Life in the Finger Lakes JanFeb 2022

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Life in the Finger Lakes • Volume 22, Number 1 • January/February 2022

The Joys of Ice Fishing Diehard fishing folk call ice something else.

To them, it’s “hard water.” By Derek Doeffinger

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Cover: Brett and Julie Bulmer first ice fished together in high school. Photo by Derek Doeffinger

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A Tale of Winter

Finger Lakes Photography Guild captures the cold

by Melody Burri

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Building for Victory

The Finger Lakes in the Great War

by Kirk House

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ne would think that after publishing a regional magazine for 20 years with probably close to 100 issues, good ideas and subject matter for articles would be difficult to come by. Yes, we have covered just about every popular and well-known story in the Finger Lakes. And yet, there are always different ways to write a story, to cover something of interest. Coupled with that is the fact that our readership is continuously evolving and always looking for something different and unique.

We love to cover people who have interesting stories to tell. Mark Gilbride and his wife Sharon run Lazy Acres Alpacas in Bloomfield (page 40). I was out there the other day and I have to say – their location is an idyllic setting for a farm. The rolling hills and fields, along with the barns, presents a welcoming setting for their alpaca herd. I was never up close to an alpaca before, and they strike me as the most gentle and beautiful of beasts. Mark mentioned that he’s been doing this for close to 17 years, and he never had any farming experience before that. That just goes to show

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you it’s never too late to follow a dream.

Morten and Lisa Hallgren of Ravines Wine Cellars are celebrating being in business for 20 years (page 9). Their winery, although small on an international scale, has grown significantly. They operate two tasting rooms and own 130 acres of prime estate vineyards. Their story continues to grow and evolve.

Nancy McCarthy, one of our esteemed freelance writers, is focusing on a new department this year called “Musical Notes.” She’ll be covering the Finger Lakes music scene in all its aspects. Live music has become a huge draw for many local businesses, and the talent that’s emerging from the area is phenomenal.

There’s always something interesting going on in the Finger Lakes. And here’s to another 20 years of Life in the Finger Lakes bringing the good story to you!

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ust wanted to point out to you that there is a mistake in the November/December 2021 issue on page 24. You posted Route 86 not Route 89 (the road on the west shore of Cayuga Lake).

Thanks for a great magazine, I live in Northwest Ithaca and enjoy this publication so much. Keep up the good work.

— Jo Zimny

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n the scrapbook section of the September/October 2021 issue (page 12), the photo caption from Kayla Parmele refers to the subject as a mantis, but actually it is an ambush bug. Mantises and ambush bugs are only distant relatives and the confusion is very understandable, especially for an apparent nymph like this one.

In any case, Kayla’s photo is excellent!

— Mark Chao

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irst, I love your magazine and look forward to each issue. However I took note especially of the statement (page 54) in the May/June 2021 issue – that the age of the military horse was rapidly coming to a close. That is probably true as of the past few years mentioned in the article. But an exception is my brother Douglas Blue, who was enlisted in the 124th Mounted Cavalry and stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, during World War II. Here is a picture of him with his horse Screwdriver. He was stationed overseas in the China/Burma/India area where they did indeed use horses and mules to patrol the are of the Burma Road, when they were refurbishing and guarding it. They used horses, as the terrain was not conducive to vehicles. He also told of an event in India where their unit was invited by the local maharaja to put on an exhibit of the different drills they did on horseback.

When my brother was discharged, so was his horse, who was cited with an award of high achievement for his service by the U.S. government.

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From the readers of “Life in the Finger Lakes”

Favorite Crock Pot Recipes!

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Seasoned with brown sugar and cider vinegar, the sweet, tangy fragrance emanates throughout the house as it cooks all day.

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Morten and Lisa in the Ravines Barrel Room.

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Pop Open a Bottle As Ravine’s Wine Cellars marks its 20th anniversary, we caught up with cofounder Lisa Hallgren who discussed the winery’s growth, its Wine Club community, and her love of dry Riesling. interview by Daniella Zelikman

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grapes from these great vineyards and make wines that are balanced, age-worthy, and perfect to pair with food.

Lisa Hallgren: My husband, Morten, and I started Ravines in 2001 after a long journey to the Finger Lakes. Morten is European born and raised, and I am from Texas, where we met back at the end of high school. He was educated as a winemaker/oenologist in France, and my background is in culinary arts and business.

When we started Ravines, Morten was the only winemaker who had earned formal degrees and undergone training in Europe, and we saw the potential to create world-class dry vinifera wines here. Morten also pioneered the bone-dry, mineral-tinged Riesling style that has since become the flagship Finger Lakes wine. In addition to dry white wines, we also saw the potential to make terroir-driven red wines, dry rose and refined, traditional-method sparkling wines.

The winery has grown significantly over the last 20 years, and while small on an international scale, we own 130 acres of prime estate vineyards and operate two tasting rooms year-round. We also hold many wine and food pairing events for guests and wine club members, courtesy of our onsite Ravinous Kitchen.

How do your virtual tastings work?

The pandemic has allowed us to reassess our relationship with club members and customers who don’t live in our backyard – or many that were in our backyard in 2020 but wanted to enjoy wine education and tasting opportunities from their own home.

Starting a year and a half ago, we offered our club members many virtual tasting opportunities related to new release wines, “library” older vintage wines, and even some

Could you tell me a little about the history of Ravines Wine Cellars?

What do you enjoy most about winemaking?

Every other major wine region in the U.S. is either a hot or warmer climate. The cooler Ravinous Wine Club Food & Wine Event during harvest. climate of the Finger Lakes allows us to make classical wines using Old World principles and developing wines. Members received these developing wines practices. While some winemakers live in a region where you in a kit at home and tasted wine directly from our barrels, casks, just make the exact same wine every year, the Finger Lakes and tanks before they were completed and bottled. I love to forces you to let the vintage express what that growing season share recipes that pair with the wines. Morten will talk about the has offered you. winemaking, vintage growing seasons, and answer questions

We are lucky to have cherry-picked some of the best about the wines you get to taste. vineyard sites in the Finger Lakes 20 years ago, ones with

Sometimes, we’ve even brought in guest speakers, such exceptional limestone or shale stone soils that we still work as the owner of Hedonist Chocolates, the artisanal chocolatier with to this day and allow us to produce great wine. We take Ja n uary/ February 2022 ~

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Patio seating at Ravines Keuka Tasting Room overlooking Keuka Lake

Club provides benefits such as complimentary tastings and 20 percent off wines, but moreover, our members enjoy all of our club events where we pair wines with food. Sometimes, they are in our cellar in Geneva, sometimes they are under a tent by the vineyard at both locations, but all of them focus on how our signature wines compliment fresh local homemade food and vice-versa.

