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Life in the Finger Lakes • Volume 22, Number 3 • May/June 2022

40 Trout Point

A Special Addition to a Keuka Lake Home. By Michael Nocella

A Long Awaited Homecoming For Peregrine Falcons in the Finger Lakes, Part 2 By Andy Johnson

Cover: “Fox and Poppies” is artwork created by Amy Hutto. She’s currently showing at the West End Gallery in Corning. See more of her work on page 26.

There’s a Bat On My Pants! And other misadventures with suburban wildlife

Ago: 56 50TheYears Hurricane

Agnes Flood

By Kirk House

By Derek Doeffinger

By Fred Bertram

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10 Nooks & Crannies Lights, Camera, Action ... Ithaca!

Water Feature

Conesus, Hemlock and Canadice Lake Watersheds

Do It Yourself Start Seeds Indoors

Off the Easel Artist Amy Hutto

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Outdoors Hiking Among the Timbers

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my own words

Flooded With Memories

ome memories remain etched in my brain and as clear as day, no matter my age. One of my first intense memories is standing on Larksville Mountain above the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. My parents drove the station wagon from our family home to a cemetery on the mountain, where we could get a clear view of the valley below. All I remember is that I saw a vast expanse of water where there never was water before, with buildings and trees presiding over the flooded landscape like lonely sentinels. We were lucky enough to have lived in the Back Mountain area above the valley, safe from the major flooding. That flooded valley was the result of Hurricane Agnes, the storm that raged across the Northeast United States in June 1972. The incredible amount of rain that accompanied the hurricane flooded areas in New York and Pennsylvania, along the Chemung and Susquehanna River Valleys, among others. For years, I remember that cities like Wilkes-Barre, Nanticoke, Kingston, and Scranton worked hard to recover from the devastation that the flooding wrought. It never occurred to me that other areas might have suffered from

this as well. Cities like Painted Post, Corning and Elmira were also underwater and suffered incredible losses in lives and real estate. Kirk House has written a story explaining a little further about the aftermath of the flooding in New York’s Southern Tier (page 56). Some people have said it was the best thing that ever happened to these areas. I heard the same sentiments from others in Pennsylvania. The chance to rebuild bigger and better became an opportunity for many. But the loss of lives and history and homes is never a good thing. I am thankful that we live in a part of the country that seems to be mostly safe from natural disasters like earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires and floods. But sometimes nature rears its ugly head and reminds us that we should never take our sanctuary for granted. Every day I am thankful to be a resident of the Finger Lakes Region. I think it’s one of the greatest areas I’ve ever experienced. mark@lifeinthefingerlakes.com

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t was great to hear about the peregrine falcons coming back to Taughannock Falls (March/April 2022 edition). I was fortunate to have taken graduate classes at SUNY New Paltz with Dr. Heinz Meng who was a Cornell graduate. Meng was the first to breed and raise and release peregrine falcons in the wild. The first two he released were Adam and Eve. Can’t wait to read Part 2. — Marty Strong

hank you so much for your coverage of West End Gallery’s upcoming Spring Spotlight Exhibit featuring Jennifer Fais, Amy Hutto, Joseph A. Miller and Judy Soprano and also for your message about the upcoming article about Amy Hutto and her work. We so appreciate the exposure this gives to the talented artists we represent. — Lin Gardner, West End Gallery, Corning

our article on a chair by Brenda J. Archer (November 2021 E-newsletter) reminded me of a ministry that a friend of mine, Bobbi La Voie, has for persons recovering from breast cancer surgery. As a breast cancer survivor, she knows the comfort that comes with a recliner that helps with recovery. When she is contacted, she delivers a chair to the patient’s home and picks it up when they have recovered. The chairs come with a prayer shawl and each chair has a name and a story behind it. Bobbi also has stories about her work with therapy dogs in the hospital. When I was a nurse at Strong Memorial, I saw a golden retriever named Ranger walk into a room and go straight to a nurse. He put his head in her lap and looked up at her tear stained face. She had just lost a pediatric patient and this dog knew the one person on the unit that needed love. — Margaret Lash

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he story of Sheldrake Point Winery begins in 1995, when Greg Sandor fell in love with the Finger Lakes Region while attending Cornell Univeristy for graduate studies in viticulture. While working with Dr. Robert Pool and Dr. Thomas Henick-Kling, Sandor began planning to launch a winery in the region – one that united sustainable grape growing, world class enology and local cuisine. His enology class term paper became a business plan. Sandor visited more than 20 local wineries, seeking advice from owners, winemakers and grape growers including Fox Run Vineyards winemaker Peter Bell, who became one of Sheldrake’s earliest and biggest supporters – as well as wine enthusiasts and entrepreneurs, including current Sheldrake owner Chuck Tauck and his wife Fran. “We were all excited to throw in our lot with him,” says Tauck. Sandor’s wife Bernadine, a Long Island native, identified a spot that felt like home to her: the shore of Cayuga Lake near Sheldrake Point. As luck would have it, she came across a tiny ad for an abandoned dairy farm for sale in the Pennysaver newspaper. When Sandor took in the gentle rolling hills and the proximity to the lake, he knew it would be the perfect location for his ambitious plans. Soon he was collecting soil samples, examining water and drainage, and seeking advice from industry experts. The feedback, soil results and site compatibility looked promising for growing grapes. The property was secured, and the partners pooled their resources to formally launch Sheldrake Point Vineyard, LLC, in January of 1997. Founding partner Bob Madill encouraged the development of world-class Riesling. At his suggestion, the group headed north to learn from winemakers in Canada’s Niagara region. The first five acres were planted that spring

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with grapevine stock purchased from a Canadian nursery: Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, Riesling, Chardonnay and – on impulse – Gamay Noir. As the years unfolded, the winery has evolved in ways the partners couldn’t have imagined, influenced by its people, Mother Nature and opportunity. For example, Sheldrake Point Winery was among the first to plant Gamay Noir in the Finger Lakes. “The varietal has flourished, both in the vineyard and as a wine in the bottle,” says Tauck. And while they assumed Riesling would be their mainstay, they now grow more than 22 acres of Cabernet Franc to support their Dry Rosé production, making it their most- planted varietal. The celebration continues all year at Sheldrake Point. Join them in raising a glass to those whose passion and determination transformed an abandoned lakeshore dairy farm into a wellknown and respected winery in the Finger Lakes Region. Cheers to 25 years!

1998 - The original group of owners. Back row left to right: Marjorie Adams, Lois Levitan, Scott Signori, Bob Madill. Front row left to right: Fran Littin, Greg Sandor, Chuck Tauck, Michael Adams

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New York Kitchen Expands Tasting Room Outdoors

ince opening its doors in 2006, New York Kitchen has served as a gateway for residents and visitors alike to experience New York’s incredible agriculture, culinary, and craft beverage industries. And today, they’re ready to get something out in the open. Later this spring, New York Kitchen will open a new educational space, which expands the organization’s existing tasting room, where they showcase 100 percent New York State wine, beer, cider, and distilled spirits, through construction of a three-season first floor terrace. Thanks to an extremely generous gift, this new outdoor space will be recognized as the Sandy Parker Terrace. As a beloved board member and champion for New York Kitchen, Sandy Parker’s contributions to, and passion for, educational endeavors were unmatched. Parker, an icon in the region’s business community and a dedicated philanthropist, passed away from cancer in June of 2021. In honor of Sandy Parker, Dutch Summers, through the Summers Foundation, along with the Sands Family Foundation

have pledged a $200,000 matching donation for this project. Anyone who contributes to the Sandy Parker Terrace will have their gift matched, up to $200,000. Those wishing to donate in Sandy’s honor and memory can visit the project webpage at nykitchen.com/terrace.

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MAY May 13-15 and May 20-22...Rochester City Ballet Presents Igor Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” The Firebird wields mystical enchantments to defeat the evil sorcerer Kastchei and save Prince Igor and the Princesses. Robert Gardner brings this Russian folktale to life through Igor Stravinsky’s monumental score. The Firebird is ballet’s superhero! May 13-15 at Fort Hill Performing Arts Center, Canandaigua. May 20-22 at Callahan Theater at Nazareth Arts Center rochestercityballet.org

May 20-22...Genesee Valley QuiltFest Premier Quilt Show Rochester, New York. 65,000 square feet. 4000 attendance. 600 quilts. 60 vendors. Project and technique classes by national teachers. Machine quilting and computer guided classes for IntelliQuilter

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JUNE June 3...Gallery Night Ithaca Downtown Ithaca. 5 to 8 p.m. Gallery Night Ithaca is a monthly walkable tour of the latest exhibits curated by highly skilled local and regional artists. The art shows are held at galleries and businesses in downtown Ithaca and are held on the first Friday of each month. gallerynightithaca.com June 4...The Heritage-Will Run For Wine 9 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m. at Fulkerson Winery. Celebrate National Trails Day with the Second Annual Will Run For Wine, Heritage 5k Trail Run. Proceeds will help them to install an 18-hole Disc golf course on the property, along the trail. Along with your bib, you’ll receive a tumbler and a “Will Run for Wine” tank top. 5576 NY-14, Dundee, NY 14837 fulkersonwinery.com/events (Continued on page 79)

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“The Honeyoye Lake overlook from Harriet Hollister Spencer Recreation Area, on Canadice Hill Road, in Springwater.” — Frank A. Kruppenbacher

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tarting seeds earlier in the growing season can be both rewarding and save you money. According to growagoodlife.com, it offers more flexibility and control over what you plant in your garden and flower beds.

Set up a lighted seed starting area You will need some supplemental lighting. Seedlings need at least 12 to 16 hours of light each day.

Gather growing containers to start your seedling These can be seed-starting flats, peat pots, toilet paper rolls, newspaper pot, or any recycled container with a few drainage holes poked into the bottom. Place them in leak proof trays or containers to prevent water from dripping.

Prepare your seed starting soil Use new seed starting mix that’s made for growing seedlings. Starting with fresh, sterile, seed starting mix will help ensure healthy seedlings. Pre-moisten the seed starting mix before filling your containers. You will want the soil mix slightly damp, but not soaking wet.

Sow your seeds Check the seed packet instructions to see how deep to sow your seeds. Poke holes into the soil in the center of your containers and sprinkle 2 or 3 seeds. Cover the seeds with soil, press down gently so the seed makes contact with the soil, and mist the soil surface with water. Label the containers with the seed variety and sowing date. Most seeds need temperatures of 65 °F to 75 °F to germinate. Place the trays in a warm location near a heat source, on top of a refrigerator, or use a seedling heat mat.

