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Pairings cultivated in Lodi for five generations.

18 Planet of the Grapes

By Karey Solomon Field Notes David Nowacoski Goodbyes. Back of the Mountain Linda Stager Radiant passage.

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By Lilace Mellin Guignard Wellsboro’s Wanderlove & Co. tends to all your wedding needs. Liquid Therapy

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By Terence Lane Our writer pursues Seneca Lake boos and booze.

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Mountain Home is also proud to introduce a new writer. You first read Terence Lane in the May 2022 cover story on wine stemware, “Fragile Pleasures.” I was looking for sommeliers to interview, found Terence, and found out he’s a writer too. Terence moved to Watkins Glen from New York City during the pandemic and is now the head of the Lakewood Vineyards tasting room. Drop by and ask for him if you get a flight. He has a story to pair with every wine. We’ve asked Terence, who wrote this month’s cover story, to write a column for us where he can regularly share his wit and wisdom concerning all things wine, grape, and Finger Lakes. That column, Planet of the Grapes, debuts in this issue.

So fun and funky the Smithsonian purchased the mixed media sculpture Honeymoon Hotel for their permanent collection. His work is also in permanent collections in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and the United States Embassy in Tokyo. He’s had numerous gallery exhibits up and down the east coast and has been a guest artist at several institutions, including in Israel. He is currently represented by Oxford Gallery in Rochester, Artizann’s in Naples, and Lauren Hirsh Custom Framing in Naples. Once again, his studio at 8634 Route 21 is on the Naples Open Studio Tour

October 1 and 2, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Always the first weekend in October, drop in to see him. You can find out more about the tour at naplesopenstudiotrail.com and more about Darryl at darrylabraham.com.

excited to introduce the creator of this month’s cover illustration, Darryl Abraham, whose work you’ll continue to see in our pages. Raised in Naples, New York, where he now has his studio, Darryl’s work is informed by the region’s culture and environment, including farms, trout streams, gardens and fruit trees, grange halls, church picnics, tractors, and music—especially accordion, piano, and harmonica players. His sculptures and drawings of farmhouses, stores, boats, and landscapes celebrate the history of the Finger Lakes region. You’ll find his whimsical watercolors in gift shops and wineries, his artwork on store signs and murals. “I’ve always enjoyed the magazine,”

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forward to the time each fall when he’d bring me down flats of Niagra and concord grapes for jelly-making.KrisPearson, executive director of the Arts Center of Yates County calls him an American original and remembers how he bounded barefoot out of his studio to his garden to collect fresh garlic as a parting gift. His work is like his life: mixed media, rustic, and free style. Kris says, “Check out his stuff— it’s fun and funky!”

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I'll be seeing you: The green man in the Belhurst Castle fireplace tile may not be the only face watching when you visit.

Our Writer Pursues Seneca Lake Boos and Booze

he boat crashed through the chop heading north toward Miles Wine Cellars. It was taking a lot longer than I’d anticipated, but there was no way to speed through these conditions without capsizing. Water whipped in over the sides and beaded off my sunglasses. I didn’t know why Mountain Home was entrusting a sommelier to go on a ghost hunt around the Finger Lakes. I’m an expert on wines, not spirits. But I was intrigued by the idea of haunted wineries. Miles is also one of only two wineries on Seneca Lake accessible by boat and I love being on the water. When it’s calm.

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A tasting room employee informed me that Evan had been there earlier but had left. Hearing this did nothing for my mood. One final call to Evan went unanswered. That was it. The day was shot. Heading back down the dock, I noticed that Eduardo had settled in at a table and had begun to prepare a classic Argentine long drink: Fernet-Branca and Coke. My mood improved instantly. Fernet is a powerful amaro (bittersweet liqueur) from Italy renowned for its mentholated and herbal flavors, something like minty root beer with a bitter finish that sneaks up on you. When mixed with Coca-Cola and served over ice, it makes an addictively refreshing cocktail. I can attest to how compulsively drinkable it is because I rarely drink anything sugary, and I’m totally sold. The flavor profile is beguiling and delicious, at once sweet, minty, spicy, and bitter. Fernet and Coke had become a staple in my summer drinking rotation and was probably the culprit behind the mysterious seven pounds I’d tacked on in July.

My buddy Eduardo’s eighteen-foot bowrider pulled up to the dock at Miles a few minutes before five, nearly one hour late. Eduardo seemed completely unphased by the journey. He’s an extremely pensive individual who always looks like he’s writing a poem in his mind. There’s almost nothing that can throw off his mood. I’m a bit more mercurial and my annoyance showed as we tied onto the dock. Being late always irritates me and my stomach was off from the ride. As I headed up the property, the stately white columns of the front porch appeared between the greenery. I scanned the tree shade around the main entrance on the off chance that something would be staring back. Something watchful and deceased.

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Even though the day was sunny with tattered clouds imprinted on the pale arc of the sky, there was something ominous about being out there alone on the deepest lake in the region. The dark green swells hinted at the implacable depths below, a grand sink more haunted than anything ever built by human hands. The lake churned and spat. Unease set in. The threatening waves felt like a harbinger of something to come, reminding me of a scene from the novel The Shining when Dick Halloran incurs the wrath of the Overlook Hotel while driving up the mountain to rescue Danny and Wendy. The Overlook violently shines down at him, warning him to mind his own business and to keep away, a genuinely terrifying scene. Maybe that’s what was happening here. Maybe the spirits were unhappy about my arrival and had stirred up the water to keep me from kicking over stones that shouldn’t be moved. True or not, a certain amount of trepidation had settled in about meeting Evan Miles to discuss a young couple who’d died at his family’s estate more than a century ago and didn’t exactly go away.

I’m not sure if I believe in ghosts, but that’s only because my belief has never been challenged. Ghosts can spook me in movies but would never stop me from walking in the woods at night. What does scare me is poking around something I don’t understand. I wouldn’t pretend to know anything about, let’s say, recurrent footsteps in a sealed tavern attic, but I also wouldn’t be the one to run a putty knife around the edges of the door and pop it open. Ghosts may very well exist; I just don’t go around meddling with them. Not until now, anyway.

