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PUBLISHERS Lance and Sharry Whitney

Summer: Act Two

by Sharry L. Whitney

Those little sunflower seedlings I set out (what seems like just yesterday) are now towering over me. Blueberry bushes are heavy-laden with fruit and the cicadas are reminding us that it’s midsummer.

Our writers are also reveling in deep summer. Peggy immerses us in the sensuous season and Suzie welcomes summer visitors. Gary takes us along on a migration vacation, Matt reminds us that our feathered friends are preparing to leave us again, and Carol teaches us the celestial origins of the expression, “dog days of summer.”

Soak it up, I remind myself, as I strive to find the balance between summer activity and relaxation. A summer day in the shade (drifting between reading and daydreaming) is a day just as well spent as hiking or swimming.

I hope you enjoy escaping into these wonderful summertime stories that I am privileged to present. •

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Director of Public Programs, Oneida County History Center In the late 1800s, a new hobby spread across communities of central New York. It provided a new sense of freedom never before experienced for many. What was this new hobby? Bicycling. Not only did it foster a feeling of freedom and exploration, but it also contributed to the growth of good roads in the region.

The development of the safety bicycle made the growth of this sport possible. Early bicycles of the 1870s and 80s were high-wheelers or penny farthings. These featured a very large front wheel and, although exciting to ride, they were considered uncomfortable “boneshakers” which were considerably dangerous because of their awkward design.

They never took off in huge numbers.

In the 1880s, the safety bike was developed. These bikes resemble modern bikes in that they featured chain drive, air-filled tires, and a relatively comfortable leather seat.

They were lighter and less mechanically complex. Although not inexpensive, safety bikes caught on like wildfire. They were widely popular and were the first to put America “on wheels. “ One should consider the other options available to understand their popularity. Railroads and trolleys provided transportation but were mostly limited to larger towns. Smaller villages could be reached by stagecoaches. There were multiple, daily stagecoaches to travel from Rome to the outlying towns of Lee, Delta, Taberg, Camden, and more. A horse and wagon were an attractive option for those with a little more resources; however, bicycles offered freedom to get around without all the other difficulties of owning a horse such as feeding, cleaning, and housing the animals. Rome is in a rather flat area and bicycling proved to be an easy way to get around; because of this, ridership surged and it truly became a bicycle city.

Clubs and associations of riders developed as the popularity of riding grew. The Rome Bicycle Club was formed in 1884 and was the first group to impose speed limits to riding on sidewalks in the city (speed needed to be kept no greater than one mile in eight

There was a boom in bicycle clubs in the 1880s, like the Rome Bicycle Club formed in 1884

Early map of local bicycle paths The development of the safety bicycle led to the growth in the popularity of the sport

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In 1889, the Rome Cyclers were formed by a group of like-minded riders who banded together to arrange competitions and promote the sport. They were best known for Memorial Day races held at Riverside Park where up to twenty teams competed from nearby cities such as Utica and Syracuse. Up to 200 racers would be on hand. Overland races between Rome and Clinton were also held.

The rise in the popularity of bicycles was a bit of a problem for those walking on sidewalks. Bikes crowded sidewalks and daredevils would traverse these walkways at breakneck speeds. Bicycles also scared many horses. The Rome Cyclers formed a Sidepath League to develop bicycle-only trails where cyclists could enjoy comfort and freedom to roam as they pleased. These paths ran alongside the highways and were six-foot-wide, cleared of brush and stone, and paved with crushed stone or cinders.

Access to the trails was by subscription and a small medallion or license plate was affixed to each bicycle that used the path. In a letter encouraging support, the Sidepath League urged that “everyone who rides a bicycle will readily appreciate the value of these paths and it is hoped that all will pay their share.

The amount asked for from each—$1.00 — is small compared with the benefits you are receiving.” By 1897, built over twenty miles of improved paths were built.

The Good Roads Movement was started in Massachusetts in 1880 by the League of American Wheelman. Agitated by the poor roads in the United States, the Wheelman advocated for governments to improve country roads to allow people to better get around. The members of the Rome Cyclers were no doubt influenced by the American Wheelman and locally took matters into their own hands.

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The cyclists must be credited with having made the first efforts to get good roads started. They were responsible for the first crushed stone street in Rome—a sample on N. James Street between Park and Stanwix streets. In 1893, they raised money through subscriptions to purchase a steam-powered stone crusher which they gave to the city. The large machine was capable of crushing over twelve to fifteen tons of stone per hour. It was set up in what is now Fort Stanwix Park. The city bought a steam roller and the steam roller engine operated the stone crusher. Cobblestones were drawn, crushed, and spread on the street, and the roller packed them down.

These efforts started the first paved roads in Rome. Before that, the only improved roads were cobblestone on parts of James and Dominick Streets.

The popularity of bicycling in the 1890s lived a strong, but brief life, yet the legacy of the Good Roads Movement lives on. The last meeting of the Rome Cyclers was in 1896. Other mechanical contraptions such as motorcycles and automobiles would soon take over the roads.

Recreational biking is currently making a resurgence. Modern cyclists in Rome can find several trails which are very similar to the old sidepaths. The Mohawk River Trail starts at Bellamy Park and runs north along the Mohawk River for approximately five miles, it passes several interesting historic spots including the former sites of Kent Amphitheater and the County Home. For the more adventurous, the Canalway Trail runs through Rome and Utica. Maintained by the Canal Corporation, the Canalway Trail is a network of approximately 300 miles of multiple-use trails across upstate New York. It follows the towpaths of both active and historic sections of the New York State Canal System as well as adjacent abandoned rail corridors.

The History Center will host a ride along the towpath near Marcy on August 24, 2021. Riders will stop along the way to learn about the canal including the location of “The Cut.” Dug on the Mohawk River in 1730, this was the first artificial channel for navigation created in what would become New York State and it symbolizes the beginning of the Canal Age. Visit www.oneidacountyhistory.org/programs.html for more information. •

Ride the Towpath with the Oneida County History Center Tuesday, Aug 24 at 6pm This six-mile ride is very flat. The rides are guided and typically include a speaker who will illuminate history, ecology, and future plans along the route.

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We can now announce that this month, on Saturday, August 14, there will be a belated 20th Anniversary Celebration with a Book Launch for The Adirondack Kids #20: The Great Migration Vacation, at the Inlet Public Library in the hamlet of Inlet, New York.

