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evening SATURDAY, December 8 | 3–7pm

Join us for one of the region’s bestloved holiday traditions. Hundreds of candles adorn the grounds, free carousel rides, music, bonfires, warm wassail, savory foods, horse-drawn wagon rides, and characters from Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol.”

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See heritage-breed turkeys, watch holiday baking at the farmhouse, ride the Empire State Carousel, or just stroll through our historic village.

The perfect setting to spend time with family and friends over the holiday weekend!

Admission by donation. All dollar amounts welcome.

Candlelight Evening is sponsored in part by Five Star Subaru, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Community Bank, Royal Ford Motors of Cooperstown, Bruce Hall Home Center, Haggerty Ace Hardware, Cathedral Candle Company, and Dyn’s Cider Mill.

Free carousel rides sponsored by Matt Sohns and family. Candlelight Evening is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Shop at our museum store for the holidays.

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Adults (13-64):$12.00, Seniors (65+): $10.50, Juniors (7-12): $6.00.

Children (6 and younger) and Members are free.

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Join us for a night of special sales, refreshments, and restaurant deals. Preview the holiday merchandise at your local shops, and support the community.

Night of Lights: November 30th || 5:30pm

Most shops will stay open until 7pm. Enjoy live music, a sing-a-long with the Canastota Community Band, free refreshments and s’mores, horse- drawn wagon rides, fire truck parade, and the annual tree lighting ceremony. Santa will arrive at 6pm!

Maxwell’s Chocolates: December 8th || 12pm - 2pm Make and decorate holiday cake pop workshop. Create and decorate your very own free holiday treat.

Holiday Activites: Wagon rides, Santa visits, holiday movies and more free festivities throughout the month of December.

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Oneida County History Center ADK Journal Family Traditions White Rose Bakery Restaurant Guide Antiques Guide Music Never Stops MV Classical Ancora! in Utica November in the Forest On the Farm with Suzie MV Gardens & Recipes Bode MV Astronomy Club MVL Crossword Local Photography Breweries/Wineries Events Gallery Guide MV Nature Reflections of My Youth Herkimer Co. Historical Society Tales from Shawangunk, Part 50 Genesee Joe Advertiser Directory

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by Sharry L. Whitney “This is a trail?!” I exclaimed out loud—no longer singing and clapping to keep any possible bears away. I was too tired. I had been dropped off at the Whiteface Mountain trailhead by my Über driver three hours ago for what I thought would be a twohour hike.

On the drive over she asked if I had a CamelBak for water. No, but I have a large bottle of water in my day pack. “You’re wearing sneakers?” she asked. I didn’t bring my hiking boots. “Do you have a GPS tracker? I always wear one,” she explained.

No, but I told my husband when, where, and how I was hiking. “A lady was attacked by a bear last week, so play your music loud,” she suggested.

Music? What music? People hike with music?

She wished me luck and waved goodbye. I watched as her Jeep disappeared back down the dirt road—its sound quickly dissipating along with my confidence. It was quiet. Not even birds. Autumn is so still. I signed in at the trail register.

The first 4.5 miles of the trip was like many other hikes I’ve done, but the last mile was a new experience—crawling and climbing, hunting for signs of a trail, like broken twigs, footsteps...anything, and then backtracking to find the trail again.

And I never saw another person the entire climb.

This was my first Adirondack high peak. When I got home I visited an Adirondack 46er website to learn about my hike in retrospect. I learned that I hiked too fast—maybe because I was alone and was eager to find the top. One website ranked the hike’s difficulty a 4...out of 7?! Whoa! Guess I’ll have to be more prepared for my next high peak and bring a hiking buddy, too. As an Adirondack 1er, I have a whole new respect for my 46er friends, and a better understanding of why they climb. •

MOHAWK VALLEY LIVING MAGAZINE November 2018

PUBLISHERS Lance and Sharry Whitney EDITOR Sharry L. Whitney DESIGN & LAYOUT Lance David Whitney ASSISTANT EDITORS Shelley Delosh Jorge L. Hernández ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE Susan Collea CONTRIBUTORS Peggy Spencer Behrendt, Tim Flihan Carol Higgins, Jorge L. Hernández, Brian Howard, Suzie Jones, John Keller, Melinda Karastury, Frank Page, Susan Perkins, Matt Perry, Cynthia Quackenbush, Denise Szarek, Michelle Truett, Gary VanRiper CONTACT US (315) 853-7133 30 Kellogg Street Clinton, NY 13323 www.MohawkValleyLiving.com mohawkvalleyliving@hotmail.com Mohawk Valley Living is a monthly magazine and television show that explore the area’s arts, culture, and heritage.

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Barnes Avenue The Street that Time Forgot by brian howard, executive director

This summer I participated in the Peak to Brew Relay, a two-day, 227-mile road race from Whiteface Mountain to the Saranac Brewery in Utica. The 12 runners on our team took turns covering the distance over two consecutive days.

As fate would have it, I was responsible for running the final leg from the Utica Mannerchor to the Brewery. Thanks to the combined effects of sleep deprivation and the theft of some critically important directional signs, I found myself running along Barnes Avenue in the Utica Marsh.

Old tires and pallets littered the roadside. Remnants of bonfires and beer cans marked the location of recent parties. It was at best disconcerting. As I continued it became clear that this was not part of the designated course.

I got my bearings and made it to the finish line, but seeing this desolate stretch of abandoned asphalt had me wondering about what it had been during the city’s industrial heyday.

Barnes Avenue is located in the city’s current First Ward. It was

Today: The the corner of Barnes Avenue and Oriskany Boulevard in Utica

C. A. Durr Packing Company on Barnes Avenue closed in 1972 after 65 years in business

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originally a part of Whitestown and was named William Street, running north from the Erie Canal (now Oriskany Street West) and dead ending at the New York Central railroad tracks. It exists within a parcel of the land that was annexed by the city in 1875.

Barnes Avenue first appears in the 1883 Utica city directory and should not be confused with Barnes Street (renamed Belmont), which was established in East Utica between Lansing and South Streets in 1855. The avenue is believed to be named for H. Ray Barnes, who served as a city alderman all but two years from 1876 to 1892.

Barnes also ran a saloon at 2-4 Baggs Square with his brother; according to contemporary newspaper accounts, his tenure with the city was not without controversy. He would have been 32 years old when William Street became Barnes Avenue.

H. Ray Barn died in 1923. By that time the old Erie Canal was in the process of becoming Oriskany Street. The C.A. Durr Packing Company had recently expanded its facility between Schuyler Street and Barnes Avenue, just north of the NYCRR tracks. Until 1937 the only way to access the facility was to cross the tracks at Schuyler Street; that year a bridge was built over the tracks that extended Barnes to the north. This extension joined a road that forded both the Mohawk River

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and the NYS Barge Canal, eventually teeing into Riverside Drive in Marcy.

The following decades saw development along the Barnes Avenue corridor, which ended when Interstate 90 was constructed north of the Barge Canal. The canal bridge that linked Barnes and Riverside Drive was removed. Construction of the North-South Arterial replaced the old thoroughfare and Barnes began a long, gradual decline into obscurity. Among the victims was the C.A. Durr Packing Company, which closed in 1972. The complex was razed in 1987 and today no evidence remains of its existence.

Barnes Avenue last made headlines in November 2010 when the 1937 bridge was declared unsafe for travel and permanently closed. The few businesses on the north side of the bridge were left scrambling to find new accommodations. Current Google Earth views of the road show the remains of several foundations and parking lots at those sites.

Barnes Avenue might be described as one of our area’s “might have beens.” It was in a prime spot to link West Utica and Marcy, and it did so for a time. But the passage of years was not kind to the roadway. Surpassed by bigger and better thoroughfares, it exists today as a quiet, forlorn part of Utica’s industrial past. •

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adirondack journal

Fall Back and Give Thanks

All of these photographs were taken in some 90 minutes one afternoon strolling around Moss Lake…

story and photos by Gary VanRiper

Another autumn season is now history with the normal heavy amount of leaf peepers who invaded the Adirondacks now bracing for the first winter storm. There are videos already circulating of snow in the high peaks region – folks who ski and who make a living in the ski industry shouting, “Bring it on!”

It’s November, and most leaves are now on the ground, but we’ll take one last glance back over our shoulders at the wonder of the fall season.

When chasing fall color, most of the people I know drive and drive, or hike and hike, in search of views and landscape shots they can share that say, “And I was there!”

I have certainly done that, but over the years have discovered when possible it is better to find a spot rich with possibilities and simply stay and explore that one area. Not only do I become more intimately familiar with the entire location, but by spending unhurried time there can relax and allow the landscape to reveal its many treasures.

The drama in the sky alone with dark and light clouds colliding and separating wreak havoc with the light, and within

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minutes the same exact spot can appear entirely different – sometimes terrific, sometimes terrible.

For some compositions an overcast is sky preferred. For some, you beg the clouds to allow the sun to come out and play again!

Moss Lake, near the hamlet of Inlet, is one of my go-to locations. I was sitting just a few minutes away at camp, recognized a possible break in a week-long dreary sky, and decided to head there with a plan to stroll the shoreline. A few other people had the same idea.

Having coached basketball for several decades I learned somewhere along the way that some 80 percent of basketball plays run to the right side of the court. Whatever the reason, the same seemed to hold true there at the lake. Most people begin walking to the right, which was fine with me. I have always found the walk to the left to hold the most interesting views.

For the next hour and a half that day I took my time examining the landscape great and small. Most interesting were the needles and pine cones and colored leaves gathered at the shore’s edge that were washed up together with foam.

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onto the smooth surface of the lake itself.

Then there is wandering under the canopy between the lake and the trail. No one usually traipsing around there. And now there is color and form in the foreground to set against the suggestion of the water behind.

Spin around and there are trees with trunks straight and dark, still damp from rain, standing as sentries keeping watch over the deep and still colorful woods.

These were some of the best 90 minutes spent of the year.

The reds and yellows and oranges and purples have succumbed to the wind and rain – the deciduous trees stripped bare.

The sweet and sour smell of the freshly fallen holdouts are the ones to become crisp with frost, their aroma muted and soon covered by freshly fallen snow.

Looking back on each fall, it’s always noted how fleeting are the most glorious moments of the season.

But weren’t we all so fortunate to see and experience it!

Happy November. Happy Thanksgiving. •

Gary VanRiper is an author, photographer, and pastor at the Camden Wesleyan Church. He has written 15 children’s books with his son, Justin. Find out more at:

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Celebrate the traditions of the season at the Farmers Museum during Thanksgiving at the Farm Friday and Saturday, November 23 & 24.

Weekends starting November 10

Rome’s Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony

Sampling will be offered throughout the day. The tradition of wassail dates back to the 1300s. The word evolved from the Old English “waes hael” meaning good health.

Wed., November 21, 5:30-7:30pm

Help Santa and Mrs. Claus light Rome’s Christmas tree and the Trinkaus Village display.

There will be food, fireworks, live music and entertainment.

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The 42ndHerkimer County Arts and Crafts Fair

Sat., November 10, 10am-5pm Sun., November 11, 10am-4pm

This long-established, juried fine arts and crafts fair is one of the largest and well respected in New York State. The fair is known for featuring creative vendors who offer high-quality, fine art and unique products.

Herkimer College, 100 Reservoir Rd., Herkimer, www.herkimer.edu/craft-fair

Adirondack Christmas on Main Street Friday- Sunday, November 23-25

Santa and Mrs. Claus will be in town and families will be treated to old-fashioned horse-drawn wagon rides,puppet show, caroling, tree lightings, a light parade, Zoo Mobile, and Santa’s Express Train!

