Mohawk Valley Living #106 September 2022 by Mohawk Valley Living

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When Covid hit, our biggest concern was for our area’s small mom-and-pop businesses. Their success is our success, as they are our commu nity’s lifeblood and our biggest supporters. What we never could have prepared for was the shock ing price jump in the cost of paper last October. A 48-page magazine today costs the same to print as a 64-page publication a year ago! The battle between our “art” and our “business” had begun—Lance always fighting for his creative “splash pages” (full or nearly full-page photos) and me fighting to make room for our Gallery Guide and Classical MV. But in the end, the cost to print becomes the deciding factor. We are not alone; many small businesses are having to make hard decisions whether their “art” is pizza mak ing, food-producing, service-providing, or actual “real” art-creating. I never thought I’d be check ing the paper pulp price index regularly in the hope of seeing some abatement, but it’s been a year since the shock of last October, so I am start ing to accept this new reality.

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Riggie is roaming around and hiding in the advertising areas of the magazine. Next to him you’ll find a letter. Find all the Riggies and rearrange the letters to answer this riddle. Enter by the 15th of the month to be entered in a $100 shopping spree at one of our advertisers! (Excluding media and banks) One entry per household per month. Mail to: Riggie’s Riddle, 30 Kellogg St., Clinton, NY 13323 or email: mohawkvalleyliving@hotmail.com NOTE: Please enter Riggie’s Riddle and crossword puzzle in separate emails. Hint: 2 words, 9 letters Every September we remember Lazzaro, Evans, Bodine, Friesen... Don’t miss this race that always takes place at Utica-Rome Speedway this season. See the answer and winner to last month’s riddle on page 46!

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Last week I filled up my car for $3.99 a gal lon!—with my club card and cash back credit card applied, that is. Budgeting/bookkeeping has always been my job with my husband and my business endeavors. Combining art and business is an art in itself.

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Anyone in business knows that the actual ity of owning a business is 20% the “dream” (flower arranging, cuisine preparation, customer greeting) and 80% the “business” (bookkeeping, sales, management). Today, the “20% dream” of many small business owners is being encroached upon. We, like many others in business owners, are holding on tightly to our dream, because that’s what it’s all about.

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My first experience with canning was at the ripe old age of 5. Every summer, my father would head to Brophy’s Truck Farm on Buckley Road in North Syracuse and load up the trunk and back seat of our 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 with bushels of tomatoes, peppers and pickling cucumbers. It was canning season at our house, with all hands on deck, mom, dad, Grandma Burke, my sister Debbie and me!

In 2016, Naturally Sweet Food in Jars was published. Now I have recipes that reduce sugar, substitute sugar, or leave it out altogether. As a diabetic who loves food… what more can I say.

The fact that all of Marisa’s recipes were for small batches, often 4-5 pints at a time, meant I didn’t need a huge storage area to store my bounty, and I didn’t need to set aside an entire weekend to preserving in the summer heat! I could can the way I eat - seasonally! I didn’t need to buy bushels of fruit and veggies. I could buy small quantities of my favorite fruits and veggies in season and put up a few pints. This gave me a depth of varieties for us to use or a few jars for me to take to those food swaps.

I decided to go to the ICAN workshop for two reasons: first, there was going to be a couple of in-depth workshops on food fermentation, and second, Marisa McClellan, a new food blogger I was following, would be giving a private canning demonstration to a limited number of attendees. I felt I just had to get in on that private demonstration! And I was lucky enough to get registered in time. The day started out with fermentation workshops. I learned a lot, especially that I’m not a fan of fermented food! Except for sauerkraut, the taste of other fermented foods was kind of off-putting to me. But I did purchase a special airlock cap to make sauerkraut one jar at a time. But back to the real reason I came to the workshops. Because of my food swaps, I had been searching for food items I could make to take to the swaps. I had recently found Marisa’s blog, Facebook page “Food in Jars” and I had my very own copy of her newly published book: Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year-Round! Yes, I was a proud groupie, and because I can

I was going to get to spend an evening learning from her, getting to ask questions, and have her sign my copy of her first book. Now I just had to overcome my intimidation with the process of canning.

