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Volume 3, Number 1 • Spring 2003

F E A T U R E S

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FROM SAP TO SUGAR Area residents have a taste for tradition

By Kristin Curtis

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MEMORIAL DAY Waterloo is the birthplace of one of America’s most patriotic holidays

By Laurel C. Wemett

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GETTING ALONG WITH BEARS Black bears are expanding their territories into the woodlands of the southern Finger Lakes region

By John Adamski

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TOMPKINS COUNTY SPRING The photography of Richard Welch and Harriet Sutherland

D E P A R T M E N T S

Kershaw Park misty morning.

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MY OWN WORDS The Arrival of Spring

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NEWSBITS

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NAUTICAL How to Get Afloat Without Your Own Boat

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GARDENING The Four Seasons Garden

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FRUIT OF THE VINE Finger Lakes Rieslings, Take a Bow!

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DAY TRIP Rochester’s Lilac Festival, May 9-18

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

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LETTERS

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CALENDAR

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OFF THE EASEL John Lord, Designer

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SPECIAL: SPRING MARKETPLACE

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FINGER LAKES MAP

Photograph by Dorothy Kennedy

Cover Photograph: Sap collection from sugar maple trees is a common sight during late winter and early spring.

Photograph by Bill Banaszewski

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t seems that writing this editorial lately has given me a good excuse to use a bird to help get the point of my story across to the reader. Since I am also an artist using the mediums of watercolors and oil paint, I enjoy producing paintings that reflect my rural surroundings. My wife teases me that I have to include some kind of wildlife in almost every painting that I create, so why should my editorials be any different? Please bear with me as you read my thoughts about spring.

The best indicator that spring is coming has always been the arrival of the first robin to our yard. Robins, daffodils and warm sunshine on my shoulders are childhood memories that will stick with me for life. The spring song of the robin is a sweet sound that lets you know warmer days are just around the corner, even if there is still snow on the ground. And I wouldn’t be surprised if there is snow well into the new season, since our winter has been so harsh this year.

Winter hasn’t been a really popular time for some people, and I’m sure that a few would even like to hibernate during those cold winter months.

One local resident that does take advantage of hibernation is the black bear, and yes, there are black bears in the Finger Lakes area, although they are not very numerous. Most black

bears reside in the southern part of the area, but some venture farther north.

In this issue, you can read about a family of bears that was found in southern Livingston County.

In this spring issue we are covering a wide variety of stories, ranging from maple syrup production to the origins of Memorial Day in Waterloo. Tompkins County’s beauty is showcased in our pictorial, and there is a special gardening section to show us which plants will thrive throughout the four distinct seasons that we experience in the Finger Lakes region.

There are many trips that a family can take during the spring. Touring the waterways by boat and visiting the Rochester Lilac Festival are two examples that we discuss. Riesling wines are judged in our wine article to help you decide which ones are right for you.

Our marketplace section has been organized to help you find your areas of interest quickly. We have even included a map to help you find what you’re looking for.

So read through this issue to plan your recreation and day trips, learn a bit of our Finger Lakes history, and get a head start on your garden...don’t despair, spring is just around the corner.

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N E W S B I T S

Lamoreaux Landing Wines Take Top Honors Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars’ 2001 Semi-Dry Riesling outscored world-class wine competition this year, earning a double gold medal in the San Francisco International Wine Competition and a gold medal in the New York Wine & Food Classic. The 2001 Dry Riesling won a gold medal at the Intervin International Competition.

Lamoreaux Landing’s 2000 Chardonnay also received top honors, winning the gold medal at both the 2002 New York State Fair Commercial Wine Competition in Syracuse and the 2002 Great Lakes Wine Judging in Farmington Hills, Michigan. These awards add to a string of top medals awarded to Lamoreaux Landing’s wines since the winery opened in 1992. The winery, located on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake, is open seven days a week all year for tastings, tours and sales.

Visit www.lamoreauxwine.com for more information.

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Open Artist Forum The Cultural Resources Council and the Everson Museum of Art will hold the third Open Artist Forum of the 2002-2003 season on Friday, March 28, 2003 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse.

The Open Artist Forum brings artists of different disciplines and backgrounds together to share their talents at an open-mic structured event.

Forums are traditionally held the last Friday of every other month at 7:00 p.m. If you are interested in participating in any of the upcoming Open Artist Forums, please contact Kendra Lawton of the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2161. The Open Artist Forum is free and open to the public.

Photography Credit Kristian S. Reynolds should be credited for the photograph that appeared on page five of our Winter 2002/2003 issue.

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How to Get Afloat Without Your Own Boat

By Susan Peterson Gateley

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erhaps no state has a greater variety of waters to explore with a boat than ours. The Finger Lakes region, bordered by a Great Lake, crossed by the longest fully functional canal in America, and home to rivers, creeks, ponds, marshes and the Finger Lakes, has cruising for everything from ocean-going freighters to car-topper

sorts of reasons. One very big draw in our area is fishing. The waters that make this an inland mariner’s delight, also offer anglers hungry largemouth bass, tasty walleye, voracious pike, and 40-pound salmon. As a result of all this edible biomass, almost every Finger Lake has at least one fishing charter business on it, while Lake Ontario has a

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Mid-Lakes Navigation. canoes. But what if, amidst all this water wealth, you are beached without a boat? Luckily, landlubbers have ample opportunity here to get afloat if they don’t own a vessel of any sort.

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whole fleet of charter boats.

Captain Clyde Keck, who sails the big lake in search of salmon trout and bass, is typical, if more experienced, than most anglers turned pro, so he can spend more time on the water. Keck sails his Fantasy, a 30-foot Sportcraft, out of Fair Haven Bay. He began fishing for salmon just as soon as New York and Ontario Province began stocking them in the 1970s. “I started out with a little 12-foot boat on the bay. Back then a 4-pound bass was a big fish.” Keck began offering charters around l983, making him one of the most experienced captains on the lake. He has spent thousands of dollars to equip Fantasy with the latest and best fish finding and catching gear, and he says

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of his full-time seasonal business, “I work harder now than I ever did as a firefighter.”

Seeking Lake Ontario salmon is a specialized business, so even long-time anglers, who usually fish inland waters, often opt for a charter with a guide like Keck, who also takes out families for summer bass fishing. The bass trips are shorter and closer to the scenic shoreline of the lake, and the fishing has been unbelievable lately. “You can oftentimes catch your limit — easily 50 fish in a day.” These trips with lots of action are well-suited to taking the kids along. Keck offers fishing trips from late April through early September. And he says July and August are good times for a charter as the weather is usually calm and settled then.

If you like seafood but don’t care to catch it yourself, another option for enjoying fish afloat is to take a dinner boat cruise. A number of larger vessels cruise our lakes, bays, rivers, and canals, and also serve meals and drinks while underway. One of these is Al Gilbert’s Harbor Town Belle that sails out of Rochester. She’s an authentic paddle wheel-powered riverboat (although her wheel is powered by hydraulics designed

by Gilbert himself rather than steam).

She sails both Lake Ontario and the Genesee River and offers several special excursions, like the popular Mark Twain cruise with a professional actor who reads some of the author’s lively prose about river boating.

Another dinner afloat option is that of recently relaunched Rose Lummis, sailing on Sodus Bay. The 60-foot Lummis, formerly the Miss Green River of Indiana, operated on Sodus Bay in the 1980s before being laid up for a few years. She was reactivated in 2002 by her new owners, who did a total renovation of the vessel and her facilities.

Then there is the Fairport Lady operating on the Erie Canal, the venerable but still spry MV Manhattan sailing out of Ithaca, several other vessels on the Finger Lakes, and a number of brunch, lunch and dinner cruises from MidLakes Navigation on Skaneateles Lake and the Erie Canal.

Mid-Lakes Navigation, one of the

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pioneers of canal chartering in the region, also operates a fleet of steelhulled charter boats that you can take for week long cruises of the canal.

Designed and built specifically for Erie service, the Lockmaster canal boat is simple to operate and comfortable to cruise. Mid-Lakes charters the boats out of two locations, Cold Springs Harbor, near Syracuse, and Macedon Landing, near the Wayne-Monroe County line. You can choose among various sizes of charter boats, ranging from 33 to 44 feet. They easily accommodate four to six people and are completely equipped for comfort with heaters, showers, a full galley and even a bicycle for exploring towpaths and canal towns. I sailed briefly on the 33foot Hemlock and found her immaculate, user friendly and extremely wellthought-out for cruising.

The Erie Canal is a waterway filled with the unexpected for the first-time canal voyager. Most people are surprised at its tranquility and seclusion. Its narrow waters take you through countryside remote from houses and roads, past farm fields, old stone structures from the previous canal, and wooded banks. I’ve seen deer, beaver, wild turkey and mink while canal cruising. Towns like Fairport and Seneca Falls also draw cruisers with their shops, restaurants and other amenities.

The Lockmaster boats, equipped with bow thrusters and one-lever operation for the engine, are dead easy to manage. After a one-hour orientation, the canal cruiser is on his or her own, gliding off at a leisurely 6 miles an hour into a world that feels very distant from everyday 21st-century living. Spend a few hours sitting on the padded benches of the foredeck and listening to the swish of the bow wave as the scenery slides effortlessly by, and you won’t want to come back to reality.

You can also charter a luxury houseboat for canal cruising, complete with hot tub, from Starlite houseboat rentals in Seneca Falls. These are 67footers that can accommodate up to 10 people and are perhaps best suited to skippers with at least a little bit of boating experience.

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If quiet floating with fewer people appeals, the Finger Lakes is home to several businesses that can provide that type of excursion. At least a halfdozen outfitters will rent you a canoe or kayak and a couple of them also offer guided tours of area marshes and streams. Harry Weideman of Macedon offers instruction for sea kayaking and also does tours of the historic Erie Canal that include a two-day B&B package. Kayak Quests, also located on the canal at the Mid-Lakes Macedon landing facility, offers rentals and guided tours as well. At least two companies in Ithaca also offer canoe and kayak rentals. I have listed additional sources of paddle-boat rentals at the end of the article.

For well over a century people have enjoyed sailing our lakes. You can sample the timeless appeal of catching the wind aboard a half-dozen different sailing charter yachts in the region. One of the largest and newest of these is the Malabar X, a 75-foot gaff, rigged wooden schooner. She is of traditional plank-on-frame construction, built in Ithaca, and she is meticulously crafted and flawlessly finished. The Malabar sails out of Watkins Glen on Seneca Lake and accommodates up to 28 passengers. She is operated by the Hazlitt 1852 Winery, in Hector, the creator of Schooner Red, Schooner White, and a number of other wines.

Several smaller sailing yachts also offer charters on the Finger Lakes and Lake Ontario. Most of these boats will sail with just one or two passengers and limit their charter parties to no more than six at a time. Cayuga Lake is home to Wind Catcher and Alcyone Charters, sailing out of Ithaca, and Catch The Joy sails on Canandaigua Lake. My own Titania, a 32-foot sloop based on Fair Haven Bay, can get you out on the big lake for an afternoon sail or a sunset. To explain the timeless appeal of sailing for many on a gentle summer day I’ll repeat the most often heard remark by guests aboard my boat last season, “It’s so relaxing!”

