Life in the Finger Lakes Fall 2011 by Fahy-Williams Publishing

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CELEBRATING

YEARS Volume 11, Number 3 • Fall 2011

F E A T U R E S

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A WHITETAIL BUCK

FARM TO MARKET

Noted photographer Charles Alsheimer chronicles the life of a buck living in a region of the Finger Lakes that is off-limits to hunters

Finger Lakes area farmers and winemakers are making a big impact in the Big Apple through greenmarkets Story and photos Bill Wingell

BOICEVILLE COTTAGES U.S.A.

AUTUMN SPLENDOR

Visit a collection of storybook cottages built by a Dryden-based contractor known for his imposing residential projects throughout the Finger Lakes. Story and photos Bill Wingell

Photographer Bonnie Gustin’s interpretation of autumn in the Finger Lakes

TIN CAN TOURISTS In September, Sampson State Park hosts the fourth annual rally of vintage campers Story and photos Mark Oros

Below: A hike to the top of Bare Hill in Yates County reveals some wonderful views of Canandaigua Lake. Photo by Les Breuer

Cover: This whitetail buck, along with other deer, is depicted in a book by photographer Charles Alsheimer. Whitetails: A Photographic Journey Through the Seasons. Photo by Charles J. Alsheimer

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D E P A R T M E N T S

LETTERS

MY OWN WORDS

NEWSBITS

FINGER LAKES MAP

A LOOK BACK - CELEBRATING 10 YEARS Cover art

HISTORY The Canandaigua Treaty – a pact of peace and friendship

MADE IN THE FINGER LAKES Tommy comes home

CULTURED The reimaging of main street in Mount Morris

A PROUD COMMUNITY Brockport

SPORTS Running for a cause at Otisco Lake

GROUP EFFORT Move that school!

HOME IMPROVEMENT Hands, tools, wood – Jim Plukas, master craftsman

FOOD & WINE Heron Hill Winery – Blue Heron Café, Ravines Wine Cellars – Ravinous Kitchen

CULTURED Turning over an old leaf for new pages – Dryden’s Southworth Library

LIFESTYLE Not your grandmother’s quilt guild

HUMAN INTEREST • Fair Haven’s Fly by Night Cookie Company • Eldercare Part 3 – living options for older people run a wide gamut

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REMINISCE Naval aviation celebrates its 100th birthday

CALENDAR: FESTIVALS & EVENTS

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OFF THE EASEL Sculptures by Carol Adamec

L E T T E R S Hi Mark, I love the magazine and read each issue from cover to cover. I do have a suggestion, though, which would make my reading more pleasurable. Years ago I had a gift subscription from a Kansas friend to KANSAS! magazine. Each article was accompanied with a small map of the state of Kansas and a star placed at the location that the article referenced. I would love to see the same for Life in the Finger Lakes. At the beginning of each article you could use the regional map from the masthead page and place a star to reference the location being written about. I live on Keuka Lake, but am not familiar with the many little towns often mentioned in the articles. I have to go to another map to see where they are in the state. Having them pinpointed right at the head of the story would make my reading so much more enjoyable. Nancy LeVant, Rochester

I just read the the Summer 2011 Life in the Finger Lakes magazine. Wonderful! It may be your best issue to date. It was obviously a lot of work. It shows. So, I got to thinking after reading Jason Feulner’s piece (Food & Wine, page 70). Just what is the cuisine of the Finger Lakes? If we were to drill down through what historically was caught, shot, grown and picked in this region – what would would be the fare? What fish – lake trout, salmon, perch, bullheads? Deer would be on the menu, of course but would woodchuck and bear? Poultry of some kind – game birds perhaps. I think the Cayugas grew peaches. Wild grapes? Onions? Preparation methods? How could we reinvent this native cuisine that hopefully does not include salt potatoes? Maybe there’s a food historian at Cornell or an archeologist that might cast some light. I don’t believe I’ve encountered any attempt at doing this. Anyway, lots of questions and some ideas. Gary Catt, Syracuse FAST FACTS INFO PAGE 97

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f summer is the time of year to relax, unwind and participate in the many activities that this region has to offer, then fall is the time of year that has a flurry of activity before the snow flurries begin. Personally I feel like a squirrel feverishly searching for and storing nuts for the winter. I’m trying to get as much work done around the exterior of my home and I’m also trying to have as much outdoor fun as I can before the weather changes. Several years ago my family invested in a popup camper. This was a huge step up for us from tent camping. Don’t get me wrong – I enjoy sleeping in a tent, but when the rain’s coming down and I wake up in a popup, there’s not nearly as much concern about staying dry as I would have in a tent. Plus, those little conveniences like storage cabinets and running water in a sink are just nice to have. One of my favorite items in the camper is a little propane heater. We camped last October in Pennsylvania and the nighttime temperature dropped into the ’30s. That little heater kicked in a couple of times and really made our stay much more pleasant. Others who enjoy camping even after the main part of summer passes are those who have hard shell campers. A group is coming to Sampson State Park this September called the Tin Can Tourists. These people own vintage campers and trailers, which are pulled more often than not by vintage vehicles as well. You’ll see by the photos on pages 55-57 that it looks like a campground scene from the 1950s. Many tourists flock to the Finger Lakes during the summer and fall to visit the wineries. Most of the lakes have wine trails, and these trails have events throughout the season to entice

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travelers to stop by the wineries and taste their incredible wines, sometimes paired with excellent food as well. You can read about two such food and wine pairings by turning to page 70. Autumn is the time for hunters and photographers alike to don their camouflage garb and take to the woods in search of a whitetail monarch of the forest. An article on page 36 will surely interest you. Incredible photos were taken of a singe whitetail buck during the course of a year. It’s amazing to see what minimal antler growth looks like in May, and then to see the buck in October. His huge antlers makes you think it’s not the same animal. The changes that a buck goes through in a single year are incredible. Visiting communities to shop and see new sites is also a pleasant diversion during fall. We’ve featured Mount Morris and Brockport in this issue. The Main Street of Mount Morris is undergoing something of a Renaissance with specialty shops and renovated buildings. If you haven’t been there recently, I think it’s worth another visit. Brockport is a village that has much to offer. It’s on the Erie Canal, and with its unique shops, history and college, it too can offer shoppers and tourists alike an ample opportunity to spend a pleasant day. I hope you enjoy the eclectic articles in this issue. We try to offer a variety of subjects, and it seems this magazine is certainly loaded with many different ideas. I think you’ll find that getting out in the Finger Lakes will pleasantly surprise you by fulfilling all of your interests.

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Naples Open Studio Trail Celebrates 10 Years Come celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Naples Open Studio Trail with 23 Finger Lakes artists and craftsmen on October 1 and 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Shoppers and art lovers have the opportunity to meet glass blowers, painters, sculptors, photographers, wood workers, ceramic and pottery creators, and leather and textile artists as they bring life to their creations. Located at the southern end of Canandaigua Lake, this region is filled with autumn colors and natural beauty. During the studio tour, visitors can see how the natural wonders of the hills, valleys and lakes act as a muse to the artisans. Hands-on demonstrations and discussions with the artists about their craft add that extra special touch. For a complete listing of the artists and a map of the studios visit www.naplesopenstudiotrail.com or call 585-749-2248 for details.

Willard Cemetery Needs Your Help The Willard Cemetery Memorial Project was established out of concern for the 5,776 patients of the former Willard State Psychiatric Center in Seneca County who are buried there in unnamed and unremembered graves. The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal is to identify the anonymous patients and include their names on four obelisks in the cemetery. If you have a relative buried there, you are permitted to request information from New York State under the Freedom of Information Act. Make your request to the New York State Office of Mental Health, 44 Holland Ave. in Albany, 12229, or visit www.nyhealth.gov for more information. Visit www.willardcemeterymemorial project.com to see what has been accomplished so far. Donations can be made to the Romulus Historical Society c/o Willard Cemetery, P.O. Box 177, Willard, New York 14588.

AIDS Ride for Life in Ithaca Each autumn, 400 cyclists circle Cayuga Lake in support of the Southern Tier AIDS Program (STAP) during the annual AIDS Ride for Life. Held this year on September 10, the 100-, 50- or 42-mile challenge

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reminds the community of the challenges HIV/AIDS positive residents face, said Ride co-founder Jerry Dietz. “For us, it’s a day of striving,” said Dietz, who rides every year. “They have to deal every day.” Currently, almost 400 local individuals receive medical, social and psychological support from STAP. The organization, which started in 1984, also offers free testing and prevention programs through an eight-county area. The Ride for Life, now a well-known event in the Ithaca community, provides 30 percent of its operating budget each year. Learn more about the AIDS Ride for Life and the Southern Tier AIDS Program at www.aidsrideforlife.org.

Nature Inspired Art at the Armory On November 12 and 13, a unique show and sale of fine art and fine craft will take place inside the historic Rochester Main Street Armory, located at 900 E. Main Street in the city’s eastend art district. Show hours both days are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. This third annual event incorporates nature-influenced art with environmental education. Art at The Armory, renamed for its new venue, will offer a full artistic and cultural experience for show goers. Up to 60 exhibit booths will encompass a diverse variety of broadly natureinspired art and fine craft. The show

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will offer live owls and hawks presentations – always an audience favorite – conducted by the nonprofit organization Friends With Feathers. Other features planned include live acoustic music, poetry readings, special nature-themed displays, and a non-juried exhibit of student art. For more information, visit www.artatthearmory.com, or call 585-223-8369.

Fiddlin’ Fun in Springwater The Fiddlers Fair at Sugarbush Hollow Farm in is an all-day musical event for the whole family. The event is held September 17 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 8447 Pardee Hollow Road in Springwater. Attendees can choose to enjoy the music playing on stage or hike surrounding scenic trails to experience “fiddlingin-the woods.” There will also be some lively jam sessions that will get feet stomping and hands clapping. Musicians from all over Upstate New York will be performing – all ages and levels – including acoustical instruments ranging from the nose harp to the violin. There will also be a workshop for those who are interested in learning to play the fiddle. Learn more at www.springwater fiddlersfair.net

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A Treaty of Peace and Friendship by Kimberly Price

very fall, people gather at the Canandaigua Elementary School in the early afternoon and march to the lawn of the Ontario County Court House to commemorate the signing of a peace treaty between the United States and the Iroquois Confederacy or Haudensaunee. There, in the former heart of the Seneca Nation, a ceremony takes place by two rocks; one signifying the date the treaty was signed (November 11) and the other commemorating the treaty’s 200th anniversary in 1994. Each year, the terms of the treaty are

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read, their meaning is acknowledged, and beaded wampum belts are shown. When the reader of a belt holds it in his hands, it helps him remember the idea the belt signifies. In the evening there’s a feast (it’s free), and last year about 400 meals were served. The day ends with speakers and social dancing. The Canandaigua Treaty was a treaty of peace and friendship that Peter Jemison, a renowned artist and cultural specialist, works to maintain today. Jemison is a Heron clan Seneca from Cattaraugus who manages the

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Ganondagan State Historic Site in Victor where a Native American community thrived long ago. Jemison recognizes the many important aspects of the 217-year-old treaty. “It was signed nation to nation,” he said. “You have the fledgling United States and you have our nations signing this as two sovereigns. At the same time, within this treaty is recognition of what land belonged to [which people]. It spelled it all out. It affirmed that our original territory remained our territory.”

The need for a treaty When the Haudenosaunee were asked to choose sides during the Revolutionary War, some Tuscarora and some Oneida sided with the colonists, while others – some Mohawk and some Seneca – sided with the

Potowatami and the Wabash) their strength would overpower all of the current 15 states. He called upon Colonel Timothy Pickering to act on his behalf in forging a treaty between the Iroquois and the U.S. government. Pickering and his

Above: Some of the re-enactors on the lawn of the Ontario County Courthouse following the 2010 Canandaigua Treaty Commemoration Ceremony recognizing a treaty of peace and friendship signed between the United States (as a sovereign nation) and the Iroquois Confederacy (as a sovereign group of nations). Pictured (left to right): Ronnie Reitter (Seneca), Elmer John (Seneca), Darwin John (Seneca), Ted John (Seneca), and Al Parker (Seneca). Photo by Amy Blum Left: The 1794 Canandaigua Treaty event is brought to life with a visual re-creation in the painting, “The Great Treaty of Canandaigua” by artist Robert Griffing and published by Paramount Press Inc., unveiled at the 2010 Canandaigua Treaty Day. Griffing worked closely with Michael Galban (Washoe/Paiute) on finding and assembling individuals to pose in historically-accurate dress for the painting.

British. When the British pulled back to Canada, the Haudenosaunee found its land opened to settlement by American colonists. Tensions mounted as the Haudenosaunee fought to protect their property. George Washington realized that if the warriors from the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy joined the Northwest Confederacy in the Ohio region (the Huron, Ottawa, Miami, Shawnee, Ojibwa, Cherokee,

council began negotiations in the fall of 1794 in Canandaigua, then a principal Seneca Indian village named “Kanandarque” or “the Chosen Spot.” It was far enough away from the British at Fort Niagara and in Canada to discourage their meddling. The Haudenosaunee traveled there on foot from their respective locations, with the Oneida arriving first. They were followed by the Cayuga, Onondaga and Tuscarora. The Senecas, 800 of FAST FACTS INFO PAGE 97

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was signed by President George Washington and ratified by Congress. The first line reads, “Peace and friendship are hereby firmly established, and shall be perpetual, between the United States and the Six Nations.” The Haudenosaunee people would describe the relationship between their nations and the United States as a threelink silver chain of peace, friendship and respect.

A boulder and plaque commemorates the Canandaigua Treaty on the lawn of the Ontario County Courthouse. Photo by Andrew Thomas

them, arrived last on October 14. The pro-British Mohawks stayed in Canada, but sent one representative. All told, 1,600 Haudenosaunee assembled for the treaty. It was signed on November 11, and a year later the treaty

Chinks in the chain More than 200 years later, land issues remain a critical concern for the Six Nations and the 60,000 Iroquois people who live in the United States and Canada. “Although the treaty has been violated a number of times, it has never been broken,” wrote Jemison in a paper entitled, “The 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua.” “The Congress of the United States would have to abrogate that treaty… or we Six Nations would have to discontinue observance of the treaty in order to break it. ” One violation occurred in 1964, when the Kinzua Dam on the Allegany River was constructed. The dam flooded 9,000 acres of Seneca land on the Allegany Indian Reservation in western New York, causing the residents and even the cemeteries to be relocated. Then in 1967, the Niagara Power Project flooded Tuscarora land. Efforts to tax

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people of the Six Nations on their land are ongoing. “The treaty says free use and enjoyment,” said Jemison. “It says we are sovereign, meaning we have our own government and can make our own decisions within our territories. There are always efforts either on the part of the United States or the state of New York to erode those treaty rights and to enforce laws that are really the laws of the [state or the country]. “It’s been a constant struggle for us to maintain our sovereignty and to protect our treaty rights,” Jemison continued, “but that’s one of the reasons we gather every November 11 in the city of Canandaigua to commemorate the treaty, and to remind people that we formed this treaty of peace and friendship – and for us, that treaty is still in place.” Living history When he was younger, Peter Gerbic, a town councilman from Middlesex was not a fan of history. He didn’t fall asleep in class, but it was not the most riveting experience of his scholastic career. However, when he moved to the Finger Lakes Region in the mid-1960s, he found something that piqued his interest. More than 40 years later, it keeps Gerbic wide awake and on the edge of his seat.

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“I always tell people it’s either the history lesson you fell asleep in or the one you never got,” said Gerbic about the Canandaigua Treaty. “It’s living history.” He remembers reading about the treaty commemoration in the Canandaigua newspaper the day after it happened. “I’d see a picture of native elders in front of the courthouse and I’d think, ‘Ah, nuts! I missed it again!’” One year, Gerbic cut out the picture and tacked it to his bulletin board. The next year he remembered to go. “I went with my daughter who was five years old. I’ve gone every year since then, and my daughter is now 29.” Gerbic has twice been the chairman of the Canandaigua Treaty committee. He always feels privileged to be a part of the celebration. In 2010, a special painting was commissioned depicting the signing of the treaty and was unveiled on the ceremony day. “It’s not a photograph,” said Gerbic. “It came out of someone’s mind, but it gives a very good feeling of actually being there. “I’ve met some very wonderful people through this – native people who I might not otherwise have been able to meet.” He calls himself a “newcomer,” since he is not a member of the Six Nations. “When you see the two hands shaking, I’m the other hand.” He feels that newcomers have not listened to the native people. “We have taken over,” Gerbic said. “We should not forget that our native people have always been here. This is really their land and they welcomed us here. They have a lot to teach us about how we can live well here.” He concluded: “I feel we have an amazing obligation to support the treaty and make sure we hold up our end of the chain of peace.”

