the hundreds of rooming houses and hotels that sprouted in the nearby Catskill mountains.

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Aidan Dwyer won the Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural History after studying tree branch patterns during hikes through the forests of the Catskill Mountains.

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On a recent afternoon, Aidan and his parents admitted they were somewhat baffled by the attention for a project that began two years ago on a winter hiking trip through the Catskill Mountains.

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The subject of its first portrait is Camp Kinderwelt, a summer camp in New York's Catskill mountains whose mixture of Zionist fervour and Yiddish vernacular never, in an American context, had a chance.

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Built in1877, the Adelphi is the last of the grand hotels that graced the main thoroughfare of this small city nestled among the Catskill, Adirondack, and Berkshire Mountains.

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