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Writing Memoirs

Your memories and stories are precious and people do want to hear them. Being able to pass on your nonfinancial wealth to your family is priceless. Join Ron Anderson at 3 p.m. to hear about his memoir writing and learn how to start your own legacy book for the generations to come.

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St. Patrick’s Day Social

If you have yet to attend one of our socials you really are missing out! Come along at 4 p.m. for an Irish-themed dinner, enjoy a glass of Guinness or whiskey and lively music by Tom Dunn.

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At 2 p.m. we will be enjoying traditional acoustic folk music featuring the fiddle and several other accompanying instruments. Enjoy a repertoire including reels, jigs, hornpipes, rags, breakdowns and waltzes.

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Thursday, Apr. 5

Long-Term Care and Estate Planning

Attorney Michael Robinson will bust some estate planning myths at 3 p.m. Learn more about paying for long-term care and how you can eliminate the need for court involvement should you become incapacitated, and at the time of your passing.

Thursday, Apr. 12

Preserve a Photo

If you have boxes of old photos and want to get them in some sort of order, you need to come to Nancy Carr’s talk at 3 p.m. Nancy will explain how she can help organize, retouch, digitize and preserve your photos for years to come.

Friday, Apr. 20

String Sextet

At 4 p.m FredFour, faculty members at Fredonia University, will present a program featuring the music of John Zorn, Erno Dohnanyi, and jazz standard arrangements by Kieran Hanlon, including a one-of-akind presentation of the Passacaglia by Halvorsen. Join us for a glass of wine as you enjoy this wonderful piece.

Friday, Apr. 27

Spring Social

Starting at 4 p.m., we will be celebrating the end of the cold and welcoming spring. Fresh mint juleps, upbeat music and samples from our menu will help you get rid of the winter blues.

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o define the area that is the Finger Lakes Region can be a challenging task. According to New York State’s website on Empire State Development, there are nine counties that make up the region – three of which are to the extreme west of the area. According to the Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance and many other organizations – including this magazine – the region consists of 14 counties. And then there are others who think that the region is only what is immediately adjacent to an actual Finger Lake, without taking into account county lines. Lastly, I’ve even heard theories that the Finger Lakes themselves consist of only five lakes, to mimic the outstretched hand of their creator.

This magazine does follow the belief in the 14 county rule. There are several reasons for this. First, any county that actually touches a Finger Lake counts. Second, any area that’s a watershed of a Finger Lake counts, and third, areas that are heavily influenced and affected by the region count. I’m talking about Tioga, Chemung, Monroe and Wayne Counties. None of these counties are adjacent to a Finger Lake, but they

either are part of a watershed or they identify with the Finger Lakes Region.

I’m sure there are some who may have legitimate arguments against these beliefs, but one has to draw the line somewhere. And we choose to stick with county lines.

With that short primer on regional boundaries behind us, I want to point out that this issue is a perfect illustration of stories that originate from far corners of the area and also within the heart of the region as well.

The lighthouse at Sodus Point has amazing waves during the winter and spring. A wonderful distillery is in business in Corning. A farm in Linwood – at the farthest west portion of Livingston County – turns food waste into electricity. An amazing soap shop is doing well in Fayetteville.

And then we have stories out of Branchport, Trumansburg, Ithaca, Geneva, Palmyra and other areas.

Crack open this issue because you’re in for another treat. Expand your mind about this region that many of us call home.

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thought I should let you know that the new Finger Lakes SPCA shelter in Bath, for which the book Willy of the Crooked Lake was a major fundraiser, has now been completed and opened. The inside work was finished this fall, and the animals were moved in Thanksgiving week. There was a “soft open” held in December, but the formal dedication will be some time this

spring. It is a wonderful facility, and it’s so exciting to see it functioning at last!

The article that Laurel Wemett wrote and Mark Stash published

(JulyAugust 2016 “Willy’s Legacy”) was a significant help in spreading the word and boosting donations. We have raised close to $33,000 from our little children’s book, and over 1,200 of the books have been distributed.

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hank you for the beautiful article about Max Erlacher, our very famous glass engraver in the Corning area (JanuaryFebruary 2018). The article is a wonderful way to honor a gentleman with such talent. You probably don’t know, but I bought 20 issues at Wegmans in Corning.

I delivered most of them to Mrs. Erlacher for their family and their many interested friends. They were thrilled and my husband and I are thrilled for them.

— Jeanne Greger, Corning

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ochester developers have proposed building the largest garbage incinerator in New York State in the Town of Romulus, between Seneca and Cayuga lakes. They have never operated a solid waste facility and propose to burn 2,640 tons of garbage — every day.

A 260-foot smoke stack would rain dioxins, furans, lead, mercury, arsenic, chromium, particulates, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides on the surrounding area. Romulus Central School is located just 3,200 feet away. Dioxins alone are the worst toxins known to science — do we want that in our backyards?

To get more information, readers can visit senecalakeguardian.org.

— David Locke, Town of Fayette

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Contributors............................................Bill Banaszewski .............................................................................Maggie Barns .................................................................................. Mark Chao ............................................................................Dee DeJames ..................................................................... Derek Doeffinger ............................................................................Jason Feulner ..................................................................... James P. Hughes .................................................................................... Matt Kelly ...............................................................................Nigel P. Kent .................................................................Nancy E. McCarthy ............................................................................ Laurie Mercer ............................................................Catherine Ravensong .....................................................................Laurel C. Wemett ...............................................................Gabrielle L. Wheeler

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March 1-31...Month Long Artisan Sale Artizanns - Gifts from the Finger Lakes, in Naples, continues to rotate artisans exhibits to provide a fresh experience with each visit. Each year, Artizanns has a month long March Artisan Sale, where numerous Finger Lakes artisans participate, discounting their amazing work from 20 percent - 50 percent! This sale is a great opportunity to stock up on great presents for upcoming weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, or to freshen up your home and office decor. Artizanns is open every day, year round.

118 N. Main Street, Naples, NY 14512 585-374-6740 artizanns.com March 12…Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: Integrating Behavior, Ecology, and Genetics Lecture by Dr. Rosemary Grant Dr. Grant is a hero to generations of students and scientists in the field of evolution. Her work (along with husband Peter) on the finches of the Galapagos Islands provided one of the first and clearest demonstrations of natural selection occurring in real time, and is a foundational

example for this subject in every high school and college biology classroom. Featured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Beak of the Finch, she showed that bill size in different populations of finches can change over very short periods – as little as two years – driven by environmental conditions and food availability. In her talk, Rosemary will cover many of the highlights from her work on Darwin’s Finches and discuss the complementary insights she has gained from decades of exploring their behavior, ecology, evolution, and genetics. 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell University 215 Garden St., Ithaca, NY 14853 events.cornell.edu March 14-15…“Bright Half Life” by Tanya Barfield at the Kitchen Theatre Company A time-bending free fall through love. Follow Erika and Vickie as they hurtle through 25 years of love and heartbreak and collection of the moments that make up our lives. “Bright Half Life” is a stunningly honest depiction of the courage and strength it takes to walk through life together by Pulitzer Prize nominee Tanya Barfield. 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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Dealers and collectors of vintage photography and all the gear required to create, develop, manipulate, and merchandise the photography medium will gather in Rochester on April 22 for the Antiquarian Photography Show and Sale.

A substantial number of collectors will already be present for the Photography Show as the show concludes the international PhotoHistory/PhotoFuture conference. Dealers will meet motivated and subject-focused collectors, offering them opportunities to enhance, upgrade, and complete collections.

That the conference and the Photo Show are hosted in Rochester seems perfectly apt – Rochester is the world’s imaging capital.

The Antiquarian Photography Show and Sale is the capstone event for the international PhotoHistory/PhotoFuture conference. More than 70 scholars from nine nations and 15-plus U. S. states, including representatives from museums, archives and universities, will present their research on April 20-21. The range of subjects to be discussed matches the breadth of the conference’s professional and geographical reach.

Attendance of more than 200 for the conference and another 400-600 for the Antiquarian Show is expected. Historically, the photography show draws up to 800 attendees.

The Photography Show is open to the general public for $6 admission beginning at 9 a.m. and runs until 3 p.m. Conference attendees receive admission to the show as part of their conference registration fee ($125).

Both the PhotoHistory/PhotoFuture conference and the Antiquarian Photography Show and Sale are sponsored and organized by RIT Press, the scholarly book publishing enterprise at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Visit rit.edu/twc/photohistoryconference for more information.

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March 17…St. Patrick’s Day Wine and Wings Van Tour Wear your green and head out in the Audubon van to look for Bald Eagles, Northern Harriers, and millions of migratory waterfowl at the Montezuma Audubon Center! During the tour we’ll stop at Izzy’s White Barn Winery to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day while tasting award winning wines and nibbling on cheese and crackers. You’ll learn how vineyards and Important Birds Areas can exist side by side. Fee: $20/adult, includes wine tastings. Must be 21+. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Wohlschlegel’s Naples Maple Farm Maple Weekend Open House Celebration. Pancake breakfast 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Open house 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy our scenery, eateries, shops, wineries, B&B’s and much more. Sweetest special for the day – Maple Cotton Fluff.

Don’t forget about the Naples Creek Rainbow Trout Derby April 1.