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on, the airplane is yours.” Those were the words that Don Funke, president of the Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation, had been waiting to hear. It was the day before Christmas 2009, and Funke was meeting in Ithaca with Dr. William Thibault from San Diego. “I just about fell off my chair,” said Funke. “My mouth dropped open, and I said, ‘My gosh, there really is a Santa Claus. ‘” The story begins several years earlier, when Funke and a group of aviationoriented people were discussing an

upcoming event at the Ithaca airport. The topic of the local Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation – now defunct – came up, and the group realized they knew very little about its history. After some research, they discovered that William and Oliver Thomas, brothers who had previously worked for Glenn Curtiss, were invited to Ithaca in 1914 to establish the Thomas Aeroplane Company. In 1916, the company won a government contract and

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the following year it merged with the Morse-Chain Company to become the Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation. It built planes used as “advanced trainers” for service members before they’d head overseas. The S4-C Scout, called the “Tommy” by pilots who flew it, soon became the favorite single-seat training airplane produced in the U.S. during World War I. Six hundred of them were built in Ithaca. “It was a big deal for the little town

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to get a contract for that many airplanes, especially one that was recognized as making a significant contribution to the war training effort,” said Funke. It didn’t take his group long to realize the importance of bringing a Tommy back to its birthplace. “With Ithaca being the transient town that it is, there’s a lot of history that’s very significant to early aviation in the Finger Lakes that has been forgotten. The preservation of this heritage is what is important to us,” said Funke. “If only one of these planes is still in existence, shouldn’t it be here in Ithaca where it was built?” Finding a Tommy And so began the “Tommy come home” project, that included years of investigation, false hopes and what Funke calls “peaks and valleys.” The group discovered that there were about a dozen Tommys left in the United States, half of which were housed in museums. Others were in the hands of private collectors. The museums and individual owners were not willing to part with their treasures. Having no money at the time, the group could not even afford to buy one of the planes they found “basically as a pile of junk in a dumpster.” They’d get excited about a possibility one day, and would find out it wasn’t going to happen the next. Commited to their effort, the group formed the Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation Inc. (IAHF), with Funke as the president. He was joined on the IAHF board by Dave Flinn, Pete DeGraff and Randy Marcus, and soon afterward by Art Muka, Mike Shay and Steve Romaine, all airplane enthusiasts. Muka was planning a trip west to visit the San Diego Air and Space Museum.

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They knew a Tommy was on display there as part of the museum’s World War I exhibit. “It was one of the few planes that we knew very little about,” said Funke. “We didn’t know the model or even the serial number. That was unusual.” When he got there, Muka discovered the plane was no longer on display, but in the restoration shop “awaiting disposition.” What will the doctor order? “That’s when we got really excited,” said Funke. “We found out it was on loan to the museum by William N. Thibault, M.D., who bought it in the early 1980s with the idea that he was going to restore it during his retirement years.” Folks at the museum were anxious for him to decide what he’d like to do with it since they were interested in restoring it themselves, and making it a part of their permanent collection. Funke contacted Dr. Thibault and reported on IAHF’s progress, noting how wonderful it would be if his Tommy came home to Ithaca. The board continued to keep him informed of their activities, such as building a replica set of wings in the old Thomas-Morse plant on South Aurora Street (now the Emerson Power Transmission plant)

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with some of the same tools that had been used to build the Tommy nearly 100 years earlier. “We were hoping it would excite him and maybe lead him to donate the airplane to the foundation,” said Funke. At the Ithaca Festival in June 2009, fate stepped in. The IAHF had set up a table to promote the Tommy project and encourage support from the community. A storyboard entitled “Tommy Come Home” showed pictures and discussed the group’s strides to make their dream a reality. Board member Randy and his wife, Terry, were manning the table when a young girl and her grandmother approached. Terry said, “Tommy’s an airplane!” The grandmother replied, “We know. We have one, and you want it.” They disappeared into the crowd before Marcus could respond. When Marcus discussed it with Funke later, they deduced there could be only one woman in the country who could make that statement truthfully: the doctor’s wife. “What on earth was she doing in Ithaca?” they wondered. They discovered that Dr. Thibault’s son and his family lived in Ithaca. “With renewed excitement, we continued to provide progress reports to the doctor with high hopes,” Funke said.

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Merry Christmas Several months earlier, IAHF had applied for 501(c)(3) not-for-profit taxexempt status, which made donations tax deductible. When they told Dr. Thibault about the application, his response was: “Congratulations on your progress. When you get your tax exempt number, let us know and we will proceed.” “That was a peak as high as peaks go,” Funke said. The IAHF invited the doctor to come and see their work on constructing the new Tommy wings the next time he visited Ithaca. Although his visit in September 2009 was enjoyed by all, he made no commitment to part with his treasure. Undaunted, the board hoped it was not the last time they’d see him. Dr. Thibault returned to Ithaca to visit his family at Christmas, and Funke invited him to meet over coffee. “I didn’t sleep the night before,” Funke remembered. “I was rehearsing what I was going to say. I thought, ‘We’ve got one more chance, and we’ve got to be convincing!’ I was about five minutes into my 15-minute presentation when the doctor stopped me and announced he had decided to donate the airplane to the foundation.” The following year, in May, the IAHF transported the Tommy from San Diego to Ithaca. “Dr. Thibault and his family are just so happy that his airplane is here in Ithaca, and that we’re in the process of restoring it to flying condition,” noted Funke. “On you, I see the glory” In preparation for the Tommy’s 100th birthday in 2018, the IAHF, the local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association, and many community volunteers are working tirelessly to restore her to flying condition. “This one left the factory in April 1918,” said Funke. “By 2018 we want to see the airplane ready to fly again. Tommy will be returned to the same condition in which she left the factory in time for her 100th birthday.” The IAHF hopes the restoration, at least in some part, will take place in all

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three of the original Thomas-Morse buildings. “That’s what did it for me and others in the beginning. We realized then that the stage was set. All we needed was the star to come home, and we were able to make that happen. “We’re always looking for volunteers to help,” continued Funke. “They really don’t need to have any special skills, because we can teach them everything they need to know.” He would like to see younger people get involved. “We have a lot of grandfathers right now. We’re looking for what might be the grandchild, the parents and the grandparents. After all, this is their airplane, their heritage. It’s a community project and it takes many people with many different talents.” Funke said he feels privileged to have played a role in preserving Tommy’s legacy in Ithaca. “At the very beginning of the project, the thought of bringing a Tommy home was just the most exciting thing I could think of doing. To be able to work on this precious historical artifact and know that its longtime owner trusted us enough to put it in our hands to restore it – I just feel very honored to even be a part of it.” Once restoration is complete, the IAHF plans to provide a permanent public display of the plane in Ithaca. A number of local organizations have expressed interest in being the site of Tommy’s future home. “The support from the Ithaca community has been outstanding. We are proud to be a part of preserving our local aviation heritage,” Funke concluded. IAHF can’t express enough thanks to its major donors so far, Tompkins Trust Company and the Legacy Foundation. IAHF welcomes all donations from individuals and organizations to support the costs of Tommy’s restoration and the development of Tommy’s future home. Donations can be mailed to IAHF, c/o Randy Marcus, 119 East Seneca Street, Ithaca, NY 14850, or can be made online at IAHF’s website. For more information on the Tommy Come Home project or to volunteer, visit www.tommycomehome.org.

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ount Morris has found a formula for success. The can-do spirit that has taken hold of this Livingston County town could become the model of the century for a small town looking to reinvent itself. Many Finger Lakes villages struggle daily to preserve their unique character in order to entice local folks and tourists, and to maintain their economic vitality. Main street merchants work tirelessly to compete with the big box stores and chains on nearby highways. Primarily known as the gateway to Letchworth State Park, Mount Morris is receiving recognition by community planners and newspapers from across the United States. The Main Street revitalization in Mount Morris is no miracle; rather, it is the result of concerted effort and planning. A developer emerges with a vision One person, Greg O’Connell, has been the primary catalyst for the extreme makeover that has taken place here. Thanks to him, a variety of locally owned businesses occupy the storefronts, now sporting spruced up façades and completely redone interiors. O’Connell had a vision for a sustainable community, and from his days as a student in the 1960s at nearby SUNY Geneseo, his love for the area kept bringing him back to western New York. After his retirement as a New York City detective, he poured his considerable energy into real estate developAntique stores are located up and down Mount Morris’s Main Street.

ment. Under his skillful leadership, the Red Hook section of Brooklyn was transformed from an industrial wasteland to a vital cultural area. Now, O’Connell has focused on developing Mount Morris. Albert Einstein once said that no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. In the case of Mount Morris, as the local economy eroded, pride was lost, and the town needed someone to come along with a new perspective. A crossroads for shoppers in the Genesee Valley in the 1960s, Mount Morris had gone into a slow decline. “The lights started diminishing on Main Street as, one after another, the businesses closed,” said Mayor Harold Long. “I remember when you could buy anything from a deck of cards to an auto on Main Street. It was nothing different than any other small town in America when the malls pulled people to Rochester 40 miles away.” A walking tour of Main Street The reimaging taking place along Main Street has led to an upbeat attitude among storeowners and shoppers alike. On a recent tour, smiling faces were a common sight, even on a rainy day. The Rainy Day Café and Bakery at 3 Canal Alley is a spot to stop and get oriented. It overlooks historic State Street and the newly named O’Connell Park, and borders the Greenway Trail, which stretches from Rochester to Belfast. The café occupies a brick building, formerly a tavern. Modern, stainless steel lighting mounted to plain cream walls creates an upscale, yet country feel. The three-story building had gone

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unnoticed and was deteriorating until O’Connell brought it back to life. “I’m from Kentucky, and my husband and I came back here 15 years ago to his hometown. There was nothing to do here for our family,” explained Teresa Brado, co-owner of the café with husband, Mark. “We had a dream, and Greg helped us.” The café is a good location to begin a walking tour of Main Street. There are six antique stores situated in between other shops. “We’re not starting a business. We are starting a town. There is an American nostalgia for a small town atmosphere,” stated Betty Kunkle, owner of Ye Olde Outhouse, an arts and crafts establishment at 80 Main Street in the heart of the village. Kunkle’s business was originally on nearby Route 408, but O’Connell convinced her to move to Main Street. Now, she is putting her energy into creating classes for crafters. O’Connell believes in the concept

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of a balanced community where lives are interconnected. He bought up rundown buildings and had a vision of the variety of businesses that would work well together. Along with the help of Louise Wadsworth, Livingston County Development Coordinator, O’Connell found ambitious local entrepreneurs to establish new places. The majority of storeowners are women, and each one has her aspirations. With affordable rents and constant encouragement from O’Connell’s hands-on management, renewal has begun. “You have to find the right combination of businesses. Country living is all about the small touches, the festivals and kid activities,” O’Connell said. O’Connell believes that the businesses must generate foot traffic. From young parents with baby strollers to the older population, people on foot infuse economic life into Main Street. “I am bringing back childhood memories for grandparents to share,”

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Brockport story and photos by James P. Hughes

Brockport’s bustling business district

“When the canal town was very young, the Indians called it ‘The Red Village’ because there were so many brick houses.” – Arch Merrill, 1945

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any of those brick houses still stand proud in Brockport. The quaint architecture has these days given rise to a new catchphrase for the village, “The Victorian Village on the Erie Canal.” Recognized on both the New York State and National Historic registers, Brockport’s commercial district with its brick façades has an undeniable small town America flavor – evocative of a lively village Main Street as it “used to be.” Businesses abound in Brockport’s Victorian structures – hair salons, gift boutiques, bike shop, restaurants and galleries. There’s coffee at Java Junction, tea at The Red Bird Tea Shoppe and confectionaries at Seaward Candies. The Lift Bridge Book Shop, with its bright canal-era mural, offers lectures, classes and workshops in addition to its huge selection of books, which includes many children’s titles. One visitor called the Lift Bridge “a toy store in disguise.” The Strand movie house operates in a building, which has housed a theater for more than a centu-

ry. Brockport historian Jackie Morris said that it’s the second-longest continuously running theater in the country. SUNY Brockport students roam Main Street, patronizing its eateries, the music store, specialty shops and a saloon – or three! “The décor and memorabilia at Jimmy Z’s Texas Hots is like a big version of my bedroom with booths in it,” said Jimmy Zisovski, the restaurant’s young owner. Barber’s Grill & Tap – “where every hour is happy” – is Brockport’s oldest tavern. Its interior remains virtually unchanged since the pub opened in 1929, with its woodwork, tin ceilings and original booths still intact. The area’s first settlers arrived just after 1800. With the construction and sudden boom of the Erie Canal around 1820, the bustling community of Brockway’s Port took shape. Named for early pioneer Hiel Brockway, the settlement was incorporated as a village in 1829 and its name shortened to Brockport. A testy rivalry between Brockway

The College at Brockport – State University of New York A view of the waterfront plaza and welcome center

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Visitors from around the world love to sit and enjoy the flavor of Brockport.

and another early founder, James Seymour, led to a unique village feature that exists to the present day. Brockway owned all the land west of Main Street, Seymour possessed everything to the east. As the town grew the adversaries agreed on very little, not even a logical street layout. Thus, no thoroughfare west of Main lines up with any street to the east, and all bear different names. The Erie Canal era kept Brockport humming with industry that fashioned everything from farm implements to shoes to glass bottles to pianos. The canal carried wheat produced throughout the area, to consumers across the country and around the globe. “Queen Victoria insisted that all her pastries be made from western New York wheat,” said historian Morris. “She considered it to be the best in the world.” In 1846, legendary inventor Cyrus McCormick entrusted production of his first 100 reapers, wheat harvesters that could do the work of many men, to Brockport’s Seymour & Morgan Iron Works. The first field of wheat cut by a factory-produced machine in the United States was harvested by a McCormick reaper on a Brockport area farm. During the late 19th century, Brockport was proud home to Mary Jane Holmes (1825 – 1907), one of the most widely read and prolific writers of the Victorian Age, second only in book sales to Harriet Beecher Stowe. In the den of her “Brown Cottage” on College Street, Holmes wrote dozens of novels and short stories – flowery, sentimental, melodramatic. An admiring nationwide audience eagerly sought out her new work. “Although busy and celebrated,” Morris said, “she was always charitable and active in village affairs.” The first “College of Brockport” began admitting students in 1835, with the distinction of being the first institution of higher education west of Colgate University. The school has evolved through the years as Brockport Collegiate Institute, Brockport Normal School, and today The College at Brockport, State University of New York. From humble beginnings, the campus has grown into the expansive, innovative and dynamic institution it is today. Brockport hosts an array of traditional activities throughout the year – summer concerts, a weekly farmers’ market, Arbor Day tree planting, a Fourth of July celebration, a community barbeque and music festival, and Christmas tree lighting, among them.

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Top, Left: Brockport Welcome Center Top, Right: The Strand Theater – a theater has existed in this building for more than 100 years and is the second longest continually running theater in the country. Above: A New York historical sign recognizes the McCormick Reaper’s connection to Brockport.

