Life in the Finger Lakes Spring 2007

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Volume 7, Number 1 • Spring 2007

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WHEN LAKE BOATS RULED OUR WAVES At one time getting from one place to another on Seneca Lake required a boat

By Alta E. Boyer

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THE COLORS OF SPRING The time of year when the world around us awakens from a deep winter slumber

By Cindy Ruggieri

MY OWN WORDS LETTERS NEWSBITS LIFESTYLE Theater in the hills – Bristol Valley Theater

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CULTURED • Everson Museum Part II: Ceramics • Strutting her stuff: The Peacock Oriental Antique Museum

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WILDLIFE PROFILE Whitetail fawn

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A DAY IN THE LIFE Perfection at a slow pace: bookbinder Harold Gilbert

GLACIERS AND GIANTS

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An exhibit at the Rochester Museum and Science Center preserves a piece of local history

By Laurel C. Wemett

DOWNTOWN Geneseo

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FRUIT OF THE VINE The perfect combination

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HOW-TO What makes a good photograph?

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

VALLEY OF DREAMS The Muller Field Station at the south end of Honeoye Lake

By John Adamski

CALENDAR: FESTIVALS & EVENTS OFF THE EASEL Bob Gittens, woodcarving artist

Below: Bluebirds inhabit a nesting box in the Finger Lakes region Photo by Ralph DeFelice

Cover: Tulips wait for the sun to burn off the morning fog before they open to their full blossom on a spring morning in Canandaigua.

Photo by Steve Chesler, member of the Finger Lakes Section of the Professional Photographers Society of New York

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ave you ever walked in your backyard and wondered about what lies beneath your feet? Most of us have, at one time or another, dug a hole to plant a tree or shrub and come across an interesting-looking stone.

We may have just tossed it aside and kept digging, or perhaps something about that stone made us take a second look. Who knows, it may have actually turned out to be a fossil.

In this issue, you can read about two discoveries of fossilized mastodon bones that happened in the Finger Lakes region during the 1990s. The first occurance was near Avon in 1991.

Some excavating was being done near the 18th hole of the Farview Golf Course when a strange discovery was made. The size of the fossilized bones that were unearthed quickly caught the attention of local archaeologists.

The second find was in East Bloomfield in 1994. Again, excavating was being done in a wet area of private property. The couple who owned the property contacted paleontologist Dr. George McIntosh of the Rochester Museum and Science Center.

“Mastodons are so big you can’t misidentify them,” said McIntosh.

These two finds of fossilized mastodon bones are fairly rare. There have been only 37 discoveries since

1922. This leads me to think that there is so much more yet to discover.

Friends of mine own some property on the east side of Canandaigua Lake, and on the side of a ravine is an area where you can find fossils of many different kinds in small pieces of rock. I’m sure that it’s not uncommon to find other areas like this throughout the region.

Let me take this a step beyond finding fossils. The Finger Lakes region has potential for treasures of all kinds.

That’s why I tell people, when they ask if I’m running out of subject matter for this magazine, that there are limitless stories all around us. People who live next door to you may have the most amazing stories to tell. The attic in the house across the street may have a unique antique that could command a great price at an auction. Maybe there are documents of historical significance stored in a basement nearby that could alter how we think of famous figures of the past.

No matter where we live, look beyond the obvious everyday sights and see what lies beneath. We may disocver a little Indiana Jones or George McIntosh in each of us.

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Cobblestones Revisited

The article, “Is That A Potato House?” by Sue Freeman which appeared in the Winter 2005 Issue was nothing short of wonderful.

I, too, have had the good fortune of being a Finger Lakes native. I was born in Wayne and my grandparents had farms in Penn Yan and Dundee.

For many years, I was a sales rep and a lot of my territory was in the heart of the Finger Lakes. I, too, was fascinated with the Cobblestone homes and buildings, which brings me to an observation that the author may have missed.

There are buildings of this type quite a bit farther than the 65-mile radius of Rochester mentioned in the article. On Church Street in Cortland there is a church of Cobblestone structure, and as far away as the lakes are, you’ll find these buildings. The fist-size stones are predominant all around the shores and up on the banks of all the lakes.

My late father related that when he was young and in his teens, he went with another chap to visit some friends in Hammondsport, from his home in Dundee. While there, these friends took him and his pal to a cave that was well hidden in one of the huge ravines that are all around the village. Where it is, I have no idea, but he did say that it was a large cavern and they could not see the end of it with their flashlight.

The treasures in the Finger Lakes area are unsurpassed anywhere on earth, and I thank you again for your wonderful article about the Cobblestone buildings.

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This year’s theme is Drama in the Garden, and visitors will be treated to a true taste of spring and a chance to gather ideas for gardens and landscapes that beautify and enhance the value of any home.

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Wild water derby back again Last year the Shortsville Manchester Area Chamber of Commerce reintroduced the Wild Water Derby to the Canandaigua Outlet after a nineyear absence. In its first year back, the derby was ranked by the American Canoe Association as the largest single-day paddling event in New York. The event had more than 130 participants and over 2,000 spectators. Prior to its cancellation in the mid 1990s, the event drew more than 520 participants and a crowd size estimated at 8,000.

The event includes a “Water Safety Awareness” segment with interactive displays from the U.S. Coast Guard, Corps of Engineers, Ontario County Sheriffs Department and others. There are plans to introduce a “Conservation & Environmental Awareness” segment for the 2007 event.

This year the Wild Water Derby will take place on April 28. The chamber anticipates a 40-percent annual growth over the next several years, and they believe it will eventually become one of the largest paddling events in the Northeast.

Memorial Art Gallery acquires work by Georgia O’Keeffe After the exhibit “Georgia O’Keeffe: Color and Conservation” closed on December 31, most of the masterworks were returned to their lenders. But the luminous abstract pastel “Over Blue” remained behind in Rochester as part of the Memorial Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

Museum Director Grant Holcomb recently announced that it had been bequeathed to the gallery by long-time supporter Anne Whitman, who passed away in October 2006. A teacher and quiet philanthropist, Whitman was a dedicated champion of children and patron of music and the arts.

“Over Blue” will be on the gallery’s first floor through the end of April.

This is the last opportunity for the work to be seen by the public for the near future. It will then be taken off view and moved out of the light as a protective conservation measure. As it is a pastel on paper, more prolonged exposure to light would threaten its pristine condition and vivid colors.

Another of O’Keeffe’s works, the still life “Jawbone and Fungus,” will be on display at the museum in spring 2007. The 1931 oil has been a favorite of visitors since the gallery acquired it in 1951.

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Competing for a good cause The 7th Annual Finger Lakes International Wine Competition will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Rochester on March 31 and April 1.

Sponsored by ESL Federal Credit Union, the event culminates with a wine auction and dinner on May 5.

All net proceeds benefit Camp Good Days & Special Times, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children and families all over the world whose lives have been touched by cancer and other life-threatening challenges.

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panel of internationally renowned judges. Awards will be made based on four levels of excellence: double gold, gold, silver and bronze. Awards are also made to the highest scoring Riesling and highest scoring Ice Wine.

In 2006, more than 1,700 wineries from 17 countries and 24 states representing 333 wineries were entered, making it the largest charitable wine competition in North America. It was recently named among the 20 most influential wine competitions held across the country by American Gold Medal Wines.

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Grant will fund inclusive choir project 171 Cedar Arts Center in downtown Corning received a grant from The New York State Music Fund for its Inclusive Choir Project. This project will allow adults with developmental disabilities an opportunity to learn healthy singing and to perform seldom-heard music in partnership with a community-based chorale, The Women’s Chorale of 171 Cedar.

The Inclusive Choir Project is coordinated by Patti Walczak, the rehabilitation manager for the Steuben County Arc and a member of The Women’s Chorale of 171 Cedar. It allows 171 to build on programming initiated last year to teach ceramics, movement and visual arts to developmentally disabled adults as part of the day programs at Pathways. Pathways is a regional non-profit serving adults and children with disabilities that is located near 171 in downtown Corning. The Inclusive Choir expands the outreach of this program to another organization serving adults with disabilities in this rural region.

Susan O’Leary, executive director of 171, said, “The members of The Women’s Chorale support our mission to address all populations and educate our community about the nature of adults with developmental disabilities and their need for inclusion.”

Cayuga Museum creates “Sick of It” exhibit The Cayuga Museum is working on an exhibit for this spring focusing on infectious disease and the rise of the public health system. The “Sick of It” exhibit will examine common illnesses of the past 100 years and how a government system evolved to help alleviate them. “Sick of It” will cover a number of once-common diseases, their effects and treatments, and report on why they’re less common today.

The exhibit will examine current issues in public health, like preparedness for a major outbreak of infectious disease, rabies in wild animals, clean water, waste disposal and more.

The Cayuga Museum solicited input from the public about issues covered in the “Sick of It” exhibit. Over the past 100 years, many of the treatments to alleviate once-common diseases have been proven worthless, while modern medicine has confirmed the efficacy of some old wives’ remedies. The museum collected tales of home remedies and preventative measures.

Museum Director Eileen McHugh asked senior citizens to recall and write down the home remedies used by their families when they were young. These remedies will be archived in the museum collection, where they will become a part of the historic record and may provide clues for health researchers into the future.

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Calling all bird watchers The Finger Lakes Land Trust (FLLT) is planning a new event for the spring, the FLLT Spring Bird Quest. Over Memorial Day weekend (May 26-28), participants will count bird species on FLLT preserves, enjoying the dazzling diversity of local avifauna while raising pledge money for the Land Trust. Birders of all skill levels are welcome.

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It’s not all wine Doug Thayer and his Rooster Fish Brew Pub in Watkins Glen have reached a milestone. In October, Thayer sent 51 gallons of his Brownstone beer to John G. Ryan distributors. The Pine City-based wholesaler will make kegs of Rooster Fish beers available to bars and restaurants throughout the region, starting with four locations in Ithaca.

Thayer made his first batch of beer in the winter of 2002-03 in the stockpot in the kitchen of his Wildflower Café, and served the first mug in his Crooked Rooster Pub next door in the spring of 2004.

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nesses into one, the Rooster Fish Brew Pub. He intentionally changed his business concept to reflect the success of his beers. New York is somewhat behind the trend of many parts of the nation in opening craft or micro-breweries, Thayer said, noting that there are fewer than 150 in the state. In this region, the most noted ones are Ithaca Beer Co., Market Street Brew Pub in Corning and Wagner’s at Wagner Winery in Seneca County.

The New York Beer Trail, just over a year old and created by state legislation on the pattern of the familiar wine trails, will help draw visitors to the state’s small breweries, Thayer said.

“I’m amazed at the number of people who come to Watkins Glen just because of the brewery,” he said.

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Fox Run announces a new partner Fox Run Vineyards owner and president, Scott Osborn, announced the addition of a new partner to the company, Michael D. Lally. Lally is president of Upstate Builders, a Florida real estate developer and luxury home builder.

Since 1975, the number of New York wineries has grown tenfold, from 21 to 212, and the industry has created 25,000 full-time jobs. In 1993, there were just 14 wineries on Seneca Lake; today there are 45. The wine and grape industry has contributed more than $3.3 billion to the New York state economy.

“The wine and tourism industries have grown the region’s economy in the past few years and have made the Finger Lakes wine region a tourist destination,” Lally said. “Fox Run Vineyards is one of those destinations and that impresses me.”

Book depicts history of Clifton Springs The Clifton Springs Historical Society announced the publication of Clifton Springs Through the Years.

The book describes some of the many attributes of the village from its beginning in the early 1800s up to the year 2006. It contains articles on the early settlement of Clifton Springs, the arrival of Dr. Henry Foster and the building of his first Water Cure, and information on the village parks, businesses, organizations and people.

Village historians James T. Conners and Frederick L. Gifford authored the book. It illustrates in photo and narrative form how the village has grown over the years and brings to light a few of the hundreds of individuals who have contributed to its development.

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Theater in the Hills

By Kari Anderson

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t’s spring again, time to get your guestroom ready for that regular summer visitor. No, it’s not your son home from college, your niece from the Midwest or your mother-inlaw up from Florida. It’s an actor from New York City who returns each year to work at the Bristol Valley Theater for its summer run of shows.

While the Bristol Valley Theater, located in an old church in Naples, is not a community theater per se, members of the community of Naples do feel a sense of ownership toward the organization. It was community members, known as the Friends of Bristol Valley Playhouse, that rescued the original incarnation of the theatre when founders George and Mary Sherwood closed the Bristol Valley Playhouse in the mid 1980s. The Friends bought and renovated the Trinity Federated Church on Main Street in Naples, which provided a home for the newly dubbed Bristol Valley Theater.

