Autumn Guide to the Upper Delaware

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GUIDE TO THE UPPER DELAWARE

Leaf peeping, rail trails, pumpkin beer, spooks, films, fall colors, harvest, haunted paintings, the walking dead and more...

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Contents 4 The Haunted Houses of Nancy Sadler

By Anne Willard

10 Zombies and Spiders and Clowns, Oh My One scare after another at Reaper’s Revenge

By Amanda Reed

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An Ale as Old as Time Cozy up this fall with a pumpkin beer

By Isabel Braverman

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On the Tracks of History Autumn hikes on Sullivan’s rail trails

By Heather Jacksy, Lisa Lyons and Helen Budrock

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From Apples to Zucchini Putting up your harvest

By Cheyenne Zigmund

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Spooks Invade The Cooperage

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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ormally, when one hears the phrase “the season� around here, one assumes it means the period from Memorial Day to Labor Day. But there’s another season just as vibrant in the Upper Delaware River Valley, with its own unique share of outdoor activities, artistic pursuits and celebrations: Autumn.

Leaf-peeping is a favorite autumn pasttime all over the Northeastern U.S., and the Upper Delaware is no exception. Deciduous trees turn color the world over, but the Northeast is unique in terms of the sheer variety of trees it hosts and their corresponding colors. Read our autumn foliage guide to learn about which trees provide some of the most splendid hues. In these pages you will also discover some fabulous venues for leaf-peeping on foot: Sullivan County’s rail trails—paths through the countryside that have been converted from railroad for the use of pedestrians and bikes.

In rural areas like ours, autumn is also the time for putting up the harvest. A local farmer oers tips on the various ways you can keep your summer bounty on the table throughout the cold seasons.

And then there’s the big autumn holiday: Halloween, a celebration that has become increasingly popular in part due to its power to stimulate the imagination. It has inspired a wildly inventive haunted hayride not too far from us in the outskirts of Scranton and Honesdale’s Canaltown Spooky Movie Festival closer to home. The eerie and the macabre even inspires art, like the paintings of local artist Nancy Sadler. You can take a tour of the ride, the festival and the paintings on these pages.

Here’s to a hauntingly happy autumn for you all.

Anne Willard Section Editor

Eerie imagination abounds at ‘Spookyfest’ film festival

By JoĂŤlle Dujardin

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The Haunted Houses of Nancy Sadler

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By ANNE WILLARD ancy Sadler’s father had an unorthodox taste in bedtime stories. When Nancy was a little girl in Denver, CO, he used to read to her from Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and Imagination,” illustrated by Beardsley-esque illustrator Harry Clarke. Hardly fodder for a toddler, one would think, but she loved them, and the eerie, unsettling tales and artwork stayed with her as a lifelong taste for, in her words, “the spooky and the macabre.”

It took a while, however, for those influences to show up in her art. Initially she was a landscape painter, and the West Coast subjects in her early work held no hints yet of the darkness that later crept in. But after travels that included not only a number of U.S. locations (including Colorado, San Diego, northern California and LA) but also another country (France), Sadler wound up in Red Hook in New York City.

There she was exposed for the first time to what she calls the “urban wild,” and her focus shifted from natural landscapes to the decayed manmade structures all around her. It was the catalyst that finally connected that lifelong

taste for the weird, the desolate and the mysterious to her art. “My aesthetic changed,” Sadler says. Now it was the old buildings and structures that obsessed her.

This is when she started painting what one might call her “haunted house” series, of which writer Jacqueline Stigman wrote in 2007, in a piece titled “The Haunted Vision of Nancy Sadler:” “Nancy Sadler’s spooky luminous take on the inner life of the home, includes both the past and a timeless present...

“Like gingerbread houses, one can almost spot a trail of bread crumbs leading to the door. A candle in the window is a universal symbol for someone waiting, but in Sadler’s homes there is a bonfire in every window... her homes glow like fiery paper lanterns, stagily lit from within. The flames inside unfurl from doors and windows, alive, and sticking out their burning tongues like a primordial goddess....” (jacquelinestigman. blogspot.com).

Asked what animates her artwork, Sadler says, “My aim is to imbue a sense of mystery, using houses as a vehicle.

Who is the family? If the light is on, what’s going on? And houses have an anthropomorphic quality—they look like faces, with the doors and windows.”