In 2014, Marisa brought us Preserving by the Pint. In this book, Marisa breaks down the recipe to make, in most cases, 1-2 half pints of jars, etc. allowing for more canning fruit and veggies in season.

There are a lot of canning and preserving websites and books on the market. But the 37th edition of the Ball Blue Book and the above men tioned books are the only ones I need in my kitchen ... and the National Center for Home Preservation on speed dial!

I soon came to hate canning season. Boiling pots of water on every stove burner, no air conditioning and fans just moving hot, moist air around! Luckily, my job kept me out of the kitchen, but the back porch in the broiling sun wasn’t much better. I got to sort the tomatoes and remove all the stems.

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I vowed right then and there that when I grew up, I would never can again! And I almost kept that promise until 2012 when I heard about Nancy Fasholt’s “ICAN2012” Workshop held in Liverpool, NY. To be honest, I was very intimidated about canning. Many of my friends were water bath canning and some were even dabbling in pres sure canning. They were turning out some great food and sharing it in the Food Swaps that we were having regularly back then. But still, I was intimidated by all the horror stories about canning accidents my mom and grandmother had shared over the years.

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That evening in 2012, there were eight of us sitting around a kitchen island watching Marisa make a spiced nectarine jam and dilly beans. We all got to help in some stage of the canning process. We also got to ask questions, tell stories, and learn about the tools she uses. It was a very comfortable and conversational evening, and we all got to go home with a jar of jam and a jar of dilly beans. And yes, I got my book signed!

In 2019, The Food in Jars Kitchen, with over 140 recipes to use up those jars of preserved foods lingering on your shelves.

My main takeaway from that evening: if you stick to high acid foods – like most jams, jellies and pickles – you’re not going to kill anyone!

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Slowly pour the hot brine over the beans leaving ½ inch for headspace. After all the jars are full, use a wooden chopstick to work out the air bubbles in the jar. Check the headspace again and add more brine if necessary. the rims, apply the lids and rings and process in hot water bath for 10 minutes. pickles cure at least week before eating.

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Prepare a boiling water bath and 3 half pint jars. Put lids in a small saucepan of water and simmer gently to soften. Add nectarines and sugar to a large, non-reactive pot. Bring to a boil and let jam cook for about fifteen minutes. If the fruit hasn’t broken down much after time is up, use a potato masher to break down the chunks.

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Through the Eyes of TheOpal

The year was 1851, and with $600 received from the first subscribers to The Opal, the decision was made to purchase a piano and a portrait at the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. The Opal was the new literary periodical published by the asylum that was partially written and edited by the hospital’s patients. The piano attested to the important role music was beginning to play in the rehabilitation of asylum residents and the painting portrayed Amariah Brigham. Brigham was a pioneering innovator in the humane treatment of the mentally ill and the hospital’s superintendent from its inception in 1843 until his death six years later.

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This treatment resulted in the establishment of a variety of work sites on the Utica campus. So, whether patients were employed on the asylum’s farm, in the sewing, printing, or machinery shops, or at numerous other sites, they were accomplishing real work and practicing new skills that could potentially benefit them upon their release, rather

The erudite Dr. Brigham, who in 1844 started TheAmerican Journal of Insanity and whose experience before moving to Utica included the superintendency of Hartford, Connecticut’s Retreat for the Insane, was representative of a newer, more compassionate philosophy on caring for the mentally ill. Historically asylums often resembled the “snake pits” frequently portrayed in literature, being places where patients might be tied down with ropes, confined in dark cells, teased, beaten, or even put on display for the public’s amusement. Brigham supported the use of music, painting, and other arts in treating his patients, and he was a fervent believer in the therapeutic value and healing potential of physical labor performed in modern, well-supervised settings.