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Community members continue to lend their support by providing housing each summer for the cast and crew.

From a renovated garage apartment to a summer lake house, Naples residents open their doors and provide various spaces for the transient actors to stay while the productions are in full swing.

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ficult to entice them to come. “We get probably a thousand pictures and resumes from actors, and we have to weed through those and select who we want to see when we go down to New York City for auditions each spring,” states Karin Bowersock, artistic director of Bristol Valley Theater.

“We end up hiring between 35 and 50 people over the course of the summer, so it’s fiercely competitive. Actors like to work and that’s an actor’s life to go from one job to the next and see different parts of the country. Many of them have never seen this part of the state before, and it’s a beautiful place to be and work. There’s a lot to enjoy when they have a free moment.”

Those moments are few and far between once the summer season gets underway. A typical day’s rehearsal runs a minimum of eight hours. Once the technical aspects, such as lights, sound effects and props, are added in, rehearsals run 12 hours or more each day. Follow that up with an evening performance and it’s a grueling work schedule. “In the summertime, my day starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 1 or 2 in the morning,” says Karin. “It’s a hectic, high-energy schedule, and by the fifth show, people are getting worn down.”

Each show runs for two weeks, and at the end of the run, the crew must completely transform the stage. “The crew builds sets for each show in 12 days with a four-day changeover between productions. Their hours are crazier than mine!” adds Karin.

While the technical staff, including stage carpenters and lighting technicians, stay for the whole summer, the actors vary in the amount of time that they work at the theater. This is because each production has different needs in terms of casting. Still, Karin likes to use the same actors for multiple shows. This has benefits for the actors and the audience alike.

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This Summer at Bristol Valley Theater June 14-24 “All Night Strut” A jumpin’, jivin’ celebration of the classy, sassy music of the ’30s and ’40s. Get on board the Chatanooga Choo Choo, get In the Mood, and feel the Fascinating Rhythm of the Java Jive with the unbeatable energy that’s as perfect for the new generation of swing fans as it is for diehard devotees.

June 28 - July 8 “Lend Me a Tenor” When a high-strung, world-renowned tenor is unable to perform at the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, the opera’s assistant manager must step in to fill his shoes. That’s where the hilarity takes off in this Tony Award-winning farce of mistaken identities, desperate measures and compromising positions.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.bvtnaples.org, or call 585-374-6318.

July 12-22 “Man of La Mancha” Be inspired by the classic musical adaptation of Cervantes’ tale of Don Quixote, an eccentric peasant who thinks he’s a knight, tilts at windmills he believes are ogres and defends the honor of his lady Dulcinea (really a kitchen wench).

July 26 - August 5 “The Drawer Boy” A young actor from the big city shows up at the doorstep of two farmer friends, wanting to live and work with them as research for a play. This moving comedy, about the simple pleasures of friendship and the healing power of art, contains some strong language.

August 9-19 “Sleuth” This is one of the funniest and most suspenseful mysteries every written for the stage. An aging mystery writer invites his wife’s lover to his home for a game of cat and mouse that goes from devilish fun to deadly.

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“It’s great for the actors because they have experience in more than one role,” explains Karin. “It’s also great for the audience to see the same person transform himself from show to show.

There are definite audience favorites, and people want to follow them. It also helps build an ensemble that works well together. When actors ‘job in’ for a single show, it’s hard to get into the groove of everyone working well together, but if the team stays together and gets in that groove, it’s a better production.

They also tend to treat each other a little better because they know they’ll have a longer relationship.”

Being in a small town has its advantages in terms of getting feedback from the audience. Karin’s relationship with village locals means that she gets a steady stream of feedback about the plays the theater puts on.

“The audience feels a great ownership of the theater,” she says. “It’s very different from working in New York City,

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Peter Schmitz, Pam Feicht, Cristopher McNeany and Kaylin Lee Clinton in “Absurd Person Singular” Photo by Web Begole

where I was for nearly 20 years. There are so many theaters there that it’s hard to feel like you’re touching anybody, but here I know the direct person-to-person connections I’m making.

I see it, feel it, and hear it from the audience. A good day for me is when I know we’re touching people with the theater experience.”

The locale of the theater also is a deciding factor in the plays Karin chooses each year. She picks a variety of

genres, including comedies, musicals, mysteries and light dramas, but she stays away from fare that is too serious. “We don’t want to do anything heavy in the summertime because people are trying to enjoy themselves,” she says.

While the high season for the theater is June through August, its “shoulder” seasons (in April/May and September/October) offer shows that are performed at, but not produced by, the Bristol Valley Theater. “We bring in different artistic presentations in the spring and fall. It may be dance, music, comedy improv, or family programming,” notes Karin. The season culminates with a Halloween performance of “Ghosts Among the Grapevines,” a production that incorporates Halloween stories along with local myths and legends.

Karin says that the location of the Bristol Valley Theater is also one of its biggest challenges. “We have to make sure that people know that we’re here,

and then get them to come to Naples,” she adds. “There’s not really a straight shot on the Thruway, but it’s a beautiful scenic drive from whatever way you come. Still, it’s a marketing challenge for us.”

Karin admits that a small town like Naples is an unusual place to find a theater with professional actors.

“Logically, a professional theater shouldn’t exist in a community of 1,500 people,” she says. “But I share the theory that each community, as it has a library, as it has a hospital, should also have a theater to bring to the members of that community. To have a live professional theater in a community this size is a rarity. I think we’re very blessed to be here, and that the area is very blessed to have had a theater in its midst for over 40 years.”

Kari Anderson lives in Victor with her husband and three children. She plays the harp, piano and organ professionally and is learning the banjo.

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It’s estimated that 70,000 grape pies are made in Naples each year.

There are several other landmarks on display throughout the Naples area, including the Morgan Hook and Ladder Company, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and Grimes Glen, site of a celebrated archeological find. Local attractions include the Bristol Valley Theater and the Hi Tor Wildlife Management Area. Small businesses are the lifeblood of Naples. It has become known as an artist haven.

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The earthenware sculptures of Arnold Zimmerman, a Poughkeepsie native, march along the front of the museum.

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ne visit to a museum is rarely enough to see everything.

There are changing displays or traveling exhibitions to further entertain and enlighten the public.

Objects that have emerged from museum storage wait to be discovered.

Recent acquisitions arrive to be admired and studied, and special programs and tours are regularly offered.

In this magazine’s Fall 2006 issue, Stickley furniture at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse was the focus. Now the ceramics collection, one of the largest in the country, beckons us to return.

Before entering the Everson Museum off Harrison Street, visitors see five large ceramic works created by

Arnold Zimmerman, a contemporary New York artist. Variously referred to as pots, vessels or urns, they have narrow tops making them resemble large-scale vases. These tall modern sculptures, created in 1982, are raised on cement blocks, and their round forms contrast sharply with architect I.M. Pei’s cubic museum building behind them. The unglazed, solid pot forms suggest a monumental terracotta hedge positioned between the building and the city’s busy pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Each piece is individually carved with abstract geometric shapes and encircled with deep-cut horizontal bands. These bold pots, inspired

by Romanesque architecture, communicate art and appropriately suggest what

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Coming Attractions This spring enjoy the following exhibits, which will be open March 3 through May 27, 2007.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties A traveling exhibit developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art will highlight the Depression-era photography of Mississippi, Louisiana, and New York by renowned author Eudora Welty. Welty’s own photographs capture the world that the she described in her short stories and novels.

Lost Cases, Recovered Lives: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic This collaborative exhibit presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding the Willard Asylum, which operated for a century just outside Syracuse. A poignant look at 12 of 100 suitcases recovered by researchers, the exhibit examines the lives of the Willard patients who owned them and the treatment of individuals diagnosed with mental illness.

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awaits visitors in the Today the Everson owns Everson Museum’s ceramics more works by the collection. renowned potter than any The Everson Museum’s other museum. holdings total 11,000 Robineau is famous for objects, with American her works in porcelain, ceramics alone amounting which she explored after she to over 4,000 pieces, one of had already become wellthe largest collections in known for her china paintthe nation. Examples from Judy Moonelis's "Curving Head" won a purchase prize in the Everson's ing, a popular 19th century the ancient classical world 27th Ceramic National. pastime. In 1899, she to contemporary ceramics became the editor of are displayed in open storage in 84 for the Arts and Crafts Movement Ceramic Studio, a pioneering cases on the lower level in the with the furniture designed by Gustav American ceramics magazine. By the Syracuse China Center for the Study Stickley (1858-1942) and his publicatime of her death she was “widely recof Ceramics. The pieces are arranged tion, The Craftsman. Another artisan, ognized as the preeminent artist-potchronologically by culture and include Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865ter in America and the first to proworks from the Americas, Asia, and 1929), moved with her family to the duce porcelain objects that rivaled Europe. city in 1901 and spread the idea of those from European porcelain factohandmade ceramics. In 1916, the ries in both design and execution,” Robineau makes her stamp Everson, formerly the Syracuse according to the Everson. on ceramics Museum of Fine Arts, purchased a In 1911, Robineau was awarded Syracuse had become the center small group of Robineau’s porcelains. the grand prize for her display of 55

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ceramics at an international Other artists to discover exhibition, which included The Everson’s Art her best-known porcelain, Pottery collection alone, to “Scarab Vase.” which Robineau’s works The actual title of the belong, contains over 2,000 vase is “The Apotheosis of pieces. It encompasses Art the Toiler,” a reference to Nouveau and Arts and the “unknown potter” who Crafts styles, and spans the labors at his craft. Its main period from the 1870s to motif of the scarab beetle, about 1915. Rookwood, The museum's collection of ceramics spans ancient sculpture and Ming an Egyptian symbol of hard dynasty porcelain to contemporary works.

Fulper, Tiffany, George Ohr, work, patience, strength and Newcomb, and Marblehead immortality, accounts for its name. are among the makers represented.

“Top Treasures of the Century” by It was thrown on a potter’s wheel Antiques Magazine.

Native American potter Maria and after it dried, Robineau slowly cut It was in Robineau’s memory that Martinez (1887-1980) of San Ildefonso out the background of the pot to crethe Ceramic National exhibitions were Pueblo, New Mexico, is among those ate the intricate design of the stylized established beginning in 1932 at the 20th century potters whose work is repbeetles. The glaze is a glossy white Everson Museum. These helped to resented. She and her husband, Julian, with accents of pale turquoise and the change the public’s opinion on ceramcreated contemporary Pueblo wares, ics from craft to art form. By showcasexcised background was left unglazed. like bowls described as “black on black.” ing ceramics, this series of exhibits also An estimated 1,000 hours was spent Their glazing technique is a striking led to the growth of the museum’s working on the Scarab Vase. In the contrast between matte black and more comprehensive ceramics collection. polished black surface designs. year 2000, it won praise as one of the

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Everson’s later 20th century ceramics are less utilitarian and more sculptural. At the entrance to the center is “The Emperor Moth” (1986) by American sculptor Michael Lucero, who works primarily in clay. At almost 6 feet high and over 8.5 feet wide, the brightly colored glazed ceramic and painted wood sculpture depicts an upright moth. Larger than life, the moth’s ceramic wings are enlivened by a variety of shapes, including fanciful cloud-like formations and other images of mountains, rivers and forests based on the New Mexico landscape of Lucero’s youth. Not surprisingly this whimsical piece is a favorite of children at the museum.

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The Children’s Interactive Gallery on the lower level is located next to the contemporary ceramics and offers many hands-on activities. In its “wunderkammer,” or “cabinet of curiosities,” there are ceramic objects reproduced from the Everson’s collection. According to Sarah Tiedemann, communications associate for the Everson, there are several tools that can help the public learn more about ceramics. These include a glossary of ceramic terms, a television with a video overview of the collection, and a book that catalogues all but the newer pieces.

So head for the Everson to learn more about its vast collection of ceramics.

For more information about the Everson Museum of Art, visit www.everson.org or call 315-474-6064.

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Strutting Her Stuff

By Tina Manzer

Anne Peacock-Jacobs shares her impressive collection of Asian antiques at her own museum in Honeoye Falls.

Anne shows off a ceremonial kimono, one of over 700 items in her museum.

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don’t really believe in reincarnation, but maybe I was Asian in a former life,” said Anne Peacock-Jacobs, attempting to justify her fascination with all things Asian. “I even raise Shih Tzu dogs, and they’re from China! I don’t know when or why I became so interested in that breed.” (She’s first generation American of German descent, by the way, and grew up in Naples, New York.)

And then there’s her name. “Asian cultures have featured peacock motifs for centuries, and the color ‘peacock blue’ is frequently used in Asian art,” she said.

“The peacock is symbolic of beauty and grace and in some cases, has spiritual significance.”