Look for those faces in the works of art on these pages.

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By Harry Clarke - Printed in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and Imagination,,” 1919, Public Domain

An illustration for “The Cask of Amontillado” by Harry Clarke. The book, including illustrations, had a lasting influence on Sullivan County artist Nancy Sadler.

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These pieces were painted in the 2005-2011 period, when Sadler lived in Brooklyn’s Red Hook area but frequently visited Sullivan County.

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It was also while she was living in Red Hook that Sadler first discovered the Catskills. With her boyfriend at the time, who was also a painter, she used to come up here and, as she tells it, “poke around old structures.” Eventually, in 2012, she decided that Sullivan County was the place she’d like to live. She is now the assistant to Executive Director Bradley Diuguid at the Catskill Art Society (CAS) in Livingston Manor, NY, and her work has appeared most recently in the pop-up member shows CAS held in August.

Since moving to Sullivan County, Sadler has resumed the “haunted house” series begun in Red Hook, but with a new twist. She has collected wooden shingles from Grossingers—itself a haunted artifact of a now decayed past—as the “canvas” for her works, using pastel, oil and watercolor.

The images you see here encompass Sandler’s career from Red Hook to the present, and are some of her most haunted, and haunting, creations. To see more, visit www.fineartamerica.com/artists/nancysadler.

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The medium is the message: Sadler has recently embarked on a new series of house paintings that are executed on wooden shingles from Grossingers, themselves now a kind of haunted relic.

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One scare after another at Reaper’s Revenge

By AMANDA REED alloween is my favorite time of year. The candy, the makeup and costumes, the amazing decorations and displays around the neighborhood—all make for a frighteningly good time in my mind.

The tradition of haunted houses has always been a staple in the area. When I was a kid in Wayne County, PA, it was what I looked forward to every year (even though I knew the man at the end of Tanglewood’s Haunted Ski Lodge with the running chainsaw didn’t have a chain on that bar). Sadly though, times have changed, and that haunted ski lodge hasn’t run in years.

Fortunately, it turns out that Honesdale businessman Paul Kotran of Paulie’s Hot Dogs runs a fabulous Halloween venue called Reaper’s Revenge not too far from me. I gathered up my teenage daughters, my husband, and my best friend and her husband as well. We took the trip over to the outskirts of Scranton on a drizzly Friday night in early October.

After parking in a hay field, a short walk up a spooky trail got us to the main area, where there was a nice bonfire going. We signed a waiver (yes, a waiver), then walked up and stood in line for the Haunted Hay Ride along with hundreds of others— all eager to have a chance at either proving how brave they are, or possi-

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bly wetting their pants. Either way, I knew this was going to be way better than the haunted houses of my youth.

There are about nine wagons pulled by tractors that take you down the trail; it took about an hour of waiting to get on, but it turned out to be well worth it. I could hear screams in the distance as we pulled up to our first stop, and I laughed a little as the police officer pulled my husband, Marty, off the wagon for disobeying the rules. I knew why they pulled him off: he was

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wearing a neon orange sweatshirt.

After “roughing him up,” they let him back on, and we continued through the trail.

This adventure was ghastly and spellbinding. A trip to the underworld and some amazing actors on stilts and in costumes that really looked fiendish were one of my favorite parts. In almost complete darkness, with only strobe lights around, the apparitions boarded the wagon and proceeded to scare people. After that, a trip through

what appeared to me as eerily like a “Deliverance” set brought frightening redneck characters engaged in murder and mayhem. With awesome air effects and gunshot noises, it really felt like you were in the middle of the fight.

Most certainly my second favorite part were the zombies along the trail.

As they came out of the woods and descended upon the wagon, I laughed and my best friend screamed—which made me laugh even more. Want to

know why? That would be telling— you’ll have to take a hayride yourself.

After a little more riding and some more spooky encounters, we finally were told to get off the wagon. Having survived the first leg of the trip, we entered the Lost Carnival. Call it a side show, a freak show, or just a fun walk in the woods with some insane clowns, this was an amazing interactive spectacle that caused just as many, if not more screams than the hayride.

Clown actors with spectacular makeup and costumes greeted us and taunted us, staying completely in character, separating our group of six into pairs and keeping us from each other as we wandered through.