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You never know who will appear: Ghost wine, available at Miles Wine Cellars, is a white wine with a unique silk screen label; you are welcome to stay at the Inn at Miles Wine Cellars, but please don’t disturb the ghosts— they are light sleepers.

Evan’s parents have experienced doors closing by themselves and flying mist. Others have taken photographs that came back littered with floating orbs. Steve Bolger from Main Street Drivers has heard multiple stories from clients over the years regarding unexplained occurrences while visiting iconic sites in the Finger Lakes, especially Miles.

I’d only taken two sips, feeling the gentle chill trickling through me, when my ringing phone made me jump. A marriage proposal in the Miles family was about to take place and Evan could only talk briefly about the freak accident that had left an indelible stain on the family-owned institution.

“In addition to our fine wines, we also have a haunted history that begins back in 1850,” explained Evan, winemaker and distiller at Miles Wine Cellars. He gazed from the dock back up to the winery, as if to confirm we were alone. “A newlywed couple was tasked with the renovation of the structure from a farmhouse to the Greek Revival we see today. While working in the attic, the gentleman fell to his death from where you see the old whale oil lantern. His widow wasn’t able to survive his passing and allegedly died from sadness. About a year later, people started reporting strange activity at the house.”

“Every time I’m at Miles I always ask the people on staff if there’s any new ghost stories,” said Steve, an excitable and friendly person with a real passion for the spookier side of things. “The last time I asked, a woman said that something had just happened a couple of days earlier. She and another woman were in the tasting room when one of them started having a sneezing attack. When it finally stopped, her coworker asked if she had any allergies, to which she answered no. Within a minute they heard two more sneezes in the other room—but they were the only people in the building.”Over the years, Evan has had many supernatural encounters, mostly noises. “I’ve only seen the gentleman twice and the woman once, though I’ve never seen them together.” He paused, staring thoughtfully at the house. “One time there was a little girl.” The details of the little girl are unclear and likely rooted to a different history. It is the newlyweds that appear to hold sway over the estate, presenting as orbs, apparitions, disembodied sounds, and flying mist. To this day, both man and wife can be seen roaming the lakefront property, still separated in death as they were in life.

A week later I was off to Lakeview Cemetery in Penn Yan to view the “Lady in Granite” tomb of the late Matilda Gillette. Not much is known about her. Matilda was born in 1856. She

The Miles family have lived in peaceful coexistence with the ghosts since acquiring the property in the seventies and have politely asked that visitors refrain from ghost hunting and seances so as not to arouse any negative energy. Far from shying away from the haunted history, the winery has actually built it into their brand. Evan gifted me a bottle of Miles Wine Cellars Ghost wine to keep the spirits close at hand. The wine has a special label that reveals the spectral shape of a woman when backlit. Ghost is a white blend of Cayuga white and chardonnay. It’s made in a deceptively easy drinking style–medium acidity, medium body –with lots of melon and peach notes, the kind of wine we industry folk refer to as a “patio pounder.” The next day I enjoyed it with an heirloom tomato sandwich and slices of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. On my patio.

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to be felt by those who gaze upon her bleary image. Some believe that the face is only the first phase of her return, and that when her entire figure appears on the granite, Matilda will leave the stone and walk among the living.

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will cause her to jump out of the granite and chase the offender away from the cemetery. But why has Matilda elected to appear on the stone? A prevailing theory is that she swore to haunt her husband from beyond the grave for his extramarital transgressions. Another legend goes that Matilda and Francis had a deeply loving marriage, so much so that they vowed never to remarry should something ever happen to other. But Francis wasn’t true to his word. Shortly after Matilda’s death, he remarried, prompting Matilda to appear on the stone as a way of getting back at her husband.

10 was married to Francis Gillette, a local dance teacher in Penn Yan, for forty-five years until her death in 1936. Not long after Matilda’s passing, a white patch began to appear on the mirrored granite of her headstone located in the Purchase East 3 section of Lakeview. Even with repeated polishing of the stone nothing has been able to remove it.

The main problem with these claims is that Francis Gillette died seven years before she did. Whatever discontent has kept Matilda from fully making the trip to the other side remains unknown. What is known is that her influence continues

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Wall wine and stone spirit: Guests in Belhurst Castle enjoy complimentary wine from the house spigot in the wall behind an elaborate grape gate (left); Matilda Gillette’s visage in Penn Yan’s Lakeview Cemetery is manifesting on the family tombstone, and seems to be looking up at the sky saying, "Why do they keep throwing bottles at me?"

The glaring defect resembles the profile of Matilda Gillette, as if she’s reclined. Her eyes stare blankly toward the heavens, her lips slightly ajar. At first glance it seemed campy, exactly what I was expecting, but she changes your opinion. There’s just some inane panache about her in this pose. An air of frivolity that makes her disturbing. Even though it was broad daylight, I felt troubled looking at it.

Years ago, two boys arrived at Matilda’s headstone. One boy spit on her face. The other kicked the granite base. Days later the one who spit on the stone broke his arm. The one who kicked it broke his leg. There’s a rumor that says a bottle hurled at the face

The chipped and gouged surface of the granite around the face is what finally broke the spell for me. The idea that people have been coming here for years to pelt a gravestone with bottles and rocks is more telling of the sinister nature of the living than of any malevolent preconceptions of the dead. If nothing else, the Lady in Granite has showed us that fear lives right next door to violence, and the proof is set in stone.From Penn Yan, I traveled through fields of thirsty corn, past Mennonite farms rife with succulents, honey, onions, and peaches, toward Belhurst Castle in Geneva. Framed against a blue sky, the dark sandstone castle soaked up the sunlight. The main floor of the castle is cozy with decorative moldings and ornate wood

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Steve shared something that happened to one of his clients who’d been visiting Belhurst. On the second floor of the Escherlike interior is a wine spigot in the wall. The spigot is locked behind a small cast-iron gate. Grape vines swirl in the ironwork. Guests of the castle are provided with a gate key to enjoy the house wine at their leisure. It was while standing at the gate that Steve’s client encountered a specter.

If you look online at the guest reviews, you’ll find the usual rants and raves but no mention of paranormal activity. Ghosts might be like lost possessions. The more you need them, the less likely they are to appear. Sometimes I have the feeling that lost possessions sort of like being lost and gently adjust their position to remain unfound. I wonder if ghosts are similar, adjusting toward and away from the living as they see fit.