We were discussing the 700-plus Asian antiques Anne has amassed over a 50year period, everything from porcelains and woodcarvings to clothing and baskets.

Except for some bigger pieces that remain in her Honeoye Falls home, the collection is on permanent display at The Peacock Oriental Antique Museum. Admission is always free.

The museum encompasses five rooms of the historic Lower Mill on Main Street.

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In addition to Anne’s office and a reference library, there’s the Chinese Room, the Japanese Room, and the Peacock Room. “People get as big a kick out of the Peacock Room as they do the other rooms,” she said. “Basically, it features all the peacock items friends have given me over the years. My children’s things, too. I have four Peacock kids who said, ‘Here, take this for the museum,’ when I opened it in 1995.

“Visitors come from all over the U.S. and Asia, and it’s amazing how many tell me that they collect peacocks, too,” she added. “I have five or six signed guest books now, and people leave me fabulous comments. They’ll leave me notes written in Chinese and include the English translation. They call my museum a ‘hidden treasure.’

More than a hobby

According to collections expert Susan Pearce, author of On Collecting: An Investigation Into Collecting in the European Tradition, one in three Americans consciously collects something. Anne Peacock-Jacobs collects everything. Her current fascination is with Lucite furniture (“I’m redecorating our home in Florida in retro!”) and she met her husband, David Jacobs, by way of her antique car collection (they both own 1957 Thunderbirds).

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can find,” she said. “My collecting is different. I look at it from the perspective of educating others. Chinese cloisonné comes in a variety of forms, and I have pieces of every one of them because they help to represent the culture. We have a lot of children’s groups come through the museum because Asian studies are part of the middle school curriculum. I love that I have all of these examples to show them.”

Anne’s Asian collection began with a gift from a friend who returned home from the Korean War. “He brought me back a set of lacquer sake cups,” she said. “I still have them.”

Her first love was Asian furnishings, which she saw in California when she was 16. “My mother moved there, and when I visited her she took me to her friends’ house. They owned the Ralphs Grocery chain and had a daughter my age. The whole house was decorated in Asian, and I had never seen anything like it! Everything in the western United States is way ahead of where we are in the East, and this was especially true in the 1950s. I vowed then and there that when I got married and had my own home, I would decorate it in Asian, and I did.”

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The Lower Mill 61 North Main Street, Honeoye Falls The Peacock Museum is located in the historic Lower Mill in Honeoye Falls, a former gristmill that today houses a restaurant, art school and gallery.

The Rabbit Room restaurant is open for lunch Tuesday through Saturday, and offers soups, salads, sandwiches and wraps. Dinner is served one night a week, on Thursdays, accompanied by live music.

The mission of the Mill Art Center and Gallery is to provide an environment in which members of the community can express and develop their artistic abilities and at the same time, view works of art from area artists. Studio art classes provide instruction for all age groups and range from “Advanced Drawing and Painting for Kids” to “On the Canvas” oil painting for teens and adults.

It’s a beautiful, open complex housed within original limestone walls. It’s also available for special events.

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year to find out what the Asian style was all about, and to write a story about it. “In the East at that time, you couldn’t even find a reproduction ginger jar,�

Anne told us. “On my search for accent pieces for my home I sort of stumbled onto Asian antiques. I bought my first piece from a store called Mah-Jong on East Avenue in Rochester. It was a very prestigious store, very high end.�

She continued to collect in some of the world’s largest cities. “My husband traveled a lot with his company, and I would go with him,� Anne told us. “The joke was that he was out making money and I was out spending money because I would go straight to the antique districts to shop. There are also shows for Asian antiques only, in London, Los Angeles and New York City. I go and I’m like a kid in a candy store.�

She is drawn to pieces that best represent Asian culture, that showcase how people live and what they’re all about. She is particularly fond of Chinese Peking Glass, known for its beautiful colors, but her collection also includes porcelains, ivories, bronzes, precious metals, baskets and lacquer ware.

Research: collecting’s cousin “I bought a few more antiques then I’d find another and think, ‘Ooooh, this is even nicer than the last one I bought,’� Anne said. “At the same time I thought, ‘Gee, if I’m going to invest in all this, I should know more about it.’�

She borrowed books from all over the Monroe County Library System until she read everything that was available.

She started borrowing books from the colleges’ systems, but could only keep those books overnight. “Some of them were worth $5,000, sometimes $10,000!

I would return one, then run across an item when I shopped and think, ‘What did that book say about this again?’ so I started buying my own books.�

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ravel by boat on Seneca Lake had been a way of getting from point A to point B for years. The Indians of the Six Nations traveled by canoes on water, on trails by land, and had established trade routes.

Early pioneers arrived by water routes. Many were soldiers who were with the Sullivan Expedition, which swept the Indians from the area in 1779. Soldiers marveled at the beauty and productivity of Indian land. They came back to claim bounty land offered to take the place of army pay.

By the 1790s, settlers cleared land, built houses, and took up farming or a trade. Commerce and industry looked to water to run mills and transport goods. Travel by boat was a way of life.

An impressive list of hotels on both sides of the lake attracted summer guests for several years, particularly in the 1890s. Most were in verdant rural settings, ranging in size from luxurious hostelries to comfortable wood-frame establishments. A standard feature was a wide wraparound porch with a row of cushioned rocking chairs where groups met to socialize and enjoy the spectacular sunsets over Seneca Lake.

Individuals with traveling companions and entire families arrived with trunks full of clothes and gear sufficient to see them through the various sports, outings and social activities offered by management.

A BUSTLING ERA Boatyards were busy building boats along the lake in Geneva, Long Point, Dundee, Penn Yan, Starkey, Lodi Landing, Watkins, and Mills Landing, now Montour. Sailboats, ferries, scows, tugboats, passenger boats, full-masted schooners and steam-propelled excursion boats plied the waters of Seneca Lake. The era of

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After being used to quarantine smallpox patients, the Onondaga was declared to be a health hazard and had to be blown up.

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A SPECIAL FAMILY TRADITION The famous Covert Family Reunion brought hundreds of Coverts to Lodi Landing for years.

It was a strong, well-run organization, with officers elected from families coming from all over the country. They came by horsedrawn vehicles, train and special lake boat excursions to The Willows, the name of the hotel at that time. They came to renew family ties and continue Covert family traditions. An all-day program kept the reunion going for many years.

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the lake boats was an exciting time of enterprise in history.

The Steamboat Era was a period of over 90 years, from the 1830s to the 1920s. Lake boats ran on regular schedules, zigzagging across the lake, going from Geneva to Watkins in about four hours with several stops along the way. A 25-cent ticket made it possible to take the trip for business, shopping, visiting friends, or just as an enjoyable ride on the classic crafts.

By the early 1900s, a congenial group of Geneva families had established a small summer colony south of Lodi Point. They built rustic wood-frame cottages, with most of the materials coming by way of lake boat from Geneva. The “roughing it in comfort” cottages all had front porches. Over the years owners have enclosed the porches for additional room, and most have been renovated for year-round homes as well. One or two cottages survive in their original state and style. The cottages along the shore north of the Point have also been altered or replaced with modern improvements.

In the lake boat era, Lodi

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Landing was a very busy commercial location, with entrepreneur John Demott conducting a thriving trade, sending produce and farm goods to New York City by boat and receiving shipments in return for sale in his general merchandise store. Lodi Landing had its own post office for a few years.

It was the custom for the Geneva businessman to take the lake steamer to his office for the usual day’s routine. One family dog was known to accompany his owner each day. To request a stop, a white flag was put out for daytime and a red flag for evening.

Excursions were popular during the summer. Silver Thread Falls, one of nature’s scenic wonders above Lodi Landing, was a frequent place to visit.

Groups took picnic lunches and made a day of it. Silver Thread Falls is now on private property.

LEGENDARY LAKE BOATS A chronology of famous lake boats begins with the Alexander, later renamed Seneca, built in 1796 for Charles Williamson, land developer for the Pulteney Tract, by Thomas

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Many of the boats made of wood burned or sank.

The Nautilus, built in 1893 in Geneva, was the famous steamship at the Willard State Hospital. It had a great career, carrying mail and passengers, and taking patients on excursions. The smartly uniformed Willard Hospital Band frequently gave concerts in the summer, playing on the boat deck for the enjoyment of patients and townsfolk assembled on the shore, as well as hospital employees who were housed in the nearby lakeside hotel.

The Laura A. Darragh and the Otetiani were favorites for many years, until the Otetiani sank in 1909. The Onondaga was a beautiful sidewheeler, 175 feet long, with a 25-foot beam and a 9-foot hold. It accommodated 400 passengers, or up to 800 on special excursions. There were spacious staterooms with separate cabins for ladies and gentlemen, wide promenade decks and an elegant dining room. When a troupe of traveling players in Geneva came down with smallpox, the health authorities decided to isolate them, and they were quarantined on the Onondaga.

The ship was declared a health hazard and had to be destroyed. On September 14, 1898, watchers came by the hundreds for the touted event.

The ship, loaded with dynamite, was towed into the lake, and then began drifting toward shore before it exploded with a shattering blast heard 15 miles away.

Names of the boats frequenting the waters of Seneca Lake are echoes of the past. They include the Robert S. Troup, a two-masted schooner built in 1813 by Spaulding, the Seneca

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Chief in 1828, followed by the Richard Stevens in 1834. The Chemung, a towboat built in 1839, sank in 1850 and then was raised and repaired for more service. In 1846 the Geneva boatyard of William Hawthorne and Benjamin Springstead built the Kanadesaga, which sank at the Dresden dock in 1849, was rebuilt and then dismantled in the early 1860s.

The Ben Loder was a big timer of

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1849, 250 feet long, with a 500 horsepower motor. When passenger service ended in 1851, it was converted to a towboat, towing a record 68 canal boats. It burned in 1861 at Magee’s dock, a fine craft lost.

The Elmira was built at the B.W. Springstead yards in Geneva in 1862 as a replacement for the Ben Loder, using two of its engines. It rotted at a Geneva dock in 1883. The John Arnot,

built in 1854, was lost when it burned at the Watkins dock in 1857. The Duncan S. Magee, launched at the Charles W. Brown boatyard in Dresden on June 27, 1860, was remodeled in 1861 for additional service. The Colonial came along at the end of the passenger runs, and ran from 1906 to 1914 only during the summer months.

The Manhattan made daily trips from Geneva to Watkins in 1915, managing to hold on as the railroads took over. It went to Cayuga Lake, where it later sank.

COMING TO AN END

During the lake boat era, Lodi Landing was a hub of commercial activity with regular shipments to and from New York City.

The era of the lake boats came to an end with the expansion of the railroads, providing faster and more efficient methods of transportation. The excitement of the steamship arriving at the dock, passengers trouping down the gangplank, more passengers boarding, the activity of the ship departing with whistle blowing as it headed for its next stop was all replaced by the whistle of the “iron horse.” A new era also came and passed into history.

The Protodora, built in 1909 by A.W. Springstead for Captain Frank S. Tower was 43 feet long with a 30 horsepower Fay and Bowen gas-powered

Many of the boats made of wood ultimately burned or sank, like the Otetiani, a favorite that went down in 1909.

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LAKE BOAT SCHEDULE from the 1880s

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Geneva ..........8:15 a.m.

Dresden..........9:30 a.m.

Willard ........10:00 a.m.

Long Point ..10:15 a.m.

Lodi ............10:35 a.m.

N. Hector ....10:50 a.m.

Starkey ........11:10 a.m.

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Watkins ........3:00 p.m.

Glenora ........3:45 p.m.

Starkey ..........4:10 p.m.

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Lodi ..............4:40 p.m.

Long Point ....5:00 p.m.

Willard ..........5:15 p.m.

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Tulips in bloom, Cortland

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Spring blossoms surround this Cortland church round the time of year when I can't bear to see another snowflake, I find myself looking up. Not at the sky for snow clouds, but at the tree line. And then I see it: the sheen of red, the faint glow of yellow, the gentle budding of trees that all but shouts out to us, “Yes, I'm on my way.”

Spring is the time when the world around us awakens from a deep winter slumber, coating our world with a palette of color. The first flower in my yard, the crocus, pretty in pink as it peeks out of the ground, soon gives way to the sunny yellow daffodils and the myriad colors of the tulips.

There is a race in every household to see who can be the first to say spring's favorite phrase, “I saw a robin

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today.� Dogwoods burst into bloom, a bold statement to one of spring's finest moments. Vineyards come alive. Wildlife peeks out from behind a cover of foliage, new life frolicking by its side.

Suddenly the grass looks greener and the lake water looks bluer. Boats are once again filling the marinas, owners gleeful in their primping and polishing, preparing once again for a sun-kissed sail.