It does seem like a lot of charter boat operations include some aspect of

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eating. You can go boating without consuming calories and may even burn up a few with the paddling boats. But one cruise option that passes through our area several times a year is definitely not for the weight watcher.

That’s the American Canadian Caribbean Lines trip, that takes in the canal and Lake Ontario aboard a 100passenger cruise ship. She departs her Rhode Island base, steams up the Hudson and through the canal to Oswego, and then sails Lake Ontario west to Chicago or down the St. Lawrence to Quebec and the spectacular Gaspe area. This is the ultimate freshwater cruise experience for food and scenery, judging from the menu I saw posted and according to the information I got from several very enthusiastic passengers I spoke to during the ship’s call at Oswego two summers ago.

So there’s a brief rundown of ways to get afloat without your own boat in upstate New York, on everything from a paddle boat to a 180 footer. Perhaps I’ll see you on the water next summer, and bon voyage!

Most of the specific businesses mentioned in the story have websites, if you plug them into the search engine. Visit www.accl-smallships.com for cruises and costs on American Canadian Caribbean Lines and their canal cruising liners the Grande Caribe and Niagara Prince.

Try www.fingerlakes.org or www.fingerlakes.net for Finger Lakes tourism. Individual counties also maintain websites with attractions and boat trips. For fishing charters around the region try newyork.fishingcharter.net.

For kayak and canoe rentals try the Adirondack Mountain Club listing at www.amc-ny.org/rec_actv/canoe/ liverys.html#ny.

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The Four Seasons Garden The Finger Lakes Gardener’s Challenge

By K.C. Fahy-Harvick

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f you’ve gardened in the Finger Lakes area for more than one season, I’m sure you’ve already experienced a multitude of challenges. Heavy clay soil mixed well with lots of rocks (after all, if it weren’t for all the rocks, we wouldn’t have the great foliage colors in the fall). Cold rainy springs, followed by hot, humid summers, powdery mildew, black spot and insects galore, are just a few of the cruelties that Mother Nature hands the upstate gardener. Most of us face the challenges and overcome them, but then we experience a little success and start going hog wild in our gardens. First come the books, usually packed with gorgeous pictures of usually English gardens (estates, more likely). Then comes the Internet with endless information that at least 80 percent of the time does not apply to our climate in the Finger Lakes. Now we’re building the stress levels to the point where gardening becomes a chore, and we are never satisfied with the way our gardens look.

Many years ago I attended a gardening symposium given by an expert gardener from England. After her presen-

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tation she explained three things to me that changed my gardening philosophies forever. First, England has very few insects. Second, England is Zone 8 or 9 on the growing zone map. In case you don’t know, the growing zones are set up by using the coldest and hottest recorded temperatures for the area.

Most of the Finger Lakes area is in Zone 5, a little milder up near Lake Ontario where it’s Zone 6. England is the same temperate zone as our southern states, except that it doesn’t have the extreme heat and humidity that our South has, plus it has a lot of nice gentle rains. The last thing she told me was that England has something in flower all but about five weeks during the entire year! I’ll let you think about that one for a second. We have almost five months when there’s nothing in flower (what am I saying?), there’s nothing doing anything! At that moment the thought occurred to me that we are doomed to failure if we are to emulate the British gardens. We buy their beautiful books, watch their TV programs, and yet there’s no way they would deal with the conditions we

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have to contend with every day.

It was at that moment that I decided we need to give ourselves a lot of credit. We have an enormous challenge here in upstate New York. As gardeners we need to realize that we are doing a pretty amazing job. I also decided that I would try to help my fellow upstaters make the most of their garden season as it is, and show them some tricks to extend the season. We can do some special things to make the garden look good (or at least interesting) even in winter.

Here are some of my best tips for each season. Starting with early spring, plant spring-blooming perennials such as Arabis (Rock Cress), Aurinia (Basket-of-Gold), Epimedium (Bishop’s Cap), Pulsatilla (Pasque Flower), Bergenia (Saxifrage), Woodland Phlox, Erica (Heath), Pulmonaria (Lungwort), Brunnera (Forget-Me-Not), Primula (Primrose), Doronicum (Leopard’s Bane). The list goes on, but you can see how this will get a head start on the season. These plants start in April, some earlier, and give you many weeks of flowers long before you can safely plant your annuals. Interplanting spring bulbs is another way to have great flowers starting as early as March. I especially like to plant between my shade plants because all the foliage from plants like Hosta and Astilbe do a great job of covering the spent foliage of Tulips and Daffodils. Deciduous shade gardens get plenty of sun in the spring before the leaves come on the trees to grow your tulips and daffies. In Fall, plant the bulbs in big clumps of 10-12

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Variation in colors and textures help gardens to look fresh. bulbs per hole right close to the perennials, you won’t hurt either plant, and you won’t have to worry about what to do with the old foliage while the bulbs die back.

The summer season can be extended by using several tricks. First, plant perennials that are long blooming. This list is short because most perennials

bloom three to four weeks at most.

Some of my favorite long bloomers (six weeks or more) are Garden Phlox (June-August), Echinacea or Purple Coneflower (July-August), Coreopsis “Moonbeam” (June-September), Knautia (June-frost), Astrantia major (June-frost), Dicentra “Luxuriant” or Bleeding Heart (May-September), Scabiosa or Pincushion Flower, Monarda or Beebalm (July-September), and Hemerocallis “Stella D’Oro” or Daylily (June-September).

Second, extend the summer season into fall by planting late-blooming perennials. Here’s a list of some of the best: Chrysanthemums, not just the fall mums, but also the single daisy forms like Mary Stoker, and Hillside Sheffield Pink, Anemones (Wind Flower), Cimicifuga (Fairy Candles), Tricyrtis (Toad Lily), Physostegia (Obedient Plant), Sedum “Autumn Joy,” ornamental grasses especially Miscanthus, Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan), Calluna (Heather), Asters, Boltonia and Hardy

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Begonia all give you fall flowers.

Thirdly, there are many perennials that give you foliage color or seed pods that add interest to the late season garden. Some of these are: Amsonia, Belamcanda, Bergenia, Ceratostigma, Euphorbia, Cimicifuga, Gillenia, Lysimachia, Platycodon, Autumn Fern and Christmas Fern.

The fourth trick to extend flowers in the garden is “deadheading.” This is the technique used to cut the spent blossoms from the plant in order to force it to keep blooming. Once a plant has set seeds it thinks that its job for the season is done, so in many cases if you prevent the plant from setting seeds, it will keep blooming. This technique also prevents the rogue plants from seeding themselves in places where you don’t want them. In some plants you cut individual blossoms, in others you cut the entire flower stem.

For instance, Delphiniums get cut down to the ground after their first flower stem is done(around June), then they re-bloom in September. Campanula (Bellflower) benefits from deadheading individual blossoms very carefully, because the next blossom is often close behind the last. Aquilegia (Columbine) will often bloom right into July if carefully deadheaded.

Now for the real challenge in the Finger Lakes region — the winter garden. In general, I teach my students to cut down their perennial plants in fall to prevent diseases and insect problems from carrying over, but I also leave some of my plants for the seed heads and interesting structure in the winter.

The birds benefit from the seeds, and sometimes brown is better then no color at all. I’ve also used some great deciduous summer-flowering shrubs in borders or foundation plantings, and they give the landscape some winter interest as their woody stems stand strong in the snow. These shrubs have dwarf varieties which work easily into most gardens, but if you have the space, the big ones are also terrific; things like, Weigela, Buddleia, Clethra, Fothergilla, Itea (Sweetspire), Diervilla, Hydrangea, and Tree Peony. There are

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several evergreen shrubs, and dwarf conifers that are my favorites for winter features. Dwarf conifers are misunderstood and under-used in our area, but I blame that on the garden centers.

Having someone on staff who can explain to gardeners how to use them is all that is needed. They are a great way to add texture and structure to a perennial border, rock garden, or foundation planting (as shown). There are many varieties of the False Cypress, or Chamaecyparis, Hanoki, pisifera “Cream Ball,” nana “Lutea,” that are slow growing, low maintenance, and have interesting foliage shape and texture features. The dwarf Rhododendron yakushimana “Ken Janeck,” or “Princess,” are short enough to go in front of other shrubs or in the border for great spring color and dark green winter foliage. Never forget that texture counts for a lot in winter, using ornamental grasses, rocks, statuary, metal sculpture, and bark. Trees and shrubs with interesting barks can add a great deal of interest and color. The river birch tree, the Larch, paper bark Maple, red-twig Dogwood, and my new favorite, Heptocodium (Seven Sons), are all spectacular.

Now, start to think outside the yew and the arborvitae, buy some perennials for their shape and texture instead of their flowers, combine your trees and shrubs for all four seasons, and you’ll be meeting the challenge. I defy any English gardener to come to the Finger Lakes and do what we do. The next time you take out one of those beautiful garden books, remember those people probably didn’t have the kinds of challenges we have, and their gardens only looked like that for the second the picture was taken!

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Area residents have a taste for tradition

By Kristin Curtis or many years, Chuck Winship worked in an office and dreamed of working in the woods. Outdoors in the woods is where he wants to be, and maple syrup production is a big part of how he is making his dreams come true.

A native of Fairport, Winship was a professional manager for 35 years. He retired from Xerox and now owns and operates Sugar Bush Hollow Farm in Springwater, located at the south end of Honeoye Lake in Livingston County.

Winship fully appreciates the modern relevance of a community sap house.

Gathering together to do nothing more than watch the sap boil into maple syrup has a calming and healing effect.

Paul Curtis of the Loomis Barn & Country Shops shows us the older system for collecting sap.

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Maple Baked Apples Your microwave makes this old-fashioned recipe into a fat-free dessert that’s easy to prepare.

4 New York State baking apples, cored 4 tablespoons maple syrup (or more) Peel 1-inch around tops of apples. Place apples in microwave-safe casserole dish. Fill apple with 1 tablespoon (or more) maple syrup. Cover and microwave on high for 10 minutes or until fork tender.

Maple Nut Cake This delicious cake is a favorite at the Corn House Café. It may be baked as a layer cake as shown or in a 9˝x13˝ pan.

1/2 cup milk 2-1/4 cups cake flour 1 cup maple syrup 1/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 cup chopped nuts 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup shortening Sift dry ingredients into mixing bowl. Add shortening, milk and 1/4 cup maple syrup.

Beat mixture for 2 minutes on medium speed. Add remaining syrup and eggs.

Continue to beat another 2 minutes. Stir in chopped nuts. Pour into greased, wax paper-lined 9˝ layer pans and bake at 350° for 25 to 30 minutes. (Bake for 35 to 40 minutes for 9˝x13˝ cake.) Cool and frost with maple frosting.

Maple Butter Walnut Frosting Enough to frost two 9˝ layers. Cut in half for 9˝x13˝ cake.

1/2 cup butter at room temperature 4 cups sifted confectioner’s sugar 2/3 cup maple syrup 1 cup chopped walnuts Beat together butter and sugar. Add maple syrup and beat until creamy. Frost tops and side of cake and sprinkle with walnuts.

