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RESHAPING THE LANDSCAPE Seneca Meadows in Seneca Falls is a waste management and recycling facility … and a 600-acre wetlands preserve

by Phillip Bonn

FILL YOUR GROWLER HERE

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The exploding popularity of breweries and brewpubs is here to stay

by Bill Wingell

SLOW DOWN AND OBSERVE Diana Whiting uses her senses, intellect and emotion when taking photographs

SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

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Basket maker Jamin Uticone creates heirloom-quality hardwood creations

by Christina Uticone Cover: “As my wife and I savored a glass of wonderful dry Riesling from the Finger Lakes, our Norway maple displayed its marvelous deciduous leaf color through our glasses.” – Dan Nolan This page: Onanda Park, on the west side of Canandaigua Lake, has hiking trails that offer many scenic views. Photo by Peter Blackwood

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D E P A R T M E N T S

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MY OWN WORDS

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LETTERS reader feedback

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HAPPENINGS

FINGER LAKES MAP areas of interest in this issue

news and events

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HUMAN INTEREST

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FRUIT OF THE VINE

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FINGER LAKES SCRAPBOOK

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DAY TRIP

a cattail tale Finding a home a grape adventure Vineyard management

reader snapshots

velocity and pause Watkins Glen’s International Motor Racing Research Center

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thoughts from the editor

HISTORY from beavers to boundaries Exhibit in Canandaigua sentenced to history Wayne County jail is a museum

HOW-TO bound and determined Ideas for taking photographs beer brewing safety Make it at home

FOOD local cuisine Finger Lakes Feast – salads and side dishes

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FINGER LAKES TOURISM

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AGRICULTURE

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LIFESTYLE

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CULTURED

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A PROUD COMMUNITY

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HOME SHOWCASE

Finger Lakes foodie Culinary varieties of the area

hog wild The Piggery in Ithaca

dog park “tails” A national trend

on the spot Restaurants are challenged to feature local wines

cities and villages Union Springs

fabric and paint Katie Hess: interior designer

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My Own Words

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We Still Have

Autumn

here are two weeks left before good reason. There are more than 140 school starts, and my kids and wineries in the area, and new ones I still have a mile-long list of open every year. Microbreweries and fun things to do. The end of brewpubs (page 46) are just as popular. summer vacation always seems to There are more than 40 in the region, come too soon, and we never get to do and the industry continues to grow. all the activities we would like.

There is something in the area for But there’s always autumn. everyone, no matter their tastes.

September and October bring Not only can the Finger Lakes satcooler weather, but the sun still shines isfy taste buds, but it offers food for the bright, and with it the promise of more soul. The area's art trails and galleries opportunities to work on that list. Right are expanding as local artists continue now, my kids are so busy with school to prove they can create significant and sports that it can be challenging to works of art that compare with the best get the time, but it’s certainin the country. Craftsmen ly possible. and artisans continue to To view the digital Visitors to the fine-tune their skills version of this issue, visit Finger Lakes during through their creations – lifeinthefingerlakes.com, the autumn months handmade baskets (page click on the digimag link continue to find enjoy62), quilts and eyeand enter code “dm1111” able things to see and catching paintings (page do. Lakes may be getting 112) are just a few. too cool for swimming and water skiPhotographers, both amateur and ing, but the cooler weather can mean professional, enjoy autumn as well. The great hiking and biking, and wine and air is crisp and clear, the leaves change beer tasting, too. color, and photographic subjects leap Seneca Meadows Wetlands out and catch their attention. Even the Preserve (page 40) is a new habitat to most common, everyday sights are discover near Seneca Falls, adjacent to breathtakingly beautiful, if captured in a landfill. What were once fields used the right light and composed in a pleasfor farming have been turned back ing manner (page 56). into wetlands and grasslands. Birds Take heart readers. Summer may and other animals are returning in be gone, but autumn is the icing on the great numbers because of the upgradcake. There’s still time to mark off a few ed terrain. In turn, people can now of those items on your list. walk hiking trails and enjoy these lands once again.

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reader feedback I grew up in the Finger Lakes and moved to Arizona 43 years ago. Your magazine is a wonderful reminder of things that we love about the area. The Summer 2013 Issue particularly resonated for me.

My father was one of the movers in getting the Middlesex airport built for a new flying club in the late ‘40s.

He was airplane obsessed, one of the founders of the club, and got his private pilot license right away. He enjoyed flying for several years until he passed in 1981. To see a picture and read about the airport, albeit a brief bit, was a joy.

The pieces on the Geneseo airshow and Ted Williams were great. Finally, to see the piece on wooden boats brought great memories. Two of my uncles worked for Penn Yan Boats when they were building that superb brand of wooden watercraft. Keep up the great work. The quality of the magazine is outstanding.

Letters

Yours is the finest regional magazine that we have ever read. I spent a 40-year career in the marketing field and have never seen a better publication. Thank you for your fine work.

I really enjoyed your 2013 Travel Issue, particularly the article on "The Seven Dwarfs,” since I live on one of the dwarfs, Honeoye. On the page for Skaneateles it stated that it is often referred to as “The Roof Garden of Lakes” because it has the highest altitude of all of the Finger Lakes. This is not correct. The altitude of Skaneateles is 263 meters above sea level. However, Hemlock and Canadice are 276 and 334 meters above sea level respectively. So as far as records for the dwarfs is concerned, Honeoye is the shallowest and Canadice has both the smallest surface area and is the highest above sea level. This data is taken from a DEC report on characteristics of the Finger Lakes by Clifford Callihan.

Keep up the good work. It is a wonderful magazine devoted to the jewels of New York State, namely the Finger Lakes.

Joe Kosmicki

Jack Starke, Honeoye

Les Blodgett, Phoenix, Arizona

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4 Corning (see page 80) 5 E. Bloomfield (see page 51) 6 Geneva (see page 81)

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EDITORIAL & PRODUCTION EDITOR ..........................................................................Mark Stash mark@lifeinthefingerlakes.com SENIOR GRAPHIC ARTIST ......................Jennifer Srmack GRAPHIC ARTIST ..............................Lindsey Williamson ASSOCIATE EDITOR ..............................................Tina Manzer ASSISTANT EDITORS............................................J. Kevin Fahy ..................................................................................Alyssa LaFaro ..................................................................................Carol C. Stash

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news & events

SEPTEMBER 13-15…Civil War Festival Live demos, battles, living history, vendors and barn dance at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Church service is Sunday at 10 a.m. Hours: Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Located at Rudin’s Farm, 4890 Gaskill Road, Owego.

607-687-3160 15…Woof and Wine Free to attend and open to the public. Enjoy a day out with your four-legged friends while supporting Rescue-A-Bull, Inc., and local animal rescues including the Yates County Humane Society and Tanner’s P.A.W.S. Leashed dogs welcome. There will be raffles, live music, wine tasting, and dogthemed vendors. 11 a.m to 4 p.m. Located at Fulkerson Winery in Dundee.

607-243-7883 E-mail advertising@fulkersonwinery.com 20-21…Finger Lakes Cork & Fork As the largest event of its kind in New York State, Finger Lakes Cork & Fork is the region’s leading culinary showcase of fresh foods, fine wines, and farmer’s favorites, with its focus on the area’s diverse agricultural resources; renowned wine and beverage industry, and highlighting the people who are responsible for cultivating this authentic food

revolution movement. The event is hosted by the Seneca County Chamber of Commerce each year at Rodman Lott & Son Farms in Seneca Falls.

800-732-1848 fingerlakescorkandfork.com 21…Ionia Fall Festival Sponsored by the Ionia United Methodist Church and held at the Ionia Firemen’s Grounds. Enjoy a delicious pancake breakfast 7:30 to 10 a.m., then later a chicken barbeque from 11:30 a.m. until sold out. Hot dogs and hamburgers are served all day.

Live music, food tent, games, inflatable bounce house, cake/dessert wheel, displays and demonstrations, old fashioned games and more.

585-657-6984 ioniaumc.org 21-22…Finger Lakes Fiber Arts and Crafts Festival Come to the festival for its 19th year. Enjoy Skein & Garment winners and special awards, ravelry meet-up, guild display, used equipment sale, world wide spin-in-public day, workshops, demonstrations, vendors, sheep dog demos and local guild booths. Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Located at the Hemlock Fairgrounds. gvhg.org/fest

Introducing Two New Apple Varieties After years of development and consumer testing, Cornell University and New York Apple Growers (NYAG) are introducing SnapDragon and RubyFrost, formally known as “NY1” and “NY2.”

The two varieties have been a decade in the making. The first trees were planted in farmers’ orchards in 2011, and now 400 acres are growing across the state. According to NYAG, the still-young trees will produce a limited crop this year, but intrepid consumers can search out SnapDragon and RubyFrost at select NYAG farm stands across the state. By 2015, the varieties will be vying for space in grocery stores among the Empires, Galas and Honeycrisps.

The SnapDragon harvest window starts early – in late September – but its long storage and shelf life means retailers may be able to offer it with consistent quality for a longer time than Honeycrisp. RubyFrost ripens later in the fall, and it stores well and will provide a boost of vitamin C well into winter. Cornell breeder and horticulture professor Susan Brown believes it will be popular with fans of Empire and Granny Smith.

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SnapDragon (NY1) RubyFrost (NY2)

21-October 27…Chairlift to the Summit of Bristol Mountain Enjoy a tranquil 15-20 minute ride which provides breathtaking views of the Bristol Hills and the valley below. Saturdays and Sundays from 12 to 4 p.m.. plus Columbus Day on Monday, October 14. The Fall Festival is Sunday, October 13.

585-374-6000 bristolmountain.com/fall-sky-rides

OCTOBER 2…First Annual Oktoberfest by the Water Oktoberfest is traditionally a 16-day festival celebrating beer, held annually in Germany. We’re celebrating German culture at The Inn on the Lake and we hope you’ll join us! Located in the beer garden style lakeside tent. Live entertainment and German food, beer and wine.

585-394-7800 theinnonthelake.com 2-6…The Syracuse International Film Festival The Syracuse International Film Festival is the premier Central New York film event.

This year SYRFILMFEST ‘13 will continue the tradition of showcasing the best independent films from around the world, and special events and famous guests.

315-395-3773 gotocnyarts.org or palaceonjames.com 5…Acting Out on the Hangar Stage This light-hearted FUNdraiser pits local personalities against Broadway stars on four teams, which will compete by acting out entertainment clues. This exhilarating evening will raise funds for the theatre’s education programs. Hosting this unique event will be Hangar’s own Jesse Bush. Show starts at 6:30 p.m.

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Betty Ford, Nancy Pelosi and Seven Others Will Be Honored Nine extraordinary American women will be formally inducted to the National Women’s Hall of Fame in a ceremony on October 12 in Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the American Women’s Rights Movement.

Inductees are selected every other year from a group of more than 100 nominations based on their lasting contributions to society through the arts, athletics, business, education, government, humanities, philanthropy and science. The 2013 inductees are Betty Ford, Ina May Gaskin, Julie Krone, Kate Millett, Nancy Pelosi, Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, Bernice Resnick Sandler, Anna Jacobson Schwartz and Emma Hart Willard.

For more information about the National Women’s Hall of Fame, or to make plans to attend Induction Weekend 2013, visit greatwomen.org.

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Local Quilt Shop Featured in Quilt Sampler Magazine A profile of O’Susannah’s Quilts & Gifts in Watkins Glen will appear in the fall 2013 issue of Quilt Sampler magazine, published by Better Homes and Gardens.

Quilt shops submit a detailed application on their history, business promotions, charitable work, teaching schedules and design philosophies. A panel of quilt experts narrows down the applications to 10 featured shops for each issue. The names of the selected shops are unveiled at the spring International Quilt Market.

Nearly 3,000 quilt shops were eligible to apply for this year’s honor. O’Susannah’s Quilts & Gifts and nine other shops were chosen to be photographed and interviewed by a team from Quilt Sampler for a multi-page profile.

For more information on O’Susannah’s Quilts, visit osusannahsquiltshop.com.

OCTOBER continued 5-6…Great Cortland Pumpkinfest!

The festival offers something for everyone. Crafters, children’s games, entertainment, food, 5K race or walk, antique tractors, hay rides, tons of pumpkins, exhibits and displays. Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday noon to 5 p.m.

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5-6…12th Annual Naples Open Studio Art Trail Free art event. Visit artist studios and enjoy glass, furniture, paintings, wood sculptures, jewelry, fiber, paper and clay. Held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. naplesopenstudiotrail.com 5-6, 12-13…Ithaca Art Trail The art trail is a self-guided tour of 50 working artists’ studios throughout the county. Visitors can drive or walk to the studios of sculptors, painters, photographers, printmakers, fiber artists, furniture makers, jewelry artists and ceramists.

Recommended that you call ahead. arttrail.com 12-13…Folk Art Guild Open House and Apple Festival The Folk Art Guild will host its annual open house, with tours of the studios, demonstrations, home cooked food and deserts, fresh artisan breads and live music by Mulberry Soul. Held at 1445 Upper Hill Road, Middlesex, NY 14507.

585-554-3539 folkartguild.org/events-calendar

Happenings

October 16-November 10…Kitchen Theatre Company presents “From White Plains” “A drama about high school bullying that is as thoughtful as it is passionate. ‘From White Plains’ poses tough questions about responsibility, maturity and forgiveness that you’ll likely be pondering long after it’s over.” Backstage 607-273-4497 kitchentheatre.org 27…Haunted Garden Stroll at Sonnenberg Experience a spooky evening of tales that have been told throughout the years about sightings of ghosts from the historic past. Walk in groups and hear tales of a lady who appears and disappears, Civil War officers, children in the attic, Mrs. Thompson walking through her mansion, a Buddha looking for a stolen jewel and much more.

Entrance is at the gate at the end of Fort Hill Ave. inside the VA grounds in Canandaigua. The stroll will start when it gets dark.

585-394-4922 or 585-396-7433 sonnenberg.org

Fly to the “Bird is the Word” Exhibit in Honeoye Falls This fall, familiar birds from your backyard meet more exotic creations from the hands of five gifted artists in “Bird is the Word,” an exhibition of paintings and dimensional artwork at the Ock Hee Gallery and Bloomfield Gardens. Featured artists include recent RIT graduate Eunice Hur, Arthur Singer, Alan Singer, Belinda Bryce and Kurt Feuerherm.

The exhibition begins Saturday, September 14 with an opening reception at noon, and will continue until October 19. The Ock Hee Gallery and Bloomfield Gardens is located at 2 Lehigh St., Honeoye Falls. For more information, call 585-624-4730 or visit ockheesgallery.com.

30…Spooktacular in Clifton Springs A fun and safe event for children to celebrate Halloween in downtown Clifton Springs. From 6 to 8 p.m.

Main Street will be cordoned off for games and play. Haunted house and popcorn, chicken barbeque, games provided by the Boy Scouts, hayrides, candy apples, treats, pumpkin decorating and more.

315-462-8200 (Continued on page 99) cliftonspringschamber.com

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Human Interest

stories about real people

Cattail Photo by Steve Knapp

by Susan Black

attails? Did you say cattails?”