Ahead of me on the trail, I could hear my younger daughter, Alex, squeal and then yell at one of the clowns for scaring her. The clown keeping us from them just stared blankly at us as I tried to crack my funniest clown puns in its face. Not wavering or even smirking, this clown had me beat.

The evil clowns kept harassing us as we continued through the end of the Lost Carnival and met up with the rest of the group. This is where we entered Pitch Black. Picture, if you will, my small group of six wandering through a maze. In the dark. No light at all.

After the first 10 feet of fumbling and bumping into each other, we formed an impromptu conga line in the

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Halloween Carnival & Haunted Trails Location: Frost Valley YMCA, 2000 Frost Valley Rd., Claryville, NY Contact: frostvalley.org/event/halloween-carnival-haunted-trails/ Open: Saturday, October 15, trails 7 to 10 p.m., other Halloween activities starting at 9 a.m.

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I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give away how we found it; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to figure it out yourself. In fact, I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you all the details of the walk, even the one really big scare that got me toward the end. It might spoil the surpriseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and surprise is part of the fun. Suffice it to say there was more trouble for Marty in his orange sweatshirt, and at one point I found myself thrown into a cage at the mercy of Walking Dead-type zombies.

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hrewd Fox Brewery in Eldred, NY has a special drink on tap: a pumpkin beer crafted from the recipe of none other than George Washington. The recipe dates back to Colonial times and utilizes what those early settlers had on hand: pumpkin and molasses. These flavors are distinctively fall-inspired and make for a cozy and satisfying beer. Bill Lenczuk, the owner of Shrewd Fox Brewery, explained that settlers could not rely on getting shipments of ingredients from Europe, so they had to innovate and use what was available.

According to mountvernon.org, “Beer was a favorite drink of George Washington, as it was for many people living in 18th century America.” Washington’s recipe is for small beer, which has a lower alcohol content and therefore was served to children and servants. Lenczuk wondered if a modern brewery could reproduce Washington’s recipe.

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On the Tracks of History Autumn hiking on Sullivan’s rail trails

By Heather Jacksy, Lisa Lyons and Helen Budrock

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re you going leaf peeping? Well, get out of the car! A new twist on a fall foliage tour is a leisurely stroll along a historic pathway, immersing yourself in the colorful world of the changing season. You get a little exercise and clear your head, feel the crisp air, smell the earth, hear the birds, gather a leaf or two for your scrapbook and save some gas.

Before the age of the automobile, railroads were king. And though most of them in our area are now inactive, they have left us a splendid legacy: a network of passageways through the countryside that can be, and are being, transformed into pedestrian pathways. In particular, many segments of the old New York Ontario & Western Railway (O&W) Railroad have already been converted to hiking trails and are ready to enjoy across Sullivan County—and more are soon to come.

The O&W was affectionately nicknamed the “Old Woman” and the “Old & Weary.” It operated from 1868 to 1957 and ran from New York City to the shores of Lake Ontario passing through the southern Catskills and Sullivan County along the way.

For well over 50 years, the O&W ferried tourists from the sweltering New York City summers to the cooler Catskill Mountain resorts of Sullivan County. Now the railroad corridor is host to many residents and visitors who enjoy the quiet refuge of this historic pathway.

Most of the walkable sections described in the next pages are close to town centers, so there is easy access for residents and visitors, and a place for a little nosh before or after your tour.

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A brand-new trailhead sign for the Parksville trail gives hikers directions to amenities.

Parksville Rail Trail 1.3 miles. Brand-new trailhead signs announce the entrances to the north and south ends of the Parksville Rail Trail. This trail is just one block from Route 17, at Exit 98. The trail is shaded throughout its length during summer and runs along the Little Beaverkill, which keeps it company for almost the entire way. There is a short section where the builders of the O&W cut into the mountain rock, making a passageway so thin, it’s hard to believe that a train could fit through there. Water seeping through the rock creates beautiful icicles in winter. There are no street crossings, perfect for a family with children.

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This postcard shows the Liberty train station in the early 20th century.