A number of these take place around the new welcome center and waterfront plaza dedicated in 2005. With its parklike setting and convenient hookups, the center received an Erie Canalway Heritage Award of Excellence in 2009. “We’ve had visitors from many states, Canada, and Europe – including a Scandinavian couple traveling the world in a homemade wooden boat,” explained lifetime Brockport residents and center volunteers Jim and Charlene Whipple. “People love to stop along the canal to enjoy the flavor of Brockport and the convenience and range of available services.” If founders Hiel Brockway and James Seymour were able to leap forward almost two centuries to stroll along local streets today, they would surely be in awe of Brockport’s bustling landscape. The habitual rivals might even find areas of agreement in the progress made – maybe! For more information, visit www.brockportny.org. FAST FACTS INFO PAGE 97

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Running For a Cause at Otisco Lake by Jason Feulner

tisco Lake is the easternmost of the 11 Finger Lakes, lying in the southwest corner of Onondaga County near Syracuse, just east of better-known Skaneateles Lake. It’s a sleepy lake, a summer resting place for many Syracuse-area families, and is best known for its bass fishing. At only six miles long, Otisco is not huge, but its scenery is dramatic among the steep foothills that dot southern Onondaga County. Recently, Otisco was the scene of some excitement, as it played host to the Second Annual Watershed Shuffle, a four-mile running race organized by

the Otisco Lake Preservation Association (OLPA). Like Skaneateles to the west, Otisco Lake has found itself in the center of the hydrofracking debate, and the OLPA is trying to bring awareness to the issue. “We held this event to raise funds and to serve as a vehicle for community outreach,” explains Anita Williams, OLPA president. “We had a great number of enthusiastic volunteers.” The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently upheld a ban on hydrofracking around the Skaneateles watershed, which serves as the main water source

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of the City of Syracuse and much of Onondaga County. It is one of only a few unfiltered municipal water sources in the country. However, Otisco did not receive such a ban, despite the fact that it is adjacent to Skaneateles and also serves as a water source for Syracuse. “We’re disappointed,” says Williams. “It’s going to be a constant struggle. Our organization is dedicated to preserving the Otisco watershed and to reminding people that this is a drinking water source.” While the policy struggle continues, runners have discovered the challenging hill course at the Watershed Shuffle. In only its second year, the Shuffle’s course record was shattered by nearly 3 minutes by 21-year-old Andrew Corcoran of Syracuse who finished in a time of 22 minutes flat. The top female finisher was Julie Rosa of LaFayette, who posted a time of 27 minutes 48 seconds, also a course record. The Otisco Lake Preservation Association plans to hold the Watershed Shuffle as an annual event. In the meantime, Anita Williams hopes that the awareness and enthusiasm that the group generates resonates throughout the region as the hydrofracking debate continues. “I believe that all the Finger Lakes should get special recognition by the DEC,” she says.

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Move That School! by Laurel C. Wemett

n June 2007, Dr. Chris Manaseri, then superintendent of the Brighton Central School District, spoke at a Phelps Historical Society event about the value of saving oneroom schools. Dr. Manaseri had extensively studied many such schoolhouses, once the mainstay of American public education. He helped preserve two in the Finger Lakes Region. Two women dedicated to education were in the audience, and were inspired to replicate for today’s students the classroom experience of former generations. Mary Lue Mueller, a former school-board member for both the Midlakes School District and Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES, was aware of a surviving local school building, the Coonsville School, also known as Manchester District #12. Built in 1928, it was originally located at the southwest corner of Route 96 and County Rd. 7. Grades 1 through 8 were taught there until the mid-1940s when centralization occurred. It was moved twice in the 1970s to make room for a new Manchester Town Hall and other needs. A town resolution protected it from destruction. In 2007, the former school provided storage space. The building’s pedagogical past was obscured by its appearance: raised up on cinder blocks, its windows boarded up, and surrounded by fencing. Mueller and Joy Wilkes, a retired elementary school teacher, shared a vision of students taking a field trip on their own school grounds where they could role-play in the one-room schoolhouse. With others, the women formed the Midlakes One-Room Schoolhouse (MORS), a volunteer committee committed to restoring the Coonsville School and relocating it to the Midlakes School District Campus, which serves the Phelps-Clifton Springs area. After the Town of Manchester allowed MORS to take ownership of the building, the Midlakes Board of Education agreed to accept it with the assurance that no taxpayer funds would be used for the project. In the early 20th century, there were 200,000 schoolhouses across the U.S with 10,000 school districts in New York State. By mid-century many had disappeared due to the centralization movement. Dr. Manaseri proposed that one-roomschools be preserved and utilized by today’s students. He had first-hand experience when he served as superintendent in two school districts: during the move of the MacDougall School to

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Top: The schoolhouse was moved August 18, 2009. Above: Joy Wilkes (left) and Mary Lue Mueller, along with others, formed the Midlakes One-Room Schoolhouse (MORS), a committee dedicated to restoring and relocation of the Coonsville School.

the Romulus Central School grounds in 1997, and in 2004 when Wheatland School No. 4 was moved to WheatlandChili school district. The superintendent spoke of revitalizing these buildings to benefit today’s children by promoting an appreciation of one’s sense of place and one’s history. The MORS group worked tirelessly to raise money along with in-kind contributions for the project. One volunteer, Terry Mays, had been the building and grounds supervisor at the Romulus Central School System during the move of the MacDougall School. He built a replica schoolhouse to attract contributions. A hopeful sign reading “Move Me” was put on the school. There were monthly planning meetings, appearances at festivals and other public venues, grant-writing, plus sales of S’mores (for MORS), T-shirts, and commemorative bricks. They linked to the not-for-profit status of the Clifton Springs Historical Society to receive donations. The Phelps Historical Society accepted artifacts on their behalf to furnish the school building.

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MORS gathered more than funds. Former students were sought, including Manchester resident Shirley Govenor VanderWall, one of the last students to attend the school before it closed in 1941. At the time, VanderWall was entering the 4th grade. She has vivid memories of walking to school, and learning by listening to older students doing their lessons in the one-room classroom setting. Such recollections were important in planning future programming. Finally, on August 18, 2009, MORS volunteers gathered to watch the historic move. The Ontario County Workforce had removed the schoolhouse roof to clear the utility wires along the six-mile route to the Midlakes campus. The plaster walls and leadbased paint siding were gone and the windows stored. The frame was wrapped

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Manchester District #12 in its new home

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to protect the interior. With an Ontario County Sheriff’s escort and a caravan of utility trucks, a flatbed rig on eight airplane wheels moved slowly east along Route 96 to Route 488. The rig was driven by Bernie Klug of Klug Crane Service. Klug’s father had moved the Coonsville School once for the Manchester Highway Department in the 1970s, and Bernie was responsible for the schoolhouse moves in the Romulus and WheatlandChili school districts. There was an air

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enclosed so the original floor and other remaining parts would not be ruined by rain. The Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES carpentry students would not be able to work on the project until the school year, so Wilkes’ husband and son put up the roof rafters. Once the school year started the students built an entry room to replace the original, which was too rotted to reuse. Putting up the siding, returning windows to their locations, installing a ramp and refinishing the interior were carried out. A picket fence

and schoolhouse sign were added with donations from local businesses and individuals. Old primers and related artifacts were labeled and displayed. Barbara Chapman can empathize with all the MORS group has achieved. She was active in the restoration of the Wheatland No. 4 Schoolhouse. “My husband and I have been very involved in the entire project – he in the reconstruction and myself in the history and programming.” Chapman, the Wheatland Deputy Town Historian, says they have developed a variety of educational programs since opening the building in 2004 but admits promoting visitation with teachers is ongoing. This year there were classes at the schoolhouse each day during the last week of school. A successful program with the Girl Scouts, begun in 2008, has been attended by 150 girls and their leaders to earn a “Local Lore” badge. “It could only happen in a small town,” says Wilkes of the support MORS received. The Coonsville School has newly refinished donated desks with attached seats. A coatroom and individual lunch pails await young visitors. A 48-star American flag from the early 20th century hangs near a portrait of George Washington. McGuffey Readers will provide authentic lessons. As a concession to winter weather, insulation was added during the renovation, along with a propane stove. An upright piano in the corner was a gift from the family of a teacher who taught in a one-room school. Wilkes reports that as of June 2011, over 40 school classes have been held in the building. Adult groups have also visited including the Clifton Springs and Phelps Historical Societies – only four years after Wilkes and Mueller first heard about the innovative reuse of oneroom-schools. To see the school On the second Sunday of each month, an open house is held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. To schedule the use of the schoolhouse, contact Joy Wilkes ejwilkes@fltg.net, 315-548-4080 or Mary Lue Mueller mmueller@fltg.net, 315462-3414.

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Life of a Whitetail Buck story and photographs by Charles J. Alsheimer

This feature chronicles the life of a white-tailed buck I photographed during the course of a year. The buck lived on a picturesque property in the Finger Lakes Region that was off-limits to hunting. Aside from protection from hunters, he had a normal life, complete with many challenges from Mother Nature. His home range featured a substantial predator population and received significant snowfall during the harsh winter months.

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hroughout my career I’ve been able to imprint many whitetails on the sound of corn rattling in a plastic can. This buck was one such animal. Unlike many of the deer on this property, the buck had a gentle disposition and never exhibited any aggressiveness toward me, even during the full-blown rut. Consequently, I was able to follow him and document his behavior throughout the year. Spring This buck was in the prime of his life during the year I was able to photograph him. He was the dominant buck in the area, and with the exception of occasional interaction with the other bucks in his bachelor group, he kept to himself. As with most mature bucks I’ve observed over the years, this buck began growing his antlers around March 20. His antler growth was minimal during the first month. However, when spring arrived and the days became longer, his antler growth accelerated. So did his appetite. Once winter’s snows had melted

and the air warmed, the buck became more and more active during daylight hours. Unlike the winter months, when he spent up to 90 percent of the time bedded, the buck could be seen feeding throughout the day. When winter passed its torch to spring, the big buck’s changing fur coat made him look unhealthy. Like the other deer in the area, he began losing clumps of fur around the first of May.

staying close to water sources. But as hard as he tried it was clear the insects made his life miserable. They also made it hard to photograph the buck because he often bedded in the thickest cover he could find during daylight hours.

But by the beginning of June, his summer coat was fully grown and he took on a very sleek look. Come late May, black flies and other insects can be very stressful for whitetails in the Finger Lakes Region. By the time June rolled around the buck attempted to flee the insects’ assault by bedding in high grass and

ally be much longer, all of his antler points were visible by mid-July. He also became more predictable as the summer progressed, and I often photographed him in a couple different clover fields at either end of the day. He would feed alone occasionally, but it was more common for him to stay in a bachelor group of four bucks, of

Summer By the time July arrived, the buck was beginning to show his antler potential. Though they would eventu-

Above, Left: The buck on May 1, just starting to grow his antlers. Above, Right: By June 1, the antlers show potential. Right: Antlers are fully grown but still in velvet on August 20. Left: The buck is making a rub on a beech tree in early November.

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which he was the largest. By August 1, his antlers were fullgrown, and were as big as they would be at any point during the year. Around mid-August the buck’s winter fur began to grow in and replace his thin summer coat. It was about this time that the buck’s velvet-clad antlers began to change from dark brown to gray, which is common when the blood flow to the antlers ceases and the antler hardening process begins. When September 1 rolled around I made it a point to photograph the buck every day, in hopes of capturing the velvet peeling process on film. On September 4, I was able to take a few photos of him just before nightfall and it didn’t appear that his antlers were ready to peel. However, when I located him shortly after daybreak the following morning, he had stripped nearly all of the velvet from his antlers. Autumn As autumn progressed, the big nine-pointer revealed his dominance to the bucks in the area at every opportunity. He would do this by exhibiting a

number of dominant behaviors – sparring, staring down other bucks, dropping his ears, bristling his hair and, in a few cases, engaging in a vicious fight. During September and October, the buck didn’t move a great deal during daylight, preferring to feed at either end of the day. By the latter part of September, he no longer spent time with his summer bachelor group, opting instead to keep to himself.

tographed him making 10 scrapes and two rubs. He had turned into a rutting machine. By the time of the full moon on November 4, he acted like he was ready to explode. During the week that followed, he challenged every buck and chased every doe he encountered. He also vocalized a great deal. It was obvious from his aggressive behavior that his testosterone had peaked.

Frequently, I photographed him making rubs and scrapes. By the end of October he was in peak condition and laden with fat. He also was becoming increasingly active. When the air temperature dropped below 40 degrees, I knew he would be up and moving around his territory. During one two-hour period I pho-

On November 18, the weather turned cold and the season’s first snowfall arrived. Bucks were in full-blown breeding mode, including the big ninepointer. He had found a doe near estrus and stuck close to her side. Throughout the day, three smaller bucks stayed close enough to cause quite a commotion. Their presence was a major irrita-

Above, Left: Buck (on left) fighting with another buck in early November Above, Right: Bedded in midNovember Right: Early January Left: A photo taken on November 18 shows the buck and a doe during the height of the rut.

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nlike any whitetail book ever done, Whitetails: A Photographic Journey Through the Seasons chronicles the life of six white-tailed deer – a mature buck, a yearling buck, an adult doe, the doe’s two fawns and a yearling doe – in New York’s Finger Lakes Region. Through the eyes of the deer, the story vividly illustrates both behavior and the deer’s perspective. The author’s lifetime of researching and photographing whitetail behavior allows him to provide unique insights into the whitetail’s world that most people have never seen. More than 200 of the author’s stunning, full-color photos portray the life of the whitetail in intimate detail. Over 180 of the photos were taken in the heart of the Finger Lakes Region. Chapters read like “a day in the life of,” providing a rare glimpse at the behaviors of deer. It explains reproduction, courtship and mating, including the rut, and behaviors leading up to it. Bucks, does and fawns are chronicled for an entire year. A special chapter covers antler growth. Time-lapse images taken between April and October depict a buck as it grows a full rack of antlers. The book’s final chapter details the photographic techniques the author used to capture his award-winning photographs. Autographed copies can be purchased for $36 (price includes New York State sales tax and shipping) by sending check or money order to Charles Alsheimer, 4730 County Route 70A, Bath, NY 14810. Autographed copies can also be ordered through the author’s website, www.CharlesAlsheimer.com.

Charles Alsheimer’s photography has won numerous state and national awards, and his articles and photographs have appeared in many outdoor publications during the last 30 years.

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tion to the big buck. In an attempt to show them his superiority he trashed small trees, snort-wheezed and tried to run them off. Because they knew the doe was nearing estrus they hung around in spite of the big nine-pointer’s challenges. This scenario continued for two days. On November 19, I photographed the big buck breeding the doe four times during the course of the day. By midday the next day the doe cycled out of estrus, and the buck left her to look for another breeding opportunity. Winter By early December, with the rut over, the buck’s life began to drastically change. Having lost a considerable amount of weight during the rut his interest turned from

The buck casts one of his antlers on February 23.

breeding to feeding and bedding, with most of his daytime activity being confined to midday and the two hours before sunset. His winter routine had returned. Food and cover dictated where the buck bedded when the snow and cold of late December and January arrived. Throughout January and February the buck stayed bedded most of the day. It was obvious that he was in survival mode because other than an occasional feeding session he seldom moved more than a quarter-mile in a 24-hour period. On February 23, he shed one of his antlers and two days later the other was cast. Other than experiencing a couple small snowfalls and being harassed from time to time by coyotes, March was rather uneventful for the big buck. He survived to see another spring and his yearly life cycle was complete.

