Ed Shumsky: On the Field or Off, He Was A Champion To So Many Campers

Ed Shumsky, the man with the clipboard and pencil, with an often scratchy but booming voice heard at Twin Lake, Ma-Ho-Ge and Echo Lark, died on May 27, 2010. He was adept at catching and throwing softballs as he was at catching campers on raids and throwing them a curve ball, when they thought [...]

Milt Sirota Recalls Camp Ma-Ho-Ge in 2009 Video Interview

Here’s the new video interview with Milt Sirota from August 15, 2009 in Forestburgh, NY (about 15 miles from camp) and also featuring Carol Sirota and former camper Stuart Salenger. Sirota, a longtime assistant principal at Forest Hills High School in Queens, NY, was head counselor at Camp Ma-Ho-Ge in Bethel, NY from 1956 through [...]

Launch of Catskillcamps.com

After the success of our Catskills Intercamp Games group on Facebook, I decided to launch www.catskillcamps.com a few days ago. It’s been fun pulling graphics, photos and videos from around the Internet and expanding our “Ma-Ho-Ge” network with those who shared much of the same “camp” lifestyle for decades. I even met one guy this [...]

Ma-Ho-Ge Smoke Signal – 2009

Hope everyone had a great holiday and here’s to an early Happy New Year!
Here’s some news:
1–Gary Winick (1974 to 1977) is the director of the movie, Bride Wars, that opens on January 9, 2009.
2–We are re-designing the www.mahoge.com website and will be adding pages each week. 
3–The Camp Ma-Ho-Ge Group on Facebook has become a great “canteen”. [...]

Lost and Found Department

Joshua Abeles and Jon Abeles have been found (in NYC) and are on Facebook.
Sharon Sokol has been found.
Linda Schachter Hausberg has been found (Lhausberg@aol.com) and Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 am edit
How come there’s no section for CANADA? Glad to have found you! keep me posted when you are having the next reunion. I [...]

MAHOGEANS IN THE NEWS (2008)

Warren Bell in story from The New York Times (July 20, 2008)
(Excerpt below)
Double Edge to Brooklyn’s Success
 Many of the survivors are makers of specialty foods, like Amy’s Cookies in Red Hook, which sells tea cookies to Dean & DeLuca markets, and Bagels by Bell in Canarsie, one of the biggest bakers of bialys in the [...]