We even put out a quarterly Ravinous Club newsletter that has recipe pairings for each of our newly released wines. based in Rochester, or Morten’s family members in Provence, France who own vineyards that make amazing rosé wines. The idea is to make them fun, informative, and interactive.

What’s the difference between the new Ravinous One Club and the regular Ravinous Club?

The Ravinous Club is four bottles of wine, selected by our winemaker at the four seasonal selection time periods each year. The Ravinous One Club we started in 2021 and is 12 bottles of wine at the four seasonal selections, but instead

What are some of the benefits of the Ravinous Wine Club?

We have created a community of wine and food lovers. The Wine

of the wines being pre-selected, the members choose the 12 bottles that they would like at that release. There is no cost to join either club, just a one-year commitment upon signing up. Interested wine drinkers can visit our website or stop by either of our Finger Lakes tasting rooms to learn more.

What Ravinous Wine Club events are you looking forward to the most?

That’s a tough one! We always put on “release” parties that we call Revelry parties at each of the four selection dates, allowing local members to try the wines that they will be receiving in that release package. But in March or early April, we also do our annual Spring Barrel Tasting, where Morten pulls wines from the vintage that was just harvested a few months earlier and lets members try the developing wines from our large oak casks, stainless steel tanks, and barrels. I create food pairings from our Ravinous Kitchen. The process of tasting

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Ravines White Springs Estate Vineyard and Winery in foreground with Seneca Lake behind.

and discussing these developing wines compared to our finished wines from the bottle is always really interesting and fun, along with comparing the expressiveness of the different vineyard sites in each flight.

What makes the Finger Lakes wine region unique?

The most famous, traditional wine regions around the world have been growing vinifera wines for hundreds of years. Over time, they’ve figured out what vineyard grows what grapes well and what practices in the vineyard and in the cellar creates the most compelling wines. When Morten and I arrived in the Finger Lakes in the late 1990s, there was very little knowledge and history around the top varietals that we offer to the world today.

What is so great is the potential is now being realized. We have had the distinct advantage of watching the region evolve, while also bringing in our

experience working in other regions. The ability to make exceptional wines, and wines that are able to age for dozens of years, without the price-tag that you may find in other top regions around the world, allows our customers and members the unique opportunity to acquire and age bottles without needing a crazy budget.

What’s your favorite Ravines wine right now?

I don’t know! Morten and I both love dry rosé wines, so I’m super excited for our new vintage coming out in 2021. We make ours each year from 100 percent Pinot Noir as part of a dedicated rose program and we almost always sell out of the current vintage before the new one is ready. But if I had to pick one that we have available right now, I’d go with our 2018 Dry Riesling. It was thought of as a lesser-than vintage at the time,

but the wine developed beautifully and emerged with brilliant aromatics and savory undertones. It’s really delightful.

I always wonder why people prefer any other white wine over Dry Riesling as it has everything you could ask for.

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Paws

Way UP Our Family Companions: The History of Pets in Ontario County

by Laurel C. Wemett

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et lovers agree. “Our Family Companions: The History of Pets in Ontario County” at the Ontario County Historical Society (OCHS) is the cat’s meow and a doggone good display.

And the topic for this annual exhibit which opened in mid-2021 is timely.

“Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided that something lighter and more family oriented would be a great topic,” says Wilma Townsend, OCHS curator. “People in Ontario County appear to have had pets of some kind since early settlement.

During times of difficulty and in this case isolation, our pets are important to us as companions, creatures that need our care and devotion, and are a

A Patriotic Oneta Hayes (Moody) (1917-1999) with her Dog in Bristol, 1910.

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source of unconditional love.” Townsend was responsible for identifying and interpreting the role of pets over many generations from the Native Americans to the present.

On view at the Canandaigua museum through April 2022 are paintings, studio photographs, needlework, original art, advertisements, and snapshots of the four-legged animals, birds and other creatures that have become beloved companions.

Together with a diverse selection of three-dimensional objects like bird cages and children’s toys, the exhibit’s focus on pets offers a refreshing look at one aspect of local cultural history.

“Unidentified Girl with her Pug Dog,” by Crandall Bros. of Canandaigua, 1890s.

Photo Courtesy OCHS

“Our love for pets and the way we treat them as family members is not new and when we realize that through pictures and artifacts, we can start to break down the barrier of time and understand our history a little bit better,” says Cody Grabhorn, executive director of OCHS. The exhibit puts the topic of pets in historical context, tracing the origins of their domestication to today’s humane animal care movements.

Exhibit Planning

The historical society has typically mounted themed exhibits related to the 100th anniversaries of a major event or time period like World War I, women’s suffrage, prohibition, and immigration.“Each exhibit focuses on the impact on and resulting changes in Ontario County within the larger framework of regional and national history,” explains Townsend. The longtime curator has a master’s degree in American History and Museum Studies from the University of Delaware and has been curator at OCHS for over 30 years. “I gather research information, locate artifacts and images, contact other local historical agencies for possible loans, write the labels, create the label panels, and install the exhibit.”

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The first meeting of Sam Cornelius and Butters the cat with his grandmother, Sharon Cornelius, 2011.

Photo by Laura Brophy, Courtesy of Sharon Cornelius

Depending on the topic, it can take six to 12 months from concept development to exhibit opening. The society’s educator and director join the Curator to coordinate funding, activities, and programming. Volunteers often conduct research on aspects of the exhibit – a great asset, says Townsend, for a small staff. The OCHS archives yielded several hundred early images of pets and farm animals with their ownerfamilies. A request on Facebook for pet photos brought more responses.

Making history fun and relatable

“The pet exhibit, which was planned and executed before I came on board as the new director is a great example of how museums can make history fun and relatable,” says Grabhorn. “What I love most about the exhibit is that it allows us to connect on an emotional level with those who came before us.”

Sometimes early paintings reveal a pet’s status. A large formal oil portrait of “Joshua Stearns and his Cat” shows a young lad in 1843 with his tabby and white cat. Townsend, a cat-owner, explains children were often painted with a favorite pet, but more typically in that era it was a dog.

A close look at older photographs of families gathered outside homes can reveal pets like the dog in the 1895-1900 photo of the Warner family

at the Warner Homestead in Orleans, New York. Likewise, studio portraits of the late 19th and early 20th century occasionally included a person’s wellloved companion. An enlarged cabinet card, shows an “Unidentified Girl with her Pug Dog” taken in the 1890s by the Crandall Brothers photography studio in Canandaigua. “The dog and the little girl are so devoted to each other,” observes Townsend.