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hen Kelly Kinsella visited Red Jacket Orchard’s stand at the greenmarket in New York City’s Abingdon Square, she knew just what she was looking for – Macoun apples and perhaps a few heirlooms such as Pippins and Winesaps. “I’m not a fan of Red Delicious sweetness,” she said. Kinsella lives in Manhattan’s Chelsea district and works in the costume department of a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. A graduate of SUNY New Paltz, she grew up in Liverpool, near Syracuse, where every year she would go apple picking with her family at the nearby orchards. “I was born in October, and that’s how I cele-

brated my birthday – with apple pies and going apple picking.” Nowadays, Kinsella picks her apples at a couple of the more than 50 greenmarkets that offer New York City residents the chance to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and other healthy, locally-grown food items. “Local,” of course, is a relative term. For the New York greenmarkets, local can describe a bakery across the Hudson River in Union County, New Jersey, or it can refer to the 600-acre Red Jacket Orchard more than 200 miles away in Geneva, or to the King Ferry Winery on the east side of Cayuga Lake. Actually, about 15 Finger Lakes-area producers, including five wineries, are listed among the more than 230 businesses that operate greenmarket stands throughout New York City’s five boroughs. With a New York City staff of 40 people and a warehouse in Brooklyn, the Red Jacket operation serves 30 greenmarkets – and another 20 independent neighborhood stands – across the five boroughs. “Red Jacket is a particularly active member of the greenmarket community,” a GrowNYC spokesperson noted. “We have other growers who do multiple markets, but 30 markets – that’s a lot.” “New York City customers keep us sharp,” Red Jacket President Brian Nicholson observed. “And they will reward you if you deliver what they want – it’s a food culture.” Big in the Big Apple Red Jacket began its New York greenmarkets venture in 1992, said Joseph Nicholson Jr., Brian’s father and company chairman. His three sons – Jay, and twins Brian and Mark, have all worked in the city at the greenmarkets, which have been a training ground for the family. Son Mark serves as the company’s executive vice president. The orchard grows 400 acres of apples, with 10 acres of heirloom varieties; 180 acres of stone fruit, including peaches, plums and apricots; and 40

Kelly Kinsella shops for heirloom apples at Red Jacket Orchard’s greenmarket stand in Abingdon Square in the West Village.

acres of berry crops – all within a 15mile radius of its Geneva base. “The summer fruits such as apricots are very popular because they’re tree-ripened,” Joseph said. “We have 40 acres of apricots. They’re high-colored with a red cheek and have a really nice flavor.” Two years ago, the company built a state-of-the-industry $4 million juice plant and now produces an array of fresh, flash-pasteurized apple and fruitblended apple juices. Fuji and straw berry- and raspberry-blended apple juices are big sellers. “Everything we do is fresh,” Brian said. “Everything is focused on getting it into the consumers’ hands. People respond to our product because it tastes good and, because it’s fresh, it’s got an enormous amount of micronutrients. It just makes you feel better.” In addition to the greenmarket business, Red Jacket services about 100 wholesale customers at some 200 locations around the New York metropolitan area. Nevertheless, “I’m still my largest juice customer” explained Brian, adding, “I still sell more juice in the markets than any other customer I work with. I can sell more juice on a Monday at Union Square than I can ship to a wholesale customer in a week. Thirty percent of our business is direct to the consumer.” Kelly Kinsella is one of Red Jacket’s loyal customers who often visits the Union Square greenmarket on Mondays to buy juice. The new black currant blend is a favorite, and she is a big fan of the orchard’s apricots. “I love those apricots – they’re beautiful!” she said. Author and freelance editor Jerrold Mundis, who lives a short distance from the Abingdon Square greenmarket, is another fan. “They had a summer mix of apple with a little lemon in it (Joe’s Summer Blend) that was particularly refreshing and delightful,” he said. “Now I’m buying the black currant and apple blend – that’s pleasant in the morning.” The shopper also praised Red Jacket’s selection of heirloom apples. “I’m old enough so that heirlooms were the apples I grew up with. They were contemporary – if you know what I mean,” he said with a laugh. Mundis said the greenmarket is

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helping him to establish a new eating regimen. “I’m a single guy, and I don’t particularly like to spend a lot of time cooking,” he said. “I was bringing in a lot of food from specialty shops and eating too much. It was expensive and I was putting on too much weight.” Along with other market-inspired dietary changes, Mundis now cuts up a Red Jacket apple in the morning – Honey Crisp is a current favorite – and snacks on the quarters throughout the day. At night, he makes a cup of hot spiced cider “and that’s very pleasant.” “I appreciate the effort that is put out by all the vendors to drive to the sites here, set up and be available,” Mundis said. “They’re providing me with fresh and tasty produce and meats, and it’s nice to start to recognize the people at the stands and exchange names with them. The market is serving me on lots of levels, and that very much includes Red Jacket.” Growing organic Just east of Ithaca, in the town of Caroline, another Finger Lakes grower is reaping the benefits of doing business at the New York City greenmarkets. Cayuga Pure Organics grows a variety of organic beans and grain on 450 acres and ships about 5,000 pounds of product to the city weekly. The company runs stands at seven greenmarkets and delivers its beans, grains and flour to almost 100 restaurants and retail stores during the week. Owner Erick Smith, who holds a doctorate in mathematics education and has taught at several institutions, started the business with Dan Lathwell in 2003

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Clockwise, from Far Left: Brian Nicholson, right, president of Red Jacket Orchards, checks the new crop of Baldwin apples with his father, Joseph, company chairman. Cider maker Ezra Sherman of Eve’s Cidery samples the juice pouring from his press at his facility in Van Etten. A passerby samples a Chardonnay displayed by Leverett Salstonstall, son of King Ferry Winery owners Peter and Tacie Saltonstall, at the winery’s greenmarket stand in Tucker Square, near Lincoln Center. Cayuga Pure Organics farm worker Anne Riordan harvests black beans in Slaterville Springs in the town of Caroline.

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FarmtoMarket as a supplier of feed to organic dairies. The men began growing organic beans and grains for human consumption in 2005 at the request of the GreenStar co-op in Ithaca. A GrowNYC representative visiting Ithaca in 2008 saw the Cayuga Pure Organic products at GreenStar and encouraged the growers to bring their beans and grain to the New York City greenmarkets. Smith said the company’s sales break down to 40 percent dry beans, 40 percent flour and 20 percent grains. The business “is bigger than I ever imaged we would be a few years ago,” Smith said. “It’s certainly pushed our capability in terms of getting that much ready to go every week and being able to handle it in New York City, but it’s been rewarding to find there’s that much interest among people in getting organic beans and grain and flour.” Smith rents space at Red Jacket Orchard’s Brooklyn warehouse.

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Above: Shopper Julia Nettles Bey purchases baked treats at the Fifth Floor Farm Kitchen stand at the greenmarket in Union Square. Below: Melissa Paige, a greenmarkets shopper and supporter, buys wine from John Martini, owner of Anthony Road winery in Penn Yan, at his Union Square stand.

On a busy fall Saturday at the Union Square greenmarket – a popular tourist attraction and place to hang out – Lucy Flores, of Victoria, Texas, stopped at the Cayuga Pure Organics stand and bought a package of red

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beans. Flores and her husband Joseph were touring the market with their son Justin, a professional ballet dancer who lives in Manhattan. Lucy Flores later said the beans “cooked up really pretty with white rice. They were wonderful.” She said, “I’ve been to the markets in Seattle and San Francisco, but I think Union Square was tops. Maybe it was the romanticism of New York, but I thought it was a great place.” Son Justin noted that he and his roommate make a trip over to the market a couple of times a week to pick up vegetables. “There’s a big difference in taste and the guys are very knowledgeable about their products,” he said. Straight from the source Greenmarket shoppers frequently cite the connection with the growers as part of the appeal. Sarah Queen, a senior vice president for asset management

at a large Manhattan real estate company, shops at Union Square on Saturdays every couple of weeks. “It’s always fun to just wander around and see what’s fresh and kind of make up what you’re doing for dinner as you go,” she said. “I like talking with the growers. They can tell you about the freshest things they’ve got, and if you’re not sure what to do with something you see, they can give you suggestions about that,” she added. “They’re very helpful, and they get excited when people ask them about their products.” Queen said she buys “the whole gamut” of products at the market, including Red Jacket apples and juices. “Their applesauce is something we’re especially fond of,” she said, adding with a laugh: “I’m not an apple connoisseur, but my children love apples, so I’m at a point where I know the difference between a Gala and a Honey Crisp.” In the fall, Queen buys hard cider from Eve’s Cidery, another Finger Lakes grower at Union Square. “My husband and I both enjoy the hard cider,” she said. “I’ll buy a couple of bottles to keep on hand.” In fact, last fall, Queen and her family traveled to China to visit the World Expo in Shanghai and took two bottles of Eve’s hard cider along as gifts for friends. Autumn Stoscheck, who owns Eve’s with her husband Ezra Sherman, said the Van Etten farm grows 16 acres of apples and another five acres of stone fruit. “We grow 30 varieties of apples; it’s a challenge,” she said. The cidery produces four sparkling ciders, a sparkling perry and an ice cider. They do 80 percent of their business in the city, said Stoscheck. Besides operating a greenmarket stand at Union Square three days a week, the farm sells product to a dozen restaurants there. Walking around the Union Square greenmarket on a Saturday afternoon, a visitor can’t help but encounter a constant stream of enthusiastic supporters of the market’s buy local ethos. Melissa Paige, a social worker who lives in

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FarmtoMarket Manhattan, seemed to define the movement. She was buying a bottle of red wine at the stand operated by the Penn Yanbased Anthony Road winery. She described her purchase as “a lovely wine, dry yet light – an easy-drinking wine.” Noting she also frequents the Eve’s Cidery stand, she said she enjoys that farm’s Sparkling Bittersweet hard cider. “I try as many stands as I can,” Paige explained. “I started going to the greenmarket because I loved it, and now I can’t not go there because I believe in it so much.” “We’re a community and we have to take care of each other,” she continued. “It’s wonderful to be talking to the vendors and to learn from them. I don’t care if you can get lettuce cheaper at Trader Joe’s around the corner – you’ve got to buy it from the greenmarket. It’s important on a human level and on a Lucy Flores, from Victoria, Texas, buys a package of red beans at the Union Square stand of Cayuga Pure Organics, a bean and grain grower in the town of Caroline, near Ithaca.

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health level. It’s a win-win situation.” John Martini, owner of Anthony Road winery, has been selling on Saturdays at Union Square for the last 18 years. Greenmarket sales represent a little less than 10 percent of their business. “It gives us exposure and it’s fun. I don’t know if fun counts, but it’s fun,” he said. The winery’s award-winning Rieslings have been growing in popularity. “The Finger Lakes is developing a reputation for Rieslings and so are we as an individual winery,” explained Martini. Of the winery’s 77 acres, 18 are devoted to Reisling grapes. Making connections At the Union Square greenmarket, another long-time market purveyor, the Fifth Floor Farm Kitchen, occupies a stand next to Anthony Road’s. It’s operated by the husband-and-wife team of Fred Price and Faye Chan of Moravia in Cayuga County. The couple started their business in 1983 in their fifth-floor apartment in

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the Inwood section at the northern tip of Manhattan. Their arms loaded with a variety of both sweet and savory baked goods, Price and Chan would travel by subway to their first greenmarket stand at 175th Street. In 1988, the city began enforcing a rule prohibiting food businesses in apartment buildings, and Price and Chan moved to a farm in Jeffersonville, Sullivan County. Finally, in 2006, after enduring four Catskill floods in two years, the couple moved again, this time to a new home in Moravia, where they installed a commercial kitchen. “I make Hungarian cakes with seasonal fruit on top,” Price said. “My favorite topping is peaches, but I also use apricots and Bosc pears.” The apricots he buys from Red Jacket. Chan’s talent is focused on vegetable pies and turnovers. Price drives his baked goods down to Union Square on Saturdays. “I leave here between 1 and 2 a.m. and get back around midnight,” he said, noting the routine gives him lots of time to

listen to recorded books. Chan sells her products on Sundays at the Ithaca Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market. On a Saturday at Union Square, Julia Nettles Bey, manager of the personal shopping team at Tiffany & Co., stopped at the Fifth Floor Farm Kitchen stand and bought a scone and a brownie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been to the market before, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never purchased anything from this stand,â&#x20AC;? Bey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The individuals selling the items seemed very personable and the food itself looked appetizing. It was excellent.â&#x20AC;? Last year, Leverett Saltonstall, the 22-year-old son of King Ferry Winery owners Peter and Tacie Saltonstall, moved to Hoboken and began selling the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much-honored Treleaven wines at a handful of greenmarkets in the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lev did such a good job selling down in the city last year that we had to scramble to increase our production. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good problem to have,â&#x20AC;? Peter Saltonstall said. The success of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts in the city has led the winery to expand its greenmarket presence to 13 locations this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited,â&#x20AC;? Peter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really jumped in, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going very well.â&#x20AC;? The winery now rents warehouse space in New Jersey near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. Leverett said that on Saturdays he orchestrates the setup of seven market stands across Manhattan and Brooklyn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty crazy,â&#x20AC;? he admitted. Good sellers include the wineryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Reislings and its Silver-Lining Chardonnay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Other wineries have not jumped in on this because it is daunting,â&#x20AC;? Peter mused. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what degree you need to have to understand the parking situation in New York City; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible. If you have to do a delivery on a Friday afternoon you might as well have somebody shoot you. I got stuck on Canal Street once for an hour and a half! Shoot me now, please!â&#x20AC;? he said, with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I complain, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited about the numbers weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, and I think the wholesale business will come, too. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exciting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun to connect with the people.â&#x20AC;?

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Hands, Tools, Wood Jim Plukas: a master craftsman at work by Joy Underhill

hen I walk through Jim Plukas’ shop, the first thing I notice is how clean it is. Hand tools are arranged neatly on benches. Though surrounded by massive machines there’s plenty of space to work. No piles of sawdust litter the corners. There is no frenzied activity here, just a few men methodically working on the latest project, soft music playing in the background. It’s as if they have

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all the time they need to create the excellence produced here. Cars roar by on Panorama Trail just a few feet away, but in here is peace and craftsmanship. This is the home of master woodworker, Jim Plukas. Jim discovered his love for wood during high school, when he and his father spent four years building a 16Jim Plukas at work in his shop Photo by Joy Underhill

Inside a private residence near Rochester, Plukas Furniture designed, created, and installed wood cabinetry and a spectacular island using the customer’s desired woods and wood veneers – chestnut burl, hickory, and stump walnut.

Above: The master bath. Right, Top: Enhancing the feel of a Rochester home, Plukas Furniture mastered this spectacular custom bar and mirrored television centerpiece using natural white oak, stump walnut veneer and walnut solids. Right, Bottom: A built-in vanity featuring white oak and stained white oak, wood millwork creating brilliant archways and trim and custom-fitted stained glass panel highlight Plukas Furniture craftsmanship and design in the master bath.

foot sailboat. What he picked up along the way was his father’s work ethic – and an understanding of how to serve others. “With six kids, our house was always a busy place,” he said. “We all became socially skilled just by watching our parents entertain. As my father and I worked on the boat, he passed along the joy of being challenged. These are skills I still use every day.” That combination illustrates why Jim’s work is so highly valued. He just gets it. “I’ve been around enough to know who the major designers are and how to achieve a certain look. If someone comes to me and says they want a Christopher Peacock kitchen, I know what they’re talking about. Mostly, I just listen to my clients describe their vision, and then I can begin to sketch it out for them.” It’s hard to pigeonhole what Jim does. He creates anything that involves wood and veneers – furniture, doors, kitchen cabinets, entertainment centers, conference tables, credenzas – and his clients range from a Napa Valley celebrity to the Plaza Hotel in New York. The photographs illustrating this story depict Plukas’s work in a home near Rochester. After 10 years learning under the tutelage of notable New England woodworkers, Jim came back to Rochester to set up his own shop. He pulls a book off the shelf by noted woodworker Silas Kopf (www.silaskopf.com). I’m stunned by the artistry of inlaid wood, known as marquetry, for which Kopf is known – and even more stunned as Jim tells me how he studied under him. That’s another reason clients turn to Jim. If he can’t do it himself, he knows who can. “Jim is an essential part of our project team,” said interior designer Heather DeMoras (www.hddcdesign.com). “I so admire his attention to detail. We were working on a Victorian home in Canandaigua, and the owners didn’t want Photos of Rochester private residence courtesy Don Cochran Photography

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the kitchen to look out of character with the rest of the home. Jim took the time to face the refrigerator in wood so that no hinges would show. Now people walk into their kitchen and ask where the refrigerator is!” Architect Robert Barbach (www.barbach.com) echoes DeMoras’ sentiments. “I met Jim about 20 years ago when he worked in Massachusetts. I can only describe his work as exquisite. I know few people nationwide with Jim’s expertise in wood finishes and veneers. We do high quality conference rooms and offices for clients, and these have been a showcase of Jim’s capabilities. We’ve been in touch ever since that first project.” Jim is passing on his long years of experience to the six associates who work for him. “They have the skills, but they sometimes need my design sense when it comes to proportion and scale,” he said. “Plus I’m always on top of our projects, making sure they’re done to perfection. It’s what I expect and what my clients expect.” Jim added that there is no salesperson on board – just him – in direct communication with his clients. This awe-inspiring grandfather clock introduces the On our tour, Jim showed me Plukas Collection of one-of-a-kind works. This clock the finishing room and pulled two features figured sycamore, pommele sapele, mahogany, ebony, figured makore and gold leaf with fine Kieninger cabinet doors off a rack. “We clock movement. painted one of these with a brush and the other with a spray, using a special Dutch paint” he explained, “and we want our client to select which they prefer.” It’s this attention to detail that keeps his clients coming back – and, of course, his extensive knowledge of wood. “One of my clients wanted a huge conference table in an exotic wood, and I had to tell him that the trees don’t grow that big. So we found a compromise.” With his business well established, Jim is now developing a line of signature furniture. His first piece is a grandfather clock of outstanding beauty and simplicity. “Arthur Vitoch of Victoch Interiors came to me for something unique and walked away very pleased. I decided then that this would be my premier piece in the Plukas Collection.” So I had to ask: Why choose East Rochester when your work serves a worldwide clientele – and appears in noted galleries? “It’s always been home,” Jim replied. “I can ship anything anywhere, and I love the area for it’s slower pace, affordability, and most of all, for the extended family that still lives here.” Just the answer I would expect. Learn more at www.plukas.com.

