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Fall in Love With the Tioga County Visitors Bureau in a former church, we asked five great photographers to share their sacred autumn images.
Story By Roberta Curreri
Building Spirit His Glass Runneth Over Family Trees
Cover Photo by Tina Tolins
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Fall In Love
The Last Great Place
By Roberta Curreri With the Tioga County Visitors Bureau in a former church, we asked five great photographers to share their sacred autumn images.
By Michael Capuzzo Flaming foliage Hot Shots.
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Chatter & Letters to the Editor Mansfield’s Terrorist Fighter.
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By Dawn Bilder Ferenbaugh Campground is rooted in Callahan family history.
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Roberta Curreri
Family Trees
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Arms & The Man
Mother Earth
By Gayle Morrow Take time to smell the “stinking roses” with The Garlic Man.
By Roberta Curreri Talking turkey about Wild Things.
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The Lunker
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Deer Camp
By Jerry & Roberta Curreri Young Bucks lock horns.
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By Fred Metarko The novice and the experienced get a fishing lesson in Catching On.
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By Dave Milano Thriving Apple ’n Cheese Festival Buoys a Community’s Heritage.
Cover image by Tina Tolins Cover art by Tucker Worthington Top: Sandi Spencer, Tioga County Visitors Bureau Executive Director.
Photo Courtesy Manley-Bohlayer FaRM
His Glass Runneth Over
By Angela Cannon-Crothers Olympic hopeful Bryan Morseman competes in Corning’s 30th Wineglass Marathon.
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26 Yogamama
By Kathleen Thompson A Nice White Shirt unravels the conundrum of how to cope when your go-to has gone.
33 The Better World
By John & Lynne Diamond-Nigh The Wright stuff and classic American Beauty.
34 1 Guy from NYC, 2 Gentlemen from Verona By Thomas Putnam Gabe Hakvaag brings the Bard to salty life in Wellsboro.
36 Looking Back
By Joyce Tice Centurian Chester P. Bailey is our Man About Mansfield.
37 42nd Parallel
By Matt Connor Friend Me—requests from altered states.
38 Food Stamps
By Cornelius O’Donnell Before Cook’s Blogs there was the Postal Service.
42 In the Kitchen
By Holly Howell In the Finger Lakes, it is A Season of Remembrance, as the community remembers Debra Whiting with the Harvest Celebration.
44 Finger Lakes Wine Review
By Holly Howell Great Whites Down Buffalo: wine and cheese combo scores a game-winning touchdown!
46 My Favorite Things
By Teresa Banik Capuzzo Canton festival dishes up the Apple of My Eye.
62 Shop Around the Corner
By Angela Cannon-Crothers Handiwork in the Finger Lakes at Naples’ Artizann’s Gallery.
66 Back of the Mountain
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Publisher Michael Capuzzo Editor-in-Chief Teresa Banik Capuzzo Associate Publisher George Bochetto, Esq. Dawn Bilder Managing Editor Roberta Curreri BusinessManager Jerry Curreri Copy Editor Pete Boal Cover Artist Tucker Worthington P r o d u c t i o n M a n a g e r / G r ap h i c D e s i g n e r Amanda Doan Butler Contributing Writers Sarah Bull, Angela Cannon-Crothers, Jennifer Cline, Matt Connor, Barbara Coyle, Kevin Cummings, Georgiana DeCarlo, John & Lynne Diamond-Nigh, Patricia Brown Davis, Lori Duffy Foster, Audrey Fox, Donald Gilliland, Steve Hainsworth, Martha Horton, Holly Howell, David Ira Kagan, Adam Mahonske, Roberta McCulloch-Dews, Cindy Davis Meixel, Suzanne Meredith, Fred Metarko, Karen Meyers, Dave Milano, Gayle Morrow, Tom Murphy, Mary Myers, Jim Obleski, Cornelius O’Donnell, Thomas Putnam, Gary Ranck, Kathleen Thompson, Joyce M. Tice, Linda Williams, Carol Youngs C o n t r i b u t i n g P h o t o g r ap h e r s Mia Lisa Anderson, Bill Crowell, Bruce Dart, Anne Davenport-Leete, Ann Kamzelski, Ken Meyer, Tina Tolins, Sarah Wagaman Sales Representatives Earle Aumick, Christopher Banik, Alicia Cotter, Brian Earle, Sadie Mack, Richard Widmeier Subscriptions Claire Lafferty Beagle Cosmo Assistant
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Home Territory Welcome to Mountain Home We’re grateful that you’ve already welcomed us onto your porch and into the living room. Thanks to you, Mountain Home, the Twin Tiers lifestyle magazine, has 100,000 readers from the Finger Lakes to the Susquehanna River. Locally owned and based at creek-side offices in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania—population 3,245—we tell local stories by gifted local writers, artists, and photographers (see our awards on the next page). You can get a subscription, but most folks pick us up, “Free as the Wind,” at one of 275 distribution points, represented on this original map by artist Tucker Worthington. Please support our advertisers and distributors—we’ll soon publish a complete list by town of the businesses, from Wegman’s to wineries to the corner store, where you’ll find Mountain Home. Call us at 570-724-3838 to chat, tell a story, or advertise. Meanwhile, happy reading! Teresa & Mike Capuzzo, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
Mansfield Agway Looking to feed your chickens, horses, or goats? Or do you want to feed your head with good conversation and information, and the latest edition of Mountain Home magazine? At the Mansfield Agway you can do both. Annette, or Phil, or Mike, or any of the other employees will be happy to help you out— literally, because feed bags can be heavy, and carrying them to your vehicle is just part of how they do business. Under the expertise of manager Annette Schimpf, a certified pet nutritionist, the store has doubled its sales in the four years since opening, despite big box store competition. Annette credits the outstanding customer service of Mike, Phil, and the other eight employees: “It’s personal service because we know our customers by name and know their families and their needs.” The Agway reaches into the community, sponsoring a biannual chicken barbecue fundraiser for local Boy Scouts. On October 1st it’s hosting its biannual rabies clinic where pets get vaccinated for six dollars. Local veterinarian Dr. Leonard Kreger donates his time and the vaccine to this worthy cause whose proceeds go to the Second Chance Animal Sanctuary, a nokill animal rescue organization. Agway stocks a complete selection of animal feed, lawn, and garden products, clothing for the homeowner and the outdoor worker, including fire-resistant garments. A nice selection of outdoor accessories can be found while purchasing your hunting or fishing licenses, and, of course, you can pick up your Mountain Home magazine. The new MH rack includes not only the latest edition, but archive editions for you to add to your collection. 5
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The Last Great Place
Hot Shots By Michael Capuzzo
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was a golden ending of the season that caught William Shakespeare’s eye, that English autumn of 1609, “When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang/Upon those boughs which shake against the cold.” It was gold, too, that drew Dr. Tina Tolins, physician and artist, to the autumn leaves in Hills Creek State Park. It was an October day, Tina recalls, when a halo of yellow leaves sang in glory from a solemn marching column of trees. Beneath the trees, an orange sea of leaves had seized the parking lot from summer’s revelers. Tina raised her camera and captured this month’s Mountain Home cover photo. Our Pennsylvania and New York hills and lakes are blessed with rich autumn beauty, and gifted photo men and women to match our mountains. October is the heart of tourist season from the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania to the grape harvest of the Finger Lakes—locals, too, traipse the autumn hills, reveling in the fall foliage. We asked five of Tioga County’s most talented photographers to show us the autumn magic they’d captured. We wanted to hold it still in these pages. ‘ Tis a timeless desire, wrote William Blake: “O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d/With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit/Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest.” Dear old autumn, stay awhile in Ann Kamzelski’s lens. Ann, a retired analytical chemist from Allentown, Dr. Tina Tolins was driving down Cherry Flats Road (Wetmore Hill) from her home in Cherry Flats when the fog far below called out its vision of the dappled roof of the world, a glimpse beyond thirty autumns watching. “It was the bright colors peeking out through the fog, it was just spectacular.” See Hot Shots on page 9
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Mansfield’s Terrorist Fighter
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Ali in the rubble of Bin Laden’s hideout in Afghanistan.
Our latest terrorist-hunting hero from Tioga County is Ali Soufan, the 1994 Mansfield University graduate-turned-superstar FBI interrogator. The former counter-terrorism agent was all over the media in September marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11, making Mansfield proud, and talking up his new book, The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda. It seems like yesterday when Soufan, a Lebanese-American, was a popular, brilliant MU student with a dual major in political science and international studies. A born leader, he was twice elected Student Government
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Association president. Having grown up in wartorn Lebanon—his father was a journalist based in Beirut—Mansfield seemed a green idyll. He met his future wife on campus. “Everyone was friendly,” Soufan told MU’s Dennis Miller. “The students, faculty, townspeople. It’s just the nature of the area. That’s what I love about it so much.” After graduating cum laude, Soufan went on to a Villanova University masters degree in international relations, joined the FBI in 1997, and garnered the bureau’s highest awards before starting his own security consulting firm, The Soufan Group. At age twenty-nine, he was the FBI’s lead investigator of the October 2000 USS Cole bombing. Using traditional interrogation techniques on Al Qaeda prisoners, he learned that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He learned about Jose Padilla, the so-called dirty bomber. He became the most creditable voice for those opposed to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” a/k/a “torture.” During the 9/11 anniversary hoopla, Soufan was fetted—by 60 Minutes, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, PBS Frontline, The New Yorker to name a few—not just for what he did but how he did it, famously without resorting to “torture.” By outwitting evil. We’re proud to have the stalwart former Mountaineer on our side. ~Michael Capuzzo
My husband and I enjoyed reading your article “Going Green.” My 72-yearold body doesn’t handle the recoil of a .45 ACP well enough (especially since surgery for a broken shoulder) to permit the required amount of shooting to become and remain proficient. So my choice for protection is a 9mm Glock. My husband said he never expected such an article in Mountain Home. He now has a greater respect and renewed interest in your publication. Keep up the good work! ~Ruth Ann Godra P.S. My husband shoots a 1911 45ACP (Editors note: “Going Green,” by Roberta Curreri, ran in the September 2011 Mountain Home).
Words from West End
We’re amazed, months after Mountain Home featured our West End Market Café in Wellsboro, that we’re still getting new customers saying, “I saw you in the magazine!” We’re very pleased and surprised that they’re not only locals, but also visitors from as far as Watkins Glen in the Finger Lakes to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mountain Home is local and also reaches a huge and passionate audience. Thanks for the exposure, and a wonderful magazine.” ~Jenny & Kevin Connelly, owners, West End Market Café, 152 Main St., Wellsboro (Editors note: “Café Society,” by Cornelius O’Donnell, ran in the February 2011 Mountain Home).
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Old autumn sent Ken Meyer, Mansfield University biology professor emeritus, like a restless bloodhound out from the fireside to the blustery rain along Stony Fork Creek, up a forgotten tributary. “I saw this, and I liked it.” This most seductive season compelled professional photographer Bruce Dart to go to Lambs Creek and stand transfixed before a stubbled cornfield and make an offering to its lonely beauty. The bounty of our land is infinite, and Hill’s Creek State Park has enough to spare. Down at the boat launch area, the poetic Mia Lisa Anderson saw the last boat of summer, edged up on shore. “I had my wide-angle lens on and got pretty close to the boat. It’s actually a combination of three exposures that I put together in the software so I could get the whole range of shadows and colors.” Enjoy this fall keepsake issue. Or as William Blake put it: “…all the daughters of the year shall dance!/Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers…Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat/Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak/ Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.”
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With the Tioga County Visitors Bureau in a former church, we asked five great photographers to share their sacred autumn images.
By Roberta Curreri
ctober, the golden days when summer’s late flowers, heavy of bloom, sweep low across the garden beds, and warm afternoon breezes ripple through honey-buttered fields of goldenrod. Then black-eyed susans, in daring numbers, march almost to my door and the regal hued field thistle advises me to step another way. Sleep comes easier now as the evenings cool, and morning finds the trees’ once green leafy tips dyed into gilded vermilion. It’s time to feast the senses, to set out through the countryside of the Twin Tiers—pumpkins are plumping, the corn is on the cob, and apples are ripe for the picking. All of nature is inviting you to admire the wonders of autumn, and nowhere is your appearance more welcomed than at the Tioga County Visitors Bureau. As you travel west down Wellsboro’s Main street, and head four and a half miles out of town keeping onto Route 660, you find the houses growing farther apart, the grass growing into fields, red barns, baled hay, blue sky—you find the country and its abundant blessings. One of these, a once little white church with a blue roof, is the Tioga County Visitors Bureau.
