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Bridge Tournament
Ferris Hills is pleased to host a community bridge party from 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Players may choose to play in either a duplicate game or a social game. Join us for a buffet lunch and fun afternoon.
Reading by Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music
Saturday, May 19
The Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music reading will take place beginning at 10:30 a.m. with a lunch buffet to follow. International musicians Kevin Kumar and Amy Sue Barson will perform the reading on the violin and cello. This is a rare treat for music lovers and not to be missed. Seating is limited.
Sleep from A-Zzzz
Thursday, May 31
Join MVP Healthcare at 3:00 p.m. for a fascinating presentation on sleep. How much sleep do you need? How can you get more? Why do you wake up during the night? The facts and myth-busting information can be a life changer.
Friday, June 8
Finger Lakes Plein Air Artist Demonstration
This year’s Finger Lakes Plein Air Competition & Festival will run June 5 – 10, with a painting demonstration by judge Kenneth DeWaard at Ferris Hills on Friday, June 8th, at 7:00 p.m. Artists, collectors and the general public are encouraged to attend.
The Traveling Cabaret
Thursday, June 14
The Traveling Cabaret
An evening of song, dance and comedy in the form of The Traveling Cabaret is heading our way. The show starts at 7:00 p.m. prompt and is set to be a fast-paced cabaret musical bringing Broadway, movie and pop tunes from the ’20s, ’30s, ’40s and ’50s to the community.
Friday, June 22
Wedding Renewals
Perhaps you’ve made it to 10, 25, or 50 years together and you want the world to know that you’d do it all over again in a heartbeat. Or, you may just like fancy cake and champagne. Either way, you are invited to our celebration beginning at 2:00 p.m., don’t forget to bring your spouse!
Thursday, June 28
Everything Chocolate
MVP Healthcare will be back beginning at 3:00 p.m. with a chocolate tasting and to tell you that it can be healthy. Who doesn’t want to hear that you can have your chocolate and eat it with a guilt-free conscience?
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ow did you fair this winter? In my neck of the woods it was certainly manageable. Just enough snow – not too much. We had a March storm that first coated everything with a layer of ice, and then wet snow, and then drier snow. With that combination, many tree limbs became overburdened with the weight and cracked and broke. My yard has its share of broken limbs and tree trunks. I guess some extra cleanup will be required of me this spring. It’s time to have a sharpened chain on my chainsaw and a wood chipper that’s running properly. To me, spring means warmer weather and sunshine and yard work. I always look forward to tidying up the yard. Having grown up in the country in Pennsylvania, I was exposed to that kind of life from an early age. As I posted on Facebook several weeks ago, some of my earliest memories are of a bubbling brook with skunk cabbage growing beside it, with the warm sun shining down upon my face. Plants and the outdoors have always held a special place in my heart. Anyone who has a yard has an opportunity to create an environment that is both beautiful and environmentally friendly. This issue
has two gardening articles. One deals with different plant combinations and how to use them for gardens for variety (page 24). Another article talks about water runoff and what can be done to filter that water for a cleaner environment (page 28). Getting back to my roots, I can remember my dad, after working outside very hard all day, would sit in a little metal chair in his basement, with the garage door open so he had a view of the outdoors, and sit and drink a Genesee Cream Ale. He would store his beer in another part of the basement – not refrigerated but cool enough – in recycled glass bottles from the local distributor. That is the first beer I ever tasted, and that’s the only kind of beer he ever drank. Genesee is still going strong and is still making its Cream Ale, and it’s also creating craft beers as well. The craft beer industry continues to be popular throughout the entire country, and in my opinion few places have more brewers than the Finger Lakes Region. Read about some of them on page 58 and then go out and see for yourself how delicious they are! mark@lifeinthefingerlakes.com
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or several years I have subscribed to Life in the Finger Lakes, most of which I have enjoyed thoroughly. While cleaning out my files, I came across the 2013 Travel Issue featuring day trips. Its contents are my most enjoyable reading. Is it possible to have more magazines like this one issue? We enjoy taking day trips from Tioga County. Several of them have been suggestions from your magazine. I also enjoy reading the history and events of small towns which I find in most of your magazines (at least one article). They, too, have been helpful in finding places to go on day trips. My least favorite articles are the ones about all the wineries on the Finger Lakes. My feeling is that once I have been to three or four of them, I know what the rest are like. Perhaps I have the wrong impression. Keep us informed on the small towns and day trips. More please. — Lil Barron
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have been meaning to write to the editor of Life in the Finger Lakes to say that I find this magazine the best in the Finger Lakes! It has such a diverse approach to all areas of the Finger Lakes from east and south of Rochester down to the Binghamton area. Your photos are outstanding and your content is so wonderful to read – without missing an article – and the diversity is remarkable. You must be proud of your staff and freelance writers and photographers. Keep it coming! — Suzanne Farley, Naples
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shot only once, and I think I still have windblown sand in my clothes. — Mike Sargent, Farmington
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got the March/April 2018 edition in the mail, and read the article titled “Green Recipe.” Really good! How Laurie Mercer makes such a weird subject interesting is beyond me. But she did. And it fits right in with the magazine’s interest. I think the magazine gets better with every issue. The photography blew me away this time. I have never been to Taughannock Falls or Ithaca, and now think this will be a definite trip when we are down at Keuka next summer. The photos of Sodus Point were great too. — Mark Sweetland
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Corning (p.44) Dresden (p.84) Geneva (p.68) Hammondsport (p.8)
13 Penn Yan (p.72) 14 Pultneyville (p.12) 15 Rochester (p.61, 79) 16 Skaneateles (p.12)
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May 2...After Hours at the Museum The first in a series of entertaining and informative bimonthly presentations at the Antique Wireless Museum: Canandaigua Main Street - 1964 and Today by Dave Hayden; 7:30 p.m. Tickets available in advance at the museum or at the door. Adults $10, museum members $5. 6925 Route 5 & 20 Bloomfield, NY 14469 antiquewireless.org
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May 4-6...26th Annual Wine & Herb Festival Get a head start on your herb garden. Collect the potted herbs and veggies featured in all 14 food samples along with the matching recipe collection. Friday 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets are $45/person ($65/couple) and are good for the whole weekend. Cayuga Lake Wine Trail 800-684-5217 or info@cayugawinetrail.com May 13...Mother’s Day Brunch Nothing shows mom you care more than treating her to a yummy feast. Reservations required. $15 per person. Children Ages 6-12 $7. Children under 5 free. Watson Homestead Conference & Retreat Center 9620 Dry Run Road, Painted Post, NY 14870 watsonhomestead.com
May 19...Craft Beer Expo Includes hand-crafted pottery tasting cup, blacksmith, coopering & hearth cooking demos, guest speakers, interaction with brewers, music, tour historic buildings, food available for purchase 3:30 to 7 p.m. Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes 73 W. Pulteney Street., Corning, NY 14830 heritagevillagesfl.org May 19...1st Annual Arts Fair & Juried Show Hornell Area Arts Council is hosting its first ever Art Fair and Juried Show. 11a.m. to 6 p.m. 7580 Seneca Road N, Hornell, NY 14843 hornellarts.com May 19...Seneca Lake Wine & Food Festival Celebrate the best the Seneca Lake area has to offer. Over 200 wines to choose for sampling, along with food vendors, live music and waterfront views. 11a.m. to 5 p.m., Tickets $15-$35, 21 and over. Clute Park, Watkins Glen, NY 14891 senecalakewine.com May 24-27...GlassFest Four days of glassmaking demonstrations, music, entertainment, art vendors, food & more. Corning’s Gaffer District, Corning, NY 14830 glassfest.org
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our de Keuka is an annual charity bike ride that benefits the Food Bank of the Southern Tier. Cyclists raise money to feed families struggling with hunger as they tour around beautiful Keuka Lake on a 16, 45, 58 or 100-mile ride. When: Saturday, July 21, 2018. Check in and same-day registration opens at 6:00 AM and closes 15 minutes before the start of each route. Where: Start/finish at Hammondsport Fire Department Why: 1 in 7 people in the Southern Tier struggle with hunger. Every cyclist fundraises enough to provide at least 450 meals for people in need in the Southern Tier, making a direct and significant impact on the life of a child, senior or family. Learn more and register now at foodbankst.org.
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May 25-September 3...Dinosaur Invasion The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse presents an exhibit of prehistoric proportions, free to members and with zoo admission all summer long. A dozen lifelike animatronic dinosaurs will be stationed throughout the outdoor zoo. rosamondgiffordzoo.org/dinosaur-invasion May 26-28...54th Annual National Lake Trout Derby $10,000 grand prize. Weigh Stations at Stivers Seneca Marine, Sampson State Park, Clute Park 315-789-5520 May 27-June10...”Matt & Ben” by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers Directed by Shana Gozansky Kitchen Theatre Company 417 West State / MLK, Jr. Street., Ithaca, NY 14850 kitchetheatre.org
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June June 1-2...22nd Annual Sulphur Springs Festival plus Antique Show & Sale Features a parade on Saturday evening, live musical acts on Friday and Saturday, games for the kids, lots of food, and much more. P.O. Box 28, Clifton Springs, NY 14432 cliftonspringschamber.com June 2...Busk & Balter Street performers, wine and brew tastings, horse and wagon rides. 1 to 4 p.m. Live music at Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars, Brew & Brats and the Naples Hotel. Main Street, Naples, NY 14512 naplesvalleyny.com June 2...Woofstock A day filled with dogs, kids, music and fun to benefit deserving local shelters, rescues and animal care programs. 12 to 7 p.m. Americana Vineyards Winery 4367 E. Covert Road, Interlaken, NY 14847 americanavineyards.com June 5-10...7th Annual Finger Lakes Plein Air Competition and Festival The festival will again be held under the auspices of the Ontario County Arts Council. This event will feature as many as forty-five talented artists from across the country who will paint the beauty of Canandaigua and the Finger Lakes, outdoors, rain or shine. 585-394-0030 facebook.com/fingerlakespleinair fingerlakespleinair.com
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rom June 3 through 9, Geneva Music Festival (GMF) will present “Music, Poetry and Perspectives: A Celebration of African American Culture.” The speciallythemed second week of the GMF season features diverse performances of music, poetry and monologues representative of African American culture. On Sunday, June 3, Cavani String Quartet and poet Mwatabu Okantah kick off the celebration with “Collage,” a program of spoken poetry woven in and around music. “Blues and Spirituals,” takes place June 7 and June 10. Exceptional pianist Michelle Cann will make her Festival debut in this collaboration with other GMF artists. The week also includes two spectacular jazz events. On June 8, Syndee Winters joins the festival to present her one-woman show, “LENA: A Moment with a Lady,” that tells the story of Lena Horne through a series of monologues and music. On June 9, percussionist T.S. Monk, son of jazz legend Thelonius Monk (called the “architect of modern jazz” by the Kennedy Center), takes part in GMF as part of his father’s centennial celebration, with Winters as guest. A full schedule for the 2018 Geneva Music Festival is available online at genevamusicfestival.com June 8-10...Smokin’ Summer Kickoff Come celebrate summer, the many wonderful foods associated with this beautiful time of year, and the fantastic wines that pair with grilled and summertime foods. Come for one day or the whole event weekend. 21 and over. Advance tickets: $40/person (wine tasting); $30 designated driver/nontaster. Friday 12 to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. senecalakewine.com
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June 9-10...Keuka Arts Festival The Keuka Arts Festival is a fine art and skilled craft show held annually along the Keuka Lake Outlet Trail with over 110 vendors that include painting, photography, pottery, jewelry and more. The event is free and will feature live entertainment and activities for families. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine. Keuka Outlet Trail, Penn Yan, NY 14527 keukaartsfestival.com
June 10...Esperanza Spalding Appearing at the Forum Theatre in Binghamton, New York. Brought to you by the Binghamton Philharmonic. 607-723-3931 ticketmaster.com June 16...Summer Antique Show and Sale Brought to you by the Genesee Country Antique Dealers Association and held at the Greater Canandaigua Civic Center. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Admission $6 250 North Bloomfield Road Canandaigua, NY 14424 antiquesrochesterny.com June 16...Heritage Weekend Join costumed docents as you explore the five museums on Historic Palmyra’s Trail Pass. 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 132 Market Street Palmyra NY 14522 historicpalmyrany.com
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joyous moment captured in 1910 shows young Theresa Gratwick sitting in a child-size Windsor with a kitten that wouldn’t cooperate. This photograph was taken at Linwood Gardens in York, New York, which has a rich and interesting history that spans the decades to the present day. This sweet little Sack-Back Windsor armchair has been restored by Greg Johnson and is beautiful once again with a well-aged character all its own. It will be on display during the Tree Peony Festival of Flowers at Linwood Gardens this spring. The property is open to the public for the festival during the peony bloom season on May 19 to 20, May 26 to 27, and June 2 to 3, 2018 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. See linwoodgardens.org for more details.
June 16-17...29th Annual Old Time Fiddlers Gathering and Folks Arts Festival This annual event celebrates music that has accompanied the social gatherings in the barns, parlors and dance halls of upstate New York for generations. Lakewood Vineyards 4024 State Route 14, Watkins Glen, NY fiddlersgathering.org June 23-24... 14th Annual Cherry Festival at Varick Winery Enjoy cherry picking, wine, apple chuckin’, food, arts and crafts vendors, music by Lisa Lee Trio on Saturday and by Just Joe on Sunday. Free admission. 9:30 am to 6 p.m., rain or shine. 5102 State Route 89, Romulus, NY 14541 varickwinery.com June 25-30...Bite of Ithaca 6 day & nights of culinary adventure & exploration around Tompkins County. Restaurants around the county will offer a bite menu of small plates and rates during dining hours. Grab your friends, make a plan and venture around town hopping from restaurant to restaurant. The more the merrier. biteofithaca.com
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long with the brilliant colors of an autumn landscape and the more subtle hues of spring blossoms and blooms, the vivid red, white, and blue of the American flag is deftly woven into the vibrant Finger Lakes mosaic. “Old Glory” waves proudly from many a park pole, village lamppost, and public building. The fluttering colors adorn picturesque porches in towns, along country byways, and at lakeside cottages. Much of this can be said about most areas across the country… but certain Finger Lakes connections involving the American flag run a bit deeper. Flags pop up in any number of interesting spots around the region. One flies in Pultneyville’s Lake View Cemetery atop a stately obelisk. Erected in October of 1865, the unique monument is the first in New York State (some believe in the country) to memorialize Civil War dead. In Nunda, a handmade
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“Stars and Stripes” sent off to the Civil War with a local company later returned to the village with the conflict’s survivors. In due course, the flag went missing for many decades. Eventually rediscovered, tattered and torn, it has been carefully restored and now proudly hangs at the Nunda Historical Society museum. There are communities where display of the American flag is taken a step further. One of them is Skaneateles. Every year since 2010, rows of American flags spread out across the breadth of Shotwell Park in the lakeside village during the period surrounding Veterans Day. Local residents purchase flags in honor of family members or friends who have served and sacrificed for the nation. The rows unfold in every direction with the number of flags reaching into the hundreds. The stunning display is sponsored by the Skaneateles girls’ lacrosse team whose members sell and place the
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flags. Each year the community turns out for a solemn ceremony where players read the names of individual veterans – fallen, deceased, or living. A majority of the event’s proceeds are donated to the American Legion. Famed Flag Firsts There are at least two Finger Lakes communities that maintain a special pride in their flag-related sites; each stands alone with its unique place in American history. Waterloo is the established “Home
Left: Flag atop a Civil War monument in Pultneyville’s Lake View cemetery. This is the first such monument constructed in New York State after the war – some believe in the country; Right: National Memorial Day Museum – Main Street in Waterloo.