My husband Don looked incredulous when I said I couldn’t possibly move to Upstate New York unless he could assure me that I’d find cattails in abundance.

We were hiking through the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, a 96,000-acre preserve in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Don had proposed to me in the refuge on a late October evening two years earlier.

Now, as then, the autumn air was nippy. The ponds and marshes reflected the setting sun’s golden hue.

Migrating Canada geese, weary from

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their long flight over Lake Superior, glided onto the water, splitting off from their perfect V formation into pairs.

The cattails whispered in the light wind. I ran my hand over their brown furry heads; many exploded with seeds enmeshed in white fluff. Marsh birds line their nests with the fluff. Whitetailed deer, raccoons and cottontails seek cover among the tall spikes.

Don, a geologist and earth science teacher, told me he had to return to New York to fulfill his state retirement plan. In my heart I knew I’d go with him, even though it meant leaving the deep Michigan wilderness that I loved beyond measure. As dusk fell in the refuge, I silently recited our wedding

vows. We’d pledged our abiding love to one another, and to the forests, rivers, backwater ponds, marshes, sand dunes and granite cliffs we deeply cherished.

What would I find in New York? I worried and wondered.

Trekking to New York A year later, we set out. Don drove a rental truck with our golden retriever by his side. I followed in our Jeep. We crossed the Mackinac Bridge’s five-mile span into Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

We crossed the Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron that brought us into Canada. We crossed the Peace Bridge that took us into New York State at Buffalo. From there we caravanned

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I was weary and disoriented. The place names on the maps and road signs were so strange – Painted Post, Big Flats, Horseheads, Sing Sing Road. How would I ever sort out all the places that begin with O? (Owasco, Otisco, Owego, Oswego, Onondaga, Oneida, Oneonta!)

We settled into our new home – a sun-filled brick house shaded by a spreading butternut tree – in a small village. On our first free weekend, Don packed a lunch, pulled on his high-top boots and took me on a “mystery tour.” We climbed through a deep east-west gully carved during the Devonian period, some 380 million years ago. We searched for brachiopods, trilobites and other fossils along the shore of a long, sinuous Finger Lake. We hiked a Finger Lakes trail into Punchbowl Lake, above Watkins Glen.

Cattails galore! The west edge of Punchbowl Lake was a riot of cattails that had filled in a bog created by an immense beaver dam. We admired red-winged blackbirds

perched on them, and how they camouflaged a deserted mallard’s nest. We watched frogs and salamanders slip into the bog and hide behind the cattails.

Don had saved the best for last.

At that moment, everything fell into place. I knew that I would fall in love with the small lakes, even though I yearned for the largest freshwater lake in the world. I knew that I would eventually accept brittle shale, even though I longed for hard, unyielding granite – what I called “rock that knows it’s rock.” I knew that I would find serenity on the Finger Lakes trails, even though I still dreamed of the trails I’d blazed in the wilderness surrounding my secluded log cabin in Upper Michigan’s Huron Mountains.

One evening, Don and I were reading by soft lamplight in “Butternut Cottage,” the name we bestowed on our New York home. Don looked up from his geology journal, studied me for a time and said, “You’re still here?”

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Fruit of the Vine

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A Grape Adventure Doyle Vineyard Management Company is the first of its kind in the Finger Lakes

Carre and Matt Doyle

by Jason Feulner Photos courtesy Doyle Vineyard Management Company

he typical Finger Lakes tasting alludes to the romantic notion that the contents of the glass standing before a consumer is wholly connected with the lush vineyard in view of the tasting bar. As many consumers are aware, however, the sourcing of grapes at any vineyard is a complex affair, and even those wineries with extensive vineyard holdings are likely to buy grapes from all over the region to round out their wines.

While many wineries do not refer openly to their sourcing practices, recent fads such as single-vineyard bottlings of certain varietals has led wineries to educate their consumers about site selection and the qualities that different vineyards can impart to the same type of grape.

For decades, the bulk of the grape market in the Finger Lakes has been made up of independent growers – those who own their own land and grow their own grapes for sale directly

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to the wineries.

Matt Doyle, who founded Doyle Vineyard Management with his wife Carre in 2009, saw an opportunity to fill a void within the market for vineyard management expertise. “Out West there are a lot of vineyard management companies,” says Carre, referring to the vast California growing regions. “In the Finger Lakes, it’s been all about independent growers. We wanted to become the first vineyard management company in this region.”

The art of vineyard management What is the difference between a vineyard management company and an independent grower? For the most part, an independent grower works the vines on his or her own land. A vineyard management company provides growing expertise by working vineyards owned by others, often through a leasing agreement, or by providing specific services directly to vineyard owners.

In the case of Doyle Vineyard

Management, the company completely manages over 900 acres of vineyards and helps with the harvest at 200 more.

While Doyle actively provides to the market the yield of over 1,000 acres of grapes annually, the company itself owns only 70 acres of its own vineyard property.

Local Roots Matt Doyle is a graduate of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, where he majored in agribusiness management and economics. A native of Hammondsport, Matt’s exposure to the service side of the wine business comes from his father, Mike Doyle.

A long-time employee of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company, Mike purchased the business in 1995 after a series of corporate dealings broke up the once formidable Taylor Wine Company (at the time a holder of Pleasant Valley). In addition to its own wine offerings, the Pleasant Valley Wine (Continued on page 18)

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There are three main species of grapes grown in the Finger Lakes: Vitis labrusca, Vitis vinifera and hybrid grapes.

Vitis labrusca, or “native” grapes, are endemic to the eastern United States.

Some of the best-known examples of these grapes are Concord and Catawba. Native grapes are winter-hardy and tend to have high yields, but are not considered by world authorities as the best winemaking grapes available. There is a long tradition of native grape winemaking in the Finger Lakes, both in sweet and dry wines, and native grapes still represent the largest acreage of plantings in the region.

Vitis vinifera, or “European” or “noble” grapes, are native to Europe and Asia, and have been cultivated for thousands of years for wine production. Some of the best-known examples of these grapes are Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and Riesling. While flavorful and dynamic in wine, vinifera’s roots have trouble with cold winters and the fruit needs warm summers to ripen.

While there have been many successful attempts at vinifera production in the Finger Lakes throughout the 20th century, the plantings of vinifera began to increase rapidly only in the 1990s through the present.

Hybrid grapes are either an accidental (natural) or engineered crossing between Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera (and sometimes a related vine known as Vitis riparia). Some of the best-known examples of these grapes are Traminette and Baco Noir. At their best, these grapes tend to demonstrate the cold-hardiness of native grape vines, while showing some of the favorable flavor profiles found in vinifera.

Many hybrids grown in the Finger Lakes and throughout the United States were created

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Fruit of the Vine Company plays an integral role in the Finger Lakes wine business by providing services such as bottling and wine storage in its vast facilities.

For over eight years, Matt worked for Constellation Brands, managing its vineyard holdings in the Finger Lakes.

During that period, he also briefly worked for Estancia Estates in California (a company held by Constellation), where he saw firsthand the important role that vineyard management companies play in that market. “In California, the weather is not as much of an issue as it is here,” he muses, “but all the variables make each season here in the Finger Lakes kind of fun.” After a season in California, Matt returned to New York.

When Constellation decided to get out of the grape farming business in 2008, Matt was left with a choice: explore management in a different region, or try his hand at management here. “We saw a calculated risk and went with it,” Matt says of his and his wife’s decision to found Doyle Vineyard Management in the Finger Lakes, a region which previously had not played host to a professional management company. Over the past four-and-a-half years, the staff at Doyle has grown to 11 full-time employees, an achievement that Matt and Carre note with pride.

Branching into the Finger Lakes Doyle manages vineyards for all sorts of clients, including companies, wineries and established growers. One of the growing segments for vineyard management is represented by “backyard” vineyards, which are usually a few acres planted around someone’s Finger Lakes residence. These clients range from existing land owners who are looking for new sources of income, to retired professionals who like the idea of having a vineyard attached to their seasonal home.

“This is a tough market for beginners,” Matt cautions, referring to the startup costs to plant vines and install trellis in a vineyard, as well as the three years of wait time for vines to reach maturity. Some small-scale vineyards, however, provide excellent sites for growing grapes.

Doyle’s business is representative of the Finger Lakes region as a whole.

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While vinifera, or European grape varieties, receive most of the acclaim and attention from an external audience, they make up only about 20 percent of Doyle’s production. Hybrid grapes make up an additional 30 percent of the annual yield produced by Doyle, and 50 percent of the grapes are of the native varieties.

Matt’s work extends through the heart of the Finger Lakes region, concentrated on the hillsides around Keuka and Seneca lakes, but touching vineyards around Canandaigua and Cayuga lakes as well. While the vast majority of Matt’s business comes from Finger Lakes wineries, he manages vineyards that sell to Welch’s juice program, as well as to wineries in the Hudson Valley, New York City and Long Island.

The native and hybrid grape market is pretty stable, notes Matt, but it can be hindered by all sorts of variables that affect demand and pricing on an annual basis. He has seen a steady growth in the vinifera market. “There’s a huge demand for Riesling we can’t fulfill,� Matt says, noting that he continues to plant that varietal. With a growing demand for vinifera, however, Matt sees a lot more work that needs to be put into each vine. “With vinifera, there’s a lot more time invested throughout the season with shoot thinning and leaf pulling. Also, wineries have different standards and measures for harvest.�

While Matt is proud of the grapes he produces for all of his clients – native, hybrid and vinifera alike – he has been particularly excited about the recent predilection of some Finger Lakes wineries to create single vineyard wines from a particular source and promote them as such. Wineries such as Silver Thread, Fox Fun and Inspire Moore have recently created wines adorned with the “Doyle Family Vineyard� designation, crafted 100 percent from grapes grown by Matt Doyle and his team. “It’s really inspiring as a grower to see that,� Matt says. “I’m proud of what we do.�

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Velocityand Pause

A look at Watkins Glen’s International Motor Racing Research Center

Not just books – this 1975 M23 Formula 1 car was loaned by Greg Galdi for display inside the IMRRC. Photo courtesy Nicholas Phoenix / International Motor Racing Research Center

by Connie Ann Kirk eading quietly at a golden oak table, I hear voices murmur at the front desk, but continue working, undisturbed. I take a few more notes. Eventually, my glance lifts over the page, and what I find in front of me is striking enough to distract even the most dedicated researcher.

I’m in a library, but one with a remarkable difference from others you may have visited. A rocket ship in the form of a gleaming silver Porsche 917 race car sits just a few feet away. Or it might be a spicy, 1975 M23 Formula 1 car.

Soon, I get up and join what’s clearly becoming an increasingly lively conversation over by the car. I know the best research I will do that day will come

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from listening in on this spontaneous gathering of cheerful motorsports enthusiasts.

Eternity, as the 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson once wrote, may come in the form of “velocity or pause.” If that’s true, at the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, one may experience a sense of eternity, since the IMRRC is all about the stories of speed and the opportunity to pause and reflect on what speed means, and has meant, to all of us. Research and racing go hand in hand at the center, but this treasure trove of archives and other materials for the serious researcher is also a friendly and pleasant place for anyone to visit who is interested in the region’s history and activities. And it’s free.

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Day Trip Racing back in time

Fifty-five race cars roar away in the classic start of the Le Mans 24hour endurance race in Le Mans, France, in 1962. American Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien of Belgium won the race in a Ferrari.

Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center’s Associated Press Collection

Triple World Champion Formula 1 racer Sir Jackie Stewart was on hand to officially open the IMRRC in June 1999.

Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center

A.J. Foyt poses with his Lotus 40 during Nassau Speed Week in 1965.

Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center’s National Speed Sport News Collection

Mario Andretti in the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen in 1968.

Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center

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In 1948, Cameron Argetsinger – father of current IMRRC president J.C. Argetsinger – brought road racing to Watkins Glen, instituting the first European-style racing in the United States in the post-World War II era.

Since then, several racing series have competed at The Glen, including Formula 1, Indy Car and NASCAR, among others.

When asked how the center came into play, J. C. said it was the “brainchild of my mother.” In the 1990s, Jean Argetsinger, then president of the board of trustees of the Watkins Glen Public Library, and John Saunders, then president of the Watkins Glen race track, wanted to find a significant way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of motor racing at Watkins Glen.

According to Harriet Eisman, current director of the Glen’s public library, a previously organized alcove of motorsports books “attracted the attention of writers, historians and fans,” so the need for a dedicated center became clear. In 1996, the idea got the green flag from both the Watkins Glen Public Library Board of Trustees and the motorsports community at large, and the race was on to create the facility in time for the anniversary. The donations came pouring in from across the entire spectrum of the motor racing community. The building – a wing added onto the library at 610 S. Decatur St. – took only a few months to build.

The building was dedicated during the U.S. Vintage Grand Prix in September of 1998 when the anniversary was celebrated. Sir Stirling Moss and John Fitch were among several racing legends who attended the festivities. In June, 1999, three-time Formula 1 World Champion racer Sir Jackie Stewart and his wife Helen were on hand to welcome visitors to the official opening.

“There are many great automotive and racing museums around the world,” Stewart said then. “But what has been created at Watkins Glen, a center for archives and real research, is truly unique and a tremendous asset to the whole racing community.”

Gauging the center Today, the center’s 5,000-square-foot space houses over 3,500 rare and reference books; more than 3,500 films; posters, programs, magazines, rare documents, club records, fine art and memorabilia; and

A History of the Watkins Glen Racetrack For the popular Arcadia history series, Michael Argetsinger, a member of the IMRRC governing council, and Bill Green, IMRRC historian, have written a history of the Watkins Glen racetrack from 1948 to 2012. Many of the photographs in Watkins Glen International are previously unpublished, and come from their private family collections, since both authors were eyewitnesses to events. Copies signed by both authors are available from the IMRRC. Argetsinger has also written a book called Formula One at Watkins Glen: Twenty Years of the U.S. Grand Prix 1961-1980. Both the author and the publisher donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the book directly to the support of the IMRRC.

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thousands of archival photographs.

“Our success is really our biggest problem,” says J.C. Argetsinger, as the center is running out of room.

Organizers hope to expand facilities in the future, and also digitize much of the collection.

The center is still run entirely by donations. Each year, a well-known figure from the sport leads its annual fund drive. Sponsorship team chairs have included Hurley Haywood, Sir Stirling Moss, Mario Andretti, Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, Bobby Rahal, Rusty Wallace, Brian Redman, Sam Posey, John Fitch, Bill Milliken and Denise McCluggage.

Asked why he supports the center, Rochester racer Larry Kessler, CEO of the Kessler Group Inc. and member of the IMRRC’s governing council, points out that racing is an important

Exterior of the International Motor Racing Research Center Photo courtesy Kevin Hughey / International Motor Racing Research Center

economic asset to the area.

Watkins Glen is “a worldwide iconic racing venue,” he says. It attracts visitors from all over to the region.

“The IMRRC is entwined in its history and will be part of its future.”

You don’t have to be a researcher to find your own timeless moment at the center. Just like in a public library, everyone is welcome. The list of those who have spoken in the center’s popular “Conversations” series, or who have just dropped by for a visit, reads like a motorsports who’s who and includes Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney, Phil Hill, Mario Andretti, Rusty Wallace, Emerson Fittipaldi, Derek Bell, Jim France, Denise McCluggage, Sam Posey, Doug Nye and many more.