Liberty Rail Trail (officially opened in 2007 as the Liberty Bike Trail) 3 miles. The northern terminus is on Chestnut St. (Route 52), where there is a nice parking lot with trailhead signage and a flower garden. Who knew such a quiet corridor existed behind residential neighborhoods and commercial buildings in the center of Liberty! The trail runs southward behind Liberty Farm and Garden and across Lake Street. There are sev109 Stony Road • Lake Huntington, NY eral additional street crossings as the trail continues ES T U IN M 10 toward Ferndale. Standing on top of the old concrete FROM BETHEL DELUXE COUNTRY SUITE with private bath & whirlpool tub for two.

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Hiking isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just for warm weather. Here, Morgan Outdoors leads a winter hike on the Hurleyville segment of the O&W rail trail.

Hurleyville Rail Trail 2 miles. The trailhead parking lot on Main St. in Hurleyville is immediately next to The Pickled Owl restaurant. This section of rail trail is undergoing upgrades that include one mile of paved trail each direction out of Hurleyville. It is well loved by strollers and birders who enjoy sightings of waterfowl on the nearby ponds, including some migratory birds in the fall. Binoculars are handy to have along. The trail heads straight back to a fabulous rock cut, which is beautiful in winter, when water seeps out of the rock on both sides of the trail, creating spectacular ice formations.

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Two young hikers help clear brush and maintain a section of the O&W rail trail near Woodridge.

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The trail continues along the southern edge of Silver Lake, where one might spot a great blue heron or pair of mallards. Those wanting a longer outing could continue onto the Woodridge section of the O&W Rail Trail, beginning at Green Avenue.

3.5 miles. This trail runs from Phillipsport to Wurtsboro and will soon connect to the Mamakating Town Hall. It includes D&H Canal towpath. The two main accesses to the trail are Hornbecks’ Basin, located 1/2 mile north of Wurtsboro on Route 209, and Bova Road, located 4 1/2 miles north of Wurtsboro.

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Trailkeeper.org is the result of a partnership between the Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Catskill Mountainkeeper, the Sullivan County Division of Planning and Environmental Management, the Sullivan County Visitors Association and Morgan Outdoors.

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Our communities have been working hard on these segments of the O&W. This summer’s Sullivan Renaissance projects are evidence of their commitment. The county has also been working from a regional perspective; a completed O&W Rail Trail would run for 50 contiguous miles and connect to Orange and Ulster County systems. An asset like that has economic, quality of life, health and overall safety benefits that would amplify the work already completed.

[Heather Jacksy is associate planner in the Sullivan County Division of Planning and Environmental Management. Lisa Lyons is the owner of Morgan Outdoors in Livingston Manor, NY. Helen Budrock is a community planner for Sullivan Renaissance. They are colleagues in the effort to provide more completed sections of O & W Rail Trail for public enjoyment.]

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Benefits of Rail Trails The benefits of Rail Trails are well documented and include: • Health: Enhanced access to bike paths such as a rail trail reduces new cases of disease (per 100,000) by: 5-15 cases for colon cancer; 15-58 cases for breast cancer; 59-207 cases for type 2 diabetes; 140 cases for heart disease.

• Quality of life: amenities such as rail trails attract people to live in an area, and improve the quality of life for residents.

• Visitors and spending: bicyclists on Minnesota’s trails spend $481 million annually, Colorado sees more than $1 billion, Wisconsin $556 million, the City of Portland Oregon $90 million • Home sales and property values: Houses sell faster and housing prices go up $9 every foot closer to a trail entrance to a premium of $9,000 to be located 1000 feet closer to the trail. Other studies show from 6% to over 32% increases in home sales prices related to trail proximity.

For those concerned about safety, crime actually goes down because of “eyes on the street,” speed of walkers and cyclists, and separation of criminal from his or her vehicle.

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From Apples to Zucchini Putting up your harvest

By CHEYENNE ZIGMUND

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rowing my own food is easily one of the most rewarding activities I have found in life, second only to actually getting to eat the fruits of my labor every day.

Growing things here in the Northeast presents us with the challenge of a short growing season and a long winter when nothing will grow save in a heated greenhouse. So how are we to keep enjoying our land’s bounty while our gardens are beneath two feet of snow?

Methods and recipes for food preservation are incredibly varied from

Vegetables like potatoes and winter squash can be preserved by simple root cellaring: putting in a dark, cool place in burlap bags.

person to person, from culture to culture and from place to place; however, the most basic methods are common across the globe. We can freeze, chill or dry food, as well as can, pickle or cure it. In any one of these methods our aim is to process the food in such a way that the enzymes present in the food are deactivated, thus halting or slowing decomposition and preserving the nutrients, flavor and structure of the food. After processing, we select a method of long-term storage that will best retain those qualities.