Spring has its own background music: birds in song, the patter of raindrops, the gentle rumble of fields being plowed, and our own quiet murmur of thanks that pesky bugs still soundly sleep.

As you travel the byways of our beautiful Finger Lakes region, take time to pause and appreciate the colors and sights and sounds that signal nature's awakening.

Savor spring.

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Right: Rhododendrons in bloom at Cornell Plantations Top: The green countryside along Route 41, and Greek Peak minus snow!

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Whitetail Fawn Photos and Story by Bill Banaszewski

Fawns use camouflage to their advantage

Whitetail doe with two fawns

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t is difficult to believe that between 1860 and the early 1900s whitetail deer were essentially eliminated from the region. When settlers came to this area, they slowly but steadily cleared the forests to create farmland.

By 1880, approximately 70 percent of the hill country surrounding the lakes was farmland and only 20 percent remained forested. The loss of protective forest habitat, no laws governing the taking of deer, and market hunting had worked in combination to eliminate deer.

After hillside farming began declining around 1880, nature started reclaiming the abandoned farmland.

Finding apples in old orchards and new successional plants, deer began migrating north from Pennsylvania.

Laws were established to regulate hunting, and “deer sightings� were the talk of the town between 1915 and 1920.

My former neighbor, who lived and farmed his entire life just outside of Naples, saw his first deer in 1918 when he was 17 years old. In 1920, the Naples Record ran a story about people driving from as far as Rochester hoping to see the two deer that frequented fields just outside of Naples.

Today, deer thrive in the Finger Lakes region and have adapted to living in close proximity to people.

Newspapers no longer run stories about deer sightings, and although some consider them a nuisance, they are revered by hunters, naturalists and photographers.

Deer populations are always fluctuating due to hunting, predation, car collisions, and starvation during harsh winters. Nevertheless, the cycle of life

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One-day-old whitetail fawns renews itself each May as each doe gives birth to a single fawn or up to three.

Most deer in the wild are bred during the middle of November and have a gestation period of approximately 200 days. As a result, the week before or after Memorial Day is the best time to discover newborn fawns.

Immediately after a fawn is born, does consume the afterbirth. After being cleaned and milked, fawns will attempt to stand 15 minutes after birth, and can walk within three hours. Once the fawn can walk, the

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mother moves it from the birthing site and leaves it to sleep. The doe then moves a good distance away, so her scent glands and afterbirth smells will not attract predators. Newborn fawns have only one active scent gland and, once cleaned, are nearly scentless.

During the first week of a fawn’s life, most of its time is spent sleeping and milking. The mother returns only five to seven times a day. Occasionally people find a fawn sleeping alone and assume something has happened to its mother. Although efforts to care for

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the fawn may seem appropriate, it is not necessary or legal.

After one week, fawns can outrun humans and are spending more time with their mothers. At three weeks, does begin the weaning process by introducing fawns to solid food. By the end of June, fawns become playful and curious, often getting themselves in trouble. Most fawns are weaned by early September, and in a few weeks a darker brown, winter coat covers their spotted tan, summer coat. Small “button” antlers have grown on the heads

of males and typically grow less than three inches before they are shed in December.

Within a year, fawns are essentially adults, and they, too, will play their role in renewing the cycle of life.

Photographer Bill Banaszewski is owner of Finger Lakes Images and professor emeritus of environmental conservation at Finger Lakes Community College. A sample of his photographs can be viewed at www.thefingerlakesimages.com.

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Above: The Muller’s Swiss Chalet Left: Honeoye Lake, as seen from Harriet Hollister Spencer Park Photos by Bill Banaszewski

Generous gifts of preserved land in picturesque Honeoye Valley have made dreams come true for conservators and environmental educators. Here’s the story behind the Finger Lakes Community College Muller Conservation Field Station and the Honeoye Inlet Wildlife Management Area.

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mil Muller was just 22 when he immigrated to the United States from his native Switzerland in 1926. He came alone, with little more than the clothes on his back, a few dollars in his pocket and the dream of seeking his fortune in the land of opportunity.

Success did not elude Emil for long. After working his way through Mechanics Institute (now Rochester Institute of Technology) and graduating in 1932, he pursued an aggressive entrepreneurial career, first as a homebuilder, and later as a commercial developer. He built over 1,000 houses in the Rochester area and served two terms as president of the Rochester Home Builders’ Association in 1937 and 1938.

Emil was a pioneer in the construction of shopping centers. By the 1960s, he had become a major player in the commercial development of suburban Rochester, Atlanta, Chicago and Cincinnati. He was also worth millions and made generous contributions to Rochester’s Highland Hospital, the Boy Scouts of America, and the Rochester Rotary Club’s Camp Haccamo, a summer camp for kids with special needs.

Next, a conservator

In 1967, Emil had another dream. He and his wife, Florence, began to purchase large tracts of land in the picturesque valley at the south end of Honeoye Lake. The Honeoye Valley, with its almost mountainous forested bluffs and ridges, reminded Emil of the dramatic Swiss landscape of his youth.

Altogether, the Mullers assembled over 2,500 acres that included more than two miles of frontage on both sides of Honeoye Inlet and extended nearly a mile up each mountainside. In 1968, the couple built an authentic Swiss chalet there and made the Honeoye Valley their permanent home. They knew that they had acquired an area unique in its biodiversity, and it became Emil’s dream to preserve that natural heritage.

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His dream, however, had not yet been fulfilled.

Canoeing at the field station.

Photo by Bill Banaszewski

The lifeline of Honeoye Valley is Honeoye Inlet, which meanders northward into Honeoye Lake through an immense filtering wetland that is biologically classified as a silver maple-ash swamp. These swamps are mostly wooded and provide little in the way of open water. Although silver maple-ash swamps are not very common in New York, a similar but smaller example straddles Canadice Inlet at the south end of neighboring Canadice Lake.

The surrounding uplands of the Honeoye Valley are forested with hardwood trees such as beech, cherry, hickory, maple, and red and white oaks. Towering white pines penetrate their canopy. The valley’s 28 natural communities are home to over 1,200 species of plants, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. They include brook trout, walleye, coal skink, the spiny soft-shelled turtle, timber rattlesnakes, river otters and black bear. Nearly 160 species of birds range from marsh wrens to bald eagles.

Emil’s idea of preserving natural heritage did not always coincide with the ideas of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). He sometimes found himself at odds with the agency, especially when he rerouted Honeoye Inlet to provide boat access from his home to the lake. He also cleared several hundred acres of brush and woods to pasture the ranch’s herd of beef cattle, and he bulldozed switchback roads up the mountainsides to access the vast stands of timber. Despite these exploitive tactics, Emil was sensitive to the frailties of his acreage. He knew where he could tread hard and where he had to tiptoe.

Emil lived at the estate, which he and Florence named Wild Rose Ranch, until his death in 1989 at the age of 85.

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Finger Lakes Community College recognizes the possibilities After Emil’s passing, Florence took up the torch and began to search for ways to guarantee the permanent preservation of their lands, and prevent future subdivision and development. She knew the property’s biodiversity had tremendous educational value and, as a trustee of Keuka College, she sought the college’s support.

Since environmental science programs did not match the college’s curricula, she continued with her search.

In 1999, Canadice resident and Muller neighbor Annette Collins approached Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC) to fund a scholarship in her own late husband’s memory. During those discussions, she met with Professor William Banaszewski, founder of the college’s Environmental Conservation Department and its chair for 26 years. When she mentioned that Florence Muller was looking for someone to purchase her property, Banaszewski called Florence immediately. She was already in talks with other institutions, but she agreed to listen to a proposal presented by Banaszewski and then-current department chair Frank Smith. It was the start of a long-term process of negotiations and the beginning of yet another dream.

FLCC, with its 250-acre campus in Hopewell, near the north end of Canandaigua Lake, was founded in 1965. It offers more than 40 two-year academic degree programs and one-year certificate programs. Among them are Fisheries Technology, Natural Resources Conservation, Conservation Law Enforcement and a number of other environmental and horticultural studies.

After a cursory biological appraisal, it became clear to Banaszewski and Smith that the Muller property could provide an incomparable natural classroom, a perfect hands-on setting for environmental conservation students. Their dream was to make that happen.

Their presentation impressed Florence and she discussed it at length with James Howe at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and David Woodruff at the DEC. They collectively began to devise a plan that would eventually dovetail the uses of the property to benefit the college, the community and the public in general. John Hicks, DEC’s Region 8 director and

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Culture club

Milking eggs and sperm from walleye to produce walleye fry. Photo by Bill Banaszewski

Recently hatched walleye fry absorbing yolk sac.

Photo by Bill Banaszewski

Adult walleye.

Photo by Bill Banaszewski

In 2004, 100 years after Emil Muller’s birth, ground was broken at the Muller Conservation Field Station for a fish culture center. It has enabled FLCC students to hatch and rear walleye fry (Stizostedion vitreum) into fingerlings for stocking.

Technical Specialist and Assistant Professor Stephen Connelly, a 25-year veteran at FLCC and a DEC fisheries biologist before that, is heading up the new Fisheries Technology program, which confers an associate in applied science degree.

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The program is designed for students who want to pursue careers in fisheries management and fish culture in either the public or private sector.

Courses include fish culture techniques, fisheries management, stream inventory and practicum workshops.

Graduates would be competitive applicants for entry-level positions with local, state and federal natural resource agencies. The DEC is collaborating with FLCC, and has developed two fish-rearing ponds onsite to raise walleyes from fry to fingerlings.

The Fish Culture and Aquatic Research Center is scheduled to be operational in time for the spring spawning run of 2007. Inside are several tanks that will hold adult walleyes for brood stock and another that will be used for incubation, along with an elaborate plumbing system that continuously circulates fresh water. There is also space for a classroom and research lab. Students have already produced three year-classes of walleyes at Muller, using a makeshift hatchery located in the station’s boathouse. In the first year, 22,000 fingerlings were propagated.

In the fish culturing process, students capture wild walleye brood stock in a trap net set in Honeoye Inlet during the spring run. Eggs are collected from females and fertilized with milt taken from males. After a little processing, the fragile eggs are placed into containers, called McDonald culture jars, which circulate fresh water, and are left to incubate up to 28 days until they hatch into fry. Four days later they are released into the rearing ponds to grow naturally into fingerlings. They are later recaptured and stocked into Conesus Lake and other waters selected by DEC. In addition, FLCC has a fleet of six research vessels, including a state-of-theart electro-fishing boat that students use for field experience on a variety of lakes, ponds, and streams for water sampling, fish tagging, and various other tasks.

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former chairman of the Ontario Conservancy in western New County Board of Supervisors, York. TNC had previously purwas instrumental in persuading chased 430 acres from the estate county officials that there was of Emil Muller in 1998, and much to gain by releasing the helped the DEC to purchase the Muller property from the tax remaining 900 acres in 2003. rolls. Once that was accomplished, things fell into place.

Postscript What happened next is best DEC Director Hanna at official opening of Walleye Culture Project.

With the exception of the Photo by Bill Banaszewski described in this excerpt from field station and a former 164the premier issue of Wild Roses, acre scout camp purchased by the college department’s quarterly Lake Wildlife Management Area, which TNC in 2004, the remaining 2,100 newsletter: “In January of 2000, a dream has been identified by The Nature acres are now held and managed by came true for FLCC’s Environmental Conservancy as one of the most unique the DEC as the Honeoye Inlet Wildlife Conservation Department. Florence natural areas in New York State.”

Management Area, and are open for Muller of Pittsford donated her home Florence’s gift is the largest ever public use. Sean Hanna, who succeedand nearly 50 acres of land at the south received by the Finger Lakes Community ed Hicks as the DEC’s regional director end of Honeoye Lake to FLCC. The colCollege Foundation. The facility was in 2003, stated how “very proud he is lege will use both the home and land as named Muller Conservation Field of a terrific model on how government a field station where conservation faculty Station in the couple’s honor. and private interests can work together will teach courses and conduct fish and That same year, Florence donated without the need for public funding.” wildlife research. FLCC’s Field Station is Courses are now offered at the her 700 acres of wetlands at the south immediately adjacent to the DEC’s field station for conservation majors end of the lake to TNC, making it the newly acquired 2,000-acre Honeoye and members of the community alike. largest donation of land to the

The Richest Man in the Honeoye Valley No story about the Honeoye Valley is complete without mention of Ernest “Ernie” Weisschadel, Emil Muller’s colorful caretaker, sometimes-confidant, and gun-toting top hand at Wild Rose Ranch for nearly 40 years. Ernie died at 80, just as this issue was going to press. He was a wealth of anecdotes, experience, knowledge, and wisdom about life in general and in the big woods that he knew like the back of his hand. He could tell you, to the day, when spawning walleyes would “run up the crik” each spring.