When casual visitors stop in, Historian Bill Green and Archival Associate Kevin Hughey are both happy to share their lifetimes of knowledge about racing at The Glen. The two, along with Director Glenda Gephart and other staff members and volunteers, answer questions about the car on display, explain unique items from the collection, or show free films in the media room that match visitors’ personal interests. Visitors can

also find motorsports magazines, posters, artwork, used and rare books, and other items for sale that help support the center. A car is raffled off each year as a fundraiser.

It might take something close to an eternity to learn all there is to know about the high velocity world of motorsports that the collection and knowledgeable staff provide at the IMRRC. With its unique combination of resources, however, the center is well worth a pause.

Purchases or donations in support of the International Motor Racing Research Center can be made by calling the center at 607-535-9044, or visiting the website at racingarchives.org.

The IMRRC is located at 610 S. Decatur St., Watkins Glen.

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From

Beavers to

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Ontario County Historical Society Museum Where: 55 North Main St., Canandaigua Admission: Free; donations are welcome Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; closed Sundays, Mondays and major holidays Phone: 585-394-4975 Website: ochs.org

story and photos by Laurel C. Wemett

n the mid-17th century, the beaver became the principal commodity in profitable international trade due to its lustrous fur.

North American beaver pelts were in great demand, especially in Europe, for making felted hats, providing warmth and fashionable attire. Because of these events, the furry, wide-tailed animal will be forever immortalized as the State Animal of New York.

When the Ontario County Historical Society Museum in Canandaigua developed a new longterm exhibition exploring the history of Western New York, the beaver played quite a role in the story. But these dam-building critters shaped just one part of WNY’s illustrious past.

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Developing the display “Desires, Opportunities, Change: The Shaping of Western New York 1650 – 1797” opened at the Ontario County Historical Society Museum in late 2012. It explores complex alliances and struggles over trade, land ownership and settlement issues prompted by human desires and needs. A grant from the federal Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was matched by private donations and General Operating Support from the New York State Council on the Arts to create the society’s most expensive exhibit ever mounted. Preparation included three years of research, focus groups, surveys, educational webinars and blogs.

“Ontario County was at

one time all of Western New York State,” explains Ed Varno, the society’s executive director. Ontario County did not exist with its present boundaries until 1823, and earlier included all, or parts of, six other counties. In 2007, the society broadened its mission to interpret the vast area Ontario County once encompassed.

Early on, Varno posed a few of the questions the exhibit aimed to explore: Why did the Iroquois and the Huron struggle for supremacy in the fur trade with the Europeans? Why did Jesuits risk injury and death to set up missions?

Why did some colonists stay loyal to the British Cause? Why did Americans uproot their families to settle in the wilderness after the Revolution ended?

“We wanted as many perspectives as possible,” says the society’s Distance Learning Coordinator Ray Shedrick, who carried out much of the research. He and Varno undertook the planning with Society Educator Nancy Parsons, Curator Wilma Townsend and an exhibit consultant, Linda Norris, owner of Riverhill Associates. The team chose to have 12 near life-size figures representing diverse historic characters within four distinct chronologically ordered settings.

Varno says it balances “the desire to tell the story and at the same time simplify it for the public’s eye.”

They were the “movers and shakers,” explains Parsons of the As part of the exhibit, visitors can trade beaver pelts for manufactured goods such as blankets, bells, cloth and tools. In Western New York, bartering was the first contact between Native Americans and Europeans.

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History Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), European (Dutch, French and English) and American personalities selected. The exhibit planners worked with representatives of Ganondagan State Historic Site in Victor to ensure accuracy of the Senecas’ role.

Notable players Represented in the first segment covering 1650 to 1700, is the Marquis de Denonville, the Governor General of New France whose army marched into the Seneca homeland with the mission to destroy France’s fur trade competitors. A curly wig, knee-length trousers and confrontational pose reflect the Marquis’ aristocratic bearing. Joining him is Arent Van Corlaer, a Dutch fur trader, and Onatah, who exemplifies a Seneca warrior. Together they introduce the period when there was “a ravenous competition to control the flow of the continent’s greatest commodity at the time, the beaver pelt,” writes researcher Shedrick.

Mary Jemison, one of three women selected to depict events, was chosen because of her unique identity as a white woman adopted as a child into a Seneca tribe. “As a full member of the tribe, she married, raised a family and was involved in all tribal activities.

Her ability to communicate in English to those coming to settle here helped her adopted people to better under-

1650 to 1700 - Who are Our Brothers?

Left to right: Marquis Denonville, the Governor General of New France; Arent Van Corlaer, a Dutch fur trader, and Onatah, a Seneca man.

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stand the difficult challenges placed before them,” says Townsend. “I admire her for her ability to adapt to and fully embrace another culture as her own.

She had lost her own family, yet was able to find love and full acceptance within the Seneca community.”

Oliver Phelps, who appears with Jemison in the segment dated 1784 to 1787, is referred to as “the founding father of Western New York” by Shedrick.

“Without Phelps’ leadership,” reasons the researcher, “settlement would have taken much longer.” The land speculator from New England attracted Revolutionary War veterans. Many of these early settlers were well-educated and brought needed skills to the wilderness.

Something for everyone The family friendly exhibit communicates on many levels. It displays rare artifacts like the Canandaigua Treaty (1794), which established peace and friendship between the young U.S. and the Six Nations, and also affirmed Haudenosaunee land rights.

There are two informative video clips and “hands-on, minds-on” interactive activities. Four size-appropriate activity centers will help younger visitors interpret key concepts of the period. They can barter at one center, communicate in European and Seneca languages at another, then face the struggle to survive on the frontier, and finally weigh in on future land development.

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Featured in this vintage photograph of the southside cellblock are, on the lower level, Deputy Sheriff Cornelius Collins (with the bow tie) and his father Sheriff Jeremiah “Jerry” Collins (behind Cornelius, looking through the bars). Jerry served as Wayne County sheriff or deputy sheriff for more than 50 years, and is the great-grandfather of the museum’s current executive director, Larry Ann Evans.

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History Today, the Wayne County jail is a fascinating museum

by Laurel C. Wemett Photos courtesy of the Wayne County Historical Society

any tree-shaded homes on Butternut Street in the village of Lyons date back to the 19th century. Attached to one such house in this peaceful residential area is the old Wayne County jail, used from 1856 to 1960. Today, the jail is managed by the Wayne County Historical Society as the Museum of Wayne County History.

Years ago, the building at 21 Butternut St. combined the sheriff’s residence with prisoner housing. This type of living arrangement was not unique during that time period, but Wayne County’s jail is exceptional in that it has survived, says Executive Director Larry Ann Evans.

Rooms have been converted into galleries filled with displays interpreting the county’s earliest times to the

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The Museum of Wayne County History today

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present. The bleak jail cells, mainly empty and unchanged, remind visitors of the home’s unique past.

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Larry Ann Evans with her book, A Jail Among Us. On the wall is artwork drawn by one of the jail’s inmates.

Inmates in the old Wayne County jail found themselves behind heavy iron bars in one of 24 cells in two cellblocks. These were two-tiered until 1948, when a new ceiling in the north block created a second floor to accommodate women, always in the minority of the prison population. Prior to the division of the cellblock, some females like Georgia Sampson, accused of killing her husband in 1892, were kept in bedrooms of the house. In the basement kitchen, the sheriff, his wife and family routinely prepared prisoners’ meals.

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county prison in New York State,” says Evans. The author of A Jail Among Us (2010), she knows many stories of the inmates, and the brave acts of law-abiding sheriffs who brought them to justice. In fact, she is a descendant of Sheriff Jeremiah “Jerry” Collins, whose 50 years with the sheriff’s department included the capture of the notorious train robber Oliver Curtis Perry in 1892.

Today, near life-size figures of some former occupants stand inside the cells facing visitors. The likeness of a former museum director serves, ironically, as a stand-in for William Fee, whose conviction of the murder and rape of a young woman in 1860 led to his execution in the jail. Pointing out an enlarged replica of a ticket issued to view the

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hanging, Evans says it’s not clear if they charged for tickets, if there was a lottery or if tickets were just given to 200 prominent Wayne County residents. The crossbeam that supported the noose remains in the cell along with a chair, one of two fabricated from the wood of the gallows.

Graffiti drawn by criminals on the cell walls, probably during the 1940s and ’50s, includes several cartoon-like figures, crosses, an old automobile and autographs like “Killer Roy was here.” Today, their preservation is a priority. A climate control system installed a few years ago has slowed deterioration of the walls caused by humidity. Evans is seeking to conserve these rare drawings through available grant funding.

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Upcoming Jail-Themed Programming Mason Winfield’s Haunted History Ghost Walk When: Every Saturday in October at 7 p.m.

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Ghostly encounters Is the old jail haunted? Evans doesn’t even hesitate before answering with a resounding “yes.” She and coworkers have heard mysterious voices, and had uneasy feelings in the building. Earlier this year, an episode for the SyFy Channel’s Haunted Collector was taped there. Prompted by the unsettling experiences of a Geneva descendant of William Fee, the television program’s hosts visited the Lyons jail to investigate paranormal activity.

“Jerry Collins must have been channeling through me,” laughs Evans while standing in the sheriff’s office where her great-grandfather and other lawmen investigated everything from forgeries to murders. Evans herself provided information that led to the apprehension of a criminal who stole a Civil War sword and jacket from the museum a few years back. The thief was arrested thanks in part to the quick thinking of Evans and the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department. The museum has since installed surveillance cameras.

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“You can’t wait for inspiration.

You have to go after it with a club.”

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– Jack London, American author, journalist and social activist

Bound and Determined How to break through the photographic brick wall

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here’s not an amateur photographer out there who When I searched for waterfalls in New doesn’t hit the photoYork State, more than 200 were listed. graphic brick wall once All had different drive times. Some in a while. It’s like writer’s block – were as close as 10 minutes, while the mind goes blank, and you can’t others were four hours away. think of one thing to shoot.

I’m not the best photographer, but one thing I do well is consistently find new subjects to take pictures of. Fellow photographers often tell me, “I don’t live in the right area, and I can’t afford a photography trip.” The answer to all your problems is a pencil and a notebook.

The notebook carried in your pocket is an idea book.

Bring it with you everywhere, and jot down one-word ideas whenever they come up. Words may include lighthouse, festivals, buffalo, bridges or trees. Go home and look them up on the Internet. You’ll be surprised at how much you discover.

What’s my point?

No matter where you live, there are plenty of things to photograph. To save These scenes found at Finger Lakes festivals are photo inspiring. time, know where you’re going and what you’ll be shooting. Have a topic in mind, and don’t limit yourself to a specific type of photography. You may think landscape shots are your calling, but after trying other things, you may change your mind.

Remember: When you see those great photographs of exotic places, they are only exotic places because you don’t live there. People who do live there say, “Oh, that old mountain? I see it every day.” The place in which you live is not a bad one, and to others it looks fantastic and different. That’s why so many people come to the Finger Lakes – to see the sites and, of course, take pictures.

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Duck Keep reminders in your notebook that ducks arrive in April.

Redheads are only here for a few days or weeks.

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Buffalo meat was on sale in Wegmans one day, so I jotted down the word “buffalo.”

When I looked it up online, I discovered there was a bison farm 30 minutes away. I visited it that weekend, and captured this shot.

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Finger Lakes Lighthouse I placed the word “lighthouse” in my notebook, and when I got on the Internet I found over 40 in New York State. When I went out to capture this image, I found other great shots of beaches, waterfowl and lakefronts.

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Dock at sunset Take note of lighting conditions, sun direction and time of day. This dock photograph is simple, but the lighting at sunset made it phenomenal.

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Planes, trains and automobiles fill my notebook. Find planes at an airport, or as reproductions in museums. Automobiles may be antiques, junk cars or race cars.

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Landscape story and photos by Phillip Bonn

Dramatic skies are seen over the cattails from the Blue Heron trail looking north.

It’s difficult to conceive that this was farmland not long ago.

The creation of the Seneca Meadows Wetlands Preserve

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Soaring overhead looking for a tasty meal, this redtail hawk is one of several species attracted to the complex.

Purple and lavender asters lead the eye to an ancient oak tree dominating the fields.

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Volunteers joined students from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse to gather seeds at Seneca Meadows.

o the west of the graveled lot north of Seneca Falls sat a large bare hill – Seneca Meadows, the largest active landfill in New York. Many unfamiliar plants surrounded the area, and there were no invasive species in sight. The plants were highly varied, unlike the almost homogeneous abandoned farm fields usually seen in my journeys. Like New York City’s Central Park, this landscape was completely man-made.

I was part of a group whose mission was to gather as much ripened seed as possible during the four hours we were allowed in the wetlands. We all gathered around Frank Morlock of the Department of Environmental Conservation for a quick briefing. He handed us sacks for the seeds and a handout with photos of the sought-after plants. We were split into two teams: one to gather emergent plan seeds, and the other to focus on wet meadow foliage.

Piling into a U.S. Fish and Wildlife pickup, we headed off to our target area. Watching the landscape breeze by, it was hard to imagine that all of this was sculpted from former farmlands.

Seneca Meadows Inc. Seneca Meadows Inc. (SMI) owns and operates this non-hazardous solid waste facility, managing 6,500 tons of waste per day on average. The company’s dedication to the conservation and protection of the natural environment seems out of place.

However, it prides itself on going the extra mile.

The expansion in 2007 into bordering wetlands was unavoidable. Instead of the normal 3:1 ratio required, Seneca Meadows choose to restore more than eight times the amount of wetlands lost – 576 acres to be exact. In addition, in 2009, SMI opened an

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Environmental Education Center, where it presents environmental-related courses and labs for the area schools and community.

“The Education Center building is gold level LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, and houses a laboratory, exhibit room and office space. Environmental features include regionally harvested timber framing, a geothermal heating and cooling system, daylighting controls, and many other earth friendly components,” reads the Seneca Meadows website.

SMI has received numerous awards, including “Seneca County Business of the Year” and the Rochester Business Journal Environmental Leadership Award in 2009.

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Creating a wetland preserve The remarkable landscape that is the Seneca Meadows wetlands today was originally the Dove Farm, and the terrain was formerly used for agricultural purposes. It was relatively flat, and embedded with drainage tiles.

Applied Ecological Services (AES), an ecological consulting firm out of Wisconsin, designed and created the wetlands.

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Far left: This view shows the almost featureless former farmland just prior to being sculpted Left: All the grading has been completed and the plantings will start soon Left, middle: The fields are filled with prairie survivor, drooping coneflower. If you crush the head an odor of anise is emitted.

We removed the tiles, built up some areas, lowered others, dug ponds, removed trees and created new drainage channels for the various types of wetlands,” explains Ben Zimmerman, one of AES’s restoration ecologists.

The results of their efforts have been astounding. Initial surveys show that prior to creating the Meadows, 71 bird species populated the area. By 2012, 171 identified bird species were present. Peregrine falcons and shorteared owls, both on the New York State Endangered Species list, have been spotted there.