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The asylum’s guide for employees, published annually and titled “Rules, Regulations and Bylaws of the New York Lunatic Asylum,” was strongly influenced by Brigham’s humanitarian philosophy and described the institution’s expectations as to how staff members were to perform their tasks whether serving as program directors, farm laborers, or in any other capacity. Examples from the 1855 guide are illustrative and quite typical of the philosophy outlined in each year’s rule book. Department supervisors were to ascertain that “the sick” (the reference here being to patients) were treated by all (staff) “with great care and kindness.” Matrons must do the same, while also endeavoring to “spend as much time with the female patients as (their) other duties will allow.”

And there was a beauty that could be found and appreciated in a place where humane treatment was the norm, as evidenced by the following snippet submitted to The Opal by a patient in 1858, “A more beautiful little object was not to be seen on a bright morning…than a young, spotted fawn leaning against the Asylum, unobserving but observed in the simplicity of its nature…quietly enjoying the sunlight and shade.”

The asylum’s guide for employees emphasized compassion

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Meanwhile, income from subscriptions to the widely-read Opal, which eventually doubled to $1 annually, did not comprise the magazine’s sole source of funds, as attested to by the myriad business advertisements that filled its pages. The Opal ceased publishing in 1861 but was revived almost a century later in the late 1950s. Described as printed by and for the patients of Utica State Hospital - the Lunatic Asylum moniker having long since been dropped - the new Opal, survived into the early 1970s and included book reviews, patient writings, and news of the hospital’s school of nursing. •

Attendants must also “soothe and calm” patients who might be angry, and should “take care to keep calm and forbear to scold, threaten, or dictate in the language of authority” if spoken to by patients in “abuse language.” These employees were also to keep their charges safe, to which end they were reminded to “never place in the hands of patients, or leave where they can get, any razor, penknife, rope, cord, medicine, or any dangerous weapon or article.” In addition, it was noted that “beds should be searched frequently for such articles.”

While its emphasis was certainly on kind and compassionate treatment and it was progressive for its time, the asylum remained an institution, which meant that adherence to rules and schedules, such as those involving mealtimes, remained in place. Breakfast, regardless of anyone’s individual preference, was always served at 6:30, 7:00 or 7:30 in the morning and, the main meal of the day, dinner, was on the tables by 12:30pm sharp, with tea, a lighter repast, following at 6pm In keeping with 19th-century norms, Sunday was seen as “a sabbath, or day of rest and quiet,” with services provided by a chaplain “or another clergyman if approved by the superintendent.” While patients could receive guests from 2-4pm six days a week, visitors were not allowed on Sundays.

It was considered imperative that Attendants “look particularly to (the patients’) comforts,” and “visit them late at night and early in the morning.” Staff should take special care “in nothing to set a bad example,” and, since they served as de facto role models, should certainly treat each other “with politeness.”

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gearing up to be a warm day. It was quite windy, which concerned me since wind makes it more difficult to see birds moving in the trees. Was it a bird making that branch move or was it the wind? I was able to locate a mixed flock of migrants after only a few minutes of searching. I could discern that the flock was made up of mostly warblers and that there were approximately 25 of them, but they moved too quickly for me to get a positive identi fication on any of them! I heard a few familiar call notes but I couldn’t get visual confirmation on any of them. They were too high up in the tree canopy and moving too fast. Within a minute they were gone, and the relentless wind made it impossible for me to tell which way they went. Right then a short whistle from the forest understory drew my

Twenty-five years ago, when I was seriously involved in birding, one of my favorite places to find migrant songbirds was Hamilton College’s Kirkland Woods. It is an extensive piece of mature forest habitat with lots of good trails and plenty of birds. When I arrived at the parking lot in the early morning on September 21st, 1998, it was