NOTE: Any grade maple syrup can be used in these recipes, however, dark amber and Grade B will result in a richer maple flavor.

You can sample these delicious recipes while visiting the Corn House Cafe, located at the Loomis Barn & Country Shops. Call 800-716-2276 for more information.

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“When people come into the sugar house, you can see their pace slow down immediately. The boiling sap engages all the senses and that is a very pleasant experience. It is just a totally relaxed pace and your cares go right out the window,” Winship said. “I encourage people to stop by and visit any time. It’s a great place to be.”

The sugar house on the premises of the Loomis Barn and Country Shops in Rushville, is a favorite gathering place for maple sugar enthusiasts in Yates County. During the spring boiling season, Paul Curtis and a small group of friends can often be found hanging out talking in the warm sugar house while they watch the sap boil into syrup. Curtis has been maple sugaring for most of his life.

“It’s still fascinating to me. Sap is almost like water, and then as you boil it, it becomes this delicious food,” Curtis said.

Throughout the Finger Lakes, people are fascinated by this maple sugar process, which takes sap from the native maple tree and turns it into an allnatural food that is delicious in a variety of forms.

According to data from the New York Agricultural Statistics Service, there are over 225 maple producers in the 14 counties of the Finger Lakes and that number continues to grow steadily.

The greatest number of producers is in Steuben County, but maple sugar production facilities can be found throughout the entire Finger Lakes area.

These operations are of every size and every variety, but they all have one feature in common. The people who run them absolutely love what they do.

Turning maple sap into maple syrup is a great deal of hard work. Generally, it takes about 40 gallons of sap to produce one gallon of maple syrup.

The maple season is very brief and it is fickle, as the sap run is greatly impacted by weather conditions. Taps to collect the sap are usually put into the trees in very late February. Sap runs best when the temperature is below freezing at night while the days are sunny and above freezing. Most production facilities are finished with the season around April 1 when the trees begin to bud, so in just a few weeks all the maple syrup for the entire year is harvested. Maple syrup is produced only in the northeastern United States and Canada.

A popular myth tells the story of an Indian chief who threw his tomahawk into a tree. Soon, his squaw noticed that a water-like substance was oozing out of the tree. Putting a bucket out to catch the “water,” they were delighted with the sweet results when they used the bucket of “water” to boil meat.

However it was discovered that sap from maple trees would boil into syrup, it is clear that the

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Native American people actively harvested sap and made it into maple syrup.

They taught the white settlers this art.

Judson Reid of Cornell Cooperative Extension in Yates County quotes Great Possessions, by David Kline, North Point Press, San Francisco, 1990.

“Maple syrup was likely one of the luxuries the white settlers took from the forests.

Learning how to make it from the eastern Indians, the pioneers soon made the sweetener a staple in their homes. The Indians taught them how to gather the sap in bark buckets using alder or elderberry branches for spouts. The collected sap was then put into wooden troughs and hot stones were dropped in until the water evaporated leaving syrup.”

Technology has changed greatly, but the end result is much the same and we still love this luxury from the forests.

From the taps in the trees, the sap is taken to an evaporator to be boiled down into syrup. It is here that the magic of the sugar house happens, where the watery, nearly tasteless sap becomes thick, delicious maple syrup.

Traditionally, buckets were hung on trees to collect the sap. Some producers still use the bucket method, but it is extremely labor intensive. A more popular modern system is a network of plastic tubes strung amongst the trees. This makes it far easier to

get the sap to the evaporator, where it is then boiled down and made into syrup.

Evaporator technology also continues to evolve, and some producers use a sophisticated method of reverse osmosis to remove much of the water from the sap even before it is boiled.

Malcolm MacKenzie of Italy Valley, a teacher at Marcus Whitman High School, teaches a maple sugaring unit to the 6th and 7th graders enrolled in his Eco education program based at Cumming Nature Center. “Maple sugar production is an excellent model of technical innovation. It provides an insight into how technology has changed in a relatively short period of time, and due to these changes, the quality and quantity of product is steadily improved.”

MacKenzie’s students host their families at an annual pancake supper in March; they also sell some of the 65 gallons they produce at a small roadside stand.

Dave Schiek is a teacher, too, and maple syrup is what he calls his “out-of-control hobby.” Schiek is a high school technology teacher at Penn Yan Academy by trade. Schiek and his family have been maple sugaring for 75 years and his facility produces about 675 gallons of maple syrup annually. He owns

Below: Paul Curtis loads wood into the furnace which boils the sap into syrup.

Courtesy Paul Curtis

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March 22 and 23, 2003 resh maple syrup drizzled over flapjacks hot off the grill.

Maple cream on toast, maple candy, maple mustard, maple barbecue sauce, maple walnut topping over ice cream.

These delicious products are available all year, but they will be highlighted during Maple Weekend 2003.

Maple Weekend is an opportunity to sample these products, to see exactly how they are produced, and to meet and talk face to face with the people who make them. Maple Weekend is a chance to be part of the springtime fun of Finger Lakes maple syrup.

New York State Maple Weekend 2003 will be Saturday, March 22, and Sunday, March 23. Free of charge, this is a familyoriented event that offers something for every generation. For some, the pancake breakfasts are the highlight. Others will enjoy walking outdoors to see the tapped maple trees, remembering when they were children and their families made maple syrup. Those interested in machinery can explore the huge variety of equipment and techniques used by maple producers.

Everyone enjoys touring the warm, steamy, fragrant sugar houses where the thin, watery sap taken from the maple trees is boiled down into thick, sweet maple syrup.

Lyle Merle used to be a farmer; now, for the fourth consecutive year, making maple syrup is his full-time job. He loves his job, delighting in his independence, in being outside and working in the woods. He produces and sells about 4,500 gallons of maple syrup a year, and his Wyoming County facility will be open for tours during Maple Weekend so people can come see how it is done.

“I suggest that visitors dress warmly and wear boots. They’ll get the most out of Maple Weekend if they plan to visit several different producers in their local area. It is very interesting to see the variety and dif-

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ferences between producers,” said Merle.

Merle and a small group of other maple producers conceived the idea for a New York Maple Weekend several years ago.

They thought it would be a great idea to help educate the public about the highquality maple syrup made and sold right here in the local area. Understanding the long process of maple production from tree to table makes the experience of eating

Paul Curtis boils sap while preparing for Maple Sunday. maple syrup much more meaningful to the consumer.

Over the past several years, the popularity of the concept has grown and evolved, and during Maple Weekend 2003, nearly 70 producers from all across beautiful rural western New York state will open their maple sugar production facilities to the public. Visitors can expect wagon rides to the woods, petting zoos with farm animals, crafts, and food samples, in addition to tours of the maple sugar houses.

Non-profit groups interested in fundraisers are part of the event. Organizations such as fire departments work together with maple producers to sponsor pancake breakfasts.

There is even a New York State Maple

Queen contest. Maple Weekend is truly a cooperative effort between producers throughout the area and has been recognized and supported by the federal Department of Agriculture and Markets as part of the Pride of New York program.

Maple syrup producers throughout all 14 counties of the Finger Lakes are participating in Maple Weekend. There are television, newspaper and radio promotions, but the easiest way to find out more about Maple Weekend is the official website, at MapleWeekend.com.

The website has additional information about maple syrup history and production, recipes, and a list of farms and production facilities that will be open March 22 and March 23. A link to a map tells visitors exactly how to find the maple syrup producers in their local area. This is great progress from the first Maple Weekend eight years ago, when Merle and a few other maple producers made copies of flyers themselves and pinned them up in local gas stations and grocery stores.

Even as it has grown so that more people in the Finger Lakes area can participate in and enjoy the spring maple syrup experience, the grassroots nature of Maple Weekend has endured. Merle is head of the Western New York Maple Producers group, but he emphasized that it is teamwork that has made Maple Weekend so successful.

These maple syrup producers are people who love their work and get joy from sharing its results with others. These are the people visitors will meet during Maple Weekend.

“It is nice to know who is making the food you are eating and to make that personal connection with them,” Merle said.

“The products are delicious, but meeting the individual who made them and understanding the whole process makes it much more meaningful.”

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some land, leases additional trees, and even buys some sap from other producers who harvest more than they can use.

Schiek sells his maple products throughout the year at several different farmers’ markets, including the Public Market in Rochester, the Regional Market in Syracuse, and the Farmer’s Market in Geneva.

“I enjoy talking with the people who are return customers. Some of them have fond memories of their own families making maple syrup and others are new to the product,” Schiek said. “The customers make it fun. I also really like the other people in this industry. We are very open about sharing our methods, and we all work together to help each other out. There is real teamwork and cooperation.”

For example, Schiek does not sell his products at the Windmill in Penn Yan because his colleague, Lane Clute, markets maple syrup and other maple food products there.

Clute lives outside of Naples, on property that has been in his family for generations. He and his wife travel to many local markets and festivals to sell maple syrup and other homemade products such as maple cream, maple barbecue sauce, maple mustard, and maple-covered peanuts.

He enjoys the opportunity to be very creative and entrepreneurial. “This business covers the whole range, from maintenance of the woods to the paperwork for taxes to navigating the regulations required to sell food products in New York State,” he said.

Clute produces about 1,000 gallons of maple syrup every year. With 2,500 taps and 300 acres of woods total, he is one of the largest producers of maple syrup in the Finger Lakes area. Clute is also a dealer of equipment used in maple syrup production.

While his customers run the entire gamut, many of them are small backyard producers who make just enough syrup for their own personal consumption.

He explained that in the local area, maple trees tend to cluster together in small pockets, making maple syrup production in the Finger Lakes more labor-intensive than areas such as western New York, where the maple trees grow together in huge stands.

Sugar Bush Hollow, Winship’s farm and sugar bush, is located in one of these Finger Lakes pockets of maples. His 220-acre farm is on the south end of a lake and has 110 acres of maple trees. The north and south ends of the Finger Lakes are where sugar maples dominate, as those areas have more rainfall.

Maple trees prefer a cool and moist atmosphere.

After his retirement from Xerox, Winship earned a degree in Natural Resources from Cornell

University. His master’s thesis was a business plan for a maple syrup production facility. After his graduation in 1999, Winship began searching for the perfect farm to buy. He wanted to locate it on the winery trails, which line the banks along the centers of the Finger Lakes, but he simply could not find a spot with enough maple trees to make the venture practical.

“The sides of the Finger Lakes are dryer and more moderate, which makes it ideal for growing grapes and making wine,” Winship said. “However, the dryer climate is not a good one for the effective growth of maple trees. Maple trees like the south and north ends of the lakes.”

Because of this local geological quirk, maple syrup producers are located in small pockets and scattered throughout the hills of the Finger Lakes.

You may have to search to find them, but the search

Above: Steam rises through the vent at the top of the Sugar House at Loomis Barn & Country Shops. is worth it. When you find them, you will also find some of the most beautiful rural locations in the Finger Lakes. And, you will have the opportunity to talk to people who love what they do. Seek them out, and be part of the fun of spring maple syrup season in the Finger Lakes.

