It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

A Hundred Years of a Hundred Things.

And after we did thing number 11 on Monday,

100 years of the Jersey Shore, today it's thing number 12, 100 years of the cat skills.

Next week, by the way, we'll get back to political ones during the Democratic Convention

Week with 100 years of Democratic nominees on Monday and 100 years of Democratic convention speech moments

next Wednesday. But today we stay on the summer vacation track for a hundred years of the

Catskills, which more or less is going to be the rise and fall of the so-called Borsh Belt

hotels, hotels that cater to a mostly New York City Jewish population and famously featured stand-up comedians like Henny Youngman.

Two guys meet one says, how's your children?

They haven't got any children.

So what do you do for aggravation?

Little old man gets hit by a car.

The cop pops him against the wall.

He covers him up with a blanket.

He says, you're comfortable? He says, I make a nice living.

We'll open the phone shortly, listeners, for your oral histories, your best memory of a line from a Catskill comedian or anything else.

And with us now on 100 years of the Catskills is Phil Brown, sociology and health science professor at Northeastern University in Boston,

director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute there

and author of books including Catskill Culture,

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