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Spirit continued from page 10 carvings. The tilework around the fireplace contains the face of a green man gazing solemnly from a mosaic of forest. A pair of China dolls dressed in festive attire perch merrily atop the mantlepiece. One clutches a small mandolin, fingers poised and ready to strike up a tune.

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As an amateur ghost hunter, I felt the prickle of dissatisfaction with my work that perhaps even veteran ghost hunters occasionally feel and was slipping into a dreary mood. There wasn’t anything new to say about the legends that hadn’t already been said, not unless I experienced something firsthand. To settle my own spirits, I visited the resort’s wine tasting bar and bellied up for a flight. It was a warm and sunny afternoon, prime white wine drinking conditions, but for some reason my palate was craving the bright, sanguine tang of a red. The pinot noir and cabernet franc in the flight were taut and lean and fruity. The Belhurst merlot was a little brawnier with some really nice red and blue

“She wanted to take a selfie with the cabinet because she thought it was cool,” said Steve. “When she looked at the picture there was a face over her shoulder. It was a tan face. You could see the eye sockets but it didn’t have eyeballs. There was a little bit of a nose and chin. They showed me the picture and the hair stood right up on my neck and arms.”

Construction of the castle began in 1885 under the ownership of Carrie Harron. At least one man died during the construction as a result of a scaffolding accident. Another went insane while building the roof. A young employee at Belhurst’s wine bar said that sometimes people hear the rattling of construction materials with no apparent source. One time a wall of merchandise in the gift shop suddenly toppled to the ground. One of the more famous castle legends concerns an opera singer named Isabella, from whom the resort’s spa takes its name. Isabella and her forbidden lover stayed at the castle, hiding from Isabella’s husband. When the couple’s location was discovered, they attempted to escape through an underground tunnel to a waiting boat on the lake. The plan failed when the tunnel collapsed, killing Isabella. Sightings of Isabella, the lady in white, have been made on numerous occasions at Belhurst Castle.

Could that have been Isabella in the picture? Carrie Harron? Or maybe the tan thing in the photograph predates the castle by a long time, an unknown little homebody deeply attached to the land along the lake.

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This man, this place, and this community were not inevitable. They might not have come together. But they did. This is a story about the “Don’tcost.make me sweat, man!”

This is a story about Steve Worthington and the community he joined in 2006, a community theater company called Hamilton-Gibson Productions. Most of the story happened at the Warehouse Theatre. Steve helped build that theater. He blossomed at HG as an actor and technician. He married his second wife on the Warehouse stage. And Steve died there, brought down by addictions we thought he had overcome.

Steve was a striking figure. Short, thin and wiry.“Igot that good jiu jiu going!” He dressed in vintage rock tees and a

Steve Worthington was born in 1961 in Bryn Mawr. His parents, Amos “Tucker” Worthington, a fine artist who was the founding designer of Mountain Home, and Mary Worthington wanted to get “back to the land” and moved Steve and his brother, Andy, to an old house in Whitneyville.

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seemed to come into focus.

Tis a fearful thing

“They lived a very rustic lifestyle,” recalls Larry Biddison, a family friend. “The Worthington’s were artists who celebrated creativity.”Steve started working at WNBT radio in Wellsboro at age fourteen. By his early twenties he was a radio engineer and DJ, working for several local stations. Steve became a local celebrity for his on-air hijinks as “Steve Danger.” He married his first wife, Jennifer, and they began a family in a house they built themselves. This was his life for over twenty Whetheryears.Steve’s drinking, and other activities, were a problem, or just part of the “rock and roll” persona he’d created, never

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“Steve was kind of in a rough patch,” says Rob Kathcart, another HG volunteer. “That’s why HG mattered to him. It’s a community theater, so anyone can join. It’s not pretentious. If you want to do the work, you’re in.” Rob recalls working non-stop for a few seasons. “Steve was ‘all in.’ He always pushed me to do more. And we partied hard, too, frankly. Spent a lot of time in bars.”

The need to talk about sobriety finally

Shane Nickerson also befriended Steve at HG. Shane, who had been in recovery for many years, recognized the drinking problem. “Come as you are, Steve,” Shane told him. “Drunk. Sober. Either way. But if you want to talk about being sober, we can talk.”

leather jacket. He celebrated his eccentricity. He greeted everyone with a brilliant smile and his favorite catch phrases.

“Steve was the antithesis of the addiction stereotype,” says Kevin Thomas, who hired Steve to work at KC101 in 2004. “He worked hard and was reliable.” Home was a different matter. His marriage broke apart, and Steve movedTucker,out. who created brilliant posters for HG, pushed Steve toward theater, hoping it might be something Steve could hold on to.

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The lasting special effects of Steve Worthington: Steve (left) was Thomas Putnam’s right hand man at Hamilton-Gibson Productions (pictured with him here in the Warehouse Theatre Gallery).

To love what death can touch

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But HG was more than that. “Steve was incredibly creative,” Thomas says. “He loved to build things. He liked going from a bare stage to a completely new world. HG became a place that he could express this creativity, and a place he could work in solitude.”

Gabe Hakvaag has been an HG volunteer since 2008. He currently is the chair of the Steve Worthington Memorial Technology Committee and Interim Technical Director for Hamilton-Gibson Productions.

And then, everything changed.

The memorial service was, of course, held at the Warehouse Theatre. And as often happens, the attendees told stories. Steve taking his pants off during broadcasts. Steve competing in the Highland Games, just so he could wear a kilt. Yehuda writes, “For your life has lived in me, / your laugh once lifted me, / your word was gift to me. / To remember this brings painful joy.”

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came to a head. Family members approached Thomas Putnam, HG’s artistic director. They wanted to hold an intervention, where they could confront Steve about his addictions. Steve had a deep respect for Thomas, so they hoped his presence would add weight. The intervention happened in the lobby of the Warehouse Theatre. It did not go well. Steve literally ran.

“For a lot of people, when they get sober, life is empty,” Shane notes. “HG gives you a place to go. It lets your life be more than an empty home and church basements.”