Birds kept as pets always need special accommodations as represented by three bird cages in the exhibit. A photo of the castle-like building at Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua shows part of what was once an extensive aviary complex, which housed some 216 different species of birds, including a white peacock.

Upton T. Dubell (1858-1914), the superintendent at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Canandaigua, had his family

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history Wilma Townsend, curator and Cody Grabhorn, executive director at the Ontario County Historical Society put together the exhibit.

immortalized in a Mora automobile, manufactured in nearby Newark. While the car is striking, an attention-grabbing dog sits upright on the car’s running board. Being held by female family members is a similar dog and a cat – their presence a reminder that these pets were loved and valued.

Photo by Judi Cermak, courtesy of OCHS

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Recent years show no less enthusiasm for pets, particularly dogs and cats. Judi Cermak loaned a 1980s cat-inspired appliquéd comforter which captures the cozy warmth of a purring cat. Cermak, the director of the Ontario County Arts Council, used cat postures to create a pleasing design in red, white and blue fabrics. Kathy Cooper and Gene Rogers of Bloomfield loaned the doghouse Rogers built for “Bert the Beagle” (19791992). Bert’s doggie domicile has been elevated to museum artifact in the center of the exhibit gallery.

The love of pet ownership can be passed down from one

generation to the next. Sharon Cornelius, curator of the Town of Gorham Historical Society, loaned many older images to

the exhibit including a charming view of her mother, “Oneta Hayes (Moody) (1917-1999) with her Dog in Bristol, NY.” Cornelius walks every morning with her dog, Haywood, a Great Pyrenees breed that the family adopted.

Pet adoption is another theme explored in the exhibit. Photos of Haywood and Butters, a beloved Cornelius family cat, are on display. One shows Cornelius’s toddler grandson Sam during his first meeting with Butters. Today, Sam, now 11 years old, is focused on his family’s new puppy.

OCHS will be offering programs in connection with Our Family Companions. A pet costume contest was held during the society’s Halloween open house. The museum at 55 North Main Street in Canandaigua is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information visit OCHS.org or call 585-394-4975.

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Dave Pollot

by Nancy E. McCarthy

Bridging Past, Present and Future

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anandaigua artist Dave Pollot’s unconventional oil paintings are hard to categorize. New visitors to Pollot’s gallery often register a double-take or delightedly chuckle as they view his unusual work: a classic still life arrangement that includes a loaf of Wonder Bread; a serene Venice canal waterscape featuring an oversized SpongeBob SquarePants wading between buildings; Senator Bernie Sanders seated on a chair, arms crossed with trademark mittens and mask, by a rolling seashore.

“People who aren’t familiar with Dave’s work will come in with almost a look of confusion,” says Becca Pollot, his wife and business partner. “They’ll catch on as they look around, then they’ll really dig in, and you’ll see this excitement and enjoyment build as they find pieces that they relate to.”

Pollot breathes new life into old art by adding his own artistic touch – usually contemporary popular culture parodies. He procures discarded paintings from thrift shops and then alters them resulting in a seamless blend of classic fine art and pop art.

Pollot also creates original works with similar subject matter disparities.

“I just love his work. He has a way of taking iconic imagery and adding the perfect touch of irony, satire, pop culture or just plain insanity to it,” says Sean Hoagland, a Los Angelesbased television producer. “I also love the idea that he takes paintings that had a life hanging on the walls of others, been left in a thrift store and given them a chance to be loved and adored all over again by new owners.”

Hoagland owns eight Pollot works and doesn’t plan to stop there.

Above: Dave and Becca Pollot in front of his artwork at SCOPE International Contemporary Art Show in Miami 2019

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North Star Art Gallery

Dave and his painting “Processed and Enriched” “Winter Evening Light, Perry City Road, Ithaca, NY” oil, 34” x 42”

THE PAST

Pollot grew up in Palmyra, one of three siblings. He and his father, a hobbyist painter, would watch The Joy of Painting television show together. Pollot loved and excelled at drawing and painting from an early age but never aspired to be a professional artist. After his junior year in high school, Pollot focused more on math and science, presuming it was a more stable career path than art could be.

In 2005, Pollot graduated from SUNY Geneseo with a computer science degree and started working as a software engineer. In 2010, he met Becca Kopf of Naples and they married in 2015.

During those five courtship years, Pollot painted but with more frequency in 2012. Meanwhile, Becca started a side business renting out vintage tableware acquired from thrift stores. “There are always stacks of old artwork sitting forlornly in the corner and Dave would peruse the artwork while I shopped,” Becca explains. During one visit, the couple joked about Pollot inserting something funny into a painting.

On a lark, Becca purchased some secondhand artwork and Pollot produced his first altered painting on one. “It was a cute little monster in a quaint English scene, and it was just so much fun,” says Becca. They never anticipated that the little monster would jumpstart Pollot’s professional art career.

“I was instantly hooked,” says Pollot who thereafter painted nearly every night and most weekends. First public reactions came while selling his paintings during Rochester’s Park Avenue Summer Festival. “People seemed to get a kick out of them,” says Pollot. “I believe we sold most of them.”

After a couple of art fairs, Becca took Pollot’s art online.

By 2013 she left her job as a college admissions counselor to manage the art business full-time. Pollot wasn’t so ready to make the leap, even though he spent most of his work days thinking about what he would paint later.

“I never planned to turn this into my career. I loved writing software and honestly never imagined giving it up,” says Pollot.

“It eventually got to the point where it did become very difficult to do both.” Though making his artwork the couple’s sole career was at first “terrifying” to Pollot, he left his job in 2018. So far, it’s been going really well.

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The Artist’s Process Bleed was Pollot’s first tear painting, where his altered image is viewed as though the original landscape painting was peeled back slightly to reveal a modern cityscape painted underneath it.

There’s a double irony with this technique. First, a masterful trick of the eye: the revealed bottom layer is actually applied on top of the existing painting. Next, the viewer’s expectation is that the painting behind the original landscape would be older, not contemporary.

“To get an idea of what I wanted the final painting to look like, I used a program on my iPad called Procreate (similar to Photoshop) that let me arrange the cityscape, tear, and background the way I wanted them to look,” says Pollot. Once comfortable with the composition, he used a small brush to outline the basic shapes in oil paints over the existing background and then began filling in small sections using a mix of brushes and palette knives.

The tear’s outline was painted first. Then he painted left to right and top to bottom to fill it in. The whole process took about a-month-and-a-half to complete. The original painting was purchased shortly after Pollot finished it in 2017.