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The two most essential months to experience songbird migration are May and September. May is when the birds are arriving from their wintering grounds, and September is when they are head ing back south. For those just beginning to get a handle on the art of bird identification, spring migration offers an easier experience. In May, the arriving birds are donning bright breeding plum age, and most are issuing loud and clear renditions of their species’ traditional songs. That means a birder can identify many individuals in a mixed species flock even without making visual contact. Also, in May, the foliage is still unfurling, and one has a fighting chance to see chickadee-sized warblers in the forest canopy without a full curtain of leaves blocking their view. By contrast, in Sep tember, many outgoing migrants will have molted into fall plumage. With most bird species, their fall plumage is a muted version of their breeding plumage and it’s not so easy to identify who is

Blackburnian Warbler in duller fall plumage

who. Also, there are plenty of immatures or first-year birds in their ranks, which present more identification confusion. Few of the migrant songbirds will sing in September making identification by sound difficult. For most birds, their vocal rep ertoire is reduced to a few terse call notes, flight calls, and warning calls. Unfortunately, many of those are difficult to attribute to a specific species. Cryptic plumages and cryptic vocalizations con tribute to making September birding a real chal lenge.

I continued on the trail which led downhill into a part of the woods where the older trees were spaced further apart. Between them stood younger locust trees. Given the multiple layers of canopy, I thought I might have a chance of seeing members of the next mixed songbird flock that came through. As it happened, I didn’t have to wait for long. Over the sound of the wind, I heard the distinct double call note of a tiny Ruby-crowned Kinglet as well as the high-pitched trilled calls of the equally tiny Golden-crowned Kinglet. The birds were part of another mixed species flock that was moving through the highest branches of the tall oak trees in front of me. The wind was making a near-constant “whooshing” sound which was masking all but the most emphatically given bird calls, but I was starting to hear some – and some I could identify. The rhythmic movement of the upper tree branches had a mes merizing effect on me, and it was a struggle to keep my focus on a bird once it flitted into view. It was a continuing procession of small avian luminaries. As it happened, I counted 15 warbler species in that one flock. Who knows; if conditions had been better, and if the wind had relented, I may have counted even more species.

On my way out of the woods, I saw a young male Sharp-shinned Hawk darting around the top of a maple tree and sparring with some Blue Jays. I thought perhaps it was one of the brood that had been raised

attention. It was a Swainson’s Thrush – a brown-backed, medium-sized thrush with a buff-colored eye ring. Its underside is light in color and shows a spattering of dark spots. The Swainson’s Thrush breeds in the Adirondacks and Adirondack foothills. They travel through the Mo hawk Valley during migration but are often missed by birders due to their secretive nature. The Swainson’s Thrush’s song is an unearthly, flute-like series of connected notes that spiral up in pitch. However, by September they have ceased singing and the only sounds they pro duce are short vocalizations – contact calls and warning calls. The short whistle I heard was a warning call. Fortunately for me I was able to lo cate the source of the sound quite quickly and I soon had the illustrious thrush in my binoculars where I wanted it.

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I have to get up early this morning in stead of luxuriating and lingering in the cozy warmth of bed with my husband, not want ing to face the slightly chilly morning of late summer. But I need to walk up the road be cause I’m taking care of my grandchildren’s young chickens and four cats while they’re on vacation. I think I’m cranky about it, but I strongly suspect that it’s not sincere crank iness but just my bad habit of thinking I’m cranky. I am pleasantly surprised to see gild ed morning mists slanting low across our dirt road, pass a curious deer not ten yards away (just calmly observing me), and remember how delightfully magical mornings can be. (I should get up early more often and take a walk!)

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

pily file out the door to spend busy day in the yard scouting for tiny bugs and seeds.

(Tim continues…) August 31, 1954: “When I went to the first football practice, there were ten left halfbacks, all of them pret ty good. The guy that ended up last in line was all-state from a school in Michigan where he scored over 21 touchdowns, and he barely got to do any of the drills. I don’t know if I’ll even make the team! It’s humiliating after all

I know I will write about this in my journal tonight. I’ve kept a journal on and was 13 when I received a Five-Year Christmas in 1961. I was still this time, Tim was already in Garrett Theo logical School studying to become a minister after spending four years of undergraduate school studying Physical Education, taking pre-med courses, and focusing on becoming a coach (and having a girlfriend!). But his un dergraduate years got off to a rocky start.