Fall brings us a magnificent array of produce to “put up,” from apples and aubergine (eggplant), potatoes and pumpkin to tomatoes and tomatillos. Here are some safe and easy suggestions for preserving some of your favorites: Root cellaring is all about keeping fruits and vegetables out of the light, and at the ideal temperature and humidity level to prevent spoilage.

Many of us lack the facilities or capacity to build a legitimate root cellar, but for the basics a cool, dark part of your house, such as an unheated room, will suffice. Keep your stock of potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squash and garlic in burlap bags. Check on produce in your “root cellar” frequently for spoilage.

Freezing produce is the next simplest method of preserving your harvest. It requires no specialized equipment and takes relatively little time and energy. Starting with produce that is very fresh, you just need to

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Photos provided by Root ‘N Roost Farm

Author Cheyenne Zigmund poses with a basket of produce from her farm, Root ‘N Roost in White Sulphur Springs, NY.

clean, cut and blanch the produce for the appropriate length of time in order to best preserve the nutrient content, texture, and color, then pack in airtight freezer bags or containers with as much air removed as possible.

Dehydration—removing water—is Dehydration another great method of food preservation. For best results I recommend acquiring a dehydrator that has a built-in thermostat, fan and timer.

For fruits and vegetables this process disables the ability of bacteria to multiply and therefore helps prevent decomposition. In addition to removing water from our food, however, we also wish to deactivate the natu-

ral enzymes that are constantly acting to ripen, discolor and decompose our food. We can achieve this by briefly blanching produce in boiling water or steam, or alternatively treating fruits with ascorbic acid (vitamin C) or fruit juice. For best results, follow your dehydrator’s users’ guide, or one of the references in the sidebar on the next page to determine the temperature and time that different produce should be dried. Following dehydration, produce should be stored in a dark, dry location in an airtight bag or container.

Canning has made a huge comeback as a form of food preservation

in recent years, and while it truly is a great way to put up your harvest, it is imperative that you learn to do it safely. It is also a good idea to stop and think about what kinds of canned foods you actually like before making an entire case of them.

There are two methods of canning, the hot water bath method, and the pressure-canning method. The first involves bringing the contents of your jar up to 212°F in order to kill off any bacteria that may be lurking in your preserved food. This method is appropriate for jams and other fruit preserves, as well as pickles, relishes, salsas and chutneys, or, scientifically speaking, for anything with a pH equal to or lower (more acidic) than 4.6.

Pressure canning involves bringing the temperature of the jar and its contents above boiling in a pressure canner to around 260°F. It is necessary for the safe canning of anything with a pH of higher (less acidic) than 4.6. This includes

meat, stock, plain vegetables and many sauces and soups.

Always use clean jars and clean produce. Using the resources on this page, including the tested recipes they contain, will help ensure that you are canning safely.

Anyone with access to a kitchen and a garden or farmers’ market can make the delicious bounty of summer last all winter long too, and not only that, you can avoid the many toxic additives that store-bought preserves contain when you do it yourself. Start small with some frozen veggies, or canned salsa or pickles, and then keep expanding your skill set until you have a chockablock pantry like mine that reflects the abundance of your garden all year round. Take a class or read a book, whatever your learning preference may be, but above all be sure to enjoy summer’s generosity for as long as you can make it last.

[Cheyenne Zigmund is the manager of Root ‘N Roost Farm in White Sulphur Springs, NY, www.rootnroost.com.]

Frozen tomato quarters

1) Blanch tomatoes in boiling water for 1 minute, then plunge into ice-cold water.

2) Once cooled, cut tomatoes into chunks (halves or quarters), and then lay chunks out on a baking tray.

3) Put the full tray into the freezer overnight, and then transfer frozen chunks into plastic freezer bags.

Dried Apple Chips or Rings:

4) Remove air from bags by sucking it out with a straw before quickly sealing it, or use a vacuum sealer.

1) Core apples, and then cut into 1/4” slices. Try to keep your slices uniformly sized so that they dry at the same rate. You can choose to leave skins on or peel them; processing time will be longer if skins are left on.