Kristin Curtis is a freelance writer currently working full-time as a specialty sales rep for a pharmaceutical company. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband Tim Jones and their dog. They grew up in the Finger Lakes, and their parents still reside in the area.

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WAT E R L O O The Birthplace of Memorial Day

By Laurel C. Wemett

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Above: The laying of the wreath during the Memorial Day observance in Waterloo.

t was not until 1971 this year’s event from May that President 23 to 25 will be “Let Richard Nixon Freedom Ring.” Bells, cut declared Memorial from plywood, will be, indiDay a federal holiday vidually decorated by Photo by Darlene Duprey to be observed on the 4th organizations, businesses, Monday of May. After more than 100 and residents to be displayed throughyears of being observed on May 30, the out the village. Last year, the 55 woodholiday then began changing the date en cut-outs depicting heroes delighted from year to year. But in Waterloo, events organizers and residents alike May 30 remains the official date to with their creativity. Other activities honor the memory of veterans because will include train excursions, an antique this small Finger Lakes community has car show, a parade, a variety of music the distinction of being the official and performances, arts and crafts ven“Birthplace of Memorial Day.” dors, and Civil War re-enactments.

Waterloo offers Celebrate These events set the stage for the more Commemorate, community-wide activiformal Memorial Day observation carties for all ages which take place durried out by local veterans’ groups in the ing the long holiday weekend and lead village on the 30th. to the observance of one of America’s most patriotic holidays.

THE HISTORY OF MEMORIAL DAY Honoring the dead by decorating “LET FREEDOM RING” graves is not a new custom. There are Local businesswoman Jane Shaffer examples of this practice dating back has been the co-chair of Celebrate to the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Commemorate since its inception in Visiting cemeteries to pay tribute to 2000. Committee members aim to the dead has been carried out by differbring the heritage of their hometown ent cultures throughout history. to life while respecting the true meanThe origin of Memorial Day in the ing of Memorial Day. Shaffer’s coUnited States after the Civil War chair, Waterloo Village Trustee and (1861-65) has been attributed to difDeputy Mayor Dave Duprey, says ferent individuals and locations, from Celebrate Commemorate was conceived Virginia to Pennsylvania and from to mark the new millennium, and was Mississippi to Illinois. There are stories spurred by First Lady Hillary Clinton’s of communities where widows and arrival in the village aboard a large bus children carried flowers to the graves in 1998 with a banner reading, “White of those who died in the war. Some House Millennium Council.” Clinton early practices are linked to the estabwas in Waterloo to dedicate the lishment of the Grand Army of the M’Clintock House at 14 East Williams Republic or G.A.R, the Union veterStreet, where the Declaration of ans’ organization, in 1866. On May 5, Sentiments was drafted before the first 1868, three years after the end of the Woman’s Rights Convention was held war, the first G.A.R. commander-in in nearby Seneca Falls in 1848. chief, John A. Logan, issued General With the involvement of the Order Number 11 to set aside May Waterloo Business and Professional 30th as a day for remembering the sacAssociation, the one-year event has rifices of fallen comrades, thereby continued and shows no sign of abatbeginning the celebrations of ing. “There’s a lot of patriotism in Memorial Day: Waterloo,” says Duprey, who states they draw thousands of people. Last “The 30th day of May, 1868, is desyear he met a lady who arrived by train ignated for the purpose of strewing from Philadelphia. with flowers or otherwise decoratAccording to Shaffer, the theme for ing the graves of comrades who SPRING 2003 ~

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THE 148TH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS AND ONE OF THEIR DESCENDANTS One local Waterloo resident has a unique connection to the original 148th New York Volunteers, which was made up of recruits from the Finger Lakes region. Horace “Red” Rumsey’s father was a veteran of the Civil War. Horace Rumsey, Sr. (1844-1928) is mentioned several times in the history of the 148th New York Volunteers, They Marched on Richmond by George Shadman, Jr., and his photograph appears on the book’s cover. Rumsey, now 87, was only 12 when his father died and he is one of only thirty-six sons of Civil War Union veterans still living.

The books lists Rumsey, Sr. as a corporal in Company A in the rosters of September 1862 at Camp Swift in Geneva. Author Shadman writes that the 148th New York Volunteers were not at Gettysburg and some of the other major battles of the war. But in 18641865, “they paid their dues and suffered horrendous casualties.”

Rumsey’s father is listed as wounded in action in the Battle of Cold Harbor in June, 1864. Afterwards his son says he was in a field hospital for a time. The younger Rumsey does not recall his father talking much about the war to him and his older brother after he came home. Once, his father showed him a hole in the back of his thigh which he said was what “the sniper” did to him.

Rumsey compares his father to veterans of more recent wars who did not want to talk too much about their battlefield experiences. When he returned to Seneca Falls, Rumsey, Sr. worked for the family business, Rumsey Pump Company, for 60 years.

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died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land…

“It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades.”

The term Decoration Day was the holiday’s first official name, since the main idea was to decorate the graves of the dead soldiers. The name became Memorial Day in 1882 as members of the Grand Army of the Republic and many private citizens thought the latter name was more suitable.

In 1873, New York became the first state to proclaim Memorial Day as a public holiday. Others followed suit, however Southern states did not recognize May 30 as Decoration Day until after World War I. Also, by then the ceremonial duties had shifted from the G.A.R. to the newly formed American Legion.

WITH THE STROKE OF TWO PENS Waterloo was designated “The Birthplace of Memorial Day” on March 7, 1966 in Albany, New York, when Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed a proclamation to that effect.

Then on both May 17th and 19th U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed Congressional resolutions bestowing the same designation. On May 26, 1966 President Johnson also signed a presidential proclamation noting that Waterloo had first celebrated the day on May 5, 1866 with a communitywide event during which businesses closed and residents marched to the village cemeteries and decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags. This took place two years before general Logan issued his famous Order Number 11.

WATERLOO’S FIRST MEMORIAL DAY Why did the residents of Waterloo adopt this practice so early? According to The History and Origin of Memorial Day in Waterloo, New York (published by the Memorial Day Centennial Committee, 1966), in the summer of 1865 local Waterloo druggist, Henry Carter Welles, mentioned at a social gathering that while praising the living heroes of the war, it would be appropriate to remember the patriotic dead by placing flowers on their graves.

Welles was a prominent local citizen, but the idea of a community-wide observance only came to fruition when Welles joined with the Seneca County clerk, John B. Murray, a successful lawyer and a Civil War general. The two men headed up a citizens’ committee to plan the first celebration on Saturday, May 5, 1866.

According to a “Summary of Other Claims Regarding the Origin of Memorial Day,” a document compiled in 1965-1966 by the research committee of the Waterloo Memorial Day Centennial Committee, “Townspeople adopted the idea wholeheartedly.

Ladies of the village met at a local hall and prepared wreaths, crosses and bouquets for each veteran’s grave.”

All businesses were closed and the day was devoted to honoring the dead.

The village was decorated with flags at half staff, draped with evergreen boughs and mourning black streamers.

Led by General Murray, a large crowd of veterans, civic societies and residents marched to the strains of martial music to the three then existing village cemeteries. “Impressive and lengthy services were held at each cemetery, including speeches by General Murray and a local clergyman.” A year later on May 5, 1867, the ceremonies were repeated.

The 1966 committee’s research reveals that General Logan and General John B. Murray were friends.

Murray stated at the end of his life that he mentioned Waterloo’s first Memorial Day to Logan. The paper

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points also to the fact that the date when Logan issued his General Order Number 11, May 5, 1868, was exactly two years to the day after the Waterloo celebration, providing compelling evidence that Logan may have been influenced by Murray.

In 1868, Waterloo joined with other communities in holding their observance on May 30th, in accordance with General Logan’s orders, and it has been held annually on that day ever since.

Henry Welles died in 1868, and Murray went on to become active in the G.A.R., serving as commander of a post in Seneca Falls. He was a popular orator at political rallies, Memorial Day services, and veterans’ reunions.

THE MEMORIAL DAY MUSEUM Today, the visitor to Waterloo can learn more about the village’s role in the history of Memorial Day at the Memorial Day Museum, opened for the centennial celebration of 1966, at 35 Main Street. A large 1840 brick house with striking decorative ironwork which stood vacant by the mid-1960s, was acquired to become a repository for the many historic

Far Left: General John B. Murray.

Left: Henry C. Welles.

Photos Courtesy Terwilliger & Memorial Day Museums

Bottom: The Memorial Day Museum at 35 East Main Street.

records and mementos associated with Memorial Day. It has been gradually restored and is owned by the historical society.

“It’s a national museum, one for the whole country,” says Jim Hughes. While it focuses on local history, the themed exhibits of military memorabilia from the Civil War to the 20th century have broad appeal. Hughes is director of the Memorial Day Museum as well as the historical society’s Terwilliger Museum at 31 East Williams Street, which focuses on Waterloo’s history. The director believes visitors have a different slant on the Memorial Day Museum’s message of veterans’ sacrifice and service since the events of September 11, 2001. “The sacrifice is fresh in their memories,” says Hughes, himself a career army officer who retired in 1988.

For those who enjoy seeing a restored period home, the

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Memorial Day Museum offers several rooms with mid-to-late 19th century furnishings. There are even a few objects which belonged to both General Murray and Henry Welles, the men whose vision made Memorial Day an integral part of the village. In the front parlor General Murray’s glass wine decanter is on display, referred to as his lucky piece because it once deflected a bullet which entered through the window of a Southern home he was visiting, actually saving his life. The museum also has an old set of scales and a mortar and pestle from the pharmacy operated by Henry Welles.

Besides numerous school visits, especially second grade students from the Waterloo School District, Hughes and museum volunteers welcome individuals and groups, like the Daughters of the American Revolution, each year from May 15 to September 15.

Some of the most intriguing artifacts are the original documents signed by President Johnson and Governor Rockefeller in 1966 making Waterloo the Birthplace of Memorial Day. If visitors want to see military uniforms representing different wars and different divisions of service, as well as those worn by nurses, the Memorial Day Museum is well supplied.

Hughes admits he has to be selective with donations. “We can’t accept any more World War II uniforms and any more burial flags,” Hughes says, but adds he hopes that those the museum cannot take will be kept by the families. The exhibits are being refined on a regular basis and mark timely milestones such as the 50th anniversary of the Korean War (1950-53).

FROM GENERAL LOGAN TO VIETNAM In a large upstairs room dedicated to Norman Weaver, a Vietnam War soldier from Waterloo, there is one of the museum’s newest and proudest acquisitions. A large portrait of General Logan (dated 1888) was purchased last year at an auction in Ohio and recently restored.

Based on its size, it may have once hung in a G.A.R. hall, according to Hughes.

Hughes, a veteran of the Vietnam War, jokes that he has found a place for his own memorabilia, like his army-issue flashlight

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Left: A portrait of General Logan which hangs in the museum.

Left, bottom: Jim Hughes, the director of the Memorial Day Museum. bottom: The Memorial Day Medallion at Lafayette Park.

and chapstick labeled “for hot climate,” on display in a case, and a friend’s specialist 4th class uniform is worn by a mannequin.