Keep soil moist but not soggy Use a plant mister or turkey baster to water the young plants when needed. The goal is to keep the soil moist but not soggy.

Begin fertilizing the seedlings once true leaves sprout Once the second set of leaves form it is time to begin fertilizing your seedlings.

Thin the plants so the strongest survive Thinning involves selecting the strongest plant and removing the extras. The easiest way to do this and with the least amount of root disturbance is to snip the unwanted seedlings at the soil line. Water the seedlings well before transplanting.

Transplant your seedlings to the garden After your seedlings are sprouted and ready, transplant them into their permanent location in the garden. Prepare your garden beds ahead of time. If the weather has been dry, water the bed thoroughly the day before you plant. Water the seedlings well after planting.

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nooks & crannies

Lights, Camera, Action…

Ithaca by James P. Hughes

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Wharton Studio (circa 1915). The tower was destroyed by Hurricane Hazel in 1954.

On a rope they dangle her, then they try to strangle her. One night she’s drifting out to sea, then they tie her to a tree. I wonder what the end will be … poor Pauline! — “Poor Pauline,” McCarron & Walker (1914)

hh, poor Pauline indeed! In 1914, the silent film series The Perils of Pauline, starring actress Pearl White, captured the nation’s fancy with its twenty episodes of suspense, danger and intrigue. Each breathtaking installment found its virtuous heroine in a precarious, lifethreatening situation – only to see her miraculously rescued or somehow cleverly escape disaster at a climactic moment. In the very early 20th century, such “cliffhanger” adventure serials dominated silent film, guaranteeing the return of fans to the silver screen again and again. In those largely pre-Hollywood days, The Perils of Pauline and other early serials were filmed in New York City and New Jersey. Yet through quirky circumstances, the famed Pearl White filmed several scenes of Perils in the striking surroundings of Ithaca, New York. The small city on Cayuga Lake, with Cornell University high on a hill above, would later become a hotbed for early motion pictures. Pearl would often return to Ithaca, starring in various films and serials. Ithaca’s connection to the “silent era” of film began by chance in 1912, when Ted Wharton, on assignment for Chicago’s Essanay Studios, arrived in Ithaca to film a spirited football game between Cornell and Penn State, a movie Opposite page, clockwise: Ted Wharton directing Jean Sothern in a scene for “Mysteries of Myra” (1916). The Wharton brothers: Leopold (left) and Theodore (right). A Poster for the popular serial Patria (1917) starring “Mrs. Vernon Castle” (Irene Castle) and Milton Sills. Trolley plunges from the Stewart Avenue bridge for a scene in “A Prince of India” (1914). Note: Originally titled “Kiss of Blood.” Outside the Wharton Studio. Left to right: Creighton Hale, Pearl White, Lionel Barrymore.

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subsequently titled Football Days at Cornell. While there, Wharton took the opportunity to visit relatives in nearby Ludlowville. Something noteworthy transpired on that visit – Wharton was stunned with the scenery and potential of the region as a cinematic backdrop for future films. Its deep and craggy gorges, dozens of plunging waterfalls, majestic hillsides, crystalline lake and the comfortable college town of Ithaca all played into his plans of what could be. By 1913, Wharton had returned to Ithaca with his brother Leo. Notable and respected filmmakers, the Whartons set up operations in a rented studio space downtown. The enterprise grew, and by May of 1915 the brothers had moved Wharton Studio, Inc. to a leased building on renovated acreage in Renwick Park (now Stewart Park) on the shores of Cayuga Lake. From their early “flicks” in 1913 until 1919, a steady stream of movies flowed from Wharton Studio, classic silents created and filmed in Ithaca and its environs. The early scenes from The Perils of Pauline led to other popular serials of the day, including Exploits of Elaine (1914), Beatrice Fairfax (1916), Mysteries of Myra (1916) and Patria (1917). Feature films from Wharton Studio included The Great White Trail, an epic of the Arctic (1917) and A Romance of the Air, a tale of America’s first combat aviators (1918). Using striking natural surroundings and elaborate studio sets, the Whartons directed and produced hundreds of reels that were repeatedly viewed across the country and around the world. Movie luminaries – performers previously seen only on the silver screen – arrived in Ithaca’s backyard, lived in its hotels, ate in its restaurants, walked its streets and acted in Wharton films. Prominent among them were Norma Talmadge, Lionel Barrymore, Francis X. Bushman, Irene Castle, Warner Oland, Grace Darling and even a very young Oliver Hardy. Perhaps unfamiliar to many today, their names remain very much alive to movie buffs everywhere. Each of them left a mark. At the time, Irene Castle, demure but provocative, was hailed as “America’s best known and best dressed woman.” Her flowing gowns and stylish bob haircut defined elegance. Young Lionel Barrymore, a prominent member of the famed Barrymore theatrical family, was still in the early stages of his long and storied career. Francis X. Bushman, in his heyday advertised

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Opposite page, clockwise: Stars Pearl White and Crane Wilbur struggle at the base of Ithaca Falls in one of several scenes filmed in Ithaca for “The Perils of Pauline” (1914). Irene Castle. Irene Castle in the silent film serial “Patria” (1916). Ever a free spirit, Pearl White poses in her Stutz automobile with a pig. Outdoor Wharton Studio set in Renwick Park (circa 1915). Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne starring in “The Adopted Son” (1917).

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Lionel Barrymore and Pearl White in “Romance of Elaine” (1915).

as “the Handsomest Man in the World,” continued to act and direct for decades. Among the most flamboyant and memorable of the characters wandering about town was Pearl White. Regional historian Arch Merrill wrote some years later: Pearl White was as colorful off stage as she was on. She smoked cigarettes and wore slacks on the streets when ladies just didn’t do that sort of thing. She drove her canary yellow Stutz Bearcat around town at breakneck speed. Fondly remembered as “a real trouper,” Pearl executed much of her own stunt work and feats of daring. Those long-ago days in Ithaca were filled with thrills and emotion as the filming carried on – violent explosions, flaming buildings, dramatic warfare on Cayuga Lake. When the script for A Prince of India (1914) called for a trolley to plunge off the Stewart Avenue bridge, a crowd numbering more than 1000 gathered to view the chaos. From one spectacular scene to the next, cameras rolled to record and the public breathlessly followed each melodramatic moment. The Ithaca Journal was full of news about each film and the comings and goings

of its stars. Some of Ithaca’s finest homes and buildings became temporary sets. The Wharton brothers hired locals for essential studio work, from cameramen to set builders. Residents and college students were called on to play bit parts or join mob scenes. The Whartons embraced Ithaca and the city embraced them back. Though these were exciting times in Ithaca, as we know, times change. When the Wharton Studio lease expired in 1920, and coupled with other financial considerations, Ted and Leo moved on. Once vibrant images of the era gradually faded. A full century later, gone are the folks who witnessed those indelible days. A relative few of the early Wharton films have survived. The advent of the Roaring Twenties changed many things. Methods of film production improved, serials evolved toward feature films, “talkies” emerged and Hollywood, with its warm, amenable climate, bloomed as a movie capital. The remarkable natural scenery of the region remained, but the sun had set on Ithaca’s boisterous days of filmmaking.

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Action shot filmed on Cayuga Lake from “The Eagle’s Eye” (1918).

That halcyon era may be just a misty memory, but in Ithaca it is an age certainly not forgotten. The Wharton Studio Museum, a local nonprofit, preserves and celebrates the bygone days when filmmaking was an emerging art form and industry. WSM’s permanent exhibit at the Tompkins Center for History and Culture seeks to “broaden awareness and appreciation of Ithaca’s role in early American film history.” WSM annually produces Silent Movie Under the Stars, Silent Movie Month and other screenings, exhibits and events. In partnership with the Friends of Stewart Park and the City of Ithaca, plans are underway to convert the only surviving Wharton building into Wharton Studio Park Center with exhibit space and a café. With it, the legacy and spirit Pearl White and her contemporaries left behind in Ithaca and along Cayuga’s shoreline will live on. The “Wharton Studio Museum” (WSM) is an organization and founding partner in the Tompkins Center for History and Culture (TCHC). At present the WSM is in the form of a “permanent exhibit” at the TCHC (in other words, a

museum within a museum). The Tompkins Center for History and Culture itself is a brick and mortar building located at 110 North Tioga Street, Ithaca, in the Ithaca Commons, so the WSM (exhibit) can be visited there. However, plans are underway to make a permanent Wharton Studio Park Center (i.e., museum) with increased exhibit space and a café in the only surviving Wharton building in Stewart Park.

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musical notes

Musician

Jack Rogan Finding His Voice

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ebster musician Jack Rogan sang in his bedroom or for family and friends, but last year, at age 18, his first public appearance was to a much larger audience. Rogan was selected as a contestant on The Voice television program, seen by over 7 million viewers and evaluated by four music megastars: Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Ariana Grande and Blake Shelton. He passed his televised audition and would go on to the next round in the show. “Before The Voice, music was an outlet,” Rogan says. “To get that validation was really cool.” The experience changed his professional goals: Rogan has decided to pursue a music career. “I really feel God has given me a gift and is asking me to use it more and more.” All in the Family Rogan is the fourth of five siblings born to Rick and Kathy Rogan. His father is a regional director for a Christian youth ministry. His mother, a homemaker, home-schooled the children. Rogan was an active kid and played a variety of sports. As a teenager, he helped his brother Alex restore an old VW bus, which fueled his interest in cars. Rogan later purchased a 1964 Spitfire and restored it with his father. He enjoyed working with his hands and considered pursuing an automotive technology certification in the future. Music was a constant during Rogan’s childhood and adolescence, an outlet to express and release emotions – especially singing. He mastered several instruments after his older brothers showed Rogan some chords, he taught himself to play guitar, then banjo, ukulele, and piano. He took drum and violin lessons and began writing songs at 14. The family summered in the Adirondacks, where Rick Rogan ran seasonal camps for teenagers and the Rogan kids helped out. After one weekly camper group left, the staff, interns and volunteers enjoyed a dinner party together before the next group arrived. When Rogan was 12, his father asked him to sing during a party; he picked up his guitar and sang “Honey Jars,” a sorrowful Bryan John Appleby tune. Jaws dropped and adults were moved to tears. “The expressions and reactions on their faces made me realize that this hobby could have the potential to be something more,” says Rogan. Yet while Rogan didn’t consider music as a professional goal, he did daydream about auditioning for The Voice or American Idol. Then one day he made it happen.

