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July 16, 2025 (Gregorian calendar/Day 196)
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World Snake Day, Take Your Poet to Work Day

CATSKILL GNOMES

Behind the New Grand Hotel, in the Catskills, is an amphitheatre of mountain that is held to be the place of which the Mohicans spoke when they told of people there who worked in metals, and had bushy beards and eyes like pigs. From the smoke of their forges, in autumn, came the haze of Indian summer; and when the moon was full, it was their custom to assemble on the edge of a precipice above the hollow and dance and caper until the night was nigh worn away. They brewed a liquor that had the effect of shortening the bodies and swelling the heads of all who drank it, and when Hudson and his crew visited the mountains, the pygmies held a carouse in his honor and invited him to drink their liquor. The crew went away, shrunken and distorted by the magic distillation, and thus it was that Rip Van Winkle found them on the eve of his famous sleep.

(internet image)

Rip Van Winkle meeting the Gnome
Catskill Mts, NY

I want to tell you a story
‘Bout a little man, If I can
A gnome named Grimble Grumble
And little gnomes stay in their homes
Eating, sleeping
Drinking their wine
– “The Gnome” by Pink Floyd

“As it turns out, the Catskill Mountains have a long history of being the partying place for a race of short humanlike creatures that are quite evidently not human. Stories of these beings go back to before European contact in the folklore of at least three different indigenous cultures. Henry Hudson, the first European to sail up the river named after him and pass under the shadows of the Catskills, was said to have had his own encounter with these beings. Do they still dwell in the mountains now better known for the Borscht Belt than mythical creatures?”
(shivers and shudders)

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