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A 1957 Chevy wagon with a 1961 Winnebago belonging to David and Janice Coon from Fairport

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wners of vintage campers from more than 10 states are greatly anticipating this year’s Fourth Annual Northeast Tin Can Tourist Rally at Sampson State Park in Romulus. The rally, hosted by Bill and Denise Fletcher, gives vintage camper enthusiasts the opportunity to take their rigs on the road and meet in the fall for four days of sharing and celebrating the proud ownership and lifestyle of camping with these amazing vehicles. During the four-day rally, there are many events for registered participants, including a combination mac and cheese and chili cook-off, dish-to-pass barbeque pork dinner, musical performances, informative lectures, a vintage yard sale and a camper open house. The vintage camper open house is free of charge and attracts many people from the surrounding areas who are curious and may be considering the fun and adventures of owning a vintage camper. The open house provides the

The inside of an entrance door to a camper shows decals from various states visited by the owners. • This year’s rally will be held from September 15 to 18, 2011, at Sampson State Park. • Open house will be on Saturday September 17, from 12 to 3 p.m. Please stop by and enjoy the world of vintage trailers, cars and RVs.

opportunity to look inside many of the campers and talk to their owners. Anyone visiting the open house will get to see some of the finest original and restored vintage campers in the country, from cloth-covered caravans, highly polished airstreams, hand crafted teardrops and everything else originating between the 1940s and 1970s. The 4th Annual Northeast Rally is sponsored by the Tin Can Tourist Organization. Information and registration can be found at www.tincan tourists.com/rallyregistration1.php During the rally, many of the folks attending get together and explore the visual beauty and wonderful bounty of the Finger Lakes by visiting the state parks, vineyards and local restaurants. If you are attending the rally or are just stopping by to see the vintage campers and cars, you will experience the joy of stepping back into simpler and streamlined times.

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1. The interior of the 1961 Winnebago owned by David and Janice Coon of Fairport 2. A 2001 Vardo, hand-built by master carpenter Jim Tolpin in Port Townsend, Washington, is owned by Mark and Heidi Oros of Trumansburg 3. Rhonda Bickford of Ithaca and her 1961 Scotty 4. Bill and Denise Fletcher with Chica in front of their 1972 Avion LaGrande 5. Working the smoker for the pig roast on Saturday night 6. This 1955 GMC pickup belonging to Hunt and Susan Jones from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. This is used to tow their 1962 Airstream Globetrotter.

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arin Patzke loves to garden. Patzke, who grew up in Texas and did her undergraduate studies in Chicago, moved to Ithaca last year to work on a doctorate in information sciences at Cornell University. In Chicago, Patzke says, she was limited to growing some vegetables in containers in the yard behind her apartment building. Now she does her gardening in a raised soil bed she built herself next to the cottage she rents in a unique and colorful community in Brooktondale, just southeast of Ithaca. Patzke lives in Boiceville, a collection of storybook cottages built by Bruno Schickel, a Dryden-based contractor known for his imposing residential projects throughout the Finger Lakes. Schickel began building his gingerbread and finial-adorned cottages in l996 and last spring completed a third phase of construction that brought the number of Boiceville rental homes to 36. Another 24 are planned, said the builder. Schickel builds his eye-catching cottages in clusters of three in a layout designed by his brother, Thomas Schickel, an Ithaca architect. Karin Patzke lives in a cluster that is painted a salmon color with red trim. Her neighbors in the cluster include Lydia Morken and her husband, Peter Krinke, and Maggie Jones and her husband, Karl Stewart. Coincidentally, Morken, also recently from Chicago and a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree candidate at Cornell in regional planning, moved into Boiceville last year on the same day as Patzke. Jones, a Cornell doctoral candidate in policy analysis and management, and her husband had been living in Ithaca for four years and also moved out to Boiceville last year. A helping hand Schickel lives with his wife, author and syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson, on a 200-acre farm near Dryden. He encourages his tenants at Boiceville to garden, and provides soil for planting beds. Patzke and her neighbors

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BOICEVILLE took advantage of Schickel’s help. When it came time to build her raised bed, Patzke said, “I wanted to use some rot-resistant lumber but I didn’t want to use lumber that had been carted across the country – there are plenty of sawmills around here.” An Ithaca lumberyard advised her to contact the Robert E. Collins & Sons sawmill in Cayuta, Schuyler County. She drove the 20 miles to the Collins mill in her pickup truck and bought three eightfoot lengths of hemlock. “That was a really fun experience – I had never been to a sawmill before,” the student related. The mill also cut one of the boards into 4-foot lengths for her. “I started most of my seeds in February, so by the time the plot was all set it was easy to put out the plants,” she said. “I put a lot of stuff in there. It’s a 4- by-8-foot space and I have pole beans, three varieties of tomatoes and two varieties of peppers; I have three or four varieties of carrots and two varieties of basil plus beets, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, radishes, squash, eggplant, chard, kale and cucumbers.

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“I love gardening, so I went all out,” Patzke said with a laugh. “It’s definitely one of my favorite things. I’m out there every morning watering and pruning, making sure everything is doing well. I cannot emphasize how much I love growing things – I did it in Chicago and I’ve been so happy to be able to continue it here. I find this place is perfect for it.” Bruno Schickel seems to get satisfaction in the gardening and other activities his tenants enjoy at Boiceville. “You should see the garden Karin put in!” he said. “She put the frame together and planted a cornucopia of stuff. It’s like out of a magazine – It’s just a beautiful, beautiful garden.” Maggie Jones, one of Karin Patzke’s neighbors, said she thinks “Bruno has gone out of his way to create a community of people here who want to know their neighbors and be good neighbors, and I think the layout of the houses fosters those relationships.” In fact, the proximity of the houses led Jones to buy a retractable clothesline and suggest to Lydia Morken that they string it the

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15 feet between their homes. Patzke then bought a line and ran it from her cottage over to Morken’s as well. “On the weekends, the lines see a lot of use,” Jones said. Schickel said he was inspired to build his colorful cottages by a children’s book he read to his daughters almost 20 years ago. The book, Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney, tells of a girl who, at her grandfather’s urging, travels to faraway lands seeking adventure. Later she moves to a cottage by the sea and works to make the world more beautiful by spreading seeds of blue and purple lupine. An illustration by the author shows the Lupine Lady’s house on a hill overlooking the sea. The small cottage is replete with finial and gingerbread. Seeing that illustration was the eureka! moment, Schickel recalled. “I said, ‘I’ve got to design something like this!’” A storied family The history of the Schickel family in architecture, design and construction extends back to before the turn of

Above: Jill Swenson walks Lucy, one of her two dalmations. Schickel has a liberal policy toward pets and estimates more than half his tenants have dogs. Below: Tanja Eie pours iced tea in her Boiceville residence.

the last century. Bruno Schickel’s greatgrandfather, William Schickel, immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1870. In 1885, he launched his own architecture company and designed many buildings throughout the Northeast, including 160 structures in Manhattan. Three of those buildings – the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Fifth Avenue; the German Dispensary, now the Stuyvesant Polyclinic; and the Ottendorfer Library on the Lower East Side – are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bruno’s grandfather, Norbert Schickel, designed and manufactured the innovative Schickel motorcycle early in the last century. He was a sophomore at Cornell studying engineering when he designed the first twocycle motorcycle. He received a patent for the engine design just before graduating in 1909. The designer went on to found the Schickel Motor Company in Stamford, Connecticut, and manufactured about 1,000 motorcycles before the company shut down in 1924. Just this year, it was announced that

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BOICEVILLE Norbert Schickel would be inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame. Jeffrey V. Heininger, chairman of the American Motorcycle Heritage Foundation described him as “one of the true pioneers of American motorcycling.” After the closing of his motorcycle company, Norbert Schickel moved to Ithaca and experimented with building fireproof houses, according to grandson Bruno. “Everything was made of concrete, even the interior walls. He built a bunch of homes in the East Hill area, also on West Hill,” Bruno noted. “He built a reinforced concrete apartment building in the 1950s in Fairview Manor near the Cornell stadium.” Bruno’s father, Norbert Schickel Jr., flew bombers in the Pacific in World War II and became a Navy test pilot, flying the Navy’s first jet. “He and my mom decided to be dairy farmers and moved to Dryden and struggled with the farm for 13 or 14 years,” Bruno related. “When my grandfather died, my father took over his business.”

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It consisted of a series of projects around Ithaca, including Eastwood Commons, the city’s first condominium development. “That’s where I got my first construction job,” Bruno said. “I went to work for the general contractor right out of high school.”

Above: Emily Lloyd tends to the vegetables in her raised bed garden. Lloyd and her husband Mac, retired Adirondack ski area managers, have lived in the community for five years. “I’m pretty sure Mac and I are the elders here,” she said. Below: Boiceville resident Lydia Morken, left, has coffee at her home with neighbor Karin Patzke.

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A culture of respect The young Schickel started his own construction company in 1985. The work is divided about equally between renovations and additions and new construction, the builder said, and about equally between residential and light commercial. One impetus for building Boiceville was the need to keep his construction crew working through the winters. “It was really key to be able to say to the guys, ‘I can keep you working all the time.’ In construction an awful lot of people get laid off in the winter and you lose guys. I’ve got some fabulous craftsmen – They’re hard-working guys,” he noted. “It also meant I didn’t have to

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get into a desperate situation in the fall or early winter where you have to take work at any price and you dial the price way down.” Boiceville cottages range in size from 850 square feet to 1,050 square feet. Monthly rental prices run from $1,025 to $1,395. Tenants are responsible for utility costs, which average from $95 to $120 a month, including heat, said Schickel. The builder speaks enthusiastically about what he believes are the cottages’ significant efficiencies, including frost-protected shallow foundations, gas-fired tankless hot water systems and a 4.5-inch insulated roof sandwich under the shingles. In some cottages, the living room has a cathedral ceiling that extends all the way up to the exposed rafters. Other cottages have a second-floor loft above the living room. One resident described the cottage interiors as “rustic but modern.” As for the cottages’ colors, which range from a pale yellow to an assertive purple, Schickel mused, “How much fun is there in the average house built today? Basically, not much – they’re pretty ‘plain Jane.’ Well, there’s nothing plain Jane about Boiceville. “I started out staining the houses with somewhat bright colors but I found they faded very quickly,” Schickel related. “I said, ‘I’ve got to get bolder,’ and I found the bolder I got the more response I got. Most people really enjoyed the brighter colors. Now they have to bring a smile to my face. If they don’t, they’re not bright enough.” Tanja Eie, a construction project assistant manager on the Cornell campus, and her 16-year-old son Wesley are among Boiceville’s newest residents. Eie seems to agree wholeheartedly with Schickel’s approach to cottage design. “I’d driven past many times and thought how charming and quaint the community was.” Last spring, when her lease on a converted barn in Spencer was up, “I made an appointment with Bruno and looked at a cottage and absolutely loved it,” Eie related. “They’re like little gingerbread houses. I signed the lease the same day.”

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BOICEVILLE Eie, who has an American bulldog named Luna, said she especially appreciates Schickel’s liberal policy toward pets. “He allows pets without any extra security deposit,” she related. “It’s hard to find a decent place that allows pets without an extra deposit.” Schickle estimates that at least 50 percent of his Boiceville tenants have dogs. “It’s a big motivator for people to live here,” he said. “A lot of places don’t welcome pets. We’ve had surprisingly great luck with them. I haven’t had even minor damage from the animals.” He pointed out that the cottages have stained and finished concrete floors. “If I had carpet in the cottages it might be a different story.” The landlord went on to observe, “You’ve got to be responsible. Everybody wants the quiet enjoyment of their home and to get that they have to offer quiet enjoyment to everybody else. Somehow it all seems to work. I’ve never had anybody call me saying a dog’s barking and won’t shut up. “I’ve never had a problem with loud music,” he added. “I’ve just never had any problems. It’s in the culture of Boiceville.” A sense of community That culture of neighborliness was evident one morning last winter when one of his tenants, Jill Swenson, a book development editor who has lived at Boiceville for the past year, broke her wrist. She slipped on snowcovered ice while taking trash out to a dumpster. Unable to get to a medical facility by herself, Swenson called Schickel on his cell phone and he drove her to a Convenient Care walkin clinic in Ithaca. “He came straight away from church,” Swenson related. “It’s very rare to have such a responsive landlord.” Swenson’s injury required surgery, and she was left incapacitated for more than a month afterwards. That meant she was unable to make meals for herself or walk her two sizable Dalmatians. Boiceville neighbors and other friends responded by taking Swenson a continuous supply of both

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cooked and frozen meals. Neighbors also stepped up to help Swenson with her dogs, making sure the two animals got out for walks several times a day. Karin Patzke and Lydia Morken volunteered to do the early morning walking. “It just seemed like a good thing to do,” Patzke said. “Karin and I met every morning at 7:30 before school and we each took a dog and walked along a nice trail in the woods,” Morken related. “Jill was tremendously appreciative. That’s the kind of thing that would happen here and which I can’t imagine would happen in Chicago.” Schickel expects to break ground soon on a 1,100-square-foot community building that will serve the growing number of residents. The builder credited Lydia Morken with inspiring him to construct the facility. “Lydia got me thinking about it,” Schickel said. “She was the one who first talked to me about it. She’s in the field, a student of planning. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a really good idea,” the developer added. “It’s something that could work. You get up to a certain critical mass, and the need becomes more prevalent. We need a place for people to get together.” “I’m really impressed that he’s doing it,” Morken said. “There’s no reason he would have to provide that kind of infrastructure here. He’s going above and beyond as a developer. I think it speaks to his passion for this development.” The building will be located on the east side of Boiceville Road adjacent to the new section of a dozen cottages. Schickel said he commissioned his brother, Sarto Schickel, owner of Schickel Design Group Inc. of Philadelphia, to come up with plans for the structure. Those plans, which can be viewed at www.boicevillecottages.com, show a charming building complete with finials and a bell tower. “Every village needs a bell tower,” Schickel said with a smile.

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Food and Wine on Keuka Lake by Jason Feulner

good meal can certainly stand on its own merits, but a good meal paired with an ideal wine becomes much more. At the end, the elements of the food and wine blend together to become an experience that binds the two inexorably. It takes time to find really great pairings. Typical pasta with a typical dry red wine can be very satisfying, but an earthy, spicy, savory Italian culinary creation paired with Borolo, a regional Italian wine made from the Nebbiolo grape, can bring such a dish to unbelievable heights. But how would you know? To develop these associations is often a matter of trial-and-error, as one must begin to experience Italian cuisine as well as come to discover Italian wines that are more obscure in the United States. Food lovers know that Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc, widely available

In our continuing series on Finger Lakes wine pairing, we’ve explored six different wineries that pair food and wine on their premises, highlighting four different kinds of wine. In this issue we highlight two more establishments found on Keuka Lake, one of which features a perfect pairing to the region’s staple wine, the other striving to match food with a style of wine found in the storied Bordeaux region of France. wines, pair well with seafood. It takes time, however, to discover something more obscure. Chablis, for instance, can bring seafood tastes to new heights. Chablis is simply Chardonnay made in the cool northern Chablis region of France, an area that makes sharp wines with distinct floral aromas and an acidic

flinty taste. Most versions are produced completely without oak. Finger Lakes producers recognize the potential to make this oak-free Chardonnay here that has the same qualities as its Chablis cousin since both regions have a similar climate. To think about food with Chablis or oak-free Chardonnay is simply a matter of embracing something new. You don’t have to be an expert to find numerous examples of widely available wines from all over the world that bring something unique to a dining experience. Thankfully, many readers of this magazine live in, near, or frequently visit an area that has many opportunities to order a meal, pour a glass and learn. Pairing is a step-by-step process, nothing more. Heron Hill Winery – Blue Heron Café Mike Oliver, Heron Hill’s director of its Blue Heron Café, believes that Riesling can be crafted to fit a wide variety of foods. “I feel that the prevalence of the Riesling grape in the Finger Lakes and the contrasting characteristics that can be developed from this wine (depending on the sugar level and wine making techniques) lend it to a variety of food pairings.” While noting that Heron Hill’s semi-dry Rieslings could match a variety of sweet dishes, Oliver points to the medium-bodied 2008 Ingle Vineyard as a crisp accompaniment to a dish of Oysters Rockefeller. “This is a timeless classic that I always like to come back to,” says Oliver, referring to the broiled oyster half shells topped with puree of spinach, green onions and spicy bread crumbs, and fresh mozzarella cheese. “I’ve made this recipe for 10 years, but just introduced it to Heron Hill. The

Heron Hill’s Oysters Rockefeller with 2008 Ingle Vineyard.