Main Street, Old Forge and Inlet Schedule of events at: www.adkchristmasonmain.com

Clinton Shoppers’ Stroll & Parade

Thanksgiving at the Farm

Village businesses and community organizations offer complimentary food, drink, hospitality, and music. The festivities begin with tree lighting Friday at 6pm followed by the Annual Holiday Parade.

Experience Thanksgiving traditions of the past and discover how rural New Yorkers typically celebrated Thanksgiving in the 1840s. See traditional Thanksgiving foods prepared over an open hearth and see a turkey trot with heritage-breed turkeys.

Friday and Saturday., November 23 & 24

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Victorian Yuletide at Fountain Elms November 23 - December 30, 2018

Tues., November 27, 7:30pm

This year’s exhibition is a showcase for A New York State Christmas. New York legalized the celebration of Christmas in 1848 and the state led the way in the adoption and promotion of holiday traditions that are still observed today.

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The Everyday Adventures of Mohawk Valley Girl

White Rose Bakery in Little Falls

by Cynthia Quackenbush

On a recent (and rare) Friday off, I knew two things: I wanted to go someplace and write, and I needed some place to write about for Mohawk Valley Living. Then I thought of White Rose Bakery in Little Falls.

Full disclosure: I was (and am) once more on a diet.

It would be a good idea to avoid yummy baked goods.

Still, this was for the magazine. I felt I could make the sacrifice.

When I walked in, there was a customer ahead of me, so I had plenty of time to look over the goods in the display case. So many delicious choices! Also, I got to watch the bread slicer at work, which I had never seen before.

This was big, because, as we all know, new things always aspire to be “the greatest thing since sliced bread.”

I noticed that they serve breakfast sandwiches all day.

I LOVE breakfast sandwiches! However, I had made myself a breakfast sandwich at home earlier that morning.

But maybe mine wasn’t as good. I made a mental note

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for a future visit (maybe with my husband, Steve!) and ordered a plain donut.

“How many?” the clerk asked.

Two dozen, I thought, but out loud I said, “Just one. I’m going to sit here and eat it. You have coffee, don’t you?” I didn’t see the pot.

“Right over there.” To your left as you walk in. I had gone right by it!

I sat at one of the little tables with my coffee and donut and opened my notebook, feeling perfectly content.

While I was there, White Rose seemed to do a bigger take-out than sit-down business. I saw one lady come in and pick up an order that filled several boxes.

I said I was going to follow her home.

The coffee was super hot (an excellent quality in coffee, to my way of thinking) and quite tasty as it cooled off. It was what I think of as a real coffee maker, not one of those one-cup-at-a-time jobs. I have to be told every time how to work those. The donut, as expected, was a joy. I wished I had gotten a dozen, but that is no way to meet my weight-loss goals. •

White Rose Bakery

510 E. Main St., Little Falls • (315) 823-0460 Facebook, White Rose Bakery Open Tues-Fri: 7am-5:30pm, Sat: 7am-4pm, Sun: 7am-2pm.

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• Sporting Clays • Pheasant Hunting • Shotgun Instruction • Pistol Instruction • Skeet, Trap & Five Stand • Rifle Range • Pistol Range

103 Main St., Whitesboro (315) 768-1462 Wed-Fri 6-2, Sat & Sun 6-1, Closed Mon & Tues

Wholesale Orders Call (315) 733-6603

Country Corner

Thrift Store Located in the First Presbyterian Church House

Route 365, Holland Patent Open 1st three Sat’s: 9-1 & 4th Thurs: 9-1 foothillsruralcommunityministry.com

Savor the fresh, rich flavor of hand-crafted chocolates!

• Custom Gift Trays • Holiday Party Trays • Chocolates for any occasion

Call for special orders!

11 Ellinwood Dr., The Orchard, New Hartford (315) 765-0256 • www.meyerschocolates.com Tues-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-3

Visit Our Fully Stocked Gun Shop

Let us find your next shotgun, rifle, or handgun. We do custom fitting.

We buy, sell, and trade. Beretta range, Browning, Winchester, SKB Dealer, Caesar Guerini, Syren, Benelli, Fabarms

3291 Burns Rd., Vernon Center 315-829-2529 • 315-796-4587 For complete information, including our schedule of events, please visit our website:

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Friday Fish Fry!

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6798 State Rt. 20, Bouckville

8125 Rt.12, Barneveld, NY

(315) 893-4044 • Open Mon-Sat 6-2, Sun 6-Noon

(315) 896-2871 Open early every day!

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50 Milk Shake flavors!

A Variety of Parfaits!

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8170 Seneca Tpke., Clinton (315) 732-3631

1717 Route 8, Cassville (315) 839-5000

Mon-Fri 6am-2pm, Sat & Sun 6am-1pm

Open 7 Days a Week • Open 6am-8pm or later, Serving Breakfast 6am-Noon

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The Most Unique Upside Down Pizza You Ever Tasted!

Celebratinign Weekday Specials 10 Years ! Tues- 20” X-Large Cheese Pizza . . . . $9.95 Clinton Wed- Small Cheese Pizza & 20 Wings . . . $16.95

9 West Park Row, Clinton 315.853.3052 Nolasinclinton.com

(Toppings 2.25 ea, X-Cheese 2.95)

Thurs- 2 Large Cheese Pizzas . . . . . $17.95 (plus tax /toppings extra)

Visit our new advertiser, Nola’s in Clinton for Chili-Orange Braised Peruvian Lamb Shank, with Goat Cheese Whipped Blue Potatoes, Roasted Carrots, and Caramelized Walla Walla Onions!

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Tues-Thurs: 11am-9pm, Fri & Sat: 11am-10pm, Sun: 1pm-8pm

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good food, good wine, good friends, good times

Roasted fresh daily on site!

Come taste the difference!

Breakfast and Lunch

123 Mohawk St., Herkimer • 315-866-1746

70 Otsego St., Ilion Mon-Fri: 6-2, Sat: 7:30-2 • (315) 985-0490 • www.mooserivercoffee.com

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LEE CENTER

little falls

Est. 1982

A memorable wedding doesn’t have to cost a fortune.

We offer an affordable option for up to 150 guests. Call (315) 533-7229

Traditional French & American Cuisine Owner/Chef James Aufmuth

Fine Dining • Lounge Grill Menu • Bed & Breakfast We use seasonal products from local and regional farmers and artisan producers.

Serving fresh, sustainable seafood and fish.

5345 Lee Center-Taberg Rd., Lee Center, NY

Located at historic Canal Place, Little Falls (315) 823-1170

Wed & Thurs 3-9, Fri & Sat 11:30-9, Sun 11:30-8, Closed Mon & Tues

www.gonecoastalrestaurant.com

Serving dinner Tues-Sat at 5pm www.canalsideinn.com

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9663 River Rd., Marcy

Open Daily 7am-3pm

823-3290

Breakfast, Lunch, Homemade Soups & Sandwiches and our delicious Desserts Including our Famous Cream Puffs!

Canal Place, Little Falls Next to Showcase Antiques

Fresh Haddock • Giambotta Mushroom Stew • Chicken & Biscuits Meatloaf Goulash & More!

Newly remodeled and better than ever!

Take Out & Delivery!

797-7709

Mon-Thu 6am-2pm, Fri 6am-7pm, Sat 6am-1pm, Sun 7am-1pm

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Mon-Sat: 11:30am-3pm

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Eat In Or Take Out • (315) 797-9918 • 609 French Rd, New Hartford NY Open 7 days a week for Lunch, Dinner served Mon-Thurs: 5-9, Fri & Sat: 5-10 Sun Hours: Lunch: 12-3, Dinner: 4:30-9 • www.uticaminar.com

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1700 North James St., Rome (315) 336-1111 Breakfast & Lunch daily 7am-3pm

Catering Available • Homemade Desserts Every Day

2634 Genesee St., South Utica (315) 724-6795 Breakfast & Lunch daily 7am-3pm Dinner Fri & Sat 5pm-10pm

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DiCastro’s BRICK OVEN

salisbury

The Country Store with More!

Snacks, Beer, Pizza, Wings, Subs, Gas, Diesel, Non-Ethanol Gas, Gifts and much, much more!

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SIMMER Jamacaican Restaurant

Island herbs and spice with a delightful bite!

• Serving lunch and dinner • Traditional Jamaican cuisine!

• Take out & delivery

606 South St., Utica • (315) 507-4015

Friday Fish Fry • Breakfast Served All Day

Mon-Thurs 11am-9:30pm, Fri & Sat 11am-10:30pm, Closed Sun.

2199 Bleecker St., Utica (315) 790-5250 Monday-Saturday 6-2, Sunday 7-2

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315 735-7676

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Contemporary American • Private Functions • Reservations Recommended

900 Culver Ave., Utica • 315-765-0271 • Open Tues-Sat 4:30-9pm www.willowsofutica.com

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Breakfast & Lunch Catering Available

Breakfast Sandwiches Deli-Style Wraps/Sandwiches Salads, Soups & more!

Homemade Baked Goods & Multi-Color Bagels - a kid’s favorite!

Free Delivery(min. $20) • Family Owned & Operated!

219 N. Genesee St., Utica

(315) 790-5353 • M-F: 6-4; Sat: 7-3; Sun: 7-2

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KARAM’S Middle Eastern Bakery & Restaurant

Traditional Lebanese fare for breakfast & lunch!

Middle Eastern Specials and Groceries Pita and Flat Bread • Spinach & Meat Pies • Baklawa

Tues - Fri: 9am -5pm, Sat: 9am - 3pm

(315) 736-1728 137 Campbell Ave, Yorkville www.karamsbakery.com

Nothin’ Fancy Cafe

American & Italian Cuisine Serving Lunch & Dinner

Great Food • Great Service • Great people

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Gluten Free Options!

Call for your Xmas celebration reservations or catering needs!

5656 Route 5, Vernon • (315) 829-2203

www.theblackstallionny.com Open 6 days a week for Lunch & Dinner, Closed Monday

Serving breakfast, lunch, & Friday dinners Eat in or take out • Catering available too!

Book your wedding, banquet, or party at our Event Center on-site (seats up to 200) Affordable 7,000 sq.ft., Wooden Dance Floor, We Cater or Bring your own!

10 Ruth St., Vernon • (315) 829-4500

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Whitesboro

Serving Lunch & Dinner Lunches Served Fri, Sat & Sun Happy Hour Daily 4-7, $2 Drafts & $2.50 Well Mixers Tues: $9.99 Prime Rib & $2.99 All-U-Can-Eat Spaghetti Wed: $6.99 Pasta Specials, 10 Boneless Wings $6.00 Thurs: All-U-Can-Eat Chicken Riggies Sun: .60c Wings at bar & $14.99 16oz Sirloin Dinner

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antique shopping guide Save the Date! Holiday Open House! November 9th, 10th, & 11th, 10am-5pm

Munnsville

Canal House Antiques The Gallery Antiques at Pinebrick Cider House Antiques The Gingham Patch Cobblestone Trading Company Madison Inn Antiques The Depot Turnpike Antiques

Between Us Sisters

Valandrea’s Venture Victorian Rose Wellington Woods Whistle Post Antiques

For more info about the event go to: www.MadisonBouckville.com

Canal House Antiques

Cider House Antiques

Valandrea’s Madison

Victorian

The Gallery Antiques at Pinebrick

Rose

ANTIQUE GALLERY

Earlville Jewett’s Cheese

Sherburne

BlackCat

See The Man

ANTIQUES

Celebrating our 19th year in business!