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Maybe it was some higher power that in 2008 brought to this spot Sandi Spencer, eighteen years as TCVB executive director, and Lori Copp, public relations director, while on their way to deliver a Native Bagel lunch to some state workers. Practically side-swiped by a passing vehicle on Route 660, they stopped to clean up their nowspilt coffee in the lot of the Dexter Baptist Church, where a for sale sign had resided for some time. Sitting there, they began to notice the azure sky, the verdant fields—they began to count the number of cars passing by—and it was then that the idea of moving the visitors bureau from the Chamber to the churchyard arrived. “When we moved from Wellsboro, no one wanted to see us go,” said Sandi, “but with the Chamber of Commerce being in town, we didn’t need the double coverage. “When we approached them (Dexter Baptist Church) with our measly piggy bank—other people had expressed interest but the owners wanted to keep it in the community, there are so many memories here—they loved the idea. We updated inside and out. That we had to move the door from the front to the side in order to build the ramp was a blessing in disguise,” says Sandi. It is perfect access for parking. “We kept the original wainscoting and a couple of pews for visitors.” Once inside, there are some great area maps and trail guides to be had as well as terrific items from local artists available for purchase: pine creek pottery by Lyle Bush; photo art by Curt Weinhold of Coudersport, recognized as a juried 12
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PaWilds artisan and whose photo credits include Outside magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Pa Magazine, and his self-published Pennsylvania Grand Canyon; and books by writers whose topics range from local recipes to area hikes. The TCVB serves double coverage for two state parks. Both offer opportunities for picnicking, hiking, fishing and hunting, whitewater boating, and camping. Leonard Harrison State Park, 585 acres, is on the east rim of the Pine Creek Gorge, also known Photo essay continued on next page; see Love on page 66
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O U t d o O rs Family Trees
Callahan Family Carves Out a Campground in Corning By Dawn Bilder
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herie Callahan can still remember the even thrumming of the hard plastic wheels rolling along the smooth cement floor. She can still feel the coolness underneath her of the moving metal platform on the wholesaler shopping cart as she sat and turned to look at her father through her long ash-blonde ringlets. It was 1977, and she was five years old. Her father was a handsome man with dark hair, and he smiled at her as he pushed the cart along the aisle. She smiled back happily before she turned again to their task at hand—buying candy for the campground store in the campground that her parents had founded and owned. The candy run was a special thing Cherie and her dad did together. The candy aisle, with its expansive warehouse-style shelves reaching up towards the ceiling, seemed built for giants and was filled with a hundred different kinds of candy in wild, wonderfully-colored wrappers. It was easy for her to imagine how the sugar in the chocolate and lollipops would taste melting on her tongue. And it seemed to her, engulfed by candy, with her father with her, that they were surrounded by all the sweetness in the world. The campground was Ferenbaugh Campground & Recreation Center, named Ferenbaugh after the hamlet in which it was located that later became part of Corning, New York—and after the first settlers of the area, the Ferenbaugh’s, whom Cherie’s parents admired. The campground still thrives, with its camp sites rising in tiers up a beautiful wooded mountain, each site enclosed in its own grove. On the campground’s two hundred
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and seventy-four acres sits a miniature golf course, a protected trout stream that’s stocked by the state every year, a thirtyby-fifty foot crystal-blue swimming pool, and an old pool where campers can catchand-release bass and enjoy fishing derbies. Ferenbaugh offers 30 and 50-amp electric, free WIFI on fifty percent of the sites, and the campground is only five miles from Corning’s Gaffer District for campers who want to shop or dine out. But in many wonderful ways, Ferenbaugh holds true to the campgrounds of everyone’s childhood with its arcade, swing set, volleyball net, and central pavilion overlooking picnic tables. Kids wander around in comfortable, chattering groups, sometimes followed by adults wandering in comfortable, chattering groups, and they all wear the same enchanted, relaxed expressions. There’s the campground store that,
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although it’s a cut above the rest with its two stories and a few walls that are almost entirely made of glass, includes fantastic customary camp fare—a mirror with “Wanted Dead or Alive. Reward $10,000” stenciled around its border, shelves stocked with refillable shotgun lighters, Winnebago picture frames, carved wooden animal pens, and soap dispensers and nightlights in the shape of old kerosene lanterns, and a block of wood shaped like an angel holding a little sign that reads “Light Fades–Stars Appear–Guardian Angels Gather Here” along with the important staples of flip flops and bug spray and tent items. Ferenbaugh used to be on farmland, and the incredibly creative family—the Callahans—that built it once reigned over a small dairy farm less than a mile away. In 1910, Cherie Callahan’s greatgrandfather, Ellery Callahan, started the dairy farm. His son Erwin also ran the farm and continued to purchase property all around it. His son Norman, Cherie’s dad, who attended Cornell University’s School of Agriculture, took it over dutifully, but by the early 1960s the dairy business started to be too government-controlled for the Callahans’ taste. Cherie’s uncle (her mother’s brother), Howard Orr, was studying camp and recreation design at Syracuse University’s School of Forestry, and he suggested that Norman start a campground. Uncle Howard even designed it. Like all of the Callahans and Orrs, he embodied Everyman, but utilized an incredible creative force. He loved decorating and design and woodworking. He went on to become no less than the Regional Director of National Parks in the Southeast. His sister Shirley, Cherie’s mother, loves painting, and one of her warm and colorful paintings hangs in Ferenbaugh’s camp store. Howard and Shirley’s dad was a postal worker, but in his spare time he was an avid photographer and made clocks and furniture. Cherie’s dad, Norman, seemed to come alive when he started the campground in 1965. All of his creative drive and energy flowed out, and Cherie remembers him happily working fourteenhour days during the camping season. And she remembers his music. “My dad could play almost any instrument by ear,” says Cherie, with a nostalgic smile, “the saxophone, the harmonica, any instrument
at all. My favorite was when he played ragtime on the piano. Come to think of it, I don’t remember him ever playing the drums, but I’m sure he could have.” He also loved woodworking, and built a totem pole for the campground. Cherie remembers how much fun he had building the new pool. “My dad loved this campground. He put his heart and soul into it.” Cherie grew up idyllically on the campground until she went off to college in Georgia. Her brother (a musician who appeared on MTV with his band “Three Walls Down” and who built the two cabins at Ferenbaugh) and her sister (who designs jewelry which is sold at the campground store) lived in Georgia, too. “I wanted to be a famous painter,” Cherie says, smiling. In 1992 she received the sad news that her father had leukemia and lung cancer, so she left college and went home and helped that summer season at Ferenbaugh. When the season was over, she went back to Georgia to attend the Savannah College of Art & Design. But soon her father passed away, and she returned home to help her mother. When her mom was doing better and had enough help, Cherie returned to Savannah, and after six years of working part-time and taking classes part-time, finished her degree in product design in 2000, combining her love of graphic design with that of physically making and inventing things. Her degree, also called industrial design, was highly specialized, and Cherie knew she could go anywhere and earn a good salary. She chose to return to Corning. She had had her first son, Skyler, and she wanted him to grow up
around her family—and the campground, which was so much a part of her family and had been so much a part of her beloved father. “I wanted Skyler to be home,” says Cherie. She got a job as a product designer at a company called Storflex, had another son, Devin, and continued to help out at the campground whenever she could. She never intended on running it. But over the years, she saw that the campground was flagging. “Sometimes the lawn wasn’t mowed on time. Sometimes I would call the campground office at nine in the morning, when someone should have been there, and no one would answer. And then my mom told me that she was Norman Callahan crafting a totem pole.
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thinking of selling it.” Cherie was faced with one of the biggest decisions of her life. As a single mom, she relied on her salary at Storflex. She loved the creativity of her job, and, although she didn’t like having her kids in daycare and afterschool care a lot, her life seemed to be in good working order. “But then,” explains Cherie, slowly and deliberately, “I thought about my dad. I thought about our candy runs at the wholesale store, how he used to push me around on that cart, and I thought about how much,” she stops, then continues with tears gathering at the corners of her eyes as she repeats, “how much…he really loved the campground. And I quit Storflex to help my mom run the campground full time.” Then that funny thing happened that sometimes occurs when you set out to save something or someone, as anyone who has ever adopted a rescued animal can tell you—what you save sometimes saves you back. “My life really improved. I got closer to my sons because they no longer had
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to be in childcare, and they love life on the campground. Devin even talks about running it someday. I love being my own boss. I love being outside all the time. And I just feel better.” And Ferenbaugh certainly benefits from Cherie’s creative side. The campground is known for its neverending parade of fun activities. Every holiday during the season, no matter how big or how small—from Earth Day Weekend to Mothers Day and Fathers Day Weekends to Labor Day Weekend— is celebrated with a variety of pot luck dinners, crafts, site decorating contests, games, movie nights, hayrides, scavenger hunts, D.J.’s, pizza parties, karaoke, among other activities. And, not to worry, Cherie makes her own holidays on almost all of the other weekends with things like Fear Factor Weekend, Birthday Bash Weekend (everybody’s birthday falls on that weekend at the campground, whether it does in real life or not), Hawaiian Luau Weekend, and, of course, NASCAR Race Weekend. This Columbus Day Weekend, which
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is from October 7 to October 10, will have site decorating and costume contests, pumpkin carving, hayrides, trick or treating, and will be topped off with the Annual Harvest Dinner. As the season’s end draws near, it’s easy to imagine that sometimes during a peaceful twilight—when the murmuring of content campfire adults can be heard like low birdsong and the soft, explosive laughter of kids at play rolls across the grounds—Cherie stands in the expansive store with its big windows and thinks of her father and those long-ago cart rides. She glances at the candy section. The candy’s still sweet, Daddy. She looks out at the property again with its happy activity and glows of fire. Just like you made it.
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Arms & the Man
Wild Things By Roberta Curreri
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have a turkey gun, a Harrington and Richardson Pardner® with break-open action and side lever release. Mine was manufactured in Gardner Massachusetts, and it’s not a turkey gun you’ll find on the premier lists or the most popular. It’s a simple gun, one carried by hunters for a hundred and forty years, a working-man’s gun that often resides behind the seat of a pickup or in the corner of a camp. What I like about this particular shotgun is its little extra beauty mark, the laser engraved insignia of the National Wildlife Turkey Federation. The NWTF is no stranger to hunters in the Northern Tier, where wild turkey season opens on October 29th. Most readers probably know something of this organization, but not necessarily the specifics. The NWTF is a non-profit organization dedicated to conserving the wild turkey and preserving our hunting heritage. Its success story is told by the numbers. Founded in 1973 with a mere 1,300 members, today’s 250,000 members are to be commended: the NWTF, with its partners, sponsors, volunteers and grassroots members, has invested $372 million fund-raised dollars to conserve nearly seventeen million acres of viable turkey habitat. Believing it to be clever, courageous, and one of the few truly American birds—a great symbol of our nation’s autonomy—Benjamin Franklin lobbied the Continental Congress to choose the wild turkey as our national bird. He lost and America also came close to losing: a century ago the wild turkey was on the brink of extinction. Today, with their population restored from 1.3 million to an expanding 7 million, wild turkeys roam the United States fields and woodlands from coast to coast and border to border. My NWTF commemorative H&R—yes, this beauty is for the birds. One should consider when breaking her open—this simple single-shot 12-gauge—how many turkeys have graced tables across America as a result of this iconic shotgun. Fall turkey, as turkey hunting seasons go—like my H&R Pardner®—is not considered the most popular. Premier season for the avid turkey hunters is spring gobbler. Yet, before autumn closes Americans will celebrate their traditional meal of thanks with this great bird. Over a turkey supper, reflecting simpler times, a simpler but more rugged way of life, I like to remember the NWTF and to be thankful that there are still wild things alive and well in America and more than enough turkeys to bring home and enjoy. 19
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Catching On By Fred Metarko
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wave of kids, parents, rods and reels, camp stools and fishing boxes moved down the paths toward the water. Spots were claimed on the bank and the flailing of the water began. Fish were caught and lost, lures broken off and many stick fish landed. The Lawrence Recreation area on Cowanesque Lake was invaded by seventynine kids and their parents on June 5th for the 12th Annual Kid’s Fishing Derby. The weather was beautiful although the lake was quite muddy from the recent rains and high water, and the Army Corps of Engineers beaver was greeting the young fishers and handing out candy. Kids, from twenty-three communities happily received a goodie bag as they registered. Then they settled in under the pavilion for a demonstration on knots and fishing equipment presented by Bass Club members Skip Bastian and Ron Hoyt. Ron VanZile from the Coast Guard Auxiliary went over the rules. It’s simple: on the honor system, keep track of your number of fish caught; notify a bass club member, for a measurement, when you catch a big fish or a bass. Then he said, “Let’s go catch some fish.” I picked up Skip’s rod which was rigged up from the demonstration and headed to the water. As I was casting Skip asked, “What are you doing?” “Fishing,” I answered. “If I hook a fish, I’ll give the rod to one of the kids and let them reel it in.” “You won’t catch a fish,” he said. “Yes I will. Just watch,” I replied. Skip stood behind me along with Ron Hoyt and John Tomb. They agreed with Skip, and John said laughingly, “You won’t catch anything.” After I made a few more casts Skip said, “Bring the rod back here for a second.” He removed the plastic worm from the hook
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and it was evident—they were right—I wouldn’t catch a fish. The point of the hook had been cut off leaving just enough bend to secure the worm. “This is my practice rod I use for prefishing.” he said. “Oooo-kay.” I replied. As I figured I had practiced enough, I departed. The Lawrenceville Ambulance crew on standby sounded the siren to end the fishing. Results were reported and tabulated as the kids, families and helpers were served a lunch of hotdogs, chips, donuts and soda or water.
A total of 222 fish were caught. The largest was a thirty-three-inch carp and an eighteen-and-a-half-inch bass. Prizes of rod combos, tackle boxes, and lures were awarded to four top finishers in four age groups. Then as their ticket numbers were called, fishers chose from a table loaded with fishing items. Everyone went home a winner. The Kid’s Derby is made possible through donations from businesses, organizations, and individuals. It is organized and presented by the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Army Corp of Engineers and the Tioga County Bass Anglers. The Lunker is a member of the Tioga County Bass Anglers (www.tiogacountybassanglers. com). Contact him at lunker@ mountainhomemag.com.
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Young Bucks
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n the fall of ’75, I was fifteen going on thirty-five. My major accomplishments were as follows. Shot my first buck—OK, a spiker— but nine inch spikes at twelve. Got an A+ in old Mr. Militski’s Algebra class, something reportedly had only happened twice before in the century or so he had been teaching. Oh yeah, and I kissed my first girl, Rita Novak, behind my cousin Marty’s barn. So in general I had the world at my fingertips. I even got to calling Uncle Warren, Warren. The only other guy I knew that was as cool as me— almost—was Marty, a year older and he had a license to drive. That year Marty and I had a big plan for deer season. Of course, it was unspoken and conflicted with each other, ’cause we had both decided independently that we were going to get the biggest deer in camp that year. And interestingly enough, we both had spotted him together that summer. We had gone down to Spencer’s pond for a quick swim and then decided to take a scouting hike up behind the deer camp into the state game lands. We split up as we worked through an old clear-cut choked now with mountain laurel. As I was crawling and clawing my way through I stopped and looked up, and there he was looking down the hill to where I could just hear Marty crashing below. He was a huge nine pointer, twenty inches across if he was one, and he flicked his tail and was gone. I decided to play it cool when Marty caught up. “You see anything?” I said. He replied, “No,” and hesitated. “I might a heard something ahead—but I didn’t see nothin’.” “Ah, no,” I replied. Nothing at all. Of course, years later both Marty and me laughed when we thought about that, as we had both seen the deer that day. Every chance I got after that, I scouted
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that deer. Saw him three times, including once when I was pretty darn sure he had not seen me. I avoided Marty a couple of times when he wanted to go out after squirrels when the season started, and, of course, he avoided me a few times, too—only I didn’t realize it till later. He was out scouting that deer. The first Monday after Thanksgiving found me high up the hill at the top of the ravine. I had figured that deer bedded down in the laurel would react to the activity that morning by moving up hill. And that’s exactly what he did, but boy did he come fast, way fast. My first shot took out a sapling. The 30-30 hummed, and my second shot caused him to hunch up and go crashing down through the laurel. Just about the time that I calmed down and thought about going to look for him, I heard a shot. Damn, Marty, I thought. I ran down the hill faster than I should to find Marty crouched over the buck. “What happened?” I shouted. “I killed this buck,” he replied, sticking his face in mine. “No you didn’t.” “Sure did.” “I shot him first.” “I shot him dead.” Next thing I know we are pushing and shoving each other, and then we tumbled to the ground wrestling and kicking. All of a sudden I felt myself lifted up and tossed aside. Marty went flying, too. There was Warren standing in the middle of us. His big logger hands and forearms holding us apart. “What in tarnation is going on here!” he said. We both began talking at once. Then Warren said, “Stop it. What I see here is a nice buck shot twice—in the rump, I might add. Real nice shot, boys,”
he said sarcastically. We began to speak again “No, no, quiet now. “The problem is obvious both of you shot this buck and now you are fighting about who gets it. Well, there’s no problem with that.” Warren took out his hatchet that he always carried and took aim right between the eyes of that beautiful buck. “I’ll just split this deer right down the middle,” he said. “Which one of you wants which piece?” He bent to swing. Marty and I both sprang forward. “No, no, give it to Marty!” I shouted as Marty said “Give it to him!” Uncle Warren stopped short. “I thought so,” he said. “Now you both get hold of that deer and drag it to camp—and no noise about it.” “Yes, Uncle Warren,” we replied in unison. Marty and I became inseparable friends after that. Went to college together and are partners in our machine shop. He lives down the street and our big buck hangs on the camp wall. The brass plate beneath it reads “Shot by two fellows who were in the dark but then saw the light – 1975.”