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spiciness of the bread crumbs calls for a wine with a touch of residual sugar and light minerality to bring out the flavors of the oysters.” Heron Hill Winemaker Bernard Cannac, a native of France, concurs with Mike Oliver concerning the importance of minerality in Riesling. “The Ingle Vineyard (near Canandaigua Lake) is a very particular site. The soil there is naturally well suited for growing grape vines. It has a fair amount of slate, which shows in the Chardonnay and the Riesling. The slate character is even more enhanced in the Riesling due to the aromatic profile of the Riesling varietal itself. By nature, Riesling can show some minerality, flint character and even petroleum, when grown in a cold climate.” While Bernard Cannac joined Heron Hill after the 2008 vintage, he is impressed with the balance and acidity of the wines from that year and with his Finger Lakes experience thus far. “I believe that one of the strengths of the Finger Lakes Region is that growers and winemakers can produce

Chocolates and cheese are paired with 2007 Meritage from Ravines Wine Cellars.

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food and wine experience.” The cheese and chocolate plates offered in the Ravinous kitchen are designed to pair with several different wines at once, although the Bordeauxstyle 2007 Meritage (a blending of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot) is featured prominently between the two plates. The two chocolates that pair with the Meritage, made for Ravines by Hedonist Artisan Chocolate in Rochester, include a Bittersweet Truffle with a center of creamy chocolate ganache flavored with the actual Meritage wine, and a Currant Truffle made with ripe black currants grown by R.H. Rhodes & Sons in Penn Yan and infused with the Cassis liqueur from The Finger Lakes Distillery. The cheese paired with the 2007 Meritage is Keeley’s Across the Pond cheese, a semi-soft washed rind cheese made from raw milk by Keeley Cheese Company on Cayuga Lake. “Across the Pond is lush, buttery and complex with an amazing earthy character that gets stronger as it ages,” explain Lisa. “We like to let it age a little so it’s a perfect match for the Meritage. The proteins in the cheese soften the firm tannins in the wine and the earthy flavors of the cheese complement the complex fruit, earth and oak balance of the wine. We serve it with a freshly baked baguette from Keuka Artisan Bakery in Hammondsport.” Morten Hallgren, who has won critical acclaim for his 2007 Meritage, boils down the food-friendliness of wine to a formula that inspires his craftsmanship in the Finger Lakes. “From my point of view, it comes down to balance. In order for a wine to not only be a social drink but a table wine, several issues must be addressed: moderate alcohol, good acidity level giving the wine freshness, moderate use of oak for sufficient tannin structure to hold everything together, and an emphasis on fresh fruit aromas as opposed to jammy, cooked aromas. Careful winemaking is important so the wine is finished without rough edges.”

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Turning Over an Old Leaf for New Pages story and photographs by Bill Wingell

n June, a new addition to the Southworth Library in Dryden was dedicated at an outdoor ceremony attended by hundreds of area residents. Construction of the addition, named Lincoln Center, was financed with funds from the library’s sale of a manuscript handwritten by Abraham Lincoln. It was sold in 2009 at Christie’s auction house for $3 million. When the gavel went down, the auctioneer announced that it was the largest amount ever paid worldwide at auction for a manuscript. What Lincoln said It is a speech, and it was left to the library in 1928 in the will of Dryden Congressman John W. Dwight. He had been given the document in 1916 by Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, in recognition of Dwight’s help in securing congressional funding for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Dwight’s father, Jeremiah Dwight, had also served in Congress, and had been the first president of the Southworth Library Association. The manuscript is an address Lincoln made from the White House balcony to a rally of his supporters two days after his re-election in 1864. It contains a number of crossed-

out words and phrases, and penned-in corrections. A Christie’s manuscript specialist noted that Lincoln used the same kind of writing tablet for this speech as he had used to write the Gettysburg address. In his post-re-election address, Lincoln noted: “We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.” The election, the president observed, “has demonstrated that a people’s government can sustain a national election, in the midst of a great civil war – Until now it has not been known to the world that this was a possibility. It shows also how sound, and how strong we still are.” In conclusion, he said: “Let me close by asking three hearty cheers for our brave soldiers and seamen and their gallant and skilful commanders.” To sell or not to sell? Michael Lane, a Dryden attorney and secretary of the library’s board of trustees, said the board debated selling the manuscript for 10 years. “Honest to God,”

Right: Library trustee John W. Bailey and sculptor Jacques Schickel, both of Dryden, unveil Schickelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bronze rendition of the iconic photograph of Abraham Lincoln reading to his son, Tad. The sculpture hangs on the wall behind the circulation desk in the new Lincoln Center addition of Dryden's Southworth Library. Left: Hundreds of Dryden area residents turned out for the dedication of Southworth Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Lincoln Center addition, funded by the auction of the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Abraham Lincoln handwritten manuscript.

he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would come up every year, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d talk about it and talk about the alternatives. We finally decided if we were going to do it, 2009 was the right year because there was a lot of publicity about Lincoln.â&#x20AC;? (The year marked Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 200th birthday.) Coincidentally, Christieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auction house in New York City contacted the board to ask if it wanted to sell the document. Christieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planned a sale of Lincoln items on the presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday, February 12. The board decided to proceed with the sale, and the manuscript became the highlight of the auction. Board president Mary Ellen Rumsey and board member John Bailey attended the sale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The auction was absolutely amazing,â&#x20AC;? Rumsey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It went so fast. I think a minute was all it took. It was all kind of a blur. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They already had a bid of $1.2 million when it started, and it just went up incrementally by hundreds of thousands,â&#x20AC;? added Rumsey. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When it got to $2.5 million, I really wanted it to hit $3 million. When it did I was really delighted.â&#x20AC;? With Christieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premium, the total amount of the sale was $3,442,500. The buyer remains anonymous. The auction house presented Southworth Library with framed copies of the four-page manuscript, which hang in the new Lincoln Center today. In addition, the trustees commissioned Dryden sculptor Jacques Schickel to create a bronze plaque of the Mathew Brady photograph of Lincoln reading to his son, Tad. The majestic work hangs on the wall behind the Lincoln Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s circulation desk.

expanded book shelving, areas for reading, library-provided computers and a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s section. The addition has prompted a significant increase in the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of the library, according to the director, Diane Pamel. While 110 new borrowers took out library cards from January to June of this year, 120 people signed up for new cards in just one month following the opening of the new addition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderfulâ&#x20AC;Ś weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really excited that people are enjoying the space,â&#x20AC;? she said. Pamel, who also runs the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children programs, added: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Attendance at my preschool story time has increased by 50 percent. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just so much more comfortable and enjoyable for everyone.â&#x20AC;?

#ONNECTING SCIENCE NATURE AND CULTURE Carved in stone Slightly more than half of the proceeds from the sale were used to build the Southworth addition. The remainder has been set aside in an endowment to help fund library operations. You could say the imposing new addition is a chip off the old block. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because library trustees actually took chips off of the sandstone faĂ§ade of the original building, dedicated in 1894, and sent them to a quarry in Ohio to be certain that the new addition was built with exactly the same stone. Their efforts confirmed that the new sandstone came from the same quarry that provided the stone for the original building in 1893. The iconic four-room building with its looming clock tower was designed by noted Ithaca architect William Henry Miller. The now spacious facility has improved access, greatly

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Not Your Grandmother’s Quilt Guild by Ron Ostman

Aafke Swart Steenhuis works on her latest creation, a winter cornfield. “It’s fun to come up with a new design and then to work within traditions that go way, way back.” Photo by Kathy Carman

inger Lakes quilters are innovators. World-class innovators. “There are Finger Lakes quilters who are in the rarefied world class of ‘supremely talented,’” notes Donna Lamb, executive director of the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn. Lamb ought to know – she reviews the submissions that come into the center from around the world for the prestigious annual exhibit, “Quilts=Art=Quilts.” “There is always a Finger Lakes representation in our juried show,” she said. Lamb believes that local quilters have been quick to take advantage of the artistic potential of new technology, allowing them to “stretch the definition of quilt art.” It wasn’t too long ago, she

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said, that there was a stigma against quilting done on a sewing machine. Hand quilting was considered “true” quilting. But the sophistication of today’s sewing machines and their computer programs make it possible to do so much more. “These tools require every bit as much skill as traditional needle-andthread handwork, maybe even more,” said Lamb. “It’s opening the doors wide to creativity.” And creativity in quilting is exploding. It’s not uncommon to see contemporary quilters “liberating” traditional patterns and creating their own designs. Today they’re dyeing, printing and painting their own fabrics. More and

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more quilters incorporate nontraditional materials into their creations like paper, photographs, plastic and embellishments that can include beads, shells, rope, found objects and more. Lamb believes that creativity here in the Finger Lakes region has been stimulated by the many local quilting groups that meet regularly, sponsor retreats and hold exhibits. They frequently host opportunities to meet outstanding visiting quilters who teach workshops, lecture, critique quilts, present book talks and interact personally with local quilters. The Schweinfurth organizes and conducts “Quilting by the Lake” workshops that run for a week or more. Recent classes focused on “the new complex cloth,” “photo-inspired landscapes” and “threadplay.” The Tompkins County Quilters Guild (TCQG) is a local group that’s been getting together since 1974. Twenty charter members established the group’s mission: educating, promoting and supporting quilt art and techniques. Barbara Dimock, a founding member, former president and the guild’s historian, recalls that quilters then were pretty traditional, and pieced and appliquéd established designs. But things were about to change. Just three years earlier, quilt scholar and collector Jonathan Holstein of Cazenovia assembled a group of 60 quilts for an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. “Abstract Design in American

Quilts” is regarded by most quilt scholars as instrumental in igniting the quilt renaissance of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through the exhibit, Holstein elevated quilts to the same level as “high” art by presenting them on the walls of a prestigious art museum, and by comparing their graphic and painterly qualities to those found in modern abstract art. “TCQG quilters knew Jonathon was right,” said Dimock. The exhibit inspired them to spearhead an ambitious and unique quilt show in Ithaca scheduled for July of 1976. It featured 600 bicentennial quilts from 14 counties in and around the Finger Lakes. TCQG’s representational submission was more in line with traditional quilts and far from a contemporary expression of fabric art. Quite possibly it was more befitting the traditional, annual celebration of our nation’s independence. Fast forward to today. TCQG is preparing for its biennial show to be held Saturday and Sunday, October 1 and 2, at the Tompkins Cortland Community College Field House in Dryden. With its theme “Traditions and Beyond,” the show will celebrate 35 years of innovative quilting in the Finger Lakes. Among the quilts displayed there will be the group’s most recent creation, a 106-inch square design that borrows from tradition, but also expresses modernity. It was inspired by 19th-century quilter Susan McCord, known for her use of multi-pieced appliquéd leaves. Guild President Katy Gracy told us that about 50 members helped piece, appliqué and quilt “Feathered Fiesta,” as it is called. “They enlarged and brightened Susan’s theme to create a lavish and colorful original border,” she said. The quilt will be raffled off; information about raffle tickets is available at www.tcqg.org, or by e-mailing info@tcqg.net. Hundreds of other quilts will be on display at the show, from the guild’s 140 members, as well as from nonmember and beginning quilters. They represent a wide range of subjects, styles and techniques. Visitors will see traditional and reproduction designs, U.S. Civil War-era quilts in honor of the 150th

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Barbara Dimock works on “Wheels Keep On Turning,” a quilt with a fireworks motif exhibited at the Pyrotechnics Guild International meeting in West Fargo, North Dakota. On the wall are two posters from the first TCQG-sponsored exhibition in 1976. Photo by Kathy Carman

anniversary of the war’s beginning, ultramodern art quilts, wearable quilted clothing and purses, and a soft sculpture exhibit. Small quilts will be produced during the exhibit’s “Project Iron Quilter” competition. No longer a religious- or homebased craft that makes use of worn-out or scrap fabrics, quilting today allows its practitioners to have more control over their fabrics. “In the 1970s, it was hard to get decent fabrics,” remembers Barbara Dimock. “Polyesters dominated the fashion world and cottons were limited to only a few designs. Today there’s so much more of a selection thanks to huge fabric stores and Internet sites wholly dedicated to the quilter’s needs. Now we can get our hands on the latest technology plus books, patterns and equipment.” As a result, “Quilting has become an immensely popular passion and for some, a livelihood,” said Aafke Swart Steenhuis, a beginner when she joined the guild in 1998. “After a period when it looked like quilting might fade away, today’s quilters and collectors are spending a good deal of time and money adding to their fabric stashes and quilt hoards.” When Swart Steenhuis became a guild member, she had just bought a new sewing machine. She had made

quilts before, in her native Netherlands in the 1970s, but didn’t know quilt-making rules and techniques. “I just did it, and went at it in a very strange way,” she laughs. By taking advantage of the guild’s many workshops, she learned, and won third prize for her first show quilt, and many prizes since. “TCQG has a range of quilters, from beginners to superstars on the leading edge of quilting,” she said. “Many of them create their own designs, and they are happy to help others.” A guild subgroup of modern art quilters, the Quilt Divas, became an independent entity, although several divas continue their TCQG involvement. Guild member Virginia Avery, inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana, in 2006, credited the first TCQG Finger Lakes show as the turning point in her career. The exhibit and the people she met encouraged her to pursue quilting, along with creating patchwork clothes and teaching her skills to others. Still, the picture for the guild’s future isn’t all rosy. While the guild’s membership has grown seven-fold in 35 years, it’s an aging membership, notes Barbara Dimock. “Younger quilters seem more at ease with ‘virtual guilds’ online. The newest generation is less likely to join face-to-face groups and attend

community meetings.” Swart Steenhuis feels that while younger members may want to participate, they face great challenges raising children and creating careers. It’s hard for them to attend meetings. “Seeing a regional quilt exhibit is more manageable,” she notes, and points out that the guild typically sees an up-tick in membership after its biennial exhibit. And Dimock feels that nothing is more satisfying and challenging than seeing, exhibiting and talking about real quilts, especially compared to viewing or posting pictures of quilts online, and engaging in anonymous, asynchronous chat groups. Aside from the personal satisfaction she gets from producing a complicated quilt, Aafke Swart Steenhuis sees quilting as a way to improve her health. After she was diagnosed with a giant cell tumor in her wrist, and underwent six operations to remove it, “The quilts just flew out of my machine,” she said. “Quilting has been a creative outlet for expressing my feelings about the disease, and is instrumental in my healing and well-being.” She pauses to consider how the creative process works. “You tend to be thinking about something subconsciously in the back of your mind and suddenly, the inspiration just flows. You are on your sewing machine and things start humming. When that happens, you can make a small quilt in a couple of hours. And when you’re done, there’s a feeling of enormous satisfaction and accomplishment.”

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Fair Haven’s Fly By Night Cookie Company story and photographs by Susan Peterson Gateley

ifteen years ago while I was visiting Fair Haven aboard a yacht, a shipmate announced we must go to the Fly By Night Cookie Company – the “PMS” cookie is to die for. He launched and rigged his small sailing dinghy and shoved off with his wife to set sail across the bay. An hour later they returned and triumphantly presented us with a bag. These must be pretty good to be worth sailing and rowing a dinghy three miles, I thought. They were. Those chocolate and butter mint frosted morsels would, I think, cure, or at least bring brief comfort to, any consumer, male or female. The Fly By Night Cookie

Company and its legendary baker Bonnie Bridson have been featured in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines, YouTube videos, blogs, and tourism trade publications with good reason. Her cookies are rich, savory, visually delightful and unique. Each comes with a backstory and has a touch of flavoring that sets it apart. Indeed, there is a hint of magic and a generous dash of whimsy about the whole endeavor located on quiet Fancher Avenue overlooking the dancing waters of Fair Haven Bay. It’s little wonder many visitors linger at the table on the porch to eat their cookies and enjoy the beauty around them.