Antiques & Art Barneveld

Paintings & Prints 8010 Rt 12, Wood Carvings Mapledale Plaza Primitive Antiques Barneveld Thurs-Monday 11-6 315-896-5115 Postcards

Attic Addicts The Queen’s Closet

Pristine, Practical, and Priced Right!

Specializing in estate sales, large and small.

Conducted with respect and dignity.

We take the pressure out of estate liquidation, moving, or downsizing.

Call for a consultation:

(315) 736-9160

Consignment at its Finest!

Clothing Jewelry Household Items Furniture Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm Sat: 10:30am-3pm New consignment by appointment only

22 Oriskany Blvd., Yorkville (315) 736-9160 www.thequeenclosetatticaddicts.com

Open Fri, Sat, & Sun in November & December Closed for Winter Dec. 31 - Mar. 31

10242 Route 12N, Remsen (315) 831-8644

www.backofthebarnantiques.com

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ANTIQUES

A little bit country, a little bit primitive!

Your destination for furniture, hand stenciled signs, vintage clothing, warm glow candles, silk arrangements & more!

Multi Dealer Antique Shop

Primitives • Furniture • Artwork Smalls • Antique Accessories

14 East Main St. Earlville (315) 691-5721

Open Tues-Fri: 9-4, Sat: 9-2, Closed Sun & Mon

Wed-Sat: 10-4, Sun: 11-3 • (315) 264-1755

4803 Rt. 31, Vernon

Dawn Marie’s Treasures Clinton o H liday Stroll Nov 23 & 24

Vintage, Gift & Gourmet 18 West Park Row, Clinton (315) 796-9099 • Open Mon-Sat 10-6

Shop Dawn Marie’s this Holiday Season!

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Spices, Salts, Maple Syrup, Honey, Jams & Jellies, Soaps, Lotions, & Other Specialty Goods

For your holiday gathering & decor: We have it!

Cards, Candles, & Chocolates: We have it!

Furs, designer bags, jewelry: We have it!

Unique & affordable gifts for everyone: We have it!

The Gallery Antiques at Pinebrick A multi-dealer shop specializing in advertising, petroliana, lamps, glass, furniture & quality smalls.

Look for our 1960s Texaco sign!

(315) 893-7752

6790 Route 20, Bouckville

Olive Oils & Balsamic Vinegars

Tasting Room!

3300 Rt. 46, Bouckville

(315) 412-1296 • Wed-Sat: 10-6, Sun: Noon-4

Over 30 Vendors!

6768 Route 20, Bouckville (315) 893-7676

Our lovely gallery offers a full range of antiques, fine furniture, and vintage collectibles!

www.depotantiquegallery.com

Holiday Open House Nov. 9,10,11 - 10am-5pm

ANTIQUE GALLERY Open Apr-Oct: 10-5 daily; Nov-Dec: 10-4 daily January-March: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 10-4

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Christmas Open House

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Shop local antique shops on Small Business Saturday for great gifts!

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Closed Thanksgiving - Christmas Day - New Years’ Day

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Main Street Gift Shoppe

Newport’s Best Kept Secret for Primitive Gifts!

Primitives, Handmades, Candles and Fixins, Home Decor, Furniture, Lighting, Textiles, and Olde Century Colors Paint

Primitive Christmas Open House Saturday Dec. 1st & Sunday Dec. 2nd 11:30am-3pm - Bring a Friend!

The Online Exchange We Can Help You Buy, Sell, and Trade Globally!

Now an FFL dealer!

7431 Main St Rt. 28 Newport, NY

6338 St. Rt. 167, Dolgeville

Check out our popular Ristorante on site!

www.TheOnlineExchange.Net

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Little Falls

Antique Center

NEWPORT MARKETPLACE Rt.28, 7583 Main St., Newport, NY (315) 845-8822

Shop Small Business Saturday!

November 24

More than 50 vendors on 2 floors!

OVER 56 VENDORS! FOR THOSE WHO CRAVE THE UNIQUE! Antiques • Vintage • Handcrafted Items • Alpaca Hats, Gloves, & Socks Honey • Cheese • Holistic & Local Foods • Grass-Fed Beef & Pork Local Maple Syrup • Muck Boots • Garden Accessories • Pottery Christmas Ornaments Holiday Decorations

Antiques • Art • Crafts Thruway Exit 29A 25 West Mill St., Little Falls Open Every Day 10-5 315-823-4309 Handicapped-accessible

www.littlefallsantiquecenter.com

Like us on Facebook!

Open at 9am • Gift Certificates Available • Like us!

Over 160 Vendor booths and display cases!

Visit our “Architecture & Salvage” area and discover many unique treasures!

100 E. Main St., Mohawk (Thruway Exit 30)

(315) 219-5044 www.mohawkantiquesmall.com

MOHAWK ANTIQUES MALL

Mon, Wed-Sat: 10-5, Sun: 11:30-4:30 Closed Tuesdays

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Holiday Open House

Antique & Unique!

Buy • Sell • Trade

Sat. Nov. 17th: 10-6 • Sun. Nov. 18th: 10-4 Discounts • Refreshments • Door Prizes Antiques make great gifts!

Celebrating 46 Years in Business!

Vintage Jewelry, Coins, Glass, China, Furniture, Americana, Advertising, Art, Lighting, and More!

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Don & Nancy Hartman, 52 Oriskany Blvd., Whitesboro (Next to Kinney’s)

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337 Genesee St., Utica (315) 738-1333 www.vintagefurn.com

An eclectic mix of vintage, antiques, & home decor

Painted and Repurposed Vintage & Antique Furniture

6831 Indian Opening Rd., Bouckville

Open Sat & Sun 10-4 (315) 893-7162

75 Antique Dealers Quality Antiques, Collectibles, Furniture, Art and Jewelry

Showcase Antiques of CNY

375 Canal Place, Little Falls (315) 823-1177 Open Daily 10-5 • Handicap Accessible www.showcaseantiquesofcny.com

A Multi Dealer Shop

Featuring 60 Dealers displaying a diverse array of antiques and collectibles.

315-337-3509 Open Daily 10-5, Closed Tuesdays

315-893-1786

Holiday Open House November 10 & 11!

Sweet Treat Give Away - Dec 8 & 9!

3371 Maple Ave., Bouckville

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Open Daily 10-5

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Weeden’ s Mini Mall

5349 Route 5, Vernon (315) 829-2105 Open 10-5 every day

Located 4 miles North of Sylvan beach 8056 Route 13, Blossvale (315) 245-0458 Open 10-5 every day

OPEN HOUSE NOVEMBER 17 &18th: 10-5

OPEN HOUSE NOVEMBER 10th & 11th: 10-5

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Join us for Christmas in Little Falls, Sat., Dec. 8th!

“Spin the Wheel” up to 15% off!

Complimentary Homemade Christmas Cookies & Coffee

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Kokopelli the new cd from Auld Lang Syne

By John Keller Kokopelli – a Native American symbol for fertility, agriculture and, by some, the symbol for music. Kokopelli is also the name and vision for Auld Lang Syne’s latest album. Pared down to basics, Tim and Kathy Dick have provided most of the instrumentation and recruited their children to accompany them vocally. This all provides for a very enriching and endearing folk-based listening experience.

The album starts off with “Seed.” No matter what happens, an idea, a plan, a life cannot die if it is strong in heart and mind. “Where your treasure is, your heart follows.” Kathy’s accordion provides a beautiful background for Tim’s guitar, along with banjo and percussion. A marvelous opening.

Finger-picked guitar and light percussion tread gently behind the harmonic vocals on “Namaste.” We see the mountains

and valleys and each other, but there is more than just what we see. This song envelops the true nature and meaning of “Namaste” – I bow to the divine in you, seeing and feeling the depth of more within.

A good-time song with a bluegrass feel, “Dirt” speaks of not being afraid to work hard and get, well, dirty. This song is catchy and will stay in your head for days. The kids backing up

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Dad sound great. “For what it’s worth, a little dirt don’t hurt.”

You can’t have a folk album without an iota of social commentary, and “Oiltown” is one such song. Oil fires spreading throughout a village that was once a “booming town” until the oil companies moved in, asking the question “Is there more to life than production?” A song to ponder.

Kathy and Tim spend quite a bit of time in Arizona and all parts out West, which was an inspiration for “Geronimo.” Being in the deserts and canyons, feeling the breezes and

living much like the Native Americans did so long ago. Breathing in the elements that Geronimo and his people may have done. “I went to the desert surrounded by stars.” Kathy’s vocals are exquisite.

If there is one thing that Auld Lang Syne does well, that is to make you feel.

Whether it is happiness, sadness, or just heart. In “Moonflower,” Tim goes straight for the heart. This paean to the short-lived cactus bloom is beautiful in music, vocals, and delivery. “Moonflower, my lonely light.” Nearly a capella, Tim’s voice swells and ebbs with feeling. When the chorus sweeps in, one hears the passion of this song and can almost visualize the beauty of the flower. Excellent performance.

As we all know, water is essential for life, but in the song “Water,” Tim uses it as the impetus for all life forces. That reason and necessity to carry us through. This is also a comment of the Standing Rock and

Flint debacles where precious water is being denied to bring hope and that life force to many. Guitar, banjo, and accordion laying close rhythms and pushing his vocals along.

“Wash away these fears.”

The final track on Kokopelli is “Whistle in the Dark.” It is a love song to a person and to nature. Tim sings lead as Kathy and their children provide a glorious backing. “Love is what you are. The fire that lit the spark.”

Kokopelli is a beautifully recorded and performed album. Auld Lang Syne is an amazing entity that is ever-changing, but at its core, Tim and Kathy Dick are extremely talented musicians, writers, vocalists, and arrangers. Their harmonies are second to none, and the visions they create with their lyrics are impeccable. Now that they have gotten the children involved, this family is unstoppable.

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It can either mean Italian for encore, as in applauding for more, or I would say the applause itself. That’s the aptly named Ancora! restaurant right next door to the Stanley Performing Arts Center on Genesee Street in Utica.

Owner Dan Loconti of Utica himself has been in charge almost five years now; he purchased the original restaurant with the same name the Nole brothers opened in 2005. It was hailed as a Mediterranean/Italian eatery back then and still is now, with some tweaks these days by Dan. “It’s more than just your classic Italian restaurant in Utica,” Dan promises. “It’s not just spaghetti and meatballs.”

Dan says his restaurant is becoming known as a hip-type place to visit. “We’re drawing a younger crowd, people going to and from shows next door at the Stanley and also visitors because we’re near the Thruway exit and the downtown hotels.”

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“Chicken riggies are offered now as a tribute to something that’s unique to Utica,” Dan says. “We came in third in one of the local chicken riggies contests and have changed our recipe to make it to number one next time,” he promises.

The riggies dish proved be a marvel, with a thick creamy sauce reminiscent of the best vodka à la penne entrée with just the right amount of peppery heat.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Dan had planned our dining experience for this visit.

First out were the appetizers: a crisp, fresh Apple Walnut Salad with arugula and gorgonzola tossed in a balsamic vinaigrette; Greens Ancora (escarole with prosciutto, hot and sweet peppers, onions, bread crumbs, and parmesan cheese); and arancini--fried Italian rice balls filled with ham and cheese served with marinara sauce.

They were a complementary trio as starters—and a meal unto themselves. The cool salad was the perfect foil to the spiced savory greens and the creamy rice balls.

To counterbalance the aforementioned über-pleasing riggies, Dan proffered his tasty take on the Spanish national dish of paella. This one was a more tomato-chunked and sauce-laden wet rice with mussels and shrimp crowned with a sliver of lobster tail instead of the more traditional drier chicken-broth and saffron-infused dish. The well-seasoned double-handled cooking and serving pan was spot on.