An accompanying Art Show is also on display already and will be there during library hours through Columbus Day weekend. The show features the original artwork of Susan Loeffler for all twenty book covers along with original black-and-white interior book illustrations by my wife and Justin’s mom, Carol VanRiper.

Inlet, in the west-central Adirondacks, is an easy day trip for those from the Mohawk Valley.

Just minutes from the camp that has been in Carol’s family for more than 100 years, the community is also where the main characters in our stories hail from and is the epicenter for the book series.

We have always revolved each of our stories around some important person, place, or thing – teaching, without preaching. Our latest story is no exception.

At first blush, it is easy to see how very different the landscapes are between the Adirondacks of New York and North Carolina’s Outer Banks – the most obvious being the mountains versus the relative flatness of the multiple islands. I had one main connection between the two geographic locations in mind, but while doing the ‘live’ research while doing research on Hatteras Island discovered so many connections it was not possible to work them all into the storyline! There were plows removing drifting sand, (rather than snow), from the highway. There were vast, unbroken views of the natural world. The same hurricane reshaping the landscape on the islands did the same to the Adirondack

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mountains. Class sizes in some schools are small and there is a great reliance on tourism, much of it seasonal. There were Adirondack chairs and fires with s’mores and multiple creatures, including snowbirds, migrating from north to south and back north again, the cycle continuing year after year. The list goes on, and as the Adirondack Kids meet some Carolina Kids during their great migration vacation, they bond and discover many of these similarities while all together.

We hope we might get to meet some of you who migrate from the Mohawk Valley to the mountains this month. The book launch and signing event on August 14 begins at 1:30pm at the library located near the bend along Route 28 at the center of the hamlet of Inlet. Justin and I are scheduled to do a short presentation for those gathered at 2 p.m. There will also be refreshments. And if you can corner Carol to sign a book as well, you will be one of the very few to do so over these past 20 years!

For more information and library hours, contact the Inlet Public Library at 315-357-6494. • Gary VanRiper is an author, photographer, and pastor at the Camden Wesleyan Church. He has written 19 children’s books with his son, Justin.

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nature in august

Great Egret

story and photos by Matt Perry

In August, most birds are finished breeding and their goals quickly shift from raising families to fall migration prep.

With their young following along, parent birds involve themselves in serious foraging. They aim to build up their fat reserves and do it as quickly as possible. That is the energy they need to fuel their southward migration. Bear in mind that some will be traveling as far as South America.

Although they are gearing up for migration, most songbirds are still present and accounted for in the vicinity of their breeding grounds, but their foraging leads them to keep moving around the habitat. Some will join with allied species and form loose flocks. At this time of year tanagers, orioles, grosbeaks, and warblers all make common cause and can be seen in the same space. A quarter century ago, I used to celebrate my birthday (late August) by going up into the southern Adirondacks and observing the pre-migration activities of songbirds. Back then it was not difficult to find flocks containing over one hundred birds. All would be actively feeding in the forest canopy and moving from tree to tree. Those flocks were very warbler heavy and consisted of that area’s local breeders.

Included were Blackburnian Warblers, Black-throated Green Warblers, Northern

Parula Warblers, Yellow-rumped Wa r b l e r s , and Magnolia Warblers.

None of them were singing and so I needed to identify them the old-fashioned way – by sight.

With the larger flocks, they often moved so quickly that several would sprint by while I was busy trying to identify the one in my binoculars. That meant I could only afford to spend about a split second on each bird.

Closer to home at the nature sanctuary, many of the local breeding birds are gathering in the Black Cherry tree groves and around the Mountain Ash trees. The cherries and ash berries are popular with Brown Thrashers, Gray Catbirds, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Scarlet Tanagers, thrushes, and Orioles. Although the warblers and vireos are not so interested in those fruits, I do see them hitting other berry laden areas. The Vireos (consummate insectivores) are partial to the fruit of Virginia Creeper Vines.

I have also seen Black-throated Blue Warblers feed on viburnum berries and the berries of Spikenard (a Ginseng relative).

For the most part the insectivores, when they are eating fruit, concentrate on the va-

rieties that have a richer fat content. The dogwood berries tend to be fat rich as is the fruit of the Bayberry bush, although I rarely see the insectivores partake of the latter fruit.

We start seeing the first migrant sandpiper types show up in the Mohawk Valley in early August. Some of these shorebirds are freshly back from breeding on the Arctic Tundra. When with us, their mission is the same as that of the songbirds; to fatten up as much as possible. They accomplish this by feeding voraciously on the invertebrates that live in the mud and shallow water. Although larger mud flats can attract over a dozen species of shorebird, our beaver ponds bring in only a handful of species. Most often we see the Spotted Sandpiper and the Solitary Sandpiper. The former species is a local breeder while the latter breeds in Canadian forests. Immature Spotted Sandpipers lack the liberally spotted underside of the adult but can berecognized by its incessant tail dipping

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behavior. Also, their wingbeats are very shallow and that helps to distinguish them in flight. However, the piping call notes of the Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers are similar and it is sometimes hard to discern which species you’re hearing. Large wading birds like herons and egrets begin to concentrate in good fishing habitat in August. Sometimes we are fortunate to get a Great Egret visiting one of the beaver ponds. The egrets have been an increasing presence in the Valley in the last two decades and they may be local breeders.

Sometimes they nest in the same colonies along with their cousins, the Great Blue Herons, but I have yet to hear of an egret nest occurring in any of our local heron rookeries. We were lucky enough to have a great egret spend more than a month with us a couple of years ago. Unlike most of his tribe, he did not spook easily, and it was possible to remain at the pond with him and observe him for extended periods.

Like other herons, the Egret is an ambush hunter. He relies on patience and a slow stealthy approach. He waits until his target is in range and then plunges his stiletto-like bill into the water and grabs it. It is

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hard to believe that something in all white plumage could sneak up on anything, but somehow it works.

It is not just the birds that provide a show in August. Flowers and butterflies also deserve some attention. Mid-summer is when the Monarch Butterfly migration really gets underway. Their epic journey from as far north as the Canadian provinces, all the way to the mountains of Mexico is one of nature’s most extraordinary events and we are fortunate to be in line to see part of it. The many flowers at our nature sanctuary make great stopover habitat for the Monarchs who also lay their eggs on our milkweed plants as they pass through. In August there is still a chance the eggs can hatch.