Also onsite are five threatened bird species, two of which were discovered breeding in 2012. A New York State Species of Special Concern, the American Bittern, has also been spotted there. It is one of nine Special Concern species at Seneca Meadows.

Endangered birds aren’t the only animals utilizing the Meadows and its resources. Jefferson and bluespotted salamanders, also New York State Species of Special Concern, inhabit the area as well.

“It’s exciting to see the success of this wetland creation project,” notes Mike McGraw, AES wildlife biologist.

“The diverse native vegetation and wetland types offer habitat to a great variety of mammals, amphibians, birds and reptiles, and we expect to see more new species as the site matures.”

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Dianne McKnight, at left, enjoys the deck at Two Goats brewpub in Hector with sister-in law Michelle and brother Michael Doughtie, husband Stuart McKnight, and Robert Todd of Oneida and Lori Grapes of Elmira.

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ack in 2000, Stuart and Dianne McKnight from Castleton-on-Hudson, south of Albany, decided to spend a long weekend visiting the Finger Lakes. When they arrived it was getting dark, and every accommodation they stopped at was filled. In Watkins Glen they came upon the rustic Seneca Lodge, adjacent to the state park. Seeing the lodge’s quaint cabins scattered about the woods, Stuart recalls thinking: “Oh my God, what have we gotten ourselves into?”

Nevertheless, the receptionist there said she had one cabin left and, “We took it,” Stuart said, “and had the best time of our lives. We went to the lodge’s bar and ended staying there for most of the night.”

Since that first visit, Stuart, a retired police officer, and Dianne, an executive with an Albany investment firm, have made the trip to the Finger Lakes an annual event. In recent years, they’ve been joined by Dianne’s brother Michael Doughtie and his wife Michelle, also of Castleton-on-Hudson.

The couples keep coming back for the beautiful scenery, the good food – and the craft beer. In a region known for its fine fermentation of grapes, grain brewing is growing.

More beer here In the past year, the number of breweries and brewpubs in the 14-county Finger Lakes Region has doubled – from just over 20 to more than 40, according to Theresa Hollister,

cofounder of FingerLakesBeerTrail.com.“In the last week alone, I’ve gotten notices of four new breweries coming on board,” she said.

Much of the growth can be attributed to recent farm brewery legislation in New York that removed obstacles and facilitated the startup and operation of brewpubs, Hollister noted. It includes a provision that the new pubs must use an escalating proportion of New York-grown beer-making ingredients such as hops and barley malt. Asked if there were sufficient providers of the newly required local ingredients, Hollister said: “Not yet – no. That’s why we need more hops growers and more barley malters. A handful of malt houses are in the planning stage in the Finger Lakes Region now.”

David Katleski, president of the New York State Brewers Association and owner of Empire Brewing Company in Syracuse, reported that his company plans to build a new 18,000-square-foot brewery and tasting room in Cazenovia.“We will open with about a 20,000-barrel annual capacity, and have the capability of expanding to 60,000 barrels.”

Business at his location in Syracuse’s Armory Square is up 30 percent over last year, he noted. For the last three years he has also been brewing at a friend’s facility in Brooklyn, which has given him the opportunity to distribute in that location. At the Cazenovia site, he will have bottling and canning systems that will also greatly expand sales potential. “It’s a new venture for us,” he said.

When Empire was founded in 1994, it was the sixth brewery in New York State. This August, the number stood at 135. “That type of growth is staggering,” said Katleski. “We’ve added 100 breweries in just 10 years. I know of another 40 breweries that are in the planning stages right now.”

Katleski attributes the growth, in part, to the changing consumer palate and increasing interest in buying local.

“Those are the two things that are really driving this industry right now, and, frankly, of the 135 brewers that are in New York State, I don’t know of one that isn’t at capacity.”

Hope for hops Growth could not happen without the new farm brewery license, because, as Katleski noted, it “expands a brewer’s ability to do things that no other license in New York State allows. Essentially, you can have tasting rooms, you can sell pints of beer, you can have a restaurant component and you can sell other people’s New York-distilled spirits, or farm cider or even wine.

“There are certain levels of New York State products you have to use in the beer itself, and the reason those regulations are in there is to encourage both hop processing and malted barley production in the state,” Katleski explained.

“Those are really a target. If, for some reason, the farm industry cannot keep up with our demand, we’re not going to be penalized. There are certain outs we have that will allow us to use as much New York product as is out there.”

The tasting room at the Wagner Valley Brewing Company offers a variety of beers and ales, including the popular Summer Sail Hefeweisen.

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Kevin Vestel of Apalachin buys a flight of beer at the Ithaca Beer Company tasting room. Besides New York, the company distributes its beer in six surrounding states.

Katie Roller, marketing director at the Wagner Vineyards and brewery serves a taste of beer to Cassandra Aikman and Matthew Dittler, both of Elmira, at the Seneca Lodge Beer Festival last December.

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He offered this example: “Empire makes a beer called Empire State Pale Ale, one of our best sellers. It is made only with New York State hops. We have not been able to produce that particular beer for five months because there are no New York State hops available. It’s the first time we’ve run out. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that last year it was a really dry growing season and the hops yields were about 60 percent of what they normally are, plus there’s increased demand in New York.”

In the mid-19th century, almost 90 percent of the hops used for brewing beer in the United States were grown in New York. The crop was a major component of the state’s agriculture.

However, by the start of the 20th century, pests and disease had greatly reduced the hops acreage here, then Prohibition finished it off. Today, hopsgrowing is concentrated in the state of Washington’s Yakima Valley.

Steve Miller is a New York State hops specialist based in Madison County. He assists farmers who are interested in growing hops, and coordinates the Northeast Hops Alliance and publishes its newsletter. “I think people who are farm brewers will be able to find what they need in locally grown hops,” Miller related. “I think they’ll have a little more difficulty finding enough malt, but that’s going to change, too.

I’m getting e-mails as I’m sitting here talking – people inquiring about prospects for growing hops or barley.

That’s surprising in that it’s very expensive to put in a hops crop – with labor, it’s about $15,000 an acre.”

He added, “I don’t think there will ever be the acreage there was 100 years ago, but there’s definitely a critical mass of growers who are interested. A lot of people who put in 100 or 200 Left, top to bottom: Wagner Brewing Company brewmaster Brent Wojnowski adds pelleted hops to the wort during the brewing process.

Martin Mattrazzo processes barley at his Farmhouse Malt facility in Newark Valley.

Mattrazzo and his wife Natalie, who’s also his business partner, plan to open a brewery and tasting room at the malthouse in the fall.

Todd Wyckoff checks the hops in the drying bin at the Wyckoff hops farm in Sheldrake.

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plants a few years ago are now adding an acre or two.”

Todd Wyckoff, who operates a four-acre hops farm in Sheldrake, is one of the growers thinking about expanding acreage. With his hops in their third year of production, he had a bumper crop to harvest this year. It had to be done in a timely fashion to preserve the hops’ essential oils and to prevent decay.

But he needed help. Last year, it came from family and neighbors who helped remove the hops cones off the bines. This season, such neighborly assistance would not have been sufficient, so Wyckoff built himself a mechanical harvester at a cost of about $30,000. In comparison, a reconditioned harvester from Germany would have cost him $50,000, he noted.

At last report, Wyckoff had run five hops bines through the harvester, and the machine had successfully removed 99 percent of the cones. Last year, Wyckoff sold his crop to three breweries. This year he has lined up five customers for the larger crop. The grower said he has about 20 acres available for expansion. “I couldn’t add acreage until

I had the means to harvest the crop,” he noted. “Now I can do it.”

At the same time, Wyckoff revealed he was considering yet another possibility: “I don’t know whether I want to go the route of expansion or put a brewery in.

A brewery would complement the wineries that are close by here, so it’s an option we’re looking at.”

Mom-and-pops On the other end of Empire Brewing Company’s thousands-of-barrels brewery spectrum are the smaller, mom-and-pop operations.

Nate and Josie Holden, who both have had experience in the wine industry, broke ground recently on a new 3,500square-foot brewery on Routes 5 and 20 in East Bloomfield. Their Nedloh Brewery will include a production facility on the ground floor and a tasting room, retail outlet and hops museum

Top: Matt Wyckoff checks hops cones on the Wyckoff hop yard in Sheldrake.

Above: A cross-section of a hops cone at the Wyckoff farm in Sheldrake.

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1 Rohrbach Brewing Company (Brewpub) 3859 Buffalo Road, Rochester rohrbachs.com

11 Keuka Brewing Company 8572 Briglin Road, Hammondsport keukabrewingcompany.com

21 Starkey's Lookout / G.C. Starkey Beer Company 5428 State Route 14, Dundee starkeyslookout.com

30 Crafty Ales and Lagers 2 Exchange Street, Phelps facebook.com/Crafty-Ales-and-Lagers

2 Genesee Brew House (Genesee Brewing Company) 25 Cataract Street, Rochester geneseebrewhouse.com

12 The Brewery of Broken Dreams (Opening Soon) 8319 Pleasant Valley Road, Hammondsport

22 Rock Stream Brewery 162 Fir Tree Point Road, Rock Stream rockstreamvineyards.com

31 3 Herons Brewing Co. (Brewing Soon) 9632 Route 96, Trumansburg facebook.com/3HBCo

3 Roc Brewing Co. 56 South Union Street, Rochester rocbrewingco.com

13 Finger Lakes Beer Company 8462 State Route 54, Hammondsport fingerlakesbeercompany.com

23 Nickel's Pit BBQ / Rooster Fish Brewing 205-207 North Frankin Street, Watkins Glen nickelspitbbq.com

4 Rohrbach Brewing Company (Production) 97 Railroad Street, Rochester rohrbachs.com

14 The Site Cyber Bar & Grill (Brewing Soon) 65 Bridge Street, Corning thesitecyberbarandgrill.com

5 Fairport Brewing Company 99 South Main Street, Fairport fairportbrewing.com

15 Market Street Brewing Company 63 West Market Street, Corning 936-beer.com

6 CB Brewing Company 300 Village Square Boulevard, Honeoye Falls cbsbrewing.com

16 Birdland Brewing Company 1015 Kendall Street, Horseheads birdlandbrewingco.com

7 Naked Dove Brewing Company 4048 State Route 5 and 20, Canandaigua nakeddovebrewing.com

17 Upstate Brewing Company 3028 Lake Road, Elmira upstatebrewing.com

8 Brew & Brats at Arbor Hill 6461 Route 64, Naples brewandbrats.com

18 Horseheads Brewing, Inc. 250 Old Ithaca Road, Horseheads horseheadsbrewing.com

9 LyonSmith Brewing Co. (Opening Soon) 138 Water Street, Penn Yan

19 Climbing Bines Craft Ale Co. (Opening Soon) 511 Hansen Point, Penn Yan climbingbineshopfarm.com

10 Abandon Brewing Company (Opening Soon) 2994 Merritt Hill Road, Penn Yan abandonbrewing.com

20 Miles Craft Ales @ Miles Wine Cellars 168 Randall Road, Himrod mileswinecellars.com/beer

24 Crooked Rooster Brewpub / Rooster Fish Brewing 223-301 North Franklin Street, Watkins Glen roosterfishbrewing.com

32 Ithaca Beer Company 122 Ithaca Beer Drive, Ithaca ithacabeer.com 33 Bandwagon Brew Pub 114 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca bandwagonbeer.com 34 Scale House Brew Pub 23 Cinema Drive, Ithaca scalehousebrewpub.com

25 Seneca Lodge Craft Brewing (Seasonal) 3600 State Route 419, Watkins Glen senecalodge.com

35 Rogues' Harbor Brewing Company 2079 East Shore Drive, Lansing roguesharbor.com/our-beer

26 Heavily Brewing Company (Opening Soon) 2471 Hayes Hill Road, Montour Falls heavilybrewingcompany.com

36 Hopshire Farms and Brewery 1771 Dryden Road, Freeville hopshire.com

27 Two Goats Brewing 5027 State Route 414, Hector twogoatsbrewing.com 28 Wagner Valley Brewing Company 9322 State Route 414, Lodi wagnerbrewing.com 29 War Horse Brewing Company 623 Lerch Road, Geneva 3brotherswinery.com/war-horse.html

37 Bacchus Brewing Company 15 Ellis Drive, Dryden bacchusbrewing.com

40 Middle Ages Brewing Company 120 Wilkinson Street, Syracuse middleagesbrewing.com 41 Empire Brewing Company 120 Walton Street (Armory Square), Syracuse empirebrew.com 42 Syracuse Suds Factory 320 South Clinton Street (Armory Square), Syracuse sudsfactory.com 43 FarmHouse Brewery (Opening Soon) 2 Whig Street, Newark Valley thefarmhousebrewery.com 44 The North Brewery 110 Washington Avenue, Endicott northbrewery.com 45 Binghamton Brewing Co. (Opening Soon) 15 Avenue B, Johnson City bingbrew.com 46 Water Street Brewing Co. 168 Water Street, Binghamton waterstreetbrewingco.com

38 Cortland Beer Company 16 Court Street, Cortland cortlandbeer.com

47 Galaxy Brewing Company (Opening Soon) 41 Court Street, Binghamton galaxybrewingco.com

39 Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant 304 Hiawatha Blvd. West (inside Destiny USA), Syracuse facebook.com/GBSyracuse

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on the floor above. They also have plans for a hops yard on four acres of adjoining property, and will take advantage of the state’s new farm brewery provisions by using local ingredients in their beers.

“We’re going to offer a stout, pale ale, IPA, a seasonal beer and a ‘wacky’ flavor,” Josie said. “We definitely want to have something different.”

Nate added: “It’s a two-week process start to finish. You can consistently have new recipes coming out every two weeks.”

What the McNights recommend Routinely, when Stuart and Dianne McKnight make their annual pilgrimage to the Finger Lakes, their first stop is Wagner Valley Brewery overlooking Seneca Lake in Lodi. “We go out on the deck to have lunch and a beer,” Stuart related. “The scenery is great; you just can’t beat it.”

Dianne’s favorite beer there is the pale ale. “Way back when Stuart and I first met, we drank beers like Coor’s Light,” she noted. “Today, I pretty much stick to the pale ales or an India pale ale. If I want a lighter beer, I’ll drink a pilsener or maybe a lager.”

After the Wagner brewery, the McKnights and Doughties travel just a few miles down the road to another brewpub called Two Goats. Located in Hector – again with an awesome view of Seneca Lake – this small pub is a favorite of local residents, as well as of visitors who appreciate its convivial atmosphere.

Earlier this year, the McKnights attended the annual “Tap New York” gathering of beer aficionados at Hunter Mountain in the Catskills. “I wore my Two Goats T-shirt, and you wouldn’t believe how many people came up to me because they knew the place,” Dianne related. “I love the atmosphere at Two Goats. We can’t wait to get there.”

Also on their list of brewpubs to visit this fall is the new Ithaca Beer Company brewery off Route 13 south of Ithaca. Its “Flower Power” India pale ale, available in bottles at markets near their home, “is one of the best IPAs we’ve ever had,” said Stuart.

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Two Goats brewpub in Hector is a favorite gathering place for both local residents and visitors.