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Bellamy’s original intent was for the pledge to be used by the citizens of any nation. As time went on it took on more of an institutional role and, not without controversy, some tinkering was done. In 1923, the words “the Flag of the United States of America” were added and Congress decreed in 1954 that the words “under God” be included. Banners in Mount Morris proclaim the village as “Birthplace of Francis Bellamy” and “His Words Became Our Nation’s Pledge.” Others display the original pledge printed across a flag image. A peaceful stroll between rows of flags in Skaneateles. A visit to Waterloo’s Memorial Day museum. A simple drive past the Red, White, and Blue waving on a picturesque porch. Each can provide a special opportunity – a moment to pause, a time to reflect.
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Crafting a New Trail
by Christen Smith, Finger Lakes Visitors Connection
To learn more about the ROC/FLX Craft Beverage Trail, visit www.ROCFLXCraftBevTrail.com
Wineries Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery Billsboro Winery Casa Larga Vineyards and Winery Hazlitt’s Red Cat Cellars Heron Hill Winery Inspire Moore Winery JD Wine Cellars New York Wine & Culinary Center Raymor Estate Cellars Young Sommer Winery
Breweries Brew & Brats at Arbor Hill CB Craft Brewers Glass Factory Bay Brewing Irish Mafia Brewing Company Knucklehead Craft Brewing Naked Dove Brewing Company Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery Peacemaker Brewing Company Reinvention Brewing Company Rohrbach Brewing Company Swiftwater Brewing Company The Lost Borough Brewing Company Three Huskies Brewing Young Lion Brewing Company
Cideries Embark Craft Ciderworks Old Goat Cidery Rootstock Ciderworks
Distilleries Apple Country Spirits Black Button Distilling Honeoye Falls Distillery Iron Smoke Distillery
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through Ontario County and parts of Wayne County. This newly formed craft beverage trail had been in the works for a while. Legislation for its support was introduced by Senator Rich Funke and Assembly Majority Leader Joseph D. Morelle in 2016. The legislation would allow for signage to support the trail. “The Rochester/Finger Lakes Craft Beverage Trail supports and promotes our craft beverage industry, bringing attention to the hundreds of great locations in our communities,” said Senator Funke. “New York’s craft beverage industry is a major contributor to our economy, and I’m proud to say our region is making some of the best beers, wines, and spirits anywhere.” “Our community boasts a long and proud brewing heritage which has been bolstered by the recent growth of local craft breweries, brew pubs and distilleries. I am proud to support the growth of these breweries which are not only making significant contributions to our local tourism and agriculture economies, but also exposing locals and tourists alike to some of the best beer in the world,” said Assembly Majority Leader Morelle. “This trail will build awareness of this burgeoning sector of culinary tourism, and lets visitors know that they can take the trail and have a unique experience,” said President of Finger Lakes Visitors Connection Valerie Knoblauch. “Wine and grape juice is a $4.8 billion industry in New York, while breweries contribute $3.5 billion
Above: Black Button Distilling founder Jason Barrett organized the original Rochester Craft Beverage Trail in 2014; Right: John Brahm, owner of Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery, as well as Brew & Brats, is a founding member of the Canandaigua Lake Wine Trail. His entities are now also part of the ROC/FLX Craft Beverage Trail.
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to the state economy. Both industries bolster tourism throughout the state, but especially in the Finger Lakes Region.” John Brahm, founder of Arbor Hill Grapery and Winery in Naples, and a founding member of the Canandaigua Lake Wine Trail, thought it was important to join the craft beverage trail. Plus, he liked the collaborative spirit. “We wanted to join the Rochester/ Finger Lakes Craft Beverage trail because of the promotion and recognition that comes with being a member,” said Brahm. “It’s nice because we recommend each other; we play well together.” Brahm says he sees the trail as a way to help craft beverage lovers expand their tasting horizons. “When you follow a trail, you meet interesting owners and guests of like mind. This is particularly true for us along the Canandaigua Lake Wine Trail, because we’re only six wineries. By having more stops, it makes it more interesting for all,” he said. “Without a trail to follow, you have to pick and choose where to stop. This makes it easy – it’s all laid out for you. It takes the guesswork out and makes the journey more enjoyable.” Arbor Hill’s brew pub, Brew & Brats at Arbor Hill, purchases craft beer and spirits from seven trail members. Black Button’s Barrett says the new partnership promises to be a win-win for everyone involved. “There’s more strength
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in marketing together,” he said. “This will allow a strong partnership between the Craft Beverage Trail and the Canandaigua Wine Trail. You see a lot of collaborations between producers making special products and we help each other out when we can.” Dave Schlosser, co-founder of Canandaigua’s Naked Dove Brewing Company, joined because he liked the idea of being part of an organization in which he would have a say. “The Rochester/Finger Lakes Craft Beverage Trail is predominantly run by producers,” said Schlosser. “It’s not somebody else’s ‘pay to play’ trail. It’s our own trail, our marketing. Decisions are made based on what we think.” Schlosser and co-founders Don Cotter and Ken Higgins opened Naked Dove in 2010. They met in 2001 at High Falls Brewery in Rochester where Don was head of sales and Dave was head brewmaster. Schlosser had previously been head brewmaster at Rohrbachs in Rochester and at Custom Brewcrafters in Honeoye Falls. Since the craft industry started, some 400 breweries have opened in New York state. The market is crowded, said Schlosser, but depending on the brewer’s business plan, there is room for everyone. “You have to know where you fit in the market,” he said. Schlosser said he likes the mix of breweries, distilleries, cideries, and wineries that make up the Rochester/Finger Lakes Craft Beverage Trail. “Our trail gives visitors so many different opportunities to sample wine, distilled products, cheese, and beer — it’s not one or the other. We offer a little bit of everything,” he said. “A formalized trail gives legitimacy to our efforts, plus it offers a larger group of producers for people to visit.” Barrett agrees. “We make it easier to identify and plan a day of experiencing unique local beverages made in your backyard. A lot of the smaller operations are hard to find and the trail helps highlight them — because you want to make a day of it. People want to try different beverages, see different atmospheres, learn new things. It’s a sense of adventure and exploring your community with friends. And you get to try some great locally made beer, spirits or wine in the process.”
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ach year beginning around May, artists step down from stages across the country and around the world to bring their musical talents to the Finger Lakes. They perform in churches, concert halls, wineries and outdoor venues throughout the region to add to its vibrant culture. Many of these classical music concerts and events are part of festivals that take place throughout the year. This year, Finger Lakes Visitors Connection, in collaboration with the organizers of many of these events, is developing a website that will showcase all the “Music Across the Finger Lakes” events in one convenient location. “There is so much highquality musical performance going on in the region and, in many cases, they take place within days and miles of each other,” explains Valerie Knoblauch, president of Finger Lakes Visitors Connection. “We want to make it easier for people to see all of the great performances available, so they don’t miss something they’ll really enjoy.” To learn more about the Music Across the Finger Lakes, concerts and events taking place this year, visitvisitfingerlakes.com/music-acrossthe-finger-lakes.
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What You’ll Find The Geneva Music Festival (GMF) is typically the first to take place each year, and in 2018 it’s scheduled for May 31 through June 17. Concerts take place in churches, concert halls and a winery in Geneva, Auburn, Canandaigua and Skaneateles. GMF’s 2018 Season promises to be exciting, moving and inspirational. Many artists will return by popular demand, such as violinist Jinjoo Cho, pianist Esther Park, violist Eric Wong, and the Cavani Quartet. Other talented artists are making their GMF debut as part of the festival’s “Music, Poetry, and Perspectives: A Celebration of African American Culture.” As part of the Chamber Finale concerts in Skaneateles and Geneva, Ettore Causa, one of the world’s leading viola soloists, will makes his GMF debut. In July, there are many opportunities to take in a concert or performance. The Canandaigua Lake Art & Music Festival, a weekend of coordinated music, craft, and food activities, begins on Friday, July 20 with the Canandaigua Lake Music Festival. Founded in 2005, it has quickly become an essential part of cultural life in the Greater Rochester area,
and has earned a regional reputation for innovative programming, inviting atmosphere, and musical excellence. Its pioneering Classical Blue Jeans concerts, an interactive musical show combined with a barbecue dinner and traditional fiddling in a rustic setting, have been lauded by New Yorker critic Alex Ross. Since 2008, Geneva Light Opera has offered comic opera with high quality singers and at affordable prices. It conveys the humorous side of an often-serious art form through gifted singers, along with updated English translations with projected supertitles. During the last weekend of July, performances take place in the exceptional acoustics of Geneva’s 1894 Smith Opera House. In 2018, Rossini’s ever popular “Barber of Seville” will be presented on July 26, 28 and 29 in English. Performing will be outstanding opera singers Jimi James and Valerian Ruminksi, mezzo soprano Sarah Nordin, and a prestige chamber orchestra conducted by James Blachly. Now in its 38th year, the Skaneateles Festival in August provides world-class music by Skaneateles Lake. The month-long, award-winning event features world-
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y career in horticulture began in 1989 with the inception of my perennial plant nursery, but my experience in design started two decades prior to that in the fashion and home-interior industries. As a fashion merchandiser, I would look at our entire women’s sportswear department and its thousands of clothing items, decide what pieces went together to best illustrate the current trends, create the displays to sell the outfits, and arrange the department to make it easy for customers to purchase the merchandise. My displays had to deliver the fashion trend message in the few seconds it took for shoppers to walk through the department. They might buy only one or two of the items in the display, but they would also know how to update their own wardrobes for the coming season. Later, my career turned to interiors. I designed model home interiors to show customers shopping for new homes how to use colors and textures in upholstery, window treatments, and accessories to update their own homes. A living room may have a sofa and a couple of chairs, but the sofa will almost always be the focal point because of its size alone. Shapes and proportions are coordinated and pulled together using color, and accessories accent the style. My switch to garden design proved to be amazingly easy, as I found that basic design principles were a common thread running through my career choices. There are always focal points, all-important color combinations, accent pieces, and accessories that pull the whole look together. Designing a garden can be much like assembling an outfit with
Front to back: Heuchera ‘Caramel’; Hosta ‘Elegans’; Astilbe ‘Fanal’, Autumn Ferns; Coneflowers (Echinacea ‘Sombrero Hot Corral’)
Front to back: Heuchera ‘Caramel’; Carex ‘Bowles Golden’ grasses; Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’; Oakleaf Hydrangea, Fothergilla ‘Blue Shadow’; Clethra ‘Hummingbird’; Fothergillas.
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Front to back: Heuchera ‘Caramel’; Weigela ‘Wine and Roses’; perennials
the right shoes and earrings, or pulling a living room together with pillows and accent chairs. Whether I was planning a flower garden or adding perennials to foundation plantings, the same principles apply. Unfortunately, fashion, interiors, and gardens can all be fraught with common design perils. Have you ever purchased a pair of earrings and found nothing in your closet to go with them? Even worse, have you brought home a great new chair that doesn’t go with anything else in your home? I’ve worked in garden centers, and watched as enthusiastic customers fill their little wagons with a variety of exciting new plants, only to discover that they had no clue where they would plant them, or if they would go with the plants already in their gardens. When I started teaching garden design, I realized that one of the most useful yet often neglected subjects was plant combinations. Mother Nature almost always combines plants according to their growing condition preferences, and it seems to work for her. Learning how to do it in your own garden design will prevent costly mistakes and help create the look you’re after. If you are a plant addict like me, you still may purchase plants on a whim, and you can always leave space in your design for impulse buys and experimental plants. In your Front to back: Rhododendron ‘Ken Janek’, a true dwarf shrub; Heuchera ‘Caramels’ (left); Hosta ‘Sum & Substance’; Hydrangeas, ‘Limelight’ and ‘Twist and Shout’ (right); Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’)
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The often used Japanese Maple tree by the front entry, thoroughly enhanced and contrasted with perennials. Hemerocallis ‘Just Plum Happy’, my favorite daylily that blooms from June to August. In the shady background is Carex ‘Bowles Golden’ used for a light in the dark and a great textural feature. Boxwoods are the supporting actors under the windows.
landscapes, combine plants so that they enhance each other, and bring more visual bang for your buck. You can also use this technique to draw the eye to the area you want to emphasize, or to feature a special plant you love. So, as with many things in life, having a plan is the place to start. Here is how I formulate my garden design plans.
THE LIST Start by listing the trees, shrubs, and perennials you think you want to use.
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Gardening CONSIDERATIONS
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Sunlight requirements, size, shape, color, texture, and four-season habit of each plant.
Planting in numbers is near the top of the list of important design techniques. Threes and fives are the numbers I use to allow for massing for effect, and wrapping plants around others for shaping or edging the group.
FOCAL POINTS In landscape design, a tree (like a sofa) is usually the focal point because of its size, but also it can accent architectural features of the house, including entryways and windows, especially if they’re smaller trees like Japanese Maples or Dogwoods. In a garden, shrubs can be focal points because of size, so choosing the right shrub for its size, bloom time, and color will make it a working focal point as you put perennials around it.
CONTRASTS Shapes and sizes play off each other. Spiky, round-mounded, vase-shaped, column-shaped, and random viney are just a few examples.