“Bleed”

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Pollot digitally created “The CryptoCartographer” and released it in 2021 as a non-fungible token (NFT), the latest trend in one-of-a-kind art.

PRESENT AND FUTURE

Canandaigua has a robust arts scene attracting art lovers and artists to its numerous galleries, arts festivals and events. The couple purchased and renovated a downtown building on Main Street and opened the Dave Pollot Studio & Gallery in April 2021. The ground floor houses a storefront gallery with a spacious art studio behind it. They live upstairs with their “children” – two small mixed-breed dogs.

“Everyone has been incredibly welcoming,” says Pollot.

His limited edition prints are popular with gallery visitors, but the majority of his paintings are sold through his website or during Gallery1988 exhibits (a pop culture themed gallery in Los Angeles). “We were immediately drawn to Dave’s work because of his ability to integrate pop culture influences without it feeling shoe-horned or like ‘fan art’,” says gallery co-owner Jensen Karp. “There’s a thin line between those who are just creating whatever they see on TV or in movies, and those who are breathing new life to something. Dave clearly does the latter.”

Hoagland was introduced to Pollot’s work through Gallery1988. “Dave is a master of what he does in his work. I was stunned to find that he was totally self-taught as I feel his skills

are unparalleled.”

Last year Pollot became interested in producing digital works, a cutting edge trend blending technology and art, two skill sets right up his alley. Tech-savvy art collectors bid on and buy NFTs (non-fungible tokens) which track the origin of and authenticate the art they are associated with. The art can be stored and viewed on various devices or even physically displayed in digital frames. If this sounds high tech that’s because it is!

Through a new relationship with Nifty Gateway, an online digital art platform, Pollot offers virtual versions of his paintings through cyber exhibits (“drops”). Typically, drops are all-digital but Pollot favors a hybrid version that pairs a physical original painting or a limited edition print with each virtual work sold.

Pollot is excited about using his software writing skills to program movement into his artwork in the future. But he will always paint the old-school way – with brushes and pallet knives. After all, Pollot has almost 200 abandoned paintings just waiting for him to reimagine them.

Visit davepollot.com to view Pollot’s work and learn more about the artist.

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ho in their right mind would get up at 5 a.m. so they could sit on an upside down bucket in the middle of a dark frozen lake with the temperature hovering around 10 degrees as howling squalls blast across 5 miles of open ice directly at you?

And let me offer you another scenario. What right-thinking high school kid who has been dating an attractive blond classmate would try to woo her (yes, “woo”) by asking her to join him sitting around a hole in the ice in the middle of nowhere?

You can’t answer these questions without first taking to the ice. The transformation of water into ice (and normal people into ice addicts) starts in earnest with insistent and incessant cold. Once the water hits 32 degrees it changes.

Its molecules rearrange and reconnect to become crystals that soon interconnect invisibly but endlessly, continuously aligning themselves into an ever expanding structure that first shows up along the shore as Saran-wrap thin sheets of ice that soon grow into the thickness of a comic book, then the thickness of a paperback that can stretch without breaking across puddles, ponds and small lakes, then a hard cover, and when it finally achieves the thickness of an unabridged dictionary, it’s ready for human feet.

Ready for the one group that has eagerly awaited this day. This is the group that sees winter as a colder continuation of summer, and autumn as an unwanted interruption. This is the group that calls “ice” something else.

They call it “hard water.” These are the diehard fishing folk.

Why ice fishing

Besides being an alternative to lover’s lane, what are the attractions of ice fishing? There are more than you might think. Unlike area golfers who are seasonally stranded by winter, ice gives the few fishing folk who enjoy the cold a way to keep enjoying the outdoors.

Ice fishing also offers one compelling attraction not available in fair weather fishing: the cachet of doing something that many consider an extreme activity. Nearly all ice fishing folk seem to take some pride in being recognized for belonging to the hardy breed who not only flourishes in extreme conditions but relishes them.

What other reasons draw people to fish the ice? Fresh food. As fresh as it can get. Maybe at its tastiest. Brett Bulmer (50 years of ice fishing under his belt) proclaims that the cold water firms up the flesh to make for exquisite eating. Brett says, “The blue gills get so tasty that I’ve tried them sushi style. In winter, their flesh is very firm. In the summer it gets mushy.”

Although many ice people wouldn’t describe it this way, it’s bonding time. Between friends. Between fathers and daughters. Between fathers and sons. It’s been almost a year since Tim Hawley took his son Skyler ice fishing.

Tim reports that Skyler, who is anxious to get back to the ice, said, “This year I really want to catch a muskie and a pike through the ice!”

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the joys of ice fishing story and photos by Derek Doeffinger

On a calm winter eve, Dana Warner stayed to enjoy the rising full moon.

Photo by Gary Whelpley

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For peace and quiet or just warmth, the ice shelter is the place to go. In the Finger Lakes, most people use easy-to-erect pop-up shelters built into a sled for easy tranport.

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Somewhat surprisingly quite a few couples like to ice fish.

When a squall sweeps in, they happily retreat to their tents.

And then there’s that guy who asked his high school girlfriend to go out on an ice fishing date. A risky strategy but he wanted to find out if she liked ice fishing. She agreed. But she was clueless. Out on the slushy ice her simple rain boots quickly soaked through: “I thought I was going to get frostbite and wanted to go home.” Date over? Relationship kaput? No, our fast thinker gave her his insulated waterproof boots and stood on the ice in his wool socks. Forty years later, Brett and Julie Bulmer still ice fish together.

Ice fishing is fun when you’ve got warm boots on. The young guys especially know how to enjoy it. The Springville Musketeers (as I think of them) would be typical. They drove 75 miles to the south end of Honeoye Lake and set up their shelter and heater. I peeked into their shelter and saw they were cooking hot dogs by weaving them through the grill of their propane heater.

Similarly, a few dozen Mennonites showed up on the north end of Keuka Lake on a sunny, calm 15-degree day.

Above: Skyler Hawley loves to go ice fishing with his dad Tim on Conesus Lake.

Left: On a warm (15 degree) license-free day, the north end of Keuka Lake filled up with folks fishing, skating, and observing.

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In the Finger Lakes good ice is always nearby.

Just about anybody can hop in the car and get to a good ice fishing spot, including ponds and small lakes, within half an hour. One spot stands out (for fishing or watching): Lakeville’s Vitale Park at the north end of Conesus Lake. It offers free parking and clean, heated restrooms, perhaps the only place in the Finger Lakes that does so. And it’s right next to the lake.