5) Grab any amount from the bag as needed and then seal the bag back up for future use!

2) Soak slices in lemon juice for 3-5 minutes to prevent browning, and then drain.

3) Lay slices out on your drying tray and dry at 135°F for 7-15 hours, on the shorter side in low-humidity climates and on the longer side in high-humidity climates.

Cheyenne’s Favorite Preservation Resources Books

“So Easy to Preserve” (Sixth Edition, 2014). Cooperative Extension/ The University of Georgia.

“Blue Book Guide to Preserving.” (Ball) Jarden Home Brands.

“Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin.” Allison Carroll Duffy

Website

www.drying123.com

All kinds of fruits and vegetables can be dried.

Here are trays of dried currents.

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Spooks Invade The Cooperage The Spookyfest crew gearing up for the 2016 festival are Derek Williams, left, Paul Venditti (in cat face), Kelsey Renninger, Mary Colgan, Joëlle Dujardin, Alicia Anderson, Dave Justice and Katalin Justice.

Eerie imagination abounds at ‘Spookyfest’ film festival

By Joëlle Dujardin s the air cools and the leaves turn orange and die, as the sky’s light casts strange shadows and days darken more quickly into night, we know we’re entering spooky season. And in Honesdale, PA, that means monsters ambling down Main Street for the Halloween Parade, scarecrows hanging out on storefront stoops, and costumed revelers dancing the night away at the Wayne County Arts Alliance’s Halloween Bash. And for the third year in a row, it also means the Canaltown Short Spooky Movie Festival. “Spookyfest,” as we affectionately call the growing festival, is an opportunity to showcase the talent of local and not-so-local movie makers.

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he cool thing about Honesdale and many small towns is that within these supportive little nests, an idea, once hatched, can quickly transform from an abstract concept into a reality. Derek Williams and I were driving through a snowstorm one day in early 2014 when we decided that our town needed its own movie festival.

Why not? The surrounding area has lots of artists seeking opportunities to share their work, as well as an engaged community receptive to new ideas. Within a matter of months, we had a perfect venue (The Cooperage), a crew of creative talent eager to help drive the plan forward, and most importantly, submissions.

We chose the term “spooky” (rather than “horror”) because spooky, at least in our minds, can mean many different things: eerie, psychologically disturbing, campy, horror—basically anything that makes you feel as if the world is a little off-kilter and you need to watch your back. Some spooky movies may feed your nightmares, while others are more likely just to make you jump or laugh. And it’s been a thrill to see how artists interpret the theme. Looking back at some popular submissions over the last couple of years, you’ll find haunting animated films, live-action thrillers, traditional ghost stories, campy horror spoofs, even music videos.

Another key word in the festival’s name is “short.” The lineup includes movies ranging in length from a few seconds to seven minutes. This short-movie format seems to work well for a few reasons: 1. New artists are not daunted by the task of creating a feature-length film; conceiving, filming, and editing a short movie are doable for anyone motivated to make a submission. 2. If, as a member of the audience, you find that a particular movie is not your cup of tea, you merely have to close your eyes and the movie will be over before you can say “red rum” a hundred times at most.

3. Within the span of a few hours, attendees can have a real movie-festival experience and view a wide range of movies.

Without the artists making the movies, there would be nothing worth viewing, so it’s always a thrill (and a relief) when the movies start coming in. Original movie submissions come from artists who reside as far away as Spain and as near as Honesdale. As awesome as it is to see submissions from far-away lands, the softest places in our hearts are reserved for local artists. No doubt the audience feels the same way. One of the most entertaining parts of the evening is spotting local people and places represented in some of the movies. “Hey, that looks like ___!” you might say. And unlike being at a screening of a Hollywood movie, there’s a good bet that the lookalike is the real deal. Your next comment might be “Wow, I didn’t know he had such acting range,” or “I’ve never seen Bethany, PA, look so creepy,” or “I always wondered what was really going on in that head of hers. Figures she’d direct something like that.”

At the end of the conclusion of the program, the audience is invited to vote on their favorite movies, and audience favorites are then awarded with “Spookies”—which are kind of like the Oscars, but homemade and way rarer.