COMBINING PLANT FEATURES Mostly we buy perennials for their flowers, but they don’t all bloom at the same time, and some bloom longer than others. A few perennials bloom all season, so I use those as the anchors of my designs; plants like Geranium Rosanne, Becky Daisy, Hybrid Coneflowers and Garden Phlox. What do the plants look like when they are not blooming? Do they have a good sustaining foliage? Great foliage color? Textural features? A stunning flower that will make up for the lack
of other features so we will stick it in the middle? Will it be a specimen (standalone) or does it need to be planted in numbers? My goal in designing front landscapes is always to stop traffic – the same goal I had when creating fashion displays. The backyard garden can be more for personal enjoyment, though there’s still nothing wrong with increasing the pizzazz in any garden. How the plants combine with each other will always bring more value to each plant, and thus increase the pleasure factor of the entire space. K.C. Fahy-Harvick, a landscape designer, is a sought after lecturer. Her workshops feature her love of perennials, bird gardening, and water features. More about Fahy-Harvick can be found at GardeningMatters.com or by email at kcfh60@gmail.com
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Our Finger Lakes Region is blessed with clean drinking water and an abundance of scenic fishing spots. But alarmingly harmful algal blooms (HABs) and extreme weather events remind us that our shorelines and drinking water are under threat. There is no one cause to “put your finger on” to fix it. Farms, non-functioning septic system, and excess lawn fertilizer are issues that need addressing. However, we can control the quality of groundwater flowing off our own roofs, landscape and surrounding property by adopting simple storm water methods; some ancient, some new. As communities search for techniques to manage storm water, it should come as no surprise that many of the best ideas to filter, recycle and replenish groundwater come from nature! Every time it rains, water runs off roofs, driveways and roads. This potentially polluted water enters storm drains flowing directly into streams and ponds. According to EPA
estimates, 70 percent of all water pollution results from storm-water runoff. More than 20 thousand gallons of water can pour off an average roof each year. Natural wetland filters have been replaced by agriculture and development. The erosion of farm fields and compacted lawns loose topsoil, nutrients, and manures when they are mowed too short or stripped of vegetation to serve as a filter buffer zone. With increasing regularity and intensity, storm water washes pollutants into our waters, contributing to harmful algae blooms. When storm water is absorbed into the ground, it’s filtered and ultimately recycled into aquifers, streams, and rivers. Fortunately, nature shows us ways to clean and recycle water allowing us to reduce our impact and contribute to sustainable solutions. Good landscape design mimics nature – water is absorbed, filtered and allowed to recharge ground water. By using some commonsense techniques, landowners can prevent washing topsoil and pollutants directly into storm drains, streams and lakes. Rain gardens, swales, wildflower grassy meadows, and permeable pavers are techniques increasingly being used as “green infrastructure” to mimic nature’s own water handling. Here are a few examples easily adapted to home landscapes, which provide beautiful, productive habitats for native plants, birds, bees, and butterflies. Rain gardens are simply native shrubs, perennials, and flowers planted in a small depression, designed to temporarily hold and gradually absorb rainwater. The existing soil within the garden is removed (or amended) and replaced with a more permeable soil typically consisting of a mix of sand, topsoil, and compost. Rain gardens are dry most of the time, retaining surface water runoff during storms, but designed to drain within 12 to 48 hours, so there’s little risk of breeding mosquitoes. Compared to conventional lawn, rain gardens allow for 30-percent more water to soak into the ground. Rain
Above: Rain gardens and swales at the Rochester Institute of Technology absorb, filter and recycle storm water runoff from surrounding parking lots. Right: Always wet? Plant water-loving shrubs and perennials to reduce mowing, create habitat and provide seasonal beauty.
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Left: Coconut coir logs, a natural erosion control, are used to stabilize shorelines and slopes. Native plants establish root systems to help retain the bank during storm surges; Middle: Permeable turf pavers are being installed at the Finger Lakes Museum in Branchport. (fingerlakesmuseum.org); Right: Rochester Museum and Science’s Green Infrastructure showcase demonstrates a green roof, rain gardens, swales and permeable parking areas. www.rmsc.org/science-museum/exhibits/item/298-regional-green-infrastructure-showcase With every 1” rain storm, this green infrastructure design enables over 28,000 gallons of water to infiltrate and return to ground water.
plants and grasses have trouble growing. Meadows are an effective way to reduce maintenance. Have the courage to stop mowing some areas like steep slopes, wet spots, and shady areas. They are great candidates for planting low-mow grass mixtures and wildflowers. Their roots stabilize the erosion of slopes and slow the flow of storm water. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, turf grass is the nation’s largest irrigated crop, covering more than 40 million acres. Mowers consume 1.2 billion gallons of gasoline annually. Native grasses like switch grass and little blue stem grow in tall clumps to create privacy with added benefits of less mowing and gas consumption. Wildflowers provide habitat for insects and other critters like bees,
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butterflies, and hummingbirds; providing nectar and host plants for the larval stage of certain butterflies. Meadows should be designed as a functional plant community, sometimes requiring two to three seasons to get established with a good root system. Attractive one-size-fitsall wildflower seed packets somehow end up in a tangle of weeds and have disappointed many of us. By understanding your specific conditions, you can select plants that will thrive. • Full sun is necessary for a meadow planting. Insufficient sunlight will favor woody invaders over wildflowers and grasses. • Identify and understand which soil type you are working with (sand, loam, clay) in order to select plants that will
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adapt successfully to the site. If poor soils exist, a decision can be made to either amend the soil or narrow the plant list to those that will tolerate that specific condition. • Poorly drained or very dry soils can provide a competitive advantage to carefully chosen meadow species. Plants with strong ornamental characteristics such as butterfly weed and little bluestem grow well in dry sands, while turtlehead and New England aster will thrive and flower in poorly drained clay soils. Green roofs have a proven track record for reducing water runoff and improving water and air quality. After the initial investment, owners benefit from beautiful green space, lower heating and cooling costs, reduced noise and air pollution, an extended life of roof membranes since they’re protected from weather extremes by vegetation. Permeable paving materials are increasingly being used to allow surface water to be filtered and absorbed into the ground. This is especially useful around urban street trees. Options such as pervious concrete, porous asphalt, and pavers are now available for patios, driveways, and parking lots. We have a vested interest in protecting our water quality to protect our own property values and drinking supply. All the swimming, recreation, sport fishing, winery trails and natural beauty are just what make life in the Finger Lakes so rewarding. Please contact Broccolo Tree and Lawn Care for more information on storm water management at broccolotreeandlawncare.com or call 585-424-4476.
Green Design in Action • Finger Lakes Museum in Branchport. Turf paver parking, rain gardens. fingerlakesmuseum.org • Rochester Museum and Science’s Green Infrastructure Showcase, Rochester. Green roof, rain gardens, swales, permeable pavement rmsc.org/science-museum/ exhibits/item/298-regional-greeninfrastructure-showcase • I-Square Imaginarium, Irondequoit: Green roof, pervious concrete and sidewalks, rain gardens i-square.us/going-green Rachel Edwards is an ecological design consultant for Broccolo Tree & Lawn Care and co-founder of the Genesee Land Trust
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n a warm spring afternoon, there is no better way to enjoy the beauty of the Finger Lakes than by boat. Exploring the region in a kayak, paddleboard or canoe can be incredibly rewarding. From two wild lakes to bayou-like swamps to a mighty river, the region boasts a diversity of opportunities for quiet water paddling. Recent interest has brought new outfitters to the region, making it easy to coordinating a spontaneous outing. Make planning even easier by visiting gofingerlakes. org, a new website created by the nonprofit Finger Lakes Land Trust to help connect people to the region’s best outdoor adventures. Here are six of our favorite spots to enjoy by boat CHEMUNG RIVER Wild rivers in New York are typically thought to be found only in the Adirondack Park, but the Chemung River is a great alternative for paddlers looking for a scenic trip local to the Finger Lakes region. The river is over 45 miles long, but many first-time
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visitors will prefer the 6-mile stretch between Bottcher’s Landing in Big Flats and the Fitch’s Bridge pullout just west of Elmira. This stretch of the river is particularly picturesque as it passes under the steep Palisades, a long sinuous cliff hundreds of feet high that looms over the river along its southern shore. Paddling the 6-mile stretch should take a couple hours, but trips of a few days are also possible. It is even possible to continue along the Chemung to the Susquehanna, and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay on a river adventure of epic proportions. Connect with one of many outfitters in the area to make your river trip easy.
surrounding the lakes, there is a lot to do and see, and the opportunities are expanding. WEST RIVER Over 4 miles long, the meandering West River near Naples, as well as trips along tributaries, provides ample paddling in an almost idyllic landscape. Tall cattails and thick lily pads carpet the banks throughout the 1,700-acre marshland. Surrounded by forested hillsides, the river and vast wetlands are truly peaceful and a world unto itself. In fact, paddling up the West River to the developed shores and
HEMLOCK-CANADICE STATE FOREST Paddlers are welcome to enjoy more than 2,000 acres of tranquil water; free of the common boat traffic found on all of the other Finger Lakes. The shores of these gems are also free of development and utterly wild, so exploring Hemlock-Canadice State Forest is like stepping back in time to behold the Finger Lakes in their natural state. Please note: there is no swimming here. Otherwise, these preserved lands offer an abundance of recreational activities. With placid water to paddle and 20-plus miles of multiuse trails Photo courtesy FLLT
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loud motors on Canandaigua Lake feels a bit like stepping forward in time as the wilderness cedes to civilization. It is akin to Adirondack paddling trips and a true testament to how removed the river and wetlands actually feel. Ambitious paddlers can explore the lake itself, but be advised that strong north-south winds sometimes fill the center of the lake with tall waves. Various car-top launch points are available along the river, as well as on the southwest corner of Canandaigua Lake. HOWLAND ISLAND Paddlers will enjoy both the river and canal surrounding Howland Island with the added benefit that this is a “round” river trip. This type of configuration means you can paddle the river and canal and end up right where you started without retracing your course. As expected, these experiences are very rare and make planning a trip easy. The entire circuit would be about 10 miles and this includes the Seneca River, the Swift Water Channel, and the Erie Canal. Howland Island is located just a few miles northeast of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Longer trips can be created by navigating further along the Seneca River and looping back along the Erie Canal further to the southwest. While larger powered boats will be encountered along the canal, they tend to avoid the river due to thick weeds and other obstructions. The Montezuma Audubon Center, the informational hub for the Wetland Complex, offers regular, naturalist-guided, paddling trips to further enhance the experience.
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Outdoors within its emergent marshes, which also does double duty as a natural water quality buffer for Owasco Lake. During the spring, runs of rainbow trout will find fisherman nearly shoulder to shoulder along the inlet trail. But paddling along the inlet is the activity that really shines here. The slow and quiet paddler will be rewarded with ample bird spotting and rare photo opportunities. When conditions permit, paddlers can explore the inlet all the way to Rt. 38 in Moravia. STAGHORN CLIFFS A paddle along Skaneateles Lake’s eastern shore will wow paddlers young and old. Leave from the boat launch at the Town of Scott Family Park, located just off of Glen Haven Road. From there, a 2-mile paddle along the lake’s edge will bring you to the Finger Lakes Land Trust’s Cora Kampfe Dickinson Conservation Area, which protects 1,300 feet along the bluffs known locally as the “Staghorn Cliffs.” Here, the lakeshore bedrock contains staghorn coral fossils. Peer into the water or step out of your boat to see an ancient coral reef from the Devonian Period, ca. 400-350 million years ago.
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Here are some other excellent Finger Lakes paddling opportunities highlighted on gofingerlakes.org. TAUGHANNOCK STATE PARK In the summer, rent stand-up paddle boards and kayaks for a Cayuga Lake adventure. CONESUS INLET WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA A 300-yard portage is all that separates paddlers from the placid and tranquil inlet and wetland open waters. TEXAS HOLLOW STATE FOREST A man-made pond is a short distance from the parking area along Texas Hollow Road, so boaters can easily portage in for some tranquil paddling and excellent fishing. GREEN LAKES STATE PARK With two pristine lakes, boat rentals, and a sandy swimming beach there are numerous ways to enjoy Green Lakes State Park from the water.
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GlassBarge Celebrates 150 Years of Glass in Corning by Kim Thompson, The Corning Museum of Glass
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ifteen miles on the Erie Canal/ We’ve haul’d some barges in our day/Filled with lumber, coal and hay.” And glass? Yes! The Erie Canal had a pivotal role in making Corning America’s “Crystal City.” In 1868, the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company loaded its equipment onto canal barges bound for Corning. Elias Hungerford, a Corning businessman who developed a patent for glass window blinds, had convinced the Houghton family who owned the company to relocate their operations from Brooklyn to Corning.
The offer was an attractive one. The cost of doing business in the New York City area was high, which was not the case in Corning. Proximity to an abundance of natural resources sweetened the deal, as did the fact that Corning had easy access to an established transportation network accessible through the Erie Canal and various expanding railroads. From Corning, products could be shipped to all corners of the country. Thus began 150 years of glass innovation that has shaped the modern world. “Glassmaking in Corning has
influenced countless aspects of the way we live our lives, from the first electric light bulbs for Thomas Edison and the invention of optical fiber for telecommunications, to the glass used in modern flat-screen displays,” said Rob Cassetti, Sr., director of Creative Strategy and Audience Engagement for The Corning Museum of Glass. “It all began with a voyage on New York State’s waterways.” An Interesting Way to Commemorate the Journey “I like anniversaries,” Cassetti
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America’s Crystal City by Kelly Conway, Curator of American Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass
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t the same time Corning Glass Works was getting established in its new home, a growing trend in American luxury glass developed: masterfully-cut, high-quality, lead-glass tableware we know today as brilliant cut glass. Corning became the leading center for this style of glass, with dozens of new firms established and drawing international recognition for their inventive designs. An influx of talented glassmakers from Europe and America led to the growth of the city and region, which became known as the “Crystal City.” The renovated Crystal City gallery features iconic objects from the museum’s collection of cut and engraved glass, as well as selected private loans. Together with updated LED lighting, digital displays, and a selection of archival materials from the Rakow Research Library, the refreshed Crystal City gallery connects people to the stories about Corning’s origins as a center for glass. The focus is on the history and innovations that led to its emergence as the “Crystal City.”
continued, “and it occurred to me that to celebrate the 150th anniversary of glassmaking coming to Corning from Brooklyn, it would be amazing to put one of our mobile glassblowing studios on a canal barge and retrace the journey.” It didn’t take long for people to get on board with the idea. This summer, The Corning Museum of Glass is headed back to New York’s historic waterways to launch GlassBarge. The patented, all-electric mobile hot shop – the museum’s own innovation – will be installed on a canal barge that will travel throughout the state, retracing and expanding the original journey over the course of four months. Free, live, glassblowing demonstrations will be presented along the way.
Bowl in “Crystal City” or “Wedding Ring” Pattern, 1891-1895. J. Hoare & Company. The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York (83.4.149, gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Sisk)
“We’ve blown glass all over the world, but with GlassBarge we really get into the heart of communities,” said Cassetti. “We’re taking glassmaking all across New York and sharing it with the people who we want to make proud that this is part of their history.” The GlassBarge tour will launch at Brooklyn Bridge Park on May 17, then will travel north on the Hudson River, westward on the Erie Canal from Albany to Buffalo, and will then double back to Rochester to connect with waterways linking to the Finger Lakes. The voyage is the 2018 signature event for the Erie Canal’s bicentennial period (2017-2025), and also coincides with the centennial of the commemoration of the Barge Canal in New York State.