Keep in mind, the bigger and deeper lakes take longer to produce ice. Seneca Lake’s circulating deep “warm” waters prevent most of the lake from freezing. But in cold years, almost all the other lakes provide enough ice for fishing. The smaller lakes may freeze completely over while the larger lakes often freeze at the shallow north and south ends.

And both Irondequoit and Sodus Bays can offer lots of ice for fishing. For ice fishing locations, conditions, available fish, and advice, go to dec.ny.gov and search on “ice fishing.”

Many of the young ladies, wearing traditional skirts over fleece pants, donned ice skates and combined skating with ice fishing as they glided across the ice, skirts billowing, to check their tip-up rods.

And, most surprisingly, on a warmish Sunday, a group of soccer-mom-and-dad-families, noisily chatting and hauling a bunch of gear, showed up on the ice of Irondequoit Bay. They set up their chairs and arranged their snacks as if they were doing a scaled down tailgating before the big game (and maybe they were as it was late morning on a February Sunday).

For some, ice fishing rises to its best when the challenge of blustery winds and a cold front lets them prove their mettle and self-reliance, whether retreating to a shelter shaking and shimmying under the attacking winds or toughing it out in the open. It’s one thing to enjoy the ice on a balmy day, it’s quite another to match wits with Mother Nature and come out on top — with a nice catch to boot. Just don’t forget to stake down your shelter or you’ll be chasing it down the lake.

Preparation

When it comes to ice fishing, preparation and prevention trump everything, including the simple skills needed to fish through a hole in the ice.

What is the most critical skill? It’s simple: survival. Follow a few rules and ice fishing is quite safe. Follow a few more and it’s comfortable. Follow them all and you’ll be enjoying fresh fish for years to come.

The most important rule to observe is ice safety. In other words, don’t slip on the ice and break a leg, and don’t break through the ice and drown. Wear ice cleats over your boots (even if you’re just spectating) to keep from falling on the ice.

To keep from falling through the ice, find ice that’s at least 4 inches thick, and preferably of good quality. But don’t assume

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ice thickness or quality is uniform. One fisherman told me, “You gotta be careful where you go on Honeoye ‘cause there can be soft spots.” Fishing with a partner gives you backup.

The second most important rule is to prepare and equip yourself with gear that keeps you dry and warm.

Gear up for safety and success

With so much gear to choose from, you can easily find boots (and cleats), gloves and mittens, caps, breathable layers, jackets, and bibs that are winterized and waterproofed for ice fishing. Some jackets even come with flotation technology.

And should the snow fly, you can duck into your pop-up, an insulated ice shelter that expands from its built-in sled that you pulled to your fishing spot. Some include pop-up seats.

You’ll want a heater. Dana Warner who ice fishes several times a week says, “With a heater in my tent it can get quite warm. Sometimes I’m sitting in there with just a T-shirt on.”

Of course, you’ll need a bucket to hold your catch, a good supply of food and refreshments, bait container, rod and reel, lures, and a sled (if not using a pop-up) to pull everything out to your fishing spot. And you should probably keep a couple retractable ice picks handy in the unlikely event you fall through the ice. With them you can pull yourself out of the water.

Since ice fishing occurs at a hole, a tool is needed to create it and a ladle to remove the icy slush that forms in it. Giant drills called augers come in manual, electric, and gas-powered models. The gas-powered augers are noisy.

And what’s fishing without a fish detection device? Most basic is the human eye: lay on the ice and look through the hole for fish. Or use a fish sonar finder/flasher or a viewer. A fish viewer lets you dangle a camera into the water and watch a display to see what’s swimming about.

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Fishing

The fishing is actually simple. You drill a hole and drop your line down. Since you aren’t casting, you’ll be using a short rod (about two and a half feet long). It may look like a toy but it can bring in almost anything that bites; and its shortness lets you fish inside your shelter. You don’t have to master the intricacies of fly or pinpoint casting. You do need to master jigging, which is wiggling the wrist up and down or sideways to move your bait (minnows or fly larvae) or lure in a way to seduce your target fish into biting.

You can simultaneously simplify and multiply your chances of success by using tip-ups in multiple holes. From the DEC website: “The tip-up is basically a spool on a stick holding a baited line suspended through a hole in the ice. When the

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Left: It took two fishermen to pull this brown trout through the hole on Canadice Lake.

bait is taken by a fish, the pull on the line releases a signal, usually a red flag.”

That means you can catch fish while chatting with a neighbor on the ice — just keep an eye out for a red flag popping up.

Out on the ice

At the north end of Honeoye Lake, a family of four parks and unloads their SUV. On foot, they trudge southward. Toward the squalls. The father pulls a heavily-loaded sled, helped by a young son. The mother and quite young daughter hold hands.

What are they looking for out there? A hundred yards out. Two hundred yards. Still trudging. A quarter mile, and they’re still moving away. Why so far? Now small and remote but distinctly visible against the snow-covered plain of ice, they’re towered over by a mountain.

Perhaps they are seeking the greatest attraction of ice fishing: peace and tranquility. Out on the ice the silence settles in. The world calms. Restoration begins. Out on the ice, the eye can wander for miles as if the Great Plains have donated their endless horizons to the Finger Lakes. Out on the ice, the wind can whip and lash you, or keep its distance and put on a show of great twisting clouds of snow that spin like cotton candy against the hills bearded with bare trees.

Out on the ice, nature permeates the world and sometimes works a little magic. If you choose the right day and stay until dusk, you can watch the yellow full moon slip over the horizon. Its soft glow spills across the ice plain filling you with wonder. Suddenly and hauntingly, howls split the air. You’re not alone. The coyotes in the hills to the east have responded to the moon by singing their winter chorus.

It’s up to you to decide if you’ll howl back.

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Finger Lakes Photography Guild captures the cold

A TALE OF

Above: “Winter on Bare Hill” spotlights Mike Nyerges ability to look beyond a literal representation of this iconic setting, and into its essence and emotion.

Left: Even in winter, the beach can present a soothing place to visit, as shown by Joann Long. Captured in early morning as she walked her dog on Canandaigua Lake, Joann came across two empty chairs waiting for a different season.

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by Melody Burri

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hen frigid Finger Lakes winters sound their siren call, avid photographers stand at the ready, cameras in hand. Front and center are the intrepid members of Finger Lakes Photography Guild, who, undaunted by subzero temperatures, hit the frozen trails in search of beauty.

The Finger Lakes Photography Guild is a non-competitive group of photographers who pursue digital imagery as an expression of fine art. Its 33 multi-generational members are from various walks of life and specialize in diverse genres. Many have been featured in regional and national publications, or recognized in local and regional juried shows.