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To cater to a milder palate, Dan also offered his Bistro Style Chicken, a crisplyskinned thyme-and-butter-seasoned chicken half that looked like it had been smashed flat in the roasting, and served with oven-roasted potatoes and greens. Despite already full stomachs, the three of us dug right into that one.

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Dessert this evening was a sinful Baci di Ancora – a chocolate crepe filled with Nutella and topped with chocolate ice cream, toasted almonds, strawberries, and whipped cream.

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november in nature story and photos by Matt Perry Following the vivid colors of the October forest, November comes in as a study in somber browns and grays. On most days, even the sky is purged of color as it conveys rafts of stratocumulous clouds. Those gray and white emissaries from the North seem set on ushering in winter. Back down to Earth, the leaf litter on the forest floor is a mosaic of different leaf shapes laid out in earth tones. They silently decompose due to the ceaseless work of fungal filaments, bacteria, worms, and arthropods. We rarely see the legions of organisms involved in the feeding frenzy, but we must appreciate the results. These agents of decomposition work in harmony to create soil, the fertile matrix that gives the forest life. Tree bark, twigs, and leaf buds also seemed drained of color.

Even the gold hue of the Yellow Birch’s bark has lost some of its luster. As sap retreats into the tree’s roots it extracts color along with sugars and nutrients. This is part and parcel of the tree’s preparation for winter.

November is also the time when the hidden nests of summer are revealed. Without the shroud of leaves to conceal them, nests

become visible for the first time. The leafy summer nests of Gray Squirrels stand out clearly among the bare high branches of deciduous trees. The large turban-shaped nests of paper wasps are also plain to see.

The silver-gray structures hang like pineapples from exposed branches.

When I see one, my mind instantly travels back to early August when I was sitting in the blind at the beaver pond. Bald-faced Hornets were landing on the wooden support post directly behind my back. I had to keep reminding myself not to lean too far back and risk that species’ potent wrath. One by one, the hornets would bite off vertical strips of wood from the post and then fly off. The wood pulp they collected would be

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Continuing through our old woods, I see places in the trail where the leaf litter had been thoroughly rummaged through and the dirt below had been raked by clawed feet. This was the unmistakable work of Wild Turkeys. In groups of 4 to 20, turkeys prowl through woods almost always taking different routes as they seek out manna from the forest canopy.

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There’s so much going on at the farm right now that I don’t know where to start! Our chicken processing and farmers’ markets are winding down, just as we ramp up for baby goats and lambs in a few weeks.

Cheese production is at full tilt. I volunteer a few spare hours every week on several committees. Our daughters are fully engaged in school, sports, and plays.

And, finally, we’re building an addition to our cheese plant, whose mounting debt and ballooning costs are stressful enough to wake me in the middle of the night.

But I feel that is all a good story for another day.

There’s enough going on that it’s easy to get stressed and not focus on the positive. But it’s November, time to focus my energies on being thankful. This year, I feel it will take Herculean effort to not stress! I may just need to start a new tradition, a “Thanksgiving Resolution.”

It’s true, the addition to our cheese plant has been stressful and the few final stages (electric and heat) are going to cost 20-30% more than we budgeted a year ago due to tariffs and hurricanes. It’s like being close to finishing a marathon, but the final stretch is suddenly up a steep hill. If I force myself to see the positive, I’m thankful that we started our building over a year ago and can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I’m thankful that we applied for state and federal funding that made the whole project possible. And I’m thankful that once complete, it will have been worth the effort…right?

I’m also surprisingly stressed about my oldest daughter, Harper, who is a senior in high school this year. She’s a bright young lady with a sharp wit and wide-ranging interests. She’s a great kid with a world of opportunities in front of her. As a senior, she gets more mail than anyone I know: dozens of letters, cards, and full-color expensive brochures from colleges all over the U.S. fill our mailbox every day. You can tell she likes the attention but is still super casual about it, letting the mail pile up until we scream that the dining room table is unusable. She clearly likes the idea of going to college. The effort and focus required of her to get in to college? Not so much.

But I get it. It’s so hard to know what “is the right decision.” Each school seems to offer something unique and exciting—how do you choose? Plus, it’s so hard to know whether something will be worth all the effort. College is so expensive, and we’ve all heard stories of students graduating with debilitating debt.

Our farm is in deep debt now, and that stress is the last thing I would want for her. Certainly, college isn’t for everyone.

I’m also stressed about whether she can get into a good school. She’s bright, yes, but when I consider her competition, I know it will be tough. Our small, rural schools do the best they can with the resources they have; I’m thankful our schools are as good as they are!

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Finally, I’m learning that, although my daughter is from a small rural school, spending her days helping on the farm and at farmers’ markets, she is truly unique in an enormous pool of applicants. Has she gone to expensive summer camps to hone her sailing skills? No. Has she spent 17 years practicing violin five days a week? No. Has she traveled to foreign lands as a volunteer to distribute food and blankets? No, definitely not—and I’m genuinely sad that I couldn’t give her those opportunities. But she has helped birth and care for hundreds of baby animals, fed and comforted moms, operated heavy machinery (unsupervised), talked with literally thousands of strangers about her family farm, and developed a new business line that added significant revenue to our bottom line.

And she still found time to be a voracious reader, a prolific artist, and a genuinely interesting person.

So, this is my Thanksgiving Resolution: I’m officially giving myself permission to stop stressing about Harper’s future and to be thankful for the wonderful person that she is.

(As a mom, I expect the first part of my resolution to last only so long. Ha!) November is the perfect time to take stock of our lives and give thanks for all that we have. It’s easy to lose focus when times are stressful; I’m living proof of that.

But when I do take stock, when I take that step back and consider it all, I’m grateful. I hope you are able to do the same, too! • Suzie Jones and her husband, Peter, own Jones Family Farm in Herkimer.

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Here on the farm we grow in huge cold frames called greenhouses. But you can also grow veggies all year round without going to the expense of buying and heating a greenhouse. The use of cold frames can make for year-round gardening. The system is used primarily to grow salad greens: spinach, chard, mache, claytonia, arugula, and a variety of lettuces. They all grow well in cold frames, even here in the Mohawk Valley.

In addition, you can also grow a variety of vegetables such as scallions, radishes, carrots, turnips, beets, and leeks.

Cold frames create an isolated warm, humid, controlled environment for plants to grow in during the harsher months of the year. A translucent top is angled toward the south in order to capture as much solar radiation as possible throughout the day. An effectiv cold frame is planted in the ground, in order to insulate the ground in which the plants grow.

There are many design ideas for cold frames online, but basically you’re keeping the cold out and letting sunlight in

How to build a cold frame from The Cold Frame Handbook by Derek Weiss: Effective cold frames range anywhere from a hole in the ground covered with plastic, to a buried wooden structure made with reclaimed materials, to a store-bought cold frame with all the bells and whistles. Somewhere around 4 feet by 8 feet in size is good for maximizing growing space and heat retention.

No matter what materials you use to build your cold frame there are a few aspects to keep in mind: 1) Southern facing glazing to take in solar radiation. Can be achieved with clear plastic, an old window, or insulated polycarbonate.

2) Buried in the ground to insulate the Earth. A hole in the ground or a buried box. Best to insulate beneath the frost line if possible.

3) Insulated, sealed environment. Sealing the top of the frame is vital. Provides warmth, increased humidity, and isolation from the elements.

The location of your cold frame should be easily accessible so you can keep a close eye on your plants and check it regularly. Somewhere with a clear southern exposure is ideal.

What to Grow in Your Cold Frame Fall Now is the time to grow veggies such as carrots, leeks, radishes, and scallions, as this will be the warmest of the three off-seasons. The longer days will allow for greater solar radiation and higher growing temperatures. Salad greens will thrive in these conditions.

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time to build and plant in your cold frame before the snow hits. If you are really interested in growing veggies in the off-season, I recommend investing in Eliot Coleman’s The Winter Harvest Handbook or Four Season Harvest. We refer to both these books here on the farm all season long.

Winter Winter is the harshest growing season, so the heartiest plants should be planted. Salad greens likes arugula, spinach, mache, lettuces, and Asian greens, bok choy, kale, and chard will be the most successful. Spinach, kale, chard, and lettuces will continue to produce beyond the first harvest, but other greens will require a more intensive seed sowing rotation. Sowing seeds in January should yield a March harvest. Plants will grow slower because of the reduced hours of daylight.

Spring Springtime can be used to plant another round of salad greens, or if you are short on seed- starting space, a great plant to start sprouts plants for your summer garden. To get a jump start on that summer garden, sow seeds about five weeks before the last frost.

Here’s a list of what we grow in the greenhouse that should grow well in a cold frame at your house: carrots, leeks, scallions, radishes, turnips, beets, parsnips, cabbage, spinach, lettuces, bok choy, tatsoi, mazuna, arugula, mache, chard, kale, chard, beet greens, endive, escarole, and claytonia.

I’m sure some of these plants you may never have tried or even heard of before, but if you decide to try a cold frame or two in your garden, none of the veggies listed above will disappoint. Be adventurous; try some of the Asian greens in your garden and your kitchen this winter. •

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6 cups tatsoi, bok choy, and spinach (or any combination), raw-chopped 1½ cups raw carrots, chopped Garlic, 3 cloves, sliced 2 T. olive oil 1 tsp. sesame Oil ¼ cup onion, chopped 3½ cups egg noodles, dry Sauce: 5 T. natural peanut butter 1 T. white wine vinegar 3 T. tamari 1 T. olive oil Cook egg noodles according to package directions; in the meantime sauté oil and garlic for five minutes. Add carrots and onions, and sauté five minutes. Add tatsoi mixture, and sauté till tender. Mix together ingredients for the sauce. Pour over mixture. Stir fry for a few minutes, serve over egg noodles. Sprinkle with chopped salted peanuts. Serve hot or put in fridge and chill for a few hours and serve cold.

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Mercury’s Mysteries by carol higgins

Of the eight planets in our solar system, one stands out because it has managed to survive in a dangerous place in space. It is a land of wild temperature extremes, abundant sunlight, and a heavily cratered surface. Meet our smallest planet and the one closest to the Sun--Mercury!

Each planet is unique and has its own special characteristics, and Mercury is no exception. At only 3,030 miles across, it is slightly larger than the width of the U.S. and our Moon. It travels very fast, zooming along at almost 112,000 mph on an unusual egg-shaped (elliptical) path that is only 29 million miles from the Sun at its closest point and 43 million miles at the farthest.

At that speed, it only takes 88 Earth days to make one complete orbit, but oddly it spins so slowly that one rotation takes 59 Earth days.

Mercury may be small, but it harbors big mysteries. It’s a difficult place to study because it is so close to the Sun and is only occasionally visible from Earth. The Sun’s gravity and radiation present many challenges. So, what to do? Sending a spacecraft is no small feat, but it has been done.

The first was NASA’s Mariner 10, launched Nov. 3, 1973. It arrived at Mercury four months later, and over the next year flew past the planet three times. Mariner was a great success, returning thousands of photos and scientific measurements. We got our first up-close look at over half of the surface and learned that Mercury has a metallic core, a very thin atmosphere, and

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Next was NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, launched Aug. 3, 2004, on a daring mission to orbit Mercury. After a comPlanet Mercury by plicated series of flybys and course adMESSENGER justments, Messenger entered orbit on St. Credit: NASA Patrick’s Day in 2011. Its on-board instruments and cameras were designed to withtwo orbiters on board, both containing a stand the extreme and harsh environment sophisticated array of instruments with near the Sun, and they performed Hanny’s well. Voorwerp.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Keel, Galaxy Zoo Team ambitious goals. They’ll investigate the The spacecraft took amazing photos and planet’s odd combination of elements in its advanced instruments gave us a better the atmosphere and on the surface, its unlook at the atmosphere, geology, magnetic usual magnetic field and possible relationfield, interior and polar regions. For examship to solar activity, evidence of volcanic ple, we learned that the iron core takes up activity, suspected water rich regions, and more than 70 percent of the interior. Surmuch more. We’ll have a long wait beface features called “scarps” indicate that cause it will take more than seven years the planet is shrinking, and it is littered to reach Mercury and go into orbit, but, if with odd formations named “hollows.” successful, it will be worth every minute!