However, it becomes a race against time for the larvae to pupate and for the adults to emerge before cold weather stops them in their tracks. Eggs laid in September rarely have enough time to hatch and develop into flying adults.

There is a great deal occurring in August and much of the action occurs in wide open spaces, like wetlands, mudflats, meadows, fields, and forest borders. My advice to those interested in nature and/or nature photography is to get out there and discover it. •

Gathering of Great Egrets

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The Everyday Adventures of Mohawk Valley Girl

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Mohawk Valley Girl got a whole crew together for some mini golf at Gold Rush Adventure Golf in Westmoreland

in Westmoreland

I was watching a PGA event on a widescreen in a sports bar, listening to the bartender explain some of the finer points of the game.

“All I play is putt-putt,” I admitted. “And I haven’t done that in years.”

Imagine my delight when I got a chance to play a round of miniature golf at Gold Rush Adventure Golf in Westmoreland. The course is celebrating 30 years in business, a wonderful milestone. I had driven by the place and been intrigued, so I recruited a few family members. My fellow golfers were my sister Cheryl and her daughters Dana, Kimberly, and Jenna. Also included were Dana’s husband, Dan, and their children, Sheppie and Evie, ages 6 and 3.

The lady at the booth asked us to split into two foursomes. Cheryl, Jenna, Evie, and I were in the first group.

Evie jumped right in, apparently understanding the game at a glance. At least, she knew the object was to get the ball in the hole. How to hold the club, she had no idea. That is one reason why it is fun to play golf with a three-year-old. Later Cheryl tried to teach her the right way to hold the club, but I don’t think she ever caught on.

I had the scorecard for our foursome. I dropped it in the bag with my tablet and notebook, never to refer to it again.

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difficult to tabulate Evie’s gyrations in any case. And it might have been a little embarrassing to keep track of how many swings I had to take sometimes!

“Tiger Woods, I’m not,” I said. Nobody minded.

After a few holes, Evie declared that she was tired of playing, she wanted to be with her mother. She still had fun looking at all the displays and graciously posed for pictures. She especially liked the cow with the “Got Milk?” sign.

Sheppie joined our foursome. He was taking more of an interest in the game, meticulously counting his strokes and calling the totals back to his father, who was keeping score. He went ahead of me on an around-the-curve hole and was able to call back to me that I had made it in one stroke. Wow, a hole in one (maybe I AM Tiger Woods)! I sure couldn’t do that when I tried!

I was, in fact, paying less attention to my game than to all the decorations and displays. Pirates, skeletons, dinosaurs, Old West characters, and more. Even Santa Claus! Some of the displays had plaques giving information about them. I was particularly fond of the skeletons, myself.

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Even when they weren’t playing golf, MV Girl’s grandniece and grandnephew, Evie and Sheppie, had fun at Gold Rush Adventure Golf!

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The course itself is challenging, with bumps and slopes where you might not expect them. I was particularly surprised at the hole where your ball dropped down to a different green at a lower level.

Partway through the course, I went back to the clubhouse to purchase a few bottles of water. After our game, we enjoyed ice cream treats. When we turned in our clubs, a nice lady in a tie-dye shirt gave me a couple of “Buy One Get One” game tickets. I didn’t need the incentive to return, but what a nice perk!

“I love your tie-dye,” I told her, after thanking her for the coupons.

“It’s all I wear,” she said. She told me they had been adding to the course every year.

I later found out she was Jane Denslow, the owners’ daughter. As I mentioned, they are celebrating 30 years in business, and it is not surprising that they are still going strong. •

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august Crossword

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Solution will appear in next month’s issue

Across 5. Don’t miss this August event! See our Antiques Guide map.

6. The term used for the old method of checking inside eggs before selling them. See Tales from Shawangunk.

8. The shishito pepper name come from the Japanese word for this animal. See MV Gardens 12. Early bicycles were known as ___, because of the uncomfortable riding experience.

13. “Dog days of summer” expression comes from this star.

14. I Love Mohawk Valley ___!

15. We experienced this a lot this summer!

Down 1. Too much stuff in the attic? Find this “Addict Liquidation” expert under Estate Sales in our advertiser directory in the back of the magazine.

2. Matt Perry admires the intelligence of these birds.

3. “Grill masters” know to buy their meat at this market in Clark Mills.

4. Dish served at The Black Stallion or DiCastro’s Brick Oven, e.g.

7. Adirondack Kids celebrates their 20th book: The Great ___ Vacation. See ADK Journal.

9. An activity Peggy tries to avoid. See Tales From Shawangunk.

10. Yikes! Suzie found some timber ___ under her roof!

11. Looking for family fun? You’ll strike gold at Gold ___! See Mohawk Valley Girl.

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battle royale:

Shishito vs. Padron Peppers by denise A. Szarek

These little green powerhouse peppers are trending right now.

From Spanish tapas bars to Sushi restaurants you will find them on many restaurant menus. Almost all commercially sold peppers are “cousins.”

Both Shishito and Padron peppers are from the cultivar Capsicum annuum var. annuum. Shishito peppers are the East Asian variety of the cultivar and are named because the tips of the peppers resemble the head of a lion – shishi in Japanese. On the other hand, Padron peppers are from Spanish seed of the cultivar from the municipality of Padron in northwestern Spain, hence its name.

We have been growing both Shishito and Padron plants for sale at our farm stand for several years and the Shishito plants far outsell the Padrons. But we had never done a side-by-side comparison of the two peppers.

Visually they are slightly different: shishitos appear to have a brighter, more reflective surface and they are a tad longer and twisty-tipped with more ridges.

Either of these peppers is very mildly spicy and even a bit sweet, but occasionally you’ll come across one that’s got some serious kick. The recipe I’m sharing this month results in a really fun game of snack roulette, meaning that now and then, someone will eat a hot pepper! For Shishitos, it’s said 1 in 10 peppers are hot; for Padrons it’s 2 in 10, but we’ve found a ton a variance – occasionally we’ll get a batch that’s all mild, and sometimes a breakdown of 50/50 spicy/mild. So consider yourself warned!

So one Sunday evening, with friends who love these peppers, we decided to get to the bottom of the Shishito- vs- Padron debate. In the end, the Shishito brought a great, unique flavor and a surprising change up to the table. Once pan-fried, the Padrons have a smoky flavor and melt in your mouth texture that is pretty irresistible when

topped with a little sea salt. They were delicious on pizza and in eggs. But as far as other cooking ventures – the Shishitos ended up being just a tad more versatile.