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Flower Power, with its strongly hopped flavor and aroma, is the company’s best seller, said Dan Mitchell, who owns Ithaca Beer Company with his wife Mari. In fact, it accounts for 50 percent of Ithaca Beers’ production volume. “We use seven varieties of hops in Flower Power,” Mitchell noted. “It’s the combination of all of them that makes that beer special.”

Mitchell opened his first brewery and tasting room in 1998 along Route 13, just south of Buttermilk Falls. He moved into the new 15,000-square-foot facility last October, and has expanded his production capacity by almost 60 percent. This year, he expects to produce 20,000 barrels of beer and, with additional fermenters, he forecasts a production rate of 30,000 barrels next year. Today, the brewery employs 60, up from 15 at the old location.

Visitors can view the production room through a floorto-ceiling glass wall. About a dozen beers are offered in the tasting room at any one time. Some are seasonal; others are year-round or part of a limited run. Cascazilla – a nod to

Ithaca’s Cascadilla Gorge, and the large amount of hops used in the beer – is a year-round favorite IPA, Mitchell noted. The same is true for his Apricot Wheat Ale, which features wheat and barley malts along with apricot flavor. A restaurant that offers a variety of luncheon items, including the brewery’s organicallygrown vegetables, adjoins the bar.

When the new brewery opened last year, it immediately drew a crowd of craft-beer enthusiasts. Aaron and Bethann Smith of East Syracuse were among the early visitors. The couple enjoyed sitting at the counter, looking out onto the brewery’s outdoor patio and bocci court. Recentlyplanted hops bines were beginning to climb wooden supports along the paths.

The Smiths were drinking flights of the brewery’s offerings – Bethann said she preferred the dark oatmeal stout while Flower Power was always a favorite with Aaron. “It’s really fresh here – just perfect,” he said.

Bethann made a point of praising the new brewery’s location. “It’s so open and nice out here in the country,” she remarked. “Having this in Ithaca is just beautiful.”

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Marc was door-to-door getting his Middle Ages beer on draft before it was cool for bars to carry craft.

Some 20 years later, his handcrafted English-style ales made with 160-year-old yeast and medieval-inspired open fermentation attract one of the most faithful followings in the business.

Marc Rubenstein, Co-Founder/Brewmaster

Sipping history – just one of the stories, traditions and tastes on tap in Central New York.

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How-to

the basics

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s the weather chills and the leaves change, those pumpkin ales and spiced lagers call out to you.

Why not make your own and stock up for winter hibernation?

Now that we’ve got you thinking about homebrewing this harvest season, here are a few safety tips for your newfound hobby.

Avoid bottle rockets It’s not atypical for your first couple of beer brewing experiences to include some explosions and beer-soaked walls. According to beer smith.com – a homebrewing blog – there are five things you can do to prevent bottles from breaking.

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Use high-quality ingredients.

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Allow the beer to ferment completely – you may be drooling over it already, but it will be worth the wait.

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Use good bottles – the thickest you can find. Avoid bottles with twist-off caps.

and weigh the right 4 Calculate amount of priming sugar.

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Store your beer in a cool, dark place.

Scrub down everything It may sound a little obsessive compulsive, but clean your brewing equipment and then sanitize it. “Sanitary basically means germ-free, and nothing can be germ-free unless it is also clean,”

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writes Dave Miller in his book Dave Miller’s Homebrewing Guide.

“If sanitation is not maintained,” says Miller, “the wort or beer will be contaminated and an infection will take hold.”

Keep your eye on the prize Never leave your active brewing equipment unattended, and make sure your brewpots are big enough to prevent the wort – the term for beer prior to fermentation – from boiling over.

Don’t black out The fermentation process that takes place when brewing beer produces carbon dioxide, and if you inhale too much of it you can black out, explains a blog post from E.C. Kraus, a 46-year-old supply company for homebrewers and winemakers.

Space out The more you brew, the more addicted to the process you’ll probably become. That addiction is fed by lots and lots of toys, meaning larger brewpots. The larger the brewpot, the more boiling liquid you have to deal with, so consider moving your brewing operation out of your kitchen and into a larger space. “Advanced brewers have moved their brewing operations into their basements, garages and utility rooms (and some of their spouses have moved to new addresses),” writes Marty Nachel in Homebrewing for Dummies.

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trange though it may be, my path to photography began with bird watching. More than anything, bird watching taught me to slow down, observe and pay closer attention to the natural world around me. Whatever kind of photography I am doing, it is always the best when I lose expectations and wait to see what is revealed. In being still, in mind and body, it is possible to see things that would go unnoticed, though it is always a balancing act to actively go somewhere and then let go of preconceived ideas.

Internationally recognized photographer Freeman Patterson said, “Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.” I can’t think of a better way to express what photography has meant to me. It is a wonderful journey with camera in hand.

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Diana Whiting is an awardwinning photographer. Her work can be seen or purchased at Headquarters Hair Salon in Skaneateles where she is the owner, and at her website, dianawhitingphotography.com

New Hope Mills I must admit, shots like this involve some planning. It calls for a day with soft even lighting to capture all the texture and color in the iconic mill with the fall foliage.

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Fall Tapestry I am always drawn to birches and aspens. I love the sense of rhythm in the repetition of the trees.

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hen we were kids, I would call my cousin Jamin on the telephone and talk his ear off. Or at least I thought I was talking his ear off – in truth he would get bored, put the telephone receiver in a nearby fruit basket and walk away while I chattered on, unknowingly. “Fruit basket” was an inside joke in my family (at my expense) for years, one that still makes me blush when I get “zinged” at family gatherings.

Left: Artist Jamin Uticone creates baskets out of the black and white ash trees he finds in the swamp next to his homestead. “Even as a kid I was fascinated by weaving,” says Uticone. “I would take bobbins of thread and cover the house in webs.”

Below: This selection of strapped baskets includes an urban tote, a 9-inch side bag and water carrier. Photos courtesy Jamin Uticone

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At my wedding in 2009, Jamin took the edge off that embarrassing story by gifting me with a hand-crafted, roundbottomed fruit basket of my own – one that he made himself.

Jamin, you see, is a craftsman – a basket maker whose work has been featured at the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian, and in publications like Vogue and Bon Appetit.

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How Do I Order a Basket?

Jamin takes custom orders, or you can choose from his regular selection of baskets, which you can find on his website swamproadbaskets.com. How long your order takes depends on a host of factors including assembly time, Jamin’s current workload and available in-stock selection. Here is an overview of some of his top-selling items and their price ranges.

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English-style Trugs start at around $150, and come in three sizes. These are among Jamin’s most affordable starter baskets.

Jamin’s top-sellers are his “bellied” backpacks, which start at around $800. They are finished with antiqued brass buckles, and are trimmed with top-quality, vegetable-tanned bridle leather.

Large, woven “art pieces” – wall hangings and large table baskets – measure around seven to eight feet in length, and prices start at around $1500.

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1. Riving wood – splitting logs into smaller billets – using a froe and mallet. These splits are carved into handles and rims for the baskets.

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2. English-style Trug baskets are becoming popular among Jamin’s clients. These nested Trugs are made from white ash and poplar with copper tacks.

3. Here, Jamin is lashing the rims of a handled basket. He works in his own studio, located on the family homestead.

4. Backpacks come in a variety of sizes. This Urban Pack comes trimmed with dark-brown, vegetable-tanned bridle leather and is finished with antiqued brass tacks.

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The Ithaca Farmers Market has the clientele for selling high-end art, and the open-air setting allows Jamin to demonstrate his technique, which he says was key to building his business.

“At the market, someone can see and touch and listen to the sound of what goes into making these baskets. No matter how busy I am, I will always try to be at the Ithaca market a couple of times a month to demonstrate.”

Putting down roots The Finger Lakes is not just where Jamin works; the region is integral to the work itself. “The region is ideal in terms of the water. These trees like the water, and start with their roots in that water,” explains Jamin. “You don’t find this kind of inland water everywhere, so the Finger Lakes are special.”

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Jamin’s process begins in spring, when he harvests trees from the swamp. Using a dolly built by his father, Jim, Jamin transports logs through the swamp, back to the shop; trees cut in spring are soaked in a canoe full of water until fall.

Next, the log’s bark is removed with a draw knife, exposing the most recent layer of growth, and a heavy hammer is used to

The seasonality of the area is also important to the basket making process. “I couldn’t do this somewhere where conditions didn’t change. I need the wintertime to hibernate, sort through the year’s harvest, weave and do a little dreaming.”

It was Jamin’s sister, Joleene, who bought land surrounded by the swamp. “When I started, I was living in Tompkins County, a little closer to Trumansburg. Joleene and I were living on some land, learning homesteading techniques, and I began working as an apprentice to [basket maker] Jonathan Kline. Later, Joleene bought this land across from the swamp, and Julia and I followed. We didn’t come looking for the [black and white ash] trees, but they were here, and it worked out so well. It’s peaceful;

the trees I need are here, and I can work the way I want to work.”

In the summer of 2012, the family started using solar power for the homestead, which includes Jamin’s workshop, as well as the family home.

Jamin and Julia raise chickens, grow food and recently started raising bees.

A shadow looms on the horizon for the future of Swamp Road Baskets in the form of a very small but lethal beetle known as the Emerald Ash Borer (or EABs). The non-native EABs threaten to destroy the trees Jamin relies on; they have already destroyed over 50 million ash trees in the U.S. since they were discovered in Michigan in 2002.

“Within three years of infection, a tree is unusable,” says Jamin when asked about the future of his trees against the invasive beetle. “There is no way to stop the borers without

pound and compress the log, allowing annual rings to separate. Strips are sorted and coiled onto themselves for storage; at this stage, material can be cut to size and scraped smooth.

Before weaving, strips are dipped into hot water on top of the wood stove. Strips vary in age and texture; Jamin finds that cool, wet years produce the thickest growth rings.

mass cutting, which goes against my sensitive nature. The trees are coming down one way or the other.

Unfortunately if it isn’t the borer, it’s the chainsaw – it seems inevitable.”

Working locally, thinking globally Working close to home has not limited Jamin’s reach. Orders for Swamp Road Baskets have been placed from such far flung places as France and Tokyo, and Jamin has twice been invited to teach his techniques to students in Great Britain – first in 2007, and again in May 2013 at the “Basketry & Beyond Festival” in South Devon. And while you can certainly put a price tag on the baskets – Trugs start around $150, backpacks around $800 – in the beginning, (Continued on page 95)

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Food

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Pear & Gorgonzola Salad The interesting thing about this salad is the bitterness of the vegetables in contrast with the sweetness of the pears and the candied walnuts. This is the kind of salad you can have fun with through different added ingredients and variations of the dressing.

Make the candied walnuts first.

Candied Walnuts 1 egg white, whipped until thick 3 tablespoons sugar 1 cup walnuts Mix sugar and nuts into the whipped egg white. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, pour mixture into pan, and bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Allow to cool completely before handling.

Next assemble the salad.

excerpted from Finger Lakes Feast by Kate Harvey and Karl Zinsmeister, with photos by Noah Zinsmeister, published in 2012 by McBooks Press

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Salt and pepper to taste 1½ cups chicken stock 2 tablespoons butter Heat the oil in a sauté pan and add the shallots. Once they are becoming translucent, add the shredded brussels sprouts, salt and pepper. Sauté for about a minute. Add the chicken stock and allow to cook until the brussels sprouts are bright green.

Remove from heat, add butter and toss until it is melted. If desired, add additional salt and freshly ground pepper.

Serves 8.

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Finger Lakes Feast is available at many bookstores, gift shops and wineries in the Finger Lakes Region. It is also sold by online booksellers.

It can be ordered by phone from the Independent Publishers Group (800-888-4741) or at the McBooks Press website (mcbooks.com).

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Finger Lakes Tourism

explore and discover

Finger Lakes

Foodie

by Jessica Robideau, Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance ulia Child once said, “Life itself is the proper binge.” In the tourism field, there’s so much depth to exploring Julia’s logic. The Finger Lakes sets the scene for the perfect lifestyle binge, with a diversity of attractions, shops, parks and places to rest your head at the end of the night.

A long day of exploring museums, state parks or being out on the lake, and you’re ready for that perfect bite to put the cherry on top of your amazing day.

Fuel is required for long hours of exploring, and luckily, the region offers diverse and indulgent epicurean experiences.

Want to get gussied up, or would you rather stay in shorts and flip flops for dinner? In the Finger Lakes region, you can find award-winning restaurants or hole-in-the-wall eateries, both with menu items out of this world.

Here are some of the indulgent culinary delights available in the region to make your Finger Lakes visit one exquisite binge.

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Bobbing for a good meal Looking for something a little more unconventional? In the land of lakes a plenty, there’s nothing better than savoring a culinary delight on a water-bound vessel, the gentle roll of the boat to help you digest. Several locations in the Finger

Lakes offer lunch and dinner cruises.

On the southern shore of Seneca Lake, Captain Bill’s in Watkins Glen offers lunch, dinner, cocktail and entertainment cruises “executed with style and charm.” Casual attire is welcome here. Visit senecaharborstation.com for prices and take-off times.

A 19th-century replica of a doubledecker paddle wheel boat on Canandaigua Lake creates an atmosphere of old-school elegance. The Canandaigua Lady hosts both lunch and dinner cruises, as well as a beer and wine tasting cruise on Wednesdays.

Mid-Lakes Navigation explores the locks of the Erie Canal, and features a tasty selection to kick off any famine or fatigue that might be nipping at your heels. Past menus have featured foods like prime rib, stuffed chicken, baked salmon and vegetarian lasagna. For more information, visit midlakesnav.com.

Be your own personal chef There are culinary experiences here in the Finger Lakes Region that will not only serve you, but allow you to have your cake, bake it and eat it, too – quite literally.

The hands-on kitchen at the New York Wine and Culinary Center in Canandaigua lets visitors select a culinary topic they’re looking to explore,

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Discover Downtown Ithaca!

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like making the perfect pesto, the culinary delights of a Mediterranean location, breads of the world and so much more. Select a class, get your hands dirty and binge on the creations of your labor. Visit nywcc.com to view the list of available classes.

The Inns of Aurora also offers a variety of cooking classes in what could be anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream kitchen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Past class topics have included: sushi and sake, pizza making, food and wine pairing, the fundamentals of soup, cocktails and hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres, and more,â&#x20AC;? reads its website (innsofaurora.com).

Play in the dirt The last destination on your culinary binge in the Finger Lakes is exploring where the ingredients come from.

Explore a variety of u-pick locations to taste local blueberries, raspberries and apples to create delectable pies like your grandmother used to make.

Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty â&#x20AC;&#x153;helps educate consumers about locally produced foods and beverages while fostering relationships within the marketplace.â&#x20AC;? This resource features harvest charts, as well as events for eating local.

Visit flcb.org for more information.

From plate to glass Nothing pairs better with your newfound culinary decadence than a glass of local beer or wine. Lucky for you, new wineries and breweries are added to the Finger Lakes each year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Toro Run Winery on Cayuga Lake and Birdland Brewing Company in Horseheads are just two examples that have opened in the last year. Cheers to a Finger Lakes experiential binge!