Weekend Schedule May 17-28: Brooklyn Bridge Park June 1-3: Yonkers June 8-10: Poughkeepsie June 15-17: Kingston June 21-24: Albany/Troy/Waterford June 30-July 1: Little Falls
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July 7-8: Sylvan Beach July 13-15: Baldwinsville July 20-22: Fairport July 28-29: Lockport August 3-5: Buffalo August 11-12: Medina
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What to See Along the Way Last summer, a prototype version of GlassBarge made a few stops in communities along the Erie Canal in preparation for the far more ambitious 2018 journey. It debuted at the Fairport Canal Days celebration where thousands of people had the opportunity to take in a Hot Glass Demo. “I think the GlassBarge illustrates that the canal is multidimensional,” Scott Winner, executive director of the Fairport Partnership, said at the time. “The potential embodied in this string of water is really limitless.” In each community along the tour, free glassblowing demonstrations will be provided daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Reservations are strongly encouraged, and free timed tickets are available at cmog.org/GlassBarge. The 30- by 90foot barge accommodates 150 people who can come aboard and watch the molten magic unfold. “GlassBarge is our floating invitation to our neighbors across New York State to come visit us back at the museum in Corning,” said Cassetti. “Those who see us out on the waterways will get a small taste of the fascinating material that is glass, and we hope to ignite in them the desire to discover more.” Museum glassmakers developed a signature piece out on the canal last summer using a technique that involved water. When a molten glob of glass is dunked in water, tiny cracks are created on the surface that gives the glass a “crackle finish.” Glassmakers on GlassBarge, inspired by their surroundings, carried their 6-foot blowpipe to the edge of the barge and dunked it down into the Erie Canal. The technique quickly became dubbed “Kissed By The Canal.” This summer, GlassBarge will be moved along the waterways by the historic tug W. O. Decker – part of the fleet of the South Street Seaport Museum in lower Manhattan – which is being restored in preparation for its Erie Canal journey. Also accompanying GlassBarge
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will be the Lois McClure, a replica of an 1862 canal barge; and the C. L. Churchill, a 1964 tugboat. Both are part of the permanent collection of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, located in Vergennes, Vermont. Every Canal Town has a Story “The Erie Canal is America’s most iconic and enduring man-made waterway,” said Bill Sweitzer, Director of Marketing for the New York State Canal Corporation. “It’s full of stories. Besides the movement of products and goods, the Erie Canal was all about ideas, social movements, and the people who traveled on the canal.” A feat of engineering that took nearly a decade to complete, the Erie Canal fundamentally put New York State on the map, linking Lake Erie in Buffalo with the Hudson River in Albany. The unparalleled accessibility it afforded Upstate New York opened up a world of possibilities as far as trade and commerce were concerned. New York City became the largest port city in the United States; cementing its position as the center for industry and opportunity. “It’s a story about innovation,” said Cassetti. “The Erie Canal transformed our state and enabled the story of glassmaking in Corning. We look forward to telling that story out on the New York State waterways this summer, and to shining a spotlight on the stories of each waterfront community we visit.” For more information, visit cmog.org/GlassBarge
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Children’s PHOTO CONTEST winners
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First Place “Montour Falls canal, taken from a drone” Conrad West • Horseheads
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Second Place “Canopy Tour at Bristol Mountain” Bridgette Kiefer • Honeoye Falls
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Third Place “Yoga on ice – Conesus Lake” Stefan Ritz • Conesus
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Second Place “The girls at Grimes Glen" Kara Miller • Canandaigua
Third Place “Taughannock Falls” Katherine Snaden • Port Jefferson, New York
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love visiting Corning. In addition to taking in the Museum of Glass and the Rockwell Museum, I enjoy a stroll in the area named in honor of the glassblowers, the Gaffer District. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this lovely area features small businesses, gorgeous old buildings, great food and friendly shopkeepers. Everything’s walkable: a pedestrian bridge connects the Corning Museum of Glass to the Riverfront Centennial Park, the Centerway Square and the famous clock tower. In the spring, a profusion of tulips bloom in front of the Corning Glass offices. Wisteria hangs from the trellis in Centennial Park. Outside seating fills Centerway Square for relaxing during warm weather, and an information center is located nearby. Brick sidewalks lead to storefronts and colorful banners hang from lampposts. The bustling downtown offers something for everyone. The area was devastated by the flood of 1972, when waist-high water covered all of Market Street. As the result of recovery and restoration efforts, the Gaffer District blossomed. The beautiful old buildings in the vibrant business district were lovingly restored, and tell their stories on the round plaques that hang on them – part of the “Buildings Alive” walking tour. Even the alleys have a story, with walls covered with colorful student artwork, called the Alley Art Project. The district features retail shops, art galleries, financial institutions, antique shops, salons, and enough restaurants to please every taste. An optimistic sign – “This building is not empty, it is full of opportunity” – decorates the rare empty storefront. Jim Bacalles of Jim’s Texas Hots has worked at his diner for 38 years. “I come from a family of Corning business owners, starting with my grandfather who emigrated from Greece in 1890,”
Clockwise from top left: Glassblowing demonstration at Vitrix Hot Glass Studio; Storefront of Poppleton Bakery and Café; Horse and carriage rides are offered during the holiday season; Gourmet cocoa and home made marshmallows can be found at The Source.
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he explains. Jim works the counter serving hot dogs every which way, as well as plenty of sandwich options. “We have the best milkshakes in town,” says Heather the server. I chatted with Terry Smith at Brown’s Cigar Store next door, a family business he co-owns with his brother BeJay and sister Sue. “This store has been around since 1889,” he explains. “Our father took it over in 1946, and it was passed down to us.” Brown’s is full of vintage pieces, including zinc-lined cases used to store cigars. The clay bricks used to humidify the cases are soaked daily in water. Others have been slightly modernized with an electric humidifier. The neon sign in the front window was created around 1953. “One of our customers was the head of glass tubing at Corning Glass. He was looking for additional uses for the tubing, and created this sign for us.” Old cans, a traditional wooden Indian, yellowed newspaper clippings, and a chair for chatting visitors add to the nostalgic feel of this longtime business. One of my favorite buildings is marked with a plaque that says, “Building 13.” It’s Holmes Plate 54, a restaurant and pub serving local craft beers and delicious food. It was built in 1863 as a hotel and carriage house, and features stone walls, high ceilings, and windows on a pulley system. They’re open on warm days to give patrons an open air sidewalk overlook. It’s a pretty cool place. There’s no shortage of food and drink choices in the Gaffer District, and my dilemma when I visit is deciding if I want to try something new or revisit a favorite find. I’ve eaten on the topside patio of Market Street Brewery and restaurant, another beautifully renovated building that also has great food and a great street view. I’ve grabbed a sandwich at the Old World Café along with an ice cream cone; sitting outside on the square on a warm summer day. I’ve relaxed in comfy chairs with a cup of flavored coffee at Soul Full Cup, a coffee house that offers its own
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Left, top: Pedestrians stroll along the walkway to Centerway Square and the Clock Tower Left, bottom: Student artwork on the buildings as part of the Alley Art Project
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delicious roasted coffee with plenty of flavors to choose from. At The Source, I’ve filled my mouth with its homemade flavored marshmallows – so soft and so good – and brought some home with the flavored cocoa for those wintery hotchocolate days. I’ve tried the wholesome sandwiches at Poppleton Bakery and Café; sitting at the counter overlooking the street, and salivated over the oh-sogood cupcakes (yep, brought some of them home, too). My sweet tooth was doing a happy dance when I tried the best-ever truffles at the Sweet Shop in Connors Mercantile. There are so many choices ranging from sandwiches to salads, pizza and burritos, diners to upscale fancy fare, and early morning to late night restaurants and pubs. It’s a go-to place for foodies of all tastes. I really enjoy visiting the shops and galleries. Each store has its own style, and the shop owners are friendly and helpful. I always stop at the Vitrix Hot Glass Studio to watch an up-close demonstration of the latest glassblowing project. “It opened in 1979, and I came to work here in 1985, where I learned everything about glassblowing,” owner Tom Kelly told me. “I bought the studio in 1996 and have been here ever since.” His gallery features a mix designs – his own, and some from outside artists. “I like to show off the creativity of other artists also.” It’s always a pleasure to browse through shops with their unique décor and merchandise: Bacalles Glass Shop with its huge selection of fine-quality puzzles,
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Connors Mercantile with gifts for home and family, Dish and Co. with everything for the kitchen, and Market Street Apothecary – a whole lot more than a drug store. Special events are held throughout the year. GlassFest, during Memorial Day weekend, is now in its ninth year. Market Street closes to traffic and becomes filled with glassblowing demonstrations, art vendors, food booths, music in the park, and Saturday night fireworks. It’s a four-day, not-to-be-missed celebration of all that shines in the Crystal City. The next time you are thinking about a getaway, make plans to visit Corning to experience all that the Gaffer District has to offer.
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Relaxing at the Market Street Brewing Company
Four days of glassmaking demonstrations, music, entertainment, art vendors, food & more!
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WINERIES
Montezuma Winery & Hidden Marsh Distillery We are proud to serve you award winning fruit, honey, and grape wines. With over 30 wines ranging from dry to sweet, there is something to suit everyone’s palate. Hidden Marsh Distillery has premium liquors, brandy, whiskey, bourbon and vodka. Don’t forget the homemade fudge and extensive gift shop. www.MontezumaWinery.com
Swedish Hill Winery Experience over 30 different wines ranging from classically produced Rieslings and Cabernet Francs to delicious blends that showcase the flavors of the region. A visit with Doobie, our pet miniature donkey and our new miniature horse, Sven is a must-see! www.SwedishHill.com
Goose Watch Winery
Toro Run Winery
Six Mile Creek Vineyard
For over 20 years, we’ve produced distinctive premium wines with a concentration on off-the-beaten path varietals and styles not found in most other Finger Lakes wineries. Sample hard to find European varietals, or more traditional wines from our picturesque setting overlooking Cayuga Lake. www.GooseWatch.com
The winery sits on 64 acres 530 feet atop a glacier-carved hillside overlooking Cayuga Lake. We serve world class Finger Lakes wines, including our signature estate grown Gruner Veltliner. Toro Run offers all the beauty of Finger Lakes with a Spanish flair. www.ToroRunWinery.com
Nestled on the southwest slope of one of Ithaca’s most picturesque settings, Six Mile Creek Vineyard is a boutique winery and distillery specializing in the production of premium wines and spirits. Panoramic valley views capture the beauty of the vineyard, pond, and gardens. www.SixMileCreek.com
Buttonwood Grove Winery
Hosmer Winery
Long Point Winery
Founded on the principle that great wine starts in the vineyard, the first vines were planted on the family farm in 1972. Today, 70 acres of vineyards are producing some of the finest fruit in the Finger Lakes, used to make 100% estate grown, award winning Hosmer wine. www.HosmerWinery.com
The winery sits on 72 acres of land overlooking the east side of beautiful Cayuga Lake. Guests are treated to a tasting of the finest dry red and white wines and the spectacular views that the tasting room provides. www.LongPointWinery.com
Winner of the 2017 Governor’s Cup! Come explore our beautifully landscaped grounds and lake view while tasting some of our many award winning wines. A renowned venue for weddings, we also have on-site cabins for overnight lodging. www.ButtonwoodGrove.com
Lucas Vineyards Three generations of fun-loving Lucas family invite you to experience Cayuga Lake’s oldest winery. Engaging wine tastings, beautiful gardens and one of the area’s most unique gift shops are just a few happenings at Lucas. Wine slushies that can’t be beat! www.LucasVineyards.com
Varick Winery & Vineyard Experience wines paired with complimentary fare. Sample over 100 food items at the country store. Enjoy scenic views of the vineyard, cherry orchard and Cayuga Lake. At Varick Inn, relax and rejuvenate at an 1833 historic home. www.VarickWinery.com
RESTAURANTS Knapp Vineyard Restaurant Sit inside or on our vineyard trellised patio overlooking our landscaped gardens and vineyards. Our hearty dishes include classic burgers with unique flavors, alongside special entrees using regional products. Combine this setting with Knapp’s premium wine for an authentic Finger Lakes experience. www.KnappWine.com
The Copper Oven at Cayuga Ridge Estate Winery
Bistro at Thirsty Owl Wine Company
Crystal Lake Café at Americana Vineyards
Wood-fired pizzas at the copper oven are a mouthwatering delight. Our pies cook next to a crackling wood fire at 750 degrees in two minutes. Check out website for up to the day menu planning and special events. www.SlowFoodOnTheGo.com www.CayugaRidgeWinery.com
The Thirsty Owl Winery and Bistro, with its own 41 acres of vineyards overlooking Cayuga Lake, offers indoor, outdoor, and private seating for larger groups. Enjoy our award-winning wines and delicious local fare. www.ThirstyOwl.com
The Crystal Lake Cafe offers fresh, locallysourced, from-scratch gourmet comfort food in a laid-back casual atmosphere year-round – inside or out when the weathers nice. Enjoy lunch, dinner, our Friday Nite Pizza Party, and a Sunday brunch that’s not to be missed! www.AmericanaVineyards.com
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EVENTS
2018
Mardi Gras
CeleBrunch
Beads, coins and a scavenger hunt February 24 & 25
Celebrating 35 years June 3
Bacon on the Lakein
Holiday Shopping Spree
The perfect event for bacon lovers March 24 & 25
Wreath, ornaments and shopper’s card November 16-18 and November 30 - December 2
Wine & Herb Festival
Potted herbs and veggie plants April 27-29 and May 4-6
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Pride
NEW YORK’S
Bluebird THE EASTERN
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ew York is quite proud to boast the eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) as its state bird. They bring to mind such warm and iconic thoughts: the bird of happiness or how they carry the sky on their back, for instance. Some even sing of them on their shoulder as they stroll along on a beautiful day. Undoubtedly, it is when bluebirds fly over the rainbow in the cherished lyrics Dorothy sings in “The Wizard of Oz” that we know we’ve struck gold, er blue – in having this bird represent our state. It just doesn’t get much better. That is, unless you’re a landlord to the eastern bluebird. Yes, those who maintain bluebird nest boxes are endearingly considered “landlords” of their resident bluebirds. This is again, another source of pride. There are those so dedicated to assuring
successful nesting bluebirds that they maintain what are called bluebird trails. They house several nest boxes in areas where bluebirds flourish, such as wildlife refuges, or forever-wild lands. In fact, it is due to these dedicated volunteers that the eastern bluebird’s numbers are as strong as they are. The sad decline of their population began back in the late 1800s, after the European starling and house sparrow were introduced in the United States. Like the bluebird, starlings and house sparrows are cavity nesters. The competition for
Opposite page: A male doing a wing-wave. This shows the female how blue he is, for her to choose him, in this courtship behavior. Above left: An adult male, in his breeding plumage of sky-blue hues. Above right: An adult male, on top of an insulator I decorate my horse’s fence posts with.
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nesting sites, along with an increasing loss of habitat, led to such low numbers that most people couldn’t say they had ever seen a bluebird. Thankfully, this is not so much the case anymore. Hopefully, the next time you’re out around open country with some trees dispersed, you’ll keep your eyes peeled for that bright blue of the male’s feathers. He’ll also sport ruddy hues on his chest. Per usual in birds, the female is drabber in her coloring, though in the spring she can also have some beautiful blue to show off. You’re likely to sight them when they dart down to an insect on the ground, before they retreat back to their perch. That flight of streaking blue will catch your attention. When I had first moved to my home in 2001, I had all the great landmarks for bluebird residents, including
bluebird both open and wooded areas. Owning a horse helped, too. The expanse of pasture fencing that backed up to woods became the ideal habitat for eastern bluebirds. Still, it was five years before the first pair set up house on my property. There was much for me to learn in the beginning, especially how to keep the dreaded house sparrow from entering into the nest box. Since the advent of designated bluebird nest boxes, starlings are not an issue: the opening diameter does not permit a starling to fit. Once you see the damage a house sparrow can cause, you become mama grizzly protecting your bluebirds. They horrifically peck bluebirds to death by trapping them inside the cavity – whether it is eggs, hatched young, or the adults. They are
Above Top: Male on top of the house, enticing the female to choose this nest box during their courtship. Above Bottom: Moments before this nestling fledged, flying his first flight. Right: A male doing a wing-wave.
