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JULY Vol. 47 • No. 7 Peter A. Fitzgerald EDITOR

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O N T H E COV E R Danny Stewart Jr., who plays bass for the Nashville, Tenn.-based Larry Stephenson Band, performs at the Northeast Pennsylvania Bluegrass Festival in Tunkhannock, Pa. Stewart’s father, a member of Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative, is the festival promoter.

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KEEPINGcurrent State works to upgrade unsafe dams across Commonwealth The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has released an update on its high-hazard, unsafe dam revitalization program. The commission manages 18 dams that were, or currently are, considered as high-hazard, unsafe dams.

High-hazard, unsafe dams are dams that have deficiencies of such a nature that if the dams were to fail, substantial property damage and a probable loss of life could occur.

Of those 18 dams, two have been removed from high-hazard, unsafe status; six are 100 percent funded with construction under way; one project is 100 percent funded with repair work scheduled to begin this year; and two projects are scheduled for repairs in 2013 and 2014.

Of the original estimate of $86 million needed to address the problems at all 18 dams, it is now estimated that $34.5 million is still needed to address the seven remaining projects.

The two dams removed from highhazard, unsafe status are Stevens Lake in

REMOVED FROM LIST: Stevens Lake in Wyoming County is no longer listed as a high-hazard dam; 16 Pennsylvania dams remain on the list.

Wyoming County and Virgin Run Lake in Fayette County.

Dams with work currently under way or scheduled are Belmont Lake in Wayne County, Canonsburg in Washington County, Dutch Fork in Washington County, Leaser Lake in Lehigh County, 4

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Lower Hereford Manor Dam and Upper Hereford Manor Dam in Beaver County, Opossum Lake in Cumberland County, Lower Woods Lake in Wayne County and Lake Nessmuk in Tioga County.

Work is not scheduled on Colyer Lake in Centre County, Donegal in Westmoreland County, Glade Run in Butler County, Kyle Lake in Jefferson County, Minsi Lake in Northampton County, Lake Somerset in Somerset County, and Speedwell Forge in Lancaster County.

DEER MANAGEMENT: State parks and forests are participating in the 2012 Deer Management Assistance Program.

DCNR forests, parks to manage deer population

Station at 717/787-3444 or by emailing ra-askdcnr@state.pa.us.

Some of the state’s forests and parks will be participating in the 2012 Deer Management Assistance Program sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). The goal of the program is to encourage antlerless deer harvests in some areas so that DCNR and private landowners can more effectively manage white-tailed deer populations and curtail damage to forests and crops in those areas.

Participating parks are: Bald Eagle, Centre County; Beltzville, Carbon County; Blue Knob, Bedford County; Canoe Creek, Blair County; Codorus, York County; Cook Forest, Clarion County; Gifford Pinchot, York County; Hickory Run, Carbon County; Keystone, Westmoreland County; Kings Gap, Cumberland County; Moraine, Butler County; Nescopeck, Luzerne County; Ohiopyle, Fayette County; Oil Creek, Venango County; Presque Isle, Erie County; Prince Gallitzin, Cambria County; Raccoon Creek, Beaver County; Ricketts Glen, Luzerne County; Ryerson Station, Greene County; Shawnee, Bedford County; and Tobyhanna, Monroe County.

Permits can be obtained from license-issuing agents or the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s website at www.pgc.state.pa.us. More information is available by contacting the Bureau of Forestry Ecological Services

Susquehanna River now a part of national water trail U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced in May that the Susquehanna River has been designated as a new historic connecting component of the existing 3,000-mile-long Capt. John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.

As a designated portion of the national trail, the Susquehanna River will be eligible for state and national funding, technical assistance, resource management, facility enhancement, interpretive trail route marking and promotion.

The historic trail was designated by Congress in 2006; it follows the Chesapeake Bay and its numerous tributaries.

The Susquehanna River component of the trail is a 552-mile system of water trails along the main river and its west branch. It begins in New York, travels through Pennsylvania and into Maryland.

Bucknell University students and faculty were involved in research that helped lead to the designation. Bucknell’s involvement began several years ago with the translation of 18th-century mission diaries from the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pa. Those diaries detailed the relationship between the Moravians and Native Americans in the area, and told the story of the Susquehanna River’s impact on the area. l

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YOUR HOME probably has several security features — door locks, bolts and an alarm system. When it comes to cyber security, electric cooperatives follow the same principle — building and reinforcing multiple layers of protection to safeguard your personal data from attacks.

Securing digital data on an electric distribution system is a continual process of evaluating and addressing risks. While it’s difficult to thwart a determined computer hacker, with constant vigilance electric cooperatives can significantly minimize the possibilities and keep our members’ information secure.

Nationally, cooperatives are bulking up cyber security with tools from the Cooperative Research Network (CRN), the research arm of the Arlington, Va.-based National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA).

“Electric cooperatives have made substantial progress in cyber security without additional regulation because they owe it to their members to protect system reliability and prevent unauthorized access to personal information,” explains Glenn English, NRECA’s CEO.

Security sweep Electric cooperatives have been working with the Department of Energy (DOE), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Obama Administration, and the electric utility industry to strengthen and bolster cyber security. An assault on a cooperative, for 6

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example, could be a prelude to, or part of, a coordinated cyber strike on the country’s power grid as a whole. Last year, NERC, the nation’s electricity reliability watchdog, conducted an exercise dubbed “GridEx” to identify cyber security concerns and encourage utilities and government agencies to work together to mitigate issues.

“GridEx provided a realistic environment for organizations to assess their cyber response capabilities,” observes Brian SECURITY CHOICES: Sandia National Laboratories computer scienHarrell, NERC manager of criti- tists Ron Minnich (foreground) and Don Rudish have successfully cal infrastructure protection run more than 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines, an standards, training and awareachievement that will allow cyber security researchers to more ness. “Through the interaction, effectively observe behavior found in compromised computers. participants forged relationships distinction between what’s appropriate across the cyber security community.”