Ernie didn’t mind working in the woods alone most of the time, but he was careful to “steer clear of bears, rattlesnakes, and Mr. Muller when he was in a bad mood.”

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Honeoye Valley. I am!” In terms of wisdom, Ernie was right.

I went to Ernie’s wake today.

His family told me how excited he was to have been interviewed for a magazine article. He couldn’t wait for its publication. And he didn’t.

Among his survivors is Ernie’s special friend, Florence Muller.

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Invest in the Best The lower level of the chalet has been converted into a classroom and natural resource laboratory; the upper floor contains a small conference area that is available for forums related to environmental conservation. The facility provides FLCC students with hands-on field experience in a wetlands setting, and a destination for elementary and high school classes from the Rochester/Genesee/Finger Lakes region to further their environmental education experiences.

FLCC, under the direction of current department chair John Van Niel, assisted by wildlife technician John Foust, has partnered with the DEC in wildlife management projects that allow students to monitor black bears, river otters and even walleyes using both VHF-radio and GPS telemetry tracking technology. FLCC assisted in releasing seven “telemetric” otters into Honeoye Inlet in 2000 as part of a cooperative restoration project. They are still there.

“In the immediate future, we plan to increase our outreach to high school students throughout the Finger Lakes by offering more opportunities for hands-on field experience at the station,” said Van Niel. “As for our own students, we are using the station in big ways for our new Fisheries Technology degree.” (See page 45.)

According to a grateful Florence Muller, “After extensive study and thought, I decided that the most appropriate group to own our home and nearly 50 acres of the Honeoye Valley was the Environmental Conservation Department at FLCC. Based on everything that has happened to date and all that they have planned for the future, I am both excited and convinced that I have chosen the right group to further our dream. Thank you, FLCC, for helping Emil and me secure our dream for the future of the Wild Rose Ranch.”

John Adamski is a freelance writer who specializes in wildlife and outdoor subjects.

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f a 200-year-old barn colGeorge McIntosh, a lapses and is torn down, it paleontologist and may be forgotten before director of collections long, especially if another at the RMSC, who building fills the void. A confirmed that the disrecord of the barn may surcovery was a mastodon, vive, of course, in photobased on the charactergraphs. It is not so easy to istically large bones. visualize the world thousands “Mastodons are so big of years ago in Rochester and you can’t misidentify the Finger Lakes region, them,” explains where evidence of human life McIntosh, adding that is scarce and many of the a typical adult ancient animals are now mastodon could weigh extinct. The Rochester 4 to 6 tons and measMuseum & Science Center ure 8 to 10 feet high at (RMSC) has recreated and the shoulder. interpreted that amazing McIntosh had world, where large creatures been on a similar scene roamed and glaciers dominatthree years earlier after ed the landscape for thoua discovery was made sands of years. just south of Avon in Using the skeletal Livingston County. At remains of two local prehisthe time, the pond side toric mastodon specimens as of Farview Golf a starting point, the Course’s 18th green RMSC has mounted a was being excavated off family-friendly array of New York Route 39. interactive displays in a “It was unusual timlong-term exhibit, ing,” admits McIntosh Expedition Earth, to illusof the closeness of the trate a world inhabited by two finds. In New York these ancestors of modern When Mastodon bones were state there have been elephants, other more found in two Finger Lakes only 37 documented locations, the news made quite a splash in discoveries since 1922, familiar mammals, and local headlines. The bones were eventually sent to the and some of those limearly human beings.

Rochester Museum and Science Center, where they remain the focal “Glaciers & Giants,” which ited to only a single point of a long-term exhibit. opened in January 2006, is the first mastodon tooth. These phase of Expedition Earth, slated for completion two nearby finds offered many more bones, although neiin the fall of 2007. ther was a complete skeleton. For three years, the Farview mastodon was stored and studied at the State University of New York at Geneseo and then transferred to the Local roots RMSC in January 1994. Only eight months later The exhibit was inspired to a large degree by the discovery McIntosh got the call about the East Bloomfield specimen. in the 1990s of two mastodon skeletons not far from Rochester.

In August of 1994, Vaughan Buchholz of East Bloomfield, Ontario County, found he couldn’t keep his swimming pool What the bones reveal where he was raising trout free of algae, so he decided to dig a RMSC now owns both the Farview and East pond on the wettest acre of his 13-acre field. He and his wife, Bloomfield mastodons. To discover the age of each, Becky, suddenly and unexpectedly joined an elite group of propMcIntosh called on colleague Dr. Dan Fisher, a paleontolerty owners when a backhoe operator uncovered bones of a ogist from the University of Michigan and a leading mastodon buried seven feet below the surface of their land. authority on mastodons, to carry out Carbon-14 dating.

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Visit Beautiful Belhurst Bloomfield mastodon ranges in age from 11,000 to 12,000 years old. Both have been identified as male mastodons, with the East Bloomfield beast determined to be in his 40s at the time of his death and the Farview animal a youthful 20-something. These approximations were made based on their teeth and bones.

Many of these remains can be seen for the first time side-by-side in the RMSC exhibit. Their femurs (rear leg bones), vertebrae (back bones), metatarsals (foot bones) and humeri (front leg bones) can be viewed for comparison. One skull and a portion of a tusk are also exhibited, and skeletal diagrams highlight bone location for easy identification. Both a large-scale replica skeleton of a mastodon plus a fully articulated hairy mastodon tower over visitors from a diorama that simulates the animals’ natural habitat.

Exhibit planners know that sometimes a mastodon is mistaken for another large, extinct mammal, the woolly mammoth. The exhibit explains the differences through visuals, text, and a comparison of their very different (and large) teeth.

Unlike the forest-loving mastodon, the mammoth preferred living near the retreating glaciers, where it ate grass and grazed in open tundra. The mammoth’s teeth had hard ridges for grinding dry vegetation, whereas the mastodon had blunt, coned teeth for its preferred diet of herbs and leaves.

The mastodon’s tusks were also less curved than those of the mammoth, and are sometimes compared to the Asian elephant in appearance.

Debra Jacobson, the museum’s director of marketing and community affairs, says younger visitors like to spend time in a fabricated dig site where they can uncover replicated mastodon bones and then identify them by looking at the mounted mastodon. The safety of children is a priority, so the site is supervised and

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Take a walk through a glacier

Digging for mastodon bones at the Farview location.

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What’s Coming to Expedition Earth in October 2007?

“You and Your Earth” (a working title) will examine our contemporary connections to the environment. The exhibit will focus on the ways science can help us understand environmental change and the consequences of our everyday choices. This section will examine the amazing diversity and interconnectedness of all manner of life in our region today, from bacteria and beavers to oak trees and humans.

“Life on an Interactive Planet” (a working title) will look back in time to explore the ways that life forms in this region have changed over hundreds of millions of years.

This part of the exhibit follows the development of life, from creatures in the tropical seas that once covered Rochester to land-based forms of plant and animal life that have continued to adapt and survive despite the turbulent history of constant, and sometime cataclysmic, changes to the planet’s surface.

Children can explore inside a replicated ice cave while touring the “Glaciers & Giants” exhibit.

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Mastodons roamed North America for over a million years during the Pleistocene Epoch, or Ice Age, before disappearing. “Glaciers & Giants,” as the name suggests, also focuses on the impact of glaciers on this region. “The last time a glacier bulldozed across the region 27,000 years ago, it changed the course of the Genesee River,” explains the exhibit text. Visitors can venture into an icy blue cave, experience a drop in the temperature, and hear the sound of dripping water.

Inside the walk-through cave, Jacobson points out the glacier’s impact on the area. A giant sheet of ice more than a mile tall, 20 times higher than Rochester’s landmark Xerox Tower, appears over the city’s skyline in one of the exhibit’s 20 interactive displays. Visitors can also track the continental glaciers as they retreated from this region, and observe the formations of bodies of water like the Finger Lakes. A hands-on demonstration shows how water forms ice crystals. The exhibit also features a narrow passage leading to a small-scale ice cave, where young children can explore independently.

In an adjacent area, it is possible to take a virtual tour of Mendon Ponds Park near Pittsford and see evidence the glacier left behind, like kettle lakes, glacial erratics, and moraines.

The exhibit offers audio explanations of how each was formed, along with animated aerial views. As the glacier retreated northward, stagnant ice broke off and was buried in the sediment that had accumulated. Kettle lakes came about when these blocks of ice melted.

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Throughout “Glaciers & Giants,” the goal is to encourage adults and children to put the story together themselves through the available tools.

A good example is the display of skeletal fragments of animals that lived during the Pleistocene era, such as the mammoth, wolf, caribou, and peccary (a wild pig-like animal). After testing one’s knowledge of what bones belong to which creature, a push of a button illuminates the correct response.

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Dinosaurs are also touched upon in the RMSC exhibit. There is a fullscale Albertosaurus skeleton with fossilized dinosaur tracks included to illustrate its presence 65 to 200 million years ago. Theories on the extinction of dinosaurs is also presented through interactive audiovisuals.

What was the impact on both the environment and humans after the glaciers receded? Several dioramas focus on the evolving varieties of plant life found in forests. To encourage an understanding of changing human perspectives on the natural world, voices of people from four different time periods can be heard.

The visitor listens to words spoken by an early hunter who arrived soon after the glacier left this area, a Seneca woman, a resident of “Rochesterville” in the early 19th century, and a contemporary Rochesterian.

The exhibit’s multi-sensory approach imaginatively bridges the gap between the present and life during this area’s prehistoric era. There are many questions still to ponder, one of the more pressing being, “What happened to mastodons?” Experts speculate that excessive human hunting may have caused their disappearance. To illustrate that particular theory, one of the exhibit’s large colorful murals shows Paleo-Indians gathered in a for-

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Another theory to their extinction includes climates change.

Paleontologist George McIntosh displays the first rib from both the East Bloomfield and Farview mastodons.

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Finding a mastodon on your property is hardly an everyday experience. On one level, it may kindle an appreciation of our area’s long history. “It opened up a window into the past,� reflects Vaughn Buchholz. In the 12 years since his discovery, the Kodak retiree has enjoyed speaking about it to members of service clubs, historical societies, school children, and at an annual conservation camp for kids. He has learned a lot through researching the subject, although he is quick to say he is no authority on mastodons. “It’s been a happy part of our lives,� agrees Becky.

The discovery even offered the couple their “15 minutes of fame� when the crew of “Good Morning America� came to their backyard to interview the two of them along with McIntosh. This 1994 interview can also be viewed in the exhibit.

McIntosh says he frequently receives calls from people who have found bones on their property. “If you’re digging in your garden and uncover something close to the surface, it’s unlikely to be a mastodon, although that’s not impossible,� says (Continued on page 74)

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There’s just a hint of Jimmy Stewart in Harold’s voice, something in the inflection or the accent that rings of rural America. Maybe it’s the infectious laugh or the “yah, yah” he uses frequently as he tells a story or relates some adventure from his 85 years.

“Yah, yah, you’ll need to watch your step here,” he says as he guides the way down the steep, narrow stairway that leads to his basement workshop.

Since 1982, Harold has met with his customers here in the cozy little room below his kitchen. They bring him treasured copies of Keats, Longfellow or Emily Dickinson. They bring centuryold deed books from county courthouses. They bring their family Bibles.

Often, his customers bring books that are literally falling apart at the seams.

And that’s where Harold comes in. “I like the satisfaction of making the worst

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The stacks of books that line the shelves of the shop, or form small towers on the floor, are waiting for rebirth.

With the skills he learned from 36 years at the F. A. Owen Publishing Company in Dansville, Harold refurbishes and repairs the old books with the touch of a master craftsman, by hand.

“Binding books is what I know how to do. I’ve been at it since 1946. The company (F. A. Owen) closed up in ’82, but I just kept at it. I know guys that retired about that same time, who would come around here and say, ‘You don‘t have to be working. Why are you doing this?’ They were all gone within a few years. They did nothing but watch a lot of TV. But I’ve kept busy. It’s what keeps me going, I believe.”

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the Livingson County Courthouse a few towns down the road. He began working on their old deed books.

Twenty-five years later he’s still at it. Harold, now 85 years old, calculates he will have to live until he’s at least 100 in order to finish all the books on his waiting list.

He jabs a thumb in the direction of the pile of courthouse books. “These books go back to the start of Livingston County, so there’s a bunch of ’em. Early 1800s. Look at the handwriting in this one.” He opens the book carefully, displaying the old script with its flourishes and curlicues. “Isn’t that beautiful?

Almost as good as mine,” he chuckles.

There’s that laugh again.