Mercury’s magnetic field is offset from In the meantime, how about an adventhe center of the planet and no one knows ture? On November 6, head outside just why. Temperatures range from more than after sunset. Look toward the west near 800 degrees Fahrenheit in sunlit regions the horizon for a small white dot that looks to -290 degrees in “nighttime” areas. And like a star. That is planet Mercury! although it seems impossible, there is ev Wishing you clear skies! • idence of water ice mainly in some deep craters at the northern pole where sunlight does not reach.

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This year marked the 10th anniversary of Peregrine Falcons nesting in Utica. Back in 2008, Utica’s first pair of Peregrines (named Maya and Tor) adopted a ledge on M&T Bank’s Gold Dome building in Downtown Utica. That original pair nested for two consecutive years, but never hatched or fledged any young. In the spring of 2014, a new pair began using a nest box that was installed on a 15th floor ledge of the Adirondack Bank building. To date that pair (named Astrid and Ares) has fledged 15 young in five seasons. The achievement of the Utica falcons mirrors the success the enigmatic raptor has enjoyed in New York State and the Eastern United States since its reintroduction in the mid-1970s. The race of Peregrine Falcons formerly inhabiting the Eastern U.S. (Falcon peregrinus anatum) went extinct in the mid1960s due to the pesticide DDT. That widely used chemical bio-accumulated up the food-chain and devastated the breeding populations of several raptor species, including the Peregrine, Bald Eagle, and Osprey. The banning of DDT in the U.S. (effective 1972), the protection of the Peregrine under the newly enacted Endangered Species Act, and a vigorous captive-breeding program effectively reestablished Peregrines in the East. In the mid-1970s, Peregrine Falcons raised in captivity were released into New York City and a few other urban centers. They did well in these man-made canyons, where they nested on the ledges of skyscrapers and primarily hunted city-dwelling Rock Pigeons and European Starlings. Eventually, the falcons expanded out of the big city and began reclaiming former territories in the high peaks of the Adirondacks and other natural places. They also colonized Upstate cities that had downtowns that hosted at least a few tall buildings.

In Utica, transient Peregrine Falcons started being noticed in the late 1990s, and a territorial pair took up residence in 2007, although that pair didn’t attempt to nest until the following year. In 2008, Maya and Tor made history when they became the first of their species ever to be

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In 2018, Maya was the first female Peregrine to nest in Utica

documented as nesting in Utica and Oneida County. However, we had to wait until 2014, when the nesting attempted by Astrid and Ares produced the first successful hatch and the first instance of a chick fledging from a Utica nest. The same pair has been producing young ever since. The remainder of this article will be devoted to the 2018 breeding season of Utica’s current resident pair of falcons.

Astrid and Ares do not migrate as many of their species (including their own offspring) do. Invariably, they spent the winter on their territory, where they stand ready to defend their nest box and their urban canyon from interlopers. The way Peregrines keep fidel-

ity with their nest site is inextricably tied to the maintenance of their pair bond. Male and female Peregrines stay devoted to the nest site and to each other by engaging in frequent courtship displays throughout the year and not just during the species’ breeding season. A ledge display performed in the heart of the territory reaffirms the Peregrine pair’s dedication to each other and to the nest site. During the ledge display or “dance” the pair will bow to each other, vocalize, and touch bills. With Astrid and Ares, virtually all their ledge displays take place at the nest box.

Since our Peregrines’ courtship-like behavior takes place all year long, it’s hard to identify a precise time when their breeding season begins. For us, the traditional start of the season is when Ares begins to bring his mate food tributes. As was the case the previous winter, during this past winter Astrid seemed to be doing the bulk of the hunting

and provisioning for the pair. Although Ares is indisputably a more prolific hunter, Astrid is much more adept at securing Pigeons.

Upon capturing one she would bring it to a high ledge. There she would pluck it and begin to feed. Ares would come over and either wait to get a share or attempt to steal a chunk.

The term “steal” is not entirely appropriate in this case since she often permitted him to grab pieces. It was highly amusing to watch the different methods Ares employed to abscond with his mate’s food. Sometimes, he would be casually standing next to her while

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she fed, all the while appearing uninterested in the meal. Then, suddenly, when he deemed the moment was right, he’d lunge in and make a grab for it. After mid-February, Ares was not only bringing food to his mate, but he was performing flight displays for her. A flight display entails swooping back and forth in front of one’s mate while they are located at or near the nest site. Although aerial displays are often considered the purview of the male, female Peregrines also engage in it and Astrid does more than most. However, gifting prey is something only males do. Food tributes are usually accepted, but there are exceptions. One of the first gifts that Ares brought to Astrid in the 2018 season was a bat. On February 21st, Ares arrived at the nest box with the bat in his talons. It was 6:30 a.m. and Astrid was perched on a ledge on the State Building. His plan was to lure Astrid over to the box with the food, but she showed no interest in coming to accept it. One would think that after five years of being together he would remember she doesn’t like bats. Of course, where exactly Ares came up with a bat in wintertime is unknown, but Astrid gave him no credit for novelty. Ares left with the catch and probably stored it somewhere. Apart from the bat, most of the treats Ares provided for his mate were more to her liking. The food handoff would often take place at the nest box’s perch and then Astrid would take the meal someplace else to eat it.

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their own territory and, if they could, take over the canyon. The most brazen of the intruders was one we came close to not noticing. The incident took place on the morning of February 21st and began with Ares giving some cackle-type alarm calls at the nest box.

They were somewhat subdued calls and at the time we weren’t too concerned. Ten minutes later, he was involved in a ledge display at the nest box. The “dance” was atypical. It began with raucous bill-swiping or “beaking” behavior. Directly following that, Ares stood back while his dance partner performed some fancy side-stepping moves in the center of the box. I recall monitoring the display on

my phone and thinking that something was amiss, and that “Astrid” seemed more abrupt and rowdy than usual. I noted the behavior, but I still didn’t think much of it. The truth is that many times in our experience with Astrid and Ares (both as individuals and as a pair), they have often exhibited novel or unexpected behavior. It wasn’t until the female moved out onto the box’s perch that we realized it wasn’t Astrid! It was an unknown adult female Peregrine with markings similar to Astrid’s. One obvious difference was that she was a banded bird. She had bracelets on each leg and those bands had numbers on them. Of course, Astrid had no bling – her legs were bare. As the dance ensued, Ares remained backed up into the nest box. He was frozen and peering at the audacious stranger as if she were part exotic dancer and part demon. Importantly, Astrid was nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile the new female acted like she owned the place. She walked on the box’s perches and strutted out onto the east veranda. At one point she even jumped up onto the roof of the box. She was practically measuring the drapes! We kept wondering what Astrid was going to do when she got home. My curiosity made me drive downtown to see for myself. I entered the falcon’s canyon about an hour after the stranger

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shared that infamous dance with Ares. Even before I parked my car I could see three Peregrines zooming around the State Building and sparring. It was our resident pair and the banded female. The winds were particularly strong that day, which made the falcons’ maneuvers even quicker and more spectacular than usual. The three were lightly scuffling and it seemed like Ares was more aggressive in pursuing the intruder. I was quite surprised it wasn’t Astrid taking the lead since it was a female interloper. Typically, Ares deals with the male interlopers and Astrid takes care of the females. Thankfully, we didn’t see a serious air battle take place between our birds and the stranger. From my vantage point, the stranger was suddenly gone and only Astrid

and Ares were left soaring through the canyon.

After the incident with the brazen interloper, I submitted the numbers on the female’s leg band to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

According to their records, the female Peregrine was banded as a nestling in Springfield, Mass., in May 2016. Wildlife Photographers David and Candice Cesari photographed the same falcon in the city of Rome in September 2017. That was more evidence that the female was shopping the region for a potential territory.

It was interesting watching Astrid and Ares’ interactions following the incident with the Springfield bird. Particularly the ledge display that took place two days later on February 23rd. Ares arrived at the nest at 6:45 a.m., and that’s when Astrid joined him in the box. It was an atypical display for these longtime dance Ares shows off for Astrid at the partners. Ares spent start of the breeding season most of the first 10 minutes backed into

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Although we never positively identified the Springfield falcon in the canyon following that infamous visit, there were several other interlopers that kept the Utica Peregrines on their toes for most of the early part of the breeding season. Intruders that were

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taken the most seriously were not always other Peregrine Falcons. March 10th was a cold and wintery day. At 9:30 in the morning, the falcons were poised to do a ledge display when suddenly an intruder flew in low from the west. It was a Common Raven and it came within 200 feet of the nest box. That elicited a major cackle-type alarm call from Ares. He plunged out of the box in pursuit and Astrid was right behind him. Realizing its predicament, the Raven uttered a harsh “squawk,” picked up speed, and altered course to the south. Both falcons intercepted him in seconds and dove at him from two directions.

The Raven lost altitude and adjusted course again, this time adopting a westward heading. The falcons stayed on him for a couple of city blocks and then they simultaneously broke off their hazing efforts. To our knowledge, this was the only time the Utica falcons tangled with a Raven. Directly following that incident, the falcons returned to the same positions they held pre-incursion. Right then, a Sharp-shinned Hawk (a/k/a Sharpie) flew over the canyon. She was heading south.

Interestingly, that raptor elicited no reaction at all from the falcons. Proximity to the nest site was likely the reason for the dramatically divergent treatments of the two intruders.

While the Raven flew close to the box, the Sharpie came nowhere near it. Also, in the wild, in mountainous regions and natural canyons, Ravens sometimes compete with

Peregrines for nest ledges. That provides another justification for driving them away.

After a ledge display or whenever they happen to be in the box, a falcon will make a nest scrape in the gravel on the floor. A falcon makes a scrape by leaning forward onto its breast and then kicking back with its feet to dig out a depression in the stone. Typically, the scrape is the place where the eggs will be laid. Both the male and female will exhibit this behavior. This season Ares was particularly zealous about making scrapes.

Astrid was making them, too, but Ares chose to always make his on the same place on the floor. As egg laying time approached, he had created more of a chasm than a scrape. The gravel banks heaped up around it made it appear even deeper. Of course, when Astrid did lay her first egg on April 1st, she did it on her own modest scrape and not in Ares’ homemade crater. From mid-March on, we kept predicting that egg laying was imminent. The weather had been mild and springlike and the falcons were giving us all manner of behavioral clues that it was about to happen. As it turned out, they were not early, and Astrid laid her first egg on precisely the average date. In fact, she has now laid egg # 1 on April 1st for three out of five seasons. It seems nature can be just like clockwork.

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We were close to convincing ourselves that the season’s breeding attempt would be a failure due to the incubation gaps. For me, I recall clearly in 2008 and ’09, waiting in vain for Maya’s egg to hatch. Both of those seasons we passed the 33-day mark, the 40-day mark, and beyond with no hatch (Peregrine eggs typically hatch after 29-33 days of incubation). It seemed like history was about to repeat itself. I confess I began making alternate plans for the time in June that we normally devote to fledge watch. When the eggs did begin to hatch on May 9th, we were left with some fundamental questions. Why didn’t the incubation gaps kill the eggs? Did the gaps take place during the brief window before the embryos’ development begins?