Above: Rogan, conversing with the coaches after singing “House of the Rising Sun” for his Blind Audition. Left: Rogan’s magazine photo session at Simply Crepes’ private event space in Pittsford.

Auditions In 2018, almost 16, Rogan registered online and travelled to Boston for an open call audition for The Voice along with thousands of other hopefuls. He was selected for a callback and later flown to Los Angeles for another audition – but he got cut. In 2019, the show invited him to try again. He got called back and was cut again. “It was discouraging,” Rogan says. “But looking back, I wasn’t ready. I was terrified [to perform] and not mentally prepared.” The pandemic eliminated live auditions. In November 2020, the show requested videos from Rogan and finally chose him as a contestant. Six months later, he was in a Los Angeles hotel, quarantined with 90 other contestants in preparation for rehearsing and taping the Season 21 show. Rogan describes the behind-the-scenes atmosphere between the singers as supportive and positive. The unabashed competitive element of the show stems from the superstar coaches vying to coach the singer who will be named The Voice for that season. Rogan quickly grew close to many of his fellow contestants. He enjoyed singing and harmonizing at the hotel with sibling trio Girl Named Tom and felt a special bond with country singer and musician

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Not familiar with The Voice? Here’s your primer! This talent show features four competition components: Blind Auditions, Battle Rounds, Knockouts and Live Performances. During Blind Auditions, the four superstar coaches hear but don’t see the contestants perform. If a coach is impressed, they push a button to select the artist for their team and the coach’s chair rotates to face the artist. If more than one coach pushes the button, the performer gets to choose which coach they want. If no one pushes their button, the contestant is eliminated from the show. Once teams are set (each coach has 12 singers), the coaches mentor and prepare their team artists for the Battle Rounds. During Battle Rounds, the coaches pit two of their team members against each other; they sing a song together for the other coaches and a studio audience. Only one of the two singers will be chosen to advance to the Knockouts, where those artists will be paired against a teammate again, but each performs individually. When the Live Performances begin, the remaining contestants compete against each other during live broadcasts. This time the television viewers vote for their favorite artists via an app or website. Ultimately, one artist is named The Voice and awarded a recording contract.

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Rogan plays his first live and local show at b-side in Fairport. Photo by Nancy E. McCarthy.

Carson Peters, a performer since age 4. Blind Auditions make or break each contestant. Rogan sang the soulful “House of the Rising Sun” and also played his favorite acoustic guitar – which he “borrowed” from brother Alex and never returned! While he was heart-poundingly nervous, he also felt well prepared. John Legend turned early and Kelly Clarkson quickly followed. Rogan felt relief and joy as he finished the song. “What got us both was the gravity and beauty of your tone,” said Legend. Rogan chose Legend as his coach. Peters was among the first to learn Rogan passed, but wasn’t surprised. “He had practiced the song in front of me and others, and we knew he would be just fine,” he says. “His tone is so warm and his range is incredible.” Rogan paired with Sabrina Diaz for a duet of Taylor Swift’s “Cardigan” in their Battle Round performance. During rehearsals, Legend instilled confidence in Rogan to stretch

his vocal range and sing in a higher register, out of his comfort zone. The two singers were encouraged to interpret the lyrics and convey those emotions with their voices. Their performance was captivating and powerful. With input from the other coaches, Legend had to select just one to advance to the next round. It was a tough choice, but he chose Diaz. “Getting cut was definitely hard at first,” says Rogan, but he soon looked back on the experience positively, grateful for his growth as a musician and a person, and for friendships forged. Girl Named Tom was The Voice winner. Onward Rogan flew home in July 2021. He was back at Monroe Community College finishing his associate degree when his Battle Round performance was televised in October. Voice viewers included his brother Kyle, also a singer and musician. (Continued on page 78)

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The Western Finger Lakes Outdoor Recreation and Conservation What is a Watershed?

he three westernmost Finger Lakes present a study in contrasts. Conesus is highly developed, its shores ringed with lakefront cottages for seasonal and permanent residents, 65% of whom live on the lake throughout the year. For both residents and visitors, Conesus Lake offers a variety of outdoor recreation A watershed is a defined land area opportunities for year-round adventures, including power boating, swimming and that water flows across or under on its biking. The lake also serves as a public drinking water supply for Livingston County. way to one lake, river, or stream. Each of On the other hand, Hemlock and Canadice lakes are well known for their the Finger Lakes has its own watershed. pristine, uninhabited shorelines backed by public conservation lands. While Together, the smaller watersheds of there are many outdoor recreation options here, including extensive hiking trails, Conesus, Hemlock and Canadice flow biking and fishing, motorized boats and swimming are not permitted. Restricting toward the Genesee River and these activities helps protect the water quality, which is critical since these lakes on to Lake Ontario. serve as the primary source of Rochester’s drinking water.

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Conesus Inlet Wildlife Management Area gofingerlakes.org/conesus

The Conesus Inlet Wildlife Management Area is 1,120 acres of broad, flat floodplain nestled between two glacially steepened hillsides. Every spring, northern pike and walleye, both prized sport fish, swim upstream from the deeper lake and into the shallower marsh to lay their eggs. The annual spectacle is so popular that finding parking can be problematic. The marshland habitat is also a favorite stopover for numerous species of migratory birds, adding another seasonal highlight. The marsh is a rich habitat, and bird watching opportunities, as well as other wildlife viewing, abound throughout the year. To cap it off, bald eagles have been nesting within the area and can be seen fishing the lagoon.

Hemlock Lake. Photo courtesty Stu Haldeman/Flickr

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There are many beautiful places to get outdoors in the Finger Lakes, but few allow you to explore the shores of an actual Finger Lake. Not so for the trails in Hemlock-Canadice State Forest. The shores of these gems are free of development and utterly wild. The lake shores were developed at one time, but in the late 1800s, the City of Rochester began purchasing the land surrounding Hemlock and Candice lakes to secure a clean supply of water. This continued until the entirety of these small lakes was owned by the city. The forests surrounding the lakes act as natural purifiers; clean water is one of the many positive effects of land conservation. In 2010, through a partnership between the Nature Conservancy and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the land was transferred from the city to the state to ensure permanent preservation and stewardship.

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Fine Artist

Amy Hutto An Education in Art by Nancy E. McCarthy

rtist Amy Hutto and her husband John, a law enforcement retiree, moved to Bath from Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2017. It wasn’t a random decision; they wanted to be closer to their two daughters who were pursuing graduate degrees in Syracuse and Buffalo – and the couple had previously visited Geneva, where they had fallen in love with the Finger Lakes Region. “I feel so fortunate to live in the Finger Lakes,” says Hutto. “It’s beautiful, the people are friendly and I’ve found a wonderful and supportive artistic community that gives me a sense of belonging.” A full-time artist since retiring as an art educator a decade ago, Hutto now has new native animals, flora and landscapes to paint, all executed in a bold style with her signature gold leaf accents. “I love the spontaneity in Amy’s artwork,” says Jesse Gardner, co-owner of West End Gallery in Corning. “Her brush strokes seem unlabored and her color choices are often bright and vivid. Amy’s abstract and landscape paintings evoke a sense of peace, while her whimsical animal paintings feel more energetic and always make me smile.” The gallery began representing Hutto’s work in 2018.

Teaching Hutto never planned on art as a profession. Originally from Texas, the schools she attended in her small rural community didn’t even offer art classes. When she was young, her father began painting landscapes and set up an easel for his daughter to paint alongside him. He would become an accomplished artist and later the first art teacher in her high school, but by then she was in college and planning on a fashion merchandising career. Working in retail after graduation didn’t work out as well as she had imagined, so Hutto decided to follow the path of her father and her older sister, both art teachers. “There were many signs along the way that my true calling was in art, but I managed to ignore them all for a few years,” she explains. In 1989, she enrolled at St. Edward’s University in Austin to begin working on her K-8 education hours. She and John, then a police officer, also married that year. In 1991, their daughter Megan was born – sister Molly would follow in 1994 – and Hutto began teaching art classes. The Huttos raised their girls in Austin. John climbed the ranks to assistant police chief, while Hutto pursued

Top: The artist doesn’t often create a sky and ground, preferring to leave that to a bit more imagination, but with “Free Spirit” she was inspired to add clouds by removing layers of paint revealing the white beneath and created the brush using the same colors of the sunset sky. Above: Hutto at work in her studio.

another art certification and flourished as an educator. Over a 23-year career, she estimates she taught approximately 5,000 students. She was also tapped to establish the art programs at two new elementary schools. Outside the classroom, Hutto organized the first district-wide student art show (still an annual event) and led peer workshops and professional development sessions at the state and district level. There was little time between work

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“Cat Nap” is an ode to cats everywhere. Hutto has always had cats in her life.

“Leave it to Me” was a commissioned by Hutto collectors Jenn Fallows and Matt Crossken.

“Cadillac Ranch” with Longhorn was inspired by a photograph taken by Schumacher Cattle, LLC in Era, Texas. It is one of Hutto’s favorite paintings.

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new animal painting begins with a search for the right image. Hutto looks for a strong facial emotion or a dynamic pose. “I know it when I see it because it’s like a connection has been made: ‘that’s it, this is the one, it’s perfect,’” she says. Then Hutto selects her canvas size and shape, often gravitating toward square formats. Once the subject is lightly drawn in pencil, Hutto either adds a texture medium layer or tones the canvas with a solid base color. Backgrounds aren’t pure solids – splatters of accent colors help connect her animal subjects to their environment. Hutto paints eyes and muzzle areas first. “I often zoom in on the animal’s face, especially my cows,” she says. “I love their goofy expressions. I also tend to simplify the animals. I’m not trying to create a realistic depiction.” She then shifts to layering color, scratching through new layers to reveal colors underneath. Lastly, Hutto adds gold leaf embellishments. “I love that gilding has been used in works of art for centuries,” she says. “It makes me feel connected to artists who came before me. I’m using a very historical technique, but in a contemporary way.”