Steve earned his five-year coin for sobriety. He married JodiBeth, his co-star from Fools in Love, on the Warehouse Theatre stage. Shane signed the marriage certificate. Ryan Dalton, an HG actor, officiated.Steve also worked on repairing his relationship with his children: Noah, Dustin, and Charlotte. The steps were slow, but Steve was patient. He wanted to be part of their lives. Soon he had grandchildren to babysit. Steve never forced himself, but when asked to join a family event, he was all in.

Stories kindled memories, and memories reminded us of love. Steve remains a part of the Hamilton-Gibson community, a community he loved, and which still loves him.

In 2018 HG created the Stephen Worthington Memorial Tech Fund which has raised more than $50,000 to upgrade the Warehouse Theatre sound and light systems. Phase I of the upgrade will debut at Grand Horizons, a play opening October 14 and running for two weekends. Get more information at (570) 724-2079 or hamiltongibson.org, where you can still donate to the fund.

But the community didn’t let him go. Over the next few months, conversations with Shane led Steve to Alcoholics Anonymous. Recovery is a slow and deliberate path. But as Steve took those steps, he also stepped back into what was left of his life. That included a return to the Warehouse Theatre.

Friday, November 25, 2016, Jodi-Beth found Steve passed out on their couch. She had suspicions that he was using again, but no one could quite see it. She asked him to stay home, but he had to run sound for a concert. He should have been home by 9:00 p.m. but wasn’t. He didn’t pick up his phone. Jodi, full of dread, drove into Wellsboro and found Steve on the lobby floor, dead from an overdose.

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“Have you met John?” my friend said, introducing me. “Terence works in the wine industry.”“That’s cool,” said John. He gulped from a tallboy of Steel Reserve, something he must’ve smuggled in. “I was just talking about a tequila-barrel-aged riesling I tried. It blew me

“Tequila-barrel-agedaway.” riesling?” I said.

sweeter styles are lifted and bright.

I shook my head. “Seems like an odd choice.”“Odd that I chose it?”

“No, an odd winemaking choice.”

“Odd how?”

“They usually leave riesling alone because

a neighboring conversation.

“Have you tried it?”

By Terence Lane

I received a glass of the 2020 riesling from Hazlitt Vineyards. Hazlitt is widely known for their line of sweet Red Cat wines, but they do fantastic dry wines as well. My glass was already wrapped in that special condensation. The wine was clear with green inflections. As I sipped, a floral aroma spilled forth, something I love about an aromatic white. This was a semi-sweet riesling with notes of summer peaches, honey, and an endless candied lemon finish. Sometimes I can’t get over how good riesling can be.

There’s Just No Riesling with Some People

Earlier this summer I met some friends at Scale House Brewery in Hector to have some drinks and watch the local rock band PA Line blow the doors off the place. As usual, I ran into some customers from Lakewood Vineyards where I work in the tasting room. They were sitting front and center, beers in hand, totally gone to the sounds. They offered to buy me a beer. I took them up on a riesling. It’s not that I don’t drink beer. As a sommelier, sometimes people assume I only drink wine, but it was a muggy night, and I was craving something light and refreshing. Chilled riesling is perfect. That you can find a good glass at almost any bar in the Finger Lakes is something I cherish. It shows a reverence to the grape, how tied into the culture it is. Sometimes I’ll just order a riesling and see what style they bring me. From bonedry to sweet, I can drink any style of riesling. It’s fun to see what restaurants are carrying. On a hot night, I can’t be too picky. Even the

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I took my last sip and was thinking about getting another when I found myself lured into

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When the band went on break, people strolled outside to snap pictures of the sunset. My friend was having a smoke, the scent of tobacco mingling with the tall, sweet grass. The sky burned like a five-alarm fire, all those pinks and peaches broadcast on the old glacial sprawl of Seneca Lake.

“They aged it in a tequila barrel,” said a man with a long beard, facial piercings, and a neck-load of Polynesian tattoos. “No joke, it was the best riesling I’ve ever had.”

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“Wait, what?” he shrilled, now totally confused.Mybuddy cut in. “Let’s get something to eat.”Inside Scale House, we passed tables maxed out with pizza, bowls of meatballs, and foaming glasses of cold beer. As I went to order, I noticed a pizza that stood out from the rest. A spiral of yellow mustard and ketchup coiled in

“I’m not a winemaker,” I muttered, staring out at the lake.

“So a riesling can’t taste like a cocktail?”

it’s so good by itself.”

“It’s not about being a purist. It’s about doing the right thing.”

“I do,” I said, “but that’s a cocktail.”

He spun around and laughed at the sunset. “You’re saying drink whatever you like, but not if it’s a tequila-barrel-aged riesling. Is that what I’m hearing?”

“Not really. That doesn’t show the expression of the fruit.”

toward the gooey center. Here and there were clumps of browned beef. Crispy pickle chips glinted in the light. Maybe I’d gone a little tequila-riesling, but it made sense. Mustard, pickles, beef, and cheese. Fats and acids. That’s how we approach wine pairing. There has to be a clash of flavor to create a harmony.

“Why can’t both be right? Isn’t there room for both styles?”

“So you don’t like margaritas?” A new edge had come into his tone.

I was met by the server who’d brought me my“There’swine. a pizza,” I said, “with pickles.”

“Now you’re contradicting yourself!”

I pictured the Oreo section in the supermarket, some fifteen kinds of Oreos. “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”“Says who?! We wouldn’t be where we are today if people didn’t take risks and try new things.”“Look,” I said, flustered now that I might be a purist, “drink whatever you want. If that’s what you like, then it’s what you like.”

The certainty that I was right was beginning to take on water. I would learn that this heavily pierced and heavily inked individual was actually an IT professional and an avid home pickler, in other words a pretty smart“Youperson.know what,” I said, “let’s call an armistice. We’re not going to see eye-to-eye on this.”“Ijust have a more progressive view,” he said, calmer now that he’d bested me. “Then again, I’m not a winemaker like you, so I get that you definitely do things a certain way.”

From the corner of my eye, I saw John sidle up to the bar a safe distance away.

“Yup,” she said, “that’s our cheeseburger pizza.”“I’ll take one of those, please.”

“Did you need another wine?” she asked.

Terence Lane is a Certified Sommelier. His short fiction and wine writing has appeared in a number of magazines including Wine Enthusiast. Since leaving New York City after the closure of city dining in 2020, he now lives in the Finger Lakes and runs the tasting room at Lakewood Vineyards.