8064 Coates Road, Naples, NY 14512 585-775-7770 naplesmaple.com naplesvalleyny.com March 19…Clementine at the Clemens Center A Clemens Center Mary Tripp Marks School-Time Series production performed by Theatreworks/ USA Monday at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Tickets: $5. For group and/or single tickets, call our School-Time Coordinator at 607-733-5639 ext.

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March 23-25…Pasta & Wine Weekend on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail Enjoy a self-guided tour around beautiful Seneca Lake, sampling delicious foods and wines at 27 participating wineries. Just check in and pick up your gift item at your chosen starting winery then start sampling dishes paired with delicious award-winning wines. Regular tickets purchased in advance are $40 per person. senecalakewine.com March 24-25…4th Annual Bacon on the Lakein on the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail Bacon dishes with Cayuga Lake Wine Trail wines are paired. At every winery, leave a ticket stub in the piggy bank for a chance to win a BBQ Bacon Basket. Besides sampling bacon infused dishes, you’ll sample a wine that compliments that dish, and also be offered up to 3 more additional wine tastings. Visit each of the 14 wineries to be eligible to win a BBQ themed gift basket containing BBQ sauces, utensils, and so much more! Just tear off a stub from your ticket at each winery and deposit into a Cayuga Lake Wine Trail Piggy Bank.

The more wineries you visit the more chances you have to win. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday. All wineries on the trail are participating.

800-684-5217 cayugawinetrail.com March 31…Boat Building Workshop – Keel Mold and Keel at the Finger Lakes Boating Museum From the lofting, a mold will be made to match the profile of the keel and fastened to the strongback.

Again, from the lofting, the keel will be made of oak and fastened to the keel mold. Preregistration is required by one week prior to the workshop date. You can register by calling the museum at 607-569-2222 or e-mailing info@flbm.org. Workshop fees are $35 for nonmembers, $30 for museum members and $25 for each accompanying family member.

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Happenings March 31-April 28...Going to the Dogs: Animal-themed Art Exhibit & Silent Auction Friends of Canandaigua Canine Campus and Hope In Art Studio present Going to the Dogs, a juried animal-themed art exhibit and silent auction plus handcrafted treasures and smaller works raffle, to benefit Canandaigua’s future dog park. Saturday, March 31, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., public preview with light refreshments. Gallery hours through April 28; Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m, Saturdays, 1 to 5 p.m.

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April 14…Taste | Tour | Tapas: A Vegan Delight Held at Glenora Wine Cellars. A food and wine experience featuring sister wineries Glenora Wine Cellars, Knapp Winery, and Chateau LaFayette and tapas-style plates by Chef Orlando of Veraisons Restaurant. Enjoy a tour of Glenora’s cellar followed by a food and wine pairing in their reserve tasting room. Each attendee will receive a Glenora logo glass to take home and complimentary tasting tickets to Knapp and Chateau. Reservations strongly suggested. $25/person in advance, $30/person at the door. Purchase tickets online or call 800-243-5513. 1 to 3 p.m.

5435 State Route 14, Dundee, NY 14837 800-243-5513 glenora.com April 19…Underground Railroad Walk and Program In Palmyra This program at Historic Palmyra includes a walk around the Village of Palmyra, discussing the sites of the Underground Railroad. A program will follow.

Join us for this exciting event and learn about the role that Palmyra played in the Underground Railroad.

Alling Coverlet Museum, 122 William St., Palmyra, NY 14522 315-597-6981 historicpalmyrany.com

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Health

alive & kicking

Classic meets MODERN

Isabella Spa-Salon at Belhurst Castle offers guests the opportunity to be pampered like royalty

by Gabrielle L. Wheeler

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ho would have guessed there is a castle located

on Seneca Lake – and it is open to the public as an allinclusive Finger Lakes resort no less? Located in Geneva on the western side of the lake, Belhurst Castle stands amid massive oaks on a stately yet inviting property. Built in 1889, the castle is rich in history and legend, and mingles modern with classic for guests to enjoy.

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The property’s history is vast and was originally the site of a Seneca Indian Village, as well as home to the Council of the Six Nations of Iroquois. The castle itself was built at the direction of Mrs. Carrie Collins after she purchased the property upon sight in 1885. After her death it passed hands frequently, and to pay for its upkeep the castle’s uses have varied throughout the years, including as a casino, a restaurant, a hotel, and finally a premier tourist attraction in the Finger Lakes Region at the present time. In 2003, a 30,000 square-foot addition was completed by the current owners, Duane and Deb Reeder, and today Belhurst Castle offers its visitors 20 guest rooms, two restaurants, two ballrooms for weddings or events, a winery, and Isabella Spa-Salon.

Isabella Spa-Salon

The centerpiece of the Isabella SpaSalon is a large fountain from which gurgle the relaxing sounds of running water throughout a guest’s salon experience. In the center of the fountain stands a pink and white flowering tree that never withers. The castle is steeped in legends and stories, some fictional

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and others that may have a slight ring of truth, including that of William Bucke and his lover Isabella who were drawn to the property by a majestic tree.

Placed as an homage to the Isabella legend as well as to a massive tree that stood where the spa resides before its construction, the fountain sculpture

“We are a sanctuary for relaxation and … mind-body-soul,” — Antonucci-Austin is a favorite among guests due to its uniqueness. Surrounding the fountain, in a space that is both modern yet strives to maintain the classical feel of the castle, guests can enjoy pedicures, manicures, hair-styling and coloring, and/or make-up application. Above the salon, around an open balcony overlooking the fountain, the spa has 6 rooms for body treatments, including a companion suite. “It’s kind of a neat

architectural concept with the alcove looking down into the hustle and bustle of the salon, yet up here it’s so peaceful and serene,” Kate Antonucci-Austin, general manager of Isabella Spa-Salon, says of the double-story design.

A Wedding to Remember

With its beautiful stone architecture and a stunning backdrop of Seneca Lake, Belhurst Castle is a premier Finger Lakes destination for weddings from spring until fall. “The salon and spa were added as an amenity to hotel guests, but specifically to target all of our wedding business that comes to the castle,” Antonucci-Austin says. “We are known far and wide as a wedding destination; it’s what we are great at.”

To cater to couples, Isabella SpaSalon offers pre-bridal and wedding day salon services and has a team of professionals that attends to the wedding party and aims to pamper like royalty throughout the big day.

“It’s so convenient because it’s a one-stop shop. Brides come down from their hotel room; they can relax, they can order food and beverage from the restaurant for their guests,” Antonucci-Austin says of the resort.

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For the ultimate in pampering before or after tying the knot, the spa offers a True Bliss Romantic Retreat body treatment, a 100-minute session for two which includes a scrub, wrap, aromatherapy, and full body massage.

“It was a really nice experience, very relaxing, especially after the busyness of the weeks leading up to it,” Annastasia Sage of Pine City says of her wedding experience with Isabella Spa-Salon.

With a pocket door in the companion suite of the spa, the True Bliss package could be taken advantage of by any two people, not just a couple. All members of the party are invited to enjoy the services of the spa and salon, and there is something for everyone. Just for men, the salon offers gentlemen’s facials and pedicures. Antonucci-Austin finds that classic treatments such as massage, manicures, and make-up application are popular among wedding guests.

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Philosophy of Health and Wellness

The philosophy of Isabella SpaSalon is that of health and wellness, and services are open to hotel guests, day visitors, and local clientele seven days a week throughout the year. “We are a sanctuary for relaxation and… mind-body-soul,” Antonucci-Austin says. As such, both the salon and spa use products that are organic and natural and reject any treatments that involve harsh chemicals, which the salon views as a service to its clients. As the base product for body treatments, the spa uses the worldrenowned line, Eminence Organics, which is also available in the salon’s store. Along with their classic menu, Isabella Spa-Salon is now offering a new Vitamin Sea Facial for 2018, which has collagen boosting, anti-aging effects. That sounds like a modern treat with the classical feel of luxury and pampering, a truly unique experience as it is in a castle on Seneca Lake.

Belhurst Castle is located at 4069 West Lake Road, Geneva, NY 14456.

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A Proud Community

Downtown Palmyra

cities & villages

Palmyra story and photos by James P. Hughes

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n 1945 regional writer Arch Merrill hailed Palmyra as the “Grand Dame of the Towpath” and “a breath from the long ago.” Prolific author Samuel Hopkins Adams used Palmyra as the symbolic setting for his intriguing 1944 novel Canal Town.

Today an air of “Clinton’s Ditch” still hovers over the stately village that grew up along the once bustling Erie Canal. It’s evident in the grandeur of Palmyra’s period architecture, shops and boutiques, and even the village’s narrow side streets that slope past historic brick and frame buildings to the water’s edge.

Busy Then…Busy Now

The era of the Erie Canal was an active time, and Palmyra continues to be a lively place. It seems there’s always something going on in town.

The village celebrates with traditional Christmas, Memorial Day, and Fourth of July events, but that only scratches the surface. There is an old fashioned

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ice cream social, bargain hunting at a communitywide garage sale, and every August the village plays host to the Wayne County Fair, an event that traces its roots to 1849.

In mid-August Palmyra Pirate Weekend provides (as one person puts it) a time for “merriment, nostalgia, and nonsense.” Along with vendors and music, there’s a pirate window painting contest, a parade led by a blaring kazoo band, and the “Pillage ‘N the Village” bed race regatta. Family-friendly fun continues in September when thousands attend Palmyra Canaltown Days, a festival with something for everyone: grand parade, antique car show, horse drawn wagon rides, flea market, art and craft shows, live music, and more. The celebration is a village tradition going back a half-century.