Entering Harold’s workshop is like stepping back into a time when the I pace of life was slower. Two calendars, one on the back of the shop door and

Harold uses only old-fashioned, hand operated tools to repair his customers’ books.

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one over the workbench, both with nothing penciled in, each testifying to his “take each day as it comes” strategy.

It was this attitude that saw him through cancer in his teen years, which kept him from serving in World War II (he was turned down three times) and a stroke in 1996. If it’s truly important, he says, he writes it on a scrap of paper and pins it to the wall.

Harold has lived and worked his entire life in the small town of Dansville, nestled in a long valley among the fabled Finger Lakes. It’s known for its festival of hot air balloons, and each year the skies above the gentle hills resemble confetti from heaven.

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against one of the high workbenches for an hour-long chat about vintage cars (his lifelong passion) or the history of the cherished book they are bringing to him for repair.

Anyone who comes into Harold’s cozy clutter inevitably asks about the curious pieces of bindery equipment tucked into the corners of the shop. He is always more than happy to tell you, yet he’s quick to explain that the tools of his trade are fewer these days, now that he uses only hand methods.

Leather-covered lead weights, now worn smooth from a century of use.

Hand-crank presses, their black enamel paint still shiny in places. A handful of glue brushes poking out of a cubby hole, frazzled bristles looking like the paws of small animals. Onion skin papers; a large serving spoon pirated from his wife’s kitchen for smoothing pages. A steel spatula from the old publishing plant for separating pages. A cut-down graham cracker box for odds and ends.

And his own two hands.

He shifts a stack of books on the floor and makes a path to the ancient cutter. Half of its bulk sits under the stairwell, the business end jutting out like an enormous, good-natured animal waiting to be fed.

“I bought it from a newspaper, the Canesteo Times. It’s from about the turn of the century. Look at this detailing: all hand painted.”

He places an old phone book under the long blade of the cutter. With a handle as tall as himself, he brings the blade down making a swift cut that divides the phone book cleanly in two.

“I’m very glad this is hand operated,” he says. “I didn’t want some hydraulic one that I would spend more time monkeying with than using. It’s simple like this; there’s not much you got to tinker with.”

He admits, though, that he likes to tinker. Whether it’s old books or antique cars, Harold loves to putter.

And he admits, too, to being something of a perfectionist when it comes to his

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“Well, yah, yah, I’ll tell you,” he puts down the book he’s working on and looks you in the eye. “You can’t do a good job if you rush through it. Every job I do, even if I’m not going to get anything out of it, I do the best I can. I love my work.”

Harold credits his work ethic to his father, who also worked at the Owens Company “just shy of 50 years.” A childhood through the Great Depression gave Harold his entrepreneurial creativity. Whether it was rescuing golf balls from waterholes and selling them back to golfers, a backyard bicycle repair business, his many years of buying, restoring and selling antique cars, or now in his basement bindery, Harold has always found a way to make an honest living.

“Harold epitomizes what it means to have found your niche,” says Judith Hunter, the town clerk who has been doling out the battered deed books.

“He’s dedicated, one of a kind.”

Harold takes a philosophical stance when it comes to the future of books, the leather-bound, cloth-bound kind you can hold in your hands, he points out. With the popularity of e-books and the availability of written resources at the touch of a computer key, will books, as we know them, become obsolete?

“There’s always going to be books around for reference,” he says, “but I think people are going to want to get them out of a computer.” Harold agrees that times are changing fast, but as long as courthouses have old deed books and families have heirloom Bibles, he will have a job to do.

He smoothes another page, uncurls another dog-eared corner and admits with a grin that he might be the last of the Mohicans.

There’s that laugh again.

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The columns of the Livingston County Courthouse are so massive they can be seen at the other end of Main Street. The village has served as the county seat since 1821.

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Population: 10,257 Settled: 1790 Incorporated: 1832 Landmarks The Homestead (the oldest building in Geneseo, 1804), County Courthouse (1821), Big Tree Inn (1833), Hartford House (1834), Genesee Valley Conservancy Office (1835) What’s in a name?

Geneseo was once called jo-nis-hi-yuh by the Seneca Indians, which means “pleasant or beautiful valley.”

Upcoming Events Kiwanis Antique Show, Wadsworth Library Annual Book Sale, Ring of Fire Conesus Lake, Geneseo Air Show, Genesee Valley Hunt Trials, Fiddlers’ Picnic, ChristmaSing

For more information Association for the Preservation of Geneseo: www.geneseoapog.com Geneseo, NY: www.geneseony.com Village of Geneseo: www.geneseony.org SUNY Geneseo: www.geneseo.edu 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum: www.1941hag.org Wadsworth Library: www.wadsworth.pls-net.org Genesee Valley Hunt: www.geneseevalleyhunt.org Livingston County Historical Museum: www.livingstoncountyhistoricalsociety.org Livingston County: www.fingerlakeswest.com Geneseo Community Players: www.geneseocommunityplayers.org

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Home to the Livingston County Historical Museum on Center Street, this cobblestone building was once a schoolhouse.

The Genesee Valley Conservancy Office was built in 1835 by James Wadsworth as the Wadsworth Land Office.

The monument in front of St. Mary’s Church honors local Civil War veterans.

The Wadsworth Library on Center Street.

Kristin Grove lives in Geneva and works as a graphic artist in Rochester. She encourages everyone to continue to support local businesses and the rich history of the Finger Lakes region.

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The Perfect Combination

By Richard Frisbie

My table at Veraisons, in the Inn at Glenora Wine Cellars, with the wines that accompanied the spectacular dinner Chef Joseph Sutton prepared for me. Photo by Richard Frisbie

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ew York has established itself as a producer of wine to rival any state in the U.S. As much as I enjoy wine, I like food more. On a recent trip to the Finger Lakes, I learned that I can find the best of both worlds while touring the wineries and restaurants this region is famous for.

As part of my ongoing search for great wine and food combinations, I sat down to dinner in the excellent restaurants of two Finger Lakes wineries. Each night I was served creative dishes and wines in incomparable pairings, with course after course exploring every nuance of taste my palate could discern. I drank wines that might not stand alone but were excellent when served with the correct dish. If I did not believe wine should be served with food at the beginning, I certainly knew it before the meals ended. The different chefs, vintners, varietals and blends combined to produce two of the best dinners I’ve eaten in this country. As far as I’m concerned, every meal should be just like these.

Veraisons Restaurant At the restaurant in the Inn at Glenora Wine Cellars on Seneca Lake, there are three sous chefs in the kitchen to prepare as many as 200 to 300 meals on a busy night. Executive chef Joseph Sutton worked with them to prepare a sampling menu, then joined me at the table to complete the presentation by explaining each course.

His enthusiasm, skill and delicious combinations can be beautifully illustrated with a description of two of the eight courses he served me.

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right next door. I would never have tried the effervescent peach wine on my own, but when served with the warm brie and rich fruity compote, it intensified the flavor of both spectacularly. He also served a peach orchard salad with candied pecans in a honey dressing that would have worked passably well with that Spumante, but his choice of a fruity 2005 Riesling worked better, and without that extra sweetness.

His seafood course was a combination of squid, king crab legs and sea bass. When I expressed my reluctance to cook calamari because of the texture, Chef Sutton explained that tough or rubbery squid is a thing of the past now that it is available in pre-tenderized squares to slice and serve as needed. His was tasty in a cumin and chili rub crust.

It was served with the pre-cracked crab legs and a delicious blackened bass in a saffron white wine sauce, all on a bed of Julienne vegetables.

The extravagance of dry saffron threads used as decoration led me to explain that he could grow his own for much less than the $50 an ounce it currently sells for. Maybe that isn’t a concern for a large restaurant, but in my home kitchen it makes a huge difference.

The tangy, spicy crunch of the fish with the mild morsels of crab meat in that sauce worked for me. Although I try not to drink a wine I can’t pronounce, the Glenora Gewurztraminer he served with it made me want to dust off my high school German. In all, Chef Sutton’s knack for food presentation and wine pairings meant that the disparate parts combined to create a memorable seafood entree.

Red Newt Bistro The next evening on the opposite shore of Seneca Lake, Debra Whiting served me six courses, each paired with at least two wines – a red and a white – with one exception. There was a Riesling wine flight, which was made up of three glasses, one of the Red Newt Riesling created by her husband, David, and two from neighboring vintners.

The surprise was that a fourth glass appeared that was a blend of all three!

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Branch & 24 hour ATM locations: Addison • (607) 359-2251 Bath • (607) 776-2156 Big Flats/Horseheads • (607) 796-6910 Elmira • (607) 733-5533 Canandaigua • (585) 394-7200 Cato • (315) 626-2132 Clifton Springs Plaza • (315) 462-9593 Corning 150 W. Market St. • (607) 962-2461 N. Corning 331 W. Pulteney St. • (607) 937-5471 Geneva • (315) 789-7700 Geneva Town & Country (Atm only) Hammondsport • (607) 569-2188 Interlaken • (607) 532-8333 Moravia • (315) 497-3047 Newark Plaza 710 W. Miller St. • (315) 331-3032 Naples • (585) 374-2827 Nichols • (607)699-7424 Ovid • (607) 869-9637 Owego • (607) 687-8125 Palmyra • (315) 597-3835 Phelps • (315) 548-2511 Penn Yan 151 Main St. • (315) 536-3331 Penn Yan 272 Lake St. • (315) 536-8104 Rushville • (585) 554-6322 Seneca Falls Downtown • (315) 568-5821 Skaneateles • (315) 685-8324 Waterloo • (315) 539-9261 Watkins Glen • (607) 535-2702

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In a most unusual display of cooperation, the three wineries combined their best barrels to bottle the perfect Riesling, called Tierce. Before you think this was an entirely academic experience, you should know that Dave was recognized for creating wines that are “pointedly food oriented” by Wine Spectator magazine.

To complement this most unusual Riesling “flight,” Debra served a mesclun and herb mixed salad surrounded by roasted corn kernels and topped with cold baby potatoes under a warm bacon and red onion vinaigrette.

The cold, warm, crunchy, roasted and piquant just-picked freshness of the greens had my taste buds working overtime to savor all that goodness. The Rieslings were perfect with it, especially the Tierce, which proved that the sum is greater than the parts. Unfortunately, only 100 cases were bottled to be split among the three vintners, so if you want to taste it you have to go to the Red Newt Bistro.

Dave Whiting also produces the only Syrah from grapes grown in the Finger Lakes. His wife paired it with a breast of duck, which I love, but seldom find an opportunity to cook. Hers was pan seared in the skin to a crispy brown, narrowly cooked around the thickest slices, but changing to scarcely pink in the center of the thin end. The rich duck flavor was at its most intense where it was rare, with the flavor diminishing as the doneness increased. I forget what the white wine was because the Syrah was so perfectly paired with the duck that the flavor was cleanly defined – brilliant! It was simply the best duck I’ve ever eaten.

Debra takes great care to use only the freshest local ingredients at her bistro. She “found” a hard, sweet pear that was created at nearby Cornell University to use in the next dish. It was baked and served on a bed of mesclun (without fresh herbs this time) with a pungent gorgonzolla sauce.

Fortunately, my revived German allowed an easy pronunciation of the Gewurztraminer served with a Cabernet Franc for this course. I found myself drinking the red with the richness of

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the greens and sauce, while enjoying the pear with the “Gertz.” I simply couldn’t decide which I preferred, but if I had to choose, that subtle pear flavor would have been ruined by the Cab Franc.

Save some room By an odd coincidence, dinner finished with a flan on both nights. Chef Sutton’s had sugar encrusted fresh red and green grapes on top that burst with sweet flavor. The flan itself was creamy sweet, with the roasted sugar “juice” mixed with unreduced Niagara wine for a sauce. The same wine was in my glass, so the grape, grape, grape flavors, almost too sweet, dominated the dessert perfectly for a winery.

The flan at the Red Newt was entirely different, undoubtedly the best I’ve ever been served. Chef Debra Whiting and I share the same philosophy about dessert – it shouldn’t be too sweet. Her flan was cooked on the thinnest bed of fresh apricots and flavored with coconut milk. It was the creamiest, I-can’t-believe-this-is-cooked bit of perfection, with apricot brandy drizzled over it. It was not cloyingly sweet but just right, as was every dish she served me.

These dinners convinced me that wine and food taste best when served together. From my own cooking experience I know that even a mediocre wine, or a less-than-perfect dish, can be elevated when served in the right combination. Armed with that knowledge, I tasted my way through the other wineries, and quizzed the many chefs as I circled Seneca Lake looking for new wines and recipes to combine at home. One thing’s for sure, as much fun as eating out can be, there’s nothing better than gathering friends and family for good food and wine around my own dinner table. Bon appetit!