The culinary businesses mentioned in this article are just a few of many. Visit FingerLakes.org for an extensive listing of businesses.

Agriculture

farm to table

Hog Wild

The Piggery in Ithaca expands access to local meat

story and photos by Olivia M. Hall

Heather Sanford (co-owner) at The Piggery’s meat counter

o on pig, go on pig!”

Reluctantly, the hog before me abandoned his mud bath to join a group of pigs that were making their way from under the trees, where they were piled together into a napping heap of contentment, to the other end of the paddock. Pig farmer Brad Marshall, assisted by farm manager Casey Oxley and farmhand Angela DeVivo, banged sticks on large plastic panels, and urged the animals to jog up a fenced-off path

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It’s Monday – sorting day at the pig farm in Trumansburg. Once the pigs are safely inside the barn’s enclosure, digging away at the fresh hay, Brad and Casey walk through the 200-head herd to pick out the 10 fattest specimens. The chosen animals get a few more hours to snack on a big trough of barley before a truck arrives from Schrader’s slaughterhouse in Romulus. In a few days, fresh chops, sausages and pâté will replenish the display cases at The Piggery in Ithaca.

Trotting to Trumansburg When the shop’s owners, Brad and his wife Heather Sandford, bought their first hog off craigslist in El Sobrante, California, in 2003 and experimented with using all parts of the animal, little did they know that not too far down the road their lives would revolve around all things pig.

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moved to Trumansburg. Out of everything we tried – cows, chickens, apple trees – we liked working with pigs best.

They’re interesting and fun to be around. We very quickly developed a kinship with them, which is somewhat problematic because we’re going to eat them. After all, we started The Piggery to make good pork.”

From boar to butcher shop For the pair, good meat begins with the right genetics.

Their pigs come from a variety of heritage breeds, including the Mulefoot, an old-fashioned American homesteader pig whose very fatty tendencies are tempered through crossbreeding.

This is not always the most orderly process, as one of Heather’s weekly e-mail newsletters reports: “A short time ago, one of our boars got loose, ran us around the farm for a few days, and somehow managed to breed 20 of our sows.

We’re pretty excited for these unexpected babies.”

Ideally, each sow farrows about eight to 12 piglets. For the next nine to 12 months – nearly twice as long as confinementraised animals – their offspring munch on a traditional diet of grass, barley and whey (from the Chobani Greek yogurt factory a few hours away) in hopes they’ll grow to about 300 pounds.

For eight of those months, the pigs are out on the open pasture, rotating every day to a fresh half-acre section of the 70-acre farm (with an additional 20 acres leased). In the winter, they retreat to the warmth of the barn.

“It’s fun to see the pigs dig and play and romp,” says

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Agriculture Brad. “And from a meat-quality perspective, it’s actually building a denser muscle structure, like growth rings on a tree.

The meat has a better chewiness and mouth feel.”

This quality has attracted a loyal clientele to The Piggery’s butcher shop. The majority are happy to buy such favorites as bacon, sliced ham, sausages, hot dogs and pâté, to which Brad applies his chef’s training from the French Culinary Institute in New York. “On the other extreme, we have customers who come in looking for kidneys, trotters and obscure cuts. It’s always fun to see what they come up with,” he says.

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Over the past year, Heather and Brad have expanded the available selection of meats to include beef, chicken, and occasionally duck, rabbit and lamb. All are sourced from local farmers who share their protocols of sustainably managed pastures, non-genetically modified feed and naturally long growing terms for the animals.

If all goes well, this part of their business will continue to thrive, as the couple has applied for a license to become a USDA-inspected processing facility. Once approved, The Piggery will be able to wholesale and custom process animals for other farmers who may not want to deal with marketing and sales in addition to their core focus of raising sustainable meat. “A lot of our farmer friends are excited because they don’t have to do all those little pieces anymore,” Heather says.

To the disappointment of many customers, however, applying for the license meant that Heather and Brad had to

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Brad explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plus, a restaurant is very management-intensive.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been kind of nice to have someone make us stop and make a decision,â&#x20AC;? Heather admits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a lot of passion for many different things, but we feel that our mission is definitely trying to expand access to local meat.â&#x20AC;?

Heather and Bradâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s task certainly still keeps them busy, running between the farm and butcher shop, working on enlarging their herd to 600 pigs in the near future, managing a staff of six full-time and six part-time workers, and educating the public with regular presentations at conferences, local universities and butcher classes during the slower winter months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been really tough, building this whole infrastructure out of nothing,â&#x20AC;? says Brad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thirty or 40 years ago, there were local farms, auction houses, slaughterhouses, meat markets, etc. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to rebuild the system now because all of those things are gone due to industrial agriculture and price collapses.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;But,â&#x20AC;? Heather adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;what I really like about what we are doing is feeling that it is important and necessary. All along the way we have felt like our community pushed or asked us to provide more services that there was a need for. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been hard and exhausting and fulfilling.â&#x20AC;?

Play precepts for pups Dog parks are many sizes – some under an acre, others encompassing several, like the 6-acre Ithaca Dog Park at the Allan H. Treman State Marine Park. Features differ, but, at minimum, there is fencing, waste mitt stations, shaded areas and usually access to running water. Some parks have separate play yards for large and small dogs, agility play equipment, benches and/or splash ponds. Ground cover varies: grass, stone dust, pea gravel.

The Wegmans Good Dog Park at Onondaga Lake Park in Liverpool is about an acre, and The Dog Park at Happy Tails Daycare and Pet Resort in Corning is about half an acre larger. While the two share relatively compact sizes, they couldn’t be more different. Good Dog packs in tunnels, jumps, bridges and offers a separate small dog area, while Happy Tails goes the no frills route: wide open, fenced-in fun.

Safety rules are essential requiring, at minimum, that dogs are up-to-date on shots, licensed and not aggressive.

Enforcement varies. Membership parks require advance registration, which reinforces safety policies and regulates usage. For example, Happy Tails even pre-screens new canine customers to assess their social skills. Other parks are free and open to the public with the expectation that visitors will follow posted rules.

Management practices are also diverse. Fenced off-leash areas in city, county or state parks might be solely supervised by the municipality or through a partnership with a non-profit dog owners group. Parks can also be privately owned or operated

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When PetSafe, a pet training product manufacturer, built a dog park near its Knoxville headquarters, employees were astonished by its positive community impact. This inspired the company to establish the annual “Bark for Your Park” national dog park giveaway contest in 2011.

This year, both Geneva and Auburn registered for the competition, along with 1,128 other cities. The city with the most votes registered on the PetSafe website (petsafe.net) and Facebook page was awarded a $100,000 grand prize to build a dog park. Four runnerup communities received $25,000 each toward the same goal. Auburn made it all the way to the Top 15 finalists and placed fifth overall. So very close!

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A reasonable timeline to build a dog park is about two years, though that timeframe fluctuates considerably. While the end product remains the same – a safe, off-leash area serving the desires of community dog owners – how to get there requires collaboration, persistence and patience, one paw at a time.

In the works There are several dog park “tails” unfolding in the Finger Lakes region.

In Canandaigua, dog owners rallied in support of a dog park after a public meeting was held in April 2013 to gauge community interest. The city council stepped forward in June to offer up city land at Baker Park to build a dog park. Volunteers and city staff

are currently collaborating on Canandaigua Canine Campus. No open date is scheduled yet.

Geneva resident Irene Canario submitted a dog park idea via the city’s “Civic Innovation Hub” website (ideasgeneva.com) in 2012. She was “surprised and excited” when Geneva recreation staff contacted her. Staff members, Canario and other volunteers began

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meeting monthly. The group identified a suitable acre of unused city park space and, in February 2013, the city council approved using the land to build the membership to Geneva Bark Park. Canario says there will be separate small and large dog play yards, and the overall design will be “simple, fun and safe.” Slated to open by summer 2014, fundraising is now in progress.

In Auburn, Cayuga County voted “yes” in 2012 to authorize the parks department to collect money to build a 6-1/2-acre dog park in Emerson Park.

The monkey wrench? The county isn’t financing the project. CNY Dog Owners Group organizer Marla Connelly says the park will cost about $88,000 (a parking lot and fencing are the big ticket items), and the volunteer effort to raise the necessary monies has been “slow going.” The group entered PetSafe’s 2013 “Bark for Your Park” contest in hopes to win a significant cash prize to build the park.

In 2012, 16-year-old Chelsie Yourch of Farmington approached Highway & Parks Superintendent Ed McLaughlin about building a dog park to earn her Girl Scout Gold Award. It was a project the town was already considering, but McLaughlin says that Yourch “got things in motion.” Yourch helped identify the park location and, now 17, is fundraising for amenities.

The parks department will manage the 3-1/2-acre Farmington Town Dog Park, slated to open in spring 2014. It might “take a village to raise a child,” but in this case, it took a child to build a dog park.

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Cultured

the better things in life

On the

Spot

A grassroots effort challenges Rochester restaurants to feature more local wines

by Nicole Mahoney

adio host and staunch locavore Michael Warren Thomas aims to put more Finger Lakes wines in Rochester restaurants. He’s calling the buy local movement “NY Wine Spotting,” and urges the local wine- and food-loving community to encourage restaurants to add more Finger Lakes wines to their wine lists.

“I’ve been searching and asking for Finger Lakes wines in Rochester’s restaurants for years,” explains Thomas, host of WYSL 1040’s “Savor Life” radio program. “I finally decided that instead of being frustrated, I could take a stand and ask others to stand with me. That’s how NY Wine Spotting was born.”

A quick scan of restaurant menus in Rochester shows the scarcity of local wines, despite being in the Finger Lakes wine region. Even restaurants that boast organic produce and locally sourced foods draw on large and well-known California and European wineries for their wine list, overlooking the awardwinning wines right in their backyard.

“Our wines are cool climate wines,” explains Thomas. “And as such, pair beautifully with food because of their higher acidity. When you pair one of these wines with the right meal, the pairing completely enhances the flavors of the food and the wines alike.”

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TOP 10 1. Warfield’s High Point 2. Simply Crepes in Pittsford 3. Joey B’s in Fairport 4. Sticky Lips in Rochester 5. Sticky Lips in Henrietta 6. Rohrbach’s in Gates

Rise to the challenge NY Wine Spotting is both a challenge and a rallying point. It’s a challenge to Rochester restaurants to make local wines one-third of their wine list through education and tastings. It’s also a test to the local wineries – to reach

7. Bad Apples Bistro in Spencerport 8. India House in Rochester 9. Chakara Bistro in Fairport 10. Crab Shack in Henrietta (not Joe’s Crab Shack)

out to neighboring restaurants to introduce their wines, teaching them about the flavors and pairing potential. And it’s a rallying cry to local wine lovers to ask for local wines at restaurants, to stand with Thomas and support the challenge.

It’s already caught the attention of members within the restaurant community. Eric Mueller, general manager of Warfield’s restaurant and certified sommelier, announced last week that Thomas’ challenge motivated him to add more New York wines to the restaurant’s list.

“When I heard Michael’s challenge, I immediately knew it was something we could do at Warfield’s,” remarks Mueller. “We have great wineries in the Finger Lakes, and not only do I want to support them, but I want to educate our staff and show our diners how good their wines are and how lucky we are to have them.”

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Spring in their Step

Heart and soul fills the community of Union Springs he waters of Cayuga Lake stretch along the border of Union Springs like a friendly neighbor. Lake views here present an ever-changing panorama – foggy daybreaks and radiant sunsets, rich shades of autumn and the frostiness of winter.

Boaters sail from local marinas while visitors swim and picnic at spacious Frontenac Park, all just a short stroll from village center. But forces beyond Cayuga’s lure have always drawn folks to Union Springs.

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Refreshing friendly faces Pat Kimber, Tom Higgins and Diego Ruiz all came from elsewhere to settle in Union Springs, and readily became part of its fabric.

Pat and husband John moved from Syracuse after searching the countryside for a historic country home with

story and photos by James P. Hughes

Historic Howland’s stone mill on the North Pond in Union Springs. This iconic spot is often photographed and has appeared in a number of Finger Lakes books and publications.

architectural integrity. In Union Springs they found it – an early 19th-century, Federal-style home built of locally quarried limestone with delicate interior moldings and the original brass door latches intact. “It had warmth, charm and a historical background just waiting for us to unlock,” says Pat. Tom was a Finger Lakes native with an innate passion for the region’s wine industry. An accounting degree and time in the technology field never stifled his ardor for winemaking, so after study and apprenticeships in France and California the Finger Lakes beckoned. A believer that limestone in the grape growing process “buffers the soil and allows for quicker nutrient uptake into the vine,” he found a perfect band of the mineral in Union Springs. He built Heart & Hands Wine Company in 2008, its products already receiving accolades from several major wine periodicals.

Artist Diego Ruiz was raised in Southern California with a passion for history. He especially admired 19thcentury homes, styles found in short supply in his home state. After visiting his wife Kari’s family home in the Finger Lakes, he began a

The village offices of Union Springs are housed in a former railroad depot.

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regional search for the right place to nurture his sense of history, find a period home and establish their boutique business. “Union Springs

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was the perfect fit,” says Diego. “We needed to be here.”

Despite varied backgrounds and diverse reasons for settling in town, all agree it was the people that ultimately drew them to Union Springs.

Phrases like “wonderful people with a strong sense of community” and “friendly and supportive” pop up in conversations with Pat, Tom, Diego and others.

Residents like Ed Butts of the American Legion and Johan Lehtonen of the Lions Club will heap praise on community contributions of other groups just as quickly as

they will discuss the many accomplishments of their own organizations. Pastor Shelley Pantoliano notes the restoration of a magnificent stained glass window in the Trinity UCC church as just one project that united the village. “The exquisite window is a tribute to the memory of Asa A. Hoff, Union Springs’ first life lost in the Civil War.” People have always been the heart and soul of Union Springs from its earliest settlers – Revolutionary War soldiers, first enticed by fertile land viewed during the Sullivan Campaign; New Englanders, including some retired sea captains; and Pennsylvania Quakers, cultured artisans among them. Today, they still are.

Overflowing with history Union Springs owes its name to the uniting of several natural springs, the source of unfailing water power to drive its early mills, some of the first in the region. The village, incorporated in 1848, flourished as mills hummed and the extraction of limestone and gypsum from nearby quarries supported the local economy.

A large number of stone structures remain in the area, products of

Pictured from top to bottom Diego Ruiz, owner of Copperesque, is a California native who has made Union Springs home. Here he tinkers with his “stereoview” apparatus used to photograph Finger Lakes scenery in the classic stereoscope method of bygone days.

Pennsylvanians Howard and Lynn Hopson are restoring this Italianate home in the center of Union Springs as their retirement home.

Antique shopping is one draw to the village.

Owner Caren Cartwright at The Lake House Sweetery, where a wide assortment of homemade baked goods is created from scratch.

One of only two natural islands in the Finger Lakes, Frontenac Island was an ancient Indian burial ground and has archeological and geological importance.

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This historic marker talks about limestone from Union Springs, widely used for railroad bridges and street paving, including “pavers” for Wall Street in New York City.

the quarries’ mid-19th-century heyday.