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Brian Morseman during the Run for the Red marathon in 2010.
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lthough running is in Bryan Morseman’s blood—his older brother ran in high school and so did his dad before that— Morseman’s high school track team record wasn’t anything so spectacular. “I always got kicked in the short races,” Morseman jokes, “but the track team didn’t have long distance running competitions.” Morseman continued with high school track, putting in his time and sticking with it, but it wasn’t until after finishing his criminal justice degree at Mansfield University in 2008 that Morseman finally found time to compete in the type of running he knew deep down inside he was really good at. Over the past year he’s finished in the top five of every major marathon he’s entered, including a finishing time of 2:20 at the Run for the Red in the Poconos in 2009, 2010, and again this past summer. To qualify for the Olympic Trials in Texas, he’ll need to run his fastest yet—a 2:19—one minute faster than his fastest overall and eight minutes faster than he did three years ago. To do this he’s been training hard and running over one hundred ten miles a week, often with his fiancée, Sarah Freeborn, bicycling along beside him. On October 2, running fans will have their eyes on Morseman and the Wineglass Marathon in Corning, New York—what Runner’sWorld magazine called “the speediest course in the country” in 2010—and with the fastest runners from all over the country and the world competing, it’s no surprise. The 26.2-mile course is a certified qualifier for other marathons, like the Boston Marathon, but, unlike the big urban races, the Wineglass follows the scenic Chemung
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esterday I went to wear my favorite long-sleeved white shirt from Land’s End and found a hole in it. No matter how much I tried to ignore that hole and pretend it wasn’t there, it was. This was the day I had been dreading. This was the day I knew I had to relegate my favorite shirt from “favorite go-to” to “wear- around- the-house-only” status. It’s sad when clothes die. Especially because this shirt was so very excellent: silky soft and drapey without being too fitted or too boxy. And whether I put it on straight from the dryer, or pressed it up with a spritz of Magic sizing and wore it with silver jewelry and a pretty scarf, it always came through for me. Always. In hindsight, I regret not buying more of them the moment I realized how wonderful they were. The only reason I didn’t must have been because I thought that they’d carry them forever. It was a basic white shirt, after all. Nothing trendy. Stupid. Now I know better. Nothing is forever. Everything changes. Sure, Land’s End still sells white long-sleeved shirts, and I even ordered one and immediately sent it back. They will never have that shirt again because they have found a cheaper source, in a different country, made with poorer quality cotton, that they can sell for a higher profit margin. At this point, I have a fairly extensive collection of white, long-sleeved shirts . I seem to be drawn to them like a magnet. I am always on the lookout, partly, I think, because I knew this Land’s End shirt would die one day and have to be replaced. But none of my other shirts even come close to giving me the happiness I found with this one. I have one from Banana Republic, another from Jones New York, one from Coldwater Creek, and one from ExOfficio. All of them underwhelm.
Now I know better. Nothing is forever. Everything changes. I have three Gap white shirts: a “Classic” made in the Phillipines, a Gap “Stretch” made in Turkey, and another “Classic” made in China. The first two are “bleh,” but wearable. The winner, and the one that will have the terrible burden of trying to live up to the Land’s End shirt is the Gap classic stretch-fitted one, the one made in China. I ironed it up yesterday, spritzed it with sizing and placed it at the head of the pack and said, “Look, you. You have a lot to live up to. You are never going to be the Land’s End shirt, but you can try, okay?” It just gave me this white, blank look. Kathleen Thompson is the owner of Main Street Yoga in Mansfield, PA. Contact her at 570-660-5873, online at www.yogamansfield. com, or e-mail yogamama@ mountainhomemag.com.
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Barbara was born and raised in the Philadelphia/south Jersey region. While visiting Wellsboro on vacation with her husband, James, and two young daughters, Barbara fell in love with our rural area. The family finished hiking the Grand Canyon and packed up to head for home, but to her surprise, James pulled up to soldiers + sailors Memorial hospital saying, “We have one more stop; you’re going to walk in and see if there’s a job for you.” Barb walked into ssMh’s Physical Therapy and rehabilitation department, and as fate would have it, a position was available. everything fell into place; she and her family made Tioga county their home in November 2005. she currently practices in laurel health system’s Blossburg Physical Therapy center.
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: Impaired balance is a common and often debilitating problem, especially in the elderly. Specialized rehabilitative care for dizziness and balance problems is available at Laurel Health System’s Blossburg and Wellsboro Physical Therapy Centers. The vestibular system is a sensory apparatus of nerves and passages like the semicircular canals of the inner ear, which controls our balance. Balance loss or dizziness occurs when that system malfunctions, though there can be other causes as well. We evaluate patients to discover if their symptoms are due to an inner ear condition, central nervous system condition, or some other cause, and to determine whether the patient needs additional testing or perhaps a referral to an otolaryngologist (Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist). A frequent balance problem related to inner ear dysfunction is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV). BPPV is an inner ear disorder that causes dizziness or a spinning sensation when the person moves his or her head. It is fairly common, and patients typically respond extremely well to treatment. BPPV is caused when otoconia, commonly termed “ear rocks,” migrate into the semicircular canals. Otoconia are small crystals of calcium carbonate located in the utricle (part of the inner ear). Normally these crystals stay within the utricle, naturally dissolving and replacing themselves, but when they migrate, they can cause mild to severe dizziness, poor balance, falls, and even nausea and vomiting. A number of factors can contribute to developing BPPV, such as head trauma (concussion), whiplash (a rapid, traumatic, back-and-forth whipping of the neck), or a natural degeneration of the ear as we grow older. To treat BPPV, we move the head into a specific sequence of positions to guide the crystals through the canal. The best way to visualize the exercise is to picture a handheld game where you are trying to guide a small metal ball through a maze by tilting the box. Patients are typically referred for balance therapy by family doctors, but can also be referred by specialists. For more information on balance and vestibular rehabilitation, call the Laurel Health System Blossburg Physical Therapy Center at (570) 638-1313, or the Wellsboro Physical Therapy Center at (570) 723-0675.
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: The answer to this question is YES, but the answer is also somewhat complex. The laws governing the practice of physical therapy differ from state to state. Currently 46 states and the District of Columbia allow what is termed “direct access” to physical therapy services (without a referral). Pennsylvania passed legislation in 2002 to allow physical therapists to practice physical therapy without a referral, and New York passed similar legislation in 2006. More specific details on the rules regarding practice of physical therapy without a referral will be presented at the end of this article. The evolution of education and training of physical therapist has prepared them for this new responsibility and area of practice. The first priority of a physical therapist when practicing without a referral is to screen the patient for potential medical problems that are not appropriate for physical therapy and refer for physician consult when appropriate. An example of this would be where a patient came for physical therapy due to shoulder pain with exertion. The physical therapist must screen for potential cardiac involvement, and refer if any signs and/or symptoms suggest a cardiac problem. In this same example, if all potential non-physical therapy causes are screened out, a physical therapy plan of care could be implemented immediately addressing the cause of the shoulder pain and address any functional loss due the shoulder problem. The benefit of direct access can be seen here for the patient in the speed at which the patient is able to obtain physical therapy services. The physical therapy profession has made an effort to gain direct access authorization for patient benefit, but has also been made clear that physical therapists are not to be considered a replacement for physicians. Physical therapists are not physicians. Physical therapists specialize in the treatment of movement disorders and fulfill that role as part of the health care team that provides care to patients, and in that role can benefit the patient in providing physical therapy without a referral when appropriate, and referring to a physician when appropriate. In Pennsylvania, a patient is able to receive physical therapy services for up to 30 days from the initial treatment. In order to continue physical therapy services beyond the 30 day limit, the patient must obtain a referral for physical therapy from a licensed physician, podiatrist, or dentist. In Pennsylvania, the physical therapist must have a certificate of authorization to practice physical therapy without a referral in addition to the license to practice physical therapy required by the State of Pennsylvania. In New York any physical therapist that has been practicing physical therapy for three years may treat a patient for up to 30 days or 10 visits without a physician referral and must give notice to the patient that the service may not be a covered expense by the patient’s insurance plan, whereas the service may be covered with a physician referral. The New York statute addresses another issue in the availability of direct access to physical therapy services. Plainly said, for physical therapy services without a referral, the patient would have to pay for the services, but if a referral for physical therapy is obtained from a physician, it will be a service covered by the patient’s insurance plan. This is an issue in all states, but the trend is demonstrating that an increasing number of health insurance plans are covering physical therapy services without a physician referral. The staff at Elite Therapy has been pleased to discover over the last four years that most private insurance PPO plans offered in our region cover physical therapy services without a physician referral. If you feel you may benefit from physical therapy services, you can either contact your physician to obtain a referral, or you can contact Elite Therapy directly at 570-662-1400 to discuss obtaining physical therapy services without a referral.
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River and countryside of Steuben County. Since 1982, the Wineglass has grown from a quaint runner’s marathon of six hundred or so people to over three thousand entries for 2011 with much to celebrate. Bryan Morseman is a twenty-six-year-old Addison native favorite who, in his brief three-year marathon career, has demonstrated amazing athletic ability. In 2008 Morseman placed second in the Wineglass with a time of 2:27:45. It was his first marathon. Morseman says his speed comes from “dedication, loyalty” and an eagerness to “keep working at it and not give up.” “I feel confident,” Morseman says about the Wineglass, but adds he’s realistic. “I want to get to the Olympic Trials this year, but it’s 2016 I have hopes for in the Olympics.” Morseman will be racing to beat his best time with marathoners from all over the country, including three other athletes also striding for finish times to qualify for the Olympic Trials. Regulars to the Wineglass, like Marty Muggleton and his wife Cary, have been involved in the Wineglass since 1983. “It’s
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a great course that has changed for the better over the years,” says Marty, adding that “Corning is a great city to finish in.” Marty is a competitive marathon runner who enters a few marathons each year. “I’ve done the big city marathons over the years,” says Marty, “but the Wineglass is better and the weather is always favorable—at least now,” Marty laughs, noting some earlier years that the race came late in October. Cary Muggleton was involved in the Team Relays over the past few decades, but with the relays being replaced by the 13.1-mile Wineglass Half as of last year, she plans on competing in the Half this year. According to Mike Melaro, marketing director for the historic Gaffer District, “The trend of running is growing—especially among women.” What with seventy-five percent of the full marathon and fifty percent of the half marathon being all women, race coordinators are affectionately calling the event a Chick Race. Because of the large female representation and the expected five thousand visitors to the region, area merchants and restaurants will be celebrating women runners and
women’s health. Offering “Saturday Night Specials” on the eve of the race, they will raise money for the non-profit Fund For Women, benefiting women in Chemung, Steuben, Schuyler and Yates counties. The Wineglass has much to commemorate this year, including a runner from Indiana achieving a final fiftieth state and another athlete from Kansas City, Missouri, completing a second round of fifty states —making the Wineglass in New York a one hundredth. Runners from fortysix states and five different countries will be gathered in Corning. Olympic Trials competitors will be setting their next goals, and local families and friends of one Bryan Morseman will be cheering him along. “It’s a great feeling to be running in my town with fans,” Morseman says. “I get a lot of pride out of it, but, you know, it’s not for the five minutes of fame,” he stresses, “it’s for all the time and training that went behind it.” Angela Cannon-Crothers is a freelance writer and outdoor educator living in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
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American Beauty By John & Lynne Diamond-Nigh
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urn your mind to the sublime. “The beauty and coherence of this earth is so intense that its magnificence can hurt.” We’d remember that line, uttered by the minister before marriage vows were exchanged. Half an hour earlier we had all been standing at the edge of a lake, far far north in wilderness Canada. Behind the granite shore primeval forest spread in an everlasting cloud. Badges of mist dappled the lake, skittering with sunlight. Then out of the mist came the sound of a bagpipe. Minutes later a bark emerged, as low and elegant as a gondola. Standing at the prow like the Winged Victory of Samothrace or a priestess from Avalon stood the bride. As we watched her slow approach I remembered many years ago standing here in the middle of the night, the silence reverberant with the ghostly antiphonal cries of two loons. Far to the north, spread over the sky, northern lights glimmered and frothed like a cosmic brazier. What planet was this, I wondered, as I stood among the stones. What hypnotic glories this earth affords. On our way north we had stopped in Buffalo. Every so often we head out of town just to see a great building somewhere. This time we stopped at a complex, recently opened to the public, of three Frank Lloyd Wright houses. Like the three beds of the three bears, the smallest was for the gardener, the second for the owner’s sister, and the largest by far for the wealthy merchant himself. Wright called these buildings “Prairie Style.” Low, horizontal buildings with outstretched eaves, they refuted at the time the popular taste for European styles, whether Gothic or Victorian. More than anything else Wright was American, his faith fixed in the nourishing, coherent beauty of this American earth from which democracy grew like an indigenous fruit. It distinguishes us. So why not emulate that beauty in our literature and arts? Take our prairies, for instance, then draw
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that magnificent sun-dusted horizon into architecture the way Mark Twain threaded the Mississippi through Huckleberry Finn. Stack those horizons like books on a table. And to what thrilling effect! Untie ourselves from the apron strings of Europe. Surely by now, Wright thought (1905 or so), America could be itself. America. In fact he reversed the cultural flow, influencing widely European and Asian architecture. To mimic European styles makes us cultural slaves. Rather, profess to the world what is most sublime in our landscape, our buildings, our myths, and our minds. John writes about art and design. Lynne’s Web site, aciviltongue.com, is dedicated to civility studies.