A report on the test notes most utilities security for bulk power versus distribution systems. The question is whether what’s have adequate response plans, but more training and updated guidelines were sug- put forward makes sense, if it will be overly burdensome, and if it will make electricity gested.

To prevent would-be hackers from dis- less affordable for our members.”

NRECA cyber security experts believe covering security lapses, teams of grid any legislation should focus on encouragguardians routinely scour electric distribution systems to find and fix weak spots. ing federal agencies to routinely provide “I look for vulnerabilities in control sys- actionable, timely intelligence about cyber threats and vulnerabilities to utility industem software,” remarks May Chaffin, a try experts. cyber security researcher at the Idaho “Hackers are getting smarter, and for National Laboratory. “I try to get them repaired before someone takes advantage.” some, much of the fun is the challenge of Lessons learned from the GridEx activ- beating your system,” observes CRN Program Manager Maurice Martin. “Co-ops ity and researchers like Chaffin have been understand cyber security isn’t a one-time incorporated into CRN’s cyber security thing. Improved communications about toolkit. potential trouble is key to this effort.”

Electric cooperatives are building cyber Regulating security barricades and fashioning plans addressing The possibility of cyber mischief current and future dangers. But in a rapundermining automated digital technoloidly evolving cyber environment, there’s no gies used by utilities has Congress, the such thing as perfect security. l White House, and regulators considering Sources: Idaho National Laboratory, the right balance of security and emerCRN, NRECA, NERC gency response initiatives.

Megan McKoy-Noe, CCC, writes on con“There is no question that there will be sumer and cooperative affairs for the National some kind of legislation,” predicts English.

Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

“It’s important that policymakers make a

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IN KEEPING with their tradition of innovation, electric cooperatives are working hard to introduce new technologies that will increase service reliability, decrease outage time, and improve safety.

One of the major areas where advancements are taking place involves down-line automation. An umbrella term describing the use of digital meters and equipment, software applications, and two-way communications, down-line automation allows electric cooperatives to monitor the flow of electricity in near real-time; identify voltages out of allowed ranges; pinpoint outages; and transmit signals to transformers, capacitors, circuit breakers, and other devices to initiate diagnostic or corrective actions that can isolate, reroute power around, or even remotely repair the cause of a power interruption.

With down-line automation, cooperatives can decrease the number of members who lose power and the duration of an outage, as well as reduce “line losses” — electricity that dissipates in the process of distributing it over power lines.

One of the most promising advances in down-line automation, distribution fault analysis (DFA), taps high-resolution monitors installed on electric lines and cuttingedge algorithms to zero in on hard-to-find electric system trouble spots before they morph into full-blown outages. In its purest form, DFA “reads and identifies” specific fault signatures in a waveform — such as a cracked insulator or a tree limb occasionally brushing a line and causing a blink. Instead of learning about an event, like an outage,

tially lower costs by reducing truck rolls. Following massive storms, the ability to target outage locations from the office and efficiently dispatch line crews can significantly speed up getting the lights back on.

Innovation — it’s proof positive, if there was any doubt before, that cooperatives ROBOT AT WORK: ‘Ti,’ a 140-pound robot being developed by the build a better world. l Electric Power Research Institute, hangs gondola-style from power Maurice Martin is senior prolines and rides slowly from tower to tower, monitoring the condition gram manager specializing in of the lines. Robots like Ti seek to prevent power outages. transmission and information techafter it happens, cooperatives can fix a nology for the Cooperative Research Network. potential problem ahead of time.

Brian Sloboda is senior program manAn electric cooperative in Tennessee ager specializing in distribution operations has been testing a DFA system designed for the Cooperative Research Network.

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DANNY STEWART JR. really had no choice. Born to bluegrass-loving parents, the 23-year-old Laceyville, Pa., native was bound to follow that sound. For Stewart, like for so many other Pennsylvanians inured in that uniquely American folk and bluegrass tradition, it was more of a calling.

“Dad taught me to play the mandolin starting when I was 8,” explains Stewart, whose parents, Christa and Danny Stewart Sr., are members of Wysoxbased Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative.

From there, it didn’t take Stewart long to figure out what he wanted to do with his life.

“At 14, I started to play acoustic guitar. After that, it was easy to learn the bass, and I began playing in a lot of little bands in the tri-state area (Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York),” he adds.

Along with support from his parents, Stewart received training from talented teachers — both at Wyalusing High School and at East Tennessee State University. Combined with his natural ability and a lot of hard work, Stewart has been able to follow his dream of making a living by making music.

“About two and one-half years ago, I heard Larry (of the Larry Stephenson Band) was looking for a ON STAGE: Granite Hill Camping Resort, a member of Gettysburg-based bass player,” he Adams Electric Cooperative, hosts bluegrass festivals at the resort near relates. “It was a Gettysburg each year in mid-May and late-August. Rich and Cyndie word-of-mouth Winkelmann are the campground owners and festival promoters.

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The trio, ‘Cardinal, Palomino and Otter,’ performs at the Maple Harvest Festival at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center, which is a member of Huntingdon-based Valley Rural Electric Cooperative. Trio members are, from left: Bill Voigt, Matt Marsden and Paul Brigman.

Marsden is also a member of the cooperative.

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thing. So I contacted him and went to his house and auditioned, and I was hired.”

Stewart returned to northeast Pennsylvania in early June with Stephenson’s nationally known, Nashville, Tenn.based band to play bass at his father’s bluegrass festival. The Northeast Pennsylvania Bluegrass Festival, created and promoted by Danny Stewart Sr., is held annually the first weekend after Memorial Day. At this year’s festival in Tunkhannock, as the younger Stewart performed in front of a crowd that included members of his family, high school friends and former teachers, he couldn’t have been happier with his music-filled life.