Limestone was shipped from Union Springs to build railroad bridges throughout the state, and provide “pavers” for city thoroughfares, notably Wall Street in New York City.

Cayuga County boasts the largest number (176) of bright blue and gold historical markers in the State of New York, and a winding drive through and around Union Springs unearths more than its share. They turn up everywhere.

Pause a moment to read about George Howland’s Spring Mills (circa 1840), a classic stone mill on the North Pond, and an iconic photo spot featured in many Finger Lakes books. A marker points out Frontenac Island – one of only two islands in the Finger Lakes – an ancient Indian burial place and an important archeological and geological site.

Another historical marker notes the home of oarsman Charles Courtney, national champion “sculler” of the late 1800s, and longtime Cornell University crew coach. One more stands at the 1844 stone school, sitting proudly on a knoll, once in ruin but renovated in 2009 as a contemporary video production studio for the accomplished Union Springs school system. The list goes on and on.

A wide range of exhibits, programs and special events bring area history alive at the Frontenac Historical Society and Museum on Cayuga Street. “Our displays reflect the entire Union Springs area,” says Society President Dean Tanner. “We have collections from Civil

Proud Community Trek, Get Smart and Bonanza. His pet project was a picture book of Disney’s Old Yeller. The museum, local schools, public library and village office all contain valued displays of the noted illustrator’s work.

Top: Robert Doremus, accomplished commercial illustrator and a village native.

Soaked in culture The area’s rich history is just one reason to visit Union Springs. Antique hunting, great baked goods and artwork are among others. The Lake House Sweetery offers “homemade happiness” in its cakes, pies, cookies, muffins, bread and more. Owners Caren and Mark Cartwright found their niche in town three years ago.

Citing Union Springs as “a community on the upswing,” Diego and Kari opened their artisan boutique, Copperesque, in the Cayuga Street business block. Along with picture framing, fine art, jewelry and pottery, Diego has created a modern take on the classic stereoscope of a century ago. Mixing past with present, he is creating unique, 3-D stereo cards, viewers and stereoview books of Finger Lakes sites and people.

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Frontenac Museum and Historical Society serves Union Springs, the Town of Springport, and surrounding communities and settlements.

War memorabilia to Indian artifacts.” It was on a visit to the Frontenac that I stumbled on the stories of two notable Unions Springs’ natives, John J. Thomas and Robert Doremus.

Thomas was an early editor of The Country Gentleman magazine, a mainstay of the agricultural world from 1831 to 1955. It served as a primary source of information for farmers across the country, often showcasing classic cover sketches by the famed Norman Rockwell.

Doremus was a talented commercial illustrator. His work included everything from his World War II observations, to illustrations for dozens of textbooks, posters and children’s books. Doremus’ activity workbooks touched on such TV favorites as Star

“Union Springs is a place where people truly support one another, a town that must be experienced to be appreciated,” affirms Pennsylvanian Howard Hopson, another admirer enticed by this lake village. Howard and wife Lynn found “the right residence in the right community,” and are restoring an Italianate house at the village center as their eventual retirement home. “The grocery store, Frontenac Museum, Cayuga Lake and The Sweetery will all be at our doorstep,” says Howard.

“Retirement can’t come soon enough.”

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Home Showcase

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Paint

Skaneateles interior designer Katie Hess splashes homes with creativity and personality

by Sistina Giordano

whimsical fabric is all Katie Hess needs to inspire a new design.

Her style is nestled in the details – grass-cloth walls, MacKenzie-Childs accents, an old chair or maybe a modern one, a bit of the old mixed in with new.

For nearly eight years, Hess has spent her time decorating and re-imagining homes across the United States.

Today, she owns Belle Interior Designs in Skaneateles.

She’s reworked rooms in Boston, made over nooks and crannies in Nantucket, painted walls in Palm Springs, and spent a large part of her time designing locally in Skaneateles and throughout Central New York.

Discovering her decorative dexterity Hess has always had a knack for putting things together, she says. But it wasn’t until she decided to move back to the area and renovate an old home in Auburn that she really discovered what her own decorative talents could do for others.“I was looking for a twoor three-unit house that I thought I would rework,” she explains. “I ended up turning it into a bed-and-breakfast.”

Hess renovated the historic Auburn home at 10 Fitch Ave. for a year before opening it up to guests in 2005. Each suite shares some of her own design style mixed in with the old-world sophistication of the house.

The living room of this home in the Village of Skaneateles mixed antiques with colorful accents from nearby MacKenzie-Childs.

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Home Showcase

Claw-foot soaking tubs or jacuzzi tubs are the centerpiece of every bathroom, along with vibrant colors, artwork and antique furniture. Deep reds, dark blues and pastel greens line the walls of each suite. Every room is different, yet offers a complementary feel to the rest of the home.

The little things After a successful first year at the inn, Hess decided to try her hand at her own interior design business. She sold the inn and began Belle Interior Designs.

Today, she spends her time meeting with clients to help revamp their homes. While she frequently favors a more whimsical design, her work varies – from Ralph Lauren-inspired rooms to modern designs inside old homes.

“I love to use color, and I get excited when people are open to my creativity, but it really just depends on what they want,” she elaborates. “It’s the little things that inspire me, a bit of fabric, a pillow or piece of furniture.”

Some of her favorite rooms to design are bedrooms because of the comfort and coziness they emit. Every detail down to the bedding matters. It’s not solely about the design, but how the design makes you feel.

Recently, Hess redecorated three bedrooms in Skaneateles. She wanted to liven up each room and beget a playfulness to reflect the personality of the person in each one. Through fabric and color she created subtle design differences that tied each room together and set them each apart.

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Home Showcase Top: A media room’s walls are covered in grasscloth; the furniture is custom upholstered.

Bottom: A colonial foyer has an old world – but whimsical – feel.

green splashed along the walls of one bedroom.

Another showcases a soft floral print fabric surrounded by ice-blue walls. Lavender and green round out the final room.

Love for Skaneateles Regardless of the setting, Hess says she draws inspiration from anywhere. Her designs carry a part of the homeowner, too. She not only observes the home and the furniture, but also the people living there. She says that a homeowner’s sense of style is an important part of the design process.

Despite her love of bold colors, paint is the very last thing Hess sets her sights on. She works

from fabric and then furniture, and finally adds a dash of color to complement the room. “There aren’t as many fabrics as there are paint colors,” she admits. “And it’s working out the little details that are often hardest.”

In Skaneateles, the architecture and style of each home varies. She has worked in newly built homes and some older ones, too. She says the variety makes the process interesting.

Her love of Central New York also makes the design process easy and enjoyable. “I’ve always loved it and this is home,” she says. “It’s easy to work in a place when you love where you live.”

For more information about Katie Hess and her business, visit belleinterior designs.com, call 315-730-4690 or e-mail Katie at katie@belle interiordesigns.com.

2013 Photo Contest Deadline: September 30, 2013 Categories: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prize plaques plus publication in Winter 2013 issue • Best Color • Best Black-and-White • Best Digitally Altered* • Grand prize to best overall photograph (Photographs may also be selected for honorable mention and for photo illustration.)

• Entries are limited to 5 for Black-and-White, 5 for Color and 5 for Digitally Altered.

• Submit photos as prints or digital images.

Please do not send color negatives. When sending digital images, the minimal size of the image should be approximately 5 x 7 inches, 300 dpi. Keep in mind to send the best quality digital image you have, with the highest resolution. Please do not send original prints or CD/DVDs – materials will not be returned.

• When sending a color print from a digital photograph, also include the same digital image on a disc.

• Photographs may not have been published elsewhere and must belong to the entrant.

• Only winners will be notified before the Winter 2013 issue is published.

*Digitally Altered images are those that have used digital manipulation using certain methods.

• Include the photographer's name, address, phone, e-mail address and identification of the image on each photo print.

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Additional exposure for Swamp Road Baskets has come through recognition in exhibits at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.

In 2012, Jamin was chosen as one of 40 featured artists for the “40 Under 40: Craft Futures” exhibit, and his baskets will be on display again in the upcoming show “A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets.”

The exhibit – which runs October through December 2013 – will include works by Jamin, his mentor Jonathan

New York State vs. the Emerald Ash Borer Since it was discovered in Michigan in 2002, the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has spread to 13 states and Canada. The EAB was discovered in New York State in 2009, in the town of Randolph in Cattaraugus County. This prompted state officials to implement various quarantine measures for that county – and Chautauqua County – as well as the implementation of the following DEC regulations. transported within New York • Firewood State must remain within 50 miles of

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Firewood transported into the state must be labeled as meeting New York’s heat treatment standards to kill pests; this wood may be transported further than 50 miles from its source.

Firewood not purchased (self-cut) must be accompanied by a Self-Issued Certificate of Origin, available on the NYS DEC website; this wood must remain within a 50-mile radius.

Kline and Kline’s teacher, the late Newt Washburn. “I am going to demonstrate right in the museum, which is kind of a dream,” says Jamin. “I get to work, and show people what I do, on that nice marble floor. I am excited to make a mess there!” Jamin will also be giving a talk about the Emerald Ash Borer, and what it means for the future of the ash trees in New York State.

Reflections on art and artist I mentioned to Jamin at the end of our conversation that I am frequently stopped at the farmers market by shoppers admiring my own set of Trugs. “It sounds New Age-y, but people can sense the energy,” he replied. “I feed off the energy of the Finger Lakes, and weaving is like meditation to me.

The baskets carry that energy.”

When I asked him to describe his work, Jamin paused, and then said, quietly, “I make a really nice thing. It has a function. My goal is to make a usable basket.”

Whether or not you put fruit in yours is up to you.

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WINE TOURS Quality Wine Tours offers Wine & Beer Tours 7 days week Sedan for one couple / SUV for two couples Van up to 11 passengers

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The Summer 2013 Issue was really great! Every article was so interesting I just kept reading until I had gobbled up the whole thing.

The "Roll Out the Red Carpet" article made me want to write to you about the Hazlitt 1852 Cabernet Franc. It is always good, but when they have a good year it is really special.

I always hope for one of those special years.

The thing about Riesling is that it is always dependable and doesn't need that special good year. Some years are better, but they are all good.

I look forward to every issue of your magazine.

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Please compliment Laurel C. Wemett who reviewed my book Fight All Day, March All Night in the Summer 2013 issue. It was one of the best I've read. I'm not sure I could do any better.

Please congratulate Laurel and thank her.

Wayne Mahood

It has been brought to our attention that the article â&#x20AC;&#x153;Something for Everyoneâ&#x20AC;? in the 2013 Travel Issue includes the information that Susan B. Anthony owned a home in Seneca Falls and that it is open for tours.

Unfortunately that is not a true statement. It was Elizabeth Cady Stanton who owned a home in Seneca Falls; I believe it is open for tours but I do not know the schedule. Susan B. Anthony lived in a home in Rochester at 17 Madison St. for more than 40 years. It was owned first by her mother, Lucy Read Anthony, and then by her sister, Mary S. Anthony.

Thanks very much.

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31…Trunk or Treat Held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. All vehicles park by 6 p.m. Kids trick or treat, lots of goodies, safe environment, prizes for best-dressed trunk. Held at the Owego Free Academy parking lot in Owego.

607-687-3160

NOVEMBER 2… Rochester Children’s Theatre’s “Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale” In this hilarious adventure, Princess Rapunzel may indeed find a way to escape the tower and take her rightful place on the throne, while discovering her inner strength. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Nazareth College Arts Center.

585-385-0510 rochesterchildrenstheatre.org 8-10…7th Annual Canandaigua Christkindl Market This event is held on the lawn of the majestic Granger Homestead and Carriage Museum in a series of decorated heated tents and brings together over 150 regional artisans and unique food vendors. German food along with traditional fare, wine, beer and “Gideon’s Grog” will be available. Live entertainment and holiday music will fill the tents throughout the show.

585-394-1472 canandaiguachristkindlmarket.com 15…Chamber Music Concert: Featuring Max Buckholtz – The Journey West The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes in partnership with the Rockwell Museum of Western Art will present a Musicians’ Choice Chamber Music concert. The Visions of the West gallery at the Rockwell Museum in Corning is the perfect venue for blending performing and visual arts. Tickets: $25 Adults, $5 Students.

607-937-5386 rockwellmuseum.org 16…Japanese Printmaking at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Learn more about the museum’s Japanese collection and special exhibition titled “Encountering the Floating World: Ukiyo-e and the West.”

Participants will move to the studio to explore the gyotaku (fish printing) technique using rubber molds. FEES: $5 materials fee for Johnson Museum Members and students/$10 for nonmembers. Space is limited; reservations are requested by Tuesday, November 12. Held from 1 to 3:30 p.m.

607 255-6464 museum.cornell.edu

Adding your calendar event online is free.

Please visit LifeintheFingerLakes.com and click on “Calendar of Events/Post your Events.”

22-24…November Deck the Halls Weekend on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail Friday 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday/Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Go to your assigned starting winery and begin a weekend of fun and festivities while sampling holiday wines and food tastings. The wineries are decorated for the holiday season. Over the two day weekend event, visit the participating wineries, receive a recipe book and collect ornaments to decorate your handmade grapevine wreath.

877-536-2717 senecalakewine.com 22-25…20th Annual Cayuga Lake Wine Trail’s Holiday Shopping Spree Friday, 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Experience the scents and sights of the holidays. Take home a souvenir wineglass, a grapevine wreath, a cookie cutter ornament from each winery, plus holiday recipe cards. Special to only the holiday trail event is the shopper’s discount card that can be used at each winery during the weekend for all those great wine buys. Designated driver tickets are available.

800-684-5217 cayugawinetrail.com

The Hammondsport Storytelling Festival Come hear a tale or two at Hammondsport’s Storytelling Festival in Depot Park this September. “Scary Stories” will be featured Friday, September 20, from 7 to 9 p.m., and on Saturday, September 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Professional tellers will perform hourly on two stages under tents on the edge of Keuka Lake. Local non-profit groups will be on hand to serve up a wide assortment of food and beverages. Admission is $10/adult on Friday night; $20/adult on Saturday; or a combo price of $25 for both days.

Children under 13 are free. For more information call 315-694-5006 or visit onceuponalake.com.

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

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543 South Main St., Geneva, NY 14456

(315)789-5151 www.genevahistoricalsociety.com

Historic Maritime District

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Finger Lakes Soaring Club Go fly a sailplane!

Finger Lakes Soaring Club promotes the sport of soaring, for all ages. The club provides scenic rides and flight instruction in Dansville, NY, one of the best soaring sites in the Northeast.

Forbes Road, Dansville, NY 14437 (585) 335-5849 | www.flsc.org

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Ghost Hunts by night. www.schuylerhistory.org 607-535-9741 108 N. Catharine St., Montour Falls, NY 14865 Historic 1828 brick tavern, eleven exhibit rooms.

Fall Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm Museum closed (Dec 20 - April 1)

The five museums of Historic Palmyra await you!

FIVE MUSEUMS Murder Walk -Â Sept. 7 Canal Town Day Ghost Walk - Sept. 13 Sibyl's Birthday Party - Oct. 10 Cemetery Walk - Oct. 18 & 19 Bazaar - Nov. 21, 22, 23 Reserve now by phone or e-mail bjfhpinc@rochester.rr.com

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Accommodations The Bed & Breakfast at Oliver Phelps Relax & Savor the Finer Things!