Could it be that the stones on the floor of the box retained enough radiant heat to rescue the eggs? The host building’s outer wall is brick and the ledges are made with slabs of stone. The nest box is situated directly on top of a stone ledge on the south facing side of the building. It’s certainly conceivable that the building itself conducted an adequate amount of heat to keep the eggs warm

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On the evening of May 8th , we noticed that the first egg to be laid in the clutch was showing a “pip.” A pip is a small hole in the shell made by the egg-tooth of the chick inside the egg. Astrid stayed on the clutch all night.

Ares came to the box at 2:12 a.m.. He had prey in his talons. Astrid took it and flew off with it.

Ares took over on the eggs for a few minutes until she returned. At 5 o’clock Wednesday morning, the pair switched, and Ares took over on the nest. The hole in egg # 1 had grown and we could hear the rhythmic calling of a chick inside the egg. That kid wanted out! An hour later, the hole had expanded. For a few minutes it looked like Ares was going to be on duty when the egg hatched (which would have been unprecedented), but it was not to be. Astrid came back to the box just before 6 a.m., and Ares was out. Shortly after 7 o’clock, the first hatch of the 2018 season took place. Astrid was seen eating part of the cast-off egg shell.

The hatchling was pink and wet, but within a few minutes it had whitened up quite a bit.

At 8 o’clock, it was clear that a second egg had a large pip in it. It looked like the hatchling wasn’t going to be an only child for long.

Sometime before 9:30, the pair switched again, and Ares got to see hatchling # 1 for the first time. Less than 10 minutes later, Astrid was

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At 10:37 a.m., the second hatch of the day occurred. The new chick was briefly glimpsed before Astrid tucked it back under her. For those of you that have some memory of the 2017 breeding season, you might think you’ve seen this play before. That year we also had two hatches take place on May 9th. At 12:20 p.m., Ares brought food to the box, but Astrid sent him away. Evidently, she didn’t want to start feeding the chicks yet. Of course, mother knows best. At 1:00, Astrid gave a cackle type alarm call, but she didn’t leave her brood, nor did Ares leave his perch on the State Building.

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she did just that. When there are hatchlings in the nest, she’s rarely away for long even on the warmest afternoons, and that was one of the hottest. Poor Astrid looked majorly stressed in the box. She was almost constantly shading the chicks and the remaining eggs through the balance of the afternoon. At 2:50, the first feeding took place. Astrid tore miniscule pieces of meat from the carcass and fed them mostly to the first chick. The second chick got a little bit toward the end of the meal. Astrid then took the leftovers out of the box and stored them.

Ares came and sat with the brood until she came back. Luckily for him, she wasn’t gone for long. • Look for part 2 of the Utica Peregrine Falcon’s 2018 story in the December issue of Mohawk Valley Living magazine.

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The Snow Bowl A short story by Tim Flihan

In 1973, I was already well above the weight limit for Pop Warner football. With a top weight of 115 pounds, I wasn’t even close. I was closer to 150 than 115, so I was relegated to the sidelines where I watched my much lighter friends play their final season of youth football before going on to play high school sports. It was an exciting time for me, because at that age, I loved everything about sports. I could talk sports with the best of them and I was a pretty decent athlete. I could hold my own, but I think I rarely stood out. I played everything from baseball to tennis and from football to golf and I played all the time.

But this season, I was sidelined by genetics and my mom’s cooking.

During the regular Pop Warner season there was not anything that was memorable. The East Utica Giants played Sunday morning games and were probably a middle-of-the-road team, but knowing the people assembled, they played with heart. The bottom line was that they were unremarkable and outside their family and friends they would be destined to anonymity.

Except for one small thing. They played in the first Pop Warner Snow Bowl in Utica.If you never heard of the Snow Bowl, you would be in good company. Most people never heard of it, but it was special at the time it was proposed. The game was the brain-child of Lenny Pannafino, a native Utican who recently had relocated to Florida where he was an assistant coach of the Tornadoes, a youth football team from Clearwater. They were a team from the Tampa Bay area that had gone undefeated and untied in a football-crazy community on the gulf coast of Florida. He was proud of that team, but he wanted more.

He wanted to prove to his friends and family here in Utica that he was a winner. So, he contacted my mother, Madeline Flihan, who happened to be his sister-in-law and still maintained a close friendship with the parents of the East Utica Giants Pop Warner football team, and he proposed a game, to be held in Utica, between East Utica and Clearwater. Using my mother as a conduit, she met with Frank Puleo, who was coach of the Giants at that time, and she put him in touch with Lenny, where they could hash out the details.

I can’t imagine how the initial conversation went between Len and Frank, but it amazingly ended with a game scheduled to be played in December at Proctor’s Rollin W. Thompson Stadium.

With only six weeks to prepare, it turned out to be a monumental task. The Utica team would need to integrate some players from other local teams in order to compete and even after assimilating several players they had only 31 players while the Clearwater Tornadoes carried 35. The initial plan was for players to be housed in the opponents’ homes, but the numbers proved to be an obstacle and the game was cancelled more twice, only to be resurrected when additional families stepped in to house the overflow of players making the trip. We took in two players, but probably could have taken a few more in if

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needed. The two boys we took in were two young boys whose parents could not afford to make the trip and had never been more north than Atlanta. Both were black and had little interactions outside of sports with white people. Florida at that time was still wrestling with racism and segregation, so staying with an Italian family in East Utica, N.Y., must have been both exciting and frightening. I can state unequivocally that both were true, as they were deeded my bed while I was vanquished to the couch, only to find that nerves got the better of them and they soiled my bed. The one I remember most was Eddie Burt, who had never had Italian food before and ate like it was his last meal. Later, I found out that he was sponsored on this trip by the coaches because his parents could not afford the cost accompanying the trip. We did not know this when he was with us, but it would not have made any difference, my mom treated them as family (which was why I got the couch.)

This should have been a game to remember. A game between a machine, that being the 12-0 zero Clearwater Tornadoes and the East Utica Giants, which was a team that maybe played eight games with mixed results against teams like the Cornhill Bears, or the Utica Jets, or the dreaded North Utica Knights, all of which were little more than neighborhood teams. The comparison to David and Goliath was appropriate, but even David had a slingshot.

But this was about something more. For Coach Pannafino, it was his opportunity to show how things were better in his adopted home than they were in Utica, the place of his birth. It was equally important for coach Puleo to show that his team was as relevant as the Florida team. I am sure the kids just wanted to play and have fun. There was no social significance. No racial issues.

No drugs or violence. Just football and, as Uticans do so well, parties. I am not going to pretend to remember the festivities. I remember them happening but details are fuzzy.

The players of the Utica team were a mix of cultures. Italians, Lebanese, African-Americans, and Irish were hastily assembled but immediately jelled. Many of the players from that team went on to live productive lives. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, business owners, and even the superintendent of Utica Schools were members of that team. All had a love of the game and played with passion. A passion that for many of them was much greater than ability, but for others their ability surpassed their physical attributes. The two smallest players on the team, Dickie Tedesco and Frank “Buddy” Indolfi, were the most vicious hitters of the bunch. Even through high school they played with heart and never shied from contact. Always leading with their heads,

the sound of their hits reverberated across the field and into the stands. Other players played out of position with players like Mark Vallese, a bull of a running back who ended up playing linebacker when swifter and more skilled running backs joined the team. A consummate team player, Mark, like others on the team, would have played anywhere to be a part of this group. This was only youth football, but in a community that was questioning its self-worth, they had an opportunity to contribute to change.

What I do remember quite vividly was the preparation of the field for game day. The field had been marked the day before especially for this game, but moments after laying the final lines, the sky opened up and a nasty mixture of freezing rain and sleet covered the field. The wood and concrete bleachers that overlooked the muddy field and the rickety visitors’ bleachers and Armory Drive that bordered the south side of the stadium were also covered. The concessions underneath the old stadium leaked, and the gates leading to the stands allowed water to flow off the stands and into the paved area beneath. A single row of lights hung from the ceiling and dimly lit the cramped quarters that housed not only the popcorn machine, hot-dogs, and hamburgers but the most important commodities of coffee and hot chocolate.

It was also the only refuge for the family, friends, and fans when the weather turned bad. The players would only be shielded from the elements in their respective locker rooms at halftime and before the game. A small heater hung from the ceilings in both locker rooms and provided little relief from the elements to be expected in December in Utica, N.Y. Hopefully by game time the next day, the weather would clear up and everyone would enjoy themselves. Right now, though, the weather was being uncooperative.

There might be a silver lining to the horrible weather and that would be on the field. A slow field might keep Clearwater from running up the score, which was something that concerned both coaches.

The expectation was a Clearwater blowout.

The players had other ideas.

Game day arrived and the weather, as bad as it was the day before, had taken a turn…for the worse. Sheets of freezing rain encrusted the field. The concrete steps and wood seats of the venerable old stadium

were encased in a thick sheet of ice. The accompanying wind and cold compounded the already inhospitable elements. The sleet that pelted the area felt like needles as it battered the hearty family and fans who had assembled for the event.

Proctor had no lights at that time, and the grass field that had only recently completed a full fall schedule of high school sports was a sloppy mess.

A gray mist lingered over the field. It was a great day to sit by the fire and watch football…on television. Not at Rollin Thompson Stadium.

They should have titled the game the wintry-mix classic. Snow would have been a welcome participant. I have since seen games in less severe weather be cancelled or rescheduled, but with travel arrangements set for the following morning the window to play the game was closed.

It was now or never. They chose now over never.

It was now game time.

I was, in retrospect, fortunate to have been ineligible. I didn’t have to endure two hours of cold, wet, and mud. I watched from the press box that was a lonely and cold place that Sunday morning. The steps leading up to the small, drafty windowed room that sat atop the old stadium were impassable, but I gingerly climbed up the steps to operate the scoreboard. A few other hearty souls made the trek up and were sheltered in the tiny room. The roof of the press box also served as the filming site and perch for assistant coaches to relay information down to the coaches on the sidelines. Unencumbered by walls or a roof, the roof of the press box may have been the most inhospitable place to be anywhere. Drawing that assignment proved to be the most unenviable task in the whole event. The East Utica team knew better and didn’t send up a coaching contingency. The Florida team with their bloated staff would have none of it and sent their coaches into the abyss. I was dry and sheltered. The Tornado coaches were soaked, cold, and undoubtedly miserable.

By game time, the stands had only a few die-hards camped out with blankets and umbrellas, but for the most part the stands were empty. By halftime those few die-hards had left the stands never to return.

The game itself was uninspired.

Couldn’t run. Couldn’t throw. Couldn’t kick. Most of the game was four and out with a bad punt. One play where everyone

The comparison to David and Goliath was appropriate, but even David had a slingshot.

fell down allowed the only person on his feet to splash his way into the end zone.

Extra point failed. Six to zero. That was the only highlight in an otherwise unmemorable youth football game. Who won?

Does it matter? Those people who made the trip from Florida will only remember the horrible weather and the hospitality of Utica. Their players only wanted to get out of their wet uniforms and get home to the palm trees and white sandy beaches. The player staying with Mark Vallese spent an hour in a tub trying to warm up after the game. This was more than likely replicated in many of the other billet homes. The weather had gotten the best of them that day.

Those who had never seen snow, including the two young men who stayed with us, Eddie Burt and Rickey Shaw, were not disappointed when they got their wish Monday morning as they boarded the bus to take them to the airport. The freezing rain had ended and the temperature dropped enough for snow to fill the air. In the end, the results meant little to those young people. The experience was what has endured, I am sure.