“Music is what I do every day,” he explains. “I wake up thinking about it

being able to do what he loves.

“When I was a child, my family spent all of the time listening to bluegrass,” he remembers. “My dad and I went to a bluegrass festival every single weekend, and you would see the same people at those festivals. I like the closeness; everyone feels like family. … When I see people tapping their foot, clapping their hands and smiling, that’s the best feeling in the world. It’s a natural high.”

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and I think about it all the time. It’s not like a job where I get up and go to work and punch a time clock. It is work; it’s hard on your body to drive so much and travel all the time, but it’s so much a part of me that I don’t even think of it as a job.”

Stephenson and the members of his band travel the United States in a 40-foot tour bus that three of the band members — including Stewart — take turns driving. Their busy season is the late spring, summer and early fall, when bluegrass promoters across the country book them for festival gigs.

Stewart fills his time during the winter teaching a few classes at his alma mater, East Tennessee State University, which offers a major in bluegrass, oldtime and country music in its Department of Appalachian Studies. He also records with Stephenson and plays bass for recordings for other musicians, an easy task these days when he can record his track anywhere and email it off to be combined with other instruments and vocals to a make a complete recording.

Stewart emphasizes his happiness at

Bluegrass and folk music often go together, especially in Pennsylvania.

Folk, as a music genre, is so old that most attempts to provide a history of it don’t even date it. For centuries, oral histories — stories of people and their surroundings — have been set to music and passed along from performer to performer. And that tradition continues in the folk music of today.

Bluegrass is a newer, more specialized kind of music, combining hints of folk, gospel, country and blues that features acoustic instruments and distinctive vocal harmonies. It was popularized by the late singer Bill Monroe, who in the late 1930s named his band “Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys” after

his home state of Kentucky (the Bluegrass State).

Like Stewart, Huntingdon County resident Matt Marsden loves bluegrass, as well as folk music. But as much as Marsden loves the rhythm of the music, it’s the stories behind the lyrics that really captivate him. Hundreds of years from now, people will still know his thoughts and dreams, thanks to the spirit that moves him to write them down and set them to music.

“I love keeping the old songs alive,” says Marsden, a member of Valley Rural Electric Cooperative. “These songs are about the way things were before electricity and technology came along and changed things. They are about hard work … timeless songs that old people and young people can both connect to. … It’s amazing to think a song I write about one of my experiences might stay alive for hundreds of years.”

Marsden credits his love of folk and bluegrass music to his family, who always had the dial of the car radio set to “oldies” when he was a child.

“At some point, I realized there was a difference between the music of today and its one-hit wonders and older music where people put a lot into the whole

The Cherry Flats Ridge Pluckers, a group that includes Ron Markell, a member of Mansfield-based Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative, center, plays old-time, country barn dance music derived from the hills of Appalachia. In this style, the banjo is not finger-picked as in most bluegrass music; it is played claw-hammer style, and is pluck-strummed with the hand formed like a bear claw.

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“There is definitely a difference in lyrics and influences.”

Marsden began playing an electric guitar in high school, but soon moved to acoustic instruments like the banjo and mandolin. Since then, he’s added drums, piano, violin, harmonica, bodhran (an Irish drum) and is now learning to play bagpipes. He performs with “A 3-Inch Wide Band,” a group of organic gardeners/farmers who chose the band name from the instructions on the back of a seed packet that often say “Plant in a 3inch wide band.”

An employee of Penn State University’s Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center in Huntingdon County, also served by Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Marsden often performs at the center as part of a folk/bluegrass trio known as “Cardinal, Palomino and Otter.”

He is Cardinal, while Paul Brigman, a graduate assistant at the center, is Palomino, and Bill Voigt, whose wife,

Joann, works at the center, is Otter. All three men took what they call their “nature names” from their connections to the environmental center. The trio members are so dedicated to the center that they have recorded a CD, which is on sale at the center, called “Naturally Unplugged, Shaver’s Creek.” Proceeds go to the center.

International language Voigt, who has been a volSTANDOUT PERFORMER: Rhonda Vincent and her band, ‘The unteer at the environmental Rage,’ have won more than 70 top awards, including the covcenter for more than 15 years, eted Entertainer of the Year Award from the International shares his love of music with Bluegrass Music Association, along with seven association the thousands of visitors who awards for Female Vocalist of the Year. Here, she performs at come to the center to learn the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival at Granite Hill Camping about the environment.

Resort, a member of Adams Electric Cooperative.

“Music is an international anger, but the joy is the thing I relish the language, a way to connect with people most. When I am playing and other peoall over the globe,” Voigt says. “Music ple are enjoying it, I enjoy it.” lightens your load. Music can convey a He reports, “There is a hominess to lot of different things, from sadness to

‘Pickin@bluegrass,’ a group of friends who play together just for fun, entertains the crowd at this year’s Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative Annual Meeting at Seven Springs Mountain Resort. The performers all play regularly in other bands, but enjoy each other’s company and playing style.

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the music I play. Most people can relate to the songs. … When you have an instrument, no matter where you are, and you run into another person with an instrument, it doesn’t take long before you are both sitting down playing. You share your music and they share their music, and you learn different techniques from one another. Music is another way to communicate. It’s another language.”

Voigt’s love of music began in grade school when his parents scheduled him for piano lessons. From there, he branched out into guitar, banjo and harmonica. Although he loves all types of music, including symphony and classi-

cal, he usually performs folk and bluegrass with the center trio, or country gospel with a band called “Heavenly Road.”

Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative members Ron and Bridgette Markell also are affiliated with two bands, each of which has a different focus. The Columbia Crossroads couple has been performing gospel with their children, Riah, Amara, Hanna, Ben and Alya, as “The Markell Family Band,” since the kids were old enough to talk (they now range in age from 16 to 25).