LIVING HISTORY: CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTORS IN WATERLOO No commemoration of Memorial Day in Laurel Wemett Waterloo is complete without Civil War reenactments. Waterloo resident Kate Schweitz belongs to the 148th New York Volunteer Regiment of Infantry, the oldest Civil War re-enactment organization in the state which has camped behind the Memorial Day Museum on more than one occasion. Schweitz got started as a re-enactor after a friend saw her at the Memorial Day Museum wearing a Victorian outfit. “I don’t get into the war history,” says Schweitz, who portrays a civilian - a widow whose husband died from an epidemic and who is looking for her lost son in the war. Besides her costume, she enjoys the more relaxed pace of life re-enactments offer, and listens to Civil War music in the car when she travels to one. Schweitz wears her hooped-skirt costume in a daguerreotype taken by John Coffer of Dundee, who makes daguerreotypes for the re-enactments.

This year’s Celebrate Commemorate will again include John A. Reynolds L 1st NY Light Artillery reenactors at the Williams Street Field behind Waterloo Middle School on May 24 and 25. Civil War re-enactment has become a family affair with Averell and Tina Bauder of Romulus, who belong to the Reynolds group.

Tina got “hooked” after being invited to fire a cannon at a Civil War Weekend several years ago at the Granger Homestead in Canandaigua.

When she saw the Homestead’s grounds covered with tents and people in period

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at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, is a history buff and portrays an artillerist. As a corporal gunner he gives orders to load and fire the cannon. He is also the safety officer, making sure the lanes are clear and that everyone has covered their ears before the cannon is fired. Averell meets young people who do not know about the Civil War. “I love the teaching aspect of the whole thing,” says the father of two young boys, but he admits there is still a fun “hobby” aspect of being a re-enactor. “We are still kids playing soldier,” says Averell.

John Coffer

costume, history came alive for the 7th grade history teacher at South Seneca Middle School in Ovid. Tina portrays a nurse, and her uniforms range from a large man’s shirt with a dark colored skirt and Army-issue belt, to a bloomer outfit made popular by Amelia Bloomer, the suffragette from Seneca Falls. Nurses could not wear corsets or hoop skirts, customary at the time, because they would catch fire and made it difficult to tend to the wounded on the ground, according to Tina.

The original Reynolds Battery, organized in West Virginia in 1861 and

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DISCOVERING MEMORIAL DAY HISTORY ON A WALKING TOUR OF WATERLOO Although the homes of Memorial Day founders Welles and Murray are not open to the public, they are easy to find on a walking tour. The Henry Welles House, a two-story Greek Revival house dating 1849-50, is at 13 Center Street. The 1817 house General Murray rented at 111 West Main Street (Routes 5 & 20, corner of Oak Street) faces Lafayette Park, where Memorial Day is observed. Murray was a resident of Seneca Falls, but as Clerk of Seneca County he moved to Waterloo, the county seat. The Seneca County Clerk building still stands at 30 Virginia Street (Route 96), although it has been radically altered and is now a business.

Lafayette Park, named in 1922 to commemorate the 1825 visit of the Revolutionary War hero, General Marquis de LaFayette, is a focal point of village celebrations and has monuments honoring veterans. A large medallion-shaped monument at the park’s south side displays the official logo recognizing the village as the Birthplace of Memorial Day. Perhaps there may be no better way to reflect on the meaning of Memorial Day than to attend Waterloo’s annual observation on Friday, May 30, 2003. The tentative schedule follows: 8:30 a.m.

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Kate Schweitz

Above, Left: A daguerrotype of Kate Schweitz in Civil War-era apparel.

Above: The 148th New York Volunteer Regiment of Infantry, the oldest Civil War reenactment organization in the state, encamped behind the Memorial Day Museum.

assigned to the Army of the Potomac in 1862, was engaged in 17 different battles, including Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Antietam and the Second Bull Run. “The Civil War is the defining moment in American History,” says Tina’s husband Averell, adding “It is when we decided to be the United States and not these United States.”

Averell, the director of public service

The Bauders’ 4-year-old son, Nathaniel, loves to sing “Battle Cry of Freedom,” once sung by soldiers to reduce the monotony of marching. He wears a replica of his father’s uniform and enjoys going to re-enactments to be with “the boom guys,” according to Tina. The couple’s second son, Chamberlain, born in July of 2002, is named for a Civil War general. He has already gone to a few events and will no doubt accompany the family to Waterloo this May.

Laurel C. Wemett is a correspondent for the Messenger-Post newspapers in Canandaigua. She owns a gift shop named Cat’s in the Kitchen and lives in Canandaigua.

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Service at St. Mary’s Cemetery, W. Wright Ave. March from VFW to Maple Grove Cemetery Services at Maple Grove Cemetery Memorial Day Paradelineup at Clark and Main Street Memorial Day Parade march to Lafayette Park Memorial Day Service at Lafayette Park – For details contact the Waterloo VFW at (315) 539-9585 or the Waterloo American Legion at (315) 539-8248

For a schedule of events for Celebrate Commemorate 2003, May 23-25 Go to www.waterloony.com and click on the Celebrate Commemorate icon, or call Jane Shaffer at (800) 833-3210.

For Information on the Terwilliger and Memorial Day Museums Call (315) 539-0533.

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Getting Along With

BEARS

by John Adamski

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or a couple of wildlife photographers, peering out the window one spring morning to see a mother bear and two cubs in the backyard seemed too good to be true. My wife, Barbara, and I have photographed animals and birds in the valleys of Yellowstone, canyons of Utah, marshlands of Florida, and woods of Quebec. Our images range from deer, elk, moose, bison, bighorn sheep, coyotes, and foxes, to birds that include pelicans, ospreys, turkeys, and loons. And we have photographed bears – though never before in the backyard and never before in Livingston County.

Our relationship with black bears began in 1996, not long after we moved to the town of Ossian, in southernmost Livingston County. In order to photograph the diversity of wild birds, we strategically located

a number of bird feeders in the backyard and placed tripod-mounted telephoto cameras in several windows. Through continuous yearround feeding, we were able to film migratory songbirds during spring and summer, and the local residents – in their various phases of plumage – throughout the year. The feeders attracted the traditional moochers as well: red, gray, and flying squirrels, chipmunks, and the occasional raccoon. It wasn’t until we found the bird feeders in shambles, and the tree limbs from which they hung snapped off, that we realized that a much larger guest had come to dinner.

Left: Lou Berchielli holds up one of two protesting cubs after retrieval from its den while mother is sedated.

Right: Black bear licking sap on a tree.

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The evidence indicated bear damage, and a call to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) served to confirm that.

Effective wildlife management, and the fact that New York State is now 70 percent forested (it was once 70 percent agricultural) have provided ideal ingredients for the return of black bears. Although black bears have always inhabited the Adirondacks and Catskills, Southern Tier bears are more apt to migrate from the woods of Pennsylvania as that state’s bear population soars. As they do, they are expanding their territories into the woodlands of the southern Finger Lakes region.

Black bear activity is most noticeable in early spring when they emerge from their winter dens. After many months of fasting, finding food is a primary concern. At first they graze like cattle to gently awaken dormant digestive systems. Later they’ll eat anything from honey to road kill. Sunflower seeds, especially the black-oil variety, are high on their list of pre-

ferred foods and attract bears to backyard bird feeders. We have had several different bears in the yard and on the deck at least 15 times!

On April 21, 2001, DEC wildlife personnel from Region 8 live-trapped a 6-year-old female, or sow, in our backyard. She was sedated, examined, ear-tagged, and fitted with a radio collar. When released a few hours later, she hightailed it and was not seen in the area again. Three weeks later her signal was pinpointed 35 miles away on the opposite side of the Genesee River. On March 13, 2002, after a helicopter search using telemetry, she was located again – in her winter den with two newborn cubs – not very far from where she was initially trapped the year before.

Because of our involvement in the previous

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Left, Top: The claws on a bear’s hind feet (shown here) are a little shorter than the claws on the front feet.

Left, Bottom: Color varies among black bears. They are usually black in the eastern United States; black, brown, cinnamon, blue-black, or whitish in western North America. A black bear’s snout is brown and straight in profile.

They have small rounded ears, and five toes on both the front and rear feet.

Right: DEC personnel return the mother and her cubs to their den – none the worse for wear – for the bears, that is.

Bottom, Left: DEC wildlife technician, Greg Fuerst, (left) and wildlife biologist, Jim Fodge, prepare to sedate a captured female black bear inside this culvert trap.

Bottom, Right: Greg Fuerst attaches a radio collar to the sedated backyard bear.

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year’s capture, DEC officials invited us to attend and witness what proved to be a truly memorable experience. Under the direction of Albany-based black bear specialist, wildlife biologist Lou Berchielli, the sow was once again sedated and examined. When she was trapped the year before, after recently emerging from another den, she weighed 175 pounds. At this examination she tipped the scales at 215 pounds, which is still about 30 percent less than what she weighed when she entered her den in November. Even so, she appeared substantially larger than she did a little less than a year before. Bears do not eat while denned and survive on stored body fat accumulated beforehand.

Not so with cubs. At birth in early February, they weigh about 9 ounces, which is roughly the size of a chipmunk. When these cubs were examined at an estimated six weeks of age, the female was 6 pounds, 4 ounces and the male weighed in at 7 pounds even – quite a testimony to the nutrition of mother’s milk.

Before denning last fall they would have approached 100 pounds each – a further testimony to being “hungry as a bear.”

Female black bears typically give birth to two cubs every other year, although triplets are not uncommon among older, healthy sows.

Females generally weigh between 150 and 300 pounds, depending on age and the time of year. Males, or boars, are somewhat larger and range between 250 and 400 pounds. The New York State record is held by a boar taken by a hunter near Tupper Lake in the Adirondacks – 765 pounds. Boars do not participate in child rearing and have even been known to kill

Left, Top: This black bear has identification tags in its ears to help biologists keep records of individual bears.

Left, Bottom: Barbara Adamski baby-sits rambunctious cubs while their mother recovers from sedation.

Right: Lou Berchielli is ready to release this bear cub into the wild in another location of the Finger Lakes.

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their own cubs. Cubs will stay with their mother, who will fiercely protect them, for about one-andone-half years. She’ll leave them when she’s ready to breed again.

Wildlife biologist Jim Fodge and wildlife technician Greg Fuerst, working out of the DEC office in Bath, spearhead Region 8’s bear study projects. At any given time they can be monitoring at least a half dozen different bears – some with cubs – based on radio signals and reports from people who see them. Even though they both enjoy seeing the black bear return, the biggest concern they share is the interaction between bears and people. As the bear population expands, so does the potential for bear encounters.

Feeding bears, intentionally or otherwise, invites the risk of property damage or injury and can lead to the necessity of having to destroy a bear. Bird feeders, including hummingbird feeders, as well as pet food, garbage, beehives and barbeque grills top the list of the things that could bring bears into your yard. Jim Fodge is quick to reference the DEC policy on bear feeding: “A fed bear is a dead bear.”

He also notes that, “after April 1st, bird feeders become bear feeders and should be taken down if bears are around.”