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“Oh, okay, so you’re a purist?”

“My friend, this stuff was good. It tasted like a “Imargarita.”guessIdon’t understand,” I said, still tasting the wine on my palate.

“No,” I said, “I’ll go with a pilsner,” then, looking at John, quickly corrected myself. “Make that two.”

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“When we talk about a grapevine, you’re only seeing half of the vine,” explains Alex Jankowski, marketing and public relations manager at Wagner Vineyards and Wagner Valley Brewery, where about forty sunset weddings take place each year. He notes that the vineyard itself might be considered a metaphor for a marriage. “Each grapevine has four to eight feet of a root system. Having a solid foundation is important whether it’s a grapevine or a marriage.”

Many local couples also choose this as their venue for weddings and weddingrelated festivities. Weddings are held here from April through October and, after

Barrel aged backdrop: The Wagner Vineyards cellar is a great place for photos or just to explore during free daily tours (times listed on their website).

The Wagner family knows firsthand about solid foundations—they’ve been growing grapes and making wine in Lodi for five generations. Patriarch Stanley “Bill” Wagner broke ground for the estate winery before the passage of the Farm Winery Act in 1976. While it was under construction,

When it opened in 1979, Wagner Vineyards was the first farm winery on the east side of Seneca Lake. Since then, Wagner Vineyards has grown with the times—it’s one of the largest wineries on Seneca Lake, but it’s still owned and managed by the family. “We owe so much to Seneca Lake,” says Alex. “We have nineteen acres of vineyard just between the café and the lakefront.”

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“And it was a beautiful day,” she says.

In 1983, in the spirit of pairing wine and food—and making the winery even more of a destination—the family opened an eatery on site. It was named the Ginny Lee Café after the young woman who was then Bill’s only grandchild. That Virginia “Ginny” Lee worked her way up through vineyard and winery jobs as well as some of the most basic café positions. These days, Ginny manages the café named for her and also works as a wedding planner there. There are now more grandchildren. One of these grandchildren, Ginny’s brother Kevin, got married here last May.

passersby were intrigued by the large and unusual octagonal building with its fluted roof. It was Bill’s design.

The tank room is housed in the center of the octagon, with a walkway wrapping partway around so you can see where they make their wine. They produce their wines and beers and host their tastings in the same building, so you can watch a winemaker or brewer work while you sip.

Pairings Cultivated in Lodi for Five Generations

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“Because my crew is that good,” she says, adding that “every wedding has something special about it.”

Find Wagner Vineyards and Wagner Valley Brewery at 9322 State Route 414 and get more information at wagnervineyards. com or by calling (607) 582-6574. Reservations are strongly suggested for guided wine tastings and can be made online. Selfguided flight tastings are first come, first served. They are open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through late October but are only open weekends through mid-December and then closed till mid-March.

“Because we have all the facilities here at the café, we curate the little things too so there’s less potential for a snag,” Ginny says. Of course, there are always unforeseen circumstances and glitches, she adds. But her staff takes care of these so seamlessly there’s no indication they occurred.

In addition to the wine and beer crafted on-site, the venue has a license that allows them to stock and serve from a full bar. Ginny has a portfolio of recommended vendors who can take photos and videos, furnish flowers, provide a bespoke wedding cake, play music, offer lodging, and arrange for transportation. “I’m a very organized person,” she says. “I give people a ton of information so they can figure out what they need.”

After the guests are gone, and real life resumes, couples often visit to celebrate anniversaries with lunch, and of course a toast to new

When a couple comes to learn about holding their wedding here, they meet with Ginny who explains the full range of possibilities on the menu. She’ll take them through a wine and beer tasting, they’ll meet with chef Vachel Mitchell to discuss food options, and taste some of these as well. It’s a delicious demonstration of what Wagner nuptials come with.

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Her staff is equally accomplished and orderly. When the café closes after lunch at 4 p.m., they swing into action “like a welloiled machine,” she laughs. In little more than an hour, they can transform the space from a popular lunch destination to an elegant set-up for a wedding. If the vineyard has also been booked for the ceremony, they set up seating on the lawn. Up to 200 guests can be accommodated, with seating indoors as well as on the deck. If the wedding is to be held outside, the bride and groom can remain out of sight as the celebrants arrive and wander about. The café makes a perfect hiding spot until it’s time for the processional.

“Wememories.haveabig photo in the winery [on the winery’s photo wall] of a couple who got married here,” Alex says. “They come back each year and recreate the photo standing next to it.”

nearly forty years in the wedding business, the process runs smoothly and professionally, Ginny says. She’s planned weddings here for the past twelve of those years and has been present for all of them. Many of her clients are people who first visited the winery on vacation (Wagner’s award-winning FLX rieslings are a good reason for a visit any time), or for a special event when they attended one of the many colleges in the Finger Lakes region.

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Going mobile: The Wandered Spirit bar used to move horses, but now it moves to your party location, which can be anywhere.

Ashley added a personal touch of nostalgia by including pieces from the pallet bar they’d made for their wedding. The sign was made locally by Studio Mengee.

And then it’s cocktail time and the stallion gets surrounded by happy folks wanting a little libation.

Years ago, Ashley saw something online

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Ashley, who bartended at the Wellsboro House for five years, designed the interior flow and chose the matte black exterior paint to make a distinctive industrial-chic statement. Wandered Spirit went live in August 2022. They are still refining the layout a bit after each event.

that gave her the idea, and asked Cody to keep his eye out. When he was hunting the pipeline above the Goodwin Farm on the Ding Dang Road (yes, that’s really the name of the road) he saw it—a 1991 Sterling horse trailer sitting and rotting in an old pasture. When he told Angel Goodwin, she gave the okay for it to be re-homed, and Cody hauled it to his parents’ house for rehabilitating duringGutting2021. it was easy. “I’m really good at demo,” Cody grins. “Dad’s good at the finish stuff.” It had two stalls, so the divider needed to be removed, the inside rust treated, and then electric and plumbing added. Cody’s dad worked on helicopters in Viet Nam and knew how to handle the sheet metal. The walnut boards they transformed into polished, live edge slabs came from a barn, also on the Goodwin Farm. Cody and

According to the old adage, you can’t make your horse drink. But turn your horse trailer into a mobile bar, and you can get others to. Just ask Ashley and Cody Bowen, owners of Wanderlove & Co., a special occasion rental service based in Wellsboro that added just such a mobile bar—The Wandered Spirit—to their herd of bohemian and vintage style accessories. Imagine plush couches and chairs upholstered in lux mauves, blues, and oranges grazing in the field by a lake. No doubt there’s a tent or pavilion nearby, beside which a matte black-and-white horse trailer bar with live edge counter slabs stands like a stallion watching his ladies.