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off the easel “Wild Wapiti” pairs an elk image with abstract elements, a new direction for Hutto.

and family for Hutto to pursue much art-making of her own. “My teaching filled my creative needs, and I was happy with that.” she says. Learning In December 2011, Molly was a high school senior and Megan was in college when John accepted the police chief position in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Huttos were excited to live in Colorado. John moved first while Hutto stayed behind with Molly to finish the school year. In summer 2012, Hutto retired from teaching and joined her husband to pursue her own art in their new community. It was a slow transition from art teacher to fine artist. Now the teacher had to learn, and it took time to develop her unique painting style. “I was a bit all over the map,” Hutto says. She explored impressionism, abstract and representational painting, mixed media and collage. Hutto heeded advice from a local artist to “paint, paint and paint some more” and to determine her favorite subject matter. “Once I focused on animals, my style evolved and developed very quickly,” says Hutto, an animal lover. “I enjoyed my work more once I began simplifying the animals and made them the main focus, so backgrounds became solid or swaths of color.”

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off the easel “Boundless” was commissioned by the Platte River Power Authority in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Her paintings often leaned toward impressionism, with a bold, expressionistic color palette. Acrylics became her preferred medium. By 2015, two galleries were representing Hutto and she was an exhibiting member of a local art league. She participated in art festivals, and her paintings hung in two Colorado senators’ offices in Washington, D.C. One career highlight was a Platte River Power Authority commission to create a large work for their new Fort Collins campus. Working from photos taken of a bison herd on the property, Hutto painted a tender tableau of a mother and her calf on a 60” x 60” canvas. By then she was living in Bath and establishing herself in the Finger Lakes Region’s art scene. The Huttos’ residence is an 1880 barn previously converted into a home brimming with character. Hutto’s studio is a former bedroom with a working fireplace and a balcony. “I love this space,” she says. On weekdays, Hutto spends about five hours a day in it, painting, contacting galleries, ordering supplies, updating her website and maintaining a social media presence. In addition to her West End Gallery representation, Hutto joined The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. Her paintings have been exhibited in member shows in their

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“Fox and Poppies” was inspired by a fox that visited our camping site one time in Colorado,” says Hutto.

Corning gallery. Gallery curator Chris Walters first saw Hutto’s work at West End. “I remember being immediately drawn to the vibrant colors and whimsical nature of her paintings,” Walters says. “I hadn’t seen work like that before in our area.” In 2018, art lovers Jenn Fallows and Matt Crossken stumbled across Hutto’s artwork when they wandered into West End Gallery on their first date. They were enchanted by a small fanciful cow painting, but it had already been sold. Two months later, Crossken surprised Fallows on her birthday with a different, much larger cow painting. The couple continues to amass Hutto works – including five they commissioned. “She has such an incredible ability to capture color, personality and humor in her art, which makes us smile ear-to-ear every time we look at our collection,” says Fallows. Hutto has hit her stride in the Finger Lakes, but she continues to set new benchmarks to challenge herself creatively, such as combining abstract images with animal painting, revisiting mixed media and collage, and creating some fun, retrokitschy cowboy and cowgirl pieces. It’s a fond nod to her Texas and Colorado roots and a culmination of all her life experiences coming to life on canvas. Visit ahuttoartworks.com for more information.

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Hiking Among

Timbers story and photos by Laurie Dirkx

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ow I became intrigued by timber rattlesnakes is a bit of a tale. It is one brought about by a slightly macabre interest yet equally out of responsibility to want to know our regional wildlife better. It began with a startled hiker talking about something he just saw at a state park trailhead I was just entering into to hike. Some of me felt fear, but more, I found I was upset for not already being more educated on them. That is what began my journey of study first, then observation second. I’d made a point to contact a friend who had conducted venomous snake den studies through his wildlife biology curriculum at college. I wanted to learn how he had stayed safe, and for any advice that could be given. It was calming to hear in his relaxed and confident words that the timber rattlesnake – Crotalus horridus – is anything but horrid as their scientific name spells out. Generalities of safety go as follows: to wear loose pants with tall boots, freeze if you hear rattling to locate the snake, stay calm and let the snake take its exit. If you have to move, do so slowly and (obviously) away from the snake. Also, stay out of thick brush where they could be in protective hiding. I had learned timber rattlesnakes are apt to be found on southern-exposure hillsides that are strewn with rock efterrain or chof -taughI’d been hiking for outcroppings – theasame on ftype t cla tin ti s e ss snakes f o n rgettof u dnot once d decades, yet did a thought n a abvenomous , s s ' l e g k n eve es, i r t s o a nts t come Y to mind. . w rage e rattlesnakes can readily determine we aren’t N Timber ve e b and therefore encounters are rare. Due to the vibrations prey from our talking and for the heavier footsteps we take that differ from their much smaller prey, they simply know not to pursue humans. This is reassuring! My first sighting was while picking wintergreen berries when motion caught my peripheral vision. She was a yellow-morph timber rattlesnake. I witnessed her baskingoutstretched body coil up and snug into her spaghetti pile of newly-birthed, gray neonates (pencil-sized baby timber rattlesnakes).

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What had been their time warming in the sun, instantly became self-preservation. They were about 12 feet away, near the crevice opening to their layered-rock den site. As soon as the vibrations from my picking berries was felt, they instinctually knew to retreat, to coil up and make themselves small and hidden in their habitat. Timber rattlesnakes are born with a “pre-button” at the tail end of their bodies, it is from this that a rattle grows following a shedding of their skin. Though they’re not born with a formed rattle, this does not mean they’re without venom. Newborn timbers are equally capable of envenomating (delivering venom through a bite) as mature timbers are, and like many wild species – venomous or not – retreating is their safe option. Timber rattlesnakes are actually quite docile but will act in defense when provoked. Depending on the level of disturbance, timbers choose whether they envenomate, partially envenomate, or not envenomate at all (a dry bite). Some merely just “smack” you without fangs if you get too near. When snakes shed, their eyes become opaque, diminishing their sight to surroundings. I’d once happened upon a large male who was just about to shed. He was completely motionless and amazingly camouflaged in his environment. His safety was to remain still, to be undetected in his rather disadvantaged state of shedding. It was not until I continued hiking past, that he finally made a motion to retreat to his den. The most challenging encounter I’ve had was hearing that distinctive buzzing, the rattle of their tail, the sound most people only hear in western movies. I looked over and there she was, about seven feet away. She was so close I could barely fit her in my camera frame. I say “her” because I could see elongated bulging throughout her body, suggestive of a gravid (pregnant) female. She started coming toward me – though I knew it wasn’t really “me” she endeavored to reach. But still, the thought of bolting out of there came to mind – even though I knew if there was

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Above: Pregnant female Left, top: Yellow-morph timber rattlesnake with young Left, bottom: Camouflaged in its habitat

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you for the taking. Timber rattlesnakes are protected and because of this I don’t give away den locations. I’m compassionate to their plight of fearful humans who harm them and it’s my hope to inspire others to protect them. In as much as I do not suggest for people to seek out venomous pit vipers, I will say, there are few creatures in our region that command such respect as the timber rattlesnake. I am filled with exhilaration and gratitude to have had a glimpse into their secretive world. Though it is unlikely to encounter timbers in the wild, many of us do hike in their territories. The best advice I can give is to already have an understanding of this amazing species. Researching photos of them in their natural habitat will help to spot them when out in their environment. And, in regard to the rattle of a timber rattlesnake, listen to this in your studies as well. Then, you too can hear this courtesy they so graciously give, all in order for us to stay safe.

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Trout Point A Special Addition to Keuka Lake by Michael Nocella Photos by Don Cochran.

Anytime someone adds onto their home, it’s likely to go one of two ways: they could make it better, or they might make it worse. recent build dubbed “Trout added onto a home on

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he story goes like this: in 2014, the homeowners bought the property and knocked down the existing home to build a new one. They spent the next few years realizing it was almost a perfect lake house. But, according to them, it needed one more room, one more space. They eventually put together a team to build the addition. Over the last couple of years, that team executed the homeowners’ vision to perfection – and then some. The team included Morabito Architects, Hough Builders, DeStefano & Chamberlain (engineering), NEWwoodworks, Interior Designer Val Leonardi, and New Energy Works. Everyone involved with the “Trout Point” project – completed at the end of 2021 – looks back on the journey fondly. Especially the clients. “We’ve had so much fun already in the short time that we’ve had it built,” says one of the homeowners, who preferred to stay anonymous. “The porch, the bar – it’s just all perfect for having company over. Even if it’s rainy, we now have the room to play shuffleboard or darts. It’s what was missing. We’re so happy we pulled the trigger to add it on.” So, what makes this addition so special? It’s a long list. But at the top of that list is paying close attention to the details. One of the bigger challenges of this project was making sure the addition looked like it wasn’t, well, an addition. This was achieved by New Energy Works, who worked on both the original home, and the addition. Both times, they incorporated a timber frame. “They had an idea of the design,” recalls Eric Fraser of New Energy Works. “They were really focused on having this new part of the house feel like it’s a more relaxed version of the existing space that was created. But they wanted it to be tied in. There had to be common threads. They didn’t want it to feel like

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some weird addition that was just put on. The natural integration of the timber frame – having that carry over to the new space made a lot of sense.” Maintaining the essence of the original home in the new addition was a challenge because of where the homeowners wanted the addition to go, recalls architect Patrick Morabito. “The most difficult design problem here,” he explains, “was how to integrate the addition into the existing house, and integrate the porch screen room, because the owners really loved the shape and feel of that room. They didn’t want it to go away. That said, it would have been a lot easier to locate the addition somewhere else, or simply get rid of that existing room. But we made it work. We replaced the screens with solid glass, so that it just all became an incredible space that preserved what they loved about the existing room – while still giving them what they were looking for with the addition.” “Our hearts were so happy when it was done,” stated the homeowners. “This is it; we wanted this casual feeling space to relax in that we got, and we are so happy for that. It took a team, and we had a great team of people. It looks like it was always there, it doesn’t look like an addition, that’s the beauty of it.” The addition also includes a bar and game room so the homeowners and their friends can kick back and relax while enjoying a flawless view of Keuka Lake. It also features a custom woodworked bar, dart board, wine storage area and integrated shuffleboard court crafted by NEWwoodworks. In addition to the execution of the project being well done, everyone