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events are periodic pastimes that bring local folks together like Movies in the Park, open-air music concerts, and Halloween’s Trick or Treat on Main Street. Things slow down a bit during the winter, but there’s always cross country skiing along the canal path and occasionally “curling on the Erie.” Yes, curling…that Scottish-born, shuffleboard-like game contested in the Olympics. When weather permits, curling competitions and instruction take place on the iced-over canal.

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The “time capsule” William Phelps General Store on Market Street.

Above: Aerial view of what is believed to be the only convergence of “four corner” churches in the United States. Photo courtesy Don Hunt Aerials

Religious Legend and Legacy

The eye-catching features of church architecture are displayed during any Finger Lakes excursion: brick, stone, spired, columned, and elegant. Palmyra’s churches claim all of these, enhanced even further with a few twists. At the intersection of state routes 21 and 31, almost at village center, sit four graceful churches (Episcopal, Fellowship Bible, Methodist, and Presbyterian), one at each corner. This oddity occurs less than a dozen times around the world, and in Palmyra it’s believed to be the only such convergence of “four corner” churches in the United States.

An aura of religious history floats above the countryside at the southern outskirts of the village. A splendid marble temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints graces a wooded hillside overlooking a pastoral farm, an early home of Joseph Smith Jr. It was there in the 1820s that young Smith claimed to have experienced visions leading to his discovery of “golden plates,” encounters that established him as a prophet and founder of the Mormon faith.

Today, the Smith Farm is overseen by the LDS church.

Visitors can tour the site viewing replicas of the farm’s earliest log cabin and later frame farmhouse, then wander through the Sacred Grove where Joseph received his vision – locations where an enduring religious movement began.

In the center of downtown Palmyra stands the carefully

Muddy Waters Café provides a convenient stop at the updated Palmyra marina. Along the present day canal, the marina offers lighted slips with electric hookups.

Buccaneers parade during Palmyra’s annual Pirate Weekend.

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New York State sign at the historic Grandin Print Shop on Main Street.

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Above: The Port of Palmyra Marina hosts winter instruction and participation in the unusual sport of curling. Photo courtesy Unterborn

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restored Grandin Building, the site where in 1830 Smith arranged to have his translation of the plates printed, bound, and sold as the Book of Mormon. The publication would become the sacred text of the Latter-day Saint movement.

A few miles south of Palmyra sits Hill Cumorah, the fabled drumlin where Joseph Smith is said to have been directed to the golden plates by a “holy messenger,” the Angel Moroni.

Each year since 1937, the Hill Cumorah Pageant has presented a dramatization of Smith’s discovery of the plates and the events translated from them into the Book of Mormon. It is a magnificent hillside spectacle with a cast of hundreds, vibrant costumes, and striking special effects. The multi-stage pageant plays out to a crowd of thousands for each of its seven performances in July.

Interact with History

Conservation of a community’s rich past does not happen by accident. As mentioned, the LDS church maintains and promotes the many significant sites relating to the founding of the Mormon faith. A dedicated society, Historic Palmyra, oversees an array of events, programs, and five distinctive museums aimed at preserving the village’s historical and architectural heritage.

The Palmyra Historical Museum, once a hotel and tavern, spreads its extensive collection through 23 themed rooms.

The William Phelps Store dates back to Erie Canal days and is described as “a curious retail time capsule,” one that leaves a visitor “frozen in time.” Museum buffs can also tour the 19th century Palmyra Print Shop, the 1830s Erie Canal Depot, and the Alling Coverlet Museum. The Alling collection features looms, spinning wheels, and the largest assemblage of early hand-woven coverlets in the country dating from the 1790s to the 1870s.

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Evidence of the Erie Canal’s golden era is scattered throughout Palmyra’s Aqueduct Park. The Canalway Trail passes through the park and over its aqueduct’s original stone work.

A path leads over an iron bow-stringed truss bridge that once crossed the canal. The classic 74-footer designed by Squire Whipple (“the father of iron bridge building”) dates to the mid-19th century and is one of the oldest surviving bridges of its type in the country. The spacious park is a great place to hike or bike, go fishing, enjoy a picnic or just relax.

Residents of Palmyra are proud of their town and more than willing to introduce its many positives to guests. Docking facilities at the Port of Palmyra Marina have been recently updated to welcome boaters with lighted slips, electric hookups, and pumping stations. A local group of volunteers, Harbor Hosts, stands ready to present visitors with relevant brochures, chat about local history, and give directions to nearby restaurants and shops. Striving to go that extra mile when needed, they’ve driven folks to a pharmacy for an Rx refill or to a vet for a pet emergency. One out-of-towner, an avid fisherman, was particularly impressed and appreciative. “I was driven to a local spot where I found just the right bait…now that’s service!”

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Making a Difference

the important things

Green Recipe story and photos by Laurie Mercer

Food Waste + Cow Manure = Electricity

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One Family’s History with Roots Seventh-generation farmer Chris Noble is the driving force behind Natural Upcycling, a trucking company that brings food waste to the farm’s digester and recycles its packaging, which would previously have been buried in a landfill. The sweet spot is green energy to fuel farm operations.

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once you arrive at the gates of heaven, you are confronted with all of the waste you produced in your lifetime, 40% will be uneaten food.

Destined to become food waste, we inhabit a world of never-ending left-overs. One time edibles (produce and packaged) are the single largest contributor to municipal landfills. Plucked from the stream of decomposition, federal and state mandates controlling landfills are beginning to stem the tide. Two common alternatives are incineration and compost.

In parts of the Finger Lakes, a third solution is turning on the lights in Linwood on Noblehurst Farms. Undesirable food enhanced with cow manure – run through a digester – morphs into very low cost electricity. Technologically speaking, the marriage that throws the big switch in innovation is called anaerobic digestion. At full capacity, a digester can produce enough electricity to power 400 households for a year.

Diverting food from landfills means less methane gas escaping into the atmosphere, and methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Chris Noble, the spark that threw the switch, says Noblehurst Farms diverts 500 tons of waste from landfills every month, eliminating 409 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, the equivalent of taking 1,046 cars off the road.

While many people will see a banana peel as waste or garbage, Chris sees pure green energy. Chris’s seventh generation dairy farm has a total of 120 employees, 40 of whom work directly on the farm.

The 31-member board of directors – family and others – was created in 1960. Commercial dairy farming in upstate New York has changed radically and quickly as many traditional small family farms have disappeared.

“If a business isn’t growing, it’s dying,” Chris says.

Opposite page: Food and cows produce a happy marriage that keeps waste from landfills and produces low cost electricity to power the milking barns – and coming soon – a plant to produce artisan cheddar cheese.

Of the 120 employees at Noblehurst Farms, many are family members. They have a mission statement highlighting land stewardship and respect for one’s neighbors. Noblehurst milks about 1,700 cows daily, as well as tilling and harvesting some 3,000 acres of prime soil that straddles fields in Livingston and Genesee Counties.

“At our core we are both entrepreneurs and farmers,” says Chris Noble, the person responsible for the digester business. “We also provide good-paying jobs to other people.” Current employees include people with working papers from agricultural regions in Bhutan and others from Mexico. The Bhutanese were brought to the Rochester area by a church group and trained for the upstate dairy industry at a community college.

In addition to operating two dairy farms, the Noblehurst Farms brand sells commercial-grade landscaping equipment, offers feed commodities, and more. At various times they ran a commercial egg production business, potato storage, and raised pork for market. “Today,” Chris says, “we are diversifying on a much larger scale. It’s all about proving technology and investing in it. We have to be good at everything we do to survive.”

Noblehurst Farms history, written by L. Joyce Noble in 2001, chronicles the seven-generation story of the Noble and the Klapper families as they progress from horse-drawn homesteaders to a much larger, modern dairy farm. Excerpts are from the diaries of her ancestors, who worked diligently in the early days of the Genesee Valley, beginning around 1805. Their productivity is exhausting to read about: they thrashed buckwheat and beans, bought and sold animals, canned vegetables, chopped wood, plowed and planted, picked potato bugs, hunted raccoons and squirrels, tended to fencing, fixed buggies, shod the horses, barreled apples, attended temperance meetings, and faithfully went to church.

Marriages, births, and deaths are brief and to the point.

While many of the chores have changed, the purposeful energy that fuels the family-run farm is still forward thinking as it adapts to a cleaner, greener future.

Chris Noble took the initiative to install an anaerobic digester on the family farm. The recipe of mixing food waste with manure is tweaked daily; many variables affect the process.

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As the herd grew, he says the manure from a total of 2,000 dairy cows always presented a challenge. Now Chris says his operation sees manure as an asset. Farmers can haul waste, or for storage, create open, plastic lined lagoons unpopular with neighbors. The time honored treatment is spreading it – nitrogen rich and excellent for growing – on the land. Fields closest to the barn tend to be the richest. Modern times – with thousands of animals – means trucking cow manure and adds to the cost of doing business. Some farms run out of open land to spread on, especially in winter.

The light bulb moment for Chris, that got him going into the digester development, was a solution with tremendous benefits – including low cost power. Right now the energy powers the dairy and creamery, and the houses on the farm, and soon it will help make upstate, artisan cheddar cheese.