Getting along with bears requires some forethought and precaution. We’ve had to curtail summertime bird feeding, keep garbage out of sight, and otherwise increase our awareness. Black bears are not generally aggressive, but a sow with cubs can be unpredictable. That thought evokes an eerie feeling, especially when walking to the roadside newspaper tube at five in the morning.

John Adamski is a freelance writer and photographer specializing in outdoor and wildlife subjects, and Western Americana. He lives with his wife Barbara, also a wildlife photographer, in the middle of a thousand acres of woods in northern Steuben County, having recently moved south from Livingston County.

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TOMPKINS COUNTY SPRING

Far Left: THIS BEAUTIFUL PINK DOGWOOD TREE IS LOCATED NEAR THE PARK HEADQUARTERS AT

TAUGHANNOCK FALLS STATE

PHOTOGRAPHERS RICHARD WELCH AND HARRIET SUTHERLAND SHOWCASE THE AWAKENING OF A NEW SEASON

PARK. DICK HAD PHOTOGRAPHED IT IN THE SPRING FOR MANY YEARS BUT NEVER OBTAINED AN IMAGE WHICH SATISFIED HIM.

FINALLY,

ON A VERY FOGGY MORNING, WITH THE TREE IN FULL BLOOM, HE WAS ABLE TO SEPARATE THE TREE FROM ITS BACKGROUND AND SHOW THE BLOSSOMS IN THEIR FULL GLORY.

Top Left: ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE SPRING WILDFLOWERS IS THE TINY

HEPATICA. THE PATH UP TO TAUGHANNOCK FALLS ABOUNDS WITH THESE LOVELY LITTLE BLOSSOMS. IT TAKES

HARRIET'S ACUTE

EYE TO SPOT THEM PEEKING UP Harriet Sutherland

THROUGH LAST YEAR'S FALLEN OAK LEAVES.

Bottom Left: THE QUADRANGLE FORMS THE NUCLEUS OF THE PUS.

CORNELL CAM-

ON A WARM SPRING DAY THE

STUDENTS WILL SIT ON THE GRASS IN THE SUN TO RELAX OR MAYBE CATCH UP ON THEIR STUDIES.

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Far Left: IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER MONTHS, FISHERMEN FLOCK TO POOLS BELOW ITHACA

FALLS.

THE LUCKY ONES BRING BACK SOME LARGE RAINBOW TROUT.

THIS SCENE IS TYPICAL OF EARLY SPRING JUST AFTER THE SNOW HAS MELTED.

Top Left: THE FOG WAS JUST BEGINNING TO LIFT AT THE

BRIDGE AT

STEWART PARK. DICK HAD HARRIET WALK ACROSS THE BRIDGE AS THE BLUE SKY WAS Richard Welch

STARTING TO APPEAR IN THE BACKGROUND.

Middle Left: BUILT IN 1853 AND NEWLY RESTORED, THIS BRIDGE IN

NEWFIELD IS THE ONLY REMAINING COVERED BRIDGE IN

TOMPKINS COUNTY AND THE ONLY ONE IN

NEW YORK STILL

IN DAILY USE.

HARRIET OFTEN

STOPS WITH HER CAMERA ON THE WAY TO HER TEACHING JOB AT THE

NEWFIELD

CENTRAL SCHOOL.

Bottom Left: WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE Harriet Sutherland

FIRST SPRING FLOWERS.

THE

EARLY EMERGENCE OF THE CROCUS GIVES US THOUGHTS OF NEW GROWTH SOON TO COME.

A LATE WET SNOW

COVERS THE BLOSSOMS AND

DICK CAPTURES THIS IMAGE JUST OUTSIDE THE FRONT PORCH AS THE MELTING SNOW LEAVES DROPS ON THE PETALS.

Photography by: Richard Welch & Harriet Sutherland 4111 Garrett Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-2631 Web: www.CayugaImages.com Richard Welch

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Finger Lakes Rieslings, Take a Bow!

By Bill Moffett

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inger Lakes Rieslings have been getting better each year, and with that has come an increased amount of acclaim from knowledgeable wine critics.

Some of this is almost pre-ordained, the result of over six decades of experience growing Riesling in New York, although in the early years, mostly experimental. More recently, success has come as the result of an effort by the highly

efficient New York Wine & Grape Foundation to encourage and promote Riesling in the Finger Lakes, in conjunction with a stepped-up effort sponsored by New York state and financed partly by the wineries to fund wine and grape research. Whereas in 1965 only two wineries, the pioneering Dr. Konstantin Frank and the now defunct Gold Seal

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winery, grew and made Riesling, in 2002, at least 40 Finger Lakes wineries made a wine from the grape. Riesling is a variety that abounds in Germany, Alsace, parts of South Africa and Washington State. Nearby in Ontario, at least 20 wineries produce very good Riesling, and share with other parts of the Northeast the affinity that Riesling has for short growing seasons and limited seasonal heat accumulation.

In a recent article in Decanter, a British magazine for the wine trade, New York Times columnist Howard Goldberg called the 2001 Riesling of the Hosmer Winery near Cauyga Lake, winner of the most recent Governor’s Cup, his choice for “best wine regardless of price.” At the same time he hailed the Finger Lakes as having ascended to become America’s premier Riesling zone. It’s hard to get better press than that. Demonstrably, Finger Lakes wineries Glenora, Dr. Frank’s Vinifera Wine Cellars, Standing Stone, which was sold out of the current vintage and did not submit wine for this tasting, and most recently Red Newt, which was featured on the cover of Wine Spectator’s November 2002 issue, seem to be making a regular thing out of garnering top awards with their Rieslings.

After all the Riesling talk during 2002, we decided to find out for ourselves whether all those gold medals we were reading about were really deserved according to our palates. For this tasting we rounded up 19 wineries, and they submitted 35 Rieslings. We limited our choices to the sweetness categories of dry, off-dry and semi-dry since we touched on Late Harvest and Icewine Rieslings last issue.

he Life in the Finger Lakes T tasting panel for this issue consists of David Whiting, winemaker and partner of Red Newt Cellars & Restaurant in Hector; Jessica Signori, also from Hector and owner of the Stone Cat restaurant; David Sparrow, proprietor of Sparrow’s Wine and Liquor, Ithaca; Richard Leahy, Eastern Editor, Vineyard and Winery Management, from Charlottesville, Virginia. All taste wines regularly as a part of their professional duties.

HERE’S HOW WE WORK: The wines are presented to us in coded glasses, having been poured by an associate. We do not know whose wine is whose. We taste, make notes on our findings and give each wine a score of one to five “stars.” (We make the scores into stars because it seems sexier than a cold number.) Then we discuss our impressions and reach agreement on the total stars to award. What’s worth drinking? Our rating anchor was this: 5 stars = the best you can remember drinking 4 stars = very, very good 3 stars = above average 2 stars = definitely drinkable 1 star = maybe drinkable, but we wouldn’t buy it.

With any wine, price is a motivating factor, so you might like a two-star wine for its price more than a four-star. The more stars you can buy for the money the better, right?

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Is it dry or sweet?

Before we go on, let’s talk about that sweetness thing. Riesling is an interesting grape because it tends to have a good acid backbone, which gives the wine a feeling of structure in your mouth. Finger Lakes Rieslings have an exciting crispness that can remind you of a good, fresh New York apple. You get that crisp acid feel on the tongue and often with it a wonderful balancing impression of sweetness.

Think of a Northern Spy or an Empire when you think of a Finger Lakes dry Riesling, or of a juicy Mac if the wine is a little off-dry. It’s the natural fruit acid that provides that feeling of structure. Too much structure or too little sweetness balancing it and you might call it angular, too structured or acid, or tart. Too much sweetness and the wine could feel “mushy” or flabby. Now you understand some of the winemaker’s dilemma. Uniquely, a Riesling is winemaking-ripe at about 16 percent sugar and, depending on the season, it may run up to 24 percent before falling into the late harvest category. In any given year, winemakers will monitor flavors from that early point, harvesting when they feel the wine is ready for prime time – from that vineyard! Getting the feel for it now?

We found that in the dry and offdry group, the tastes were typically taut and pointed, combining apple crispness with tropical flavors like pineapple, and flavors of peach, lemon or grapefruit. With the sweeter wines, those in the semi-dry group or sweeter, the flavors tended to combine and become less distinct on the palate. Imagine taking into your mouth a whole spoonful of fruit cocktail! Wine merchant David Sparrow said these flavors will tend to become more extracted in time, developing beautiful arrows of appealing flavor. He recommended that consumers not be afraid to lay down Finger Lakes Riesling for several years or more. He called the 2001 vintage in upstate New York “one of the most exciting I can remember.” The wines have good, firm acids, which will help the wine during the aging process.

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2 0 0 1 Dry Riesling 4.5 Glenora Wine Cellars

Dry Riesling 4.5 Lucas Vineyards

The tasting room is quiet in the winter – a great opportunity to ask all your winemaking and vineyards questions.

Off-dry Riesling 4.5 Lucas Vineyards

Home Vineyard (off dry) Riesling 4.5 Glenora Wine Cellars

Taste older wines Cheese plates available

Semi-dry 4.5 Atwater Vineyards

Special tasting packages

Circle Reader Service Number 145

We were virtually unanimous about this wine. Crisp acidity with peach, clove and apple nuances in the aroma and lemon, peach and apricot notes on the palate. Serve with something light like seafood pasta, a cheese tart.

Two judges give this wine scores of 5 stars. Complex peach apple citrus with hints of pineapple. Delightful smooth finish. Serve with chicken or Dover sole with a white mushroom sauce, suggested Signori.

Two 5-star ratings and the rest 4.5 made this second Lucas rank near the top. Spicey citrus characters dominated the aroma with a complex of fruit tastes that ranged from baked apple, thought Whiting, to apricot, pear and pineapple. Fish was a strong recommendation here, although my choice was weiner schnitzel with an apple cream sauce. Signori said scallops and Leahy recommended trout almondine, making us all very hungry.

Slight wet leaf aroma with good crispness on the palate and soft lingering impression of tropical flavors. Try it with a dessert of bread pudding.

This was the sweetest wine we tasted and close to a German Spatlese in style. Characterized by mango, ginger, honey aromas, followed by complex dried fruit flavors with a crisp but sweet finish, it should be a nice compliment to foods that are somewhat exotic. Signori suggested smoked chicken with gingerbread stuffing.

Other top-scoring wines in the tasting

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Pear with bright citrus notes, very dry.

Dry Riesling 4 Swedish Hill Winery

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Tropical fruits, with a lively apple and peach finish Dry Riesling 4 Atwater Vineyards

Mineral appley notes with lucious mouthfeel.

Dry Riesling 4 Dr. Konstantin Frank

Intense pineapple, peach flavors and good structure Off dry Riesling 4 Chateau LaFayette Reneau

Wines scoring 3 or more stars. Definitely worth buying.

The Rose Inn’s 6th Annual Wine Maker Dinner Series tarting with a reception at 6:30 p.m. in the Conservatory, The Rose Inn welcomes you as Chef d’Cuisine Leon Williams and the Wine Makers guide you through three memorable six-course dinners paired with the outstanding wines of the Finger Lakes in the old-world setting of our 1850 lamp-lit Carriage House.