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involved talks about how much everyone enjoyed collaborating with one another along the way. “I’ve been doing this work for over 50 years,” says architect Patrick Morabito. “I’ll put this client and the team on this project as the best team I’ve ever worked with in my career.” Val Leonardi, the interior designer for the main house who came back to work on the addition, had a similar experience on the project. With a focus on a more masculine and purpose-based space, she reveled in the opportunity to revisit her earlier work on the home and echo some of the design elements she used previously into the addition, giving the seamless appearance the addition space is celebrated for. “This was my favorite project ever,” Leonardi says. “I love it, and I love the details we were able to pinpoint. For example, the mesh incorporated into the cabinets and the color of the wood, the stone, the floor, every little finish, it all went beyond my expectations. When they brought me in on the addition project, the first thing the homeowners said was that they wanted it to feel more relaxed and less formal than the rest of the house. It was intended to be a space where you could walk in from the lake with a wet bathing suit and feel comfortable, to make it feel less formal. So, I wanted to really take that idea and run with it, and I think we achieved that in the final result.” Adds Eric Fraser of New Energy Works: “It was fun to collaborate on this project, in all stages. From everything from the design to the small details. It was just a really enjoyable process that we were fortunate enough to be a part of. It’s on the short list of very, very memorable projects when you start to think about all the people that were involved.” Tom King of Hough Builders noted a great team can only go as far as a client will let them. “The homeowners were absolutely great to work with,” he says. “I would

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describe the homeowners as cheerleaders for creativity, they brought such energy to the project, and they wanted everyone involved to be part of that energy. It was an amazing project. With some projects you get the feeling you are just adding onto the shoreline, but this home just stands out and it is one that everyone references when talking about houses on the lake.” Morabito said one of his favorite parts about the project is that the space “plays as well as it looks.” He knows this because the homeowners had everyone involved in the project over for a little soirée not too long ago, and everyone had a blast. They all agreed it was a project they’ll remember for a long time. “It was the execution of the design,” says Morabito. “Every detail that was part of the original design now lives in real life. Every little detail that we came up with in the design process, it got brought to life just like we imagined it – if not a little bit better.”

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An adult Peregrine Falcon in the Taughannock Gorge.

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A Long-Awaited for Peregrine Falcons in the Finger Lakes Part 2 of 2

story and photos by Andy Johnson

wo decades into the 21st century, however, the trailhead photograph at Taughannock Falls State Park (as seen on page 38 of the March/April 2022 edition of Life in the Finger Lakes magazine) still showed a relic of the past. But as I neared the falls on that afternoon walk in March 2020, I heard the same raking call that had first halted Arthur Allen here in 1909. It seemed an ancestral echo, carried across the lost decades, cutting through the din of water and reflecting off the gorge This article walls. I turned to see two peregrine falcons flying was originally side by side, directly overhead, racing upstream. published in the The male landed on the cliff and nearly vanished, Autumn 2021 issue a mere speck on the rock face. The female sped on, past the falls and out of sight. of Living Bird, the It had been over a century since Arthur membership magazine Allen chanced upon the same sight, nearly 75 of the Cornell Lab of years since Taughannock was last adorned by Ornithology. peregrine falcons in residence. And it had been exactly 50 years since The Peregrine Fund had begun its bold work to replenish the empty territories of North America with a new line of aerial monarchs. Throughout that spring, I made frequent morning visits to Taughannock. On April 5, scanning the countless ledges and shadows from across the gorge, I finally caught sight of the female peregrine, hunkered low on a flat, sandy ledge near the top of the opposite cliff. She was incubating. She had chosen this ledge at Taughannock and found a mate to join her.

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For me, a multimedia producer for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the potential to document peregrines rearing their young at Taughannock – so close to my own home, when other assignments were canceled by COVID lockdowns – was a small miracle. My job quickly pivoted to filming this historic nesting season. The peregrine falcon is still listed by the state of New York as an endangered species (this pair joined the growing ranks of more than 50 nesting pairs across the state), so we collaborated closely with biologists from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and New York State Parks to secure permits and plan an unobtrusive – and secretive – approach to filming. Although peregrines are notoriously aggressive near their nests (unwilling to tolerate visitors, but by the same token, unlikely to abandon in the case of intrusions), my first priority was ensuring this nest would not be disturbed. I walked the rim trail on the far side of the gorge with park biologists to find a clear vantage point, without trampling any rare or sensitive plant species. Options were few on such a steep slope, but eventually we settled on a small outcrop atop the precipice, opposite the falcon’s nest. It was accessible by a sliding scramble, with me harnessed into safety lines lashed around a sturdy hemlock. I gained new appreciation for Arthur Allen’s descriptions of navigating a treacherous slope for a hard-earned and intimate view of a peregrine nest a century earlier. “One may clamber down the steep slope ending in the precipice, and make his way to the edge of the cliff,” wrote Allen. “Ten feet down the face of the cliff, an old gnarled cedar still clings with its tenacious roots…letting oneself

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Left to right: After nearly 80 years absence, Andy Johnson recorded peregrines at Taughannock. Johnson is a multimedia producer for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Louis Agassiz Fuertes sketching in Taughannock Falls. Fuertes and Arthur Allen first recorded peregrines at this site in 1909. Photo courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University.

down a rope to this swaying tree, an even better view can be secured. One occasionally came to his senses with a start, after reaching far out with the camera and temporarily forgetting his position astraddle the branch.” Instead, we had a clear view with comfortable standing room, albeit nearly 500 feet from the nest. In those early morning hours of watching, the female tended more toward incubation duty, while her smaller mate tended to preen and sun himself on exposed snags partway down the cliff. Once in a while he seemed to suddenly have

A young peregrine out of the nest, calling. It will take time before the young bird gets its striking adult plumage.

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recollections of other duties, and would set off on stiff wings to make forays across the forest edges, farm fields, and lakeshores of their vast hunting range. I stood holding my breath ready to film as the male returned with the tell-tale deep wingbeats of a prey-carrying flight. I glimpsed a large flash of yellow tucked beneath him, and immediately recalled a Fuertes painting of a falcon pinning a meadowlark against the shale ledge, its bright yellow breast turned to face the sky over Cayuga Lake. And now it seemed these very characters were converging again into a living diorama. Or at least, that’s what I anticipated. The male peregrine wasn’t so swayed by any reverence for Fuertes and thought it better to take the meadowlark farther up the gorge and around the next bend to enjoy the meal in solitude. He returned

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empty-taloned about 10 minutes later to preen. The female, still incubating, glared – albeit with the same severe expression she always wore. In the passing weeks, though, the male did share enough of his meals, and the female took her own breaks from incubation to preen and hunt, so that one day I arrived to a different view. In place of the rusty speckled arcs of eggs, I could just make out a compact mass of downy white. With great effort, three little bespectacled cotton balls rose briefly from the pile of down. Through my spotting scope, that image seemed to distill a winding history into a single, concentrated moment. The three new lives, soft and bright white, were conspicuous and vulnerable against the hard shale cliff, resting just a few precarious inches from the precipice. Simply by hatching, by breaking out of strong, fully calcified eggshells, they had earned a chance to live. In their first hours of life, and in spite of myriad gauntlets yet to clear, they were pioneers and rightful inheritors of a new world, finally restored. Five weeks later, the three growing falcons were absorbed in curiosity. While they exercised their wings or

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rested in the shade, they drank in the sights and sounds of their home gorge, studied the flight patterns of roughwinged swallows and blue jays below them, and watched each other for cues, missteps, and breakthroughs. When one hopped to a new ledge, their world expanded together. The others were rapt, tilting and bobbing their heads to take full measure of the new distances now within reach. On June 9, 2020, the first of the young falcons leapt from the ledge, taking unsteady but successful flight across the gorge and alighting back on the cliff wall below the nest. The others hesitantly followed suit later that day. After fledging, the young would return to the nest ledge to roost at night, hunkering back into their familiar sanctuary after long days of exploration and learning. The venturing young birds soon discovered a dead hemlock trunk that reached out almost horizontally into the gorge, affording an expansive view from which to rest and preen. As luck would have it, this newfound real estate was on my side of the gorge, jutting out just below my vantage point. As one of the fledglings took flight from the nest ledge, I watched it glide below eye-level straight toward me, crossing the creek far below, and swooping up to land on the near snag, backlit and radiant. The adults’ slaty plumage was dusty and worn by this point in the season, but the juvenile seen up close sported buff-colored banding and scalloping on its fresh new feathers, and even a little tuft of down still on its head. It turned on the perch, adjusting its clumsytaloned grasp and beating its wings to regain tentative balance. While the young bird was still finding its footing, it was every inch a peregrine falcon. By August, the gorge was quiet once again. The falcon family had departed on migration, streaks of white guano beneath the empty ledge the only sign left of their return. Months later, deep in the winter of 2021 and well before

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A young peregrine at Taughhanock.

the first signs of a new spring, two svelte adult peregrines returned to the gorge and began their rituals anew, flying in unison, reorienting to the sensation of shale underfoot, and undertaking the serious work of growing their numbers, a few hard-shelled eggs at a time. As of this printing in late summer 2021, Taughannock’s wild peregrine falcons have embarked on their next halfcentury with a resounding affirmation of past progress. This year they successfully fledged another four young. To watch young falcons emerge from the mouth of Taughannock two years in a row, toward new gorges yet to be found, was thanks to a far-reaching and defiant vision. The decades-long recovery – a bold experiment to reel a species back from the brink of extinction with our own hands – was characterized by the uncompromising tenacity of a few people who had faith in the impossible, and a commitment to ends that might not be realized in the span of a human lifetime. In February of 2019, at age 91, Dr. Tom Cade passed away, perhaps in the same moment that wild peregrine falcons first canvassed Taughannock gorge for nesting. He certainly would have loved to see peregrine falcons here in Taughannock, further culmination of a life’s work – a new line of peregrines completing a homecoming of their own accord, and a fully fledged testament to the long span of tireless work poured into recovering their forebears. Andy Johnson, Cornell ‘14, is a producer in the Center for Conservation Media at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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Fifty Years Ago:

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Hurricane Agnes

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by Kirk House

The Glass Works factory and its office tower both flooded, as did Ingersoll-Rand in Painted Post. Using the feeble jury-rigged radio signal, Corning Glass C.E.O. Amo Houghton announced his family’s immediate decision to keep the Glass Works in Corning, rebuild in Corning and help rebuild the region. With most electricity out, very few people heard the announcement live, but it remains today as one of the most significant events in the region’s history.

urricane Agnes had already killed more than one hundred people in the U.S., Mexico, and the Caribbean, and now its remnants were dug in over northern Pennsylvania and the Finger Lakes, pouring forth rain. Weather forecasting on June 23, 1972 was not what we are accustomed to, and neither was emergency communication. Meteorologists assured Corning officials that the dikes would hold, but they were wrong. Police started pounding on doors in the hours after midnight, but it was already too late for some. One person died near Bath, two in nextdoor Allegany County and 18 more would perish in the crescent of Gang Mills, Painted Post, Riverside, Corning and South Corning. A surgeon at Corning Hospital operated by flashlight, knee-deep in filthy water, while untrained

volunteers stretched out patients in the backs of station wagons and crept through the storm to other facilities. Flooded St. Joseph’s Hospital in Elmira evacuated to nearby Arnot-Ogden, but only at the cost of shoving Arnot “walking wounded” patients out the doors. Corning Museum of Glass was flooded, while Elmira lost two libraries. Young Tommy Hilfiger dragooned family and friends to rush the stock in his first store to upper levels and was soon outfitting Elmirans who had lost everything. Churches, businesses, factories, homes, schools and government buildings were gone. Some had simply vanished, along with their occupants. Two radio stations cobbled together their surviving resources to get one signal on the air – the first word that the outside world received from cut-off Corning. For months afterward, children started to cry whenever it rained.