Bring on the Shishito. These peppers are also great pan-fried, and are just as easy to prep- but have a slightly sweeter flavor. Some of us said floral, some herbal, others said maybe a hint of citrus. However you describe it, Shishitos possess a brighter note to rival the padron’s more earthy flavor and pair better with tamari, sesame, or lemon since their less intense smoky flavor mingles well with others instead of competing with them.

In terms of texture, Shishitos can work a little less blistered and browned – their skin is a little thicker and silkier and can hold up in sautés without compromising flavor. In addition, they were preferable to Padrons for cheese stuffing – Shishitos are my new jalapeno popper without the burn!

The culinary battle-royale concluded early when we all got too full from the many ways we cooked these peppers. We hadn’t been able to determine a winner, since both had been so good in their own ways. But we all did agree that gorging on peppers late on a Sunday evening was not a great way to start a Monday morning!

One thing I do know, once you get the hang of blistering these little gems, you’ll never order them in a restaurant again. It’s not that they’re not a delicious thing to order at a restaurant, but the thing is, once you figure out how insanely easy it is to make this healthy, salty, snacky appetizer at home, it’ll be hard to convince yourself to shell out restaurant cash for a little plate of these peppers. They’re just too easy! And too great to reserve for times when you’re dining out. Once we got the hang of them, we were blistering Shishito and Padron peppers at least once a week (and sometimes more often) all season long!

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MVL RECIPES

Blistered Shishito or Padron Peppers

by Denise Szarek

Ingredients: 2 cups Shishito or Padron peppers ¼ cup olive oil Coarse Sea salt and fresh ground coarse black pepper

Set up your grill for direct grilling and heat to medium-high. In a bowl, toss the peppers with olive oil. Tear off a 12- by 15-inch piece of aluminum foil. Place it dull side up on your workspace. Arrange the peppers in the center in a single layer. Bring the long edges of the foil together. Fold twice. Next, fold the short edges twice to completely enclose the peppers. Arrange the packet on the grill grate and grill, turning once or twice, until the peppers are blistered, 12 to 15 minutes. Carefully open the packet and season the peppers with sea salt and pepper. If grilling Shishito hit them with a tsp of lemon zest for a bright citrus note! Serve hot!

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Welcome to August and the “dog days of summer.” Did you know the expression has its origin in astronomy?

The ancient Greeks and Romans knew the star Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, and the Sun dominates the daylight hours. Since Sirius and the sun rise together in the early morning sky during July and August, they incorrectly concluded that the combination of the bright light from the two stars produced the high temperatures of the summer months. Sirius is in constellation Canis Major (the Great Dog) and is also known as the “dog star,” thus the “dog days” expression.

August is known for its stunning night skies and the year’s best meteor shower. The smoky Milky Way stretches from north to south and several notable stars and constellations are visible. A constellation is a bright group of stars that form a recognizable pattern and many have been documented and studied for thousands of years. They divide the sky into regions that change with the seasons as our planet orbits the Sun. Constellations served as an important tool for navigation, a source for storytelling and folklore, and a calendar to plan the planting and harvesting of crops for many civilizations.

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this month? It is constellation Cygnus, the Swan, and the inset image shows its brightest stars. Cygnus begins its trip across the sky after sundown in the east and moves toward the west along with all other stars ly like North America and the Gulf of as the night progresses. It is overhead Mexico. It is a favorite target of astroHanny’s Voorwerp.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA,take W. Keel, Galaxytime-exZoo Team around midnight. photographers, who long The star at the “head” of the swan posure photos using a sensitive camera is Albireo and is quite a sight in bin- connected to a telescope. A photo taken oculars or a telescope. Not only can by MVAS club member Charles Higyou see two stars, but one is clearly gins is in the inset image. yellow-orange while the other is sap- And best of all, August brings the phire blue. The “tail” of the swan is a Perseid Meteor Shower. It occurs when star named Deneb, the brightest star in debris from comet Swift-Tuttle hits our the constellation. It is a blue-white su- atmosphere and heats up and glows. pergiant and is about 200 times larger We can expect to see meteors most than our Sun. As you look at Cygnus, of the month, but the best nights (the you’ll see another pattern formed by its peak) are August 11-12. Look toward stars – a cross. The constellation is also the northeast and constellation Perseus, known as the Northern Cross. although meteors can appear anywhere In addition to the prominent stars, in the sky. That night the waxing cresthe region is rich with deep sky objects. cent Moon sets around 10 p.m. in the Open star cluster NGC 7092 is home Mohawk Valley, giving us excellent to a group of about 30 stars and will dark conditions. It may be possible to appear as a small hazy patch dotted see as many as 100 meteors and firewith stars. Another object is the North balls per hour, especially between midAmerican Nebula (NGC 7000), best night and dawn. seen from a dark sky location. This So head outside in August and enemission nebula is a star-forming re- joy the warm temperatures and beautigion with thousands of young stars in- ful night sky. Oh, and don’t forget the side of a haze of glowing hydrogen gas. snacks and mosquito repellent!

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Summer and farming go hand in hand. It started gradually in May with tilling, rock picking, and planting. First cut hay came and went in early June. By July, our pastured chickens were ready for processing and farmer’s markets were bursting at the seams with Swiss chard, cucumbers, radishes, and lettuces. August is when the show really ramps up with tomatoes, sweet corn, and county fairs. These are the days when farmers work from sunup to sundown, with nary a break in between.

Unless that is, we get visitors. Summer and vacations also go hand in hand, and this is the only time of year many folks can get away. Toss in a global pandemic and you’ve got tremendous pent-up demand and long-overdue trips!

My parents visited for an extended weekend in late June, stealing away for a few days in between concerts (my dad is a musician and band director) and babysitting obligations (my mom runs a daycare out of their home).

They weren’t able to be here on a Thursday and were sad to miss their favorite farmer’s market in Clinton. But Dad happily mowed our lawn while I washed eggs and Peter made cheese. We went out for wood-fired pizza at Mangia Macrina’s in Little Falls and cooked fabulous meals at home, but mostly enjoyed catching up after 2 years (!) since their last visit.

Next came Peter’s brother Charlie, his wife Dana, and their three girls. Like my parents, we had not seen them since 2019. Charlie and eldest daughter Hannah are both avid bird watchers and generally love hiking so they went on long walks into our woods and down to our creek while we did chores. A few times we were able to join them.