Ron, Ben and Riah join with Wanda Irion, Aubrey Irion, Bruce Smith and John O’Donnell to perform old-time, folk music with the “Cherry Flats Ridge Pluckers.”

Bridgette does the scheduling and publicity for the group (aptly named as they first performed on a hill overlooking the Tioga County community of Cherry Flats and they all “plucked” instruments).

The Markell family is kept busy as they practice with each of their groups on a weekly basis, with performances at local festivals, weddings, dances and benefit concerts scheduled on top of their rehearsals.

“Playing music is a wonderful way to bring out life,” Bridgette notes. “There’s a reason why they say music soothes HAVING FUN WITH MUSIC: Members of the ‘Goldwing Express’ from Branson, the savage beast.

Mo., entertain the crowd at the Northeast Bluegrass Festival in Tunkhannock Being able to make with tales of their Native American background. The annual spring festival is music is a joy for sponsored by Danny Stewart Sr., a member of Wysox-based Claverack Rural all of us.”

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GETTING READY TO PERFORM: Kevin Custer, a member of Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative, prepares to play as part of ‘Pickin@bluegrass’ at the cooperative’s annual meeting in May.

Festival fun To spread that joy to others, Somerset County resident Tim Custer and his wife, Brenda, along with his brother, Kevin Custer, who is a member of Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative, and his sister, Cindy Newman, hold the Coleman Station Bluegrass Festival on the fourth weekend of July each year at 1144 Coleman Station Road, Friedens. Custer cleared 20 acres of his farm — five acres for a natural amphitheatre and 15 acres for campers and RVs. The family brings in national and regional bands, and intersperses them with local bands for the three-day festival held in honor of the Custer brothers’ father, Kenneth “Slab” Custer, a wellknown bluegrass musician and radio personality who died in 1998.

The two Custer brothers also perform with Pickin@bluegrass. Although all five of the members of the group perform with other groups, they come

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Pickin@bluegrass is made up of the Custer brothers, Ray Bruckman, Brad Foust and Tim’s rock-‘n-roll-playing buddy from his high school days, John Larimer. Tim Custer is a three-time Maryland state banjo champion currently playing with “Mountain Therapy and Mac Martin.” Foust performs with “Blue Shades,” and Bruckman plays with the “Wheeling Jamboree House Band,” “Full Steam Ahead,” a bluegrass band out of Pittsburgh, and a Civil War re-enactment band called “The Acoustic Shadows of the Blue & Gray.”

The bluegrass festival path is a popular one in Pennsylvania and few of the

state’s residents live out of reach of a weekend music festival.

Danny Stewart Sr., a part-time musician now playing mandolin with “Louie Setzer and the Appalachian Mountain Boys,” is representative of entrepreneurs who focus their business efforts on the promotion of bluegrass music festivals.

Stewart takes it a step further, though, as he also provides annual winter bluegrass cruises for the die-hard fans who can’t make it from fall to spring without some bluegrass.

Held every year for the past five years on the weekend after Memorial Day, the Northeast Pennsylvania Bluegrass Festival at the Lazy Brook Park in Tunkhannock is Stewart’s brainchild.

Featuring both local and national performers, the four-day event has two types of bluegrass venues. Traditional bluegrass with all-acoustic instruments is available on one side of the park at the

same time progressive bluegrass is being performed on the other side of the park.

There, no rules govern the type of musical instruments permitted.

“I started off small,” Stewart explains. “That first year, I had all local bands. It was a low-risk venture. But the people came and that first year was a major success. So every year, it has expanded. This year, we had headliners from Nashville, Tenn., and Branson, Mo. … There are festival attendees who go from festival to festival all summer long.

It’s a community of people who are familiar with each other. If I go to a bluegrass festival anywhere, I will see people I know.”

For bluegrass and folk music lovers, finding that community is easy: you just have to follow that sound.

“The music community is a great community,” Marsden says. “It is open to anyone who enjoys music.” l

Picker, banker, instrument maker Tri-County REC member Greg Smith, a banker by day, plays bass in a bluegrass band called “Corn Pone Sally” after an old folk song about a notorious mountain woman of the same name, and in a jazz band, “The Mike Tester Band.”

But in addition to his practice and performance time, Smith also spends much of his free time in another musical pursuit. He repairs and builds instruments, including guitars, hammered dulcimers, mandolins, and now is working on a bass.

After graduating from college with a degree in music in 1976, Smith worked for about five years in a Lawrence, Kan., music store, building and repairing instruments. In the decades since then, he’s perfected his own techniques.

“I pretty much make the instruments the same way they were made hundreds of years ago,” Smith reports. “I use some power tools, but mostly just to get the wood to the rough size. After that, I use hand tools. I joke that I start with a pile of wood and remove everything that doesn’t look like an instrument, but that is really pretty much how you start. … I was fortunate that I was able to work with people who were accomplished instrument makers who set me on the right path.”

Making an instrument requires following more than one path — Smith must consider the exterior appearance of the instrument, and of course, the quality of the sound it makes is critical.

“For guitars, I generally use some kind of rosewood or mahogany for the back and sides,” Smith notes. “Tops are always made out of spruce of some kind. The MAKING MUSIC A DIFFERENT WAY: Greg Smith, a bass I am working on now, the top came from Alaska. I get some of my wood member of Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative, from Europe. The wood you choose is really important. Then you have to have a plays in a bluegrass band called ‘Corn Pone Sally,’ good plan and a good understanding of how to make an instrument sound good.” but he also builds instruments. His current project Smith’s creations are not rush jobs. He figures it takes about 150 hours of is this bass. steady work to make a guitar, while a violin takes longer and a mandolin even longer. His current bass project is his first, so he’s not sure how many hours he’ll have in the completed instrument.