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Clockwise: Large stretches of Corning, Elmira and Painted Post (seen here) had to be demolished, cleared away and replaced. Finger Lakes folks to this day divide time into two eras – before “the flood” and after. With power, communication and transportation all out, family members took as long as a week to find each other, all the while fearing that their loved ones had perished. Notice that the man has mismatched shoes. The killer struck in the dark, as victims slept between midnight and dawn, and left a trail of dead behind. The river surged through Corning (seen here at Market and Cedar) with such force that cinder blocks rolled along on the water’s surface. Retail stock worth millions of dollars was destroyed. Vice President Spiro Agnew came to inspect the damage, and helicopters were rushed in from all over the northeast. As if the death toll wasn’t bad enough, three men surveying the damage were killed when they crashed into Crosby Creek near Hornell.

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Clockwise: Antique dealers have told me that 1972 “flood mud” has its own distinctive odor and coloring, which can still be detected to this day. Whenever you visit Corning’s 1796 Benjamin Patterson Inn, look for the high-water mark and imagine it packed with mud that had to be shoveled out by hand. Thousands of cars and other motor vehicles were under water. A man who had a job putting them back into operation told me, “None of them ever worked quite right afterward.” In the Corning area, the river was suddenly almost a mile wide. Even where homes and other buildings survived, it would be many months before they could be made safe to occupy. Housing and Urban Development hauled in thousands of trailers, which some people lived in for a year or more. The worst damage was along the 50-mile Chemung River, stretching from Painted Post through Corning, Big Flats, Horseheads, Elmira and Sayre. Binghamton, Owego, Olean, Pittsburg, Scranton, WilkesBarre and Harrisburg were all pounded as well. Elmira lost the Erie Lackawanna railroad bridge across the Chemung and three of its four highway bridges. This railroad bridge at Pennsylvania Avenue was also a wreck, as were dozens more regionwide. Not long after the bridges went down, the Penn Central and the Erie Lackawanna followed – each railroad’s heartland had been the region demolished by the floods. Partly to fill the vacuum, Conrail was created in the wake of the hurricane. Another heritage of the flood is the Keuka Outlet Trail, on the bed of a ruined a Penn Yan-Dresden spur line. Some people have told me that the flood is the best thing that ever happened to Corning. Hyperbole, of course, and even offensive hyperbole, but I take their point. Residents seized the chance to decide what they wanted their city to be, rolled up their sleeves and rebuilt their hometown. They started in the rubble of the region’s greatest tragedy.

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s you’ll see in a bit, the bat was a close call. It came out of nowhere to threaten my future generations. It was just one of the many surprise wildlife encounters I (and likely many of you) have experienced in years of living in the ‘burbs and towns of the Finger Lakes. Others include antics from a family of raccoons growing up in the chimney, red squirrels playing midnight tag in the attic and walls, and a lovelorn skunk who last year nightly strolled beneath our bedroom window and serenaded us (while seducing a nearby mate) with a nostril-dissolving perfume. But there’s more, including a mink (which is in the weasel family and will be referred to as a weasel in this story) who was either nearsighted or had a foot fetish, a vulture that crash landed in the neighbor’s pool, a pair of redtails hunting from atop another neighbor’s tall pine and, of course, deer–but don’t get me started on the deer and their joy in beheading tulips. So far, bears and (for the most part) coyotes have kept their distance from our part of the ‘hood. It’s natural to think of wildlife inhabiting the wild. After all, they are wild. But in reality, it seems that instead of the wide-open spaces of farm, field and forest, many wild animals prefer creature comforts. And it’s in the populated areas that they can find an abundance of those comforts, with food being a priority. In the ‘burbs, food seems to be everywhere: garbage cans filled with last weekend’s scraps of pizza and barbecue drippings, bird feeders spilling seed, animal lovers setting out snacks for their favorite critter, vegetable gardens providing a smorgasbord, and–perhaps most importantly–the ornamental garden buffet filled with the desirable fruits of crabapple and dogwood trees, the numerous seeds from daisies, sunflowers, cone flowers and the hostas and other foliage savored by our “wild” deer. Is there really a lot of wildlife in the suburbs? Well, a personal census taken last summer revealed that “herds” of chipmunks may have replaced the long-vanished buffalo. A neighbor caught 47 last summer (we got 24). Other regular residents spotted during the census included a groundhog in a neighbor’s backyard, a possum under the next-door neighbor’s deck (she frequently poses for the doorbell cam), a skunk under another neighbor’s deck, several rabbits, a fox family in the small street-end woodlot, the annual birthing of fawns in gardens, and, in the retention pond, the comings and goings of snapping turtles, herons, geese, ducks, chorusing spring peepers and foghorn bullfrogs. The crowded space of the ‘burbs means there are plenty of human-wildlife encounters to provide nearly everyone with an entertaining story (or a tale about a deer-damaged car).

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Clockwise: Skunks are common in the ‘hood and usually pretty calm around people. Strong winds knocked this turkey vulture from the sky. Fortunately, he had a soft splashdown in the neighbor’s pool and was recovered by Perinton Animal Control. The weasel frequented our garden, which was full of chipmunks and sparrows. He caught a crow while I was outside photographing butterflies. Rabbits and chipmunks abound, herons drop by and ducks often nest near the retention pond.

y bat story began at the end of a long and trying day. After a 30-mile tow truck ride in the fading dusk (don’t ask), we walked up to the door only to find out I had lost the house key. In the dark, I used a ladder to climb in through the second story bathroom window, not realizing I was being shadowed. I went downstairs and let my wife inside. We prepared some snacks in the kitchen, then went to the dining room and flicked on the light switch. The bright chandelier lights ignited the room like a prison yard spotlight and sent a small, panicked creature frantically flapping in search of escape. A bat. That sent a chill down my spine. You see, I have a thing about bats. Years ago, my wife rigged up some string and black socks dangling from the ceiling fan and fluttered them about in the dark to surprise me when I came to bed. Just ask the dry cleaners if it worked. But now, more experienced and bat seasoned, I immediately went into action. I threw open the back door and, flapping my arms, dashed about trying to herd the bat outside. My wife, now in how-to advisor mode, shouted and demonstrated instructions on flapping and herding techniques before retreating to another room, where she coolly reported that she was googling “how to get rid of bats in the house.” The bat had disappeared. But if we were to sleep, we had to find it. Together we M ay/J u n e 2 02 2 ~

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Suburban Wildlife scanned the room: left, right, up, down, under, behind. Nothing. Then she peered underneath the dining room table and surfaced, looking at me with a peculiar expression on her face. She said, “I found the bat.” “Where?” I asked. She pointed. I looked and saw nothing. I asked again. She pointed again. Again, I saw nothing. She shook her head in disbelief and, now with an unnerving assurance and a spreading grin, she pointed a third time. I looked down and saw it. The bat was on my crotch. My bat-removal helper struggled to suppress the tsunami of hilarity beginning to ripple across her face. The bat and I locked gazes. A minute, maybe two, passed. It decided the bright lights were too much and crawled upward, pausing at my belt before scuttling under my T-shirt. Now I had a bat on my

Above: Our neighborhood red tails face a constant bombardment from blue jays in the summer. Right: The deer family taking a summer eve’s stroll.

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belly, and I couldn’t see it. It wasn’t moving. I wasn’t moving. It had found sanctuary in a warm, dark place, while I, still in the spotlight, had found a different dark place. At half an ounce, this little brown nose bat weighed less than a slice of bread. I weighed in at about two hundred loaves. I knew from a Diane Ackerman essay that bats are gentle, shy creatures. But with very sharp teeth. From across the room, I heard an eerily calm voice that somehow was both amused and solemn. “Derek, listen closely. This is word for word from the New York DEC website on bats: ‘Please contact a DEC Wildlife Office or a NWCO when dealing with bats.’” I was on my own.

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With great aplomb and sangfroid (that’s French for despite appearances I’m a cool and brave dude), I slowly walked to the still-open back door, slipped into the dark and stood on the deck. Then I gingerly edged up my shirt, slid a finger under the bat and nudged it off. With a big sigh, I watched my half ounce of terror disappear into the dark. To be fair to all bats, this one was likely never a threat, just a falsely maligned creature who, in reality, was a valuable, mosquito-devouring member of society. And it did leave me with a good story.

Top, left: Stopping by late one night, this possum triggered the security camera and light. Top, right: Sometimes herons look just like statues.

