Maria Scheinfeld’s Photos of Dilapidated Resorts in the Catskills

They were the grand palaces of her childhood, the fortress hotels where her family celebrated Jewish holidays, where a girl from the Catskills could run wild or hear stories about how her grandparents met. She learned to swim in the pool at one hotel and worked as a summer lifeguard at another. Then, when she left for college on the West Coast, Marisa Scheinfeld, 32, found herself “grappling with homesickness.”