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all in jeopardy of a house sparrow’s aggression. In the warm months, bluebirds forage on insects. During the cold months, should they choose not to migrate, the bluebird forages on any remaining berries from sumac, honeysuckle, and other native fruit-bearing plants. To supplement nutrition, many landlords keep mealworms on hand. The produce drawer in my refrigerator contains upwards of 5,000 mealworms tucked nicely in a plastic tub with air holes, right next to my horse’s carrots. Each morning, even before my first sip of tea, you’ll find me outdoors whistling. I’ve fed many generations of bluebirds through the years, and when I first begin feeding them mealworms, I whistle a certain whistle each time they feed. This way, at any time, I can call them in for visitors to see. How amazing it is to see them flying in as a result of my prompt! I cannot get near my bluebirds as they are by no means domesticated, but they do light on branches near their nest box; waiting to come closer once I place mealworms in their feeder. I’ve noticed that on the days I might be running late, they fly nearer to my
home in view of my kitchen window as if they are begging me to come out. I very much consider them part of my family. Attending to them is part of my daily routine, whether it is assuring all predators are kept away, that their nests are still dry after a heavy rain,
and many other reasons in between. Mostly, I attend to them each day because they make me happy, in a New York kind of way.
How to keep
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The “sparrow spooker” is comprised of several flimsy plastic ribbons on a wood stake with arms that extend out over the top of the nest box. The flapping ribbons in the breeze are enough to keep house sparrows away. It should but put in place only after the bluebirds have eggs in the box, because they will not abandon the eggs no matter how much the ribbons blow around. Note: no sparrow other than the house sparrow, also known as the English sparrow, is a problem. Male house sparrow, though an introduced species is invasive to our cavity nesters, such as the eastern bluebird.
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he craft beer scene is exploding nationwide. If you want to soak in the suds, there’s never been a better time to do so than in the past few years, and the beer expansion is showing few signs of slowing down. So, with all this good stuff to drink, how does one even start to taste? Well, with a glass of course!
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brewery is just a brewery, but a brewery with an interesting name attracts attention. Some names seem pretty conventional, others are downright weird. One might have to assume that the Seneca Lake Brewing Company is located on Seneca Lake (BINGO! Rock Stream, to be precise). Upstate Brewing in Elmira boasts a rotating list of over 40 different beers. Don’t let an old name fool you. Yes, Genesee is the maker of stuff your granddad used to drink at the bowling alley, but like many major producers, it has a separate operation for craft beers, brewed at the Genesee Brew House, founded in 2012. If you’re feeling a bit down on yourself, make sure to visit Knucklehead Brewery in Webster to grab a cold one and commiserate with thy fellow light-hearted sorts. It’s likely that the Auburn visitor’s bureau was scratching its collective head when the Prison City Pub and Brewery announced its opening
in honor of the city’s major employer, the Auburn Correction Facility, site of the world’s first execution by electric chair. If you visit the website of Hector’s Two Goats Brewing there is information on the main page that clears up the meaning of the name. Q: Why Two Goats? A: Because dopple bock means double bock. One of the German meanings for bock is “billy goat.” (See, it does make sense). One brewery in the Finger Lakes wins the crown for weirdest name: Felicia's Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, located in Trumansburg. This place oozes dedication to the eclectic, and baker Amelia Sauter sums up the theme: “Did I mention we are a brewery AND a bakery? There aren’t many places where you can get all your vices taken care of in one place.
Come in for a beer and stay for a cupcake, or come in for a cupcake and stay for a beer! We have Cupcake and Beer Pairing events a few times a year which are very popular.” Yes, I’m sure they are!
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Empire Brewing – Skinny Atlas Lig h t A play on the confo u nding Skaneate les name , undoub tedly. Felicias Atomic Brewho Stouty use – McStou tface Actually, this plac e doesn’t normal n have any ames for their bee r.
Bacchus Brewing Company – Cylclhops IPA The Power of One Bandwagon Brew Pub – Pirate Eye IPA Arrrrrrgggghhh! Brewery of Broken Dreams – Unfinished Business Scottish IPA This sounds serious! Butternuts Brewing – Porkslap Pale Ale Whoa, let’s go easy on our porcine friends.
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Fleur de lis Brew Works – Uncles Nit’s Wit A wietbier featuring grapefruit, fresh oranges, and coriander. Foothill Hops Farm and Brewery – KUNGFU Honey Blonde Don’t let this beer catch you off-guard. GAEL Brewing Company – Red Bread Ale Carroway seeds in beer? Why not?
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Beer of All Sorts, Some One-of-a-Kind
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here are many types of beer; some well-known, others not as much. Many people have a preferred style – lager, ale, and India Pale Ale (IPA) being among the most common – and typically they are replicated by each and every brewery. It’s relatively rare to find one that doesn’t make a mainstream style of beer, but in craft brewing most brewers pride themselves on the more unusual styles that they also carry. For example, nearly any craft brewery is going to have an ale available in an approachable style, but they might also have a bock, or a sour beer, or perhaps a porter and a wheat beer. Within these broader style categories there are numerous variations to consider. It can get complicated, but over time most beer drinkers can begin to make sense of it all. Wrapped up in the style of beer is also the name on the label. Like the names of the breweries themselves, they are pretty creative. The result is often a fun mishmash of a typical style with a crazy name, and with it a story and identity that sets the beer apart. Part of exploring and discovering beer is jumping into the little world that each brewery creates.
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Galaxy Brewing Company – Andromeda IPA So, this is from an entirely different galaxy? It’s taken light-years just to hit your palate. Genesee Brewery – Ruby Red Kolsch New for 2018, a bit of a departure from their typical fare.
Local 315 Brewing Company
Keuka Brewing Company
Irish M afia Bre wing Co Impetu .– ous Re d Ale Deep, c omplica ted and Best not mysterio to ask a us. ny ques "know" tions. Th who you ey are. Ithaca B rewing Compa Flower ny – Power Love an d nonvio lence in liquid fo rm Keuka Brewin g Compa Hoppy ny – Laker I PA How can you not be happ visiting th y when e lake?
Good Nature Farm Brewery & Tap Room – The Great Chocolate Wreck Inspired by a fateful September day in 1955 when a freight train carrying a load of Nestle chocolate derailed just yards from the brewery. Knucklehead Craft Brewing – Tainted Haze IPA A tainted haze can’t be helpful to a knucklehead, but we're sure it tastes good. Liquid State Brewing Company – Sonic! IPA Too much SEGA Genesis back in the day? Local 315 Brewing Company – Soul Kiss IPA This sounds like an intimate experience. Lucky Hare Brewing Company – Millennial Falcon Double IPA Join Han Solo and Chewbacca for a much-needed break.
Knucklehead Craft Brewing
LyonSmith Brewing – Rhiannon Red Named for their oldest daughter – no word on whether she has red hair. Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery – My Man Sam IPA Named for a son; the other IPA is named Benny for the other son.
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good story may or may not influence how a beer might actually taste, but it does have an effect on the likelihood that we’ll seek that brewery out. Of course, any run-of-the-mill story gets more interesting the more beer you consume. That’s a fact. For instance, if you were to be hanging out at Bandwagon Brew Pub in Ithaca, and you happened to inquire about their steam kettles from their original two-barrel brew system, you might be surprised to learn that they were once the property of Cornell University’s food science program. They were used to invent the recipe for Chicken McNuggets! Delicious! Perhaps the beer and cider brewed at Critz Farms Brewing and Cider Company outside of Cazenovia isn’t quite tasty enough until you realize you’re standing in the middle of one of the most popular cut-your-own Christmas tree farms in the Syracuse area. Actually, Critz also makes a lot of maple syrup; the sugar shack is right next door and gives presentations daily during late winter and early spring while the sap is boiling into the good stuff. If you’re feeling a bit nostalgic while you taste, the tasting room at Foothill Hops in Munnsville doubles as an historical exhibit of agricultural tools used in hops production. New York was a major producer of this important beer-making crop in the 19th and early-20th centuries. There’s also a large coal hops stove circa 1875 on display. Feel like washing that beer down with something non-alcoholic? GAEL Brewing Company in Geneva makes its own ginger ale; provided for free for anyone who asks. It is a special treat for children and designated drivers. Those who like to add a few extra dimensions to a beer drinking experience might consider Galaxy Brewing in Binghamton. The father-son team behind Foothill Hops Farm the beer are self-identified geeks who and Brewery weave space and science-fiction names into their beer. The entire operation is referred to as the Mothership, with the Lunar Lounge, Hitchhikers’ Nook, Galaxy Stage, Galactic Bar, and Planet Brewery all listed as components of the out-ofthis-world beer drinking experience. For the do-it-your-selfers out there, Liquid State in Ithaca claims that they ("The Back Story" continued on page 65)
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Prison City Pub & Brewery – Mass Riot IPA An award winning beer, but just don’t tell the prison guards.
Wagner Valley Brewing
Reinvention Brewing – Middle Finger Lakes IPA Okay, okay, watch it now… Seneca Lake Brewing Company – Beerocracy Bitter Those who drink beer, vote for beer. Starkey’s Lookout/ G.C. Starkey Beer Co. – Belgian Wit Drinking this brew makes you witty Wagner Valley Brewing No Innuendos IPA No innuendos, no implications, no problem.
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Wood Kettle Brewing – Blondshell This beer must be a sight to behold.
Two Goats Brewery
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re-built their entire four-vessel, mid-90s Japanese brewhouse with no instructions whatsoever. There may or may not be some parts left over from this effort, but the operation is kicking along nonetheless. One of the fascinating aspects of the growing beer culture is that many of the founders and brewers are emerging from a variety of backgrounds and day jobs. At Lucky Hare Brewing Company in Hector, all three owners come from totally different backgrounds (marine science, sales, and pharmaceuticals). Their brewery is situated in a 100-year-old barn that used to house cattle. The owners all love dogs as much as they love beer and encourage tasters to bring along their furry friends. When Tony Moringello at Noble Shepherd in Bloomfield was asked what sets his brewery story apart, he
Beer Here! And Hard Cider, too!
Just south of beautiful Cazenovia Lake in the rolling hills of the Cazenovia countryside discover the handcrafted, award-winning beverages of Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. Small-batch beer brewed with just the right measure of locally grown ingredients to deliver unique flavors to discerning palates. And hard ciders made from fresh apples grown and pressed on our farm, and blended with real fruit juices, honey and maple syrup. Photo by Peter Blackwood
answered, “We make and serve beer inside of two geodesic domes with a giraffe coming out of the roof.” Full points for original building design! The giraffe head sounds like the icing on the cake.
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heck out these craft brewers who responded to the Life in the Finger Lakes questionnaire.
Bandwagon Pub, Farm & Brewery bandwagonbeer.com
Liquid State Brewing Company liquidstatebeer.com
The Brewery of Broken Dreams thebreweryofbrokendreams.com
Local 315 Brewing Company local315brewing.com
Bacchus Brewing Company bacchusbrewing.com
Lucky Hare Brewing Company luckyharebrewing.com
Butternuts Beer & Ale butternutsbeerandale.com
LyonSmith Brewing Co. lyonsmithbrewing.com
CB Craft Brewers cbcraftbrewers.com
Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery nobleshepherdbrewery.com
Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. critzbrewandcider.com
Prison City Pub and Brewery prisoncitybrewing.com
Empire Brewing Co. empirebrew.com
Reinvention Brewing Co. reinventionbrewing.com
Felicia’s Atomic Brewery Brewhouse & Bakery atomicbrewhouse.com
Seneca Lake Brewing Company senecalakebrewing.com
Fleur De Lis Brew Works fleurdelisbrewworks.com
Starkey’s Lookout starkeyslookout.com
Foothill Hops Farm Brewery foothillhops.com
The Good Shepherds Brewing Company shepsbeer.com
GAEL Brewing Company gaelbrewing.com
Two Goats Brewing twogoatsbrewing.com
Galaxy Brewing Co. galaxybrewingco.com
Upstate Brewing Company upstatebrewing.com
Genesee Brewery geneseebeer.com
Wagner Valley Brewing Co. wagnerbrewing.com
Good Nature Farm Brewery & Tap Room goodnaturebrewing.com
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In 2011, there were only 50 breweries in the entire state. Today, New York State boasts more than 350 – tremendous growth by any standard. The passage of the Farm Brewing law in 2012 mirrored the success of the Farm Winery Act. Currently, farm breweries (operations that source at least 20 percent of their ingredients from New York State) account for more than half of the total number of craft Prison City breweries, with the Pub & Brewery number growing annually.
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Iris and Peonies for May and June
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you love flowers and enjoy exploring back roads, then you’re in for a real treat this May and June. Hidden in the farmlands between Seneca and Canandaigua Lakes is a nationally renowned garden that is celebrated by the plein air painters who flock there to capture its beauty. A drive to the iris and peony gardens created by Dana and Sylvia Borglum will deliver you to what may be the best parking spot in the Finger Lakes. It’s surrounded by gardens bursting with flowers, awash with fragrance-filled breezes, and bordered by dapper red barns and a potting shed.
As you wander on its paths, keep an eye out for the Irisarian, a fanciful creature that bustles from flower to flower with a ball cap skewed on its head, a grin creasing its face. You’ll recognize him by the clump of irises he clutches in one hand and the shining saber-like spade he grips in the other. Don’t be alarmed; it’s only Dana Borglum. For the past 20 years or so, he and his wife Sylvia have been transforming three acres of former farmland outside of Hall into stunning live masterpieces. As you read this, the results of their work may already be presenting their annual explosion of color. Glorious irises stand tall and wave their resplendent banners to display colors that could only come from nature. In
addition to the variety of bearded irises, you’ll also see lots of Siberians and other non-bearded varieties including Versicolor, Spuria, Louisiana, and Japanese. Most are the Borglums’ unique creations. Creating new irises – hybridization – is Dana’s passion. To do it, he “simply” takes the place of a bee to transfer
Clockwise from Top: This dig-your-own iris farm offers you dozens of varieties to choose from. Her wagon filled, Renee is ready to call it a day. Dana Borglum deftly wields a long-bladed spade like a scalpel in digging up Iris rhizomes.