The 30,000 square-foot, $50 million cheese making plant, in partnership with Arla Foods and Dairy Farmers of America and powered by passive solar and digester produced electricity, is slated to open in early 2018.

But first the food waste has to get to the farm, so Chris pioneered Natural Upcycling – basically a fancy trucking company. As for upcycling, Chris predicts, “This business will change drastically in the next twenty years.

When you think of where recycling bottles and cans was 20 years ago, that’s where we are today. This is a nascent industry.”

He says finding drivers, “who like to feel like they are making a difference,” was one of the easiest parts of the puzzle to solve. Research

by RIT indicates that it is economically feasible to haul waste only within a 100 mile radius from the digester.

“We are collecting as an extension of what we do with the digester. We collect from western New York all the way down into Tompkins County. In Tompkins County, we just purchased the hauling part of a business called Cayuga Compost. Our western New York operation is centered to work with all of the Wegman’s stores in those areas.

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We are collecting in Buffalo, Rochester, all the way to Syracuse and along the Syracuse corridor. On the east side of Cayuga Lake we collect from Wells College. Closer to home, we have a pilot project to collect from York Central schools,” he says. Natural Upcycling just began harvesting food waste from the Ontario County jail in Hopewell, previously headed for the landfill in Seneca County.

Natural Upcycling’s vehicles for hauling, that Chris calls “fancy dump trucks,” have a special feature of being somewhat self-cleaning. “Our trucks have a built-in power washer. Ours are

tote-based customers. Many of them are taking the totes back into the store so it’s very important that they are food grade sanitary.”

Here’s How It Works

Food waste is collected weekly.

Every day at the Noblehurst digester, the incoming non-edibles are scooped up by a skid steer and deposited on a conveyor belt, the moving gate keeper to the digesting process. The 440-kilowatt facility includes a concrete tank, 100 feet in diameter and 30 feet deep, sunk 10 feet below grade. The total cost is $3.2 million, including a $497,520 grant. The

Top: A drone’s eye view of the digester. The entire process from waste input to power takes about 28 days. Photo courtesy Chris Noble Circle photo: Many hands lighten the load as tons of food is separated from its multipurpose packaging.

Bottom: Food once meant for people is now fed into a hopper, which in turn sends the material into the digester.

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STORM WATER MANAGEMENT digester kind of looks like a bright red, circus-sized tent. The scope from waste to power takes about 28 days.

In a Wegmans press release, anaerobic digestion is described as a biological process that occurs when bacteria decomposes organic matter in the absence of oxygen. As the bacteria work, bio gas (mostly methane) is released. Bio gas is piped underground for cooling. It is then pressurized, metered, and fed into a heat and power unit that yields heat. The remaining waste, rich in nutrients and low in odor, becomes fertilizer, and can be used as bedding for the bovines. The energy produced replaces our dependence on traditional fossil fuels and eliminates greenhouse gas emissions.

Chainwide food donations from Wegmans totaled 14.5 million pounds of food to people in need in 2014. Food donations have always been part of their practice, but some food is uneatable.

Noblehurst processed 5.5 million pounds of food waste from upstate Wegmans’ stores to produce clean, renewable energy in 2016 alone.

Wegmans, now in the family farm business itself, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016.

But first, that tsunami of garbage has to be taken out of its cocoon of heavy packaging – a river of plastic, cardboard, paper, foil, caps, bottles, and cans. Enter Integrated Employee Services (IES) where a room full of employees, bused to the farm for halfday shifts, separate packaging from food waste. The IES mission statement, summarized, is to help people with disabilities meet their work-related goals for more rewarding lives. Chris says they take their work seriously. The centerpiece is a hopper that extrudes mostly liquids pumped to the digester – for example, soda and energy drinks beyond their expiration date and crates of mega-size mustard dispensers. What is left of its original packaging becomes a tangle of brightly-hued plastic and metal crushed beyond recognition. That material is now destined for a recycling center. For added continuity, Noblehurst Farms put Mike Thorton, from IES, on the farm’s payroll.

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Chris and his wife, Jennifer, are parents of young girls. The soft spoken good listener, once toiled as an MBAgraduate financier in Manhattan, after growing up working on the farm. He tweaks that day’s recipe of the food and manure stream at his desk in the computer room. He also jockeys the skid steer towards moving mountains of undesirables toward the conveyor belt – the link in the food chain, so to speak. It’s not as if tons of undigested food head for the digester. Imagine miles of limp, cooked spaghetti, slimy cold cuts, wilted pineapple tops, mounds of peppermint-flavored syrup, damp coffee grounds, damaged fruits and vegetables, and tons of mushy pumpkins after Halloween. Easter plants still clinging to their peat pots in late April. Even gourmet cheeses beyond their expiration date are doomed.

If you want to become more conscious about how much crap we all produce every day, take a tour. To help educate youth, they began working with nearby schools. Chris says that by the time his oldest daughter has gruaduated, it will be second nature for students to separate food waste as it hits the tote. He observes that little kids get what it’s all about; teenagers not so much.

Right now a banana peel may be worth nothing, but when you can upcycle it to a digester, suddenly you are on the way to being able to turn the lights on. Noblehurst has essentially staked out the entire circle of life with family members still devoting themselves to planting, growing, harvesting, and now reclaiming food and reusing animal manure to produce green energy.

In 2016 Governor Cuomo announced the launch of an anaerobic digester on Long Island.

Upstate and the Finger Lakes are already there.

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ucked away in the a year had located their still “industrial” section and tasting room in an old auto of Corning between garage in Corning.

Denison Park and the The result is a site that is Chemung River is an old simultaneously warm and gritty. car garage that, at a glance, hardly The front end – the tasting area betrays the treasure found within.

– is tastefully decorated with Self-billed as Corning’s oldest funky fixtures, warm colors, and distillery (i.e. its only one) Four video game stations, but the Fights Distilling is a fairly industrial facade and the large new enterprise that owners open area in the back give the Matt and Donna Bowers entire place a real workshop hope to grow into the feel. It’s a blend that feels Crystal City’s mecca for right. homegrown spirits.

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Matt grew up in foot tall still that some Corning, and after a stint with the Marines distilleries feature front and center, but it has a he returned home for sufficient copper column further education and to begin a career with and plated beast that Corning Inc. Neither he was cooking along when I recently paid Four Fights nor Donna have a family background in distilling, a visit. Nearing the end of but at some point a run, Matt was taking Four Fights Distilling is located in Corning and is samples from the stream they became a bit open year-round for tasting, cocktails, and events. of alcohol pouring forth to intrigued by fermented beverages and began try to determine when to fourfightsdistilling.com shut it down. “I’m looking to experiment with home winemaking for the right balance of harsher flavors and vapors and brewing. Having that follow the purer stuff,” he explains. A little funk adds had an opportunity tour Kentucky bourbon country as an extension of a work trip, Matt decided to double down on the depth and character. Too much and the alcohol will quickly disappoint. hobby and turn it into something more.

“Matt bought books about distilling and watched how Matt and Donna want Four Fights to be a reflection of to videos online,” recalls Donna. “I thought he was going the local scene, and 75% of their raw material is sourced to lose interest eventually, but he became more and more in the region. They’ve dedicated themselves to holding determined.” local events that bring together their customers (the recent Harry Potter themed tasting parties were such a hit they

Eventually, Matt and Donna formed a vision to found their own distillery. Matt wanted to focus on bourbon and will continue the series). In addition, Four Fights serves whiskey. Donna, a lover of gin, wanted to create her own cocktails made from their spirits. Customers can come do a blend of infused botanicals that give that spirit its distinct traditional tasting, or they can show up and hang out with taste. They officially founded the distillery in 2014, and within a few drinks among friends.

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tasted through the entire flight at Four Fights. It’s an impressive lineup. The more casual fare – the Emperial Apple Pie, for instance – is well-made and handcrafted, not overwhelming in its mass appeal.

The Crystal City Vodka, and by extension the Suite 101 Gin, has a depth and texture that is hard to find in mass-produced spirits. Matt tells me that they don’t filter at Four Fights, and this is a good thing.

The Bowers American Whiskey and Bowers Bourbon are really good, with a long finish. The aging treatment really shows on these. Serious whiskey and bourbon drinkers will want to check them out.

With a full series that has the serious stuff – vodka, gin, whiskey, and bourbon – as well as Emperial Apple Pie and Emperial Cinnamon, there’s a little something for everyone at Four Fights. While they are still focused on expanding their production and distribution, both Donna and Matt are extremely proud of what they’ve already accomplished in just a few short years.

“It’s very gratifying when you go home at the end of the day and you’ve made a product that people enjoy,” Matt states.

“Those first few years when it took so much time and effort to get this place going, it’s hard to take a breath,” Donna adds. “But, when you hear people say they love it … that’s the aha moment that makes it all worth it.”

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creating art

PicturePerfect Fine Art Photographer Chris Walters

by Nancy E. McCarthy

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orning photographer Chris Walters had been taking photos since high school but he never considered pursuing photography professionally.

The impetus that set that in motion came during a job interview in 2013.

Ginnie Lupi, then the executive director of the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, asked Walters her standard question: “What is your personal creative process?”

Lupi thought Walters, who applied for a position to administer grants, was caught off guard. After a long pause, he answered “I like to take photographs.”

He got the job and Lupi says it was one of the best decisions she ever made.