On what was meant to be a rainy day, we took them to the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. It turned out to be a gorgeous day, so we enjoyed both the indoor art exhibits and the lovely grounds. Again, we ate like kings the length of the visit, alternatively going out to eat (one particularly amazing dinner at The Tailor & the Cook!) or preparing lavish meals at home. Their stay ended with a friendly game of volleyball, a campfire, and fireworks.

Our farm store, too, has been getting quite a few visitors these days. “Trail Blazers” checking out each of the eight CNY Cheese Trail locations stop in to buy our cheeses and gelato, ticking off their visitor’s cards as they go. The Herkimer Diamond Mine and KOA Campground just minutes from our farm also provide a steady source of visitors, with hot and dusty “miners” looking for a cold treat or campers needing eggs and milk for their breakfast.

We are nearly always working in the cheese plant and stop what we are doing to say hello, and to ask how they found us. We’ve met some very friendly people from all parts

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of the US and beyond, summer visitors that are simply charmed by the area and our beautiful surroundings.

No matter what time of the year, visitors to a working farm are sure to find it fun and educational, if not a little messy. Be sure to wear appropriate attire and shoes that can get dirty. Be open to meeting farm cats and dogs, and consider leaving your pets at home. Our dogs can be a bit over-friendly, if not intimidating to non-dog-owners.

Archie, a rambunctious Border collie, certainly doesn’t realize how muddy his feet are when he jumps to greet visitors. If you visit, ask Archie to find his Frisbee!

As is usually the case, we’ve also had a couple of unwanted visitors this summer. Our oldest daughter Harper saved a young goat from a coyote just the other day. It was a small coyote, and it had not harmed the goat…yet.

Harper ran at it with arms flailing and it quickly ran away.

Husband Peter spent the remainder of the evening watching over the goats while they grazed; his trusty .22 at his side. We’ve seen the bold animal a couple of times since, and we wonder how long he plans to stay.

We also uncovered a nest of young timber rattlers.

Curled under a stack of tin roofing, they were almost as surprised as we were to have their housing moved. I like them even less than the coyote!

Unwanted visitors aside, I am always happy to see people visit our farm. Young and old get a chance to reconnect, breathe in the fresh country air, and perhaps learn something new. And after a long period of social distancing, it is certainly a welcome change to see loved ones again. I hope you get time to unwind and enjoy the special people in your life.

It may mean the chores get pushed back, or that you fall behind in some of your work, but it’s worth it. Enjoy your summer while it lasts! •

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Of the native bird species that find themselves in conflict with people, it may be the Canada Goose that consistently gets into the most trouble. Breeding success over the last fifty years has brought their population size to where it was believed to have been in the pre-colonial period. Locally, they went from being largely a migratory visitor – a flyover bird, to a reliable resident breeder; one found on just about every pond and wetland. In recent times they get in the most trouble at airports, golf courses, parks, and lakes where they sometimes gather in large numbers. Often there are calls to cull nuisance geese and lethal methods are often employed to lessen their numbers at airports. However, for the most part, geese in populated areas are begrudgingly tolerated. Of course, there is a long hunting season for Canada Geese in New York State and so their population is annually whittled down by snipers.

I have noticed that over the last two decades the number of successfully breeding Canada Geese in the wild has substantially decreased. I suspect this is not so much due to human culling, but more with the general recovery of nest/ egg predator populations as well as the increasing occurrences of extreme flooding events.

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one or two pairs can breed per season. The dominant pair works to keep away all other would-be breeders. In the last dozen years, the nest of our most reliable resident pair has failed five times. Once we installed a nest platform in the middle of the pond, our goose pair (named Roddy and Lydia) accepted it and their breeding fortunes instantly turned around. They suddenly had successful nests every year. Obviously, in a healthy ecosystem where predators are active, the Canada Goose population is naturally kept in check and there is no need for culling.

I am a big fan of Canada Geese. I admire them for their flying skills, their tenacity, their intelligence, and their family values. They can easily become habituated to people and close views of their behavior are possible.

Geese are particularly good parents, although only the female incubates the eggs (which is a long and arduous commitment). The male’s role is to defend the nest site from rival pairs of geese – other would-be nesters, and from predators. Once the eggs hatch, he helps the female lead the youngsters around the habitat.

For the entire month-long period they remain un-flighted. The male is typically the more aggressive overseer of the goslings, and he will not hesitate to confront any animals he deems a threat to his charge, whether it is a

Canada Goose mother with hatchlings predatory mink or a vegetarian beaver.

Woodpeckers occasionally find themselves at odds with people for one reason or another. Pecking and/or drumming on houses as well as their habit of chiseling on or otherwise perforating shade trees are the chief complaints about them. All woodpeckers drum. They use their bills to rap on wood.

The speed and pattern of the rapping can be used to identify the species. Woodpeckers also produce vocalizations, but it is their drumming that is used to make territorial pronouncements during the breeding season.

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Once the woodpecker’s power to project is discovered, he may return to the metal time after time and hammer away at it.

I’ve known a few folks to complain about woodpeckers tapping on their wooden shingles. In these cases, the woodpecker was not drumming but foraging. They Male Northern Flicker were being blamed for perforating the shingles, but what the woodpeckers’ attention revealed were the insects that had already burrowed into the wood. In this case, the woodpecker could be commended for alerting the homeowner to the infestation. Similarly, when woodpeckers go to town chiseling away on a shade tree in someone’s yard, it typically means the tree had already been compromised by insects. Since these insects almost invariably inhabit deadwood, the woodpecker is guilty only of carving into a dead tree or a dead part of a living tree. Essentially the woodpeckers are not harming, but in fact, are assisting the tree by ridding it of Carpenter Ants and bark beetles. There is one exception to the rule here. The woodpecker known as the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker can harm trees. As their name suggests, the sapsucker makes its living by drilling small holes in living trees and drinking their sap. Although this behavior never benefits the tree, when sap-holes are not too numerous, trees can still lead a healthy and long life. However, when a tree has particularly tasty sap (according to the sapsucker) the tree may become riddled with sap holes. These wounds can leave a tree open to disease, insect infestation, and/or fungal infection. A tree with too many holes in it may lose the ability to transport enough sap to its leaves to survive.

