Empire State Music Camp Waiter’s Bunk (Stalag 16), circa 1968.
2. The High School Years
Summers were spent in the Catskill Mountains at the shabby but awesome Empire State Music Camp, tucked away in a tiny town called Hurleyville in upstate New York. During the early “Borsht Belt” years, this location was a frequented hotel/casino called “Kramer’s on Luzon Lake,” that often featured notorious comedians like Buddy Hackett and Lenny Bruce. I spent five summers there and loved it so much I began packing the…
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