Ten beautiful chickens gratefully scurry out of their little house in polite single file and head for the food pan. What beautiful patterns and colors they wear! We say good morning to each other with gentle clucks and coos as I watch them eat and scoop up tiny beaks full of water. They finish very quickly then hap

ward to this, but I hate to admit it, I’m home sick. I don’t know anybody. It’s so far away from what I had.”

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On August 24, 1954, when Tim was 18, his parents dropped him off at Denison Universi ty where he had a football grant. He writes of it; “As the folks drove off, I was standing on

On the way home, I hoe some rocks off the road. The gravel we get is rather large; walking and biking on these bigger rocks is so annoying and a little unsafe! I feel a lit tle ridiculous, hoeing a road, but bit by bit, day by day, I make two tire tracks fairly clear of the big stuff and feel happy about it every time we take a ride or walk.

September 1954: “The clothes I bought this summer are a complete zero compared to what is in style, the wrong colors, the wrong kind of sports jackets and shoes. I wasted all my summer lifeguard earnings! I look like ‘high school Harry!’ I have to borrow stuff from my roommate for special events.

After being a minister’s partner/wife for over 50 years, my observation is that the two careers aren’t that much different any way. They both are focused on encouraging, cheering on, and helping their team/congre gation do their best in the game of life. Tim’s degrees in coaching, psychology, and theolo gy (Body, mind, and spirit) have been as im

While Tim was in Seminary, I started my first diary at age 13: Sept 13, 1961: Dear Kitty, I’m terribly sorry I didn’t write to you all summer. The Russians got to outer space first. I thought about you many times. Sept 14, 1961: We had an assembly to day. A man told us about the Russians and our rockets. I might enter Flicka in the school fair. Hot weather lately. We had exercises in gym.

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To make things worse, I put an orange T-shirt in the washer with my clothes and all my underwear and my whites turned a pale orange, going toward pink. The good-looking women are so snobby! I wait tables at one of the cafeterias. Some of them look at you like you’re some kind of low life. I doubt if I’ll get any decent dates, and the fraternity I joined isn’t well thought of by the female population here. Fortunately, I’ve got a neat roommate. He is really different and far from being an intellectual-social snob. He didn’t join a fraternity. He joined a club that’s open to everybody and includes foreign students.”

Tim did make the team and got his de gree, but his undergraduate years also ended with confusion and turmoil because he decid ed to become a minister instead of a coach. Everyone who knew him thought he’d total ly lost it. He had a difficult time making the transition but succeeded.

Age 14: Sept 23, 1962: I worked hard at school today. We’re making out index cards. I’ve got Mrs. Worhatch for 9th grade English. I don’t like her very much. I have Miss Thompson for Earth Science. That’s not hard if you study but you sure do have

athletic success I had in high school to be ‘back in line’ and sitting on the bench. The coach knows my name, but that’s about it. I feel like quitting, but what else do I love as much as playing football? I want to coach someday. Got to get to practice now – two a day now, plus boring skull ses sions at night.”

September 29, 1961: Watched the Bell Telephone hour. It was alright. Mom paint ed the piano white with gold trim. I entered Flicka in the school fair. I got three white for showing and one red ribbon for riding. I am now copying illustrations from the Black Stallion series. Lost my glasses this summer and I got new ones. Mom had a wonderful time in Calif.

portant to me as to his career and congrega tions. How lucky am I to have lived with my personal counselor as well as best friend all these years? This relationship has helped me keep my head together.