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A rts & L e i sure All the World’s a Stage
One Guy from New York, Two Gentlemen from Verona By Thomas Putnam
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hen I asked Gabe Hakvaag if he’d like to direct Two Gentlemen of Verona, I had in mind a version similar to the first Hamilton-Gibson production from our Shakespeare in the Schools series, wherein five men played all the parts. I began that process by cutting out anything that I didn’t understand, since we keep our school productions to sixty minutes. After that, we worked on emphasizing all the jokes in as broad a way as possible. Quick changes, a dog, chases, cross-dressing—it was a blast. “No, I don’t think so,” Gabe replied. Yes, he would direct the play, but no, not a remount of our first production. “Boy meets girl. Boy wins girl. Boy meets… another girl! At the heart of an exotic and absurd situation is a story as current as last week’s study hall. I think high school students in particular will find the story of the Two Gentlemen particularly familiar—the overwhelming experience of falling in love. Why is the heart fickle? Why do we love the one we can’t have? Why does love move us to forget friends, position, dignity? And when Love commands, should we obey? ‘Should I to love cast my heart?’ is the question, and every character on stage gets a shot at the answer. Plus we get scheming gossip, go-betweens delivering love letters, lessons on how to court, and a hilarious recitation of a young woman’s ‘qualities’ to determine if she were fit to marry—a scene that will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever scanned a dating Web site.” Of course, most high school anthologies edit the script, and certainly the footnotes would not point out the plenteous sexual references. If kids knew what they were reading, there would be a whole lot more interest in ol’ Will. “I won’t say the teacher’s name, but I will say she pretty much phoned it in,” said Gabe about his own school experience with ol’ Will. Her approach to Shakespeare was to give us
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hand-outs from the 70s, plus copies of Romeo and Juliet, then play the BBC recording while we ‘read along.’ Meanwhile she sat at her desk and did paper work. As you can imagine, the class completely zoned out. I was as bored as everyone else. But I began to notice a character named Mercutio. He was Romeo’s friend, and every time he spoke he told a ‘dirty joke.’ That caught my interest, and I begin reading along closely and laughing at all the jokes. I think my classmates thought I was crazy. But I loved it, and found I loved the play.” Gabe has traveled quite a road to get to Wellsboro. Born in Queens, New York, grew up in urban and rural settings, which makes for wonderful perspectives. “I’m kind of a country kid who knew how to play Stoop Ball, or a city kid who knew how a hay-baler worked.” After high school Gabe lived mostly in Philadelphia, where he came of age, finished college, worked for various theater companies, and the Opera Company. Then Boston. Back to NYC and film production, independent films, theater, radio. After purchasing a cabin in Potter County in 2006, Gabe and family discovered Wellsboro. When the decision was made to leave NYC, Wellsboro seemed a perfect location: midway between families, good schools, and beautiful. And we’re so glad he found us! In the few short years he’s been here, Gabe has worked with our community theatre in a number of capacities: actor, director, stagehand, committee member. Two Gentlemen, however, is the first Shakespeare he’s worked on with HG. “If you put aside the exotic locales and situations, you see Shakespeare’s plays are about feeling. Shakespeare understood how complicated our emotional lives are, and gave his characters language to describe the conflicts in their own hearts. Regardless of whether the play is a comedy or a tragedy, all the characters are real, complex, and relatable to a modern audience. It’s moving stuff; and it can change
Event: Two Gentlemen of Verona Where: Warehouse Theater, Central Ave., Wellsboro When: October 7 and 8, 7:30 p.m.; October 9, 2:30 p.m. (Then it hits the road and travels to high schools in the area.)
the way you see yourself. It’s also exquisitely beautiful to hear. And funny, and tragic, and frightening, and deeply satisfying. Finally, it’s understandable. Really. Don’t be afraid of the Elizabethan verse. If the actors understand what they are saying, and you are willing to listen, you’ll understand it, too.” Two Gents is sponsored by Mansfield University. Come meet the two gentlemen of Verona, and the gentleman from NYC. Thomas Putnam is the founder and director of Hamilton-Gibson Productions, the community performing arts group in Wellsboro (www.hamiltongibson.org).You can reach him at hamgib@gmail.com.
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Looking Back
Man About Mansfield By Joyce M. Tice
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owever rapidly human longevity increases and the number of centenarians rises, most of us never get to that age. And while many think about writing a book someday, most never do. has managed to do both. He will complete his hundredth year on April 29, 2012, and his recently completed fifth book will be available this fall. Ever a student of local history, Chester has compiled a series of short anecdotes under the working title Bits and Pieces. He has culled these from the older history books, newspaper clippings he has saved, local records, and his own memory of events as they have been in Mansfield and in Tioga County during his lifetime. As publisher of the Mansfield Advertiser, secretary of the Mansfield Borough Council, co-chair of Mansfield’s 1957 centennial celebration and Tioga County’s bicentennial committee, he has seen events from an insider’s viewpoint. He founded the museum tent at Mansfield’s Fabulous 1890s Weekend and brings his photographic displays every year even now. I’ll just have to say that if it was happening, Chester was in the middle of it for decades. About 1994, Chester graduated from his long-trusted typewriter to his granddaughter’s cast-off word processor, and he uses it still. He never stopped writing. It was something he had done forever and never considered discontinuing. When changes occurred in Mansfield, Chester would research the history of that place and write a little article. He chronicled the passing of time. The result of Chester’s lifetime of compiling stories is a heavily illustrated collection of Mansfield anecdotes written
by Chester, edited and illustrated by me, to be published by Mansfield University and the Sesquicentennial Committee. I have drawn from Chester’s extensive postcard and photo collection, as well as my own, to show the buildings and scenes that he writes about. To compare Mansfield
as it was to Mansfield as it is, I’ve added present day photos. Chester’s anecdotes make us aware of some of the elements in the old postcards that we might otherwise overlook. The window is there, and he opens it wider for us. Even on the threshold of his hundredth birthday, his memory has not faded or diminished. Ask him any question, and he’ll hustle off to his filing cabinet for a clipping he has saved or an article he has written. If he knows you are coming for a visit, he’ll have a folder of clippings or photos or whatever you are looking for at the ready on the table. For his 100th birthday Chester has given us something to celebrate—“bits and pieces” of a lifetime in the great gift of his book. Copies will be available for sale later in the fall, date and place to be announced. Joyce M. Tice is the creator of the Tri-Counties Genealogy and History Web site (www.joycetice. com/jmtindex.htm). She can be reached at lookingback@ mountainhomemag.com.
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42nd Parallel
Friend Me By Matt Connor
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hat do you do when your young child approaches you and says, “I see dead people”? We’re talking about the Sixth Sense type of dead people, the kind who don’t stay dead but who allegedly wander about on our plane of existence. Do you pat the child on the head and praise their active imagination? Do you take them to a psychologist for evaluation? Do you have them blessed by the village priest? Or do you promise to keep an open mind and help your child get through their paranormal experiences in as healthy a way as possible? Josette Berardi, taking the latter approach, just published a book about the experience of raising a child with paranormal abilities, The Man at the Foot of the Bed. “My main reason for writing it was not only as a family memoir—there’s a lot of family history in it—but also to get the message out there to other families with children with paranormal abilities that it is possible to turn the situation into a positive,” she said. “A big motivator was that we had lots of people come up to us telling us, ‘Your daughter was so lucky because she had understanding parents.’ They said that when they told their parents about their spiritual encounters, they were told they were crazy or had a wild imagination. We had one friend whose parents took her to a priest to be blessed because they thought she had something evil inside of her. I think it’s sad that these children are oppressed, because I think it’s a common gift. Some people are more gifted than others. If they were only encouraged it would benefit everybody.” Josette first noticed that her daughter, Nicole, now a seventeen-year-old senior at Horseheads High School, was having unusual experiences when her child was too young even to form words. “She was in the babble stage, and we took a trip to New Orleans and within hours of checking into the hotel—we stayed right in the French Quarter—she developed a baby babble that sounded like she was speaking French,” said Josette. “Even my husband, who has been skeptical throughout the years, said, ‘That is really weird.’ She continued with that
until a couple of weeks after we returned to New York. My mom and some friends were able to witness it, and it was a little puzzle.” As the years passed, Nicole began to talk about the strange people who would come into her room when no one else was around. She had names for some of these people. Some of them she liked fairly well, but some were dark, ominous figures who frightened her. “She would tell us about her ‘friends’ that she had that visited her regularly, that she had names for,” said Josette. “If they were kind of generic, if they would come and go, she would kind of group them generically as ‘The Guys on the Ceiling.’ The main one that tormented her, that was pretty troublesome, was ‘The Man at the Foot of the Bed.’ Those were the names she’d come up with.” When she was a toddler The Man at the Foot of the Bed would take Nicole’s sippy cup away from her, or hide her pacifier or toys. But as she grew older, the visitations from Foot of Bed Man became more sinister still. “The main thing that he would do to her would be to hold her hand and give her visions,” said Josette. “The visions are still troubling to Nicole to this day. She can’t figure out what they mean or why he would do this to her. “The visions would always be of her and him walking in an old hospital in the early 1900s and they would walk down the same ward hallway, to the same bed and stand by a man who had a head injury, whose head was wrapped in bandages, and they would just stand there. She could never understand why, but it would happen frequently. “I once asked her to describe The Man at the Foot of the Bed, and she said, ‘Troublesome and black-hearted.’” Finally one day The Man at the Foot of the Bed walked into Nicole’s room, glanced over at her, waved, and walked off into the shadows. He never appeared again. But when adolescence struck, around age 14, the activity surrounding Nicole seemed to increase and become more aggressive. Josette sought out a paranormal expert that might be able to guide and train her daughter and help her control the visitations. She says
she found one in Lily Dale, New York, a woman named Patricia Price who runs a kind of paranormal institute to help certify burgeoning psychics and intuitives. Price’s work with Nicole helped her tremendously, allowing her to close herself off from the entities that constantly pestered her, and to open a door to them only when she was suitably ready for them. But it didn’t do a whole heck of a lot for poor Josette, who now seemed to find her house invaded by paranormal forces trying to reach Nicole through her mother. “There’s normalcy now, but we’re also going to be living not-so-ordinary lives: there’s a lot of paranormal activity in the house,” Josette says. “This house was owned by one woman who owned it her whole life and passed away in church on Christmas day. She was very religious… It should not have any spirit activity. But it goes on in our house all the time. It’s unnerving to me, but I’m used to it by now. “What I think happened was—call me crazy —when Nicole went through all that training to be able to turn it off and on again, the spirits started going to me because they knew I’d get scared and tell Nicole about it. “So I’d be in bed and something would be jumping up and down at the corner of my mattress and I’d call Nicole and say, ‘Could you come over, please?’ I think they try to get to me as a way to get to her.” Ah, but such is the life of a parent of a paranormally-gifted child. This column explores the strange mysteries and folklore of Pennsylvania and New York, a region linked by the 42nd Parallel, which connects our states on its way to other colorful points around the globe.
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Before Cook’s Blogs there was the Postal Service By Cornelius O’Donnell
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remember accompanying my father on trips to Union Station in Albany to meet the train from New York that carried, a much older cousin of Dad’s and her husband. I was along to help carry “Aunt” Edna and “Uncle” Jim’s luggage. Not only was this twosome supremely elegant, but their luggage was too. How I hoped a school chum would spot us and ask me later who the movie stars were. Both had exciting careers in Manhattan, and they dressed the part. Jim with a flower in his lapel, and Edna was frequently swathed in those fur scarves with a militia of minks circling round and round her shoulder in a never-ending chase to capture the tails of other minks. As the owner moved, so did the little dangling feet. What has this to do with cooking you ask? Well eventually they both passed on and my mother inherited Edna’s small cookbook collection. Among the treasures was a mid1920s edition of Fanny Farmer, Edna’s copybook from a long-ago home economics class, and a curious three-ring binder. Menus by Mail I can’t remember if my mother used any recipe from these books – probably not – and years later the trio passed to me. And as I looked through the binder’s contents I imagined that Edna pulled off many a cocktail or dinner party with help from these pages: elegant cook, elegant menus. Gertrude Bosworth Crum was the author of this series of pre-blog cooking newsletters called Menus by Mail. You subscribed, and a monthly mailing filled with seasonal menu suggestions and step-by-step instructions arrived in your mailbox. This scheme was ideal for the ambitious cook who wanted to
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produce semi-fancy meals but wasn’t sure how to compose a balanced meal and also needed a timetable with cook-ahead recipes clearly marked. I don’t know what happened to the binder let alone the author, but years ago,
while browsing in a used bookstore, I found A World of Menus and Recipes written by Ms. Crum. The jacket blurb on this 1970 book from Bobbs-Merill confirms that many of the 600 recipes came from the newsletter. Crum added suggestions for
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wine, including rose, and advocated a cheese course. How 2011 of her! You can easily find the book at on-line book sites. The idea of “Menus”, to quote the author, “is to jog you out of many a rut. When a certain dish becomes a favorite we tend to serve it too many times until we never want to see it again.” Craig Claiborne Those with long memories (and perhaps a few wrinkles) may recall the time when Craig Claiborne abruptly left the New York Times (circa 1973) where he was the Food Editor and Restaurant Critic. He then wrote a monthly newsletter (with help from Pierre Franey) that was mailed to subscribers. I DO have a binder of those (I subscribed) but the enterprise was relatively short-lived. I loved his prose and I loved his recipes. You’ll probably never find copies of Craig Claiborne’s Journal but don’t fret, just get a copy of his original 1000-recipe (or so) New York Times Cookbook. (Check Amazon for copies.) Published in 1961, it has been at the top of my favoritecookbook list since I started cooking. I have never made any recipe from the book that hasn’t worked, cross my wooden spoons. An even better endorsement: the book has sold 3,000,000 copies.