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of woodpeckers in the environment. Not only do they reduce the number of tree-damaging insects active in a forest, but they also provide nesting cavities for scores of other bird species and other animals. They are essentially the housing contractors of the animal world. The cavities that woodpeckers chisel out are used by them the first season but are

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The Rock Pigeon or feral pigeon was originally an old-world species. They were introduced in the Americas as early as the 1600s although some sources claim they were brought over in the 1700s. They are generally strong fliers and well adapted to live among people in both urban and rural settings. They most often make their nests in human-made structures including city buildings, bridges, and barns. They are primarily grain-eaters but will occasionally feed on insects and other small creatures. Pigeons are capable of flying long distances to remote feeding sites; they may return to the nest hours later to feed their young.

Pigeons produce a semi-digested gruel called “crop-milk”; this is what they use to feed their young. Although not universally despised, the Pigeon has more detractors than supporters. The most vehement of which sometimes refer to them as “rats with wings”. Their flocking and roosting habits and, most of all, the copious amounts of droppings they produce in areas they frequent, are chiefly responsible for soiling their reputation.

On the other hand, there are a sizable number of folks (sometimes referred to as Pigeon Fanciers) that breed and/or race pigeons. Others are kept as pets by people that appreciate exotic-looking

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Pigeon varieties. Interestingly, Charles Darwin kept and bred Pigeons. It was the selective breeding of Pigeons for specific characteristics that helped him bolster his theory of natural selection.

Sometimes it seems that people are waging perpetual war against Pigeons. Flocks are regularly poisoned, shot, and their roosts are foiled by anti-pigeon perching devices. Not being a native species, they are not eligible for protection under the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act and that leaves them open for all manner of abuse. Still, some of us can appreciate the beauty of their form, their intelligence, and their graceful flight. Their flight profile is not unlike that of the falcons that prey on them. Even experienced falcon watchers may momentarily mistake a flying Pigeon for a falcon. The relationship between Peregrine Falcons and Rock Pigeons is a critical one.

It is doubtful that Peregrine Falcons would be able to inhabit cities and nest so successfully without a reliable Pigeon population to prey on. In Utica, the female of the resident falcon pair (Astrid) specializes in catching Pigeons. We have little evidence that she has ever preyed on any other species.

Raptors themselves have been vilified throughout most of the history of our republic. Many, regardless of species, were labeled “chicken hawks” or “hen hawks” and generally shot on sight as chicken thieves. Whether or not the species was even capable of securing barnyard fowl was immaterial.

As perceived enemies of agriculture, hawks were persona non grata throughout the countryside, and gunners that killed them would congratulate them-

City dwelling falcons prey on Pigeons

selves on a good day’s work. Even the Bald Eagle, the emblem of our country, was not immune from persecution. Famous birding destinations like Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania, where migrating raptors concentrate, were originally places hunters gathered to shoot raptors out of the sky. Legal protection was a long time coming for birds of prey and did not come about until modern ecological awareness stressed the vital role predators play in the environment. A newly found acceptance of raptors was part of the impetus to ban the pesticide DDT (which decimated populations of Eagles, Osprey, and Peregrine Falcons.) It also provided an incentive for

Congress to pass the Endangered Species Act in the early 1970s. Thankfully, legal protection, ambitious captive breeding programs, and wild releases eventually led to restored raptor populations.

To this day raptors do not enjoy universal acceptance. Sharp-shinned Hawks and Cooper’s Hawks continue to be resented by some backyard birders; their taste for songbirds being the crux of the conflict. However, raptors have come a long way down the road of acceptance. Many people, non-birders and birders alike, become captivated by online nest cameras. Nests of Owls, Eagles, Osprey, and Peregrine Falcons are all available to watch on the internet. Detailed views of nesting behavior rarely observed by naturalists only a generation ago, can now be studied and enjoyed by even the most casual observer in the comfort of their homes.

There are many other bird species that people hold a grudge against for one reason or other; many I did not touch upon in this two-part article. I did not mention gulls, Mute Swans, Double-crested Cormorants, or several other bird species that people regularly complain about or have in the past acted against in some way. In this era of climate change, ecosystem collapse, and rampant species extinction, I believe a compelling

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case could be made to reexamine our attitudes towards those common, “troublesome” species that live among us. These birds that can tolerate our lifestyles, our urban sprawl, our exploitation of the land, and our pollution may be exactly the species we need to be with us at this time. They may be the very species that survive this era and proceed to spawn a new diversity of species in some future epoch. As exemplified by Darwin’s Finches on the Galapagos Islands, a great diversity of species can come from a few hardy castaways. So don’t be too hard on our common nuisance birds, they may just be the keepers of the flame and the key to a future that still has birds in it. •

Matt Perry is Conservation Director and resident naturalist at Spring Farm CARES in Clinton. He manages a 260 acre nature preserve which is open for tours by appointment. Matt is also regional editor of “The Kingbird”, which is a quarterly publication put out by the New York State Ornithological Association. Matt’s short nature videos can be viewed on the web.

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In 1974, Tim and Peggy Spencer Behrendt set off on an adventure. They began a new life in the woods of Cold Brook, NY, without modern conveniences like electricity or indoor plumbing. These are excerpts and reflections from Peggy’s journal chronicling their adventures and also her childhood memories growing up in Westmoreland.

We love the scent of newly mown grass, but don’t care for mowing. Other than public trails and the dead wood we pick up for firewood, we manage the 520 acres of the Shawangunk Nature Preserve by leaving it alone except for a small clearing for our organic vegetable garden, some flowers, a few trails, and a bit of grassy yard. It seems too violent to barge through grasses and wildflowers with madly twirling sharp, metal blades or nylon string. We know that there are little frogs and toads, beetles and ants, spiders and tiny salamanders innocently gathering food, making families, eagerly living their moment of consciousness amid eternity among these plants. So, we procrastinate. “Oh, we’d better wait until the dandelions go to seed,” we say at first. But they are soon followed by the lovely forget-me-nots, and the white and purple clovers. “The bees need the flowers for food,” is our next excuse (as indeed they do).

Eventually, the grass gets uncomfortably tall, so we cut it around the patches of flowers. We mow, but are minimalistic and do it with re-

gret.

I asked my friend, Janice, who grew up on a local farm in the 1950s how she felt about haying time. “I loved the haying season!” she replied. “You felt such a sense of accomplishment when the day was over. The hay was cured so you knew it would be good for the horses and cows to eat, and it smelled so good! We also felt like we’d beat Mother Nature by getting the hay in before the rain came and spoiled it. We’d won the race again!”