“I also don’t know what it will sound like,” he admits. “The design is an Italian one from 1819. I have plans that are from someone who took an existing instrument and copied all the dimensions and shapes. That’s what I am basing it on.”

Smith has kept several of his creations, and sold others. He explains that a nice, handmade guitar or mandolin would start at about $2,500 while a good, handmade bass would sell for between $10,000 and $50,000. A bass is expensive because it requires about 10 times as much wood as a violin and takes about four times as long to make.

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Crank up the awesome IF YOU’VE been feeling a little bored with your yard and garden routines lately, take a fresh look at the old homestead and your maintenance process. A few easy changes will pull you out of yard duty drudgery and reawaken your enthusiasm.

Every property can benefit from an update of one sort or another. Change can be made to rectify a problem, add functionality or enhance your enjoyment. Some changes render a complete overhaul, while others polish and refine what is already working well.

With a little thought and effort, you can identify new options in terms of maintenance, or overall design, or even different ways to use the space as it is now.

It’s hot out, so start easy.

Take an afternoon to sit back, relax, and let your eyes and mind roam. Compare and contrast your ideal landscape with the one you actually have.

Simple changes can yield major rewards. For instance, BARBARA MARTIN , who says she began gardening as a hobby “too many years ago to count,” currently works for the National Gardening Association as a horticulturist. A former member of Gettysburg-based Adams Electric Cooperative, her articles appear in magazines and on the internet.

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a well-worn path across the lawn could be reseeded, but maybe it could become an official path resurfaced with stepping stones or gravel.

Would the sound of a splashing waterfall liven up the back yard? If that’s too much to take on, try a birdbath with a fountain.

Could the year-round view of the vegetable garden be improved by installing a more attractive fence? Instead of redoing the whole thing, concentrate on the one side you see most often. Might new fencing be more effective at excluding unwanted critters and protecting the produce you work so hard to raise?

Perhaps you could modify the existing fence.

Maybe your mowing job could go faster if you adjust the outline of the lawn area to match an easy turning radius for your mower. Could you replace some of the lawn grass with a lower maintenance ground cover?

How about a more convenient system to organize and store your gardening and landscaping tools and supplies? Might a different watering method cut both your work load and use less water?

How comfortable is the spot where you are sitting right now? Might a shade tree or vine-covered pergola help to keep you (or your home) cool? An umbrella or awning might make all the difference.

Changes make a great topic to research and discuss over an iced drink on the patio. Flip

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Check the internet for ideas.

Chat it up with your gardening friends and family.

Visit nearby botanical gardens and display gardens.

Besides appreciating the flowers and magnificent shade trees, stroll through different areas. Check out the herbs and gardening for wildlife plantings, peek at the composting exhibit, or investigate how to prepare for planting the fall vegetable garden. You are sure to collect both inspiration and practical tips.

During your “improvement research” phase, head to the garden center or nursery and ask for ideas on ways to simplify, do the job faster, cheaper or more easily. There are so many devices and tools and design options, from prefabricated garden ponds and raised beds to self-watering planter boxes to new and improved plants. Look for heat-loving plants on display

GARDEN PARTY READY: Consider a few changes that will make your yard ready for a party.

— vibrant potted tropicals, blooming summer bulbs, and exotic water lilies — and snappy accessories.

Besides dreaming up projects, summer gardening definitely includes work we might rather skip, such as mulching or weeding or trimming. Why not experiment by spending 15 minutes each day in the cool evening or early morning, devoted to these mindless chores. A steady routine accomplishes more than you would think, and the quarter hour passes quicker than you would expect.

With thoughtful, spot-byspot improvements and daily work parties, you’ll soon be surrounded by a showplace worth celebrating. What a fine excuse to throw a festive summer barbecue — aka (dare we say it) a garden party! l

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An ice cream event ADMITTEDLY, homemade ice cream is a lot of work. It’s much easier to grab a carton of the factory-made stuff at the local market. But assembling and churning ice cream at home using an ice cream maker (freezer) is an event — a sweet, cold, creamy event. Don’t let the summer slip by without participating!

Blueberry Ice Cream is a simple concoction of fruit, milk, cream and sugar. What could be more basic and delicious?

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream celebrates America’s most popular ice cream flavor by utilizing vanilla in two forms: the bean and the extract.

In the not-too-distant past, most homemade ice cream contained raw eggs. These days, however, cooks avoid raw eggs because of concerns over salmonella contamination.

The alternative is to cook the egg yolks in a custard base — or to avoid eggs altogether. In Easy Vanilla Ice Cream, instant vanilla pudding serves as an egg substitute. The resulting ice cream is rich and satisfying.

Before starting any homemade ice cream project, consult the manufacturer’s instruction manual that came with your ice cream maker (freezer). The ratio of ice to rock salt is critical in the freezing process. Also, make sure you aren’t exceeding your ice cream maker’s (freezer’s) capacity, as ice cream expands as it freezes. If necessary, halve the recipes. l

VANILLA BEAN ICE CREAM 4 egg yolks 6 cups milk, divided 2 cups sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1 vanilla bean, split 3 1/2 cups heavy cream

In large bowl, beat egg yolks; set aside. In saucepan or microwavable dish, combine sugar with 2 cups milk. Bring just to boiling . Gradually pour hot mixture into egg yolks, stirring constantly. Transfer back to saucepan or, if needed, microwavable dish. Cook and stir an additio nal 3 minutes on stovetop or 1 minute in microwave oven. Remove from stove or microwave oven; add salt and vanilla extract. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean and whisk into mixture, taking care to break up any clumps . Immerse empty bean pod in mixture and chill thoroughly. To make ice cream , discard bean pod and pour mixture into chilled ice cream maker (freeze r) can along with cream and remaining milk. Churn and freeze accord ing to manufacturer’s instructions. Makes approximately 1 gallon ice cream .

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Good fencerows make good neighbors MY FAMILY’S home sits on the corner of a 41-lot development that previously was a farmer’s fields and woodlots.