When a certain dish becomes a favorite we tend to serve it too many times until we never want to see it again.”
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Cook & Tell Shut your eyes and imagine what a 10issue per year newsletter sent from Love’s Cove Maine and filled with down-home – or should I say “Down-East – stories, recipes from devoted readers, glimpses of local characters might look and read. The 12-page b&w little booklets are called Cook & Tell. This is about as far from Gertrude and Craig as you can, get but it hath charms. And after 29 years it is still being published and mailed to your home by Karyl Bannister. Amazing! Go to the web site and learn more. I have issues from 2002 and 2003 thanks to a Christmas gift subscription from a friend. The Groaning Board The Groaning Board Book Club was another monthly menu mailing service active in the late 70s. As I recall, the first mailing came with an orange three-ring binder with a menu, timetable, degree of difficulty rating for each recipe, and shopping lists tucked into the pockets. Subsequent mailings went in the binder. There was also special “gourmet” merchandise offers included with each packet. This was a first class operation with great graphics. I loved this series; some of the recipes become staples at my place. Anyone heard of it? Drop me a line if you have c/o Mountain Home. Times up – I’ve got to close before you get bored. Chef, teacher, and author Cornelius O’Donnell lives in Elmira, New York.
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Restaurants Enjoy the region’s comprehensive restaurant listings. From our Finger Lakes wineries to Williamsport’s good eats to the fertile Pennsylvania heartland in between, we’re famous for our regional specialties and love to eat. For listing information please email Dawn Bilder at dawnb@mountainhomemag.com or call (570) 724-3838. Also look for restaurant listings at www.mountainhomemag.com. Bon appetit!
Pennsylvania Bradford County Canton KELLEY’S CREEK SIDE RESTAURANT Kelley’s offers $4 breakfast and $6 lunch specials every day, and they are open for dinner WedSun. They specialize in home-style cooking like their prime rib and serve homemade desserts like chocolate peanut butter pie and muffins. (570) 673-4545, 1026 Springbrook Dr, www. urbanspoon.com
Lycoming County Trout Run BITTNER’S GENERAL STORE Hot and cold 18” subs, specialties are Italian and cheese steak. Pizzas, homemade salads, pastas, and hot foods. Fresh meats, cold cuts, and our own lean ground hamburger. Camping supplies and propane. (570) 998-8500, located at the junction of Rt. 14 and Rt. 15 in Trout Run, PA, bittnersinc@aol.com. FRY BROS. TURKEY RANCH Original turkey dinners & complete menu. Established business since 1886. Restaurant and convenience store. At the top of Steam Valley Mountain, elevation 1,704 ft. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, & dinner. Gifts and souvenirs. 27 Rt. 184 Hwy, (570) 998-9400. STEAM VALLEY RESTAURANT Steam Valley offers good home cooking and daily specials. It’s open 7 days of the week. Gas, diesel, and convenience store coming soon! (570) 9982559, 169 Rt. 14 Hwy, P.O. Box 157, Junction Route 14 & 15.
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Williamsport WEGMAN’S Wegman’s Market Café features freshly-made foods ranging from quick grabs like pizza, subs, and Asian classics to comfortfood favorites, salads, and sandwiches. Come try our family-friendly foods at budget-friendly prices. 201 William St, (570) 320-8778, wegmans.com.
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In The Kitchen
A Season of Remembrance By Holly Howell
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utumn is a dream season for many locavore cooks. The markets are brimming over with the colorful local harvest, and a creative kitchen can become a hub of innovative energy. The Finger Lakes region has been blessed with a supreme spirit of culinary bounty, and we owe much of it to the late Debra Whiting of Red Newt Winery. Debra was a chef extraordinaire and a passionate supporter of our local products. The Red Newt Bistro, located at the winery on Seneca Lake, was the stage on which she showcased every regional product she could get her hands on. Along with her husband and Red Newt winemaker, David Whiting, they became known as the ultimate “Finger Lakes Ambassadors,” spending much of their time promoting the area they loved. Sadly, Debra was killed in a car accident on June 30th of this year. But her legacy lives on in so many ways. Food Network dedicated Episode 8 of Chopped to Debra, an episode she taped before her passing. A scholarship fund has been created in Debra’s name, to help fund up-and-coming self-taught chefs to follow their own dreams. On Thursday, October 13th, the Watkins Glen Community Center will host their second annual tasting event that showcases farm fresh produce during the heart of the harvest. Formerly known as A Taste of the Finger Lakes, the event has been renamed Debra Whiting’s Harvest Celebration. Debra was the nurturing leader behind the success of the first dinner held last year, and will Event: Debra Whiting’s be the inspiration for this Harvest Celebration Address: Watkins Glen Community year’s event. The Red Newt Bistro Center, 155 S. Clute Park Drive (State Route 414), Watkins Glen, New York. carries on, and will forever Tickets: $35 in advance, $40 at the door; remain an integral part of our katie@watkinsglenchamber.com; or call region’s culinary culture. For (607) 535-4300. those of us fortunate enough Date: Thursday, October 13, 5-8 p.m. to have known her, we will remember Debra’s charming smile and her unending dedication to our local farms and businesses. We will think of her as we pick sunripened berries, slice through juicy heirloom tomatoes, and enjoy fresh farmstead cheeses with our local breads and wines. Thank you, Debra, for being the intrinsic thread that helped weave together a very grateful Finger Lakes food community. We will miss you dearly…
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Restaurants, cont. Tioga County Blossburg MOMMA’S Momma’s offers a full menu and specializes in homestyle cooking. They have daily specials and the area’s best baby back ribs on Saturdays. Steak Night is on Thursdays. They also cater to rigs. (570) 638-0270, 102 Granger St.
Gold GOLD GENERAL STORE Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Pizza and subs. Baked goods. Grocery items. (814) 848-9773, 2760 State Rt. 49W.
Liberty BLOCKHOUSE CAFÉ Blockhouse Café is open for breakfast and lunch and on Friday nights, serving homemade and home-style meals, including desserts. It’s a unique café with good food, great company, and a place where you always get your money’s worth. (570) 3242041, 31 Willow St. THE LANDING STRIP FAMILY RESTAURANT The Landing Strip offers home cooked foods, daily specials, homemade desserts, a clean, friendly atmosphere, on or off premises catering, and has a banquet or large party area. Easy on/off Route 15.. (570) 324-2436, Routes 15 & 414 junction.
Mansfield EDDIE’S RESTAURANT Eddie’s offers home-style cooking with homemade daily specials. Their specialties include hot roast beef sandwiches and chicken & biscuits, both served with real mashed potatoes. They have homemade pies and serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (570) 662-2972, 2103 S. Main St. LAMBS CREEK FOOD & SPIRITS Lambs Creek offers sophisticated, down-home cooking seven days a week. Every Tuesday there’s an Italian Night speciaI. Beautiful terrace overlooks gorgeous mountains. (570) 662-3222, 200 Gateway Dr, Mansfield, PA 16933, www. lambscreek.com PAPA V’S PIZZERIA & RESTAURANT Papa V’s offers a wide variety of hand tossed New York Style thin-crust pizza, a multitude of hot and cold sandwiches, fresh ½ pound Angus burgers, and delicious homemade Italian dishes for lunch and dinner. 12 N. Main St, (570) 6622651, www.papavpizzeria.com. WREN’S NEST Wren’s Nest has live music every Wed. night from 6-9. Specialties include crab cakes, steaks, and pastas. They make homemade desserts including lemon meringue ice cream pie and crème brule (sampler). (570) 662-1093, 102 West Wellsboro St, www. wrensnestpa.com. YORKHOLO BREWING CO. Offers a selection of dishes made up of local ingredients paired with Yorkholo’s own fresh brewed beer, including “Pine Creek” Raspberry Wheat, “Summer Love” Summer Ale, “Mountaineer” I.P.A, “Bungy”
Blonde Ale, and 2 rotating selections. (570) 6620241, 19 N Main St, www.yorkholobrewing. com.
Mansfield Fast Food MCDONALDS (570) 662-7077, 120 N Main St. WENDY’S (570) 662-7511, 1580 S Main St. KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN (570) 662-2558, 1320 S Main St. TACO BELL (570) 662-2558, 1320 S Main St. ARBY’S (570) 662-7626, 1672 S Main St.
Morris BABB’S CREEK INN & PUB Babb’s Creek Inn & Pub specializes in Seafood and Prime Rib, which is available every night, except Tuesdays when the restaurant is closed. Reservations are appreciated for parties of 8 or more. Located at the intersection of Rtes. 287 & 414, (570) 3536881, www.babbscreekinnandpub.com.
Wellsboro CAFÉ 1905 Classic coffee house located in Dunham’s Department Store. Proudly serving Starbucks® coffee, espresso, Frappuccino®, Tazo® tea plus delicious freshly baked pastries, homemade soups, artisan sandwiches and ice cream. Free wi-fi. (570) 724-1905, Inside Dunham’s Department Store, 45 Main St. DUMPLING HOUSE CHINESE RESTAURANT Dumpling House specializes in Hunan, Cantonese, and Szechuan Cuisine. It’s family owned and operated and located on beautiful Main Street in Wellsboro. You may dine in or carry out. (570) 724-4220, 31 Main St. DUNKIN’ DONUTS America Runs on Dunkin’. 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. (570) 724-4556, 7 Main St. THE FROG HUT The Frog Hut serves favorites like Texas hots, fried chicken, and Philly cheese steaks. They offer homemade soups and salads, and for dessert, try their soft serve ice cream, Italian ice, sundaes, and other ice cream treats. (570) 724-4450, 132 Tioga St. HARLAND’S FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT Open seven days a week at 5 a.m., serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner all day until 9 p.m., including the largest Black Angus burgers in town, full salad bar, and all homemade desserts. House-batter-dipped haddock fish fry every Friday. Full service on-site catering available. (570) 724-3311, 17 Pearl St.
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Great Whites Down Buffalo By Holly Howell
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ootball season in upstate New York just wouldn’t be complete without the correct party materials. Those would include lots of team spirit, a good supply of local cheese to nibble on, and of course, the perfect bottle of Finger Lakes wines with which to wash it all down. As for the team spirit, this Buffalo Bills fan has plenty to share. And when it comes to choice of cheese, it’s a complete no-brainer. Upstate New York is Yancey’s Fancy territory, and this local cheese producer makes a cheese for every palate ( w w w. y a n c e y s f a n c y. com). Yancey’s has been producing exceptional cheeses from the local dairy milk supply for over sixty years. They are also well-known sponsors of regional events such as the Finger Lakes Wine Festival, the Watkins Glen International, and the National Buffalo Wing contest. Speaking of which, did you know they even make a Buffalo Wing Cheese? Yes, sports fans. If you are searching for the ideal cheese for a football Sunday, look no further. Yancey’s Fancy Buffalo Wing Cheddar has everything you need, minus the greasy mess, extra napkins, and inevitable fight for the last wing on the platter. This cheese makes it easy, and brings the flavor of football’s favorite finger food to you in one easy to eat slice. Bright Autumn orange in color, the Buffalo Wing Cheese is as attractive as it is tasty, and makes for a very appealing addition to your tailgate party. The cheese is as spicy as a good chicken wing should be! To tame the heat, I recommend a wine with a
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good amount of sweet fruit to balance. Cayuga White is one of the Finger Lakes most overlooked wines. It is a French/American hybrid grape that grows easily in the climate of the lakes. It has been dubbed “the Great White of the Finger Lakes.” Lucas Vineyards (www.lucasvineyards.com), one of the oldest wineries on Cayuga Lake, was
also one of the first wineries to make Cayuga White. It is still one of their signature wines, with an easy drinking palate that is full of ripe apple and pear fruit. With the residual sugar content at 2.75%, it provides a welcome coolness to the spice of the cheese. The cheese, in turn, tones down the sweetness of the wine, making it a universally good call for a large football crowd. Together, this cheese and wine make a winning team. Now, if your favorite football team can follow their example, then we are in for a great fall season! Holly is a Certified Specialist of Wine (by the Society of Wine Educators) and a Certified Sommelier (by the Master Court of Sommeliers in England); email her at wineanddine @mountainhomemag.com.