I was curious to know if her mother helped with haying since this was one of the important tasks of running their dairy farm on Tibbitts Road and was their sole source of support.

“No,” she replied. “Dad took care of tasks related to cows and milking. Mom oversaw the household and egg production. She carefully candled each egg before packing them up to sell. Candling (so named because it was first

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d o n e with a candle), involved looking inside each egg (30 dozen two times a week) to see if it had any blood spots. Those would be kept for our own use. To look inside them, she placed each egg on a small, round hole she’d cut into a round, oatmeal container with a light bulb shining inside of it. The light would glow through the egg, showing what was inside. My sisters and I fed the chickens, and Dad brought water to them in buckets from

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the water trough in the farmyard which was fed Anne, Tim, and John by a pipe from a spring debating the color plum further away.”

“She took care of cooking, cleaning, laundry, and food preservation. She always wore a dress and apron, even when she climbed the steep, vertical ladder to the top of the silo during corn harvest to pull the rope that would direct the pipe shooting corn into the silo to make sure it filled the silo evenly. It was a dusty, risky job” They had a large, productive asparagus patch, and her mom would bundle it up on the porch steps in onepound bunches, which she confidently measured (from long experience) by wrapping her hand around it. The bundles were then set it in a pan of water to stay crisp until they got to the market to sell. One time, the storekeeper wanted to weigh them to make sure they were a pound, and she was so insulted, she sold them at a different store thereafter. ​ Other chores for this farm wife involved carrying hot water from the house to the barn twice a day and washing the milking machines with it so that bacteria could not grow and spoil the milk. All of her chores had to be timed around taking my friend and her sisters to school in their car, unless the weather was fair, as it was 2.7 miles away and there was no bus service. She often picked up other local children, especially during inclement weather. ​ She had little time for reading or recreation, and even when sitting down, kept occupied by darning socks or knitting mittens.

Their phone was an important source of socialization as well as information. At that time, most phones had a party line. One had to wait until others were finished talking before making a call, but it provided regular contact with neighboring women. “What would the farm wives talk about, I asked?” “Oh, they talked about recipes,” she said, “who got the first laundry hung out on Monday morning, who’s running around with whom, who’s drinking too much, who’s ambitious with their land and crops, who got stuck with a bad purchase at the auction, who’s milk is not pure, who’s going into debt…” ​ I well appreciate the blessing of the telephone, as we didn’t have one for many John shows us how years at Shawangunk. hard he works as Finally, our friend PatTraffic Control rick Harney bought Officer a spool of telephone wire for us, and one

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Anne gets Peg to kayak with her on Black Creek exhausting day, put on his WWI leather aviator helmet and helped Tim and I roll the big, heavy, bulky spool a half-mile through our woods, over and under dead trees, through our creek to our house to connect us. What a celebration we had when we made our first calls to the family from our home in the woods in the late 1970s! ​ Since most calls were long-distance and costly, life at Shawangunk was still pretty quiet until friends bought a camp on our road.

When they started coming in August, it became our jolliest time of year.

We are all serious, socially concerned, re- ple, violet, mauve, or what?” sponsible citizens, most of the time, but our “Plum,” I declared with conviction, “is a playful selves come out when we’re together purply blue.” and it’s almost like being children again. In “It’s not purply blue, it’s reddish-purple!” the year 2000, we all pretended to get quite exclaimed John with exaggerated disdain. passionate over what color to paint my newly “It’s what you get when you fall going to acquired 1951 Chevy. It had been intended the outhouse without a flashlight after dark!” to be for our youngest daughter when she re- added Howard with a grin. turned to the US after living several years “Look at this catalog,” pronounced Tim, in France, but we didn’t consider the fact pounding his fist on it like a pulpit, “It shows that since she preferred to live in a large all different kinds of plum; amethyst, grape, metropolitan area, having a car was more hyacinth, lavender… All you have to do is of a handicap than an asset. So, we gave pick one!” her some money for a computer and “But they all look the same by internet instead, and I got her bulky, candlebut charming black Chevy for doing errands. I wanted to hand-paint it a plum color.

Our friends decided to stick their oar in on what the color plum really meant, and it became a good excuse to linger together after bounteous potlucks as we sat in flickering candlelight on their rustic screen porch with the drone of hungry mosquitoes just behind the screen and a lovelorn whippoorwill calling from the dark recesses of the forest.

Plum,” mused Sunithi, with Peg harvests tomatoes with half-hearted concern, “is an ambiguher kitten, Little Behr ous color. Are you talking about purF

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light!” protested Julie, frowning over the dim magazine.

“I have the answer,” announced Anne, with decisive conclusiveness as she returned from the kitchen; “Here is a real plum. That should put an end to any further discussion.”

We protested; we vociferated; we whined. It turned out to be one of the more passionate debates we had over nothing. It lasted for days and was so much fun! (We ended up painting the car with Rustoleum lavender spray paint as it was the only option I could afford.)

But we don’t just sit around, eat and debate.

Sometimes, we give each other mini-concerts in the evening on my piano after eating out at a local restaurant of quality and charm; strains of Debussy, Haydn, or Bartok echoing melodically among the woodlands. We take walks under twinkling stars and soft moonlight below the canopy of great trees on Shawangunk Road whispering summer secrets to us until we reach the broad sky and land of farm fields just beyond, perfumed by newly mowed hay and patches of sweet-scented wild milkweed. We might lie in the moss of the old airport meadow watching for shooting stars during a meteor shower, speaking quietly of the miracle of life and the wonders of the universe until the mosquitoes chase us home. And there are always interesting, and sometimes challenging hikes to Hinckley Lake or to Black Creek where we take canoes and kayaks to the nearest sandy beach for a bracing cold swim, or to a great cliff of baby smooth, slippery grey clay to slip and slide

on. If it’s warm enough, we might pick up a piece of clay and spread it on every inch of bare skin for a beauty bath, turning ourselves into living statues reminiscent of mythological gods and goddesses.

We bravely plunged briefly into these cold waters one particularly cool August day and I felt very smug about having brought warm clothes to slip into afterward. I sat all cozy and warm in my kayak waiting for the others to shiver out of the water and back into their crafts until someone tossed me a football. I reached out to catch it and tipped myself right back into the cold water, then had to paddle all the way home in my wet clothes, feeling quite chastened for the sin of smugness.