Members continue their quest for excellence by hosting ongoing training workshops, monthly educational programs, peer reviews, and by sharing tips on technique, composition, equipment, the creative process and experiences.

FLPG is a member club of the Photographic Society of America and the Niagara Frontier Regional Camera Club. Find FLPG online at www. fingerlakesphotographyguild.org, on Facebook at @FingerLakesPhotographyGuild and on YouTube at https://bit.ly/3nMrefP.

Top, right: Winter storms offer the perfect opportunity to capture iconic sights in a fresh light, like these boat houses on Canandaigua’s city pier, as seen by Melody Burri.

Right: Regina O Muscarella had in mind the lyrics of taps when she captured this winterscape. “Day is done; gone the sun… all is well; safely rest. God is nigh.”

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Left: Robin Voorhees came home one day last November to see this snowfall, which she described as “so festive!”

Left, top: Taughannock Falls “ice capades” create a stunning mixture of light, color and textures at Channing-Philbrick Park, as captured by Joel Kerlan.

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Above: Late afternoon light adds beauty to snow sculpted stones in Taughannock Creek, as captured by Charles Cappellino.

Right: Photographer Diane Dersch was captivated by this cardinal that tilted its head as if to ask, “Is this good for my portrait photo?”

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Right: The ice storm of 2008 provided this serendipitous glittering night view of Lady Justice on the Ontario County courthouse dome, captured by Paul Yarnall.

Below: Photographer Joy Underhill said her image of seagulls on ice, “Cold Feet,” “just shouts the word cold.”

Bottom: Karl Dueland’s “Keeping Watch” evokes contemplation about this veteran’s service to his country, and hope that in this calm and tranquil setting, they are at peace.

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Building for

Victory

The Finger Lakes in the Great War

by Kirk House

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ioneer pilot Jack Vilas recalled that in 1913, when he handed Glenn Curtiss a $1,500 check as down payment on a seaplane, it was obvious that cash was in short supply around the Hammondsport plant. Glenn sold controlling interest for seven million dollars three years later.

The difference, of course, was the First World War, which started in mid-1914 and ran almost to the end of 1918. The British, Canadian, and American militaries suddenly demanded airplanes in thousands, with engines and components in tens of thousands.

Curtiss bought, leased, or built factories in Buffalo,

Canada, Russia, California, and Massachusetts. Some people hailed him as a hero who supplied the tools of victory. Others damned him and his colleagues as “merchants of death,” whose businesses grew so huge that America HAD to join in with the Allies or face national bankruptcy. (Both arguments had their points, but they both grossly oversimplified a very complex situation.)

Curtiss kept his Hammondsport plant going, employing well over a thousand people, exceeding the village population. You couldn’t find rooms in Bath or Hammondsport, and newspapers reported that

The original Curtiss plant was a quirky place. Once new factories came on line, Hammondsport mostly made engines for export.

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eight Avoca men were driving every day by motorcar – sixteen miles each way! – to get to their jobs.

But the plant, which had spent a decade growing up haphazardly around Glenn’s grandmother’s place, had grapevines running right up to the walls and fuselages stacked between the rows of the vineyard.

Hammondsporters lived 24-7 with airplane engines roaring away in test stands all over the hillside, and you could hear them four miles away, when you came over the hill from Bath. No wonder he needed bigger, more modern factories.

The same was true for the Thomas brothers, who made their own airplanes in Bath. Needing more capital and a bigger work force, they moved to Ithaca and merged with Morse Chain Company, forming Thomas-Morse and becoming one of America’s biggest airplane makers (though Curtiss still dwarfed everybody else combined).

Up in Rochester, Taylor Instruments made altimeters and other devices for aeronautical and other uses. Geneva boat makers Fay and Bowen put their skills to work under subcontract for Curtiss, building hulls for flying boats. A Bath outfit, the American Multiplane Company, spent the whole war working on a single over-large, too-complex airplane. Three years running they took it to Dayton to demonstrate for the army, and never got it off the ground.

Elmira’s Willys-Morrow plant made aeronautical engines (both Curtiss and Liberty) under license.

Ingersoll-Rand in Painted Post shipped out two boxcar loads of shell casings every day, while Corning Glass Works got orders for precision lenses.

Unaccustomed to such fine work, they bought art-glass makers Steuben Glass for their expertise.

A few people, like Curtiss, made fortunes. Others, like the Thomas brothers, did pretty well. For tens of thousands of ordinary people the war meant good-paying jobs for a few years, but peace put an end to all that. The war ended on November 11, and

by December 31 the Curtiss Hammondsport plant had closed for good. The money was good while it lasted, and losing it was a jolt. But at least the boys came home.

Above: Women had worked in American factories for 150 years before Rosie the Riveter came along – these women are making Curtiss engines at Willys-Morrow in Elmira. Neta Snook worked there, too, as an expediter for the British government. After the war she taught herself to fly, then she taught Amelia Earhart to fly, all on a war-surplus Curtiss Jenny.

Below: The Allies needed mass NUMBERS, but as far as airplanes were concerned, they didn’t get mass PRODUCTION. As this Thomas photo from Ithaca shows, much of the production was still by craft.

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Left: Seaplanes (Winston Churchill coined the word) became vital in fending off the U-boat menace. Notice the photographer’s shoe in the lower right corner!

Below: We can see how big Ingersoll-Rand was, and how it took advantage of the railroad. Painted Post suffered perennial floods from the nearby Chemung River during this time.

Above: When George Taylor founded Taylor Instruments in 1851, he surely never dreamed of “aeroplanes,” let alone instruments and gauges for them.

Right: Meet the American Multiplane. Please just don’t ask us how it’s supposed to work. You don’t need to be an aeronautical engineer to suspect that this might be too much of a (possibly) good thing. Apparently one engine and propeller were considered adequate to power the aircraft.

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musical notes

Musician Aaron Naples’ native son

Lipp

by Nancy E. McCarthy

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usician Aaron Lipp, 32, has mastered numerous instruments, performed solo and in countless bands, appeared on television shows and played on or produced nearly 40 albums. He’s toured the world yet Lipp is most content at home in Naples, in the house and recording studio he built himself in 2018. Nestled in nature with a sweet view of Canandaigua Lake, this familiar, peaceful environment fuels his creativity and inspires some seriously prolific song writing.

If there is one constant in his life besides making music, it’s a deep connection to his Naples roots. “So many things about Naples that I love,” says Lipp. “Mostly it’s the perfect combination of a rural landscape with endless gullies, lakes and streams.” An avid outdoorsman, Lipp hikes, fishes and hunts – a great antidote to society’s distractions.

other string instruments such as bass, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and bouzouki. He still plays piano plus keyboard, organ, drums, harmonica and trumpet. Oh, and he sings.