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Restaurants, cont. MARY WELLS ROOM AND PENN WELLS LOUNGE Located in historic Penn Wells Hotel, full service restaurant and lounge feature an extensive menu of fine steaks, seafood, pasta, gourmet sandwiches, fresh burgers, desserts. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and Sunday brunch. (570) 724-2111, 62 Main St, www.pennwells. com. THE NATIVE BAGEL The Native Bagel offers bagels made fresh daily, gourmet coffee, deli sandwiches, soups and salads, and homemade desserts. Bagels are mixed, kneaded, rolled, boiled, and baked onsite. All soups, breads, and baked items are “made from scratch.” 1 Central Ave, (570) 724-0900, www.nativebagel.com. PAG-O-MAR Pag-O-Mar offers subs, salads, and deli sandwiches at the head of the Wellsboro Junction Rail Trail, across from the Tioga Central tour train station. They also offer soft custard and Hershey’s hard ice cream. And there’s a farmer’s market in season. (570) 7243333, 222 Butler Rd. (just past junction of Rts. 6 & 287). SUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (570) 724-1424, 63 Main St, www.acornmarkets.com. THE STEAK HOUSE The Steak House has been serving the finest steaks and seafood since 1957. Whether you want a black angus hamburger or a cold water lobster tail, there’s something for the whole family in a true Wellsboro atmosphere. 29 Main St, (570) 7249092, www.thesteakhouse.com. TERRY’S HOAGIES Terry’s Hoagies makes the best hoagies in town. They specialize in both hot and cold hoagies, and bake their bread and potato, macaroni, and pasta salads fresh daily. Hoagie trays and meat & cheese platters available. (570) 724-7532, 7 Charleston St, www.terryshoagies.com. TIOGA CENTRAL RAILROAD All aboard Tioga Central Railroad! Take a scenic ride while enjoying dinner on Saturday night or Sunday brunch. Wine and beer available. See website for menu selection. (570) 724-0990, 11 Muck Rd, www.tiogacentral.com. TONY’S ITALIAN CUISINE Come to Tony’s for homemade cooking and family recipes, fresh dough and homemade bread made daily, pasta dishes, and special pizzas like steak pizza, Sicilian pizza, and their 3-cheese pizza. It’s family-owned and run, and they offer lunch and dinner specials. (570) 724-2090, 3 Main St. WELLSBORO DINER Wellsboro Diner, a famous Wellsboro landmark, serves sumptuous home cooked meals, fresh baked pies, cookies and cakes, and the very best prime rib on Saturday nights. They offer more than ample portions to all hungry guests. (570) 724-3992, 19 Main St, Wellsboro, PA 16901
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My Favorite Things
Apple of My Eye
Apples: ruby-skinned, crisp, and juicysweet. Is there any better savory shorthand for autumn? How about that same apple, swathed in a rich baked crust under a huge scoop of melting vanilla ice cream? If you vote on that side of the menu, your season has arrived, and the place to be (Saturday, the first weekend of October, before they sell out), is the Apple ’n Cheese Festival in Canton. Handmade by the East Canton United Methodist Church—and a whole community’s worth of volunteers—three thousand dumplings come steaming from the ovens in the last days of September. The church makes a habit of baking dumplings for local charities, from the fire company to the library to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The apples for this, the mother of all baking parties, are as local as weather permits, usually Cortlands from Allyn Landon’s orchards in Canton. The final touch is a deep, dark, dumpling secret: it’s a sweet sauce handed down for years, then poured hot over the dumpling, glazing it just before they serve it up under that pile of ice cream, just before you fall in. ~Teresa Banik Capuzzo Event: Apple’ n Cheese Festival Address: East of Canton off Rt. 414, at 141 East Canton Cross Road, Canton, PA. Phone: (570) 673-5500. Hours: Saturday, October 1st, 10am-6pm and Sunday, October 2nd, 10am-5pm Website: www.rekindlethespirit.com
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The Garlic Guy By Gayle Morrow
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arlic, says Alvie Fourness, is “custom made for the contrarian, as you plant in the fall and harvest in July.” There is nothing contrary, however, about the heady aroma of roasted garlic or the savory sweetness of garlic sautéed in butter. Anything garlic is all the better, of course, with the freshest, most local cloves. You can find them, them being Cousin Bob’s Garlic, at Wooleylot Farm in Coudersport, where Alvie, with help from his wife, Monica, grows allium sativa. Alvie started growing garlic a few years ago and realized quickly that “it grows pretty well in Potter County and… people like it.” That’s probably a bit of an understatement. He harvested about seventy pounds just a couple of years ago; in July the harvest was around eleven hundred pounds. “We have been rather successful at farmer’s markets,” Alvie said. They’re also promoting value-added products such as garlic gift baskets, on-line sales, marketing through local grocery stores, and are offering customers the option of ordering ahead—a kind of garlic subscription program. They plan to work the Community Supported Agriculture route with other small local growers, offering garlic with companion produce such as fingerling potatoes, something, as Alvie describes it, “for people who cook.” “Of course it takes a little bit of planning,” he said. So how does a person plan to grow garlic? For Alvie and Monica, it began with the opportunity to purchase property which had been in the Fourness family, then proceeded with thinking about ways to make a living from it. They raised miniature horses and donkeys but realized they needed more income than they could generate from that endeavor alone. They were
gardeners and so opted for using the land to grow something. “We have eight to ten acres that’s tillable,” said Alvie. “At any given year we have about one acre in garlic. It’s a really big challenge to take an old, inactive farm and reactivate it. The nutrients are all depleted. We have good soil structure but the soil needs nutrients and organic matter. We had to get it used to growing something besides weeds. “Garlic doesn’t have many pests,” he continued. “It’s actually kind of a natural pest prevention plant, but it is vulnerable to weed competition.” He talks about the importance of soil amendments and how building soil health over time with the addition of micro-nutrients is better than chemical additives. “You want to feed the soil, not the plant,” he said. To try some Chesnok Red, Vkoos Odena, Purple Italian, or Music garlic from Wooleylot Farm, see Alvie at the Wellsboro Growers Market or contact him at 814-647-8458, visit www.wooleylot. com, or wooleylot.wordpress.com. Gayle Morrow, former editor of The Wellsboro Gazette, cooks locally, and organically, at the West End Market Café.
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WEST END MARKET CAFÉ “Globally inspired, locally sourced.” A place of nourishment and respite, celebrating local food & creativity. We feature fresh, locally sourced ingredients whenever possible & Fair Trade coffee products. Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m. To 3 p.m. Saturday 8 a.m. To 3 p.m. (570) 605-0123, 152 Main St, www.westendmarketcafe.wordpress.com.
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Wellsboro Fast Food MCDONALDS (570) 724-2151, 9 Charleston St.
Westfield ACORN #10 FEATURING SUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (814) 367-2610, 465 E Main St, www. acornmarkets.com.
Potter County Galeton ACORN #25 FEATURING SUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (814) 435-6626, 3 West St, www.acornmarkets.com. THE OX YOKE INN The Ox Yoke Inn is a motel, restaurant, and bar serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner with daily specials. They offer char-broiled burgers, homemade soups, steaks, seafood, and pasta. (814) 435-2515, 29 Route 6 West, www.ox-yokeinn.com. TUTORS RESTAURANT Tutors Restaurant offers delicious home-cooked meals 7 days a week. Breakfast on Sat and Sun. Tues˜Italian. Wed˜Seafood. Thur˜Wings. Fri˜Fish Fry. Sun˜Brunch Buffet. (814) 435-3550, 75 Germania St.
Germaina GERMANIA HOTEL The best burgers around. Wings, pizza, steaks, and seafood. Thursday Rib Night. Friday Broiled or Fried Haddock. Salad bar Thurs, Fri, Sat. Serving food 7 days a week, 12pm to12am. Legal beverages, rooms available, find us on Facebook “Germaniahotel Germania.” (814) 435-8851, Rt. 44 (Seven Miles South of Galeton).
Gold GOLD GENERAL STORE Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Pizza and subs. Baked goods. Grocery items. (814) 848-9773, 2760 State Rt. 49W.
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Addison ACORN #11 FEATURING SUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (607) 359-2603, 121 Front St, www. acornmarkets.com.
Corning HOLMES PLATE RESTAURANT Holmes Plate offers Rustic Semi-Al Fresco casual dining, specializing in the area’s largest selection of craft & micro-brewery beers. We prepare every dish fresh to order with the highest quality ingredients. (607) 377-5500, 54 West Market St, www.holmesplate.com. RADISSON HOTEL CORNING Grill 1-2-5 serves creative regional specialties: small plates, grilled sandwiches, and tender filet mignon. The Steuben Bar offers appetizers, light meals, your favorite beverages, and is known for the best martini in the city! 125 Denison Parkway East, (607) 962-5000, www.radisson.com/corningny. THALI OF INDIA Thali of India is the only Indian restaurant in the area. They serve exotic cuisine. They have a lunch buffet 7 days a week, and a dinner buffet on Monday nights. They also offer a very large menu and prepare special breads. (607) 936-1900, 28 East Market St, www.thaliofindia.com TONY R’S Tony R’s is the first upscale steak and seafood restaurant in Corning, New York’s Gaffer District. They serve the finest cuisine in the area and also offer a tremendous selection of the finest wines that you will not want to miss. (607) 937-9277, 2-6 East Market Street, www.tonyrssteakandseafood.com.
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Finger Lakes Hammondsport MALONEY’S PUB Maloney’s Pub offers live music year round. Come show your talent or view other local talent at their open mics on Thursdays, or lounge around and play pool at their pool table. They also have pub merchandise available. (607) 569-2264, 57 Pulteney St, www.maloneyspub.com.
Watkins Glen CAPTAIN BILL’S Discover the beauty of Seneca Lake. Dine afloat aboard the Seneca Legacy or on the waterfront at Seneca Harbor Station. Saturday night dinner cruises sail from 6-9 p.m. Open 7 days. (607) 535-4541, 1 N Franklin St, www.senecaharborstation.com.
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Thriving Apple ’n Cheese Festival Buoys a Community’s Heritage Story and Photos By Dave Milano
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o one can say now who entertained the first glimmering thought that something should and could be done to draw attention to the rural region around Canton, Pennsylvania. Probably the idea fluttered around in many minds over the years, as the tiny villages and not so tiny farms of Bradford County were being whittled down by the cutting edges of industry and technology, gradually giving way to the far-away forces of big business and bigger government. Roaring Branch, Alba, Leroy, Beech Flats, Union Center—the names sound almost whimsical, but for the families that made their livings there, that built their homes, farms, businesses, and local economies there, and often left their descendants there, the places were, and remain, much more than curiosities. Their history still pulses, if weakly, through the region’s hills and hollows and sometimes crumbling buildings. And even as the towns and the countryside continue to adapt and adjust, and as the future looms uncertain like a mysterious dynamo, the stubborn substance of an old community hangs on to prod and press and guide. For after all, the land is still there, and the trees and streams are still there, and people still have to eat... The 22nd annual Pennsylvania Apple ‘n Cheese Festival will take place October 1st and 2nd on the beautifully pastoral and meticulously maintained grounds of the Manley-Bohlayer Farm in Canton, Pennsylvania. Engineered by a loose affiliation of small-town residents, the festival has grown from a relatively minor community function to a regional extravaganza drawing crowds of over 25,000. The history of the festival, like the history of the region, is compelling—the result of quiet, behind-the-scenes hard work,
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creativity, devotion, and obligation. It was in the mid 1980s when the notion began to take hold in a few feisty locals that the dairies and orchards that helped define their region really could use a boost. “We ought to have a festival,” was the thought, but how does one do that? Feelers were sent out, festivals were visited, information gathered, and in 1988 the Apple ‘n Cheese Festival was born, slapped together with all the ideas and energy the locals could muster, at Canton’s “Fireman’s Field.” In its first year the festival drew 2,200 people—not exactly gangbusters, but not half bad either for a completely from-scratch enterprise. There was nowhere to go but up, and up it did go. Each successive year the festival grew in scope and popularity, eventually
Event: Apple’ n Cheese Festival Address: East of Canton off Rt. 414, at 141 East Canton Cross Road, Canton, PA. Phone: (570) 673-5500. Hours: Saturday, October 1st, 10am-6pm and Sunday, October 2nd, 10am-5pm Website: www.rekindlethespirit.com
outgrowing Fireman’s Field, and in the process soaking up ever more organizational effort. Realizing they were holding a tiger by the tail, the group formalized into a private nonprofit corporation, Rekindle The Spirit, with a board of directors, officers, and a small band of committee men and women (all unpaid volunteers, of course—there is no paid position in the corporation) charged with directing, See Spirit on page 60
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Home Near State Game Lands! Where can you find a half acre with a home and public services within walking distance of state game lands for under $50K?!? Year round residence or camp/ get-away with gas heat AND wood stove, decent sized kitchen, 3 bedrooms and off street parking REF#10328 $49,900
WILD FIRE ESTATES - This beautiful,professionally built home features an open floor plan with a fully finished basement that has two more bedrooms, 3/4 bath and family room. This home is nestled in the private and beautiful Wild Fire Estates. The home and oversized 2 car garage is situated on a spacious 8.32 acres. MLS#118225 $279,000
Cottage on Large Lot! To be subdivided from a big parcel, this parcel of appr. 10 acres includes a cottage/ double wide home with a hot tub, stream, 2 car garage and privacy! Presently rented by the week as a getaway. Survey to be done once sold. OGMs transfer. REF#10367 . . . $149,900
Home on Acreage! Bring all offers for this 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath home sitting on 10+ acres!!! This home is private but not far from town, it has beautiful views, a barn/garage, fireplace and much more! Call us today to see this nice home! REF#10386 . . .$184,900
Beautiful home in great neighborhood! Beautiful, well maintained home in a great neighborhood with 1st floor bedroom, a HUGE master bedroom, and sitting on a double lot. A peaceful setting near Wellsboro with a 2nd garage just waiting to be made into a man cave with your finishing touches! REF#10393 . . .$295,000
Mountain Getaway! Great opportunity to have your own mt. getaway close to state game lands! This 2-acre, 1013 sf home is on Armenia Mt. and features an open floor plan w/new plumbing, electric, roof & addition in 2007. The kitchen has handmade oak cabinets, the LR is lg. & has built-in bunk beds. REF#10398..$95,000
Quaint Home with OGM’s! Quaint Ranch home on 89 acres of Potter County’s finest land! Oil, Gas, and Mineral rights are conveying to the new owner, also timber rights. Lovely 1/2 acre pond and an over sized metal barn, great for a garage! REF#10396 . . . $459,000
Land in Potter County! 191+ acres of Deer, Bear and Turkey hunting. Four wheeling trails, snowmobiling and lots of future timber value. This land is remote but accessible to State Rt49. One of the few large parcels left in Northern Potter county. Electric available. REF#10395 . . .$248,000
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Are you ready to own this busy turnkey business? The business is booming and the price is right. This well established tavern serves a nice mix of good company, social and legal beverages, good home cooked food and weekend entertainment in the evening hours - all on 1.25 acres at the edge of Wellsboro. MTH 120329 $499,000
Neat as a pin log-sided home w/very nice open floor plan, this nicely remodeled country cottage has first floor BR and bath, large eat-in kitchen, sunroom-like entry way w/flagstone floor, oak flooring and a vaulted living room ceiling. 5.27 acres are very nicely landscaped w/perennials, has very nice views and is close to the Grand Canyon; OGM’s transfer. MTH 121449 $179,900
Unique property and rare find! 27.96 acres with 2 BR modular home bordering State Forest on two sides, secluded at the end of a township road but with good access. Nice recreational or horse property. MTH 121446 $179,000
Beautifully restored 3 BR Victorian style farm house within minutes of Coudersport, with cozy eat-in kitchen, covered front and side porches, large heated garage and shop, small stream meanders through property, nicely landscaped. MTH 121321 $169,900
Landmark home authentically and beautifully restored, offering endless possibilities. With 6 BRs, 4-1/2 baths on 1.4 acres within minutes of the NY State line, this would be ideal for professional/sales/commercial applications. There is a large heated garage/shop and the home has been totally re-wired, re-plumbed and is a DREAM HOME with historic documentation available. Truly must be seen to be appreciated. MTH 121429 $429,900
Dual purpose buildings consisting of former church and parsonage, converted to office space and meeting rooms by former owner. Church portion is 3,436 sqft w/full basement; 4 BR house portion is 2,300 sqft w/full kitchen, bath, fireplace, full basement and connected by a hallway. Very good condition throughout - excellent homebased business possibilities. MTH 119426 $79,900
If Victorian is your desire come tour this spacious 4/5 BR home on a quiet side street just 3 blocks from Wellsboro’s Main Street. Currently used as a one-family residence the 14 room property would also be suitable for a B&B, with original woodwork, pocket doors, hardwood floors on the 1st floor and a beautiful foyer entry. MTH 120212 $171,000
Like new home in a small, quiet subdivision features 3 BRs and 2 full baths. Enclosed breezeway leads to 3 car, attached garage and you can enjoy your beautiful lawn from the 20x14 back deck. All of this sits on 1.42 acres with plenty of room for gardening or playsets. MTH 121409 $149,000
Fully updated home or cottage located in northwest Tioga County, close to State Forest Lands and Beechwood Lake. Long valley views, open fields - lots of wildlife, great star gazing. Interior completely renovated, exterior has new paint, roof, landscaping - would make a nice country get-away or base cabin for hunting and snowmobile enthusiasts. MTH 121475 $139,900
3-4 BR Wellsboro home features new high efficiency heating system w/air cleaner, new 200 amp service and plumbing. Open kitchen/dining room floor plan, antique oak woodwork, new living room carpet, 2 separate W/D hook-ups, front and back porches! Awesome in-town location for all conveniences. MTH 121139 $124,900
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HISTORIC WELLSBORO HOME - Elegant 6 bedroom Wellsboro home with motivated sellers! Property is currently being used as a Bed & Breakfast. Home features Innkeeper’s living quarters, 2.43 acres, 2 car garage, established clientele lists, lovely furnishings. Ideal as turnkey business or home for large family. $399,000. #120493
2 Story Custom Built Log Home - A lovely log home in Wellsboro on 15+ plus. Home offers stunning views from the large deck Ideal for your family with 4 bdrms, 2.5 baths, unique floor plan,spacious walkout basement featuring radiant floor heat and a patio beyond. Boasts a 3 car detached garage. Tioga County #121455 $499,900
4-5 BDRM HOME-15 AC-100% OGMS convey - Charming and attractive older remodeled farm house offers spacious country kitchen, lg laundry/utility room w/pantry,formal din rm, liv rm, office, and 4 plus bdrms ideal for growing family. All this on 15 ac conveying 100% OGM’s with lease in place. An easy drive to Wellsboro, Pa. #120930 $249,000.