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The cookie shop opened in 1985. Bonnie had learned her way around the kitchen as a child assisting some very good cooks, and she later worked in a restaurant. As she put it, “Cooking was the only skill I had.” She made good use of it and soon settled on cookies as being the most manageable product for her operation. The origins of the business’ name remain mysterious. One source said Bonnie originally ran a lunch wagon for the second shift construction workers out at the Nine Mile Two Nuclear Plant building site. Whatever its derivation, it fits well with the unorthodox style of an occasionally crusty baker whose last car displayed a bumper sticker that read, “My other car is a broom.” Cookies continue to be the operation’s mainstay. Summer visitors to Fair Haven drop in and devour them by the hundreds. She makes dozens of different varieties seven days a week. Sugar cookies, filled cookies, chocolate cookies, rum balls, scones and pastries of constantly changing varieties fill the jars in the shop. All are made with local products whenever possible, including eggs from a neighbor’s free-range hens, jam from wild berries and other organic products from area producers. I asked Bonnie recently how many she sells in a season. “Oh everybody asks that question. I have no idea! Remember that day last summer when I sold out by noon? I had to close the shop. We baked 50 dozen cookies in two hours then.” When I marveled at the sheer variety of cookies Fly By Night Cookie offers, she told me “Cookies are infinite.” Bonnie explained that she basically

uses classic recipes that she keeps reinventing, tweaking with a bit of flavoring or new combinations of ingredients. It certainly keeps the customers coming back. The shop also offers pastries and pies. She takes special orders for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and then shuts down for a well-deserved winter break. The cookie year begins anew around the spring equinox as the shop re-opens for Easter treats. Last year Bonnie began selling European style multi-grain breads. “There was no good whole grain bread within a 40-mile drive,” she said, adding, “I’ve always made bread. When you’re feeding four kids, you learn to make bread.” She says there’s no respect for bread these days. It’s understandable. The insubstantial stuff I find in my local store resembles Bonnie’s bread about as much as my neighbor’s pony resembles Secretariat. Not only is it nourishing, but it’s real food with enough flavor that I’ll gladly eat a piece plain without butter or anything else on it. White magic If you can find Fair Haven, you can’t miss the bakery. It and the pastry shop occupy most of the downstairs of Bridson’s small two-story home. In 1987, her son John rebuilt the modest front porch and embellished it with chainsaw carved pillars and Black Forest style artwork. Here, as visitors browse for a Tiger Drop or a School Bus cookie or perhaps a Blessed Bee Honey Butter cookie, they often find themselves drawn into the life of the village of Minimally, which shares the room with the bakery products. Minimally is a village in a parallel dimension where Baba Bani goes to seek inspiration and find solace, wisdom, and peace from the likes of Baba Yaga, the wise old woman of the forest, and Old Angus, a sort of prime minister to the folk of Faery. Make no mistake – the creative force that gave the world Nuts Behind Bars and Marzipan Rabbits with Attitude had to come from somewhere. This portal to the realm of magic started off as a pragmatic exercise

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in problem solving in three dimensions for Bonnie after she sought a permit to add on to her house for a commercial bake room and was turned down by the village board. As she pondered how to fit everything the bakery needed into a small space, a new kitchen began to take shape with vertical storage and cooling racks, a grand big oven and a separate clean up room. As she puts it in her book, Chronicles of Baba Yaga, “a pact The beautifully decorated shop features all kinds of baked goods. between Baba Bani and old Angus was made, and The full story of Minimally along all distinctions between large and small with cookie, bread, soup, and main dissolved.” course recipes is detailed in The Bonnie visits (and adds onto) Chronicles of Baba Yaga. This unique Minimally during the winter slow seacookbook/adventure/fantasy epic and son after she recovers from 50 to 60 celebration of art is on sale in limited hour workweeks, including many July quantities at the shop. Bonnie prints a days spent in a hot kitchen baking for batch up each year, modifying and the summer tourists. She says it keeps updating it as events in Minimally and her sane. The village has been written elsewhere dictate. They usually sell up in a national circulation magazine out pretty quickly, so don’t dawdle if for hobbyists, and it is as elaborately you want the recipe for cream of detailed and delightful as the most spring soup. heroic model railroad layouts I’ve seen. Bonnie has a deep affinity for many Soon after the mall at Upper of the earth- and nature-based teachMinimally was created a couple years ago, the Old Witches Retirement Home ings of Wiccans. This, along with some came in, followed by the building of the other happenings on the local scene, led to the first Fantasy Fashion Witches’ Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Parade held in Fair Haven about five Responsibility. (The cathedral shell years ago. The witches gathered in the complete with stained glass window town park in full regalia and proceeded bears a strong resemblance to the down Main Street collecting money mahogany cases of those old Atwater and goods for the local food pantry as Kent radios that graced homes in the they cast prosperity spells on the local 1920s). Not long after this, the Sisters businesses. Despite the light-hearted of Complexity, nuns who weave and nature of their costumes and trappings, make lace, moved in, and on the day of my visit, Baba Yaga’s tea room was open some of the participants felt a definite sense of power in the air – the power and doing a brisk business. When I left the shop, the strains of piano and accor- and solidarity of a group of women united in common cause. dion from tearoom merry makers folSome of the participants definitely lowed me out onto the street. (Music is felt energized by it, especially after the central to life both in the village of Minimally and in the “real” world of Fly flock adjourned to the Pleasant Beach Hotel to roost at the bar and enjoy a By Night Cookie.) FAST FACTS INFO PAGE 97

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glass of wine or a beer. The parade has grown in popularity, and this past fall, a dozen or so local artisans set up booths in the town park for a half-day craft fair with food, music and Halloween games for kids. Bonnie’s very real feel for Mother Earth also led her to spearhead a move to preserve a small waterfront park that lies between Lake Ontario and Fair Haven Bay. The West Barrier Bar Park had been turned over to Cayuga County about 25 years ago. Soon, however, the county lost interest in spending any money on maintenance or policing, and the park became plagued by trash and bad behavior. During the real estate bubble of a few years back, a move was made to sell the park to a developer. Bonnie, who, like a lot of locals, had spent many pleasurable hours there, rallied the village population with a petition drive to save the park. After the county backed down on privatizing the park for profit, she volunteered to help seek a permanent solution to the county’s unwanted asset. It’s an ongoing effort but at least for now, visitors to Fair Haven can beach comb and bird watch, view sunsets and enjoy the passing parade of boats through the channel. Fly By Night Cookie Company runs a selfserve used bookstore in the back yard behind the shop to raise money for the park, selling hundreds of donated books each summer. So how does a woman manage to make a living from cookies for 25 years? Hard work. Being tough, strong and creative helps, too. Through it all, Bonnie Bridson never lost that sense of wonder that led her to write in The Chronicles of Baba Yaga “white magic is not abracadabra lightning bolt quick as you might have thought. It’s a threefold braid – purpose, poetry, and perseverance, plaited together and wound round with song, but given time it cannot fail.” For braided bread, pies of splendor and 65 different kinds of cookies, visit Fly by Night Cookie Company between March and December. Find it online at www.fairhavenny.com/cookiecompany.

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iving situations come to the forefront as Finger Lakes residents worry about aging parents – or spouses, other older relatives, friends, even themselves. This segment of our four-part series focuses on options in senior life services. Many older people are adamant about not moving to a nursing home. Luckily, many people do not need that

level of care, even if staying in the family home is no longer viable. Staying home Recent trends in housing options for older people focus on “aging in place” or continuing care at home, making it possible to stay home safely and comfortably, even for those who need long-term health care and other

support services. Services may include a care coordinator available 24 hours a day, some levels of nursing and assistedliving care: registered nurses, homehealth aides, occupational therapists, meal delivery and preparation, and home-repair services. Services are billed on a monthly basis; members pay entrance fees. If parents insist on staying in a current home but are not using a continuing care service, make the home safer by getting rid of throw rugs, rearranging furniture to reduce clutter and create clear paths, installing grab bars in bathrooms and handrails along staircases, getting an emergency call button that connects directly to an ambulance service (the local phone company should be able to help), and setting up regular daily phone calls or visits so someone would be found quickly after a fall or stroke. If you live out of town, make sure that friends and neighbors know how to reach you. In-home assistance Some older people can stay in the family home, or in a new one rather than a nursing home, as long as they have help with cooking, light housekeeping, bathing and dressing. A doctor’s office, local hospital social-work department or association, gerontology association, Area Agency on Aging, Visiting Nurse Association, religious affiliation, Meals on Wheels service, and family friends can help identify what is needed and how to find reliable providers. Never hire anyone to help in the home without checking references.

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Newer trends Many older people would be happy in a new place with fewer responsibilities, as long as they can still live life (mostly) their way. A current trend is “senior villages,” membership-based retirement groups that “mainly serve as one-stop-shops to join seniors in a community with the services they need to remain in their own home(s) as they age,” according to Leigh Anne Ott at the OurParents.com website and blog. “They also sometimes create services that don’t already exist.” This model makes sure that people have everything they need nearby, and provides low-cost home, medical, shopping, and social services and activities. It is an outgrowth of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs), a movement to let older people stay in familiar neighborhoods.

Luxury apartment buildings often may not be seen as protecting against the risks of aging, but many have resources that mean older tenants can live comfortably without needing to do a lot of driving, resources like restaurants, fitness clubs and swimming pools, driver and cleaning services, small shops, and even doctors’ or dentists’ offices. Most let residents have homeand nursing-care aides, either live-in or visiting. Onsite management, frontdesk, maintenance, and security staff mean not having to do risky maintenance tasks, and that someone will notice fairly quickly if there is a crisis. A new residential community currently under construction in Rochester (St. John’s/Brickstone) will include some marketplace aspects and a mix of living space including apartments, townhomes, and one-story detached

homes, and will be unusual because it will be a rental option. Traditional options Old friends are often the best incentive for at least thinking about moving from a beloved home. Ask your parents what their friends have done, and your friends what their parents have done, to cope with this stage of life; yours might be the last holdouts still in a family home, and you could find invaluable support in convincing them that it is time to make the move. These are among the more-traditional options. • 55-plus communities: developments or buildings for people aged 55 and older (one spouse of a couple can be younger), where children or grandchildren may visit.

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• Senior Apartments (Section 202 Housing): apartments rented exclusively to seniors through a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program that gives grants to not-for-profit religious and civic groups to construct buildings; the main source of subsidized, low-income housing for seniors. At least one member of a household must be 62 or older; gross annual income limit is $22,000 for one person and $25,100 for two people. • Shared Housing/Accessory Apartments: self-contained apartments in single-family homes for people who are comfortable with roommates or family members who are willing to accommodate older relatives or friends under the same roof; sometimes called “granny units.” • Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs): alternatives to nursing homes for people who need light to moderate help with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing and using the toilet. Many operate with or are associated with nursing homes. Usually include three meals a day. Criteria for admission vary; usually not open to people with dementia. Often require sizable, nonrefundable upfront investments and can be expensive per year. Not covered by Medicare, although Medicaid waivers may be used. Usually not licensed. • Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs): full-service facilities, marketed as all-encompassing housing options under one roof or a “continuum of care” where people remain in the same setting as their health-care needs change. Most require one-time, upfront entry fee, usually nonrefundable; cost can be prohibitive. • ECHO (Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity): a modular structure that can be placed temporarily on the property of a single-family home. No stairs, wheelchair-accessible, and can be customized to accommodate various disabilities;

best for people with mild medical problems who can live independently, but want to be close to family or friends. • Congregate Housing: separate apartments or rooms in a large or multifamily house, such as old-fashioned boarding houses, college dormitories and group homes; meals often shared in a central dining room; sometimes have shared living areas; costs typically low to moderate, depending on level of service. • Nursing homes: for those who need full-scale nursing and other medical services, have serious health conditions or dementia.

Selecting a new home Before committing to a new place for aging parents to live, get the inside scoop. Set aside time to take a tour of appropriate-looking options with your parents if they are up to it; plan to visit more than one place. If you live out of town, consider making a special trip and spending a week on just such visits. “We went on a two-week tour of every nursing home in Rochester,” recalled Victoria Brzustowicz, about finding a place for her mother recently. Make a list of questions to ask at each community about licensing and staff turnover, training, and accreditation. Try to speak with a chief adminis-

trator and director of nursing if there is one, as well as residents. The fourth and final article in the series will provide resources for adapting to this time of life.

Ruth E. Thaler-Carter is an award-winning freelance writer/editor who is co-author, with Jill R. E. Yesko, of The Who, What and Where of Elder Care: A handy, stepby-step guide to help navigate the maze of caregiving (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) and is looking after her mother in Rochester. Learn more about Ruth at www.writerruth.com.

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Naval Aviation Celebrates its 100th Birthday by Kimberly Price

lenn H. Curtiss had his hand in everything from motorcycles to engines for airships, but he is perhaps best remembered as the “Father of Naval Aviation.” Although his legacy is prominent in the mind of anyone who has an interest in the history of airplanes, this year marks a special reason to remember his efforts: the centennial of naval involvement with aviation. Captain Richard Dann has been knee-deep in celebration preparations

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for several years, and approached Glenn H. Curtiss Museum director Trafford Doherty because of the important role Curtiss played in introducing aviation to the Navy. “Everything that began in 1910 and 1911 led up to the Navy buying airplanes,” said Dann, director of history for the Navy on the centennial celebration. “It can’t be underestimated.” In 1910, the Navy assigned Captain Washington Irving Chambers to scope out aviation technology to see

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if it would have any naval application. He was specifically interested in flying an airplane off a ship. “He first approached the Wright brothers, who declined to be involved in such a wild scheme,” Doherty said.

This Curtiss A-1 flying over Keuka Lake is a reproduction, built in the Curtiss Museum’s restoration shop, but using an original Curtiss OX5 engine. Photo courtesy of the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, New York.

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Mortgage & Home Equity Services “Then he came to Curtiss and his pilot Eugene Ely, and they jumped at the chance to be involved.” Ely, who was terrified of water, wrapped himself in bicycle inner tubes and took off from a 60-foot runway on a ship in calm air. Although the airplane grazed the water and suffered a damaged propeller, Ely managed to steer it to shore and land, marking the first successful flight off a ship. Curtiss leased some land in San Diego, which would later become the famous naval air station, North Island. There, he offered to train Army and Navy pilots at no charge to pique interest in airplanes. Three Army officers and Lt. Theodore Ellyson from the Navy were sent there to take flying lessons. Ellyson became U.S. Naval Aviator #1 and in July, 1911, traveled to Hammondsport to take delivery of the first naval aircraft, the Curtiss A-1. What really sold the Navy on the idea of aviation, however, was the hydroplane, Capt. Dann said. “The Navy didn’t want an airplane that could land on a ship, they wanted one that could land alongside a ship,” he said, because no airplane carrier ships yet existed. “When (Curtiss) landed alongside the USS Pennsylvania, they hoisted it up, Curtiss stayed for lunch, they lowered it back down, and he taxied to shore – that’s what finally convinced the Navy to buy an airplane.” The Curtiss Museum held an evening celebration July 2 to remember Curtiss’s strides in naval aviation. Although a crash of the A-1 Triad replica into Keuka Lake two days earlier put an abrupt halt to its planned flight demonstration, the dinner gala with speakers Capt. Dann and Captain Chuck Downey, the youngest naval aviator in WWII, went off without a hitch. “This is really a celebration of history above all else,” said Doherty. Visit the exhibit “Glenn Curtiss, Father of Naval Aviation,” on display through the end of the year at the Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport.