Lipp didn’t learn anything new taking music classes in school but had the opportunity to play in jazz, concert, marching and rock bands.

“Aaron may be one of the most versatile artists I have ever known and he keeps expanding and evolving,” says Curt Bliss, a Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC) English professor and a longtime fan and friend. Bliss is not alone in his opinion.

At age 16, after being introduced to the Rochester-based reggae/world beats band Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Lipp was invited to temporarily fill in as their keyboardist. That gig ended up lasting seven years. “We had musical chemistry and liked playing together,” Lipp explains simply.

A Family Affair

The musical soundtrack of Lipp’s Naples childhood included folk music, jazz, bluegrass and recording artists his parents loved such as Doc Watson, Joan Baez and Emmy Lou Harris. And there was live music. His father was a professional bass player before marrying and raising a family. “He is an incredible intuitive musician,” says Lipp. His two siblings, mother and grandfather play guitar and sing. However, Lipp began with piano lessons at age four, progressing to Scott Joplin ragtime tunes. At 11 he picked up the acoustic guitar, his main instrument today (also electric, slide and steel), playing rock, folk, country and bluegrass. Lipp would eventually master

The Road

Giant Panda mainly toured the United States, playing about 250 shows annually. During Lipp’s stint they recorded several studio and live albums one of which, Steady, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Reggae Chart.

It was a great experience but a grueling lifestyle. After Aaron amicably left Giant Panda in 2013, he pursued his interest in wildlife and conservation back home with a semester at FLCC (he had graduated from Naples High School during his early Giant Panda years).

His academic pursuits didn’t last long. Through a random tweet, Lipp was invited to play Hammond B3 organ on a (Continued on page 50)

Aaron playing guitar in a Naples vineyard.

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people in the know

interview by Daniella Zelikman

Mark Gilbride

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What inspired you to start Lazy Acre Alpacas?

Lazy Acre Alpacas, Bloomfield

Mark Gilbride: I had a small farm over in Victor and wasn’t doing anything with it. I ended up buying a tractor and a Bush Hog to mow it. After an afternoon of mowing the grass, I came to my wife, Sharon, and said, “It’d be nice if we could find something to eat the grass down.”

That’s really how it started. I have no livestock experience as I grew up in the city of Rochester. My parents moved out to Bloomfield when I was 16. I finished my junior and senior year at Bloomfield Central and I married my high school sweetheart. I had been in business myself at that point for 18 years. We had this little farm and thought it would be nice to grow something or raise something.

My wife is a dairy farmer’s daughter and knew there was no chance to get away on vacation. Who’s going to milk 58 cows twice a day? She was very opposed to the idea. When I started researching livestock, I didn’t have a preference. I didn’t know what an alpaca was at the time. Cows were already out of the picture. Horses are beautiful.

We’re close to the Finger Lakes Racetrack so there was the option of boarding thoroughbred racehorses, but they’re a lot of work. You need a farrier to come every six weeks to trim their hooves and when they step on your foot, they break bones. When an alpaca steps on your foot, you say, “Excuse me, you’re on my foot,” and life goes on.

What do you enjoy most about the Finger Lakes region?

It wasn’t until I joined the Canandaigua Chamber of Commerce that I realized how much we have to offer people from outside the region.

We take for granted so much stuff here.

The waterfalls. The lakes. I’m 20 minutes from three different lakes. There are places in Texas where you could drive five hours before you see a body of water. We’re just so fortunate here.

What’s your favorite story about someone visiting the alpacas?

Our most recent AirBNB customers were a couple from the Boston area.

They owned their own business and for the last three years, were totally engulfed in that. Then COVID came along so they

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Mark and his wife/business partner Sharon.

didn’t get out at all and their business continued to grow. They finally decided to get away and come to our farm for a 12-day stay. During those 12 days, we had a lot of heavy rainstorms. At the end of their stay, I thought they might say, “The weather was terrible and we made do,” but they just loved every day they were here. Her hobby was photography and I caught her half a dozen times walking around the alpacas, trying to get the perfect shot. Her main subject is waterfalls and she was able to visit and get a lot of shots.

What kinds of activities are available to visitors at the farm?

We do have an AirBNB. You wake up, pull the shades up, and get to see alpacas outside your window. That’s quite an unusual scene for most people.

We offer tours of the farm. It was probably 12 years ago that I joined the Chamber of Commerce in Canandaigua and was promoting ag tourism. The original idea of getting in the alpaca business was breeding and selling offspring. That wasn’t really paying the bills and I had to rediscover myself. We had this old 190-year-old farm and the buildings are in immaculate shape.

We put names on the buildings so we had a nursery, a maternity ward, a medical area, a fiber shed, and we started charging for tours. For an hour, you get to travel through our vintage barns and see the construction that happened when Lincoln was president.

Then we watch a video on the shearing process as well as the processing of raw fiber into a workable yarn product, then we go out and see and feed the alpacas.

The alpacas are very gentle and docile, and very non-aggressive. People really like going out there and taking pictures with their kids and feeding the alpacas.

After the tour, we have a beautiful twostory gift shop in an old barn that’s been updated and cleaned. We have products as small as a bathmat up to a full area rug to gloves, hats, mittens, and socks, and beautiful fur stoles. There’s lots to see and do here.

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inger Lake Region residents with health and wellness New Year’s resolutions take note: Balanced Beauty Wellness and Medical Spa, located at 34 Seneca Street in Geneva, is now open.

Dr. Arun Nagpaul, the medical director of Balanced Beauty, explained he always envisioned opening a practice that prevents illness and promotes wellness – as opposed to a traditional practice that focuses only on disease.

His goal with his new wellness spa is to offer medically supervised treatments that prevent disease, and make his clients feel and look great.

“There is a health care crisis in America that is

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Left: Virute laser in use for skin treatment

Dr. Arun Nagpaul

Below: The Physiq machine is a body-sculpting device.

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Dr. Nagpaul has also partnered with the premier aesthetic device company, Cartessa, to be able to provide cutting edge laser skin treatments and body contouring.

Balanced Beauty also offers “aesthetic services” that include hydrafacials, tattoo removal, hair removal, treatment of acne, age spots, wrinkles and spider veins. Nagpaul said the

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Valentown Victor’s original shopping mall story and photos by James P. Hughes

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magination is everything,” Albert Einstein once remarked. “It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” With a peculiar twist, Einstein’s quote foretold a link between the “imagination” of a farmer from the Town of Victor and the “coming attraction” of suburban Rochester’s Eastview Mall.