Tioga County CAPE COD-5 acres - Hobby farmette or just a great extremely private setting. Ideal location for family home or getaway location. Home offers 3-4 bdrms, very large kit/dining rm, wraparound deck with long views, full walkout basement, very nice barn and large garage/workshop both with electric. $252,000 #121443
22.54ac BREATHTAKING MOUNTAINVIEWS... over the meadows & beyond! Meticulously maintained Lindel cedar log multi-level home. Raised basement for add’l living space. Elegant & rustic w/open flr plan. A/C, Harmon coal stove, lg.new garage, new well & spring, 22.54 ac open & wooded land. Corner property with long frontage. $385,000 #119956
SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY... with this 124+ gently rolling acres very close to Borough of Wellsboro. Property offers 2 homes, a pond, a stream, phenomenal views and sits in a quality country setting. 100% Oil, Gas & Mineral Rights will convey to the buyer. This is the heart of the Marcellus Shale Gas Exploration! $1,500,000
184LazyBrook_2429433_081610.jpg 30.25 ac NEWER HOME NEAR WELLSBORO Lg stocked pond, 2-car garage, 2-story barn & 30.25 beautiful ac. Custom features! Breakfast nook w/built-in seating, bay window in dining room, & fireplace in living room. Backup generator, whole-house fan, & choice of coal or propane heat. $399,000 #119992
RUSTIC RANCH HOME ON PINE CREEK - Over 400 ft. of Pine Creek frontage & outstanding maintenance free home on 4.83 acres. Offers a must see interior, cathedral ceilings, open flr plan, very long deck,oversized attached 2 car garage, full dry basement and newer barn. Private setting, Seeking offer $249,000. #120995
94+/- AC IN BORO OF WELLSBORO - A substantial opportunity for development potential within the Borough of Wellsboro. Further & pertinent info is available. Access to Public sewer and water. $1,500,000 #120040
VERY NICE HOME FOR ONLY $49,000... What a steal! This home is in the quaint town of Galeton, is in great condition, and has many nice features. Hardwood floors and open floor plan are just the beginning. Why rent when you can own a nice house like this!?! Galeton Boro, Potter County. $49,900 #118939
Ranch home, 4.4 ac, beautiful views, and pond! - Ranch home with cherry stained maple cabinets, granite counter tops, ceramic tiled floor and stainless steel appliances in the kitchen, 13’ cathedral ceiling in great room,central air and much more. Seller is a licensed real estate agent. $359,500 #120843
CAMP OR FULL TIME RESIDENCE...in good condition on almost 7+/- acres that are partially wooded. New metal roof on camp. This property would be great for a camp or fulltime residence. Great views for miles! Eulalia Township, Potter County. $75,000 #119026
JUST A SWEET FULL-TIME or SEASONAL HOME, 1.75 AC - and detached oversized 2 car garage. Offering new roof and kitchen, this 3 bdrm. home has hardwood floors throughout! Comfortable, cozy, efficient in a beautiful Country setting, an easy drive to Coudersport in Potter County. $125,000. Motivated seller says make offer! #119270
20 ac Hobby Farm-360 degree views - Finish the interior of this lovely home to your taste. 20 ac ideal and set up for beef, horse, alpacas, etc. Living quarters currently in raised basement while you finish this unique home. Layout offers family room, lg spacious kitchendin.,liv.rooms, 4-5 bdrms. 30x40 barn and more.$289,000 #121423
Great opportunity!! HOME AND BUSINESS - Commercial property with 11 storage units, laundromat and residence that you could live in or lease for additional income. There are 2 billboards on property providing additional income. There is plenty of property for additional units or possible yard to lease to gas companies. $349,900 #121425
WHAT A GREAT LITTLE LOG HOME. WALK TO PINE CREEK! 2 bdrm, 2 level living w/ decks all around. Vacation rental or full-time living. Raised lower level offers laundry, 3/4 bath, den or master bdrm space with lg. stone fireplace. Rustic cathedral open flr plan for kit, din rm, liv rm. EZ to Wellsboro or Galeton. Make offer.$109,000 #119504
Diamond in the Rough! Solid two story home offers land on both sides of road. Walk to all town amenities from this 4 bdrm, 2 bath home. Cosmetic repairs and foresight needed. Seeking offer! $36,900
WATROUS VILLAGE NEAR PINE CREEK 4 bdrm, 1.75 bath 2 story home offers 2 lots Previously used as camp and includes all furnishings if you desire them. Offers 14’x 22’ refurbished garage with upper level. Walk to Pine Creek. Close to State woods and snowmobiling! $69,000.#120205
6.82 ACRES NEAR GERMANIA...with the perfect private setting for your home or camp. Land has brand new well, septic, electric hookup, and a building site. This property has the best of both worlds, wooded setiing, and has great views! Snowmobile right from your land! State lands nearby. $85,000 #120249
AWESOME VACATION GETAWAY HOME ON 3.79 AC - close to Kettle Creek State Park & Creek. This newly constructed, log-sided two-story cabin is waiting for you! Enjoy the peaceful tranquility from the deck, nestled on a mountainside in the woods. Call today for details. $184,900. MLS#120482
2 HOMES ON A 53 ACRES! 53+ ac conveys 100% OGMs! 2 homes, 2 barns, 3 ac pond, peaceful tranquility, and privacy! Newer home features 4 bdrms, 3 full baths, sun porch, and is like brand new! Hurry..priced to sell and won’t last long! Property has just been completely unitized for potential royalties! $519,000 #120682
POTTER COUNTY HOME-7.59 acres Custom built Cedar sided home with great views located on 7.5 acres. The home has 5 bedrooms, 2 3/4 baths, beautiful stone fireplace in the great room, full finished basement. Two story barn has a shop area, wood stove, and 2 garage doors $346,500. #120732
CAMP/HOME ON PINE CREEK! This camp was totally remodeled 2004, including new forced hot air furnace, central air, new metal roof, electrical system. Large windows in living room to sit and view the beautiful Pine Creek, water fowl, and wildlife.$228,500 #120823
New Construction-2.11 acres - Custom home just about completed. Complete to suit your taste and decor. Home features 3 bedrooms, 2.75 baths, large deck with views of the countryside, 2 car attached garage and many other features. Short drive to Rt. 15/I-99, Mansfield, Williamsport, or Wellsboro. $190,000. #120865
Ranch home on 10 wooded acres! 3 bedroom Ranch home on 10 acres with 100% OGM’s conveying in Delmar Twp! Property sits in a very private wooded setting with a 3bd, 2ba cozy home along with a 3 car garage (being completed), and is in a gas unit. Make offer! $244,500. #120905
CAMP NEAR BEECHWOOD LAKE - Sitting on 3.64+/- acres near Beechwood Lake! The perfect secluded spot for the kids to play in the woods or the hunters find that big one! Walk to Beechwood Lake for great fishing. Private setting with long mountain views. Clymer Twp.,Pa. Only $59,900. #120943
GRAND ESTATE ON 102 ACRES! This spectacular 7500 sqft classic is a timeless treasure! Rich architecture, exquisite details and luxurious ammenities, this 4+ bdrm estate offers uncompromising quality and style. 102+ acres with negotiable OGM’s. Also a 4000 sqft building, w/a 2bdrm, apt/inlaw suite on prop. $2,950,000 #121184
CAMP IN EXCELLENT CONDITION! 1 Share in Club - Approx 5000 acres owned or leased by the Brookland Club to hunt, fish, snowmobile, four wheel or just relax on porch. This camp is fully furnished and has forced hot air heat and gas stove. Brookland club dues are $250.00 per year per share. Awesome getaway or hunting property. $79,900. #121188
Home in Hills Creek Estates 3 bedroom family home with motivated sellers in Hills Creek area! This home sits in a picturesque setting on 2 acres, is in great condition, has a nice floor plan, garages,sheds, wooded lot etc. Owner’s relocating and looking for an offer. #121251 $229,000.
Very Private Retreat or Permanent Home! This log home features a 2 sided wood burnung stone fireplace cherry steps to the second floor loft which also has 2 bedrooms and bath. The first floor has a 25’x30’ opened ceiling great room with a wood stove. Slate floors throughout the first floor, except mstr. suite. $469,900. #121313
60 acres and a CLASSIC HOME - The 17 x 25 eat-in kitchen has lots of cabinet space and opens out to the back deck, great space for family gatherings and entertaining. Beautiful woodwork and hardwood flrs. have been preserved in the home. Two large bdrms on the second floor share a full bath. Plenty of fencing. $275,000 #121318
6.02 acre lot with 100% OGM’s unleased! 6.02 acre building lot with 100% OGM’s unleased! This property would be a gorgeous spot for your home and already has well, holding tank for septic, electric and driveway in. Relax in this private wooded setting and overlook your ponds. Walk to State Game Lands and Lake. Owner is offering a seller’s assist to a qualified buyer. $114,900 #121336
GREAT AFFORDABLE OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE RIGHT INTO...Great affordable opportunity to move right into this 4 bedroom, 2 bath home located halfway between Wellsboro, Mansfield and Blossburg. Home has 200 amp electric, new windows, doors and has been completely remodeled. Would make a great home for first time homebuyers! Possible 10% sellers assist to qualified buyers or for a cheaper price without the assist. $99,500 #119594
Beautiful 2 Story home outside Wellsboro! Excellent floor plan, large kitchen area is open to the family room, lots of closet space, and offers attached 2 car garage. Quaint porch to admire the beautiful landscaping and enjoy the large open backyard from the deck. OGM’s transfer to buyer. $225,000. #121354
Land with Commerical Opportunity! 38.64 acres located near Y of Rt 6/660 with Commercial potential! This property currently has a 4608 sq ft barn, well, 200 amp electric and public sewer available. Excellent location. EZ access to Rt 15, Mansfied, Wellsboro in the heart of Marcellus Shale Country. $625,000. #121356
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Gentleman’s farm minutes from Route 6, Charles Cole Hospital, golf course, restaurants and State Land. Recently remodeled 5 BR, 3 bath home w/large deck, new roof on barn, large “eat-in” kitchen w/island, office, sun room, walk-out full basement. Ideal business location. OGMs negotiable. DLM 119844 $269,000
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Great residential or recreational property close to town, yet secluded. 95 mostly wooded acres w/4-wheel, hiking and bike trails, excellent timber value (cruise available) totally remodeled 3 BR farmhouse has brick fireplace w/ new insert, custom oak kitchen, new windows & doors, new 3 bay garage, nice workshop in a great hunting area. DLM 120955 $399,000
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Secluded country retreat on 20+ acres bordering thousands of acres of timber company is ideal for horses or other livestock; wildlife all over and perfect for snowmobiling or 4-wheeling; in-place garden shed and workshop. OGM’s negotiable. DLM 120981 $239,000
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Beautiful remodeled 5 BR farmhouse on 88 acres with 6 picture perfect out buildings in excellent condition, 1st floor BR and bath w/laundry. Borders State Forest, some fencing. Excellent horse property or commercial possibilities; some timber value. OGM may be negotiated. DLM 119077 $449,000
#15 LARGE WELL BUILT LOG HOME ON 24 ACRES – very private, beautiful views, natural gas heat. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. Sharon Township. $220,000.00
#122 WELL MAINTAINED LOG HOME ON 11.6 BEAUTIFUL ACRES – with a 24 x 36, 4 stall horse barn. This 2 bedrooms plus loft area has an open floor plan, new furnace, floors, metal roof and all appliances are included in the sale. Call for an appointment. $229,000.00
#132 EXCEPTIONAL VIEWS FROM THIS CABIN LOCATION - 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, new interior, large decks. Bordering State Game Lands #204. 39.5 acres, timber and oil, gas and mineral rights included. Listed at $275,000.00
#44 WELL BUILT CAPE COD – Wooded lot, very private. All the modern conveniences. 4.74 acres with a great location to enjoy all the Potter County Fun. NEW PRICE $189,000.00
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Real estate www.pyramidbrokerage.com 2326 Main St., S., Mansfield, PA
$1,500,000
1565 Williamson Rd., N. Covington, PA
131 W. Philo Rd., Horseheads, NY
$5,000/mo.