With a warm reception in the area and increasing recognition in general, the “festival” aspect of Spookyfest is getting stronger each year. For the second year in a row, the Wayne County Arts Alliance is an official sponsor of the event, making clear that movie-making is an art worth recognizing and supporting. Last year, the Gravity Inn in Waymart hosted a pre-party the week before Spookyfest, and on October 21 of this year the Velvet Maple in Honesdale will host a show of Spookyfest posters made by local artists.

This year’s festival will take place on October 22 at The Cooperage in Honesdale, with doors opening at 7 p.m. Artists interested in submitting an original short spooky movie can find guidelines at canaltown552.com/spookyfest. The deadline for submissions is September 25.

[Joëlle Dujardin is a co-founder of the Canaltown Short Spooky Movie Festival and a writer and editor living in Honesdale, PA.]

Contributed stills

The winner of the 2016 Gold Spooky, “Storyteller’s Last Stand” by Brendan Portice and Bob Wilson, featured a cast of Wayne County actors.

The 2015 Silver Spooky went to Steve Gibson and Jessica Paquin for “Gold Bug.” Here’s a still from that movie.

Molly Brown of the UK is a regular submitter to Spookyfest. Her movie “The Evil Table” typifies her distinct style.

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Autumn trees of the Upper Delaware Matching colors and trees According to Donald J. Leopold of SUNY Syracuse, there are over 125 tree species that are native to or naturalized in New York State.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and natural resources says there are 108 native species, plus many naturalized species, in that state. All play a role in the shifting palettes of color that occur over the course of the fall season, though some, like evergreens, serve more as a background or chorus than as one of the principal players.

If you’ve ever been curious about which particular trees are responsible for some of the more vibrant splashes of color you see as you are out and about leaf peeping, this guide will help you out.

Tulip tree Tulip trees are among the earliest of the trees to turn, sometimes starting as early as August. The color is a rich, solid yellow.

Sugar maple Sugar maples also tend to be early to turn. Unfortunately, one reason for this is that many of these trees in our region have been experiencing health problems, and stressed trees tend to turn early. But whenever they turn, sugar maples provide one of the most beautiful color displays, a fiery, luminous blend of variegated yellows and oranges.

By Ninjatacoshell (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

Tulip leaf

By Famartin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Tulip tree

By Kristine Paulus from New York, United States [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

Sugar maple tree

By Superior National Forest (Uploaded by AlbertHerring) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Sugar maple leaf

Red maple There are a number of different maples in our forests, but some are more colorful than others. The red maple, like the sugar maple, is one of the best, turning a bright red or orange. It is not to be confused with the imported Japanese red maples, whose

By James Lee [CC BY leaves are red all the time.

2.0 licenses/ (http://creativecom by/2.0)], Red ma mons.o via Wikim ple leaf edia Com rg / If you want to plant a maple on your property and like bright mons fall colors, avoid the non-native Norway maple, which turns a fairly staid yellow late in the season. Stick with the natives like sugar and red.

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By Famartin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

White ash leaves

White ash

By Famartin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

White ash is another of the early turners. Like sugar maple, it can have a variegated effect similar to sugar maple, as seen in the closeup photo of the leaves, especially hen turn a early in the season, then darker, more uniform red as the season progresses.

White ash tree

By BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada (Birch) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Paper birch tree © El Grafo / CC-BY-SA-4.0 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Paper birch leaf

Photos copyright David B. Soete

Sumac clump

Paper birch Paper birches can be found throughout our area, and when they turn they add a dusky yellow to the color palette in handsome contrast to their bright white and black trunks.

Sumac leaf

Staghorn sumac Sumac is a short, shrubby tree that grows only about 25 feet high but provides a wonderful splash of color in the autumn—not to mention berries that are valuable to wildlife and can be used to create a spice widely used in middle-eastern cooking. They are ubiquitous by the roadsides of our area, especially the Scenic Byway, Route 97 in New York. Those familiar with Narrowsburg, NY will see that the clump photo was taken overlooking the Big Eddy.

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Oaks turn color at the end of the season, providing a last splash of color before the season ends.

Their hues tend toward the brownish, so they are frequently not considered to be among the great autumn trees. But with the sun on them, they turn rich burnt-orange or reddish hues that can be astonishingly vibrant.

The hillsides that face directly onto the Delaware River seem to be especially richly endowed with oaks, so driving down the Scenic Byway late in the season you can still get a dramatic hit of autumn color.

Pin oak

White oak

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