Walters eventually shared his work with her and Lupi was “blown away.”

Walters credits Lupi as “a driving force in getting me to exhibit my work publicly.” At her urging, Walters displayed some of his photographs in

“Georgia – Mountain River”

the arts council’s storefront gallery and they began to sell.

His work has now been shown in nearly 30 Finger Lakes area solo or group shows and garnered many honors. Lincoln, his long exposure black and white photo of the Lincoln Memorial, won First Place in a 2016

juried exhibition at the Arts Center of Yates County (see page 29).

Walters’ favorite subjects are water and clouds. He sprinkles in architecture and people when he can. “He has a natural feel for the landscape,” Lupi says. “His sense of composition is extraordinary, evoking emotion and drama.”

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Walters, 38, has experienced and photographed myriad cultures and diverse landscapes. He’s lived all over the United States and abroad, and has visited 35 countries. Walters was born in Savannah, where his mother’s family has deep roots. His father was a United States Coast Guard pilot and the family moved on average every 2-3 years: Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Florida, Oregon and Maryland. Walters is one of three brothers and has a twin.

When he was in 9th grade and living in Key West, Florida, Walters started taking pictures with his father’s film camera. Aside from a high school darkroom film processing class, he

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Lincoln In the Artist’s Words P

eople stand and move in a reflection and stoicism that befits the monument to our greatest president as he watches over everyone with his customary, magnanimous grace.

A long exposure photograph is achieved through a simple principle: the longer the shutter speed, the more moving objects begin to blur. The catch, however, is that the longer the shutter speed, the length of time the camera’s shutter opens and closes, the more light enters into your camera. If too much light enters, your photograph becomes a washed out, overexposed scene. To get the correct long exposure with neither too little, nor too much, light you can use a neutral density filter. The filter is a nearly pitch black piece of glass that attaches to the lens and delays the light from entering.

I experimented with different shutter speeds ranging from 1 to 10 seconds until settling on 4 seconds to capture people both standing still and moving. I edited the photograph as a RAW file, a digital negative that provides greater flexibility, and used the black and white program Nik Silver Efex 2 because you can make detailed adjustments to how each color will translate into black and white.

Lincoln won the Stephen and Elise Rosenfeld Excellence in Photography Award (First Place), in the 2016 Painting and Photography Juried Exhibition at the Arts Center of Yates County in Penn Yan, NY.

never formally studied photography.

In 2002, Walters graduated from the University of West Florida with a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities and later attended Columbia University, graduating with an MA in International Educational Development. He characterizes the philosophy, religion, English and film courses he took in college as “really illuminating” and helped shape the way he saw the world--both from behind and in front

of the camera.

In between college degrees Walters actually did begin to see the world, living in the country of Georgia while serving in the Peace Corps as a secondary education volunteer.

In 2008, after graduate school, he began working for IREX, an international global development and education non-profit in Washington, DC. It was there that he met his future wife Anne Milazzo from Corning. After they began

dating, Walters accepted an overseas IREX position back in Georgia as country director/education programs manager. He oversaw educational exchange programs and supervised a staff of 22. By 2010, the couple was married and Anne worked as an English teacher at the British-Georgian Academy. The couple stayed until 2012, the same year Walters had invested in a professional level Canon DSLR camera and was honing his craft photographing M ar ch /A pr i l 2018 ~

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4th Annual

Children’s Photo Contest!

EXTENDED DEADLINE!

March 16, 2018 Age Groups • Up to 9 years old • 10 to 13 years old • 14 to 16 years old

Prizes • 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for best photo in each age group.

• Prize plaques will be awarded, along with publication in the May/June 2018 issue.

Photo Entries

Photos can be color or black and white.

Photos can be taken using a standard camera, and mobile devices such as smart phones, pads, notebooks and mp3 players. Subject matter is to consist of landscape and nature shots, architectural, animals and any other appropriate subject that features the Finger Lakes Region in a positive light. The photos are to be taken within the 14-county Finger Lakes Region. Entries are limited to a total of 5 per person.

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Above: “Corning – Centerway Bridge Long Exposure” Below: “Georgia – Old Woman in a Vineyard”

the unique Georgian landscapes and capturing the joy and beauty of its people.

The funding for Walters’ position was ending and they were ready to come home and re-connect with their families.

The plan was to find work on the East Coast. Walters’ parents were in Savannah and his wife’s parents were in Corning.

While the couple initially lived in Corning, they weren’t committed to settling there at first. Anne, a teacher, could work anywhere but Walters wasn’t sure he could find a local job. Then he did.

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As grants manager and gallery curator at the ARTS Council, Walters appreciates being part of a cultural advocacy organization that enhances the quality of life in the southern Finger Lakes region. He and Anne (“my best friend and greatest encourager”) have enhanced their own lives with the birth of their daughter in 2014 and a son in 2016.

Walters can walk to work and loves the friendly, welcoming community of Corning. What he finds visually fascinating about Corning are the endless subject matter options, all within close proximity: waterfalls, vineyards, town square, lake, rustic barns, and countryside landscapes. He especially loves the cloud formations in the Chemung River Valley and even the dreary winters.

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“It’s really a beautiful place to take photographs,” he says.

A year ago, Walters switched from his Canon DSLR to a lighter Fuji X-T2 mirrorless digital camera, which is easier to travel with. “With the Fuji in particular, I really enjoy that every adjustment I make is on an external dial: the aperture ring, the exposure compensation, the shutter speed,” he explains. “It makes for a more tactile experience. And I love the dynamic range.”

While much of his work has been in black and white, since moving to Fuji he’s been shooting in color more because “they are really amazing with color.”

Walters now has a website where he sells his photographs and he continues to show his work at various art venues. Walters was recently selected to exhibit his photographs at the George Waters Gallery in Elmira College as part of the juried, four artist 2018 Biennial Regional Artist Show (March 8 - April 6 ).

Elmira College’s media artist Jan Kather, a member of its creative arts faculty, sings high praises of his “lushly composed landscapes.” She touts his artistic accomplishments as well her admiration of his social engagement as a Corning resident who continually contributes to the vitality of the community.

Walters is more modest when he sums up his own feelings about transitioning from hobbyist to professional fine art photographer.

“The first time a person other than a family member owned one of my photographs that they willfully paid for, I knew it was more than a hobby.”

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Outdoors

in the open air

Best

Birding Spots

by Mark Chao

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f you ask residents and visitors what attracts them most to the Finger Lakes, you will likely hear mostly about our sweeping vistas, stunning shorelines, orchards, farms, culture and arts, food and wine.

But for me and countless other enthusiasts, one different answer rises to the top – the diversity of birds and the abundance of protected lands where one can enjoy them.

Over 300 species of birds have been recorded in the Finger Lakes region. If you are a beginning birder, it’s a great place to get started. If you are already a die hard, you can devote hours and hours, week after week, to birding here and never run out of rewarding discoveries.

And whether you live in our region or are here just for a short visit, you have endless options about where to find the birds, all year round.

The Finger Lakes Land Trust (FLLT) has created a website, gofingerlakes.org, to help you in your planning. The site presents an interactive map of protected

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lands all across our region, enabling you to home in on individual locales to learn more. You can also apply filters to your search to find places best suited to specific activities, including birding. Here are just a few highlights from the dozens of birding destinations you’ll find on the website.

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) is the crown jewel of the area’s birding sites, almost literally at the top center on the map of the region at the north end of Cayuga Lake, within an hour’s drive of Syracuse, Rochester, and Ithaca. The refuge itself encompasses almost 10,000 acres, but is only one part of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex, a vast patchwork of almost 50,000 protected acres, or about 78 square miles.

Most people begin their visit at the refuge’s visitor center, and then proceed slowly on the Wildlife Drive around the Main Pool. During spring and fall migration, these open waters host hundreds of thousands of migrating ducks, geese, swans, grebes, coots, cormorants, and every now and then, even local rarities such as American White Pelicans.

Furthermore, refuge managers draw the water down in certain areas during migration to expose expansive mudflats. As a result, MNWR is the region’s best site for watching migrating shorebirds. At peak times, with patience, skill, and luck, you can even see up to 20 shorebird species in a day.

Montezuma also hosts a dazzling Great blue heron

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Above: Green Heron at Park Preserve

Photo courtesy of Tom Reimers

Right: The Lindsay Parsons Biodiversity Preserve Photo courtesy of Chris Ray

array of charismatic breeding birds throughout the summer, including Bald Eagles, Ospreys, Black Terns, countless Great Blue Herons, American and Least Bitterns, and, in the northern part of the complex, Sandhill Cranes and Cerulean Warblers. In winter, the pools are mostly frozen and the Wildlife Drive is closed, but the area is still excellent for roadside birding, perhaps most notably for wintering Snowy Owls and Northern Shrikes.

For different reasons, Sapsucker Woods is the other nationally renowned birding site in the Finger Lakes. Located in Ithaca, this 220-acre sanctuary is the home of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, one of the world’s leading institutions dedicated to the study and conservation of birds.

Sapsucker Woods is a particularly good place to start if you are new to birds and birding. The visitor center, housed in the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity, has large picture windows that look out on an array of bird feeders and a pond, which typically attract at least 10 species of birds at a time for very close viewing. The visitor center also contains interactive exhibits, a small screening room for films, an ornithological library (open weekdays only, for limited hours), and art exhibits. The gift shop, run by Wild Birds Unlimited, is the best place in the region to shop for field guides and optics.