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Now with the Wandered Spirit, the couple often works events side by side, pulling beers from the dual taps or making cocktails. They have liquor liability insurance, but this

Ashley and Cody have learned a lot as their business has grown, not the least of which is how to back a trailer into tight spaces. But whatever your space or event, they are committed to providing an elevated experience with a unique aesthetic suited to your vision. As they say, “it’s not just a bar, it’s a Vibevibe.”with them at wanderloveandco. com, on Facebook under Savvy Rose Floral Design, or call (607) 857-3637.

Wellsboro.Their most popular items are the farmhouse tables, couches, and chairs used to create a comfortable lounge or photo staging area. For Wellsboro Area High School proms, colorful rugs softened the concrete pavilion floor with flair. “I love proms,” Ashley says. At weddings, a lounge area can be set up beside the Wandered Spirit. Some choose to create a lounge area away from the music and noise.Ashley, a WAHS graduate herself, now teaches second grade at Don Gill Elementary. Cody works at C&N Bank, and they have a four-year-old daughter, Savannah Rose. Ashley started Savvy Rose Floral Design, named after her daughter, in 2020, and the rental business Wanderlove & Co. followed the next year. But the floral business takes more time away from her family, so Ashley is phasing that out after May 2023, except in connection with events using their rentals. “We’ll still offer it as an add-on,” she says.

“Finding Ashley’s wedding services was like stumbling upon an oasis in the desert,” says Nadia Tuffaha Grigg, who used the floral services and furniture rentals. “I had started to settle on just having the bare essentials at our wedding, but then my mother-in-law introduced me to Ashley. The Wandered Spirit mobile bar opened up another portal of possibilities for pulling off the wedding magic I had dreamed of. I am so thankful for Ashley and excited for future betrothed couples in the area who will get to have their dream weddings, too.”

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is a dry hire bar—meaning you purchase the alcohol. “We can help you figure out how much you’ll need,” Ashley says. And RAMP (Responsible Alcohol Management Program) certified bartenders are part of the package. “Most people don’t realize that if they host a party where they serve alcohol, they have the liability too,” explains Ashley. By hiring their trained bartenders—with or without the mobile bar—it means you can relax and enjoy your party, knowing you don’t have to be the one to tell Uncle Bob he’s hadThereenough.aremany package options, from using the mobile bar with no alcohol, to beer and wine only, to beer, wine, and two signature cocktails of your choice. Custom packages are also available. Add-on services include a lounge area, coffee station, and hydration station stocked with iced tea, infused water, and lemonade.

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One of the simplest pleasures and most brilliant joys of life in the Pennsylvania Wilds is a Sunday drive. Turning off a major roadway onto a winding country road, past idyllic horse farms, houses neat as pins, and apple orchards bursting with fruit is as valuable as any hour or two spent doing work around the house. Now, imagine at the end of this lovely drive is a cold, imaginative beer, welcoming smiles, and more spectacular views. Oh, and a tire swing.

Inside the farm’s former wagon shed lies the heart of Therapy Brewing—the three-barrel brewery itself and the busy tasting room. You’ll also find one of the owners, Quinn Kirk or Chris Kuriga, ready to treat you to one of their latest creations. Therapy Brewing features seven beers on tap to try every Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., year round. Beer is available in full and half pours, so you can taste all you’d like. And tasting is what you’ll want to do, as what you’ll find here are not the typical craft brewery offerings. There’s something for everyone. For instance, they always keep one IPA on tap, and one lighter beer—Quinn affectionately refers to that as the Dad’s Tap.

The rest of the beers are seasonal, varied in style, and a little unpredictable.

On a warm Sunday in late summer, that means a cucumber saison, a pilsner, a bright peach brew, and a traditional ESB. The highlight of this day’s tasting escapade, though, was Luna, a coconut cream pie dessert beer. Quinn explains there are no signature beers at Therapy Brewing. They rotate and re-invent constantly, and only rarely feature the same brew twice.

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It was Quinn’s passion for the creative brewing process that brought the two together, though Quinn says, “I like to joke that he stalked me on the internet.”

“Whenever something kicks, something new comes on,” he says, which keeps the beer lovers who enjoy the drive to Montoursville happy to show up often.

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picnics under the signature sugar maple, and making new friends on the porch.

While the drive to Therapy Brewing, tucked away in eastern Lycoming County, is so worth the time, the experience gets even better. Thirsty folks pulling off the country road onto the gravel driveway cruise past an old red barn and silo to the parking area, and, on your average weekend afternoon, are met with a couple scores of potential pals lounging in Adirondack chairs, enjoying

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No brooding over these brews: Your cup is always full at Therapy Brewing, or if it’s not you can order another.

In fact, Chris reached out to Quinn via a social media group for Lycoming County

“This is something light for the guy who says, ‘I only drink Busch,’” he says.

Keep Calm and Head to Therapy Brewing in Montoursville

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“When you sit in it, I don’t care who you are—you’re ten years old,” Quinn says.

The name Therapy Brewing is reflective of the careers each has outside of brewing—Quinn is a family practice physician and Chris is an athletic trainer. But as Quinn acknowledges with a wave of his hand to the tranquil meadow and barn, “There’s nothing more therapeutic than sitting here and looking around. Not one person is on a cell phone. It’s real human interaction. That’s pretty darn therapeutic.” Not to mention the tire swing, which came with the property and is highlighted on Therapy Brewing’s logo. Visitors are strongly encouraged to take a ride.

“It was everything good about small-town America,” Quinn says.