Because our 4.5 acres is at the edge of the hillside that the developer tore apart to create the individual lots, eventually seeding them with grass and planting them with ornamental trees and shrubs, our lot incorporated a wonderful feature of the former agricultural landscape.

We have some of the fencerows that once separated fields and lanes. The lines of posts and wire that created the setting, into which the fencerows grew, have largely disappeared. Bits of rusted wire still cling to rotting posts and tree trunks in some spots. But mostly it’s the living fencerows that now form the dividing lines.

A rural landscape without a healthy crisscrossing of fencerows is a forlorn sight, particularly when it’s time to bag a few rabbits for a pot of is outdoor editor for The (Harrisburg, Pa.) PatriotNews and a contributor to many outdoor publications and websites, and author of more than two dozen books.

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Brunswick stew or gather a basket of blackberries or set a trap along a regular travel route of a red fox. The ongoing loss of fencerows leaves a less diverse, poorer ecosystem in its wake, for the wild things and for us humans.

A fencerow is the land’s attempt to revert to what it was before we carved it into something else. After we chopped the trees and cleared the brush and plowed under the weeds, nature’s process of regrowing a new version of that same habitat began almost immediately if we didn’t “keep on it.”

It all begins with the couple or three strands of wire we stretch around the newly cleared tract. Birds perch on that wire, birds that ate the berries of pokeweed, blackberry, poison ivy, wild grasses, thistle and more.

And, when they perch, they deposit the seeds from some of those berries under and near the wires. Some of the seeds sprout, launching a new patch of weeds.

Mammals, like mice, chipmunks, squirrels, groundhogs, rabbits and red fox, investigate the new spot of habitat. Some of them, in their fur, will transport and drop burrs from plants like burdock, trefoil or ragweed.

Some of those also will sprout, adding to the diversity of the developing plant community.

Eventually, fast-growing shrubs/small trees like elderberry and staghorn sumac

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will find their way into the fencerow through similar bird and mammal movements. As they grow, the next stage in the reverting habitat will take hold.

And they will be followed by taller, slower-growing, longer-lasting trees. In Pennsylvania, horse chestnuts, mulberry and crabapple are part of this stage of development, often the end stage before someone removes the trees to maintain the fencerow and eliminate branch overhang that interferes with farm equipment working in adjacent fields.

In many fencerows, the habitat never fully converts from one stage to the next, even over many years. As a result, the fencerow is a rich mix of everything from low grasses and weeds to mature trees, which supports a diverse range of animal life.

FENCEROW HOMES: Many animals live in the fencerows that dot the rural landscape.

The fencerow functions not only as a convenient, protected travel route for a variety of species, but also as the nesting and feeding grounds for many. Its mixed plant life supports a wider range of animal life than any of the stages of succession could support on its own. It’s usually connected to woodlots, woodlands or wetlands at both ends, encouraging additional animal species from those habitats to encroach out into the fencerow. Prey species attract their predators, and a wider range of prey species attracts a wider range of predators.

From the perspective of wildlife, fencerows are the value-added component of a farmer’s fields. l

SMARTcircuits

by James Dulley

Hot water can heat houses Try a reverse cycle chiller with your home’s heat pump ALTHOUGH electric resistance heating can be relatively expensive to operate, it is 100 percent efficient — that means all the electricity you pay for ends up heating your house. With a gas or oil furnace, you lose some heat out the flue.

A heat pump can produce 3 Btu of heat for your house for each 1 Btu on your electric bill. This is because the heat pump does not actually create heat directly. It uses a compressor, coils, and other equipment to draw heat from the outdoor air and pump it into your house.

A reverse cycle chiller is a heat pump system that basically uses a standard high-efficiency heat pump to produce heat during winter and cool air in the summer.

A typical air-source heat pump heats or cools a refrigerant that flows directly through an indoor coil. Air blows over the coil to heat or cool your house. A reverse cycle chiller heats or cools water in a small (20- to 40-gallon) insulated tank. The water then flows through the indoor coil.

The entire system will cost 15 to 20 percent more to install than a standard heat pump/electric furnace combination.

The output capacity of a typical heat pump is sized for the cooling Btu requirements of the house. In most parts of the United States, the heating Btu requirements are greater. To make up the difference, a backup electric resistance furnace is required during very cold periods. As the outdoor temperature drops, the heat output of the heat pump also drops just as the heating needs of your house increase.

You might think you could install a larger capacity heat pump to provide enough heat for your house even on very

cold days. This would be possible with an air-source heat pump, but it would not work well in the air-conditioning mode.

An oversized air conditioner results in short cycles, indoor temperature swings and poor dehumidification.

The primary advantage of a reverse cycle chiller is it transfers heat to an insulated water tank. This allows you to install a heat pump with an extra large capacity for adequate heating even in cold weather without the associated summertime cooling issues.

During summer, this large heat pump cooling capacity chills the water in the insulated tank to 40 degrees or so. The chilled water is run through a coil in the blower system, which cools and dehumidifies indoor air just like a standard heat pump. The heat pump can cycle on and off as needed to chill the water in the tank independently of the indoor blower.

Another key advantage of having the heated water tank is its wintertime defrost mode. A heat pump regularly switches to the cooling mode to defrost ice that collects on the outdoor condenser coils. During this time, expensive

electric resistance heat comes on or chilly air blows out the registers.

With a reverse cycle chiller, the heat to defrost the coils comes from the heated water tank so warm air continues to blow out the registers.

In addition to eliminating or greatly reducing the use of backup resistance heating, a reverse cycle chiller provides options for efficient heating. Because the heat is coming from the insulated water tank, you can select different types of heating for different rooms.

During summer, an optional refrigeration heat reclaimer (similar to a geothermal desuperheater) can be used. Instead of the heat pump exhausting the heat to the outdoor air in the cooling mode, it can be used to heat your domestic hot water for free.