The sanctuary itself has more than four miles of trails, which are all wide and flat, making for easy walking even

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

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Outdoors for young children. Comprising beech-oak forest, swampland, brushy edges, and ponds, Sapsucker Woods typically hosts more than 150 bird species per year. During peak migration in May and September, birders collectively find 20+ species of warblers, plus vireos, thrushes, and much more. Summer is less of a riot of diversity, but still, with a well-trained ear, one can find 50 or more breeding bird species in Sapsucker Woods, including Barred Owls, Northern Waterthrushes, Eastern Scarlet Tanagers, and of course bluebird eponymous Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers.

Then there are the lesser-known nature preserves, open to the public and much beloved by us locals but often overlooked by visitors. Here you can really discover the variety in our regional landscapes, and accordingly, the diversity of our breeding birds.

The Finger Lakes Land Trust owns many of these sites, having identified the lands as biologically significant and then acquired them to preserve in perpetuity. Birders particularly treasure the Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve in West Danby, which covers more than 500 acres of meadows, hedgerows, hardwood forest, hemlock woods,

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and streams and ponds. Over 70 species of birds nest here in a typical year, including both Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos, plus Prairie Warblers among 17+ breeding warbler species.

The Hinchcliff Family Preserve has a similarly impressive mix of habitats and bird species across its 206 acres, plus a sweeping view of Skaneateles Lake. And in the 390-acre Wesley Hill Nature Preserve between Canandaigua and Honeoye Lakes, you can expect to find Hermit Thrushes, Eastern Bluebirds, and up to three dozen other species on a slow morning walk through the mature hardwoods and conifers in spring and summer.

So I hope you’ll fire up gofingerlakes.org, grab your binoculars, and get out and find some birds in these and other nature preserves of our region. Maybe then local birding might grow into one of your favorite pastimes, too.

Admission at all of the sites mentioned here is free of charge.

Chris Ray is a nature photographer and cartographer from Ithaca. He hopes to inspire viewers to strengthen their own personal connection with the natural world through his work. Follow him on Instagram @topher.ray.

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Cultured

the better things in life

Air, Water, Soil and

COMMUNITY Hunt Country Vineyards and the Finger Lakes Museum & Aquarium are partnering to promote and protect the natural wonders of the Finger Lakes

Hunt Country harvest Photo by Matt Kelly

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his April, Hunt Country Vineyards will be giving a percentage of all sales made during the month to the Finger Lakes Museum and Aquarium. It’s the beginning of a partnership between a local business and organization that share a common mission for promoting and protecting the natural beauty of the Finger Lakes.

“We are thrilled to establish this partnership with the Hunts,” says Natalie Payne, executive director of FLM&A since 2015.

The Finger Lakes Museum and Aquarium is not your standard collection of exhibits and displays. Instead, it’s currently a museum without walls. Its sole purpose is to spark curiosity and provide personal engagement with the natural wonders of the Finger Lakes. Yes, FLM&A is renovating the old elementary school in Branchport as its headquarters and has recently constructed a beautiful new barn on its campus along the banks of Sugar Creek. But these buildings are merely the jumping-off point for much bigger adventures: kayak trips through the wetlands and on the lake, guided woodland walks, and birding and photography classes, all led by expert guides and volunteers.

“Getting out on the water or into the trees is the best way for people to truly fall in love with this place,” says Payne.

“It’s exciting to collaborate with an organization that shares our passion for both the cultural and natural history of the region,” says Suzanne Hunt, director of strategic development at Hunt Country Vineyards and a global consultant on renewable energy. She is the younger daughter of Art and Joyce Hunt, who started the winery in 1981.

The Hunt family has been farming on the west side of Keuka Lake for seven generations. Art’s thrice-great uncle Josiah W. Prentiss is credited with introducing “grape culture” to the Crooked Lake when he planted the first commercial vineyard in the 1830s. (Unfortunately, Prohibition put an abrupt end to this earlier

round of viticulture.) Many years later, in the 1980s, Art and Joyce started one of the very first wineries that helped the Finger Lakes become the wine region it is today. Art helped craft some of the New York State legislation that made growth of the industry possible. He also worked closely with Cornell Cooperative Extension staff, identifying new grape varieties and pioneering the technique for field grafting vines in cold climates like the Northeast. The Hunt family is committed to responsible, sustainable farming and production practices.

They’ve installed award-winning solar and geothermal systems to reduce their use of fossil fuels. They make extensive use of mulch and compost in the vineyards to increase soil health.

And they’re increasing habitat for bees, birds and other wildlife all around the farm to create a more resilient environment in which to grow grapes.

“We depend on clean air and water, healthy soil, and a stable climate to make great wines,” says Hunt. “As the museum educates visitors about all of the functions and services that these ecosystems provide — and that we all depend on — hopefully they will inspire more thoughtfulness about how our individual actions combine to create huge collective impacts.”

“I’m extremely encouraged by the continued show of support from local organizations for the museum, particularly from Hunt Country Vineyards,” says Payne. “The Hunts’ history and success is exactly the kind of story that the museum will share and showcase as we continue to grow.”

To purchase wine and support the Finger Lakes Museum and Aquarium, visit the tasting room at Hunt Country Vineyards or shop online at HuntWines.com during the month of April. To learn more about the museum and all of the programs that will be offered this spring and summer, visit FingerLakesMuseum.org.

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First Impression story by Maggie Barns photos by Nigel P. Kent

“It’s not much farther.”

M y photographer, Nigel,

glanced over his shoulder

to confirm I was keeping up.

We were walking through

an embrace of trees and mossy earth on my first ever approach to Taughannock Falls. It was a short walk and I would be sad to see it end. The breeze carried an intoxicating scent of honeysuckle and memories of childhood walks that led to discovery.

On this path, you approach

the falls from the side and walk across a bridge to square up your view of them. Nigel, a man wise in the ways of nature, stopped and let me proceed without comment.

My first thought was, “How

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Taughannock is intimate, like a cove in the heart of the first forest ever grown. The water crested over the top of the falls in a thunder of sound and then transformed into lace as delicate as an angel’s laugh as it plummeted. Swallows danced with the water as it fell, swooping and turning around the curtain of lace, seeming to disappear before bursting back into the sunlight.

Somewhere before the bottom the water returned to something substantial and crashed into the pool in

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’m sure I heard once how tall the waterfall is, but it suddenly felt wrong to assign a number to its impressiveness. Who cares how tall it is or isn’t – look at it!

Nature’s design of the entire area, the cliffs with their stories carved into layers, the canopy of evergreens which have been alive longer than any of us, the very placement of the falls, are presented to you the way a fine gift is. Full appreciation can only be attained by standing back quietly and just feeling….what? Small? No, maybe humbled?

Still not right.

Blessed.

That’s it. In the middle of dozens of people – taking selfies, skipping stones, corralling disinterested children – seeing Taughannock Falls for the first time is to receive a blessing. It’s as if you have been invited to gaze upon the favorite waterfall of heaven itself.

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rim of the falls and caught a blinding starburst of sunlight.

With eyes closed, I felt rather than saw Nigel stand beside me. When I re-focused, I glanced over at him leaning casually on the top of his camera tripod.

“So?”

I returned my face to the falls and gulped another breath of that sweet, damp fragrance.

“It’s perfect.”

Does this sense of blessing happen every time you see Taughannock Falls? Many of those around me seemed too preoccupied, too much in the current world to feel it. They continued to talk and shuffle from spot to spot. I fought the urge to say, “Stand still! Be quiet and listen to it! Don’t you feel it?”

It was my inaugural visit. Maybe on future encounters with the falls, I won’t feel it either. You only get one first.

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ach spring nature unleashes a force that creates a spectacle unlike any other in the Finger Lakes Region. Now’s the time you can see wild waves pounding the pier of the Sodus Point Lighthouse and exploding into amazing water sculptures. When the conditions are right, unrelenting, wind-driven waves crash so hard against the pier that they create giant curtains of water that wrap around the entire lighthouse. That lighthouse is fifty-one feet tall.

It’s a sight not to be missed.

The combination of wind strength and direction are key to producing waves with sufficient height, power, and just the right angle to smash like a Goodyear blimpsized water balloon into the pier.

The best wave-making winds blow out of Canada.

When the wind-mapping weather website ventusky.com (click on “wind gusts” and use the “change date” button for a wind gust forecast) or your local weather channel reveals Toronto or its neighbors to the east to be huffing and puffing directly at Sodus Point, the winds are perfect for creating wave explosions. Given a fetch of open water over 100 miles long, the winds barrel unimpeded across the lake like a runaway train. When gusts exceed 30 miles per hour, the wave splashes start eliciting ooos and ahhs, and at over 40 miles per hour they make you glad you aren’t out there among them. Unless you’re a seagull. For some reason, seagulls seem to delight in a gale. In front of the lighthouse, a small band often dips and pivots, verves away and returns again and again to revel in the feather-tearing gusts.

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ike a hand flipping along the spokes of a bike wheel, the waves sometimes zip along the length of the pier and its crenelated structure, creating a necklace-like display of wave splashes about ten feet high.