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Suburban Wildlife It’s almost as if I wasn’t there. Was he near-sighted? Olfactorily challenged? Or a little wacky? Finally, he looked up, saw me and sauntered back into the garden. A few days later, he climbed up the post holding up a barnwood Victorian bird house; he was looking for its inhabitants (sparrows). I took a few pictures (was he posing?), then he nonchalantly moved on. A week later I was standing in the driveway photographing monarchs on Mexican sunflowers. I was using a long telephoto lens and very intent on what I was doing, only barely aware of a growing clamor of crows shouting and hollering. Probably chasing a hawk. At first, I didn’t hear a different noise, something nearby scuffling through the garden. Then the sound changed into a soft scraping like feet dragging across the pavement. It gradually became louder and closer, as did the crows, who were cawing up a ruckus. I looked down and there at my feet was the weasel, clutching a dead crow in its mouth. The weasel seemed cornered between me and the crows. Faced with the photo op of a lifetime, I desperately tried to take its picture, but that magnifying telephoto meant I could only see my shoelaces. I had to wait. With the crows in pursuit, the weasel made a break for it and skedaddled under a car, determined to hang onto his catch that was almost as big as him. He finally emerged in front of the garage, where he was far enough away for me to grab a few pictures as proof of my story. The crows were almost upon him, so he dashed into the neighbor’s wood pile and hung out there until they gave up. But crows don’t

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Learn all about wildlife in the ‘burbs and cities Why does wildlife thrive in populated areas? In his book The Accidental Ecosystem, Peter Alagona details the history and ecology of how and why so much of American wildlife has adapted and moved into populated areas across the country. In our email correspondence, Alagona explained that for quite a few animals– such as crows, foxes, deer, groundhogs, pumas and more–populated areas offer a very desirable habitat (food and shelter) and that the population density of many of these animals is far greater in populated areas than in the countryside. He said, “It should not be surprising that creatures that do well in urban areas tend to be social (or at least tolerant of others like themselves), flexible, curious, intelligent in relevant ways and omnivorous. Kind of like us.”

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forget. I haven’t seen him since and wonder if the crows got their revenge. Perhaps the most enjoyable event was the time I pulled into the driveway to discover a melting pot group of five young teen boys gathered across the street, lifting the grate off the pond culvert. What mischief were they up to? None, it turned out. They were trying to rescue a snapping turtle the size of a medium pizza. Working together, they got him out and into a laundry basket. I drove them the two hundred yards to the canal, where they released him. Although our suburban and town wildlife provides some entertaining experiences, we don’t yet get those safari-quality experiences that pumas provide in Los Angeles, polar bears in Alaska and boars in the South.

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Bird Walk To provide assistance with locating birds via sight and sound, the Finger Lakes Museum hosts their Annual Bird Walk on May 14 at the Townsend Grady Wildlife Preserve. A crowd favorite, this program returns for its ninth year with guidance from local avid birders Mahlon and Eleanor Hurst. Previous years’ participants have been successful in identifying over 40 different species of birds by sight and sound Male and female purple martins – a truly immersive experience! Registration for this program and all others in the 2022 season is available on the museum’s website, FingerLakesMuseum.org.

return to the warmer climate of the southern states and the Gulf of Mexico. If you’re lucky, you just might see the iconic bald eagle, which nests not too far from the Finger Lakes Museum’s wetland property. Many have spotted the six-foot wingspan of this majestic bird flying high in the air, a true sight to see. Perching high in the tree tops, eagles are most active in the early morning hours (7am-9am) or later in the afternoon (4pm-5pm), so plan your day accordingly for this amazing possibility. While it may seem like you have to keep your eyes to the sky to see birds, the marsh and wetlands at your feet are also great spots for birds to rest and play. The northern pintail is an elegant duck with a beautiful long, pointed tail that looks like it was picked directly from an oil painting. The unique profile of this duck is often seen in Sugar Creek during migration, spending its time in shallow wetlands, which makes Townsend Grady Wildlife Preserve the perfect resting spot on the journey. Experience the Finger Lakes through the sight and sound of the birds of the region. Identify the creatures that cohabitate with us in this space we all so proudly call home. Take time to rest and relax, appreciating the nature that is available to us right outside our doorsteps. Visit fingerlakesmuseum.org for more information.

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The best wines and spirits are judged again in a “Best in Class” evaluation. In 2016, FLIWC hit an all-time high with over 3,800 entries from 26 countries and all 50 states. While numbers have decreased due to the pandemic, the unwavering support of our judges, sponsors and participants has kept the event going strong year after year. Our judges are hand-picked and

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“His vocal range grew to a place I hadn’t heard from him before,” he says. “It gave me chills to hear him really go for it and knock it out of the park.” Rogan’s appearance playing a Breedlove guitar also caught the attention of Breedlove Guitars. The company offered him an opportunity to be a Breedlove-endorsed artist, and the relationship will provide Rogan another promotional platform for his music. “Every Breedlove is designed to pair with the human voice, and Jack’s voice makes a great guitar sound even better,” says Marketing/Artist Relations Director Robert Beattie. Locally, Rogan was excited to hear from Elvio Fernandes, the Rochester-based musician and songwriter best known as keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for multi-platinum-selling artist Daughtry (Chris Daughtry was a 2006 American Idol contestant). Fernandes was impressed by Rogan’s Voice

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performance and reached out to offer advice and help. Since Rogan went from singing in his bedroom to a national stage, Fernandes’ advice to develop his music career going forward was to actually go backwards: play small local venues, hone solid set lists, develop a following, write great songs and record them professionally. “I have the confidence that Jack has the tools to do something special,” says Fernandes. “His voice is unique, his approach has an ‘old soul’ vibe and his songwriting instincts are excellent. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing what the future holds for him.” Rogan began performing shows at b-side in Fairport and released a recording of “House of the Rising Sun.” He’s just getting started. Follow Rogan’s musical journey on Instagram @ jackroganmusic.

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n the Winter 2002 issue of this magazine the Book Look department was introduced by editor Mark Stash, “presenting our first ever look at books that are Finger Lakes related.” This became a regular department the first few years in the winter issues. Beginning in 2008, the annual Book Look went bi-annual. Normally, at least six to eight books are featured. With this issue we celebrate a 20-year milestone with reflections on the past two decades and some 250 books related to the Finger Lakes. Nonfiction titles have outnumbered fiction, over two to one, perhaps not surprising with the rich history and natural wonders of the region to explore. Books on outdoor pursuits like hiking, fishing, and sailing, as well as landmarks and scenery, have provided seemingly endless ways to discover the Finger Lakes. A few memoirs have chronicled growing up in a Finger Lakes locale while other titles offered poetic content or stimulating photography. Mystery lovers were treated to a fair number of fictional crimes (and real ones, too). Occasionally, a love story has been set in a locale inspired by the region’s historic communities and lakes. We have featured a few books for children of different ages so younger readers might learn more about their surroundings. A word about authors – they range from those which have made it onto the New York Times Best Sellers List to first time writers. Some manage to write multiple titles, creating anticipation of the next in a series. Publishers include major publishing companies, vanity presses, historical societies, and regional university presses like Syracuse University Press, Cornell, and RIT. On some occasions we featured excerpts from a single book in a stand-alone article. Memorably, the sale of Willy of Crooked Lake, the children’s story of a rescued dog, helped raise funds for the expansion of the Finger Lakes SPCA’s Animal Shelter in Bath, New York. It has been uplifting to “meet” so many talented authors, largely through their works. The reviews we offer hopefully introduce our readers to new books so they can seek them out in a brick and mortar store, online, or at their local library to enjoy and share with friends or perhaps their Book Club. This issue brings new selections on a significant architect, stories from Cazenovia, women related to a Tompkins County community, tales of personal grief, mid-life change and introspection, as well as a small town where everybody knows everybody (and their secrets). If you care to read past reviews, they are archived on the magazine’s website, lifeinthefingerlakes.com. Search on “Book Look.” Happy reading! (Continued on page 86)

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he lives and loves of residents of a small town are the focus of this warm and witty tale. Hanover Falls resembles the canalside community of Brockport, New York. The novel’s imaginative locations are a twist on actual businesses such as A Singing Bird Café, inspired by Brockport’s Red Bird Café. Hanover Falls’ Everyone is an Open Book Store, is reminiscent of Brockport’s Lift Bridge Book Store. The main character, Esther Sue, lives alone with her three felines. Her life before arriving in Hanover Falls holds secrets which explain her hostility toward others, especially Caroline Tucker whose Pug dog invades Esther Sue’s garden. Esther

Sue’s past is accidentally revealed after the “Major Mail Mix-up” leads to the incorrect delivery of all residents’ letters. How this public humiliation impacts Esther Sue’s relationship with the hardware store owner and his late brother’s orphaned children, is the crux of the tale. This is the first novel by SUNY Brockport alumna and retiree Virginia Campbell, now Emerita Associate Director of Marketing Communications. She is working on a sequel and previously wrote an unpublished series for her grandchildren about a magical community. Artist Fran Bliek, affiliated with the Arts Center of Yates County, painted a bouquet used for the book cover with flowers representing each orphaned child’s name.

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LOOKING AHEAD These new books will be included in a future Book Look. The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman’s Life in Freedom Douglas V. Armstrong Syracuse University Press press.syr.edu 2022

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The Best of the Finger Lakes!

ACCOMMODATIONS

DINING

Apple Country Retreat............................. http://www.applecountryretreat.com .....................95

Lynnie Lou’s.............................................. http://www.lynnielous.com.........................................90

Belhurst...................................................... http://www.belhurst.com ..........................................45

Nolan’s on Canandaigua Lake.............. http://www.nolansonthelake.com............................. 91

Best Western Vineyard Inn..................... http://www.vineyardinnandsuites.com ..................95

NY Kitchen................................................. http://www.nykitchen.com..........................................33

Colonial Motel......................................................................................................................................95

Pat’s Pizzeria.............................................. http://www.patspizzas.com........................................... 9

Finger Lakes Premier Properties........... http://www.flpplake.com ..........................................79 Honeoye Hidden Gem............................ https://www.airbnb.com ..........................................30

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

Inns of Aurora........................................... http://www.innsofaurora.com ..................................22

Barry Hamel Architect PLLC................... https://hamel-architects-pllc.business.site...............79

Miami Motel.............................................. http://www.motelmiami.com ...................................78

Howard Hanna - Brighton Office.......... https://www.soldbyrichtesta.com..................... Cover 2

CAMPING

MJ Peterson............................................... http://www.mjprental.com..........................................29

Cherry Grove Campground................... http://www.cherrygrovecampground.com..............77

SENIOR LIVING

Hartleys Auto & RV................................... http://www.cortlandrv.com.........................................77

Kendal at Ithaca........................................ http://www.kai.kendal.org................................. Cover 3

Hejamada Campground & RV Park...... http://www.hejamadacampground.com..................77

St. Ann’s Community............................... http://www.stannscommunity.com...........................23

Holiday Hill Campground...................... http://www.holidayhillcampground.com.................77

The Highlands at Pittsford...................... http://www.highlandsatpittsford.org........................... 5

Junius Ponds Campground, Inc http://www.juniuspondscabinsandcampground.com..........................................................77