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The friendly and scenic atmosphere and innovative beers appeal to a variety of patrons. Quinn says he loves that—the people part of the business. He says older visitors come for the craft beer and end up chatting with younger folks about all kinds of things— from beer to baseball. He has also had the joy of seeing complete strangers exchanging phone numbers, planning “beer trips,” and establishing clubs to continue their brew-focused camaraderie.

Brewing at 3978 Quaker Church Road, Montoursville. Visit them on Facebook, at therapybrewing.com, or call (570) 560-0987.

Kids three and under are free! 4-18 are $5 Adults $10

David and Kathy McCorkle were visiting from Eagles Mere to enjoy the afternoon. Kathy, who purports to not like beer, says she enjoys their adventures to Therapy Brewing because “I like the beer here.” David says they keep coming back because “the beer’s good, the brew master’s friendly, and the grounds are delightful.”

home brewers thirteen years ago. They started brewing and experimenting together, and six years ago Quinn purchased a farm. In 2019, the two, along with two other partners who have since moved on, opened the doors to Therapy Brewing on that farm.

Karin Knaus is a teacher in Northern Tioga School District and a master Sunday driver. She has been spending her free time tremendously looking forward to driving an hour and a half to taste that creamed corn cream ale.

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Therapy Brewing also hosted a fundraiser for a local child battling leukemia. There was food, music, and games, with plenty of community members coming together for the cause.

Closed on October 28th and 29th.

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The beauty of the spot is attracting more than just beer connoisseurs. It’s been a venue for private parties, meet-and-greets for local businesses, and rehearsal dinners. The farm and brewery hosted a small wedding for a couple who’d shared an early date here and loved it. So, they raised a tent in the front lawn, and Quinn, Chris, and company helped with getting a caterer. Quinn says they’re open to doing more weddings, but limited parking keeps the number of guests to around sixty.

To know what’s next from Therapy Brewing, look no further than the ever-changing liquid in the taps. A creamed corn cream ale was reportedly in the works, and Oktoberfest and pumpkin beers are scheduled for the fall. If you stop on just the right day, you might find your glass filled with something really special, like the very popular Fanny Pack, an oatmeal crème pie dessert beer that appeared over the summer. Quinn swears it tastes just like the realFindthing.Therapy

Let there be lightbulbs: Gather with the gathers at this annual festival celebrating Corning’s role in Edison’s electric lights.

Karey Solomon is a freelance writer and needlework designer who teaches internationally.

Archibald, one of the book’s characters, is immortalized in “Archibald’s Libations Crawl,” an evening in which ticket-holding revelers may visit a variety of downtown venues to sample wine, brews, and other refreshments. Other events include a celebration at Riverside Centennial Park on Saturday, October 29, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., including live music and other activities. Several merchants will offer specials.

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Mysteries abound. A few will be explained by costumed actors leading downtown walking tours, as they point

Legend of the Gathers or buy a copy, come to the Heritage Village at 59 W. Pulteney Street on October 29, where it will be read by the author. That day, Heritage Village is hosting additional special events, culminating in an evening investigation of the spirits of yesteryear—a program led by investigators from the Paranormal Association of the SouthernActivitiesTier. and events are still being added. For a schedule of events, get a special edition 1880s newspaper from an actor haunting the Farmer’s Markets at the Park on October 20 and 27. Or plan ahead, book a walking tour, and find a schedule for the Days of Incandescence online incandescence.corningfingerlakes.com/events/days-of-at

To hear a dramatic reading of The

Days of Incandescence

out sites important in nineteenth-century Corning and discuss historic events. Another mystery surrounds the origin of the now-iconic lightbulb shape after many failed attempts to house Edison’s glowing filaments. Legend has it a boy working in the glass-blowing shop suggested the contours of the bulb, but researchers later learned three different men claimed to be that shop boy. This event is described in The Legend of the Gathers by Lafayette Watt, a picture book set in 1880s Corning.

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Break out that bustle! Grow those mutton chop sideburns! Every October, when the days get shorter, Corning celebrates light with The Days of Incandescence. In 2022, those days are October 20 through 31. Inspired by Corning’s creation of the first glass bulbs to house Thomas Edison’s electric lights, it’s part history, part Halloween spookiness, and all goodMosttimes.events are in the downtown area, many in the evening. Most are familythemed. Wearing a costume, particularly one of Victorian vintage, will enhance the experience. But while costumes are encouraged, they’re not required. “Last year quite a few were in period dress—some had better costumes than our actors,” notes Dave DeGolyer, of the Steuben County Visitors Bureau, one of the organizers.

By David Nowacoski

Field Notes

By the next morning it was thirty-seven, and I had to face it. It was time to move on.

we don’t? I mean, sure, they’ve got warm sunshine but we have, we have...sigh. Who am I kidding? Heck, I’d do Florida for the winter if I could.

Those shortcuts can be downright scary. I’ve tried. I’ve tried reconnecting on a nice day in January. But you only get so far until you realize that it is a mistake. They might look fine at the intersection, but a mile in they give you that icy glare and you realize that you shouldn’t be there. Nope— just better to say goodbye until May.

into some old friends. My wool hat. Sooo glad we got to spend some time together doing chores the other morning. My gloves. They were a bit stiff when we first hooked up last week, but I think with some time they’ll loosen up. And my main man—that gray hoodie! Dang, we were inseparable last fall. We’re going to be hanging out a lot soon. Hmmm, I wonder how long until I see those insulated coveralls? They really had my back last winter.

For me, it started weeks ago. First it was the flip-flops. I wanted to hang in there, but my toes were freezing and I realized that the time had come to put them away for the winter. Was it easy? No. A couple days later it hit seventy and I thought, “We can work it out...maybe if I just try a little harder.”

Goodbyes

David Nowacoski grew up on a farm in East Smithfield and lives just down the road a bit from it still, where he runs WindStone Landing Farms and Delivered Fresh (www. DeliveredFresh.Store) with his wife (and high school sweetheart) Marla. He made his kids pick rocks from the garden and believes that sometimes a simple life is a more wise way to go.

always happens this time of year. There are days when you think that it doesn’t have to be this way, that we can just keep on going the way we are. But you know... deep down you realize that it is goodbye, at least for the winter.