You may wonder if you want to brave 40+ miles-perhour winds. But you don’t have to. You can simply park at the north end of the beach lot and watch from the comfort of your car. Everybody else does. Should you open your window or step onto the beach, you’ll feel a sandblast of grains from the beach. I’m still finding small pockets of sand on my dashboard from photographing through an open car window.

For almost two hundred years, a lighthouse has called out the bay entrance. The current pier lighthouse was built in 1938 and is more accurately known as the Sodus Outer Light. A half mile to the west, the older and more handsome lighthouse complex, now called the Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum, overlooks the bay and lake from a bluff. Its attractive block tower attached to the museum building stands on lovely grounds. Open from May to October, it’s worth walking around any time of the year (sodusbaylighthouse.org).

To get to the village of Sodus Point and the lighthouse, just get on Rt. 14 north at your earliest convenience (from exit 42 on the Thruway, or from Route 31, Route 5/20, or Route 104) and turn right onto Bay Street in the village and then follow signs to Sodus Point Beach Park/ Coast Guard station.

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Spring

Awakens a poetic tribute

photos by Bill Banaszewski

The Enkindled Spring D. H. Lawrence, 1885 - 1930

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.

I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

And I, what fountain of fire am I among This leaping combustion of spring? My spirit is tossed About like a shadow buffeted in the throng Of flames, a shadow that’s gone astray, and is lost.

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Spring Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 - 1889

Nothing is so beautiful as spring— When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.

What is all this juice and all this joy?

A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

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Lifestyle

mode of living

SirenSong the truth depends on a s p a h r e “P walk

around t he lake.” ~ Wallace Stevens

story and photos by Catherine Ravensong

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s I crossed the invisible border between Pennsylvania and New York, beginning the final leg of an almost-26,000 mile journey begun two years ago, tears stung my eyes and blurred my vision. I eased onto the shoulder of the road, rolled down the window and smiled. Two years since I’d seen this land … these lakes, these waterfalls, these trees. This lush greenest of green! The scent of a thousand flowers filled my nostrils, and the damp air clung to my skin. I’d been meandering this incredibly beautiful country for two years; I’d photographed and stayed in some of the most amazing places from the Atlantic to the Gulf to the Pacific – and yet I chose to return to the Finger Lakes. Why? Why leave behind the towering red rocks and other-worldly arches of Utah, the white powder of saline deserts, the colorful

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striations of ancient earth upheavals, or the massive 800-foot-high gorge of the Rio Grande? Why trade the great redwoods of the northwest for the fat oaks and maples and dancing willows of the northeast? Why say no to the craggy snow-capped Rockies … and

yes to the gently rolling hills and flat farmlands of this region?

Let me start by telling you that I am not originally from the Finger Lakes, or even New York State. I was born in Philadelphia and lived most of my life on both sides of Pennsylvania.

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My father’s family, however, was from the Geneva area, and after visiting once when I was ten, I told myself I would live there one day … and it only took another 37 years to reach that goal!

It’s funny, though, how life can take us on some surprising journeys, and just 13 years after I arrived here, a friend’s sudden death along with a looming 60th birthday catapulted me into the adventure of a lifetime. Within just a few weeks of her passing, I’d decided to sell everything I owned, toss a few remaining clothes in the car and set out to meander the country.

Little did I know I would wander for two years and 26,000 miles, and even further removed from my mind was returning to New York.

Yet there is a siren-song that beckoned me back … a song Seneca Lake sings silently to many of us who live here. A magical melody reaches out from her denim depths, singing to those who listen. Her cobalt-blue

The author is pictured at Chinese Arch in Utah.

waters, topped with frothy, bobbing white hats on windy days, her deep musty perfume; her endless shoreline painted with vineyards, crisscrossed with farms, dotted by thick woods.

Her friendly, simple and happy people … a mix of races, religions and occupations. To drive the loop from Geneva to Watkins Glen – perhaps stopping for a sip of wine and a breathtaking sunset – is a perfect way to spend a long, lazy Sunday afternoon. And a drive I missed.

But there is something deeper.

Though all long-past now, many generations of my family were from this area, and I truly believe that it’s

a part of my DNA. Studies have been done recently on DNA memory – specifically regarding early trauma suffered by our Indigenous people – and they found that there is indeed a change, a memory, imbedded in the subsequent generations’ genetic makeup. If this is true, could it not be so for those of us with familial history tied to an area? Could, in essence, the waters of these lovely lakes have become a part of our chromosomes? I truly believe so.

So many I know who choose to leave – for any number of “logical” reasons – always seem to come back.

A year, two, maybe a decade … but they come back. Perhaps there is indeed a magic, a bewitching spell, cast on those who take the time to walk along the shores of these captivating sirens. A magic that cannot be denied, and a magic that lasts a lifetime.

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History

narrative of the past

Arthur

Pioneer of abstract art in America has roots in the Finger Lakes.

Dove

by Laurel C. Wemett

s Jim Spates ascends the winding staircase that leads to the third floor of the Dove Block in downtown Geneva, he likes to imagine he is following the footsteps of Arthur and “Reds.” The Arthur that Spates is thinking of is the 20th century American artist, Arthur Dove, and “Reds” is Helen Torr, his artist wife. When the couple lived in Geneva in the 1930s, the top level of the large commercial building became their home and studio for a period of time. Now, Spates and Dave Bunnell have been engaged in raising awareness of their Save the Dove Block project. For nearly three years, the efforts to revitalize the building with its fascinating link to modern art and Geneva’s history appear to be paying off.

It was while Spates was walking downtown in 2015, a year after his retirement from a distinguished teaching career at Hobart William Smith Colleges (HWS), that he took a long look at the dark and empty building. The red brick structure

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was built in 1878 by Arthur Dove’s father, William G. Dove, a successful contractor and brick manufacturer. The words, “Dove Block” are inscribed on a rectangular block centered in the cornice of the building’s Exchange Street façade. “Wouldn’t it be terrific if it was living again?” Spates recalls thinking. He was struck by the structure’s size, its Victorian-era architectural style, and prime location on Castle and Exchange Streets at what he calls, “the most important intersection in the city.”

“I like cities,” explains Spates, an Urban Sociologist who taught at HWS for 40 years. The longtime resident of Geneva believes a restored Dove Block would contribute to a city renewal. Over its 140-year history, the structure hosted an assortment of occupants, although it has been vacant for more than a decade. Its nearly 13,000 square feet accommodated a succession of businesses on its first floor. The upper two floors served variously as an auditorium, a National Guard drill hall, a roller skating rink, a gathering space for professional wrestling and boxing matches, a radio station, a dance hall, and the Salvation Army. In the 1890s it even became a destination for opera and acting troupes as “Dove’s Opera House.”

Arthur Dove, today an internationally recognized artist, has roots in the Finger Lakes region. Born in Canandaigua in 1880, he moved when he was two with his family to Geneva, where he grew up. He attended college at Hobart College for two years and then graduated from Cornell University in 1903.

Of special interest to Spates, Bunnell and others is the Dove Block’s use as the artist’s studio over 80 years ago. Dove had returned to Geneva from Long Island to settle his mother’s estate in 1933. Rather than live in the family home on South Main Street, he and Torr stayed in a farmhouse owned by the Doves on the Lyons Road before moving downtown to the Dove Block’s top floor in 1937. Living space was created around the large central space and there was access to the roof with views of the city and Seneca Lake. The couple stayed in Geneva until 1938 and those five years are considered by various Dove specialists to be the most productive period in Left: Artist Arthur Dove at a waterfront location, date unknown.

Photo courtesy Geneva Historical Society

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Dove, Arthur G., “Red Sun,” 1935, Oil on canvas 20 1/4 x 28 in.; 51.435 x 71.12 cm.

The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1935 Red Sun was painted while Arthur Dove was living with “Reds” Torr in Geneva. The sun is setting over the softly rolling hills just beyond Seneca Lake. In the foreground the stripes of red-orange and blue suggest the furrowed fields of the land around Dove’s farm.

Dove’s artistic career. Later, Dove and Torr returned to Long Island where they lived for the remainder of their lives in a small cottage overlooking the water. That home, a converted post office, is today on the National Trust of Historic Places.

Saving and Memorializing

The Dove Block fortunes began to look up when Spates’ downtown stroll included a stop at the Geneva Neighborhood Resource Center just down the street. Sage

Gerling, who heads up that organization, responded to the professor’s interest in reviving the pivotal commercial building by bringing together like-minded citizenry including Matt Horn, the Geneva City Manager.

“It is about two things: saving an important building and memorializing Arthur Dove,” says Dave Bunnell, a building developer who was among those at that first gathering. The Pennsylvania native and lawyer had a strong background in business and real estate in Texas and Minnesota before (Article continues on page 58)

Photograph dated circa. 1938 of the third floor studio wall in the Dove Block with installation of 25 of Arthur Dove’s abstract paintings done in Geneva. His “Trees and Covered Boat” (hung low and just to left of chair) appears in the photo with the artist at the Dove family Lyons Road property.

Photo credited to Archives of American Art and William Dove. Reproduced in Arthur Dove: A Retrospective by Debra Bricker Balken, published by Addison Gallery of American Art and MIT Press, 1997.

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This pastel sketch of a reclining woman is an example of Dove’s commercial illustration early in his career and also shows the artist’s full signature.