CULTURE & ATTRACTIONS Antique Wireless Museum..................... http://www.antiquewireless.org.................................89

SHOPPING & SERVICES Ahwaga Paints & Coverings................... http://www.ahwagapaintandfloorcovering.com.....84 Antique Revival......................................... http://www.antiquerevival.com..................................82 Artizanns.................................................... http://new.artizanns.com.............................................90

Bristol Valley Theater............................... http://www.bvtnaples.org............................................50

Body Kneads Wellness Spa.................... http://www.yourbodykneads.massagetherapy.com... 81

CNY Living History Center...................... http://www.cnylivinghistory.org..................................87

CabAve Kitchens....................................... http://www.cavesmillwork.com..................................86

Corning Museum of Glass..................... http://www.cmog.org....................................................55

Canandaigua BID..................................... http://www.downtowncanandaigua.com.................84

Cortland County Historical Society....... http://www.cortlandhistory.com................................89

Cayuga Landscape Company................ http://www.cayugalandscape.com.............................73

Deer Haven Park...................................... http://www.deerhavenpark.org..................................89

Charley Brother LLC................................. http://www.charleybrother.com.................................45

Eastman Community Music School..... http://www.esm.rochester.edu...................................54

Cricket on the Hearth.............................. http://www.cricketonthehearth.com.........................75

Endless Mountain Music Festival.......... http://www.endlessmountain.net..............................46

Crown Jewelry.......................................... http://www.mycrowndowntown.com.......................82

Finger Lakes Boating Museum.............. http://www.flbm.org.....................................................88

Downtown Ithaca Alliance..................... http://www.downtownithaca.com.............................43

Finger Lakes Food Tours......................... http://www.flfoodtours.com........................................88

Dudley Poultry.......................................... https://www.dudleypoultry.com/...............................86

Finger Lakes Museum............................. http://www.fingerlakesmuseum.org.......................... 74

Early Owego Antique Center................. http://www.pickowego.com........................................86

Genesee Valley Quilt Club..................... http://www.geneseevalleyquiltfest.com...................87

F. Oliver’s Oils and Vinegars.................. http://www.folivers.com............................................... 91

Geneva Music Festival............................. https://genevamusicfestival.com/..............................39

Finger Lakes Coffee Roasters................. http://www.fingerlakescoffee.com.............................83

Granger Homestead & Museum.......... http://www.grangerhomestead.org....................78, 89

Finger Lakes Diver.................................... http://www.fingerlakesdiver.com...............................84

Historic Palmyra........................................ http://www.historicpalmyrany.com...........................87

Finger Lakes Tram.................................... http://www.ankomdevelopment.com.......................63

Lazy Acre Alpacas/Alpaca Country Clothing & Gifts

FingerLakes Bell Co................................. http://www.flxbells.com...............................................55

http://www.lazyacrealpacas.com...............................................................................................89 LeRoy Historical Society.......................... http://www.jellomuseum.com....................................88

Fireplace Fashions.................................... http://www.fireplacefashions.com.............................50 Fitch Construction / Rochester Skylights

Lukacs Studios Pottery............................ http://www.lukacspottery.com....................................89

http://www.fitchconstruction.com.............................................................................................76

Main Street Arts........................................ https://mainstreetartscs.org/.......................................65

FLX Goods................................................. http://www.flxgoods.com............................................83

North Star Art Gallery.............................. http://www.northstarartgallery.com..........................35

Foodlinkny.org.......................................... http://www.foodlinkny.org........................................... 31

Phelps Historical Society......................... http://www.phelpsny.com............................................. 8

German Brothers Marina Inc................. http://www.germanbrothers.com..............................43

Rochester City Ballet................................ http://www.rochestercityballet.org.............................33

Gold Silver and Diamond Store............ http://www.goldsilverdiamondstore.com................38

Rochester Folk Art Guild......................... http://www.rfag.org.......................................................89

Horning Woodworking

The P. Tribastone Fine Art Gallery........ http://www.patriciatribastoneart.com........................... 91

https://justplainbusiness.com/horning-woodworking..........................................................84

Ward O’Hara Agricultural Museum...... http://www.wardwoharaagriculturalmuseum.org.......75

Johnson Furniture Restoration.............. http://www.jfrestoration.com......................................83

West End Gallery...................................... http://www.westendgallery.net..................................... 8

Joseph’s Wayside Market....................... http://www.josephswaysidemarket.com..................90 Kane’s Boat Shop..................................... https://www.kanekayak.com/..................................... 15 Lakeside Building Products.................... http://www.lakesideroofingandsiding.com..............64 Mahonski Rick D. Goldsmith................. http://www.rickmahonski.com....................................17

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Manchester Mission Furniture............... http://www.manchestermissionfurniture.com........86

Trailbuddi Smart Trail Network.............. https://m.trailbuddi.com..............................................38

Mark’s Leisure Time Marine.................. http://www.marksleisuretimemarine.com............... 11

Unique Toy Shop...................................... http://www.uniquetoyshop.com................................ 91

Mayflowers Garden................................. http://www.mayflowersnurserygarden.com............83

Weaver View Farms................................. http://www.weaverviewfarms.com/.......................... 81

Mid-Atlantic Stocking............................... http://www.midatlanticstocking.com.........................73

Wegmans................................................... http://www.wegmans.com.......................................... 18

Mr. Twistee’s.............................................. http://www.mrtwistees.com........................................83 Naglee Fine Arts....................................... http://www.nagleegroup.com.....................................84

TOURISM

New Energy Works TimberFramers..... http://www.newenergyworks.com.................. Cover 4

Cayuga County Tourism......................... http://www.tourcayuga.com....................................... 10

Pettis Pools & Patio.................................. http://www.pettispools.com........................................36

Clifton Springs Chamber of Commerce

Rasa Spa..................................................... http://www.rasaspa.com..............................................35 Recollections Antiques.......................................................................................................................84 RJ Cars Inc................................................. http://www.rjcars.com..................................................84 Route 96 Power & Paddle...................... http://www.powerandpaddle.com.............................17

http://www.cliftonspringschamber.com...................................................................................63 Corning & The Southern Finger Lakes http://www.corningfingerlakes.com......................................................................................6, 19

Roy’s Marina Inc....................................... http://www.roysmarina.net.........................................86

WINE, SPIRITS & BREWS

Seager Marine........................................... http://www.seagermarine.com................................... 47

Billsboro Winery....................................... http://www.billsborowinery.com................................92

Signlanguage Inc...................................... http://www.signlanguageinc.com.............................. 15

Cayuga Lake Wine Trail........................... http://www.cayugawinetrail.com...............................66

Silver Lake Marine, Inc............................ http://www.silverlakemarine.com..............................28

Dr. Konstantin Frank Wines................... http://www.drfrankwines.com....................................93

Smith Boys of Rochester, Inc................. http://www.smithboys.com.........................................52

Fulkerson Winery..................................... http://www.fulkersonwinery.com................................. 3

Sutter’s Marina.......................................... http://suttersmarina.com.............................................82

Heron Hill Winery.................................... http://www.heronhill.com...........................................93

Sweet Expressions.................................... http://www.sweetexpressionsonline.com................83

Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars......... https://lamoreauxwine.com/......................................93

The Inde Design Studio.......................... http://theindestudio.com............................................... 7

Long Point Winery................................... http://www.longpointwinery.com..............................92

The Red Bird Cafe & Gift Shop............. http://www.redbirdcafeandgiftshop.com.................82

Sheldrake Point Winery.......................... https://sheldrakepoint.com/.......................................53

The Windmill Farm & Craft Market...... http://www.thewindmill.com......................................53

Ventosa Vineyards.................................... http://www.ventosavineyards.com............................92

Timber Frames Inc................................... http://www.timberframesinc.com..............................54

Wagner Vineyards.................................... http://www.wagnervineyards.com............................. 47

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finger lakes regional map

Areas of Interest in the MayJune 2022 issue 1 Branchport (p.72, 75) 2 Canadice Lake (p.24) 3 Conesus Lake (p.24)

4 Corning (p.56) 5 Elmira (p.56) 6 Gang Mills (p.56)

7 Geneva (p.37, 80) 8 Hemlock Lake (p.24) 9 Ithaca (p.14)

10 Painted Post (p.56) 11 Riverside (p.56) 12 Trumansburg (p.48)

13 Webster (p.21)

From Oswego

Lake Ontario

Hilton

104

Webster Brockport Spencerport

104

Sodus

Baldwinsville

E. Rochester Macedon

490

Honeoye Falls

390

Avon

Lima

Manchester Shortsville Canandaigua

20A

Mt. Morris

3 1

LIVINGSTON

Clifton Springs Phelps

ONTARIO

Geneva

Waterloo

Seneca Falls

Cayuga

SENECA

Manlius

Skaneateles

Auburn

Union Springs

ONONDAGA

8 Moravia

2 4 Penn Yan

YATES

390

Lamoka Lake

Hammondsport

Bath

Hornell

SCHUYLER

Dryden

Cayuga Heights

Marathon

Ithaca

Burdett

Watkins Glen

86 17

Canisteo

McGraw 81

Lansing

Waneta Lake

CORTLAND

Trumansburg

Dundee

Avoca

Cortland Groton

1 Prattsburgh

Homer

Interlaken

Branchport

Wayland

CAYUGA

Ovid

Cohocton

From Binghamton

Montour Cayuta Lake Falls TOMPKINS Odessa

STEUBEN

Painted Post

Addison

Elmira C H E M U N G Heights

Elmira

TIOGA

Waverly

The Finger Lakes Region of New York State

Owego

Finger Lakes 1 Conesus 2 Hemlock 3 Canadice

Newark Valley

Van Etten

Horseheads

10 Corning 6 11 4

Rexville

Candor

Spencer 86

Fayetteville

Aurora

Naples

From Jamestown

690

Syracuse 481

20A

Dansville

Solvay

Weedsport

Honeoye

390

Nunda

Geneseo

Jordan

Newark

From Utica

481

Marcellus

Victor

Bloomfield

Livonia Hemlock

Clyde

Lyons

Palmyra

North 11 Syracuse

WAYNE

Fairport

490

Oneida Lake

Rochester

490

Caledonia

From Watertown

Wolcott

104

From Buffalo

Sodus Bay

Sodus Point

MONROE

4 5 6 7

Honeoye Canandaigua Keuka Seneca

From Binghamton

8 9 10 11

Cayuga Owasco Skaneateles Otisco

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