Richard Frisbie is a bookseller and publisher in the Hudson Valley who writes culinary travel articles. When he is not writing for Life in the Finger Lakes magazine, he is a featured Food Correspondent for Gather.com where his other articles can be seen.

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Visit one of Seneca Lake’s newest wineries!

Within its Tuscan setting, Ventosa offers a friendly atmosphere, premium wine tasting and a café serving lunch daily. The elegant décor & breathtaking view of Seneca Lake makes Ventosa the ideal place for your reception or party.

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Lamoreaux Landing WINE CELLARS

Taste our European style awardwinning wines while enjoying the beauty of Seneca Lake Tours, tasting, sales and receptions Mon. - Sat. 10-5, Sun. noon-5 Route 414 on the east side of Seneca Lake, 3 miles south of Lodi 607-582-6011 www.lamoreauxwine.com

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H O W - T O

What Makes a Good Photograph?

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ach year, Life in the Finger Lakes receives over 500 entries for its photo contest. It’s difficult to articulate exactly what judges look for in a winner, although they know it when they see it. To give amateur photographers some specific tips on how to select the photos they enter in contests, we turned to our local Professional Photographers Society. They recommended an article by Connecticut photographer Roland Laramie that was featured in their recent newsletter. “The Making of a Merit Image” provides practical insight into what makes a good photograph. We think you’ll find the information helpful whether you’re a potential contest entrant, a “just-forfun” photographer, or a shopper looking for good art.

Roland Laramie is the competition jury chairman of the 2007 Professional Photographers Association of Massachusetts, and executive director of the Professional Photographers Association of New England. Here are

12 factors he considers when judging a photograph.

1. Impact. It’s what commands you to look at a picture, the “thing” that creates that all-important first impression. A good photograph has strong, lasting impact.

2. Creativity. How fresh is the approach to the subject matter? Photo judges look for originality, creative cropping, invention and design.

Creativity is the feeling and imagination that lift a photograph into the realm of art.

3. Style. Style sets your work apart from the rest and can be achieved in many different ways. Maybe your photographs look more experimental, or very real as opposed to contrived, or brand new and innovative.

4. Composition. How well is the subject matter placed and how is the

photography divided and organized?

Harmonious proportions and dynamic symmetry for the placement of the most important objects work best.

Good rhythm can be achieved through repetition, whether it’s of color, spaces or moods.

5. Print presentation. Is the photograph enhanced by the way it is presented? Good cropping and good color for the mat or mount can add to the composition. Do you dare to be different by using a dramatic presentation, or does very traditional work best?

6. Color balance. Have interpretive colors (maybe not normal at all) or creative uses of color, like dark against light, strong against weak, or complementary colors been used?

Judges are intrigued by the colors photographers select for their subject matter.

7. Center of interest. Does one object dominate, or is there an arrangement of objects so that one center-of-interest prevails? Does the subject matter hold the eye with no distractions? Secondary points are very important to the photograph, but the viewer must always be able to come back to the center of interest. Does the subject have strength and definition? Is the composition moody or misty?

8. Lighting. Lighting creates mood, and judges look for a good statement of light, especially with portraits.

Dynamic lighting and a pattern of light can enhance a photograph.

9. Subject matter. Selection of the photographic model or object is key. Contrasting subjects like old and young or warm and cool show creativity. Judges are looking for an outstanding interpretation and a good camera angle.

Photo by Ellen Chesler

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10. Print quality. The simplest statements are the strongest, like a good angle on a building, or a background in key with the subject matter. Judges look for good, strong contrast using the middle tones, plus good color balance, expressions and artistic lighting.

11. Technique. Technique is the foundation of photography, but knowledge of art principles is a necessity.

Using a creative and abstract approach helps to make a successful photograph.

Good design brings abstract ideas into concrete form.

12. Storytelling. A good photograph tells a complete story or makes a strong statement. It achieves a purpose. The first glance at a photograph should create meaning, a strong mood, a powerful emotion or all three. It helps to use strong complementary colors next to each other.

Photo by Neil Sjoblom

The images on these pages were created by members of the Finger Lakes Section of the Professional Photographers Society of New York State (FLPPSNY).

The organization is dedicated to the advancement of photography both as a science and an art, and its members develop and encourage the highest standards of professionalism, ethics, business practices and customer relations.

For a directory of professional photographers in this area, visit www.flppsny.com.

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ACCOMMODATIONS (“Strutting” continued from page 26) Today, Anne owns over 500 books on Asian antiques, which she keeps in a resource library at the museum. Visitors cannot take the books home, but tables and chairs invite readers to stay and peruse.

Research is a process that she loves, although history was never a favorite topic in school. With the right inspiration though, Ann could write a book, and she has. Scenes of Monroe and Ontario Counties: Past and Present, was published in 2003. “I wanted to share my collection of artwork depicting Canandaigua Lake and other spots in the area,” she said. “It’s important that future generations know about these remarkable artists. I thought I would put little brass tags under each painting, but discovered that the information I needed wasn’t readily available. I started researching each artist and then I really got into it! The next thing I knew, I was publishing a book and hosting an art show at the Lower Mill. It was all so interesting. People came from all over, and the show was extended from one month to two.”

Anne’s Asian antique collecting has tapered off, mostly because the pieces she has cannot be bested. “Now I only buy things that I haven’t seen before, or that are extremely rare,” she told us. “My latest purchase was a piece of Peking glass; it comes in so many different forms that there are still styles out there that I haven’t seen.”

As television and the Internet have made the world smaller, all things Asian have become high style, in everything from fashion and jewelry to home furnishings. “I think I’m a trend setter,” Anne commented. “I call myself an interior decorator without a degree. I’m renovating our home in Daytona Beach around the furniture – glass and brass, chrome and Lucite. You watch; Lucite is going to come back.” On its journey, Anne will collect the best examples.

Tina Manzer is the editorial director at FahyWilliams Publishing. She and her family live in Canandaigua.

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Premier Attraction of the Finger Lakes 2 Exceptional Restaurants 3 Luxurious Hotels Wine & Gift Shop 2 Magnificent Ballrooms Experience romantic elegance and personal pampering as you enjoy panoramic views on our decks or in the spa/hot tub before falling asleep to the soothing sounds of the lake lapping just outside your window.

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Spectacularly renovated 1840’s Italianate Inn. Seven beautifully appointed guest rooms, each with private bath, television, telephone and high speed Internet access.

Jacuzzi baths in our Bridal Suite and Groom’s Room. Elegant breakfast.

5 Star Service. Children welcome.

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Seneca Falls Historical Society

Yates County Genealogical & Historical Society Museums

We maintain a 23-room Queen Anne Style Victorian Mansion circa 1890, as a home of a wealthy Victorian family.

The L. Caroline Underwood Museum and the Oliver House Museum, home of Yates County’s history. Research center, Period rooms, changing exhibits.

55 Cayuga St., Seneca Falls (315)568-8412 • www.sfhistoricalsociety.org

200 Main Street, Penn Yan

Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30-4:30, July-Aug Saturdays 10-2

Gift Shop: 315-536-7318 www.yatespast.com

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National Memorial Day Museum Waterloo, NY Open Tue-Sat 1-4pm, 15 May-23 Dec & By appointment

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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.

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

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INDEX OF ADVER TISERS FREE information by mail. Life in the Finger Lakes offers you the opportunity to request free brochures and information from our advertisers. Simply circle the numbers on the adjacent postage-paid card and mail.

The advertisers will send information directly to you.

For a quicker response, visit www.lifeinthefingerlakes.com/vendorinfo.php and request information from advertisers online.

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Summer Dockage • Winter Storage Boat Transport M 6655 State Route 90, Cayuga, NY 13034 315-255-2936 • 800-513-2936

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Ameriprise Financial ........................Info #162

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King Ferry Winery Inc.......................Info #128

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Antique Revival ................................Info #106

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Lakeview Lawn & Landscape Inc. ....Info #169

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Aurora Inn ........................................Info #100

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Lane’s Yamaha..................................Info #129

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Bears Outdoor Play Products ..........Info #151

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Livingston County Chamber ............Info #130

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Belhurst Castle ................................Info #101

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The Loomis Barn ............................Info #131

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Best Western Vineyard Inn ..............Info #102

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Lyons National Bank ........................Info #132

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Bristol Builders ................................Info #161

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Marine Blue ......................................Info #170

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Bristol Harbour ................................Info #103

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Marine Innovations ..........................Info #133

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Builder’s Best Design Center ............Info #104

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Marvin Windows & Doors ................Info #134

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Campground Owners of NY..............Info #105

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Maxwell Creek Inn ............................Info #179

Roy’s Marina, Inc.

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Canandaigua Inn on the Lake ..........Info #153

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New Barn Design..............................Info #175

on Seneca Lake

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Cayuga Wine Trail ............................Info #163

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New Energy Works TimberFramers ..Info #135

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Chemung Canal Trust Co. ................Info #149

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Northern Design & Building Assoc...Info #136

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The Cheshire Union Gift Shop ........Info #108

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Operation Auburn ............................Info #180

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Church Creative Flooring ..................Info #158

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Prejean Winery ................................Info #152

“Over 50yrs. experience”

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Cicero Hoist & Dock Inc ..................Info #109

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Rex Simpson Architect ....................Info #137

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The cinnamon stick ........................Info #110

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Rochester Folk Art Guild ..................Info #138

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Clifton Springs Hospital & Clinic ......Info #111

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Seneca County Tourism....................Info #139

4398 Clarks Pt. 3 miles South of Geneva off Rt. 14

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Cobtree Corporation ........................Info #112

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Community Bank ..............................Info #113

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The Country Porch ..........................Info #150

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Taughannock Farms Inn ..................Info #142

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Design Works Architecture P.C. ........Info #116

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Thomas Hartwell Photography ........Info #177

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Dr. Konstantin Frank Wines ..............Info #117

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Timber Frames Inc............................Info #144

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Esperanza Mansion ..........................Info #119

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Timberpeg East Inc ..........................Info #145

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Finger Lakes Conveyors Inc. ............Info #164

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Tioga County Tourism ......................Info #146

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Finger Lakes Dermatology ................Info #120

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Tompkins County Trust Co. ..............Info #172

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Finger Lakes Premier Properties ......Info #165

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Vanquish Boats LLC ........................Info #160

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Montour Falls Municipal Marina

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

Marina Road, Montour Falls, NY 14865

Boat Rental, Cottage Rental, Repairs Fuel Dockage, Storage

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18 hole par 3. One of The Finger Lakes’ most challenging and fun to play!

315-672-8677 westhillgolfcourse.com Route 5 in Camillus, just 15 minutes from Skaneateles Play Croquet & lawn Bowling on the largest courts in CNY.

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“If a contractor is down 6 to 9 feet [in the ground and discovers bones], we’ll be out pretty fast,” predicts McIntosh. He cautions against removing them because their configuration provides important evidence to the scientists.

Besides the Rochester Museum and Science Center, McIntosh suggests residents in the Finger Lakes and western New York areas contact either of the following:

The exhibit explains the differences between a mastodon (above) and a wooly mammoth, who had teeth and curvier tusks. Photo courtesy of Rochester Museum and Science Center

Plan Your Visit The Rochester Museum and Science Center is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

The museum includes a planetarium, nature center and science/regional history museum.

For more information about RMSC, visit www.rmsc.org or call 585-697-1942.

Dr. Warren Allmon Paleontological Research Institution 1259 Trumansburg Road Ithaca. NY 14850 607-273-6623 Dr. Richard Laub, Curator of Geology Buffalo Museum of Science 1020 Humboldt Parkway Buffalo, NY 14211 716-896-5200 Laurel C. Wemett owns a gift shop named Cat’s in the Kitchen and lives in Canandaigua. Laurel is also a correspondent for Messenger-Post Newspapers in Canandaigua.

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CAMPING C A L E N D A R Life in the Finger Lakes recommends that you call ahead for details on these listings.

March 3…Sterling Nature Center Winter Aconite Open House A celebration of the blooming of the first flowers, winter aconite. Check out the exhibits, go snowshoeing, sledding or hiking, and enjoy refreshments.

315-947-6143

• Free WiFi • Large Grassy Tent Sites • Full Hook-ups w/Cable • Pool Open Memorial Day to Labor Day • Boat Rental & Dockage • On Site Trailer & Cabin Rentals • Planned Activities • Full Service Store & Game Room • Centrally Located to Rochester and All Finger Lakes Attractions

March 8-11…Orchid Show at Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion There will be beautiful orchids on exhibit and for sale, workshops and wine tastings.

585-394-4922 www.sonnenberg.org March 9…Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Playing live at The Smith Opera House in Geneva.

