
Elijah Wolf grew up surrounded by the peaks of the Catskill mountains. As overseers of the small hamlet of Phoenicia, they acted as companions to the eerie underbelly of a place that seems picture-perfect to tourists and transplants. Now, having lived in Ridgewood, Queens for the better part of a decade, Wolf found himself thinking back to the place he wanted to escape as soon as he could, but this time with a bittersweet, sincere nostalgia. The towns that make us never really leave us. [read more...]