March 15 Glenora Wine Cellars March 22 Standing Stone Vineyards March 29 King Ferry Winery $75 per person includes wines served with dinner (exclusive of tax and gratuity)

Overnight Accommodations Package Receive your second night at half price

For reservations, please call: 607-533-7905 Email: info@roseinn.com • www.roseinn.com Circle Reader Service Number 140

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Chateau Lafayette Reneau Dry Riesling

Glenora Wine Cellars Off-dry Riesling

Knapp Vineyards Dry Riesling

Logan Ridge Winery Off-dry Riesling

Fox Run Vineyards Off-dry Riesling

Hazlitt’s 1852 Vineyards Dry Riesling

Lakewood Winery Off-Dry Riesling

Red Newt Cellars Dry Riesling

Dr.Konstantin Frank Semi-dry Riesling

Hosmer Off-dry Riesling

Lamoreaux Landing Off-Dry Riesling

Swedish Hill Vineyard Off-Dry Riesling

Green is drier than brown?

But now you’re at the store and want to pick the style you like best.

Most North American Riesling producers have adopted the German bottle traditions. This means putting the lighter, racier and maybe drier wines in a green long-necked bottle, in the style of the Mosel, and the more lucious wines, those with rich, juicy and maybe sweeter tastes, in a brown long-necked bottle, as is the custom in the Rhinegau. This is a helpful practice.

Still, a little more guidance from the wineries on the front label about the sweetness/dryness thing would help the consumer who had not previously tasted the wine.

Now, on to the tasting of the 2001 vintage. It’s still possible to run across a wine drinker who is a Chardonnay

snob, won’t drink any other white wine, and all I can say is how sorry I am. Chardonnay is not the only good dry wine out there! About half in our tasting could be considered cocktailhour dry. And they were good! Out of 35 wines, 21 received a group consensus score of 3 stars or better. Within that group there were 12 wines ranking 3 to 3.5 stars, four wines receiving 4 stars and five wines which we averaged as a group with 4.5 stars. It really tells you something about the quality of Finger Lakes Riesling.

Bill Moffett is co-publisher of Vineyard & Winery Management. Sponsoring wine competitions, seminars and tradeshows, their activity is visible at their website www.vwm-online.com.

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Ervay’s Marina

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40 Fairgrounds Lane, on Seneca Canal Watkins Glen, NY 14891 M4

Ph: (607)535-2671

Boat Rentals at Basin Park Marina

6301 Water St., Cayuga, NY 13034 Voice: 315.253.7447 435 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, NY 14850 Voice: 607.272.1581

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607-569-2777 Keuka Bay Marina Park

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Trade-A-Yacht/Hibiscus Harbor

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Sea Ray & Bennington Pontoon Dealer

Montour Falls Municipal Marina

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607-535-9397 (As of April 1st)

Marina Road, Montour Falls, NY 14865

Chemung Valley History Museum

Patterson Inn Museum

www.chemungvalleymuseum.org

59 W. Pulteney, Corning, NY

Dockage, Storage & Boat Rental

607-937-5281

South Seneca Marina

A museum complex featuring a 1796 restored Inn, early 1800 log house, a working 1878 schoolhouse, agricultural barn and blacksmith shop.

Watkins Glen, NY

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Open M-F 10:00am-4:00pm

607-535-6690

Guided tours available

Winterization, Sales, Service, Bait-n-tackle Experience the stories behind Mark Twain’s Elmira, local immigrant life, Chemung County’s role in the Civil War and so much more! Explore your history in the Booth Research Library and shop for special books in the Museum Store.

Open seven days a week. 607-734-4167

I-86/Exit 46 Corning, NY 14830 Ph: (607)937-5371 www.cmog.org

U1 415 East Water Street, Elmira, NY 14901

Seneca Marine 501E. 4th St., Watkins Glen, NY

607-535-6690 M13

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www.senecamarine.com

CAYUGA OUTDOOR WORLD 300 Years of Oswego Maritime History

Since 1982

The One Stop Marine Shop

The Best of the West in the East!

111 Cedar St. Corning, NY (607)937-5386 • www.rockwellmuseum.org

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– Open Daily, Mid May-Dec 1-5 Jan-April (closed Sundays) July & Aug 10-5 West 1st Street Pier, Oswego, NY 13126

315-342-0480 U2

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www.hleewhitemarinemuseum.com

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31 East Williams St. Waterloo, NY 13165 Ph:(315)539-0533

A multi-arts organization that emphasizes fine art, architecture and design through exhibits, educational programs and special events.

Seward House A Registered National Historic Landmark We invite you to visit Seward House, the historic home of statesman William H. Seward and his family.

205 Genesee St., Auburn, NY 13021 Ph:(315)255-1553 smac@baldcom.net • www.cayuganet.org/smac

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The Rose Hill Mansion is a National Historic Landmark and considered one of the finest examples of Greek Architecture in the United States.

8419 State Rte 54 Hammondsport, NY 14840 Ph: (607)569-2160 www.linkny.com/curtissmuseum

Terwilliger Museum

2540 Route 89 Seneca Falls, NY 13148 Just North of Cayuga Lake State Park Ph:(315)712-0210/Fax:(315)712-0207 M14 eriegel@flare.net

Seward House features an extensive collection of Civil War memorabilia, early Alaskan artifacts and mementoes collected during Seward’s travels.

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33 South Street Auburn (315)252-1283 www.sewardhouse.org

Housed in the 1829 Prouty-Chew House, the Geneva Historical Society Museum explores the history of Geneva and its diverse people and enterprises. The Museum features period rooms, a library and archive, and local history programs and exhibitions.

543 South Main St., Geneva, NY 14456

(315)789-5151 U11 www.genevahistoricalsociety.com

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SPRING MARKETPLACE MUSEUMS CONT’D National Soaring Museum Harris Hill 51 Soaring Hill Dr. Elmira, NY 14903-9204 Ph: (607)734-3128 www.soaringmuseum.org Soaring Capital of America U12

SHOPPING

Seneca Falls Historical Society Founded in 1896, our mission is to acquire, preserve and present documents and objects that relate to the history of Seneca Falls and Seneca County. We maintain a 23-room Queen Anne Style Victorian Mansion and present the first floor and a portion of the second, as they might have been circa 1890, as a home of a wealthy Victorian family. We have rooms dedicated to local industries, changing and seasonal exhibits and a gift shop.

55 Cayuga St., Seneca Falls, NY 13148 Ph: (315)568-8412 www.welcome.to/sfhs/ U13

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A.W.A Electronic Communication Museum

The perfect setting...an

2 South Avenue Bloomfield, NY 14469

1830’s Cobblestone General Store... for unique antiques.

Distinctive Furniture & Furnishings, Lithophanes, Mezzotints, Porcelain Figurines and the “Tails of Yesteryear,” Animal Art Collection.

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~ Lighthouse Gift Shop ~ Lake View From Tower ~ Docent Guided Tours ~ Sunday Concert Series ~ Festive Old-time Family 4th of July Celebration 10:30AM - 4PM on Sundays 10AM -4PM Tues thru Saturday

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Inkblotz Writing Studio and Art Gallery Flex your Imagination!

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Bring your Desire, a Creative Spirit, and an Open Mind!

THE COBBLESTORE 6452 Victor-Manchester Rd. Route 96, Victor, NY S1

(315) 483-4936 www.peachey.com/soduslight 7606 North Ontario Street Sodus Point,Wayne County

(585)742-1930

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64 Seneca Street # 202 315-789-0589 • www.inkblotz.net

YesterYear’s

Vintage Doors & Millwork Just like the olden days...

Doors

•Victorian Screen Doors •Raised Panel Doors •Interior & Exterior

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The First Rural Farm & Craft Market in New York State Life in the Finger Lakes magazine reflects the true beauty of our region and it’s four seasons — spring, summer, fall and winter.

OVER 250 VENDORS! • Farm Produce • Crafts • Collectibles • Pottery • Amish & Mennonite Goods • Tools • Baskets • Antiques • Food • Baked Goods • Chiropractic Service • ATM in office

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• David Brooks • Fat Hat

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...a place where mothers and daughters shop together!

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Masonry Supplier • Retaining Walls • Pavers Since 1946

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www.phelpscement.com 315-548-2221

Photo Contest!

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Family Room Miniatures A unique shop located in the heart of the Finger Lakes specializing in dollhouse miniatures and hobby building supplies. We have a large selection of: • Furniture • Scale Lumber • Accessories • Lighting • Dollhouse Kits • Finished Dollhouses • and most important, experience and friendly service Stop in and check us out! We’re easy to find!

7179 County House Road • Auburn, NY 13021 315-255-0469 www.familyroomminiatures.com S12 miniature@baldcom.net

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Grand prize to best overall photograph.

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Route 17, Exit 51, Between Elmira & Corning

The awarded images will appear in the Winter 2003-04 issue.

Phone: (607)739-8704 Hours: Daily 10:00am-9:30pm S16 Sundays 11:00am-6:00pm

For more information, visit our Web site at: www.LifeintheFingerLakes.com

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King Ferry Winery, Inc. 658 Lake Rd. • King Ferry, NY 13081

Ph: (315)364-5100 • (800)439-5271 www.treleavenwines.com W1

fine wines for the everyday celebration of life

623 Lerch Road, Geneva, NY (315)585-4432

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Estate grown and bottled by:

www.nagyswines.com

Member of the Cayuga Wine Trail

Lamoreaux Landing w i n e c e l l a r s

Overlooking Seneca Lake’s west side 10 miles south of Geneva, just off of Route 14 You are invited to our visitors’ center tasting room and gift shop: Mondays-Saturdays: 10am until 5pm Sundays: Noon until 5pm

1225 Anthony Road Penn Yan 315-536-2182 800-559-2182

607-582-6011

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www.lamoreauxwine.com

7448 County Road 153, Ovid, NY 14521 For information and reservations (607)532-9401 W8 www.sheldrakepoint.com

PREMIUM ESTATE GROWN WINES Chardonnay • Riesling • Gewurztraminer Merlot • Cabernet Sauvignon

www.anthonyroadwine.com W5

Feb-March-April Business hours: Friday: 12 noon - 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars offers an exciting range of international award-winning estate bottled wines.

Wines: Quality Premium Varietals Including: Cabernet Franc, Riesling, Gewurtztraminer, Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Pinot Gamay, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay History: The 160 acre lakeshore site that is now Sheldrake Point Vineyard was once the farmstead for the famed Cayuga Lake Hotel, dating from the mid-nineteenth century. Sheldrake Point takes pride in its local history.

Location: Sheldrake Point is located on the western shore of Cayuga Lake.

Cafe: Serving wine inspired cuisine amidst lavender and rose gardens ~ creative appetizers & sandwiches, seasonal dinner entrees.

Families most welcome.

On the Seneca Lake Wine Trail Open year ‘round for tastings

Please join us for a tasting of our premium red wines while you enjoy the spectacular view of Cayuaga Lake.