In as far as the Giants, they had proven they belonged. Win or lose, they had validated their being there. They had competed, and through all the adversity had represented their community honorably with hard work and guts.

The Snow Bowl turned out to be a onetime event. What could have been a yearly tradition was allowed to whither and die an uneventful death. Having an outdoor event in December in Utica, N.Y., proved to be an iffy proposition. In this case, the weather proved to be too much to overcome for continued success. I am sure the Florida families and players would not have opted to come back to Utica, at least not in December. Too bad because Utica is filled with warm and inviting people. People who took them into their homes and did whatever was within their means to ensure that the experience was memorable. In this case, Mother Nature had final say, no matter how hospitable we were, we could not overcome that.

Until today, I can’t remember ever talking about the game. I have not spoken with anyone involved. It never came up in conversation with my friends who played.

It never came up again at holiday dinners. I am sure they would have if the results were different, since Lenny was my uncle and he surely would have puffed out his chest and gloated, but he never did. My friends took that away from him, but one thing they could never take from him was the weather, and he always reminded me of that as he sat by his pool in January.

No, there is no longer a Snow Bowl.

But for one weekend, in December 1973, when many people locally were losing jobs and moving away, when negativity permeated people’s everyday discussions over coffee or a beer, we proved we belonged and we could compete with the best of them. Especially if Mother Nature cooperates. •

Look for a new book by Tim Flihan coming soon!

Tim Flihan is a life-long Utican who currently resides in Frankfort, NY with his wife, Leslie, and dog Cooper. Tim graduated from Proctor High School in Utica, NY and with a BS from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, NY with a degree in Behavioral Science.

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Herkimer county historical society

The Story of Lewis Moore (1820-1893)

by susan Perkins, Executive Director While searching for something to write about, I came across a fascinating story of an African-American who had lived in Harford County, MD, and Utica, Litchfield, and Ilion, NY. Lewis Moore was born in 1820 in Harford County.

His parents are unknown. He was the property of a Mr. Wheeley. Lewis was sold at the age of 9 to Porter Pyles. Pyles died when Lewis was 20 years old. He was then sold to an unnamed slave owner. Lewis escaped to the North via the Underground Railroad. He came to Utica in 1841, where he found work that lasted a few years. He worked as a farm laborer for many years, including working on the farm of Hiram Cole in the town of Litchfield.

In September 1848, he married Miss Louisa Frances of Paris Hill, Oneida County, NY. They had 10 children, including Isabella, William, Cornelia, Charles, Martha, Josephine, Nancy, Frederick, and Fannie. In the 1850 Census, the Moores were living in the Town of Litchfield, Herkimer County, NY. By the 1860 Census, the Moores were living in Ilion, NY. Lewis died in Ilion, as did his wife, Louisa.

Lewis enlisted in the Civil War at age 40 as a private in Company F of the 26th U.S. Colored Troops on Dec. 22, 1863, at Riker’s Island. He was mustered in Feb.1864. The regiment reported to Beaufort, SC., in April 1864. The regiment saw action in the Charleston, SC, area. Lewis mustered out at Hilton Head, SC, on Aug. 25, 1865. Lewis returned to Ilion after the war. For more information on where the regiment fought go to http://www.correc-

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Lewis died on May 19, 1893. His funeral took place from the Ilion Methodist Church. The service was conducted by Wash Thompson of Herkimer.

Lewis had lived in Ilion for more 30 years. According to his obituary he was a kind and industrious person and he loved music.

On April 28, 1896, his wife, Louisa, received a pension of at the rate of $8 a month for Lewis’ service in the Civil War. Louisa lived in Ilion until her death in September 1920. I couldn’t find where Lewis and Louisa are buried.

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We make a special trip to Tim’s hometown in Ashtabula, Ohio, where he will be guest speaker at the Methodist church he grew up in. It’s amazing that he became a minister because Sunday was not his favorite day of the week as a child, sitting in itchy, wool knickers, long

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socks, and stiff leather shoes for several hours attending Sunday school and services.

His father sang in the church choir, with a mellow tenor/baritone voice Tim was lucky to inherit. To the consternation of his mother, however, Tim’s dad occasionally fell asleep in the choir loft during the long sermon, right in front of the whole congregation! (Probably because he worked two jobs: teaching by day, and railroad switch man by night.)

Pictures are being taken and I feel left out.

The minister’s spouse is an important part of the team after all, plus I’m wearing a cute, new hat! I try to make it look like it’s an accident, but photo bomb one of them. When we get it back, Tim suspects, and I have to admit that I did it on purpose.

We bike around the harbor village, admiring avenues of great, old oak trees, resplendent with late autumn leaves of dried russet and henna along streets meandering beside the sapphire and beryl hues of Lake Erie. Tim shows me where he did a record number of push-ups in the middle of Fifth Street for his friends late one night. (Traffic was fortunately quite sparse). Setting

records was important to him and his friends, but he learned early that he would have more success in athletics than music, as he only achieved first chair, third clarinet in the Junior High Marching Band. He pursued football instead, where he co-captained his high school football team, breaking a long, humiliating losing streak and became an All-County, All-League running back.

One of the interesting record keepers in his life was a vaudevillian wrestler, Lawsie Welsh, who appeared frequently at Ashtabula street fairs. “My Model T Ford is the prize for anyone who can pin me in the ring!” he challenged the young men in a stentorian voice as he stood before the crowd, feet wide apart, hair slicked back, bare chested with hands on his hips and black tights stretched over his legs and very ample belly. It was a beautiful car, and many men tried to win it, but as far as Tim knows, Lawsie never lost that pristine Model T. We keep records here at Shawangunk, too! From our Record Book: “April 22, 1992, Todd (grandson age 14) jumped off the Grant Bridge into frigid Black Creek three times.”

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“April 15, 1993, Todd went off Grant Bridge. Water is high and probably in the 30s” When I met Tim, he had a lovely collection of beautiful vegetarian cookbooks with interesting names like Deaf Smith Country Cookbook, Diet for a Small Planet (Lappe), and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (Katzen). There was even one dedicated to Tim

by Ron Flores of Boonville, (“To Timothy Hume Behrendt, who loves all living things.”), but he only ever managed to master two recipes: “Beans (canned) and Cheese,” or “Cheese and Beans.”

Before I realized it was hopeless, I attempted to help him facilitate transcending this personal self-deficiency by writing a little cookbook of basic foods for him: oatmeal, granola, spaghetti, sauerkraut--but he still couldn’t do it. He often says he feels guilty about not cooking, but I truly don’t mind, as I enjoy working creatively to produce delicious, healthy, and inexpensive meals, making up my own recipes but seldom following any.

When I grew up, many families in the Westmoreland area typically kept chickens, pigs, sheep, and a cow or two, along with a vegetable garden, fruit and nut trees. We only kept a few chickens when I was quite young. I vaguely remember watching an execution and being rather horrified at watching a headless chicken running for life. Our chicken coop finally became a cobwebby storage room for canning jars and flower pots.

In the early 1900s Great Uncle Herold Huck and other farmers sometimes had their chickens stolen. How can one steal chickens without creating an incredible racket and getting caught? Losing them was a serious concern for families depending on eggs and chicken meat for income. Herold loved farming and animals and served in WWI as a veterinary assistant, working with the mules and horses that were of critical importance in the early part of this “War to End All Wars” (we could wish), which ended just 100 ago, He was one of the fortunate few to return safely, and spent his life humbly farming the small holding inherited from my great- grandparents in east Utica, and working in a feed store.

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Great Uncle Herold served in veterinary units during WWI in Europe t e r s stealing my crops, either! It’s a good time to check our garden fencing now that the wild grasses and comfrey tangled within it have collapsed with late frosts.

Our garden is nestled in a little woodland glen Tim and I cleared 44 years ago. I should pull up the posts where tomato trellises hung heavy with sweet, rosy fruits last summer. The vernal green of annual rye grass is a comforting contrast to the browning autumn leaves and black plant detritus. I stand at the gate, remembering the delights, challenges, and disappointments of this past year’s garden. I

I have often felt like giving up gardening… too much work…so many failures! But something compels me to try again and again. Is it because I love to work with soil and plants, outside in fresh air and light under the endlessly interesting and variable sky? Is it because I love the satisfaction and economy of growing our own food Harold became a farmer in East and the incomparable flavor of Utica after WW I fresh, organic fruits and vegetables? Yes! Yes! All of the above! must

Should we fertilize now record them, so I or in spring? If I do it now, it saves don’t repeat mistakes, and can remember me that extra labor in spring when successes and ideas for next year before they I have to be digging, too, but does all the benare clouded behind the snow-laden skies of efit wash away in the spring snow melt? winter’s garden lonely months.

In 1982, we made a big financial in I meditate about how to extend our har- vestment and bought a John Deere ATV vest. After many failures and brief success- five-wheeler with a tiny truck bed. The big es, I now protect fall crops with empty feed tires keep it from seriously harming any sacks or old parachute nylon from Tim’s fly- plants and young trees it goes over, and it ing days, and start spring plants in a green- allows us to move many things: firewood, house I made from plastic-covered feedlot sand, soil, and manure. Thirty-five years panels bent into a dome, and held by a frame, later, this utility vehicle still serves us well. based on a design by the farmer Richard Car- When Tim was a young minister he asked an penter of Salisbury Center. elderly farmer how he kept his archaic farm

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machinery working. “Oil,” he replied, succinctly. “Keep them well oiled.” And we do.

We took it to the nearest farm for manure where calves, chickens, and farmer lived together in the house. A calf typically greeted us at the door, and chickens scolded us from their perches on his wood cook stove, which was seldom too hot for them because he cut his wood too late each year to cure properly.

He was a pleasant and kind man, but not a great farmer or housekeeper. His fences had been broken for many years, so he simply shepherded his herd around personally, and we often had to toot our car

Peg built a greenhouse based on a design by a local farmer

horn to get the cows to move out of the road. Sometimes we saw him bailing up droopy grass and weeds from the frost-bitten fields of November with his sputtering old tractor on spiky iron wheels.

The manure in his collapsing barn accumulated from many years of cows seeking shelter from inclement weather in the basement.

Our shovels occasionally hit a bone or skull from one who had perished there. We tried not to think about the cross beams above us, some of which no longer reached the vertical supports and were wired to the floorboards above. And the manure was piled so high, we had to shovel it out in a stooped position.

Then we discovered liquid “humanure!” So much easier! So brilliant!

So Zen! The answer was within us, literally and figuratively. When the morning glories growing on our outdoor shower stall were climbing way up into the trees, we realized that our urine could encourage plant growth, and confirmed its safe use with a doctor of botany. So we began adding it to our

Peg, age 18 in 1967, plays Farm Girl at a USO Harvest Festival at Griffiss AFB

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compost, and it has helped.

More recently, we bought a set of sturdy muck buckets to transport horse manure from a more distant farm in our car. We’d shovel it into the buckets, load them into the car, drive home, lift them into the five-wheeler, drive it across our brook to our garden, off the five-wheeler onto a truck dolly, rolled in one at a time, and shoved out onto the beds.

Whew! Too much work!

This year (2018), I found dried organic chicken manure

Tim teaches our 7-year-old grandson, Brandon, how to cut wood by hand

available for purchase in small bags and barely dusted it onto the garden a couple of times. This seems too easy to be true, but we’ve never before had such robust, productive plants and abundant harvest.

When I was in the USO in 1967, we had a harvest festival at the Griffiss Silver Wings Club in Rome, where I dressed as a farm girl and posed with a papier-mâché pig. I didn’t know then, how I would come to love farming.