During winter, the heat pump can be used to heat your domestic hot water in addition to the house. l Have a question for Jim? Send inquiries to JAMES DULLEY , Penn Lines, 6906 Royalgreen Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45244 or visit www.dulley.com.

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Think GLOBAL, Give LOCAL. For more information on volunteering or donating call 570-433-0777. Stop by at 23 Green Hollow Road, Montoursville, PA 17754 or visit at www.itec.org.

“COUNTRY COOKING,� Volume 2 — $8, including postage. “RECIPES REMEMBERED,� Volume 3 — $12, including postage.

Both of these cookbooks are a collection of recipes from men and women of the electric co-ops of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Payable to: Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, P. O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, PA 17108. Write Attention: Cookbooks. Volume 1 of “Country Cooking� is SOLD OUT.

House rental at Lake Raystown. Sleeps 11, fireplace, four bedrooms, dining table for 12, central A/C, two Satellite TVs, two full baths, two half baths, linens/towels provided, large recreation room, large parking area, one mile from lake (Snyders Run). Minimum two nights. Call 814-931-6562. Visit www.laurelwoodsretreat.com.

LAWN AND GARDEN EQUIPMENT HARRINGTON’S SERVICE CENTER, Inc. is now located at 475 Orchard Rd., Fairfield, PA 17320. 717-642-6001 or 410-756-2506 for lawn and garden equipment, sales and repair.

LEGAL SERVICES WORKERS’ COMPENSATION: Injured and want to know your rights?

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LIVESTOCK AND PETS PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI Puppies — AKC, adorable, intelligent, highly trainable. Excellent family choice. Reputable licensed breeder guaranteed “Last breed you’ll ever own.� 814-587-3449.

LOG CABIN RESTORATIONS VILLAGE RESTORATIONS & CONSULTING specializes in 17th and 18th century log, stone and timber structures. We dismantle, move, re-erect, restore, construct and consult all over the country. Period building materials available. Chestnut boards, hardware, etc. Thirty years experience, fully insured. Call 814-696-1379. www.villagerestorations.com.

MISCELLANEOUS BECOME AN ORDAINED MINISTER, Correspondence study. The harvest truly is great, the laborers are few, Luke 10:2. Free info.

Ministers for Christ Outreach, PMB 767, 6630 West Cactus Road B107, Glendale, AZ 85304. www.ordination.org.

MOTORCYCLE-SNOWMOBILE INSURANCE For the best INSURANCE RATES call R & R Insurance Associates from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 800-442-6832 (PA).

MOTOR VEHICLES AND BOATS 16’ FISHING BOAT with live well side console, stainless prop., 75 H.P. Yamaha outboard, galvanized trailer. Price $5,000 – nice boat.

Call at 570-596-4196 or after 5 p.m. 570-596-4951.

1989 ASTRO SUNSPORT 202 Pontoon Boat 20 ft. 40 horse Merc Minn Kota trolling motor, Lowrance x4 Fishfinder, Livewell life jackets excellent condition. 814-643-5105. Asking $6,000.

RAYSTOWN LAKE FUN SEVEN POINTS MARINA offers houseboat vacations, daily boat rentals, public sightseeing and dinner cruises aboard the Princess.

Enjoy the hospitality of PA’s largest marina, voted #1 in the nation.

Contact us at 814-658-3074 or tours@7pointsmarina.com.

REAL ESTATE HUNTING/FISHING/SUMMER Cottage. 2.2 acres w/mobile home 44’ x 12’. Deck, well, septic. Minutes from Snyder’s Run Boat Launch, Juniata River, Ridenour Overlook. $79,900.

Phone 240-357-7931.

JUNIATA COUNTY — Secluded home on 20.6 acres with stream.

Two – three bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, pine interior, oversized twocar garage, shed, outhouse. Many unique features. $209,000.

717-734-0170.

VERY PRIVATE two-story, four-bedroom log home. 3,200 square feet on 14 acres. Lake view with no neighbors. North Clarion school district near Tionesta. Call 814-755-4520. Listed at $399,000.

100% GRASS FED BEEF. Our holistic management produces the highest quality meat. Animals graze on a natural diet, are never fed grain, growth hormones, antibiotics or pesticides. McCormick Farms, LLC 814-472-7259. “The Heritage Cookbook; Recipes from the Heart.� 131 pages of family recipes compiled by Crawford County NSDAR members to benefit the education program. $20 includes shipping. 814-382-1415.

RENT-TO-OWN STORAGE SHEDS — No credit check. Stained, painted or vinyl siding. Many sizes and options available. Monthly payments starting at $53.47. Other products available — not rent-to-own — carports, trailers, lawn furniture pressure treated and plywood.

Dillinger’s “Downtown� Conneaut Lake next to Pizza Hut and Sheetz. 814-720-7375 or 814-720-4497. pjdillinger@gmail.com.

SAWMILLS USED PORTABLE Sawmills and COMMERCIAL Sawmill Equipment!

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SHOOTING SPORTS SPORTING CLAYS now at Scattergun Reserve! 17 stations. We are a full-service outdoor sporting reserve and conference center in Conneautville, PA. Call 814-587-3597 for information. Visit www.scattergunreserve.com.

CAMP FOR RENT — Very private southern Clearfield County. Three bedrooms, full bath, wood burner outside fire pit, 80-foot deck near Prince Gallitzin Park, Rock Run Recreation. Weekly/weekend rental. 724-478-1930.

WANTED TO BUY OLD COMICS WITH COVER PRICE LESS THAN 35¢. CAN ALSO DO APPRAISALS FOR INHERITED COMIC COLLECTIONS. 717-349-7981 OR 804-796-3913.