FOR SALE: 14.62 acres w/ 380’ of road frontage. Industrial Zoning. Property near Lowes & 1/8 mi from Exit.
FOR LEASE: 2 acre site w/ 24”‐ 30” of packed fill. Great for lay‐ down yard or equipment storage. Additional acreage available.
$6.00/SF +++
FOR LEASE: 10,500 SF w/ Office & Shop area. Located next door to Godwin Pumps. Short drive to Schlumberger.
8 DENISON PARKWAY, EAST, SUITE 401, CORNING, NY 14830 133 W. Philo Rd., Horseheads, NY
$5.50 SF +++
FOR LEASE: 12,250 SF includes: 2,800 SF drive‐thru shop, 9,450 SF office/warehouse w/ 4 loading docks & 1 At Grade door. Also includes 1,800 SF pole barn w/ 2 ‐ At Grade doors.
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2000 Lake Rd., Elmira, NY
170 E. 14th St, Elmira Heights, NY
$6.00 SF +++
$8.00 SF +++
FOR LEASE: 24,975 SF building w/ shop, parts room, offices, storage & break room. 3.02 acre parcel w/ fenced in area. Great building for Natural Gas related tenant.
FOR LEASE: 1,905 SF office space w/ 5 offices, Conference room, storage, Reception area & ADA Restroom.
MICHAEL J. MANZARI, SIOR, CCIM PRINCIPAL BROKER: PENNSYLVANIA – ASSOCIATE BROKER: NEW YORK 607‐937‐9720 EXT. 301 (O)
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100% OGMS CONVEY!! 3 bedroom home and dairy farm situated on 74+ acres. Mostly open land. Great views! Only $599,900 121487-M
PRICE REDUCED! Private Country Setting. 3 BR, 2 baths, stone fireplace, hardwood floors, new carpeting & roof. Nice deck to enjoy the incredible views. 1 1/2 car garage & 8x8 shed. JUST $239,900 121223-M
Great Views!! 2 bedroom, 2 bath home in Leroy Twp. on 1.67 acres. Home offers spacious kitchen, formal dining room, & finished basement. Extensive landscaping. Oversized 1 car garage. 100% OGMS Convey!! Just $289,900 121465-M
100% OGMS CONVEY!! Newer 3 BR, 3 bath doublewide on 54+ acres. Features fireplace, breakfast nook, & enclosed porch. Great hunting, mostly wooded, stream, and trails. Only $525,000 121478-M
Location! Location! Location! Commercial/ Investment Property! Frontage on Rtes 6 & 660! 15+ net usable acres including three currently rented homes. Many uses already approved. Three phase electric. Public sewer with 81 EDUs. Great value!! Only $899,900 121341-M
RENT OR BUY! Huge steel bldg. in Mansfield, PA w/attached office space. 2 overhead doors. 28” concrete floors. Public water & sewer. 3 phase electric. 1.27 acres. Commercial/ Industrial zoning. 3 year lease. $5,000 p/m or buy for $399,900 121278-M
Great Commercial Property - Route 6 Wellsboro. Building offers 2,391 square feet including two garage bays with approximately 10’ x 12’ overhead doors and office space. Public water and sewer. 200 amp electrical service. $199,900 121436-M
WARD TOWNSHIP HIDEAWAY 4,420 sq. ft. 2 story frame partially finished home over walkout bsmt. 48+ acres bordering State Forest. Armenia Mountain County Bridge location. Easy commute to Williamsport, Troy, Canton, & Mansfield. Asking $225,000 121317-M
8 perc approved building lots! Located a short distance from Rtes 6 & 349. Borders state forest land. Close to Beechwood Lake & state game lands. A short drive to Pine Creek. If you like to hunt & fish this is the place for you!! Just $239,000 121369-M
Newer 2,128 sq ft doublewide offers cathedral ceilings, open kitchen/dining area, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, office, & deck. Master suite features large walk-in closet, garden tub. & separate shower. Situated on rented lot in a quiet neighborhood. Several lakes nearby. Only $72,000 121447-M
DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP HOME Remodeled farmhouse on 3 + surveyed acres on paved Butler Hill Road. Nice views & country setting. Complete upgrades inside & out. 2 outbuildings. Full walkout bsmt. Onsite well & septic. Asking $140,900 121200-M
Jackson Twp - 2006 mobile home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths located on nearly 1 acre out of town. Central Air, paved drive, stream, and 8x12 woodshed. Come take a look. ONLY $85,000 121325-M
Great View! Country farmhouse in Potter County on Crippen Run Road. 11 room home with 1st floor residential quarters & upstairs rental apartment. Garage & outbldg. on 5 acres. Asking $185,000 121315-M
Affordable Home! 3 bedroom home only a short walk to downtown Wellsboro. Own your own home for less than you can rent. $74,900 121394-M
Quiet Country Setting! Upgraded, 3 BR, 2 bath doublewide situated on 10 acres. Large master suite features garden tub & shower. Wood burning fireplace. Back deck & stone patio overlooking the hillside. Mix of open & woods. 50% of OGMS. Just $149,900 121439-M
Country Living Close to Town! Check out this beautiful, custom-built, 4 BR home w/ attached two-car garage and a detached shop/garage sits on 16 ac. overlooking the pond minutes from Wellsboro. Features corian countertops, deck, walk out basement, whirlpool tub, master suite, hardwood flooring & more. $429,000 121274-M
The Real Estaters of Mansfield 1671 South Main St, Mansfield, PA 16933 Office 570-662-2138 Chris: 570-404-1268
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managing, building, and maintaining what had become a very valuable community asset. Rekindle The Spirit then had two notable lucky breaks. First, in 1999 they received a grant from the Pennsylvania State Heritage Areas Program to purchase thirteen acres of the Manley-Bohlayer Farm, complete with the original farmhouse. Second, in 2007, they connected with a clever, interested workaholic named Harry Davis, who in his retirement brought enormous talent and energy to the tasks of renovating, repairing, restoring, building, and moving historic buildings and artifacts onto the Manley-Bohlayer farm. The farmhouse and yard became Rekindle The Spirit’s corporate headquarters and a site for weddings and other gatherings (a minor income stream for the corporation and a significant, ongoing renovation project for Harry). The farm became a beautiful new site for the Apple ‘n Cheese Festival and for a host of new projects. Harry became the driving force behind physical expansion of the complex. With hammer in hand he tore into the job like an uncaged lion. As Marcie
Shinn, President of Rekindle The Spirit, says, “Harry is a charmer, and an unbelievably hard worker.” A blacksmith shop was built by Harry and his volunteers, outfitted with period tools; it became a site for classes and demonstrations, mostly by local resident and blacksmith Merle Eiffert. A huge antique cider press was donated to the group; Harry figured out Harry Davis at the cider press. how to make it work, and with volunteers built a cider barn around it. The yearly wine and cheese festival, and, of course, old Hoagland one-room schoolhouse was its flagship event, the Apple ‘n Cheese Festival. donated by locals Bob and Mary Jennings, Plans for the future include a maple sugar shack, moved onto the property and rebuilt. The a chapel, and a country store. No doubt they East Canton Community Hall, once used will do it all, and do it well. No doubt the tasks for town gatherings, voting, and temperance of encircling and interpreting local history, and meetings, was donated by local resident Glen promoting local culture, are in good hands. Crimbring. It was moved to the farm and is Dave Milano is a former suburbanite in the process of being rebuilt. Rekindle The Spirit today offers periodic turned part-time Tioga County farmer. You art exhibits, musical presentations, classes in can contact him at someplacelikehome@ everything from blacksmithing to poetry, a mountainhomemag.com.
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Handiwork in the Finger Lakes Story and Photos By Angela Cannon-Crothers
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ere in the Finger Lakes, Naples has always been a Mecca for artists—it started in the 1970s with the Naples Mill School and Gallery,” says Suzanne Farley, proprietor of Artizann’s Gallery in Naples, New York. Although the Mill School wasn’t long lived, artists stuck around and the inspiration of the region kept calling in more. It was evident the town needed another gallery and, seven years ago, Farley opened a store that has been a draw for regional artisans of all kinds as well as visitors and locals alike. “Naples doesn’t get any more beautiful than it does in the fall—coming from any direction,” Farley avows. “Visitors are wowed by the colors, the vistas, mountaintops, lakes, really cool restaurants, gorges to hike, golf, wine, and this place: a showcase for cultural arts of the region.” And she’s right. Artizann’s Gallery represents two hundred regional Finger Lakes artists on two floors. The colorful building on Main Street in the center of town overflows with thousands of hand-crafted, original pieces of art that include jewelry, paintings, sculpture, pottery, furniture, photography, fiber arts, CDs of local musicians, local authors, and homemade soaps. Several rooms offer themes from dazzling silversmithing and one-of-a-kind jewelry to pottery and ceramics, colorful blown glass, mixed media wall hangings and paintings to fit any room. Heather Huber, a longtime local art expert and sales associate for Arizanns, says, “Sometimes I look around and realize that I recognize two-thirds of the shoppers. I see some of them once or
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Artizann’s Gallery owner Suzanne Farley (left) and art sales associate Heather Huber.
twice each year, and they bring friends,” adds Huber. “It’s great.” When Farley took on the idea of opening a gallery seven years ago, she had just retired from her sixteen-year position as the executive director of the Naples Grape Festival. “I loved working with artists from all over the country, but I never got a chance to enjoy it. I thought—why not open a shop year round with regional artists?” After much encouragement from family and friends she opened the store in 2004. “Now,” says Farley, “I get to enjoy this art all the time.” The art here reflects passion for the Finger Lakes and all that it inspires. As a summer regular event, a few years ago Farley implemented an Artists in Action weekend series from May through Labor Day. Each weekend offers rich and
informative artist demonstrations, local musicians and bands, or area author book signings on the front porch of the shop. The store is open year round and during peak business hours offers enough staff to provide any customers who would like individual help the opportunity to speak with staff experts on the local artists and their wares. “There’s always something here for anyone and everyone,” Farley adds. “We have a really good relationship with the artists here,” says Farley. “And we let artists know what the customers are asking for, sometimes even helping arrange commissioned work joining a customer’s need with just the right artist.” All of the artists at Artizann’s Gallery sell their work on consignment, and Farley says there are always new creations to experience: “It’s just like Christmas here every day—every time an artist brings in a new piece of work.”
And, as if on cue, a commissioned glass painter comes to the porch, his arms heavy with two large frames. She and Huber light up, eager to see his new work. With that kind of magic and inspiration in and around the store, it certainly does feel like something worth celebrating. And celebrate they will. Artizann’s Seventh Anniversary Celebration Weekend kicks off on Friday, November 11th by giving away a gift basket valued at $111.00 to honor their patrons. “You can sign up anytime from 1-1-11 to 11-11-11 and it’s free!” says Farley.
Shop: Artizann’s Gallery Where: 118 North Main Street Naples, NY 14512 Hours: Open Year-Round Mon – Sat 11 to 5:30, Sunday Noon – 5, Or whenever the flag is flying! Phone: 585-374-6740 Email: artizanns@gmail.com
“It’s just like Christmas here every day—every time an artist brings in a new piece of work.”
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as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, 800 feet deep and 4,000 feet across. Pine Creek Gorge is listed in Great American Outdoors as one of fifty-one great places to hike, with its Turkey Path that winds past waterfalls as it descends a mile to the canyon floor, and the Pine Creek Rail Trail is described in USA Today as one of the ten great places in the world to bike tour: “You can ride a flat, 20-mile abandoned railroad bed at the bottom of the gorge with views of the cliffs and mixed hardwood forest.” Colton Point, its sister park, is surrounded by Tioga State Forest on the west rim of the gorge. “Our old forester was Jack Sherwood,” says Sandi with a little smile, “so, we called it Jack’s Forest.” Roy Seifort is the current forester and on the advisory board. “We have three driving tours mapped out by directions from Wellsboro: lakes, farmlands, and woods and vistas. We direct people to the lakes, Tioga, Hammond, Cowanesque, and Hills Creek—it’s a great place for families. We send people to the Mansfield Cider Mill or to the “Muck”—the Marsh Creek Wetlands. There are bird walks. Bob Ross of the Tiadaghton Audubon Society is local,” beams Sandi. “When someone says, ‘I want to see a waterfall,’ I explain that it’s not like the Poconos. You have to hike to them, and I point out the waterfalls referenced in Chuck Dillon’s Short Hikes in Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon.” It’s his father, John Dillon, who owns Pine Creek Outfitters and does the raft rides. “Our number one attraction is the canyon, and our busiest time is the long weekend around Columbus Day, October tenth this year. Last Columbus Day we had 222 people come to the visitor’s center in four hours. Last year 6,000 visitors came through and up to September this year we have had more than 5,000. When we first inquired about purchasing the church, Pastor Truax told us that he wouldn’t even cut grass during the day because so many people stopped here to ask him directions. “We are one of the very first visitor bureaus in the state to have a mobile apps and anyone can go to iTunes or an apps store to get it. We also printed a card with the QR reader code and placed it at the visitor center door, and it is also on our Web site. If people like us, they can friend us on Facebook to get information about what’s going on, and we are on Twitter. We usually put up a posting every day. We have a database on the Web site—under lodging—and all of our members are on there. They are responsible for updating it every day, and it is kept current by the most recent update, not alphabetically. If someone comes up and we’re not here, we have a computer screen that updates continually and can be seen through the window. Even with the gas industry being here,” notes Sandi, “we have never had a problem placing people. Still, my main advice is to get your room early.” The Tioga County Visitors Bureau, like the region itself, is a pleasant blend of past and present, of quaint and contemporary, not in bustling downtown and yet not off the beaten path. Call it an oasis or a bit of heaven on earth: if you hail from fields or farms, from around town or from afar, and find yourself fortunate enough to arrive at the Tioga County Visitors Bureau, count your blessings. 64
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Made by glassmakers at the Corning Museum of Glass, this giant pumpkin, over eight feet in circumference (ninety-seven inches), will be on display through the end of October at the Corning Museum of Glass. The museum, open seven days a week from 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., is located at One Museum Way, Corning, New York. 800-732-6845 or 607-937-5371.
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