I love the harvest, canning, drying, and filling the root cellars to the brim. Tim cuts wood from dead trees by hand every day possible, filling the wood piles and shed with dry wood for winter, and taught our children and grandchildren how to do it. This is “better than money in the bank,” we tell them, as older folks once told us.

We feel gratitude and pride when we look at our wood piles; in the root cellar with jars full of sweet, passion-red tomatoes blended with verdant green peppers and herbs

from our garden; buckets of crunchy, orange carrots; onions; wild apples; maybe a few cabbages and squash; and under our bed and couch, gallon jars of dried mint, dried tomatoes and apples. Our experiments, mistakes, hard work, and tenacity have paid off and we are redeemed with an abundance of fuel to keep warm, and the fresh taste of our own food, from our own soil, tendered by our own hands.

And grateful we are for the amazing socioeconomic structure that enables us to go to a supermarket and get fresh food from all over the globe at any time of year. Thanks to all the willing workers, the store keepers, truck drivers, farm workers, mechanics, engineers and cooks, and to the blessings of rich soil, adequate water, bright sun, clean air, and a benevolent Earth. •

The Shawangunk Nature Preserve is a deep ecology, forever wild, 501©(3), learning and cultural center. Tim and Peggy still live there and can be contacted through their website.

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Tales from Shawangunk

by Peggy Spencer Behrendt 2016, 122 pages This memoir is a compilation of the first two years of articles first published in Mohawk Valley Living magazine about how Shawangunk Nature Preserve began. Well documentated with pictures, these true stories describe days of adventure, struggle, commitment and comedy that are sure to entertain and inspire.

Available at Tom’s Natural Foods in Clinton, Peter’s Cornucopia in New Hartford, Brenda’s Natural Foods in Rome, Sunflower Naturals in Mapledale, and the Little Falls Food Co-op (all donations go directly to the Preserve)

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GREAT GOOGLEY MOOGELY! November brings forth a cornucopia of musical wonders!!

This one’s no “turkey”- The Cosmik debris Orchestra, celebrating the music of Frank Zappa, is a new project, out of Rome, spearheaded by Steve Buzinski. I recently asked Steve for some info and he said: His goal was to unite an ensemble of local musicians to commemorate the music, the life, and 25 years since the death of Frank Zappa. Steve realized his aspiration, which resulted in The Cosmik Debris Orchestra.

It was not difficult for Steve to find musicians with exceptional performing talents and who had great interest in the project. After quite a while, everything came together and he obtained commitments from almost a dozen musicians. “These people of exceptional musical talent agreed to expand their repertoire by studying and memorizing many complex compositions.” Steve continues, “During rehearsal, they demonstrate remarkable individual abilities and their capacity to unite as a group with very little effort.”

You may ask, “Who are these people?”

These are the outstanding members of The Cosmik Debris Orchestra: Mark Zappavigna. Karl VonPackal -Sean Peters -John Dugan,Andy Box -Nelson Rudiak - James Behret - Tammy Flemming, Cynthia Obernesser Steve Buzinski. Selection of initial material proved to be more difficult than Steve expected. The material selected spans two decades of Frank Zappa musical history. Songs include material from albums like “Absolutely Free” released in 1967, and many selections up to the 1987 release of “Them Or

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Us.” That is all he will say about tunes for the show “so everyone will be surprised.” Adding to the excitement, we are planning “cheesy” additions that are reminiscent of an unadulterated Frank Zappa concert performance.

Here’s a little “Gravy”- SLUG returns for a Black Friday show at 12 North. After last year’s successful reunion show SLUG played a few select festival dates and benefits. The band decided to do another show this year on thanksgiving weekend, Friday 11/23 at 12 North. Steve Fletcher, Bob Moore, Genesee Joe, Chris Andreski, Chris Dunn and Mike FInley. Look for a mix of SLUG originals and plenty of The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and more. Perhaps even a few guests! Crazy Fools and the Deadbolts will open the show.

And now the “PIE”- (and last of the silly puns) A smattering of thanksgiving eve happenings: Les Brer’s Allmans Tribute at Piggy Pats. Caution at the Snubbing Post, Showtime at Dick Smiths, Steve Rigo at Ilion Moose Lodge, The Defendants at Beaver Creek Golf, Last Left at Celtic Harp, Remedy at Lukins, BluePrints at the Roadside Inn,Big Sexy at Cavollos, Jenny and the Buckshot5 at Erie Station. Gary Johnson at Motif at Turning Stone, UCMB at Swifty’s, The A/V Project at Yellow Brick Road Casino.

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Happy Thanksgiving! •

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Meelan’s Meat Market, Clark Mills . . . . . 71 Olde Kountry Market, Vernon . . . . . . . . . 38 LaFamiglia Bosonne’s Sausage, Utica . . . . . 42 Dentistry Neighborhood Family Dentistry, Utica . . . . 57 Diners Adirondack Diner and Lanes, Barneveld . . 19 Charlie’s Place, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Riverside Diner, Marcy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Sheri’s Diner, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Suzi’s Place, Bouckville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Wendy’s Diner, Cassville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Dog Sitting Barney’s Angels, Frankfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Florists Clinton Florist, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Michael’s Greenhouse, Sauquoit . . . . . . 66 Village Florals, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . 5 Funeral Services McGrath, Myslinski, Karboski & Nunn, Utica . . 62 Prince-Boyd & Hyatt, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Furniture John Froass & Son, Inc., Sherrill . . . . . . . 65 Ironwood Furniture, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Jeff ’s Amish Furniture, Jordanville . . . . . . . 16 Utica Brews, Utica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Dumpster Rentals Cobblestone Construction, Utica . . . . . . . 9

Furniture Makers Custom Woodcraft, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . 34

Estate Sales Attic Addicts, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Potting Shed Antiques, Whitesboro . . . 28

Garden Centers, Greenhouses, and U-pick Casler Flower Farm, West Winfield . . . . . 33 Melinda’s Garden Barn . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Michael’s Greenhouse, Sauquoit . . . . . . 66 North Star Orchards, Westmoreland . . . . 14 Sunnycrest Orchards, Sharon Springs . . . . . 6 Szarek Greenhouses, Westmoreland . . . . 75 Top Notch Garden Center, Newport . . . . . 27

Events, Entertainment, and Activities Clinton Shoppers’ Stroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown . . . . . . . . 2 Festival of Christmas, Oneida . . . . . . . . 15 Fly Creek Cider Mill, Fly Creek . . . . . . . . 12 Goodsell Museum, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . 67 Hamilton College Performing Arts . . . . . 56 Hamilton for the Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Herkimer County Craft Fair . . . . . . . . . 37 Kirkland Art Center, Clinton . . . . . . . . . 13 Little Falls Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 MVCC Cultural Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Sunnycrest Orchards, Sharon Springs . . . . . 6 Vernon National Shooting Preserve . . . . . . 18 Farm Equipment Clinton Tractor, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Hobby Hill Farm Sales, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 67 White’s Farm Supply, Waterville/Canastota . . 32 Farm Markets Cooperstown Farmers Market . . . . . . . . . . 48 CWPR Farm, Ilion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 North Star Orchards, Westmoreland . . . . 14 Sunnycrest Orchards, Sharon Springs . . . . 6 Newport Marketplace, Newport . . . . . 27 Parry’s Inddor Market, Hamilton . . . . . . 17 Twin Orchards, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . 62 Whitesboro Farmer’s Market . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Feed, Animal Carhart’s Feed & Pet Supply . . . . . . . . . . 50 Kast Hill Farm, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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Golf Courses and Driving Range Twin Ponds Golf & Country Club, NY Mills . . 44

Musical Instrument Sales, Rentals, Lessons Big Apple Music, New Hartford . . . . . . . 29

Gravel and Gravel Driveways Copper City Landscaping, Rome . . . . . . 40

Natural Food Stores Brenda’s Natural Foods, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 22 Cooperstown Naturals, Cooperstown . . . . . 55 Peter’s Cornucopia, New Hartford . . . . . . . 70 Sunflower Naturals, Barneveld . . . . . . . . . . 48 Tom’s Natural Foods, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Grocery/Convenience Stores The Country Store, Salisbury . . . . . . . . . . 23 Deansboro Superette, Deansboro . . . . . . . 17 Little Italy Imports, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Mohawk Village Market, Mohawk . . . . . . . 44 Olde Kountry Market, Vernon . . . . . . . . . 38 Reilly’s Dairy, Inc., Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Firewood and Wood Pellets Lincoln Davies, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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Fitness Centers and Gyms Curves, Herkimer and Utica . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Hearing Consultants Hearing Health Hearing Centers, Rome . . . . 45

Physical Therapy Inertia PT, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Flooring Enjem’s, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Lincoln Davies, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Health and Wellness Infinity Tree, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . 69

Pizzerias DiCastro’s Brick Oven, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 22 Primo Pizzeria, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Financial Services Van Meter & Van Meter, Little Falls . . . . . . 60

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Mike’s Floor Store, Whitesboro . . . . . . . 7

Pet Supplies Paws Boutique, Oneida Castle . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Tony’s Pizza, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Portable Toilets and Bathrooms Mohawk Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 & 72 Primitives Between Us Sisters, Munnsville . . . . . . . . 71 Butternut Barn, Richfield Springs . . . . . . . 26 Main Street Ristorante, Newport . . . . . . 27 Produce, Local Ben & Judy’s Sugarhouse, West Edmeston . .

Grassy Cow Dairy, Remsen . . . . . . . . .

Jewett’s Cheese, Earlville . . . . . . . . . . .

Jones Family Farm, Herkimer . . . . . . .

Shaw’s Maple Products, Clinton . . . . . .

Stoltzfus Family Dairy, Vernon Center . .

Sunnybrook Farm, Deansboro . . . . . . .

Three Village Cheese, Newport . . . . . . .

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Quilt and Yarn Shops/Services Heartworks Quilts & Fabric, Fly Creek . . . 59 Love & Stitches, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Tiger Lily Quilt Co, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Real Estate Hunt Real Estate, Welcome Home Team . . . 54 John Brown Team, Coldwell Banker . . . . . . 39 Record Stores Off Center Records, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Restaurants and Cafés Ann St. Deli, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bagel Grove, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bite Bakery and Cafe, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Karam’s Middle East Bakery, Yorkville . . . .

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Minar Fine Indian Cuisine, New Hartford . .

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Ohio Tavern, Cold Brook . . . . . . . . . . .

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Raspberries Cafe, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Shooting Preserves Vernon National Shooting Preserve . . . . . . 18 Small Engine Repair J.B.’s Small Engine Works, Utica . . . . . . . . . 42 SD Power, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Snowmobiles/ATVs Hobby Hill Farm, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Thrift Shops Country Corner Thrift, Holland Patent . . . . 18 Towing Services Clinton Collision, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Trailers and Trailer Accessories Boulevard Trailers, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . 38 Tree Services and Tree Farms Turk Tree Service, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Travel Agencies The Cruise Wizards, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . 46 Vacuum Sales Rainbow, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Websites Utica Remember When . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Weddings and Banquets Ashling Acres, Hamilton . . . . . . . .

Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . .

Twin Ponds Golf & Country Club, NY Vernon Downs Casino . . . . . . . . .

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Glorious Adirondack color!

Answer to last month’s puzzle, about “creatures” who roam around the Adirondacks in the autumn, is:

Leaf Peepers

Our winner drawn from all correct answers is: Cliff Lane of Mohawk, NY .

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Yarn and Knitting Supplies Love & Stitches, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . . . 48 Yogurt Stoltzfus Family Dairy, Vernon Center . . . 57

October’s Crossword Solution The answer to last month’s puzzle:“Haystacks” Our winner is Beth Ruggiero of Utica, NY

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