Taughannock Farms Inn Memorable Dining 22 Exquisite Guest Rooms with a spectacular view of Cayuga Lake

The Jewel of the Finger Lakes Rt. 89, Taughannock Falls State Park, Trumansburg

(607) 387-7711 • www.t-farms.com

• Minutes by car from many fine wineries, breweries, & attractions.

• Minutes by foot from the fine shops & restaurants of downtown Canandaigua.

252 N Main St., Canandaigua • 585-396-1650 oliverphelps.com

Step out of the ordinary.

Experience the unique. Indulge your senses.

41 Lakefront Drive • Geneva, NY 14456 315-789-0400 • www.GenevaRamada.com

Glen Motor Inn

Bristol Views Bed & Breakfast

6932 County Rd. 12 Naples, NY 14512

585-374-8875

www.bristolviews.com Henry and Barb Owens

Your home away from home, located high above Canandaigua Lake with awesome views. Hiking, biking, wineries & more await you. We also offer a beautiful wedding site that will fulfill your dreams.

Let us help you discover the Finger Lakes!

Subscribe and Save up to Motel and Restaurant Breathtaking View From Every Room Exceptional Service and Outstanding Food Casual Comfort Centrally Located Franzese Family Owned and Operated since 1937 1 mile north of Watkins Glen on State Route 14 607-535-2706 www.glenmotorinn.com “The only thing we overlook is Seneca Lake!”

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F inger L akes Mill C reek Cabins

Cheerful Valley Campground

Family Camping at its Best

2382 Parmenter Road Lodi, NY 14860

607-582-7673

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

Two, fully furnished, pet friendly cabins nestled on 42 secluded acres near the national forest and wine trails. Available year round.

1412 Rt. 14 Phelps, NY 14532 Ph: 315-781-1222 • cheerfulvalley@gmail.com www.cheerfulvalleycampground.com

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Family Fun for Campground Everyone!

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

4 Authentic Log Cabins 3 mi. west of Waterloo Premium Outlets. Call for directions.

1475 W. Townline Rd., Phelps

315-781-5120 www.juniuspondscabinsandcampground.com

Clute Memorial Park & Campground • Full Hook Ups Including Cable & Wi/Fi

• Across From Beautiful Seneca Lake

• Walking Distance to Downtown

• Community Center & Pavilion Rentals

• Boat Launch

155 S. Clute Park Drive (Boat Launch Road) Watkins Glen, NY 14891 607-535-4438 WWW.WatkinsGlen.US/?Parks

Hejamada Campground & RV Park

Family Camping at its best!

Located in the Finger Lakes Region Come see why we’re the ideal campground for caravans, jamborees, group functions, families and individual campers.

(315)776-5887 • 877-678-0647 www.hejamadacampground.com

Digimag Get FREE online access to the latest digital issue with a paid subscription!

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DON'T BUY A WATERFRONT PROPERTY WITHOUT TALKING TO

MARK MALCOLM II "HE'S GOT A CORNER ON THE MARKET" Keuka Lake - Freshly remodeled 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, lake side home, with 124' of lake frontage.

Permanent docks, tip-of-bluff views, master with private deck/balcony, new kitchen with granite & stainless steel, new baths and laundry, great rental history, and being sold completely furnished. Priced at $459,000.

Keuka Lake - Newer built Victorian on Keuka's eastern shore...4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, upscale and spacious eat-in kitchen, fireplace, 3 car garage, public water/sewer/nat’l gas, master suite, 3000+ sq. ft., glorious open/wrap around porch with 100+ ft of shoreline.

Priced at $699,000.

Keuka Lake - 1991 “trilevel contemporary”... year-round home with upscale kitchen, lots of decks/porches/balconies, 110' of lake frontage, fireplace, hardwood flooring, municipal water, parking, and so many “perks”. The seller has moved out of state, and wants this sold... priced NOW at $449,000.

Cayuga Lake

Mark Malcolm II “Keuka Lake’s Top Agent”

This Union Springs Village lakeside colonial has the charm of the past, but with modern updates. Refinished hardwood floors, new quarter-sawn oak kitchen cabinets, solid surface counters, SS appliances, lakeside sunroom w/gas fireplace, pantry w/stackable washer/dryer, remodeled baths, incredible boathouse, dock and ramp perfect for swimming, fishing,70 ft. level lakefrontage, walk to town cafes, shops, marina, 8 min. to Aurora, 40 min. to Ithaca/Cornell.

Start making memories on the lake

315-536-6163 Direct

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Contact Midge Fricano, Broker, GRI. CRS. cell: 315-729-0985 email: MidgeFricano@gmail.com

Lake Country Real Estate, Inc. 121 North St., Auburn, NY • 315-258-9147 x201

YOUR LAKE & COUNTRY SPECIALISTS on and around Seneca & Cayuga Lakes

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315-568-9404

Mel Russo Licensed Real Estate Broker/Owner 315-246-3997 97 Fall St., PO Box 386, Seneca Falls, NY 13148

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Harbor View Townhomes - Keuka Lake area's first town home project! The 2 bdrm, 2.5 bath homes will offer the finest interior and exterior finishes including granite, porcelain tile, hardwood floors, and more. Almost 2,000 sq. ft of heated space and balcony and patio areas for exterior enjoyment.2 floor plans offer the option of 1st or 2nd floor master suites. Keuka Lake access optional through the Harbor Club Marina. 10 unit, 2 Building Project.

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Al Fortunato - Furniture maker ........91 ....607-240-1046 ........alfortunato.com

Ithaca Farmers Market ....................86 ....607-273-7109 ........ithacamarket.com

Antique Revival................................17 ....800-780-7330 ........antiquerevival.com

Ivy Thimble Quilt & Gift Shop ..........73 ....585-742-2680 ........ivythimble.com

Arnot Health ......................................7 ....607-737-4499 ........arnothealth.org/walk-in-care

The Jewelbox ..................................45 ....800-711-7279 ........ithacajewelbox.com

Avon Stove and Fireplace Co Inc ....78 ....585-226-3430 ........avonstoveandfireplace.com

Jim’s Equipment Repair ..................77 ....607-527-8872 ........jimsequipment.com

Belhurst ..........................................45 ....315-781-0201 ........belhurst.com

Kendal at Ithaca ..............................13 ....800-253-6325 ........kai.kendal.org

Belhurst Estate Winery ....................30 ....315-781-0201 ........belhurst.com

Keuka Family Dentistry ....................70 ....607-776-7656 ........gls@keukafamilydentistry.com

Birkett Landing ................................78 ....315-514-0130 ........birkettlanding.com

Kitchen Theatre Company ..............65 ....607-272-0570 ........kitchentheatre.org

Brawdy Marine Construction ..........18 ....716-741-8714 ........brawdyconstruction.com

Larry’s Latrines ..................................9 ....607-324-5015 ........larryslatrines.com

Brew Central NY..............................54 ....................................brewcentralny.com

Livingston County Tourism ..............15 ....800-538-7365 ........fingerlakeswest.com

Bristol Harbour ................................17 ....800-288-8248 ........bristolharbour.com

Longview ........................................19 ....607-375-6320 ........ithacarelongview.com

Bristol Mountain ................................2 ....585-374-6000 ........bristolmountain.com

The Loomis Barn..............................91 ....800-716-2276 ........loomisbarn.com

Brookdale Senior Living....................34 ....615-564-8388 ........brookdaleliving.com

Lyons National Bank ........................C3 ....888-946-0100 ........bankwithlnb.com

Canandaigua Downtown Merchants 86 ....................................downtowncanandaigua.com

Madison County Tourism ................76 ....................................madfoods.com

Caves Kitchens................................28 ....585-478-4636 ........cavesmillwork.com Cayuga County Tourism ..................36 ....800-499-9615 ........tourcayuga.com

Morgan Stanley Wealth Mgmt ..........3 ....607-772-3491 ........morganstanleyindividual.com/ robert.deer/

Chemung Canal Trust ......................24 ....800-836-3711 ........chemungcanal.com

New Energy Works ........................C4 ....585-924-3860 ........newenergyworks.com

Clifton Springs Chamber of Commerce....................44 ....315-462-8200 ........cliftonspringschamber.com

Once Again Nut Butter ......................4 ....585-468-2535 ........onceagainnutbutter.com

CNY Arts ........................................28 ....315-435-2155 ........cnyarts.org

Purity Ice Cream Co Inc ..................72 ....607-272-1545 ........purityicecream.com

Cobtree Vacation Rentals ................53 ....315-789-1144 ........cobtree.com

Quail Summit ..................................68 ....585-396-1010 ........quailsummit.com

Cortland County CVB ......................33 ....607-753-8463 ........cortlandtourism.com

Red Jacket Orchards ........................8 ....315-781-2749 ........redjacketorchards.com

Cricket on the Hearth ......................82 ....585-385-2420 ........cricketonthehearth.com

Rochester Folk Art Guild ..................86 ....585-554-3539 ........rfag.org

Downtown Ithaca Alliance ..............74 ....607-277-8679 ........downtownithaca.com

Rooster Hill Vineyards......................43 ....315-536-4773 ........www.roosterhill.com

Eastview Mall ..................................37 ....585-223-4420 ........eastviewmall.com

Rosamond Gifford Zoo ....................69 ....315-435-8511 ........rosamondgiffordzoo.org

Once Upon A Lake ..........................68 ....607-868-3323 ........onceuponalake.com

Ferris Hills........................................29 ....585-393-0410 ........ferrishills.com

Santelli Lumber Co Inc ....................72 ....315-597-4884 ........santellilumber.com

Finger Lakes Deck Master ..............68 ....855-208-3325 ........fingerlakesdeckmaster.com

Schooner Excursions ......................19 ....607-535-5253 ........schoonerexcursions.com

Finger Lakes from Space Poster ......68 ....800-331-7323 ........atwatervineyards.com

Secor ..............................................67 ....800-581-1939 ........secorlumber.com

Finger Lakes Tram............................43 ....315-986-8090 ........fingerlakestram.com

Seneca County Chamber ................10 ....800-732-1848 ........fingerlakescentral.com

FingerLakes1.com............................81 ....315-712-0104 ........fingerlakes1.com

SignLanguage Inc ............................30 ....585-237-2620 ........signlanguageinc.com

Five Star Bank..................................74 ....877-226-5578 ........five-starbank.com

Six Mile Creek Vineyard ..................86 ....607-272-9463 ........sixmilecreek.com

Gardner Construction & Development ................................70 ....................................315-573-1474

Sonnenberg ....................................67 ....585-394-4922 ........sonnenberg.org

German Brothers Marina Inc............42 ....585-394-4000 ........germanbrothers.com

Starkey’s Lookout ............................77 ....607-678-4043 ........starkeyslookout.com

Granger Homestead ..........................9 ....585-394-1472 ........grangerhomestead.org

Timber Frames ................................71 ....585-374-6405 ........timberframesinc.com

Greater Rochester International Airport ..........................5 ....585-753-7020 ........monroecounty.gov

Tompkins Financial Advisors ............31 ....607-273-0037 ........tompkinsfinancialadvisors.com

Halco ..............................................27 ....315-946-6200 ........halcoheating.com Halsey’s Restaurant ........................91 ....315-789-4070 ........halseysgeneva.com

Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce....................25 ....800-607-4552 ........watkinsglenchamber.com

Hampton Inn Geneseo ....................14 ....585-447-9040 ........geneseo.hamptoninn.com

Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel ..............23 ....607-535-6116 ........watkinsglenharborhotel.com

Handwork ........................................55 ....607-243-9400 ........handwork.coop

Wine Trail Properties........................35 ....866-456-8004 ........winetrailproperties.com

Spa Apartments ..............................82 ....315-462-3080 ........spaapartments.com

Waterloo Premium Outlets ..............C2 ....315-539-1100 ........premiumoutlets.com

Hangar Theatre................................80 ....607-273-8588 ........hangartheatre.org Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards ....................71 ....607-546-9463 ........hazlitt1852.com

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Helendale Dermatology ..................11 ....585-266-5420 ........helendaledermatology.com

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Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art..91 ....607 255-6464 ........museum.cornell.edu

Camping ..................................Pg. 103

Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard..........65 ....607-243-7971 ........wiemer.com

Canandaigua ........................Pg. 94-95

Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca ..................87 ....877-STAY-HGI ........ithaca.hgi.com

Culture & Attractions ......Pgs. 100-101

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Off the Easel

creating art

A Guiding Light

by Alyssa LaFaro

“Autumn Crescent,” oil on board

typically find my inspiration while walking my dog,” says artist Wayne Daniels. “It’s usually not the subject itself that attracts me, but the way the light hits it. It will be a certain time of day, and the light hits a landscape just right.”

Other than light, the Cazenovia native finds inspiration in other artists. “I will look at artists of the past, study one of their paintings and try to create a contemporary version of it using local subject matter,” says Wayne.

He created “Cazenovia Alleyway” after looking at 17th-century Dutch paintings of townscapes.

“Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Little Street’ is an example,” he continues. “He painted a street scene with a lot of brick buildings, and I wanted to get the same feel with that particular painting.”

Wayne says he can’t remember a time in his life when he wasn’t drawing.

He was the recipient of several Scholastic Art Awards as a kid, and he focused largely on painting wildlife with watercolors. Once he reached high school, however, an art teacher showed his class a film about Rembrandt. He began experimenting with oil paints and subjects other than wildlife.

Before he leaped into landscapes – what he describes as “contemporary realism” – he focused on figurative drawing. “The portrait I painted of my

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girlfriend Jill is probably the best thing I’ve created so far,” he admits. “I love painting people. If I had more people to pose for me, I would probably do a lot more figurative paintings.”

Landscapes remain Wayne’s focus today, in part, because they “sell better than portraits of strangers.” He supports himself with his artwork, and has been doing so since 1990, when he quit his full-time job to hone his craft.

“When I was 30, I began to get really serious with my artwork,” he explains. “So I spent about five years, until I was 35,

Wayne Daniels is a member of CNY Arts, which “provides support and assistance to individual artists and arts and cultural organizations through access to grants, capacitybuilding assistance, education and training, and promotional services.”

For more information about the organization, visit cnyarts.org.

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saving up enough money to have a little financial cushion. I have been working part-time ever since.”

His decision is paying off. In 1997, he began showing his work at Cazenovia’s Goodsight Gallery, and has since had work at the Beehive Gallery, the Gallery of CNY, Maresella Galleries of Cazenovia, and many local and national exhibitions. Most recently, his painting “Sullivan Street” was chosen as a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine’s annual competition.

This is the fourth time he’s been honored as a finalist.

“People often tell me I should go to the Rockies or the coast for my artwork,” he says, “but I think that’s overdone. A few years ago, I took a trip to New England, and the best scenery I saw was along Route 20 on the way. Upstate New York has so much open space, so much farmland. Maybe it’s the familiarity for me, but it’s beautiful.”

If you’d like to see more of Wayne’s artwork, or if you are interested in purchasing his paintings, visit fineartamerica.com/profiles/ wayne-daniels.html.

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