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pollen from one plant to another to create seeds for a new plant. He’s a self-taught hybridizer, he says, but as he starts to explain, he pauses. A grin appears and his eyes shine brighter. “I think it’s in my blood – I used to be an artificial inseminator of cows.” He lets that sink in and then continues: “I like to try and make things better.” He has succeeded. Dana’s hybridized irises have been honored by the American Iris Society, winning the prestigious Morgan-Wood and Randolph Perry awards. But more than irises abound here. In an adjacent field, more than 200 named peonies bounce their boisterous pom-poms in an effort to draw you
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Not only will you get to see irises but a bountiful collection of peony blooms at the same time.
to their beds. You’ll also find daylilies (in July) and hostas. The lupines, bleeding hearts, coral bells, clematis and other flowers planted among mature trees may convince you that you’ve stepped into a Beatrix Potter storybook. Enhancing that feeling is the frequent presence of artists. You’ll find yourself dodging one artist’s easel while glancing at another’s to notice that you’ve been immortalized in their work. Borglum Iris Gardens was recently purchased by longtime neighbors, sisters Reba and Sara Ann Martin, who renamed them Iris Country Garden. Sara Ann has worked alongside Dana for many years, and has learned the ways of the iris. Excited to be taking over such an esteemed enterprise, the Martin sisters plan to continue Dana’s hybridizing program. For another year or two, Dana and Sylvia will continue living on the grounds in the Borglum family home and assisting at the gardens.
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Seeing artists at work makes you pause and take a moment to enjoy the beauty surrounding you.
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Thousands of Gorgeous Daylilies for July
In rows and in patches, freshly dug up and riding in closely guarded wagons, packed away in customers’ pickups, under trees, behind bushes, on printed lists, in secret patches – everywhere you look there are daylilies – all sizes, shapes, colors, and stages of bloom. There are more than 40,000 cultivars [different types of plants]. Forty thousand. And guess who wanted to see them all (it wasn’t me)? If you’re a gardener or flower lover, welcome to heaven. If you’re simply accompanying your favorite gardener, then know that there are seven wineries nearby – one within walking distance – because you may be in for a long day. Grace Gardens, just off Rt. 14, 10 miles south of Geneva, is owned by Tom and Kathy Rood. It’s named after Tom’s mother. The Roods have been involved with daylilies for a very long time, and their outstanding garden is an official American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden featuring more than 2,200 registered varieties. Like the Borglums (who are their friends), they love
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to hybridize. I watch Kathy do this; whe starts by selecting two plants with traits she’d like to combine. From one desirable plants she plucks off a stamen, the “male” portion that holds pollen, and rubs it against the pistil – the female portion – of the other desirable plant. And that’s it, sort of. The Kathy Rood rubs Roods have a stamen across to gather a pistil to start the seeds the hybridization process. in the fall, plant them, and then wait a couple of years for them to bloom. If they like the result, they will wait a few more years and evaluate them as mature plants. They do this thousands of times, which elevates the activity to an entirely different level. Kathy and Tom agree the hardest thing they do isn’t dead heading (remember: 40,000 plants), weeding, or handling orders. The hardest thing they do is choosing which hybrids to keep. “One of the discussions we have, quite hotly by the way, is how many we can keep,” says Tom. Kathy adds, “They’re like our children [they have several grown children], so it’s very hard to throw them on the compost heap.” The fun parts of gardening include all the people they meet and naming new varieties. Their hybridized lilies sport the names of friends, family, and people they want to honor. But as Kathy
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Gardens remarks, “If you name a flower after one family member, then you have to name flowers after all of them.” Like the Borglums, the Roods are friendly and helpful and love to talk about daylilies. They are truly daylily activists. As master gardeners, they founded the Finger Lakes Daylily Society, and they’ve held many positions in other daylily organizations. What’s more, the two have presented talks and classes over much of the eastern United States and Canada. Classes are also offered at the garden showing people how to hybridize and raise daylilies. The message that comes through loud and clear at both gardens is this: the gardeners love what they’re doing, and love to share their passion and knowledge for flowers with others.
Visiting information Grace Gardens Open late June to early August Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 12-4 p.m. 1064 Angus Road, Penn Yan, New York 14527 315-536-2556 gracegardens.com The open house is Saturday, July 21. To avoid crowds, go a day or two – even a week – earlier or later, though you risk diminished stock. Clockwise from Top: Customers repeatedly walk the gardens making sure they haven't missed any prize blooms. Owner Kathy Rood smiles and bustles about the gardens all day long with husband Tom (where is he?) doing the same. Checking their list, checking it twice Are gardeners passionate about what they do? One look at the back of Master Gardener and daylily fanatic Jim Avery answers that question.
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History
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Before he was a Bogart at age 15 or 16, circa 1916.
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Humphrey Bogart and his Finger Lakes Summer
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n the summer of 1899, Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart of New York City purchased a 55-acre estate on Canandaigua Lake for his pregnant wife, Maud Humphrey. They christened the Seneca Point property “Willow Brook.” A few months later, on Christmas Day, their first child was born. They christened the boy Humphrey DeForest Bogart, a huge name that with time and fame would shorten to the iconic “Bogie.” For the next 15 summers, Bogie would call Willow Brook home. Many years later, local residents recalled the family’s arrival from Grand Central Station on the overnight Pullman. According to the 1998 book, Bogart, by Ann Sperber and Eric Lax, they would get off the train to board a lake steamer headed for their landing. “The doctor, six feet tall and broad-shouldered, immaculate in his heavy suit, boiled shirt, and stiff collar; his handsome wife, nearly as tall, thin, fashionable in starched cottons or flowing silks of gray or mauve, with lavender-ribboned high-heeled high-button shoes that accentuated the tininess of her size 2-1/2 feet, of which she was so proud; the small, dark-eyed boy and his two little sisters Frances and Catherine, all three under the close watch of a nurse in a starched uniform. They swept aboard the steamer, a splendid caravan, the rear brought up by a sour faced servant couple straining under the weight of abundant trunks and packages.” To get to their destination, called
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“the Point” by Canandaigua locals, the Bogarts may well have taken a leisurely voyage on the 600-passenger Onnalinda, considered Canandaigua Lake’s “Queen of the Steamboat.” Launched in May of 1888, the vessel was larger and more modernized than others of the time, and provided travelers with amenities such as bathrooms, a few private cabins, and a snack bar. On deck, passengers enjoyed the sweet aromas of fresh grapes, peaches and other fruits being ferried to the railroad spur on Canandaigua’s pier, which were then shipped to city markets in New York and Washington. Though many of the homes scattered along the shoreline could be reached using narrow carriage roads, the preferred access was by water. To accommodate this need, the steamboats of the Canandaigua Lake Navigation Company regularly traveled the 16-mile long lake making stops, scheduled or flagged, at the 70 or so landings that dotted the shoreline. Dr. Bogart purchased the Seneca Point property – a dandy piece of real estate that included fields, pastures, streams and woods – from the McKechnie family, founders of Canandaigua’s famed McKechnie Brewery. Dominating the acreage was a charming two-
story Victorian cottage built in 1871. It was fitted with broad, awning-covered steps that descended from an expansive, gingerbread-trimmed front porch to a manicured lawn that stretched to the lake’s edge and a curved, shale beach. On the north end of the building was a handsome circular tower with a rooftop spire that floated above the trees. The home’s sweeping 400 feet of lake front was guarded at one end by a boat house and marked at the other by a tumbling brook lined with tall stands of oak, ash, poplar, and the willow. At the end of a long wooden dock, the doctor moored his champion-class racing yacht, the Commodore, the craft that seduced young Humphrey into a lifelong love affair with sailing. Despite their New York City address and urban sensibilities, Dr. and Mrs. Belmont Bogart had local roots. Belmont moved to Manhattan as a young child but was born in Watkins Glen on Seneca Lake. Bogarts had lived in that region of the Finger Lakes since the late 1700s. Described as “handsome with a thatch of dark hair,” Belmont was gregarious and social but harbored a wicked temper. Maud was a native of nearby Rochester, raised comfortably in the chic Bogart in the Navy, 1918.
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neighborhood known as the “Ruffled Shirt District.” Her family circle claimed judges, lawyers, successful merchants and a distant connection to the English Churchills. Described as “beautiful, stately and fastidious,” Maud had an imperious demeanor that commanded attention but discouraged closeness. Most of the year, Belmont, Maud and their three children resided in a four-story town house at 103rd street off Riverside Drive in Manhattan’s thenfashionable Upper West Side. The family’s posh lifestyle was partially supported by Belmont’s $20,000 income from his medical practice. A cardio-pulmonary specialist, he saw patients in his offices located on the brownstone’s first floor. But Maud was the household’s primary wage-earner, and she worked in a studio on the home’s fourth floor. At the time, she was one of the highestpaid illustrators in the country, earning approximately $50,000 per year – more than twice as much as her husband. Her commercial work, which never fully showcased her talent, usually featured ornate, sentimental renditions of cherry-cheeked moppets dressed in fussy Victorian-era clothing. The popular images were in high demand for calendars, magazines, children’s books, and product packaging. For Bogie, life in the Manhattan house, sandwiched between the demands and pressures of his parents’ livelihoods, was stifling. Small for his age, with a “sissy”
View of Willow Brook cottage from Canandaigua Lake. Undated. The house was razed in 1973. No trace of the original structure remains. Courtesy Ontario County Historical Society
name and dressed in fussy clothes by his mother, Humphrey was a target for his peers in the city; ruthlessly teased or patently ignored depending on the day and its pursuits. His home life was equally brutal. While the Bogart family appeared to define Victorian sensibility and reserve, the household was often turbulent and vicious. Maud battled migraines and suffered from a painful bacterial skin condition, erysipelas. She abused alcohol, flew into rages, and occasionally needed morphine injections to survive her afflictions. Maud controlled her children through cold indifference and scathing criticism. Belmont, in chronic pain from a carriage accident that occurred soon after he graduated from medical school, sank year-by-year into morphine addiction. He vacillated between agitated, explosive anger, and sober calm; enforcing discipline on his children with a belt. At Seneca Point, where Bogie could easily escape to more welcoming families, Humphrey – Hump to his lake chums – flourished. Eight miles south of Canandaigua village, the point was an idyllic Arcadia
bordered on three sides by grapevinecovered hills. Property owners were solidly affluent, socially conservative and politically Republican, though there is a story that a young Franklin Roosevelt once visited on a romantic escapade. The tale goes that on a luminous summer day in July, the vain and virile Mr. Roosevelt was showing off his swimming talent to impress a young woman when he was seized with cramps. He sank into the lake’s cool waters, but was pulled ashore by a local resident. By one account, he was taken to the Bogarts’ cottage where he was tended by Dr. Bogart and spent a night recuperating in Humphrey’s bed. According to the Bogart book, when FDR’s New Deal policies offended local sensibilities decades later, the Good Samaritan who dragged him to shore declared, “I should have let the son of a bitch drown!” Had Eleanor known of her husband’s trip and mishap, she might have agreed. The summer of 1914 was Hump’s most memorable in the privileged, genteel, lakeside environment. That season, he appeared as a handsome 14-year-old with a studied “coolness”
The Onnalinda docked at Canandaigua pier. Launched in 1888 by the Canandaigua Steam Navigation Company, the boat could hold 600 passengers. It was dismantled and the hull deliberately scuttled in 1913. For more information and some wonderful photos from Canandaigua Lake’s steamboat era, take a look at Canandaigua and Canandaigua Lake book by Preston Pierce.
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and bouts of sullen moodiness that made him a hot property with the local girls. His newfound charisma also upped his cachet with the boys. He became leader of the Seneca Point Gang, a misnomer, given that the “delinquents” were headed to banking boardrooms, not prison cells. For Hump, one of the joys of leadership was directing the gang’s daily activities: boating, swimming, staging improvised versions of “The Perils of Pauline” on the beach, or watching a local farmer butcher a steer. He also had first crack at hopping on a ferry when it docked, then shinnying barefoot up the steamer’s side to dive back into the lake – a prohibited, therefore daring maneuver. But Hump’s most notable deed that season was hauling Arthur Hamlin, youngest grandson of the local banker, out of the lake. The child, who’d fallen off a dock, never forgot the rescue. Eighty years later, he told authors Sperber and LITFL sixthpage 4.625x2.125MAYJUNE2018_LITFL sixth page 4.625x2.125 3/9/18 10:51 AM Page Lax, “I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for him.” It was a high note to go out on. In that final golden summer, Humphrey DeForest Bogart was at last a hero among his peers. He remembered those months as the happiest of his first 40 years. By 1916, Willow Brook was sold. Maud had taken a position as art director for a popular magazine, The Delineator, and insisted she needed to stay close to Manhattan. For Bogie, it was the end of a beautiful friendship. He never returned to Seneca Point.
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creating art
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She Who Flows with the Currents, 2017, mixed media, acrylics, metallic leaf installation, 36” wide x 98” high, wood hanger.
Creative Adventurous Spirit of Artist Jeanne Beck story by Nancy E. McCarthy, photos by Peter Blackwood
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anandaigua artist Jeanne Beck fully embraces any new opportunity for self-discovery, reinvention and exploration within her artistic life. In “Trusting Change,” a personal essay she penned last year, Beck muses that while she’s never been physically daring – no mountain climbing or running marathons – she has always had a creatively adventurous spirit. Beck’s creative interests began with writing. Visual arts came later in life: Beck was 40 when she took her first art class in 1990. By 2001 she was producing an impressive body of work as a fiber artist from a rented studio in Rochester’s artsy Hungerford Building. Then from 2011 until last year, Beck gravitated toward mixed media constructions, including dimensional 2-D and 3-D pieces, using metallic leaf and acrylic paints. These days, Beck is primarily painting abstracts on canvas and cradled board using a variety of media: acrylics, oils, graphite pencils and crayons, oil bars, metal leaf, pastels and inks. She describes herself as an experimental artist because, really, nothing is off the table. Last year she closed her Rochester studio and opened the Jeanne Beck Art Gallery & Studio in downtown Canandaigua. Yes, more change!
Germinating Seeds Beck grew up in Pittsburgh and East Aurora, New York. From a young age she was influenced, in part, by her parents’
love of literature. She journaled or wrote short stories almost daily. The visual arts were never emphasized at home or at school. There were no elementary school art classes and secondary school art curriculum was not offered to collegebound students. Beck’s earliest exposure to original art was a memorable school trip at age 13 to see a Vincent Van Gogh exhibit at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. “He was the first artist whose work I ever saw in person; lavish impasto surfaces filled with energy, motion and color plus the tragic story of his mental problems and lack of financial success during his lifetime made him a tragic, romantic figure,” says Beck. Looking back, that planted the first seed that there could be more to painting than making images look realistic. Any inclination toward art took a long time to germinate though Beck continued to express herself creatively through writing. Those skills later served her well in various professional settings. Beck attended SUNY Buffalo, married a fellow student in 1971 and they had two children, Jennifer and Aaron. By 1986, Beck was divorced and working as executive director of a college foundation in Herkimer, New York. In 1990, she attained an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College’s external degree program. That same year, with her daughter in college, Beck accepted a position as director of the Finger Lakes
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Community College (FLCC) Foundation. When she and son Aaron moved to Canandaigua it marked the beginning of a new chapter of her life, personally and artistically.
