title: Remember the Catskills: Tales by a Recovering Hotelkeeper
author: Esterita Cissie Blumberg
description: "Cissie Blumberg has this way...young at heart and full of Catskill tales--tall, long, short, square, hip..." -- <i>Evelyn Nieves, The New York Times, May 8, 1997</i><br /><br />"I am pleased to know the Catskills hotels and towns will live on in this book." -- <i>Sid Caesar</i><br /><br />"This book is fascinating...not only historically accurate...but warm, touching and beautifully entertaining." -- <i>Jackie Mason</i>
zlib_text: > IN VINO
  
  > A SPIRES STORY
  
  > ALEXIS HALL
  
  Contents
  
  > Copyright
  
  > Dedication
  
  > Epigraph
  
  > Note
  
  > 1. In Vino
  
  > Acknowledgments
  
  > About the Author
  
  > Also by Alexis Hall
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used factiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events,
  or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
   **In Vino**
  
  Copyright © 2016 by Alexis Hall
  
  Cover art: Lennan Adams
  
  [lennanadams@gmail.com](mailto:lennanadams@gmail.com)
  
  Editor: Michele Howe
  
  (@Neverwhere)
  
  [ _michelejhowe@gmail.com_](mailto:michelejhowe@gmail.com)
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
   _For Group_
  
   _with all my love and some apologies_
  
  > I have lo