There are more goodbyes to come. All those little shortcuts we take. We have so many amazing dirt roads in our area, and, if you’re not afraid of dust, you can crisscross over a mountain and shave tons of time off your travels. Sure, some of those roads have this “No Winter Maintenance” thing about them, but all summer long we have gotten along just great. But as we get to s**w season and they get covered in all that white stuff, we begin to see another whole side of them.

But it’s not all bad. I’ve recently run

So yeah, I’m fine, it’s going to be fine (sniff). May is just around the corner, right?

I was still hurting from that when everything started to unravel. Going outside in just a T-shirt, a morning cup of coffee on the deck—I was overcome in an avalanche of “it’s not you, it’s the temperature.” Stupid temperature. After a few nights in the thirties, my in-laws told us that they were leaving us for Florida. Florida?! That little show-off. What does Florida have that

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Angelou, poet, writer, and social activist, claimed that “when members of a society wish to secure that society’s rich history they cherish their arts and respect their artists.” When you cross the threshold at West End Gallery in Corning, you’ll encounter that sentiment on full display. It is echoed by the gallery’s founder, Linda “Lin” Gardner and her daughter Jesse Gardner, current co-owner of the enterprise with her husband, John Gardner, and is particularly evident when it comes to the upcoming exhibition highlighting works by renowned artist Thomas S. Buechner. Given his extraordinary contributions of time, talent, and philanthropy to the city of Corning, it’s no wonder he has been honored here annually since his death a dozen years ago. And no wonder that this year Lin and Jesse continue the tradition by spotlighting the artist in their Upstairs Gallery during a show featuring the work of his colleagues and

The Talented Mr. Buechner

Corning's West End Gallery Honors Its Own

To each their own: despite their different styles, artists Thomas Buechner (Self-Portrait), Martin Poole (top—Sauce), and Tom Gardner (bottom, Lake View) would gather to paint, drink, smoke, and critique each other’s work. You can see their work this month at West End Gallery.

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Bornwork.in New York City in 1926 and raised in Bronxville, Buechner’s artistic interest, aptitude, and passion were all evident as a child, and subsequently encouraged. After graduating from the Lawrenceville School in 1944, he attended Princeton courtesy of a U.S. Navy program, served as a cadet in the Naval Air Corps, and worked for the government of Puerto Rico. Returning to New York City, he used the G.I. Bill to finance his classes at the Art Students League, then embarked on a study trip to Europe that included taking classes at the American School at Fountainbleu, the Ecole des BeauxArts in Paris, and an apprenticeship with the Dutch artist, M.M. van Dantzig. Returning to New York in 1948, he continued to hone his skills. His professional destiny, however,

subject. This would be followed by gin and tonics, cigars, and candid critiques of each other’s

By Jan Bridgeford-Smith

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friends, Tom Gardner and Martin Poole, on the gallery’s main floor space. Both exhibits run from October 14 through November 10. Nearly forty-five years ago, Lin, and her then-husband, Tom Gardner, moved their household and custom framing business from Elmira to Corning, and soon established the West End Gallery to complement the Corning Art & Frame Shop. In 1990, they sold the framing business and devoted themselves to developing a premier salon. Buechner, nationally recognized as an artist whose work was already considered collectable, one of four artists the gallery first featured. His confidence in the enterprise was consequential to the early success of the business, Lin and Jesse say. Tom Gardner, Martin Poole, and Dustin Boutwell, the other three artists who comprised the core group first represented by West End, regularly got together with Buechner to set-up their easels for an afternoon of painting the same

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Walk-in hours at the West End Gallery, 12 W. Market Street, are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and there’s an opening reception October 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. Find out more at westendgallery.net or call (607) 936-2011.

Jan Bridgeford-Smith, a freelance writer from Ithaca, New York, has written for numerous national and regional publications including Smithsonian Air&Space, History Magazine, and Life in the Finger Lakes

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Despite the responsibilities of being a father, husband, exhibiting artist, museum administrator, and executive with Corning Glass Works, Buechner painted seven days a week. He was a master of self-discipline when it came to his schedule, a lifelong habit evidenced by his prolific accomplishments. Over his lifetime as an artist, Lin and Jesse say, he produced thousands of pieces, each meticulously documented with a unique identifier that noted medium, subject, and date completed. He also produced caricatures for the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, watercolors for cassette covers, published the first guide to the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, wrote a treatise entitled Norman Rockwell, Artist and Illustrator, launched the New Glass Review, assisted with the development of the Rockwell Museum, produced a book, How I Paint: Secrets of a Sunday Painter, published by Abrams in 2000, served as an artist-in-residence in such prestigious programs as the Pilchuck Glass School and Haystack Craft School, and taught workshops in Scottsdale, Arizona, Frauenau, Germany, the Loveland Academy in Colorado, and the Fechin Institute in Taos, New Mexico. Oh, yes, and if all of that wasn’t enough, the remarkable Mr. Buechner also found time—for years—to hold regular craft classes at his Corning studio. In a tribute to him that appeared two days after his death, Jeff Murray, a staff writer for the Elmira Star-Gazette, described the artist as “a driving force in the Corning-area art world.” But he could have just as easily characterized him as a driving force of nature.

In 1949, he and Mary C. Hawkins, another aspiring artist, were married. The couple’s first of three children, daughter Bon, arrived in 1951 in Corning, where her father had accepted a position the year before as founding director of the Corning Museum of Glass. Sons Thomas and Matthew followed in 1954 and 1957. During this first tenure with the Corning museum, despite the demands and time constraints that accompany young children, as well as creating a proper showcase for glass wonders, Buechner established the Journal of Glass Studies, wrote the glass entry for Encyclopedia Britannica, and traveled to the Soviet Union as a guest of the government to lecture at the Hermitage. He left Corning in 1961 after accepting a position as director of the Brooklyn Museum, where he remained for ten years. He returned to the Southern Tier in 1971 after accepting a trifecta position as vice-president of Steuben Glass, president of the Corning Museum of Glass, and president of the Corning Glass Works Foundation. He claimed Corning as his home until his death from lymphoma in 2010.

took him outside the studio when, at the ripe age of twenty-three, he was offered a job with the Metropolitan Museum in the display department, eventually being named the department’s assistant manager. This started young Buechner on a forty-year career immersed in the development and care of cultural institutions devoted to “securing society’s rich history.”

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