Changes Beck was Jeanne Raffer when she met Bob Beck, a Canandaigua widower. They married in 1992 and their blended family included her two children plus his daughter and two step-children. By that time, Beck was already exploring art. FLCC employees could take courses and Beck’s first art class hooked her in. She kept taking more and exploring various mediums. Beck discovered a special affinity for fiber and textile art and began honing her skills. When she transitioned into creating art full-time, her husband and children were astonished but supportive. In her Hungerford studio, Beck explored a wide array of materials and processes including screen-printing and paper making. “My explorations were like cross-training,” Beck explains. “All strengthened my creative muscles. I have a fertile imagination and textiles challenged me to innovate to turn ideas into completed works.” Her large screen-printed wall works and printed silk threadwork constructions, often inspired by cursive handwriting, calligraphic marks and diary or letter
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fragments, were part of numerous exhibitions (one highlight: her textile hanging “Seeds of Compassion” was accepted into the Memorial Art Gallery’s prestigious 2011 Fiberart International Exhibit). Beck’s award-winning works were purchased by private and corporate collectors. Cynthia Hawkins, an abstract painter and SUNY Geneseo’s gallery director, remembers meeting Beck and being “enamored” of her work. “I had a studio in the Hungerford Building and as one is apt to do there, you wander looking into other artist’s studios. That is how I met her. After poking my head in, I had to see more of what she was up to.” Hawkins brokered the sale of three of Beck’s large mixed-media constructions for the school’s MacVittie Student Union in 2012 and began collecting Beck’s work herself. In 2017, Beck was creating impressive fluttering installations of painted and printed metallic leaf “papers” made from sheer spun polyester. Yet she was also feeling a new artistic tug toward painting gestural abstracts on canvas. Concurrently, Beck was also ready for a geographic change. The commute between Canandaigua and Rochester cut into her creative time and she longed for a larger space closer to home. Fine artist Pat Tribastone, a former
Hungerford neighbor, urged Beck to consider Canandaigua. The lakeside community was becoming an arts destination with several galleries and artistowned businesses, a growing outdoor art trail, plus abundant art events and festivals attracting art patrons. Tribastone had moved her studio there, affording her the opportunity to have both a working studio and a retail storefront gallery. Beck quickly found a spacious second floor loft in downtown Canandaigua overlooking Main Street with high ceilings, hardwood floors and brick wall interiors. There was ample room for a studio and gallery plus plenty of space to host workshops and hang guest artist exhibitions.
The Artist’s Process When the Jeanne Beck Art Gallery & Studio opened on June 1, 2017, the artist was already creating a new body of work: large abstract acrylic and oil paintings based on the theme of creative energy taking form. The series, along with an installation and mixed media pieces, made its public debut in Passages, her MarchApril solo exhibition at Meibohm Fine Arts in East Aurora. Owner Grace Meibohm met Beck in 2016 when her work was among 90 featured in the gallery’s Buffalo Society of Artists retrospective “Celebrating 125 Years
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Shape Shifter, 2018, acrylics and mixed media on cradled board, 24” wide x 36” high.
– Thumb Box Exhibit.” Beck’s work was a standout: Meibohm awarded her a gallery exhibit in 2018. “I was impressed with Jeanne’s experimentation and her creative process, which has continued to take her in new directions,” says Meibohm. It isn’t surprising that Beck’s process begins with journaling her ideas. She also photographs her works in progress to see them more objectively, draws daily and keeps a log to record her experimentations and color mixing. “I create paintings by activating the surface with marks, shapes and lines, then respond to those and gradually build layers by pushing portions of the surface back and emphasizing others,” says Beck. “It is both an additive and subtractive process where the meaning and story of the piece evolves as I work.” Marks and lines get added, scraped back, sanded away and new layers build over portions of those. Beck finds the local arts community friendly and welcoming. “My work is different from many other artists in the area because it’s non-objective rather than representational, but having that variety makes downtown Canandaigua a more interesting place for art lovers to visit,” says Beck. And with just a 10-minute commute for her—another welcome change!
Jeanne Beck Art Gallery & Studio is located at 154 Mill Street, behind Main Street, in downtown Canandaigua. Visit jeannebeck.com for more information, including special events, workshops and guest artist exhibitions. Contact the artist at jeannerbeck@gmail.com.
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Making a Difference
the important things
Ontario Pathways by Jan Bridgeford-Smith
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his is a love story. It starts with abandonment and ends in transformation. The tale concerns a small army of Ontario County residents, and their desire to embrace a national movement with roots in the 19th century. This is a story of landscape and legacy, the Native American proverb in action: We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. Ontario Pathways, a private nonprofit corporation with a Canandaigua address, came into existence in 1994. That year, a small group of residents with a shared love for the outdoors, secured one of the first grants awarded by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a national organization dedicated to a simple, enormous mission: create a nationwide network of trails from former rail lines and connecting corridors to build healthier places for healthier people. The two rail corridors in Ontario County selected for development were last owned by Penn Central.
From the Ancestors Given the time, cost, and labor involved building the infrastructure
Of Trails and Trains needed for trains, it’s remarkable how ubiquitous rail lines were in mid-19th century, rural New York. Communities of all sizes across the Finger Lakes region were accessible by rail. Trains opened up new markets for every endeavor from apple farming to tourism to manufacturing to health spas. In Ontario County, the first charter to establish a route between Canandaigua and Watkins Glen was issued in 1845 to the Canandaigua and Corning Railroad Company. By 1852, the Sodus Point and Southern Railroad was issued a charter to develop a route between the hamlets of Stanley and Sodus Point. Two decades later, that line was completed and the trains were operating. But while the rail system was astonishing for the sheer number of locations it served, the way in which it developed – through dozens of small, regional lines owned and operated by local companies – guaranteed a dizzying array of mergers and consolidations to make the trains profitable, or at least solvent. By the mid-20th century, boarding platforms and train stations that once
For more information, to donate or volunteer, visit the Ontario Pathways website at ontariopathways.org. Like a challenge? Check out the OP’s Wegmans Passport Series. The collaboration is an initiative of Wegmans’ Eat Well/Live Well program. Get your passport book from the customer service desk at the Wegmans store in Canandaigua, Geneva, or Newark and take to the trail. You fill your book by taking rubbings at marked posts along the trail. Completed passports are entered in a drawing that features a grand prize of a Wegmans gift certificate. Yum.
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A pair of deer enjoy a quiet moment on the trail. Photo by Tim Wilbur
bustled with people and stuff were defunct. Though weed-choked tracks and rails remained, and cargo trains still rattled through towns and villages once a day or week or month, the overall system was moribund. By 1970, Penn Central, which was the consolidated rail company that owned two corridor routes serving Ontario County – Canandaigua to Watkins Glen and Stanley to Sodus Point lines – gave up the ghost. At last, completely abandoned, tracks and rails were removed in 1974. It would be 20 years before the rail beds would hum again with activity.
For the Children What did it take to develop a trail over the bones of an abandoned rail line, and then maintain it? The answer is simple though hackneyed: “It took and it takes a village,” evident in the long list of contributors and the many volunteers highlighted in the organization’s newsletters. Unlike most other rail-trail endeavors, usually developed and managed by a municipal or county government, the current Ontario Pathways (OP) trail is owned and maintained by an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization. OP, from its inception, has relied on dedicated volunteers. There is no paid staff. Though it took hundreds of hours of time to write grants, raise money in the community, negotiate land sales and secure cooperation from private landholders for easements, putting together the parcels of old railroad land to establish the current trail
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Hobart Williamson with Eastern Bluebird house installed on the trail as part of his Eagle Scout project.
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was just the beginning. Sustaining a 25-mile trail with hundreds of users and seasonal weather fluctuations requires constant vigilance. Routine maintenance to keep trails cleared is accomplished every Wednesday between late April and early November. A work crew of volunteers ages 12 and beyond takes to the trail cutting back limbs, clearing brush and performing any other task that can be tackled with gas-powered sickle bars and pole saws, loppers, pitchforks and rakes. One Saturday per month, another volunteer crew assembles to take on larger tasks like drainage improvements, trail resurfacing, rebuilding of stream banks and containment barriers, and installation of gates (motorized vehicles are restricted), signs and shelters. Some volunteers complete restoration projects of historical artifacts such as a railroad crossing sign at Wheat Road near Clifton Springs. Oh yes, there is also 50 miles of mowing from spring through fall and, recently, winter trail grooming in designated areas, to the delight of cross-country skiers and snowshoe enthusiasts. In late October, that verge interval when fall feels over but winter has not quite come, the trail provides the setting for the annual Pumpkin Walk fundraiser. It’s a labor-intensive labor of love that’s attracted growing crowds every year and draws on support from dozens of other community organizations and businesses across Ontario County. Marked, level, and safe, the OP trail is tranquil but not isolated. It’s popular with birders and hikers, school classes and scouting groups, those who want a brisk jog, a leisurely stroll, a ramble with their dog, or a trek with their camera. Chris Sophoclides, who’s been a volunteer with Ontario Pathways and trail user for almost a decade, told me there’s a sense of community pride and ownership when it comes to the trail; sentiments reflected in the low volume of litter left by trail users, the widespread support the organization enjoys across the county, the cooperation of property owners adjacent to the trail, the reliability of volunteers, and the absence of criminal activity. When I asked Chris what he finds compelling about Ontario Pathways he pointed out the trail is a resource for anyone who cares to use it, and it offers an easy, accessible activity that connects people with the natural world and each other. It’s a visible reminder of what can be done with collaboration and cooperation, a legacy of stewardship that gives back to future generations a carefully tended, small piece of their borrowed land. LIFL
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Enthusiastic volunteers from Wegmans clear brush on the Ontario Street, Canandaigua, section on a United Way Day of Caring. Photo by Tim Wilbur
Double Drop Falls, a beautiful spot near the trail in Phelps. Photo by Doug Daniels
Tim Wilbur clears away a tree that fell across the trail. Photo by Nancey Wilbur
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Testing, Testing... by Ray Levato
The role of Seneca Lake in our nation’s defense
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any people would agree that Seneca Lake is one of the most beautiful of the 11 Finger Lakes. Some people know it is the largest and deepest – and second-longest after Cayuga. But unless you live in or around Dresden in Yates County, population 308, you may not know that Seneca Lake plays an important role in our national defense. The U.S. Navy tests the sonars used on America’s nuclear submarines on Seneca Lake. The Seneca Lake sonar test facility, a small U.S. Navy installation on the west shore, is a part of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division (NUWC) Newport, Rhode Island. The facility was a marina until about 1962 when the Navy tests began. Why Seneca Lake? There are many
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reasons. First, “Seneca has the isothermic characteristics [constant temperature] that make it an ideal acoustic environment to test sonar,” explains Frank McNeilly, NUWC Newport’s waterfront operations manager. Its maximum depth of 618 feet also plays a role. “Higher pressure at deeper levels closely simulates an ocean environment,” he adds. In addition, the lake is an ideal quiet environment; quieter than the open ocean so it allows for more accurate testing. It also simulates a more realistic environment for submarines, and is less costly than testing at sea, “especially in winter when the water temp is uniform top to bottom,” McNeilly explains. In more scientific terms, Seneca Lake is the
Navy’s primary active instrumented calibration and test facility. Two large test barges are located about 1.3 miles from the western shore. The Navy says it’s a world-class testing facility known for its massive lift and power capabilities. There’s a 200-ton-capacity crane to lower and raise equipment “so we can test full hull or bow sonar arrays. This is unique to Dresden,” says McNeill. Sonar arrays are not small. Some may look like a big ball; bigger than a one-car garage. Sometimes, the testing interrupts recreational boating. “It’s a big lake but on occasion we might have to limit activity around the barge or another part of the lake where we are testing, including for safety reasons for the boating public.” The facility at Dresden is staffed by Photos courtesy U.S. Navy
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about a dozen government and civilian contractors. It is not open to the public. Interestingly, the work they do there is not top secret, but much of it is classified. William “Bill” Hall, Dresden’s mayor, grew up on a farm a mile from the lake. “People in the village are so accustomed to it, and it’s been there so long that nobody really pays any attention to it. You really wouldn’t even know it’s there – it’s so quiet.” Former village historian Raymond Welker, who was born and raised in Dresden, worked in the office of the test facility for 30 years. He’s glad it’s there, aside from the fact that he’s asked on occasion, “What the heck is that barge out there in the middle of the lake?” “It’s been a godsend; a very valuable asset,” asserts Welker. “It has done a lot of good for the people here by supporting the local economy.” The U.S. Navy has had a long history on Seneca Lake, dating back to 1942 when the Sampson Naval Training Base opened at the northern end. More than 400,000 new sailors shipped out from there for service in World War II. The former Seneca Army Depot, located between Seneca and Cayuga lakes, opened for munitions storage at about the same time. During the Korean War, Sampson became an Air Force training base. By the time it closed in 1956, it had hosted 300,000-plus Air Force recruits. Today, it’s the site of Sampson State Park. Another plus for Seneca Lake is the 12-mile-long Cayuga-Seneca Canal that links both lakes to the Erie Canal. The canal locks can accommodate barges up to 40 feet
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wide and 200 feet long, so large test items or systems can be brought to Dresden from the Atlantic Ocean or the Great Lakes. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s contribution cannot be overstated. The NUWC Division Newport is primarily a civilian organization with about 3,300 federal employees, 2,500 contractors, and 30 military personnel at any given time. “Except for the hull and nuclear propulsion system, everything else on a sub is us,” says spokesman John Woodhouse. The sonar array for the USS Buffalo – a Los Angeles class nuclear fast-attack submarine – was tested at Dresden. Launched in 1982, the USS Buffalo was scheduled for inactivation and decommissioning in 2017. In the larger context, the NUWC also does research to support nearly all undersea warfare systems in the fleet. Dresden no longer has a grocery store or a gas station, says Welker, but with the continuing service of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, tiny Dresden and Seneca Lake plays an important role in our national defense. Ray Levato is a retired reporter/anchor at WHEC-TV Ch. 10 in Rochester, NY)
Sonar
Short for SOund Navigation And Ranging, sonar detects objects by using sound waves – they travel farther in water than do radar and light waves. Sonar was first used in World War I to detect submarines.
NUWC Division Newport It is one of two divisions of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, the Navy’s full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support center for submarine warfare systems and many other systems associated with the undersea battlespace. NUWC Division Newport provides the technical foundation that ensures our Navy’s undersea superiority.
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Book Look
reading reviews
Great Reads for the Summer
by Laurel Wemett
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braham Lincoln said, “My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” Here are new books and two reprints to pack for your summer getaways. Some describe unique destinations, both real and spiritual. Two memoirstyle titles will take you back to face critical issues of the 1960s and 1970s while another offers a fictionalized lifeafter-death journey. And when you’ve finished, don’t forget to share with a best friend!
Backroads & Byways of Upstate New York Christine A. Smyczynski The Countryman Press, division of W.W. Norton & Co. countrymanpress.com 2017 Soft Cover
Time for a trip close to home? Grab this book to discover hundreds of unique places off the beaten track in Upstate New York. (“Upstate” is defined as beyond the New York City area and Long Island.) The subtitle, “Drives, Day Trips, & Weekend Excursions” underscores the fact that a new adventure can be experienced within a relatively short time span. Twenty excursions are divided into drives and destinations defined by each region’s location and salient characteristics. The chapter, Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway, for example, is “a road trip around Cayuga Lake” and Route 104: The Cobblestone Trail spans three counties from the Niagara River to Rochester. This handy glove compartment companion will be an informative helpmate on many getaways. The “basics” include each region’s mileage, directions on where to begin a trip, the estimated time to spend, and descriptive highlights. Full-color photographs, maps, and “Sidetracks” featuring notable sights off the main
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route add value. Accommodations, dining, shopping and other amenities are detailed. Christine Smyczynski is a longtime author of travel-guides and native of Western New York. Her earlier book, Western New York: An Explorer’s Guide was reviewed in the Winter 2005 issue of this magazine. A new title, Explorer’s Guide Buffalo & Niagara Falls is forthcoming in 2018.