John sometimes offers to be the Traffic Control Officer when there may be a particularly large turn-out for a Preserve event. This gives us an excuse to have endless discussions on job expectations, his lack of salary, and buggy working conditions with pretend misunderstandings, strikes, and dismissals. Except for the potential to get stuck in the soft shoulders of Shawangunk, not much traffic direction is truly needed, since it’s a dead-end road with a large parking area and turn around with little parking signs that Tim puts up.

But the debates are fun! When he reads this, John will probably pretend to be offended and get quite huffy about this minimalization of the importance of his job as Traffic Control Officer, but we will invite him and Anne over for morning omelets with fresh herbs and cheese with tea and toast to mollify any bruised feelings, then get together in the evening for an Andy Hardy movie.

John and Anne’s children and our grandchildren ran around together and had their own world of adventures; rafting and swimming in Black Creek, sliding down the sand cliffs of Hinckley Lake, climbing a Shad Berry tree to snack on wild fruit, mini flirtations with local kids within biking distance, (which explained why one young lad was suddenly climbing around on the rafters like a young monkey when a young lady came to visit) or a treehouse to build.

When they leave, I return to quiet hours harvesting the well-earned bounties of our garden, knowing it is good, healthy food for us to eat; enjoying the same sense of accomplishment farmers feel when they get the hay in.

As I reflect on these times, these rich, full days of August with dear friends, I think of a poem by W. H. Davies; “Sweet chance, that led my steps abroad beyond the town, where wildflowers grow…a rainbow and a cuckoo’s song…how rich and full the days are now… a rainbow, and a cuckoo’s song may never come together again...”

How rich and full are these brief days together with friends and family. •

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Lighting Mills Electrical Supply, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 35 Liquor Stores and Wine Ilion Wine & Spirits, Ilion . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Prospect Falls Winery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Trenton Station Liquor & Wine, Barneveld . . . . 22 Maple Syrup Ben & Judy’s Sugarhouse, West Edmeston . . . . . 12 Shaw’s Maple Products, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . 34 Tibbits Maple, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . 44 Media WFXV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 WKAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Weekly Adirondack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Monuments & Memorials Yorkville Memorials, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Musical Instrument Sales, Rentals, Lessons Big Apple Music, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . 8 Natural Food Stores Brenda’s Naturals, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Cooperstown Naturals, Cooperstown . . . . . . . . 36 Peter’s Cornucopia, New Hartford . . . . . . . . 48 Optometrists Towpath Vision Care, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . 23 Paint and Painting Supplies Urbanik’s Paint & Wallpaper Co., Utica . . . . . . . 51 Physical Therapy Achievement Therapy & Wellness, Utica . . . . . . 25 Inertia PT, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Pizzerias DiCastro’s Brick Oven, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 15 Primo Pizzeria, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Tony’s Pizza, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Pools and Spas Swan Pools & Spas, Ilion and New Hartford . . . . . 40 Portable Toilets and Bathrooms Mohawk Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Primitives Between Us Sisters, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . . . 21 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 . . . . . .

Tibbits Maple, New Hartford . . . . . . . . .

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GOODSELL MUSEUM Local Adirondack History

2993 State Route 28 Old Forge, NY 13420

315-369-3838 www.webbhistory.org Headquarters of the Town of Webb Historical Association

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Quilt and Yarn Shops/Services Heartwork Quilts & Fabric , Fly Creek . . . . . . . . 28 Tiger Lily Quilt Co, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Restaurants and Cafés Ann St. Deli, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Black Stallion Restaurant,Vernon . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Buffalohead Restaurant, Forestport . . . . . . . . . 15 Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 DiCastro’s Brick Oven, Rome . . . . . . . . . 15 Gilligan’s, Sherburne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Gone Coastal, Lee Center . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Karam’s Middle East Bakery, Yorkville . . . . 16 Killabrew, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Ohio Tavern, Cold Brook . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Phoenician Restaurant, New Hartford . . . . . . 15 Riverside Diner, Marcy . . . . . . . . . . 14 RoSo’s Cafe & Catering, Utica . . . . . . . . . . 16 Route 69 Steakhouse, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . 16 Voss’, Yorkville, Ilion, Marcy . . . . . . . . . . 16 Wendy’s Diner, Cassville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Willie’s The Original Bagel Cafe, Utica . . . . . . 16 The Willows, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Shoes Karaz Shoes, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Storage Sheds & Garages Shafer & Sons, Westmoreland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Pleasant View Structures, Vernon . . . . . . . . . 43 Tents and Awnings Brownies Tent & Awnings, Clinton . . . . . . . . . 51 Towing Services Clinton Collision, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Tree Services and Tree Farms Rick Turk Tree Service, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 47 Weddings and Banquets Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Wineries Brimfield Farm Winery, Clinton . . . . . . . 51 Prospect Falls Winery, Prospect . . . . . . . . . 51 Yogurt Stoltzfus Family Dairy, Vernon Center . . . . . . 49

last month’s crossword solution

The answer to last month’s puzzle about what the berry hidden in the puzzle (blueberry) is known as: Super Food.

Our winner is: Marleen Asaro of Newport

The answer to last month’s riddle about a local German festival is:

Bavarian Festival

winner: Chris Ceely of Clinton. She chose a shopping spree at Meelan’s Market in Clark Mills!

sponsor news Water Safari Introduces Three New Rides!

Enchanted Forest Water Safari in Old Forge introduced three new attractions this summer: Mamba Strike, Serengeti Stampede, and Killermanjaro’s Revenge.

Serengeti Stampede is a 293 ft. long four-lane mat racer.

The vision of this ride evokes the racing and playful nature of animals that stampede through the Serengeti, a vast land found in Africa.

The Mamba Strike is a 285 ft. enclosed body slide that loops around Serengeti Stampede after the trapdoor floor opens and drops guests onto the slide. Mamba Strike is named after a venomous snake that originated in Africa.

Killermanjaro will have its revenge! Many guests were sad to see the legacy ride “Killermanjaro” go, so what better way than to come back bigger and better, while showcasing the original speed slide at Water Safari! Killermanjaro’s Revenge is a 207 ft. long speed slide that drops guests through the floor into the slide and zooms them to the finish in one long drop.

“The team at Enchanted Forest Water Safari is extremely excited to welcome guests back to the park this summer!

We have been busy preparing the park for reopening, when we can finally introduce our new rides!” says Katie Wojdyla, Vice President & Director of Marketing. “We are committed to providing a safe experience for all of our guests.

Please review WaterSafari.com for the latest up-to-date guidelines.”

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