Speech at the Ferndale Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project Event
I gave this speech at the dedication of the Ferndale Marker for the Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project. You can learn more about the Ferndale marker . On behalf of the entire Stier family, I want to thank Marisa Scheinfeld and the Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project both for the project itself and for including our family’s hotel so prominently in the Ferndale marker. We are all very proud of our hotel, our history in the Catskills, and the entire Borscht Belt. I recently discovered something about the hotel property. I thought my grandfather deeply loved it because it enabled him to get my great-grandfather and other family members out of the sweatshops in New York and because he was proud of the business our family built. However, a few months ago, I used Street View in Google Maps to look around the village of Mihova in the province of… Continue reading