Levi Valentine was a perceptive young man, a late-1800s visionary who imagined an extraordinary project in the midst of the rolling potato fields of his family’s farm. With its proximity to the Erie Canal and rumors of a prospective rail line passing near the homestead, he envisioned the emergence of a lively town, an economic hub…and, oh yes, a shopping mall!

Levi would construct a building – a monumental building. Instead of a general store here and a blacksmith shop there, Levi Valentine sought to create his village around a comprehensive four-story structure. Ample space was planned for a multitude of community needs, both commercial and

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Above: Levi Valentine, left – created Valentown, which opened in 1879. J. Sheldon Fisher, right, is the local historian who purchased the property in 1940. Over many years, Fisher’s tireless endeavors saved the building and created the museum.

Below: Interior view of Valentown.

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Above: The Grand Ballroom was a huge space used for concerts, theatrical presentations, and large group events. Its restoration by the Victor Historical Society is ongoing.

Below: Valentown Hall c.1905.

Photo couresty Victor Historical Society.

social, all housed under one roof. With advice and help from cohorts, his concept began to take shape. In 1879 the vision became reality under the title Valentown Hall, honoring the surnames of his parents, Valentine and Town.

Valentown Hall’s architecture was, and still is, imposing and impressive with its unique and ingenious layout. A series of doorways lined its long front porch offering separate entrances to an array of shops – general store, bakery, cobbler’s shop, millinery, and harness shop among them. The rear of that ground level contained an open meeting room for the local Grange, a critical organization of the day, and other community groups.

Four separate stairways led to a second level housing additional shops, trades, and services. Hardly a community need was overlooked – culture was certainly not forgotten. At

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purchased Valentown various times gathering Hall, and eventually the rooms were used for homestead with a portion business, art, and music of its original property. With schools – even a school of his own broad collection of elocution. artifacts and memorabilia,

The third floor along with extensive boasted a high-ceilinged acquisitions and donations Grand Ballroom for festive of period pieces, Mr. Fisher celebrations. A box office opened Valentown Hall was installed for use when as a museum in 1965. hosting concerts and Top hats became popular around 1800 and remained popular until the end of His ingenuity and tireless theatrical performances the 19th century. They were among many items sold at Valentown Hall. endeavors created a on its large stage. A fourth legacy to be studied and level below the building appreciated, a unique provided an early “parking glimpse into regional 19th century history. garage,” a protected space for visitors to stable their horses.

Despite valiant efforts, and a concept far ahead of its time,

Today, overseen by the Victor Historical Society, Valentown Valentown was destined for a relatively short life. The railroad, a Hall sits in a suburban location less than a half mile from its key to success, dropped plans for the anticipated line and Levi “successor,” Eastview Mall, established over a century later. Yet, Valentine’s vision of a booming village and commercial center facing Valentown Hall’s weather-beaten exterior and exploring never completely materialized. Over time, activities at the its fascinating interior is to step back in time. One can certainly ambitious venture declined and ultimately the enterprise failed. appreciate the imagination and foresight of Levi Valentine The lofty building was abandoned.

– recognizing, as Einstein stated, the structure was truly a

In 1940, local historian J. Sheldon Fisher and his wife Lillian “preview of life’s coming attractions.”

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Robert Randolph & the Family Band tour. The NJ-based band featured Randolph, the legendary steel pedal guitarist, playing Sacred Steel – a musical style developed in African-American Pentecostal churches in the 1930s. Lipp was familiar with this genre from playing with Rochester-based The Campbell Brothers. He was flown over for dates in Tulsa with no audition, rehearsal or music sent in advance. “That’s okay because I

thrive off playing by ear,” says Lipp.

It was a jam-packed year of touring in the United States and Europe playing to festival audiences of thousands, sharing the stage with renowned artists such as Buddy Guy and Taj Mahal plus several radio and television appearances including the “Late Show with David Letterman” and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Lipp describes the music as “like magic fire” but he wasn’t interested in being a hired musician for the rest of his life. “I wanted to do my own thing and live the life I dreamed of, build a house, studio, have more time in the woods hiking, hunting and fishing, have my own band playing original songs and living the dream for real,” he says.

It was time to come home.

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“He’s musically insane,” says Jon Willis, who books talent for Lincoln Hill

Farms (LHF), an outdoor event venue in Canandaigua. Willis means that as a compliment, particularly impressed that Lipp masters any instrument he picks up.

Lipp is a consistently popular performer at LHF, drawing large audiences as a solo artist, in duos or in bands he’s formed. It’s hard to keep track of his projects because there are so many.

This is just what Lipp wants. “The goal is to always play with people who make you feel good. Gotta love what you do or else it’s not worth it.” His shows are unique collaborations with stellar Finger Lakes musicians he has a deep musical connection with such as Bobby Henrie, Richie Stearns, Max Flansburg, Ben Haravitch and Brian Williams to name just a few. This translates into playing fewer, bigger shows that generate more revenue. It also decreases his time on the road, leaving more time at home to write and record songs.

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Aaron Playing Banjo with the Wood Brothers at Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival.

with accomplished local musicians playing original tunes such as The Cabin Killers (high energy bluegrass/old-time style), Aaron Lipp and The Slack Tones (rockabilly/country swing music) and his newest: Temple Cabin Band (psychedelic country and rock and roll).

In September, Lipp released Nothing to Lose, his first solo CD which he produced, mixed and engineered at Temple Cabin Studios, his home studio. An amalgam of several musical styles, Lipp wrote all the songs, sang and played every instrument with the exception of guest artists on three tunes. It was a career highlight for Lipp when one of his musical heroes and collaborators, Oliver Wood of The Wood Brothers, sang and played slide guitar on “Rough Around Town.”

Fan and friend Bliss says this CD is his current favorite. “It’s Aaron’s deepest expression of himself as a musician and the songwriting is remarkable.”

In October, Lipp hit the road for a short 10-date tour with friend and former band mate, Ric Robertson, in support of their respective solo CDs. The duo performed acoustic and electric sets, switching off on guitar and mandolin to piano and drums. They started in Rochester and the Finger Lakes and ended in New Orleans, Robertson’s home base, with several states in between.

Lipp will continue to perform local shows and short tours in 2022, but his

next big project is to build another larger studio and small performance venue on his property using reclaimed wood he salvaged from deconstructing barns.

Whether Lipp’s hands are hammering a board, picking a guitar or casting a fishing reel, it’s all good – as long as it is in Naples.

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