I spotted a story in the newspaper last year that made me smile with a memory that was bittersweet. One of the main buildings at Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel, or what was left of it, had caught on fire and burned to cinders because the fire department had a tough time getting to it, the abandoned property being so overgrown and strewn with concrete barriers.

In the 1987 film, “Dirty Dancing,” Patrick Swayze memorably said,“Nobody puts Baby in the corner.” While that was true for the film, real life was not so romantic. The resort had gone belly-up the year before.