“The Nature of the Catskills” will be held at the Middletown History Center, 778 Cemetery Road, Margaretville. Admission is by donation.
The slide show will include more than 200 photographs, most taken in the Redkill, Halcott and Delhi areas. His super telephoto lens and quiet patience have allowed John to capture moments rarely seen by most of us, like a chipmunk drinking dew from a leaf, or a cedar waxwing eating snow. His encounter with an albino woodchuck was his most memorable, he says.
John’s parents, George and Ethel Lehmann, came from Long Island in 1960 and purchased a Redkill farm from Otto Jacobs. The farm was his entrée to a special world that he explored and studied. He got his first camera in 1981.
John worked at Belleayre Ski Center for several years, and is a retired corrections officer with the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office. He lives in Delhi.
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