Cash Cohen with Uncle Pacy Salzman

Mindy (Dorman) Cohen had a Reunion on Sunday, July 19, 2015. This happens to be the 75th Anniversary of the creation of Camp TARIGO. Check out the FACEBOOK TARIGO Group for more details.

Follow Rick's book that includes a chapter on Camp TA-RI-GO. It has gone through many changes, but should be available in 2020.

The GUESTBOOK has been discontinued in 2014. But you can now leave messages on the Tarigo FACEBOOK group. If you want to read the previous Guestbook Entries for 1997-2013, they are now archived below. There is also a FACEBOOK GROUP for TARIGO campers, mostly for campers who were at camp in the 1960's and 70's.

The archived previous Guestbooks are also available further down on this page. Click below on the red Archived Guestbook Entries to read the previous GUESTBOOKS from 1997-2013. You can use GOOGLE to search this site. Type in "camp tarigo" and then the name of the person you are seeking.

Aerial photo of Boy's Campus

This is the homepage for the memories of the former Camp TA-RI-GO, which was located up the hill on Little Red Kill Road in Fleischmanns, New York, in the Catskill Mountains off Route 28. It was a Jewish summer camp for several hundred boys and girls from before World War II until 1977.

CLICK ON THE BUTTONS BELOW TO SEE THE VARIOUS PAGES ON OUR WEBSITE!

Stories From Several Campers
Story of a Short Gay Camper, by Rick Landman.	You can use GOOGLE to search this site. Type in "camp tarigo" and then the name of the person you are seeking. View old Guestbook Entries from 1997-2000 View old Guestbook Entries from 2000-Sept.'01 View old Guestbook Entries from Sept.'01 to October 2002 View old Guestbook Entries from October 2002 to July 2003 View old Guestbook Entries from July 2003 to November 2003 View old Guestbook Entries from November 2003 to October 2004 View old Guestbook Entries from October 2004 to May 2005 View old Guestbook Entries from May 2005 to November 2005 View old Guestbook Entries from November 2005 to February 2008 View old Guestbook Entries from February 2008 to December 2013

If you are going up to Fleischmanns NY, try stopping by the Fleischmanns Museum to see their permanent exhibit on CAMP TA-RI-GO

You can also bring some of your old photographs and artifacts to donate to their exhibit.

The Museum is behind the Skene Memorial Library

The Fleischmanns Museum of Memories is located on Main Street, behind the Skene Memorial Library. It's phone number is: Phone: (845) 254-5311 and you can contact them by emailing dekmm@aol.com. The are not open on a regular basis, so contact them to get their exact hours during the summer.

These pictures were taken from the permanent exhibit at the Museum dedicated to CAMP TA-RI-GO.

Click here to see Melissa Rossow's (Michael Bitterman's friend) 2012 Photos of the campsite and the Fleischmanns Museum Exhibit Click here to see Michael Bitterman's 2012 Video Part 1 of the campsite Click here to see Michael Bitterman's 2012 Video Part 2 of the campsite Click here to see Melissa Rossow's (Michael Bitterman's friend) 2012 Film of the campsite and the Fleischmanns Museum Exhibit

FIRST CAMP TARIGO REUNION A BIG SUCCESS... OVER 250 PEOPLE ATTENDED in 2000!

Click on the "Reunion 2000" Button directly below for all the details and photos of the first Reunion in 2000.

Click here if you want to see a larger group photo.

SECOND REUNION - August 19-21, 2005 at the NEVELE.

Click on the "Reunion 2005" Button directly below for all the details and photos of the Second Reunion in 2005.

This is a picture of most of the campers who were there on Saturday.
Missing are the group that made a pilgrimage back to Fleischmanns.
They didn't get back in time for the pictures.

Click here to read the Monologue that was given by Rick Landman at the Reunion.

2012 MINI-REUNION of "Super Seniors"

A Group of TARIGOites from the 1940's & 1950's met in Florida over the New Year for 2012

Group photo of Mini Reunion.

TARIGO'S SUPER, SUPER SENIORS 12/29/11 SUNDY HOUSE , DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA ATTENDEES: NORMAN BERLIN DON CLARICK BOB COHEN BOB HOROWITZ IRWIN KLUGERMAN HERB KOSLOW MICHAEL LEWIS DAVE PERLSTEIN JOEL SPREYREGAN GERALD SPREYREGAN WHAT BEGAN AS A WELCOME TO FLORIDA LUNCH FOR THREE OF US, TURNED INTO THE FIRST ANNUAL REUNION OF 10 TARIGOITES, CIRCA 1940'S AND 1950'S. FOR THESE "GENTLEMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE", WHO OFTEN HAVE DIFFICULTY REMEMBERING WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY, IT WAS QUITE REMARKABLE HOW WE SPENT OVER FOUR HOURS REMEMBERING THE MOST MINUTE DETAILS FROM BACK THEN. THE EVENT, WHICH WE AGREED WOULD BECOME AN ANNUAL GATHERING, HAD US "ANCIENTS" TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE AND STORIES FROM 60+ YEARS AGO, AS IF THEY HAD JUST HAPPENED. WE HOPE THAT THOSE READING THIS "LOVE LETTER" TO THE "HILLS OF HEALTH" PASS IT ON TO OTHER TARIGO MEN, AND WOMEN.....WHO WERE NOT THERE FROM '47 TO 54,AND HOPE THAT MORE OF YOU CAN JOIN US IN THE FUTURE...

TO VIEW MORE PHOTOS OF THE ATTENDEES...CLICK HERE

CAMP TA-RI-GO

SPACE TO TELL YOUR STORY

Your photo here.

As of December 2013, this site has had over 35,000 hits; mostly from fellow TARIGOites. Keeping the site alive also has an annual fee to Yahoo of $180. It you want to have a spot here to link to a special page to tell a certain story or memorialize someone, please contact me.

GOLDSTEIN PHOTO COLLECTION

To see more old black and white photos from the GOLDSTEIN COLLECTION Click on OLD PHOTOS on the table above.

Below are some photos of the camp from 1996.
To see more 1996 photos just go up to the table above, and Click on the "1996 PHOTOS" botton.

This fireplace from the Rec Hall is all that is left of the camp structures.
Picture by Michael Bitterman.

The campgrounds were demolished in phases to build a condominium complex of single family houses on what is now called Tarigo Road.
The last building to the destroyed was the Rec Hall, which was totally demolished in 1996.

The lake in 1996 (no island) and in the 1960's below.

Picture by Rick Landman

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