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SEPTEMBER 9 - 11...The Golden Link Folk Singing Society 2011 Turtle Hill Folk Festival Held at the Rotary Sunshine Campus 809 Five Points Road in Rush. Evening concerts followed by campfire singing and informal jamming through the night. There will also be a Sunday afternoon ensemble concert with all available performers. www.goldenlink.org/festival.html 10 - 11...TomatoFest Live entertainment, food, crafts and amusement rides to benefit the Cayuga County Food Pantry. Located at Emerson Park, 6914 East Lake Road in Auburn. 315-406-6036 www.cnytomatofest.org 10 - 11...Mendon Station Festival British colonial village with re-enactments, British colonial games for the kids, and demonstrations by the 64th Regiment of Foot Horses. Riding and demonstrations. Popular local bands. Young Irish dancers, artists, craft vendors, and the Honeoye Falls-Lima School Scholastic Art Show. Located at Mendon Station Park, at Routes 64 and 251. 585-624-3182 www.mendonfoundation.com 15 - 17...Ontario Historical Society Fall Barn Sale The Ontario Historical Society is having their fall barn sale at Heritage Square Museum located at Brick Church Corners, 7147 Ontario Center Road, Ontario. Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. $2 bag sale on Saturday and 50 percent off sale on large items from 9 a.m. to noon. All profits from the sale benefit the preservation of Heritage Square Museum. 315-524-5356 www.heritagesquaremuseum.org 16 - 17...Finger Lakes Cork & Fork Friday night VIP event includes live jazz, local tapas and wine pairings, and the chance to speak with winemakers, winery owners, chefs and purveyors. Saturday, try and buy local wines, locally grown and produced foods, and area chefs’ dishes at 60+ vendor booths. September 16 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., September 17 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Rodman Lott & Son Farms, 2973 Route 414, Seneca Falls. 315-568-2906 info@senecachamber.org or www.fingerlakescorkandfork.com 17…Canandaigua Creates Street painting will occur throughout the entire day in downtown Canandaigua. Demonstrations from pottery wheels, felting, watercolor painting, jewelry making and more. Food and music throughout the day makes this a must-do event in September. 585-396-7210 aimee@galleryandframe.com 17…Potato Festival Vendors, demonstrations and quilt show. Sample all kinds of foods made with potatoes. The firehouse serves breakfast starting at 8 a.m., and lunch at 11:30 a.m. with scalloped potatoes and ham. Free admission and parking. Located in the Town of Richford, Route 38 and 79. 9 a.m to 4 p.m. 607-657-2526 or 607-539-6283

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WAYLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM Open Sun 2-4PM Mon 10AM-Noon By appointment

Colonial Belle Cruising The Historic Erie Canal

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Fun for the Entire F amily

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Seward House Museum We invite you to visit Seward House, home to Secretary of State William H. Seward.

See the home of Lincoln’s right hand.

PIONEER DAYS October 15-16

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

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Call for Reservations 585-223-9470 • www.colonialbelle.com 400 Packett’s Landing • Fairport, NY

Patterson Inn Museum 59 W. Pulteney St., Corning, NY 607-937-5281 Open Mon-Fri 10am-4pm Museum complex features a tavern c1796, log house c1850, schoolhouse c1878, agricultural barn and blacksmith.

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We serve fresh, natural foods including local pasture raised organic beef and chicken and sustainable sea foods and of course Rooster Fish Ales!

The five museums of Historic Palmyra await you! Sibyl’s Birthday Oct. 10th, Cemetery Walk, Oct. 14-15, Holiday Bazaar Nov. 17-19. Reserve now by phone or e-mail bjfhpinc@rochester.rr.com

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welcomed sight since 1870, the Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum awaits to welcome you. Climb the Victorian cast-iron staircase to enjoy views of Great Sodus Bay, Lake Ontario and the beautiful lighthouse gardens - perfect for weddings. Enjoy FREE afternoon concerts beginning July 4th and every Sunday through Labor Day! Don’t miss our giftshop. Whatever your reason, steal away to enjoy the simple pleasures only nature and time can provide. See you at the Lighthouse! 7606 N. Ontario St., Sodus Point, NY 14555

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Ferris Hills at West Lake................81 ......585-393-4330 ......ferrishills.com

Waterloo Premium Outlets ............3 ........315-539-1100 ......premiumoutlets.com

Finger Lakes Community College ..25 ......585-394-3500 ......flcc.edu

Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce..................26 ......800-607-4552 ......watkinsglen.travel

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Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel ............19 ......607-535-6116 ......watkinsglenharborhotel.com Wayne County Office of Tourism ..27 ......800-527-6510 ......waynecountytourism.com Webster Museum Historical Society ..........................84 ......585-265-3308 ......webstermuseum.org

Granger Homestead ......................29 ......585-394-1472.....canandaiguachristkindlmarket.com Wegmans ......................................30 ......585-394-7607 ......wegmans.com Great Cortland Pumpkinfest ..........79 ......800-859-2227 ......cortlandpumpkinfest.org Yates County Arts Center ..............85 ......315-536-8226 ......ycac.org Grossman’s Garden & Home ........51 ......585-377-1982 ......grossmans.com Halsey’s Restaurant ......................71 ......315-789-4070 ......halseysgeneva.com Handwork ......................................11 ......607-243-9400 ......handwork.coop Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art ..............................65 ......607-255-6464 ......museum.cornell.edu Highland Green..............................87 ......888-760-1042 ......highlandsrc.com Hilton Garden Inn ..........................18 ......877-STAY-HGI ......ithaca.hgi.com Historic Auburn / Cayuga County ..17 ......800-499-9615 ......tourcayuga.com Holiday Inn - Ithaca ......................65 ......607-272-1000 ......hiithaca.com Humane Society of Schuyler County ........................31 ......607-210-4263 ......schuylerhumane.org

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Inn at the Finger Lakes ..................65 ......315-253-5000 ......innatthefingerlakes.com

Naples ....................................................................................Pgs. 92-93

The Inn on the Lake ......................63 ......585-394-7800 ......theinnonthelake.com

Real Estate for Sale ................................................................Pgs. 76-77

Jerlando’s Ristorante ....................29 ......607-535-4254 ......jerlandospizza.com

Seneca Lake Wine Trail ..........................................................Pgs. 68-69

The Jewelbox ................................85 ......800-711-7279 ......ithacajewelbox.com

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Kendal at Ithaca ............................15 ......800-253-6325 ......kai.kendal.org

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543 South Main St., Geneva, NY 14456

(315)789-5151 www.genevahistoricalsociety.com

17â&#x20AC;ŚIonia Fall Festival Pancake breakfast, chicken barbeque, hot dogs, hamburgers and more. Live music, games, inflatable bounce house, tractor parade and vendors. Civil War and historical exhibits, demonstrations and old-fashioned field games. Held at the Ionia firemenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grounds on County Road 14, just off Route 64 and North of Routes 5 and 20. 585-657-6984 www.ioniaumc.org 17 - 18...Harvest Tour of Food and Wine Come taste the exquisite wines of Keuka Lake and sample fine dishes prepared from the finest locally produced foods on the Keuka Lake Wine Trail. 800-440-4898 www.keukawinetrail.com 17 - 18...Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival Two-day festival is devoted to all fiber arts with a special focus on hand spinning. A wide range of exciting fiber arts workshops is scheduled. Fleece show and sale. Demonstrations, competitions, exhibits, fiber animals and 80+ high quality vendors of equipment, books,patterns, dyes, yarn, raw and processed fiber. Handicap accessible. Held at Hemlock Fairgrounds. 607-522-4374 www.gvhg.org/fest.html 23 - 24...Finger Lakes Trails & Greenways Conference Connecting communities, promoting health, and strengthening local economies. An opportunity to get out in the field and see first-hand what others are doing to design terrific trails, raise funds, overcome challenges and motivate volunteers. Timely topics, practical information, sharing of experiences and networking. Held at Cornell University, Ithaca. 518-434-1583 www.ptny.org 24â&#x20AC;ŚPumpkin Festival Craft and food, vendor games, and rides for the children. Pumpkin carving and pumpkin decorating contests, a baking contest, silent auction and more. Located at Ransom Park in Tioga Center. 607-972-9577 or 607-658-3033 www.tiogacenterpumpkinfest.com 24...Canandaigua Tour of Homes The Ontario County Historical Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2011 Tour of Homes returns to the West Lake Road of Canandaigua Lake for a nostalgic look at the history of the homes which made up farms and early summer meccas along the lake. Featuring nine locations. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pre-sale tickets available at all Wegmans. 585 394-4975 www.ochs.org

OCTOBER 1 - 2...Naples Open Studio Trail Visit 23 Finger Lakes artists and craftsmen in their studios from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Shoppers and art lovers have the opportunity to meet glass blowers, painters, sculptors, photographers, wood workers, ceramic and pottery creators, and leather and textile artists as they bring life to their creations. 585-749-2248 www.naplesopenstudiotrail.com

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C A L E N D A R 1 - 2…Apple Festival Music, black powder guild, demos, crafts, gift shop. $6 adults, $4 students & senior citizens. Located at Bemen-Billings farmstead, Route 38 in Newark Valley. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 607-642-9516 www.nvhistory.org 2...Wineglass Marathon Conducted in Corning, events including the Wineglass Expo and activities will be held at Centerway Square in downtown Corning at 1 West Market Street at the Baron Steuben Building and the Corning Chamber of Commerce Info Center. www.wineglassmarathon.com 7 - 9...Candor Fall Festival of Events Catatonk Valley Woodercarvers Show, New Quilters on the Block Quilt Show, Iron Kettle Spooktacular Weekend, Side Hill Acres open house and flea market, Candor library book fair, Candor Historical Society bake and yard Sale, Masonic Lodge open house and more. Sponsored by the Candor Chamber of Commerce. www.candornychamber.org

8…Genesee Valley Hunt Races Pony races, steeplechase races and races on the flat. Free pony rides and horse-drawn hay rides, stick horse races (kids under 6), tailgate picnic competition, horses and hounds on parade and more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Located at in Geneseo. 585-243-3949 www.geneseevalleyhunt.org 15…Opening of the New Wing at the Johnson Museum of Art Special afternoon event will feature tours and art activities, plus a performance by the Sim Redmond Band from 3 to 5 p.m. Admission to this event and the museum is free. Located at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca. 607-255-6464 www.museum.cornell.edu 15…Annual Drumbeats Through Time Native American dancers and the largest artifact display in the region. Located at the Susquehanna River Archaeological Center, 345 Broad Street in Waverly. 1 to 5 p.m. 607-727-3111 or 607-565-7960 www.sracenter.org

21 - 22..The Fifth Annual Woodlawn Cemetery Ghost Walk Begins at the Chemung Valley History Museum at 415 East Water Street in Elmira. Guests will be transported by trolley to Woodlawn Cemetery, where they will be led on a guided tour and meet “ghosts” from Elmira’s past, portrayed by actors from Elmira Little Theatre. Guests will then return to the museum via trolley. 607-734-4167 www.chemungvalleymuseum.org 22 - 23...Kiwanis Antique Show and Sale Fifty top dealers from New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada, participate. Selection of antiques is quite varied, including furniture, glassware, books, paintings, jewelry, clocks, and old documents of local interest. Quality of the antiques is exceptional. Located at the New York State Armory, Route 39 just north of County Court House in Geneseo. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 585-243-0705 rplatt@frontiernet.net

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Letchworth State Park The “Grand Canyon of the East” 1 Letchworth State Park, Castile, NY 14427 Experience Letchworth 14,350 acres along the Genesee River 3 Major Waterfalls Magnificent Overlooks • Hiking Trails Camping & Cabins History and Performing Arts Programs Guided Walks and Tours Summer Lecture Series Hot Air Ballooning • White Water Rafting Kayaking • Special Family Events and More

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C A L E N D A R 23…Concert Band & Soldiers’ Chorus of the United States Army Field Band More than six decades as the military’s most traveled musicians have earned them the title of “The Musical Ambassadors of the Army.” See them at the Smith Opera House, Geneva. 315-781-5483 www.thesmith.org

NOVEMBER 11...Annual Canandaigua Treaty Day The celebration will feature a parade, a ceremony with keynote speaker Robert Odawi Porter, president of the Seneca Nation, with a pot-luck dinner and social. The day starts at Canandaigua primary school. www.ganondagan.org 11 - 13...The Canandaigua Christkindl Market Popular German-style holiday market features more than 100 arts and crafts vendors and food booths in heated tents. Hours are November 11 from 1 to 7 p.m.; November 12 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; November 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Also see the Festival of Trees, a display of elaborately

decorated trees and a silent auction inside the Granger Homestead mansion, 295 North Main Street in Canandaigua. 585-394-1472 See more on YouTube at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=22FO2GbVblw 12 - 13...Art at The Armory Annual fine art and fine craft show and sale. Up to 60 juried exhibits. Live owls and hawks, acoustic music and poetry readings, museum and student art displays, food and bar available. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Located indoors in the Rochester Main Street Armory, 900 East Main Street, Rochester. 585-223-8369 www.artatthearmory.com 17 - 19...Historic Palmyra’s Holiday Bazaar Vendors, luncheon, special gifts, antiques and crafts. Alling Coverlet Museum, 122 William Street, Palmyra. Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with luncheon at 11:30; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 315-597-6981 www.historicpalmyrany.com

18 - 20…18th Annual Holiday Shopping Spree Experience the warmth of the holidays on the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail while sampling fine wines and special holiday treats. Take home a souvenir wineglass, a grapevine wreath, a unique specialized ornament from each winery, plus holiday recipe cards. November 18, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; November 19, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; November 20, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 800-684-5217 www.cayugawinetrail.com 18 - 20...Annual Deck the Halls Weekend Go to your assigned starting winery on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail and begin a weekend of fun and festivities while sampling holiday wines and food tastings. The wineries are decorated for the holiday season. Friday, 1 to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.senecalakewine.com

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THE CHRISTMAS HOUSE Not Just For Christmas Any More! 361 Maple Avenue • Elmira, NY 14904 (Rt. 17/I86, Exit 56, Left on Madison, Left on Maple)

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A Community Arts Center 209 N. Franklin St. Watkins Glen, NY 14891 607.535.2571 www.arcofschuyler.org Find us on Facebook!

BLANKETS Created from the wool of Cornell Dorset and Finnsheep breeds and their crosses, these blankets are ideal for football games and cold nights, and as gifts for graduation, wedding, birthday, Christmas and other occasions. Red stripes near each end and red binding accent the 100% virgin wool. Your purchase of blankets helps to support the Cornell Sheep Program, and $10 from each sale goes to an undergraduate scholarship fund. Each blanket is individually serial-numbered on the Cornell Sheep Program logo label and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Lap robe (60 x 48 inches, 3 stripes) $85 Single (60 x 90 inches, 3 stripes) $119 Double (72 x 90 inches, 3 stripes) $129 Queen (76 x 104 inches, 3 stripes) $155 King (90 x 120 inches, 3 stripes) $250 Add 8% New York State sales tax and shipping ($10 for Lap robes, $15 for Single, Double, & Queen, and $20 for King)

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Sculptures by Carol Adamec by Laurel C. Wemett

courses in ceramics, he metal, stone, and clay photography, and sculptures by Carol Adamec sculpture at Syracuse take on a variety of forms and University. She are a means of expression in her life. learned to weld at a “I translate emotions into a physical local BOCES class state and bring them to people’s (New York State’s attention with beauty and elegance,” Board of Cooperative explains the artist. Educational Services). An early love of clay led Carol The artist demonAdamec, a native of Long Island, to strated her welding Alfred University College of skills in the “60/60” Ceramics to major in sculpture. After event at Syracuse’s earning her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Everson Museum degree there, she earned her Master’s when 60 artists create from SUNY Brockport, working with an original work of “Freedom Spirit,” as seen on the Frank J. Ludovico Sculpture Trail Albert Paley and Wendall Castle. in Seneca Falls art in 60 minutes. Her thesis was metalworking. She recently Today, her bronze castings, retired from Westhill High School in Syracuse, where she ceramic sculptures, and pottery have garnered numerous was an art teacher. A member of the Syracuse Ceramics awards. Adamic’s sculptures range from the realGuild, Adamec previously served as the group’s president. istic to the abstract and are a few inches to Adamec loves nature and enjoys kayaking, camping several feet in scale. Her work can be and biking. How appropriate that her sculpture Freedom found in numerous public and priSpirit, depicting a red-tailed hawk, was installed in 2009 at vate collections, as well as her the Frank J. Ludovico Sculpture Trail in Seneca Falls. Made alma maters. of steel, the sculpture is welded in three sections and then Adamec moved from attached to a 15-foot pole. The bird’s wings span 10 feet Rochester to Syracuse and soar above a marshy area. Grant funds from the Upper in 1985, and comCatskill Community Council of the Arts paid for some of pleted graduthe materials; others were donated. Her husband Neville ate-level Sachs, an engineer, assisted with the design’s structural support. At the nature trail on the south side of the CayugaSeneca Canal, the bird has rusted over time. Its striking red form is outlined against the dense vegetation. Adamec explains the meaning of Freedom Spirit: “Freedom is something birds imply in their use of flight. A closeup of Freedom is something we all seek.” “Freedom Spirit” What lies ahead: “I hope to be completing additional bird sculptures to go with the current one… I will also be presenting proposals for outdoor public sculptures as well as creating the smaller pieces I so enjoy making.” To see more art by Carol Adamec go to the artist’s web page: www.adamecart.com.

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