Courtesy Geneva Historical Society

Watercolor by Arthur Dove, no date. This grain elevator was built in 1937 for the Finger Lakes and Hudson Flour Mills (FL&H) when Dove lived in Geneva. Courtesy Geneva Historical Society

Arthur Dove with his painting, “Trees and Covered Boat” at the Dove family property on Lyons Road. Today, the oil painting, dated 1932, is in a private collection. Courtesy Steve Sjoblom

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About

Arthur Dove (1880-1946)

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fter college Dove’s love of art led him to a successful career in New York City as a magazine illustrator and in 1908 he moved with his first wife, Florence Dorsey, to Paris for over a year. He even showed his paintings at the famed Salon. After returning to America the couple moved to Westport, Connecticut, where he painted while farming.

Dove’s commercial illustration gave way to a modern style of painting. He exhibited at galleries owned by Alfred Stieglitz, acclaimed photographer and husband of the major American artist Georgia O’Keeffe. He became Dove’s dealer and advisor throughout his life. Dove became friends with avant-garde modernist artists in the Stieglitz circle who espoused abstraction and he is considered by many as America’s first abstract painter. O’Keeffe regarded Dove as a close friend and a major artistic influence, even visiting him in Geneva.

In 1921, after Dove left his wife and son he moved to a houseboat on the north shore of Long Island with Torr. The pair eventually married in 1932 and their primary residence for years was a powered yawl named Mona. Dove devoted himself to his art, thanks to a monthly commission paid by art collector Duncan Phillips.

In exchange, Phillips received his choice of Dove’s paintings completed in any given year. Today, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC owns the largest collection of Dove’s works.

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arriving in the Finger Lakes region. He is currently at work on a small resort-type property on Seneca Lake. His renovations include several commercial buildings on Castle Street and residential properties like the Dove family home on South Main Street where Dove and a younger brother, Paul, both lived.

“By the end of the summer of 2015, Dave and I became the ‘self-appointed’ heads of a Save the Dove Block group and, over the course of the next year, we had a series of meetings with those folks who continued to show interest, learned who owned the building and what was needed to get it operating again,” explains Spates. “Geneva is in the midst of serious renaissance and the Dove Block is the linchpin that will kick start other businesses.”

The plan is for new businesses to rent the first two floors. The Hobart and William Smith Colleges bookstore is considered a possible tenant for that space. The third floor will become a museum to honor Arthur Dove and his work. To realize their goals two 501(c3) non-profit groups were created.

Overseeing the purchase of the building and bringing it back to modern standards is the responsibility of the five-

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n 2016 the Landmark Society of Western New York selected the Dove Block as one of their “Five to Revive.” The annual list generated by the regional preservation group identifies historic buildings and properties worthy of attention to promote the protection of the region’s architectural heritage.

“We are in a very good place,” reflected Spates at the end of 2017. The Save the Dove Block initiative has now successfully acquired $1.4 million in New York State grants, enough to begin critical upgrades to the building. At the end of December, Geneva received $500,000 in state funds in the latest round of Regional Economic Development Council awards, designated for the project. Added to the earlier $900,000 earmarked for the Dove Block, it will accomplish “the fundamental renovations

member Dove Block Restoration Group board headed by Bunnell as President and Spates as Vice-President. Local lawyer Murray Heaton serves pro bono on this board as do the other members. Currently, an English business woman, Elizabeth Wehman, owns the Dove Block, having purchased it at a tax sale in 2006. While her plan to renovate the building as a center for the arts did not come to fruition, she carried out crucial structural restoration to one wall. Last year, drawing on $200,000 raised by the Dove Block Restoration Group, the owner began receiving an annual rental fee with an option to buy.

Spates heads up the second 501(c3) organization, the Arthur Dove Tribute Group. Its five members include Bunnell as Vice-President. “On this floor there will also be the story of the Dove Block in connection with Geneva,” explains Spates, standing near the center of the vast third floor. Dove reportedly roller skated from one painting to another in the enormous space bathed by natural light entering through numerous tall windows. Someone has tacked up a photocopy of one of Dove’s paintings just to the side of an east-facing window linking the artwork to the skyline view. Opposite, along the solid

of the building – making it habitable for our future tenants,” according to Spates.

Fundraising must continue, however, as the entire project is estimated to cost $3 million.

Bunnell and Spates believe visitors enjoying the natural beauty of the region, its fine food and internationally renowned wines, will be attracted to the resurrected Dove Block and its tribute to an important native son.

The re-opened Dove Block will place Geneva firmly on the national arts and cultural trail, connecting with such significant Finger Lakes destinations as the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn and the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls.

To see a video created by Spates about the artist and the building visit savethedoveblock.org. For questions, to get involved, or make a donation, email spates@ hws.edu or dabgeneva@gmail.com, or call 315-521-2895.

Two Genevans, Dave Bunnell (left), a local building developer who has renovated downtown properties in Geneva and elsewhere, and Jim Spates (right), Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Urban Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, are heading up The Dove Block Restoration Project, a nonprofit group dedicated to saving the Dove Block.

Photo courtesy Steve Sjoblom

Photo courtesy Neil Sjoblom

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60-foot wall, the artist hung 25 paintings in 1938. An image of that remarkable collection has survived in a panoramic photograph.

An elevator will be needed and a climate-controlled portion of the third floor will allow for changing exhibits of original artworks by Dove and other artists like O’Keeffe and Stieglitz.

Tentatively to be called the Arthur Dove Center for the Visual Arts, the ample space could provide classrooms for teaching and public programming.

Spates says he took on the third floor as an “Arthur Dove” focus because of his strong personal interest in modern art.

“The more I learned, the more I realized that, in Dove and his history in the city, we had one of the most important artists of the American twentieth century, a Geneva native who had created dozens of his most acclaimed works in Geneva – in the Dove Block!”

Dove’s artwork can be seen in major museums in New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Boston. In the Finger Lakes region, his art is found at Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University in Ithaca. The proposed Dove exhibits in Geneva “will connect Dove with his geographical origins,” says John Raimondi, an internationally known public-scale sculptor who serves on the Dove Tribute board. “He was a unique American artist and is credited as the first to create non-representational art in North America.”

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Enterprising

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fter 22 years in retail management and just three years shy of retirement, Kent Terpening was let go from his job. Instead of wondering, “What now?,” he shifted gears, cut to the heart of the matter and asked, “What job would make me happy?” Thus was born Kingsley Street Artisan Soaps in its former location in Fayetteville. They are currently available at several other

locations, and their main store will be opening in Armory Square in Syracuse May 1.

The journey

His solution was inspired by his parents’ upbringing during World War II. They were raised with the concept that you made what you needed, and what you couldn’t make you did without. When Kent was growing up,

he learned many practical functions through this philosophy.

The thought of his parents always making their own soap, and how Kent still used that family recipe to make bars for his own home, began to speak to his heart. He knew he was artistic, but could he make a living this way?

Vivid flashbacks of his youth unfolded. College studies in both

Kent Terpening (left) and Don Gebo (right) at their former retail shop in The Canal Barn in Fayetteville.

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upstate New York and abroad reminded him of the home where his father grew up on Kingsley Street in Bideford, England, and the days Kent spent with his paternal grandmother there. It was she who taught her soap-making skills to Kent’s late father, a Korean War veteran who had moved as a young man to America.

The concept was worth a shot, so Kent made 20 soap varieties and tabled at a local fire-hall craft show. He’d been trial-formulating some sugar scrubs and lotions at the time, so he brought those along as well. The show was a small success, but a success nonetheless.

By the third show at a local VFW, Kent incorporated the help of now partner Don Gebo.

The show bombed. The conclusion? He had a good thing, but there was a missing link.

It could be as simple as finding the right venue. At what shows would Kent with his artistic and retail skill, and Don with his practical sense and natural ability toward exposure, be smack dab in their perfect demographic?

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“The soap business is the new jewelry of crafting,” Don shares, as Kent nods wholeheartedly. “Anybody can make soap, but the key is having a brilliant recipe.”

According to Kent, who is a stickler for just the right ingredients, formulators need to know what they are doing, what feels good on the skin, and how their product works with water. Kingsley Street soaps are designed with New York State’s hard water in mind. The glycerin, or moisturizer, is left intact to leave the skin feeling fresh and hydrated, and each bar will keep its fragrance and lather from start to finish.

Kent admits he will not skimp on the ingredients in his effort to bestow his consumers with the best possible product. He will use only a cold process method (producing a solid, lasting bar), and has the knowhow to anchor a fragrance.

Reinventing themselves to accommodate the needs of their consumers has been a successful recipe. Never wishing to become stagnant, they are always creating new product – a mantra for Kingsley Street. From bar soap to bubbling bath bombs, sugar scrubs to shower steamers, lip balms to lotions, candles, and even a men’s line of beard and shaving must-haves are but a few of the expanding line.

With a steady undercurrent of consumer trend veering away from corporate and more toward small business, Kingsley Street believes great product plus great value equals return consumers. However, one will quickly see that this venture goes deeper than a refreshing feel and can’t-do-without scent. For Kent, this family recipe is a representation of his heritage. It’s in homage to his father, and a labor of love in remembrance of his grandmother. That’s why the house on Kingsley Street is represented in the company’s logo.

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His words vibrate with a down-toearth quality, giving credence to his statement.

Perhaps keeping Kent grounded is the knowledge that he’s never worked so hard for anything ever before, or perhaps it’s his one-on-one with his customers, his manner accepting and open to suggestions and requests.

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