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Winter Hours: 10-5; Sunday 11-5 2634 Route 14 • Penn Yan 315-536-7524

Order Wine Online www.LongPointWinery.com 1485 Lake Road • Aurora, NY 13026 • (315) 364-6990

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Our vineyards and winery are located on scenic State Route 89, along the western shore of Cayuga Lake.

Enjoy!

Meritage

Winner of 2002 Governor’s Cup!

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Chardonnay ◆

Riesling ◆

Gewürztraminer ◆

Pinot Noir ◆

Ice Wines 5055 Rt. 414, Hector, NY 14841 607.546.VINE www.atwatervineyards.com

Also available in fine restaurants and liquor stores.

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Through the winter months, anytime someone is here, we are more than happy to sell you wine. Feel free to call ahead if you plan to be in the area.

6999 State Route 89, Ovid 888 HOSWINE (888-467-9463) www.hosmerwinery.com

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www.prejeanwinery.com

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Swedish Hill Winery

Winery - Micro Brewery - Restaurant Open Daily Tours • Tastings • Gift Shop Lunch • Sunday Brunch 10-2 9322 Route 414 • Lodi, NY 14860 • wagnervineyards.com

Winery/Micro Brewery 607-582-6450 • Restaurant 607-582-6574

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Torrey Ridge Winery

One of Seneca Lake’s newest and most modern wineries, Torrey Ridge is a destination you won’t want to miss. Taste a variety of premium wines while enjoying one of the lake’s most panoramic views.

2770 State Route 14, Penn Yan NY 14527 Gift shop, tours of 315-536-1210 • Fax: 315-536-1239 winery and honey www.torreyridgewinery.com processing plant by torrey@eznet.net appointment.

Open: June-Nov., Mon.-Sat. 10-5pm, Sun. 11:30-5pm Call for music date Dec.-May, and times.

Sun.-Fri. 12-5pm, Sat. 10-5pm W14

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4565 Rt. 414, Romulus, NY 14541 Phone: 315-549-8326 •888-549-WINE Open Daily 9am-6pm www.swedishhill.com Wine Tasting and Gift Shop •

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Scenic View & Picnic Area • Business Gift Ideas • Wedding Favors and More!

Call for event dates or visit our web site

Open: June-Nov., Mon.-Sat 10-5pm, Sun. 11:30-5pm Dec.-May, Sat. 10-5pm, Sun. 12-5pm Come & enjoy our award-winning Meads, Fruit Wines, and Grape Wines, with something for every palate - from dry to sweet.

Browse through our unique gift shop with a full line of honey products, and observe a live, working beehive in action.

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3586 Route 14, Himrod, NY 14842

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The Lilac Festival Hosted by Rochester’s Highland Park • May 9-18

By Laurel C. Wemett, Photographs by Dorothy Kennedy

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or over 20 years, Highland Park in Rochester has hosted a Lilac Festival each May, and prior to the festival there was Lilac Sunday, a day coinciding with the lilacs’ peak bloom. Every year for thousands of people spring does not officially arrive in Rochester until they have wandered through Highland Park and taken time to smell the lilacs.

The 10-day Lilac Festival attracts an estimated half-million visitors annually with its wide variety of activities and seasonal sights to usher in spring. There are concerts, arts-and- crafts shows, the Lilac 10K race, a colorful parade, the Lilac ’N Kids stage featuring entertainment for children, and a wide variety of food, to say nothing of the main attraction, the more than 1,200 lilac bushes.

The arrival of the first blooms of the city’s most famous and fragrant flowering shrub cannot always be timed exactly. To Kent Millham, one of three Horticultural Aides with the Monroe County Parks department, lilacs are his main concern. He’s quick to point out that the festivalgoer will always find some beautiful flowering shrubs, trees and flowers. “If the lilacs are late,” reassures Millham, who has worked at the park for 28 years, “it doesn’t really make any difference because we have magnolias, tulips and forsythias. If the lilacs are early, they’ll still get to see the late varieties.” Lilacs may range from deep purple to pure white in color, from lightly scented to highly aromatic,

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One of more than 1,200 lilac bushes in Highland Park.

and from early to mid- and lateblooming varieties.

“Some people come just to see the Pansy Bed,” according to Millham, who explains that the floral attraction is about 100 years old. Each year 15,000 pansies are grown by the Monroe County Parks Department and planted in the bed in a different design.

Highland Park has 580 types of the more than 2,000 known varieties of lilacs on 22 of its 155 acres.

The park’s lilac collection was started with 20 varieties planted on the sunny southern slopes of the park by its first superintendent, horticulturist John Dunbar in 1892.

His successor, Bernard Slavin, expanded the collection to the present size, making it the largest lilac collection in the world.

Highland Park is included in the Mount Hope Preservation District which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Portions of the park were designed by America’s greatest landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. Earlier, Olmsted designed Central Park in New York City. In shaping the Rochester site he created winding footpaths and carriage drives and planted the hillsides with hundreds of trees and shrubs.

It is unique among Olmsteddesigned parks in that it was conceived as an arboretum to display trees and shrubs for the education of the public.

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ratory where you can go and see plants and how they grow,” says Millham.

Highland Park’s collection ranges from azaleas to yews. For the visitor who wants to know which of the over 500 varieties of lilacs he or she is admiring, the plants are usually labeled. “They’ll have the Latin name, the common name, the place they’re native to, and sometimes a location number,” according to Millham.

Millham says with so many varieties of lilacs it’s hard to have a favorite, although he does mention three of his by name: Rochester, Frederick Law Olmsted, and one called Glory, adding “because that one has gigantic flowers.”

It was a former Monroe County director of parks, Alvan Grant, who discovered the Rochester lilac which Millham describes as “one of the greatest hybrids.” He planted the seedling in 1947, and named it in 1963 according to Millham. Most lilacs have four petals, or if they’re a double, two sets of four, but the Rochester has what’s referred to as “radial double.” A single floret may have up to 25 petals. Besides beautiful, nearly quarter-size blooms that some of the Rochester lilacs have, Millham says this variety is really good for hybridization which is how new varieties are developed.

Millham, a Rochester native, says he got his love of gardening from his grandfather and enjoys seeing a plant, tree or shrub grow over time. “There’s a tulip tree I planted in the park about 1978,” says Millham adding, “Now it’s about 50 feet tall. It’s satisfying to see your work growing.” At the Lamberton Conservatory, the indoor greenhouse located in the park, Millham will soon be able to keep track of the tulip tree and other plants with a new data management system especially for arboretums. When complete, there will be data available for every single plant in the park, its location, its condition; and if it’s a tree, how tall and widespread it is.

In preparation for the annual Lilac Festival, Millham carries out all of the pruning, making sure the lilacs are in good shape. Right after the festival

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ends, he begins propagating plants.

“That’s how we keep the collection going,” explains Millham, who propagates those plants which need to be replaced. Sometimes they may trade to get different varieties. He also spends time fielding the detailed questions about lilacs, since Millham has become an authority on the subject. With advance notice Millham will also give tours to groups such as garden clubs, although there would be a charge for this. He currently serves on the board of directors of the International Lilac Society, an organization of lilac fanciers. Millham is modest about his knowledge. “The reason I’m an expert is that Highland Park’s is one of the largest collections in the world; I get to see close to 600 varieties every year.

“I pitch in with the festival-type stuff, too,” adds Millham, who says he helps sell plants and also has to pick up after the public. While he enjoys the Lilac Festival because the lilacs are blooming, the lilac authority also admits he gets a kick out of all the excitement and has even been known to indulge in a couple of “Garbage Plates,” a specialty of Nick Tahou’s, one of the festival food vendors.

For more information on the Lilac Festival go to www.lilacfestival.com or call the Greater Rochester Visitors Association at (585) 546-3070 or (800) 677-7282. For information on tours at the park call the conservatory at (585) 256-5878.

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L E T T E R S Thank you for your recent feature on Seneca Falls and its connection to the much-loved movie classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

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Furniture from Mars, Number 5

John Lord, Designer

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ohn Lord prefers to call himself a designer rather than a furniture maker or sculptor. “To me, it implies creative problem solving, and it can be in any area of art or life,” he says. “Henry Ford was a designer and so were Raymond Leowy and Russell Wright.

They brought out practical, useful and beautiful solutions to the design problems they worked on.”

John says he enjoys confronting people with his works of art. “The unspoken message is to question what you consider to be the norm, the standard, or ‘the way it’s supposed to be,’” he explains. “Where is it carved in stone that furniture (in this case) must all look like what you see in the big box stores or at grandma’s house?”

The table pictured above is part of his series called Furniture from Mars. “All of these pieces are made of standard rod and sheet steel shapes which are commercially available,” John says. “Like most of my work, it continues to ask people to look at these forms and their environment in general and consider alternatives. For example, why must a table have a traditional configuration such a flat top and four legs? Why can’t it be some other way?

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from nature, such as geological formations and crystals, to Greek Revival architecture and the wild forms and colors embodied in the Memphis Style of design in Milano in the ’70s and ’80s. I enjoy using incongruous bits of visual confetti whenever possible.”

Although his high school guidance counselor discouraged him from going to college, he eventually started taking classes at Finger Lakes Community College. “Even though art history 101 at 8 a.m. isn’t anyone’s idea of stimulating, it did get me to look at art differently. I was hooked on the concept of creating art, and I never looked back. My next stop was Buffalo State for a bachelor’s degree in design, and then on to Syracuse University for my master’s in fine arts.

John’s current project is a submission for the windows project at West Irondequoit School District. “It involves using a salvaged window sash from the old high school building,” he says. “Since many participants will use the window as a window, I decided to make it into a table with a glass top. It’s gone from something we look through to something we look at.”

To contact John, email him at earlytech@ yahoo.com or write to him at 432 Wagner Street, Waterloo, New York 13165.

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Beautiful sites... warm people... the best of the season!

Branch Locations: Main Office 35 William Street Lyons, NY 14489 (315) 946-4871 Lyons Branch Corner Routes 14 & 31 Lyons, NY 14489 (315) 946-4505 Clyde Branch 4 Williams Street Clyde, NY 14433 (315) 923-2100 Jordan Branch 2 North Main Street Jordan, NY 13080 (315) 689-9530 Macedon Branch P & C Supermarket Macedon Commons Macedon, NY 14502 (315) 986-9681

Winter in the Finger Lakes Winter in the Finger Lakes can be one of the most beautiful times of the year... a time when warmth is generated by good friends and good neighbors rather than the weather.

At The Lyons National Bank, we’re committed to being one of those good neighbors. Our dedication to maintaining hometown banking in the community means you’ll always be greeted with the warmth of a friendly smile and the one-to-one service that has been our focus for more than 150 years.

Call us today at (315) 946-4871 and feel the warmth of hometown banking in the Finger Lakes. Or visit us online at www.lyonsbank.com.

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Newark Branch 750 W. Miller Street Newark, NY 14513 (315) 331-0296 Town of Ontario Branch Tops Plaza 6256 Furnace Road Ontario, NY 14519 (315) 524-9661 Wolcott Branch 5996 New Hartford Street Wolcott, NY 14590 (315) 594-6002 www.lyonsbank.com

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