315-781-LIVE www.thesmith.org March 10…Papermaking at the Schweinfurth Art Center Workshop participants will learn how to make their own paper with “low-tech” and inexpensive basic papermaking techniques.

315-255-1553 www.myartcenter.org March 15-18…Gardenscape 2007 Enjoy 24 beautifully landscaped gardens, 75 vendors of plants and gardening accessories and hourly seminars. This year’s theme is “Drama in the Garden”, featuring a masquerade ball as a new event on Friday evening.

585-334-4000 www.RochesterFlowerShow.com March 17…Say Cheese at Cayuga Ridge Estate Winery Smile while tasting wonderful cheese and sipping delicious wines. Cheese provided by Lively Run Dairy.

800-598-9463 www.cayugaridgewinery.com March 17-18… Antiques on Campus Show and Sale Presented by the Genesee Country Antique Dealers Association, the show features over 50 antique dealers from Rochester and surrounding counties.

585-342-7852 www.antiquesrochesterny.com March 24-25…Maple Weekend at Sugarbush Hollow Learn about nature and the history of maple syrup including how the maple syrup process works.

There will be demonstrations throughout the day.

585-943-3475 www.sugarhousesyrup.com March 31-July 8… Walk in Beauty: Discovering American Indian Art This exhibition at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University contains over 40 works from artists representing American Indian heritage.

607-255-6464 www.museum.cornell.edu

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Hejamada Campground & RV Park Located in the Finger Lakes Region Montezuma, NY Ph: (315)776-5887 B www.hejamadacampground.com Family Camping at its best!

Call or write for a FREE color brochure www.sugarcreekglencampground.com P.O. Box 143, LIFL, Dansville, NY 14437 (585) 335-6294

Montour Falls Municipal Campground on Seneca Lake - Himrod, NY - off Rt. 14 607-243-5994 or 607-243-7926 4 cottages for rent plus campsites bkachers@linkny.com • www.backachers.net

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• Recreation/ playground • Pavillion • Fishing Pond • Large Pool • Store

• Ice • Propane • Cabin Rentals • Tent Cabin • Hiking Trails

585-229-2290 or 585-396-1417 e-mail: brwoodland@aol.com • www.bristolwoodlands.com

4835 South Hill Road • Canandaigua, NY 14424

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Newly expanded with 105 sites!

Located near Lake Ontario.

Family oriented park with seasonal and overnight accommodations.

Heated pool • Cabins available Group discounts for 6+ Easy pull-through sites • 30/50 amp hook-ups

Free Vintage Fire Truck Rides • Real Log Cabins Planned Activities • Themed Weekend • All Type Sites Large Swimming Pool • Ceramic Tile Rest Rooms Rec. Hall • Playground • Great Fishing • Large Fields Peaceful River Valley • Large Grassy Sites

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4 Authentic Log Cabins Pool • Laundry • 3 Pavilions • Frisbee Golf • Camp Grocery Store • 30-50 Amp Service • Seasonal Sites • Wireless Internet Access • Planned Activities • Water and Sewer Hookups

Family Fun for Everyone!

3 mi. west of Waterloo Premium Outlets.

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1475 W. Townline Rd., Phelps

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6152 Barclay Road, Sodus, NY Stop in for a visit and a sample.

Heluva Good products, cheese cut off the block, country gifts, and in store specials.

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Landscape & Design Complete property care services:

Landscape design and installation, plantings, patios and retaining walls. Decks, home remodeling general carpentry and handyman services. Year ‘round building and grounds maintenance.

Available at select retailers such as Red Jacket Orchard & Keuka Spring Winery

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Inquire for other retail locations.

CONTACT ALTERNATIVE AMERICAN ENERGY 315-345-4901 jsimmons@alternativeamericanenergy.com

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Auburn Sherlock Homes Real Estate, Inc. “YOUR FINGER LAKES CHOICE FOR QUALITY CONSTRUCTION AT A FAIR PRICE”

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TWO GREAT LOCATIONS 3242 Daansen Rd. Walworth 315.597.9816

3100 County Rd. #10 Canandaigua 585.396.1460

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Come experience great tastes, textures and aromas at Canandaigua Spice Company.

We offer over 300 spices, herbs and homemade seasoning blends, plus coffees, teas, gluten-free, grains, soups and more.

www.canandaiguaspice.com

Call or visit website for current store hours

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• B&W and Color Photocopies • Printing - Newsletters, Stationary, Business Cards, Business Forms, Tickets • Mailing Services • USPS Delivery & Postal Permit www.keukalakeenterprises.com • 315-536-1274 226 Sheppard Street, Penn Yan, NY 14527

Two Floors of Distinctive Gifts, Including Our Year ’Round Christmas Shop Come and Visit: Mon-Fri, 10-5, Sat 10-3, Closed Sundays

2 West Main Street, Clifton Springs 315-548-4438

TREEFORMS Furniture & Giftstore Solid Oak, Cherry, Maple & Pine Furniture made by the Amish & Mennonite's our store specialty since 1966!

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LAKE COUNTRY GARDENS AND FLORISTS, LTD. Folks from the beautiful Finger Lakes Region have enjoyed millions of cups of coffee from Finger Lakes Coffee Roasters for over seven years. Our travels and roasting experience allow us to locate the highest quality beans from all over the globe. Freshness is guaranteed. Please visit us or purchase a bag of beans online!

www.fingerlakescoffee.com Bill Banaszewski Specializing in Outdoor Photography Over 200,000 Stock Photos • Custom Photo Shoots • Post Cards 315-536-1004 www.thefingerlakesimages.com P.O. Box 626, Canandaigua, NY 14424

800-420-6154 Visit our locations.

Pittsford Plaza Monroe Ave. (Next to Michael’s) 585-385-0750 Farmington Bushnell’s Basin Corner of Routes Route 96 96 & 332 (CVS Plaza) (Next to Abbots) 585-742-6210 585-249-9310

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Weddings at Belhurst & Geneva on the Lake Flowers, Gifts, Candles and Plush Linda Tate & Susan Peck 744 PRE-EMPTION RD GENEVA, NY 14456

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Retail & Business C A L E N D A R March 31-April 1…Murder Mystery Tour Guests enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres at eight wineries on the Keuka Lake wine trail as they unravel clues to piece together a solution to the crime.

800-440-4898 www.keukawinetrail.com

How to make your own wine!

www.fallbright.com Secure Online Shopping — 24 Hours —

Grapes, Juices, Winemaking & Brewing Supplies Visit our website for hours • location Keuka Lake East Side

Fall Bright, The Winemakers Shoppe 10110 Hyatt Hill, Dundee 607-292-3995

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Sun. 11:00a.m.-3:00p.m.

Brighton • Elliott Lauren • Barry Bricken

April 4-May 6…Death of a Salesman at Syracuse Stage A true classic of American theatre by Arthur Miller.

315-443-3275 www.syracusestage.org A Finger Lakes landmark for classic gifts, extraordinary accessories for home and garden, handcrafted jewelry, apparel, fine stationery and whims w h i m ses! ie s!

56 South Main St. • Downtown Canandaigua Open Daily • 585-394-6528

Call for Monthly OPEN HOUSES

www.loghomeguy.com

April 14-15…Beginning Glassblowing at The Corning Museum of Glass Students learn the basics of blowing and manipulating glass and get to create simple glass objects.

607-974-6467 www.cmog.org

www.realloghomes.com

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April 8…Easter Brunch Buffet Come enjoy a buffet of traditional Easter dishes at the Knapp Winery and Restaurant.

800-869-9271 www.knappwine.com April 9-13…Spring Break Art Day School at the Memorial Art Gallery Kids ages 7 to 13 can spend a day (or the entire week) painting, cartooning, making sculptures and more at the Creative Workshop.

585-473-7720 www.mag.rochester.edu

Over 700 REAL LOG HOMES Built in the Finger Lakes Area Since 1971.

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C A L E N D A R April 18-22…4th Annual Syracuse International Film & Video Festival A world class event attracting over 120 films and videos from 32 countries. Special features include a free drive-in movie in Armory Square and family programs at the MOST. 315-443-8826

MAY May 6…WalkAmerica 2007 Rochester WalkAmerica 2007 to benefit the Genesee Valley/Finger Lakes Division of the March of Dimes.

585-424-3250 www.walkamerica.com

May 18…David Wilcox Live in Concert David Wilcox is an artist who can speak directly to the soul of his audience, and he will be performing one night only at Auburn Public Theater.

315-253-6669 www.auburnpublictheater.com

April 24…Willy Wonka at The Smith Opera House The new production from the Kennedy Center’s Imagination Celebration on Tour is a scrumptious musical treat.

315-781-LIVE www.thesmith.org

May 11-20…Lilac Festival Enjoy thousands of fragrant lilacs and spring flowers plus a parade, arts and crafts exhibits, children’s activities and live entertainment.

800-677-7282 www.lilacfestival.com

May 19-20…Swedish Hill Winery 21st Anniversary Celebration The Annual Porch Sale will feature deep discounts on a variety of selected wines and related products.

315-549-8326

April 27-29…Country Folk Art & Craft Show Artisans from across the country offer unique handcrafted furniture, garden art, quilts and more.

315-487-7711 April 28-29…Wine & Herb Festival Celebrate the beginning of spring and receive a fragrant herb plant at each participating winery on the Cayuga Lake wine trail.

A 800-684-5217 www.cayugawinetrail.com

May 14-20…Dogwood Festival Week A week filled with music, a carnival, historic lectures and nature at its finest. The Dogwood Float Parade is Saturday evening at 5 pm.

585-335-2170 www.DansvilleNY.net May 16…Making American Music at Strong – National Museum of Play This month’s theme is Rochester’s Native Sons.

The Nostalgic Reunion Jazz Ensemble celebrates Rochester’s musical heritage.

585-263-2700 www.museumofplay.org

Aurora, NY 13026 315.364.8888 866.364.8808 www.aurora-inn.com

May 21…Finger Lakes Wine and Dine An event to benefit the Yates County Chamber of the American Red Cross and the Yates County Chamber of Commerce. Held at the Esperanza Mansion.

315-536-3111 May 26-28…National Lake Trout Derby at Seneca Lake Cash prizes will be given for lake, brown and rainbow trout.

315-789-8634 www.laketroutderby.org

The Restaurant at Elderberry Pond A unique getaway in the heart of the Finger Lakes wine country. Exquisite lodging, fine lakeside dining and gracious events.

Introducing the newly renovated E.B. Morgan House

Fine Dining on a Certified Organic Farm

“Gracious service, organic ingredients, and straightforward food ... a sign of things to come” Gourmet Magazine

Offering seasonal workshops on the growing and culinary preparation of fresh organic produce and meats.

An historic lakeside mansion perfect for special events, executive retreats and intimate weddings.

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3712 Center Street Road

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Bob Gittens, Woodcarving Artist

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Bob Gittens, a self-taught artist, was a true naturalist and conservationist. His passion for the outdoors resonated through his woodcarvings and paintings. He watched and studied birds in their natural habitat to see how their anatomy and feather patterns changed with the environment around them. Every detail, from the finest carved feather to the last brush stroke, was meticulously considered and placed.

Bob learned to carve early in his life thanks to his grandfather. He was constantly sketching, coloring and making simple toys and animals from small pieces of wood. Two people who greatly influenced him to start carving seriously were Gene McMillian and Mike Wavercak, both good friends of Bob’s. Mike was also a carver, and Gene was a collector of art.

They saw the raw talent that Bob had and knew that he could become a very fine and well-known woodcarving artist.

Eventually, Bob reached competition level artistry. He participated in and won many awards in several regional, state and national wildlife woodcarving shows. He won awards at the Ward Foundation National competition in Ocean City, Maryland, where only the best of the best

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compete. Bob also displayed and sold his carvings for over 35 years at the Duck Decoy and Wildlife show held annually in Clayton. Many collectors from all over the world bought his pieces.

Early in his carving career, Bob concentrated on songbirds and waterfowl. Later, as his talent matured, he enjoyed carving hawks and owls. He was especially interested in them because of their size and beauty.

As Bob got older, he shared his knowledge and love of carving with others, teaching weekly classes at his workshop and through adult community education programs. He mentored and inspired several people over the years in their craftsmanship and artistry.

As carving became more difficult due to several injuries, his passion switched to painting. Again, his love of the outdoors is apparent in his paintings of animals and Native American culture. Bob painted right up until he lost his battle with cancer in 2004. For those who knew and loved Bob, looking at a piece of his work is like looking at his face. For those who didn’t know him but are enjoying his work today, it is like looking at his spirit.

Some of Bob’s work will continue to be on display at the Phelps Art Center through April 1. His son, Bill, currently has work on display there as well.

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