New York Amish Karen M. Johnson-Weiner Cornell University Press cornellpress.cornell.edu 2010, Second edition, 2017 Soft Cover
Karen Johnson-Weiner aims to help non-Amish New Yorkers better understand their Amish neighbors by dispelling “myths, half-truths, and imaginative fictions about the Amish” in this updated edition of New York Amish. The Amish have been a part of New York for nearly 200 years, contributing to the state’s cultural heritage. Now with 52 Amish settlements in New York, their population is growing faster than anywhere else in the U.S., while also becoming much more diverse. Different groups moved to New York while others may split apart. And while Amish communities in New York may not be as well-known as those in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, that attract millions of visitors, they’re increasingly on the radar of travelers exploring the Empire State according to Johnson-Weiner. The first chapter offers an informative overview of Amish history followed by chapter-length descriptions of New York State Amish communities, beginning with the oldest settlements in New York in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties. A final chapter discusses the future
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of New York’s Amish in a continually changing environment. This title is just one of many that the author, a Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the State University of New York at Potsdam, has written on the Amish. The bibliography, maps, appendices of settlement data, and illustrations make this book an excellent resource.
And the Sparrow Fell Robert J. Mrazek Cornell University Press cornellpress.cornell.edu 2017 Soft Cover
The Vietnam War forever changed young lives, as epitomized by the Ledbetter brothers in this novel. Born to a wealthy Long Island family, the siblings had a near death experience skating on thin ice as youngsters. As adults, they chose different paths. This
poignant coming-of-age novel, set during the 1960s and 1970s, recalls the turmoil and uncertainty of the times. Rick, the eldest brother, chronicles his perspective as shaped by his admiration for JFK and the influence of his World War II-hero father. In college, he scores with Cornell co-eds rather than excelling in classes, but manages to graduate and enters the swift boat program at Naval Officer Candidate School. Younger brother Tommy, also a Cornell undergraduate, pursues religious studies and becomes a pacifist. Rick meets Tommy’s girlfriend Kate on campus and tries to win her affections. But, the war intercedes. Rick experiences combat in Vietnam while Tommy protests the war at home, leading to a dramatic outcome involving them both. Robert Mrazek, a Cornell alumnus (1967) and former five-term Congressman, has authored nine books. He wrote and co-directed the
film The Congressman. Mrazek joined the US Navy during the Vietnam War and began writing this book when he was a patient in a naval hospital in 1967-68.
Saving Faith: A Memoir of Courage, Conviction and a Calling Elizabeth Osta Cosmographia Books ElizabethOsta.com 2017 Soft Cover
A young woman’s religious calling and her devotion is set against the turbulent years following the death of President John Kennedy and Vatican II’s aggiornamento (“bringing up to date”) of the Catholic Church. Elizabeth Osta attended parochial school in Syracuse and graduated from Nazareth College before being admitted as a postulant with the Sisters of St. Joseph
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in Rochester, who founded that college. During the 1960s and 1970s Osta taught children with special needs in Rochester diocesan schools and later became a school principal. As a nun, her life was marked by the challenges faced by Catholic schools and their educators. In honest and reflective writing style, she shares her personal doubts, occasional missteps, and praiseworthy achievements. Poignant and humorous stories of students, colleagues, and administrators punctuate this spiritual journey. Names are altered when “it seemed best,” writes Osta. Osta has received awards for her writing over many years. She has authored an historical novel, Jeremiah’s Hunger (2011). Saving Faith earned the 2018 Amelia Island Book Festival Literary Award in the nonfiction category for its “distinctive voice, compelling story, originality
and well-crafted writing, which exemplifies the values of reading and promoting literacy.” The memoir was also nominated for Rochester City Newspaper’s “Best Locally Written Book of 2017.”
Sacred Sites in North Star Country Madis Senner Mother Earth Press motherearthpress.net 2017 Soft Cover
Could Upstate New York become a destination for spiritual tourism? The author, a former money manager who left Wall Street to pursue a spiritual path, believes it can. In 2002, Senner felt called to pray with others around Onondaga Lake, a lake sacred to the Iroquois. This started his quest to learn why this area has profoundly influenced humanity. He writes that “the dramatic reform and
spiritual movements that transpired in greater New York State… were shaped by the land.” “North Star Country,” spanning New York, several neighboring states, portions of others, and part of Ontario, Canada, is linked to world-changing reform and spiritual movements such as abolitionism and women’s rights. Senner, in this his fourth book, explains the interconnection between Mother Earth and humans. Numerous sacred sites in North Star Country are identified where “Fields of Consciousness” emanate Mother’s Earth’s highest aspirations for humankind. The author, who teaches workshops on sacred sites, consciousness, and the power of thoughts, explains how to plan ahead for visits to 125 sites which range from historic homes and churches to natural settings. He includes recommended readings, maps, diagrams, and photos. The author’s dogs are photographed at many of the outdoor locations strategically resting near the high points of a Field of Consciousness.
Beyond Lilla Tracy Fontaine StarryNightPublishing.com beyondlilla.com 2013 Soft Cover
Imagine eavesdropping at your funeral. That is what the protagonist Lilla does in this paranormal novel that
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probes the spirit world. After shes dies peacefully in her sleep, the octogenarian fails to reunite with her husband Sam, who has predeceased her. She remains in ghostly limbo with the new ability to mingle with the living, often without their awareness and sometimes with amusing results. Known in life as the “Lilac Lady” for her knowledge of the flowering shrub, Lilla adjusts to her apparitional afterlife – learning to move, communicate, and protect herself from treacherous evil spirits. As horticulturalists, Sam and Lilla tended Mt. Hope Cemetery, the Rochester graveyard notable for occupants like Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Now it is the final resting spot of this gardening couple. Lilla’s forays inside and outside the cemetery include adventurous encounters, some dangerous, with souls stuck in similar ethereal states. On Lilla’s persistent quest to spend eternity with Sam, she wistfully revisits the collegiate setting where they met, recalls the beginning of their horticultural career, and checks out their marital home. A graduate of SUNY Cobleskill and Rochester Institute of Technology, Fontaine is a laboratory technician at the University of Rochester Medical Center. This is her first book.
Take a Paddle—Finger Lakes Rich and Sue Freeman Burford Books burfordbooks.com 2004; 2017, reprint Soft Cover
Previously published by Rich and Sue Freeman’s Footprint Press, this book has been out of print for many years. Publisher Peter Burford describes the Freemans as “handson researchers” who have personally paddled every location in this volume and the companion, Take a Paddle – Western New York (also reprinted by Burford Books). We commend the publisher for bringing these family-friendly guides to a new generation of beginning and intermediate paddling enthusiasts. The Finger Lakes volume covers 64 specific locations throughout the Finger Lakes region with 35 ponds and lakes and over 37 miles of streams and rivers to explore.
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love and support of friends and family. Luckily for residents of Upstate New York, the Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester includes mindfulness and meditation classes in their program offerings to help survivors live each moment to its fullest. At its Rochester location, the coalition has long been offering a plethora of support groups and activities aimed directly at women and men with breast cancer. Since 2004, offerings have included what the coalition terms “Healing Arts”: mind-body-spirit classes such as gentle yoga, mindfulness and meditation, plus Tai Chi, Qigong, and writing workshops. “There is so much that is out of the patient’s hands when it comes to treatment for cancer ... surgery, chemotherapy, radiation ... depending on the stage of disease, but guidelines for how to medically treat the disease are well-established,” says Holly Anderson, executive director. “Offering patients the opportunity to
augment these traditional treatments with a Mind-Body-Spirit approach is empowering.” But not everyone in the Finger Lake Region with a breast cancer diagnosis lives close enough to travel to Rochester on a weekly basis, so the coalition has set up satellite locations in recent years with local instructors offering gentle yoga, and mindfulness and meditation classes. The Instructor Rick Lynch, the soft-spoken owner of Finger Lakes Yoga Center in Canandaigua, began his own yoga practice in 1978 when he took a class because he had a bad back. Quickly realizing that yoga was much more than just poses, it became a way of life for him. After becoming certified as an instructor in 1989, Lynch took continuing education credits to become a master yoga instructor. Once he held the highest level of certification, he headed to Colorado to M ay/J u n e 2 018 ~
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become certified in mindfulness and meditation with teacher David Nichturn. “It appeals to me: just a simple practice of the breath. I wanted to go through the certification process that they had so that I would feel comfortable and I would feel like I really understood,” says Lynch. Knowing that he had this certification under his belt, when the Breast Cancer Coalition decided to add mindfulness and meditation classes to their satellite line up, Lynch was the one they reached out to. Being Aware of the Breath Throughout his years working as a yoga teacher, Lynch has seen many women going through breast cancer. Some of the women in the mindfulness and meditation classes are regular participants in his yoga classes. For a person currently battling breast or gynecological cancer, or a survivor of a past diagnosis, there are many fears, anxieties, and feelings of anger to work through. “The meditation practice is just to learn how to be present in a way that we can identify and just say ‘hi’ to what’s in our mind, and keep coming back to the present moment, which is using the simple technique of watching your breath,” Lynch says. Being present in the moment can be helpful in letting some of the fears and anxieties feelings go. Lynch encourages participants to begin with focusing on the breath for three to four minutes a day. Cindy Dykes, breast cancer survivor and participant in Lynch’s class, says, “I definitely am more aware of my breath and how I can use it to calm my mind; even taking a few mindful breaths when stopped at a traffic light in my car. I am also using these tools to help
me go to and go back to sleep, as I struggle with that often.” Lynch tells another story of a class participant who was very high-strung and always on the go; stressed out with life, work, and family. After surviving stage 3 breast cancer, an advanced form of invasive breast cancer, she began to attend the coalition’s mindfulness and meditation classes. Beginning with spending three to four minutes a day practicing mindfulness and meditation, this survivor worked up to 15 minutes a day to help keep herself centered. “She’s a totally different person,” Lynch says. Making an undulating movement with his arm, he continues, “Life goes like that.” He feels that the mindfulness and meditation classes have allowed her to center herself and find a sense of tranquility. Yes, life is full of ups and downs, but practicing mindfulness and meditation can assist survivors and those currently battling breast and gynecological cancers to get through them. Luckily, Lynch and the entire Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester are guiding survivors across the Finger Lakes Region to a place of calm within by helping participants learn to focus on each moment’s breath.
For more information contact the Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester 1048 University Avenue Rochester, NY 14607 585-473-8177 bccr.org Finger Lakes Yoga Center 90 South Main Street fingerlakesyogacenter.com
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Americana Vineyards & Winery.......................78............americanavineyards.com
Kitchen Theatre Company................................89............kitchentheatre.org
ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes... 13............fiddlersgathering.org
Legacy at Fairways.............................................. 21............watermarkcommunities.com
Belhurst................................................................. 18............belhurst.com
Livingston County Tourism............................... 11............fingerlakeswest.com
Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra............. 71............binghamtonphilharmonic.org
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Caves Kitchens.....................................................29............cavesmillwork.com
Naples Valley Visitors Association...................22............naplesvalleyny.com
Cayuga County Tourism...................................... 3............tourcayuga.com
New Energy Works............................................ C4............newenergyworks.com
Cayuga Lake Wine Trail................................52-53............cayugawinetrail.com
Oasis Outdoor Living......................................... 17............oasisoutdoorliving.com
Clifton Springs Chamber of Commerce.........25............cliftonspringschamber.com
Pettis Pools & Patio............................................. 10............pettispools.com
Corning Museum of Glass................................37............cmog.org
Phelps Historical Society.................................... 14............phelpsny.com/historical-society
Corning’s Gaffer District.................................... 51............gafferdistrict.com
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Regional Primary Care Network......................29............rpcn.org
Critz Farms Brewing & Cider............................65............critzbrewandcider.com
Rochester Regional Health System.................... 9............nextisnow.org
del Lago Resort & Casino.................................... 7............dellagoresort.com
Rooster Hill Vineyards........................................73............roosterhill.com
Downtown Ithaca Alliance................................37............downtownithaca.com
Rosamond Gifford Zoo......................................25............rosamondgiffordzoo.org
Eastview Mall........................................................26............eastviewmall.com
Route 96 Power & Paddle................................. 14............powerandpaddle.com
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Ryan William Vineyard......................................... 5............ryanwilliam.com
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Finger Lakes Plein Air Festival............................ 2............fingerlakespleinair.com
Seaweed Mat Systems....................................... 81............seaweedmatsystems.com
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Seneca County Chamber..................................30............fingerlakescentral.com
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Finger Lakes Visitors Connection..................... 19............visitfingerlakes.com
Sheldrake Point Winery..................................... 71............sheldrakepoint.com
Fireplace Fashions...............................................33............fireplacefashions.com
SignLanguage Inc................................................ 18............signlanguageinc.com
Foodlinkny.org.....................................................27............foodlinkny.org
Smith Boys Marina ............................................... 8............smithboys.com
Fort Ticonderoga.................................................33............fortticonderoga.org
Starkey’s Lookout/G.C. Starkey Beer Co........66............starkeyslookout.com
German Brothers Marina .................................73............germanbrothers.com
Sweet Treat Trail...................................................87............tourcayuga.com
Granger Homestead........................................... 10............grangerhomestead.org
Timber Frames.....................................................47............timberframesinc.com
Hangar Theatre.................................................... 13............hangartheatre.org
Toro Run Winery.................................................89............tororunwinery.com
Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca..................................... 4............ithaca.hgi.com
Wagner Vineyards...............................................88............wagnervineyards.com
Historic Owego....................................................75............owego.org
Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel............................... 31............watkinsglenharborhotel.com
Hornell Area Arts Council..................................49............hornellarts.com
Wayne County Tourism.....................................23............waynecountytourism.com
Hotel Ithaca..........................................................50............thehotelithaca.com I-Wood-Care.........................................................47............iwoodc.com The Inn on the Lake...........................................63............theinnonthelake.com Ithaca Beer Co......................................................65............ithacabeer.com
MARKETPLACE ADVERTISING Accommodations................... Pg. 92-93
Naples............................................. Pg. 99
Brews...............................................Pg. 67
Real Estate for Sale...................... Pg. 90
Ithaca Coffee Co.................................................. 81............ithacacoffee.com
Camping..........................................Pg. 97
Seneca Lake Wine Trail............... Pg. 98
Kendal at Ithaca.................................................. C3............kai.kendal.org
Canandaigua................................Pg. 103
Shopping & Services...........Pg. 100-101
Keuka Arts Festival..............................................66............keukaartsfestival.com
Culture & Attractions.............. Pg. 94-96
Wine & Spirits...............................Pg. 102
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83488 Kendal Biking AD for LIF T: 8.125” x 10.875”
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