QUALITY ANTIQUES — Fair prices, fast service. Single items to whole estates. All categories, 1960s and earlier: Textiles, Furniture, Industrial items, Vintage clothing, Medical, Advertising, etc. Call 570-994-2274 or email: oldcroakantiques@gmail.com.

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TIMBER FRAME HOMES SETTLEMENT POST & BEAM BUILDING COMPANY uses timehonored mortise, tenon and peg construction paired with modern engineering standards. Master Craftsman and owner, Greg Sickler, brings over two decades of timber-framing experience to helping you create your dream. We use high-quality timbers harvested from sustainable forests for all of our projects. Visit our model home, located on Historic Route 6, Sylvania, in North Central Pennsylvania. For more information phone 570-297-0164 or go to www.settlementpostandbeam.com or contact us at cggksick@epix.net.

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Thoughts from Earl Pitts, UHMERIKUN! No. 1 rule of the outdoors: never take your gal hunting or fishing

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GARY BUR BANK , a nationally syndicated radio personality —— can be heard on the following radio stations that cover electric cooperative service territories in Pennsylvania: WANB-FM 103.1 Pittsburgh; WARM-AM 590 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton; WIOO-AM 1000 Carlisle; WEEO-AM 1480 Shippensburg; WMTZ-FM 96.5 Johnstown; WQBR-FM 99.9/92.7 McElhattan; WLMI-FM 103.9 Kane; and WVNW-FM 96.7 Burnham-Lewistown.

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I don’t know if y’all heard the story Have any a’ you people out there ‘bout some nitwit in south Florida who took his girlfriend wild boar huntin’ with him. Well, he’s sittin’ in a blind, an’ he hears this rustlin’ in the brush. He figgers it’s a boar an’ just takes to wailin’ away at it. Yeah, you figgered it out — it was his girlfriend. She had left the blind.

It’s tough enough that he shot her in the leg. He’s in even more trouble when he tells her it was because he mistook her for a pig! They say she’ll recover, but I don’t know ‘bout his chances.

An’ that’s why my Earl Pitts No. 1 rule of the outdoors is — you never take your better half huntin’ an’ you never take her fishin’.

First off, on the huntin’ thing — accidents happen. You might accidentally shoot your huntin’ partner. If you shoot your buddy, or your granddad, or your Uncle Eddie, that there is just chalked up as a tragic an’ horrible accident.

If you shoot your spouse, it’s probably still a tragic accident, but mark my words. In four or five days, one a’ her friends is going to the law to tell them, “They was havin’ marry-tile difficulties.”

Trust me, if you shoot your wife, you’re gonna go from grievin’ widower to “person of interest” in less than a week.

An’ here’s how come you never take your gal fishin’. Cause when you go fishin’ with your buddies, what you’re doin’ is fishin. Follow me on this — when you go fishin’ with your wife, what you’re doin’ ain’t fishin’. It’s spendin’ a day with your wife.

She wants to talk. You want to fish.

She wants to go back to that cute diner you passed for lunch. You want to fish.

She wants to tell you what Charlene told her about the neighbors. You want to fish. She wants to go for a walk. You want, ah, to take her huntin’.

Wake up, America. Me an’ Pearl figger if we’re gonna have a long an’ happy life together, we gotta stay apart as much as we can. It sounds wrong, but it works.

noticed that the older you get — the more stuff you lose? They say when you get old, you can lose your mind. But before that, you lose everything else.

The thing you lose fastest an’ most often is your way. You know how come all them new cars got that fancy GPS map gizmos in’em? That’s ‘cause your baby boomers is getting’ older — an’ we can’t be trusted to remember where anyplace is.

When I was a young man, I’d jump in my pickup an’ I’d have a vague idea where someplace was. I’d gun the engine, peel out an’ 14 hours and three states later, I’d be there. I never ever got lost. Maybe a couple times where I was goin’ wasn’t where I thought it was, but I could figger it out.

I can’t do that no more. Everytime I’m goin’ somewhere, I don’t know where it is. An’ what’s the first thing you do when you get lost? I don’t know about you people, but we argue.

“You went the wrong way, Earl. You should’a turned back there, Earl.”

One time I looked at Pearl an’ I went, “Do you even know where I’m going, Pearl?”

She goes, “I know exactly where you’re goin’ Earl if you don’t change your ways.”

I don’t think we was talkin’ ‘bout the Mudd Lake Denny’s no more.

Then, besides losin’ your way, you also start losin’ your stuff. Your keys, your readin’ glasses. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I put something in a very particular place so I would remember where I put it, an’ then I forgot where I put it. An’ what’s the first thing you do when you lose somethin’?

We argue.

Apparently there’s a magical place in our house called “where it belongs.”

Wake up, America. Yeah, Pearl tells me she put stuff “where it belongs,” but that don’t mean I know where it is. I want my keys, Pearl. I don’t want to play “huckle buckle beanstalk” with you.

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RURALreflections Summer days NO ONE can dispute that summer has arrived, and it’s the perfect time to add “take photos” to your summer to-do list.

Rural Reflections has four categories of photos — most artistic, best landscape, best human subject and best animal subject — so amateur photographers are encouraged to send in their best photos in each category. At the end of the year, a winning photo will be chosen in each category, plus an “editor’s choice.” Each lucky winner will receive a $75 prize.

Send your photos (no digital files, please) to: Penn Lines Photos, P.O. Box 1266, Harrisburg PA 17108-1266. On the back of each photo, include your name, address, phone number and the name of the electric cooperative that serves your home, business or seasonal residence. (The best way to include this information is by affixing an address label to the back of the photo. Please do not use ink gel or roller pens to write on the photo.)

Remember, our publication deadlines require that we work ahead, so send your seasonal photos in early. We need fall photos before mid-July and winter photos before midSeptember. (Save your spring and summer photos for the 2013 contest.) Photos that do not reflect any season may be sent at any time. Please note: photos will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included. l

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