The Shawangunk Nature Preserve is a deep ecology, forever wild, 501©(3), learn ing and cultural center. Tim and Peggy still live there and can be contacted through their www.shawangunknaturepreserve.comwebsite.

sure enough, my light shines on one wig gling slightly downstream from the pan, al ready eating tiny particles of floating pasta. Just upstream I see a teeny speck of red dish light moving. It is a crawdad, its min iature eye glowing in my light as it scurries under a twig.

to remember a lot about rocks! Mr. Cobb for math. He’s a great comedian. He kicked me out of class once when I didn’t do my home work. Mr. Burch for Cit. Ed. I’ve discovered his real personality. I used to think he never smiled but he really does a lot. Miss Marino for chorus. Boy, can she sing! She also kind of flutters her eyelashes at you. I’m playing piano for chorus this year too. And good ‘ole Mrs. Morton for gym (calls me Peggy darling). I’ve got a pen pal, but of course stupid, lazy me doesn’t write very often. We’re going to send our ID pictures to each other. Mary T____ writes crazy love letters to Tom M___ she says, “I love you. I never did like that old Bob B____ anyway.” She’s funny but those boys shouldn’t make fun of her. Of course, she doesn’t realize. We had 3 kittens last summer out of the cali co Mother cat. She had long-haired kittens, one all white, one all grey, and one all yel low. We’re calling them Shadrach, Meshak & Abednego.

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Age 73, August 2022 Peg writes: That much work in one day was rather unusual, but I am pleased to realize that I was not afraid of work at an early age. Tonight, we hadn’t washed the dinner dishes before we took our sunset bike ride. The cooking pan needs a serious scrub that I don’t feel like doing, so, with a flashlight, I take it to Misty Brook in front of our cottage and set it into the water for the night. By morning, it will be pretty well cleaned up by small trout who spend their youth in our stream and

Age 16: Tuesday, Sept 8, 1964: Today was the last day of summer vacation. Gollie, after a day like today it will be a relief to get back to school, still I have mixed feelings. Sometimes I look forward to its adventures with ambition, then I desperately wish we were back in July. I got up at seven because the phone was ringing. You might know that

it would be my sister. She forgot her girdle and couldn’t go to work without it! First, I took a ride on Flicka towards Seymour’s. Then I mowed their whole front lawn in ex change for the grass I cut to give to Flicka. Then Mom had me go to Langdon’s Creek for flat rocks. I brought some really heavy ones home, lugging them up that embank ment. Then I had to pick tomatoes for her. I picked a whole bushel. I did some dishes, then went to the neighbors to babysit for two hours. Mom had me running in and out with tomato peeling. We had corn on the cob for supper ugh! I got my Teen Magazine today but read it in less than half an hour. I practiced piano a half hour today which consisted mostly of exercises. I set my hair with mom’s rollers and took a bath. Now I’ve got a slight headache.”

I wish I could stay up for these too brief, sweet, late-summer nights, but sleep seduc es me until Nature calls me awake later in the night. Before returning to bed, I pause to sleepily open the door of our cottage and step out. Moonbeams glide through the for est canopy creating a world of mysterious soft shadows and light that cannot be dupli cated with photography and only imagined in art. My familiar world has transformed and become something wonderfully new. To share the same space and air with this strange beauty, to breathe, and feel and be an intimate part of this is one of the great gifts of life, and I am fulfilled. •

3. This cafe serves up quick healthy breakfasts and lunches in the ADK Bank Bld. in Utica. See page 11.

1. Mohawk Valley Girl visits this new cafe in Ilion.

14. French word for sheep. See Suzie Jones.

7. We the people.

4. Not impressed.

2. Time to stock up on warm alpaca socks from ___ Gardens in Little Falls. See page 42.

10. Aptly named NASA mission to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid.

14. You might say this on September 19th, matey!

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13. This local flooring specialist has been making homes beautiful for over 100 years! See page 16.

15. Rome bookshop named for this Buster. See page 8.

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9. For fall foliage, visit Old Forge, your “Adirondack ___ ___”. See page 26.

5. Producer of an effect.

12. Eat, ___, and be Merry at this annual event held at Canal Place Sept. 10th. See page 3, 15, or 32.

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11. Tour this historic mansion built in 1886 in Lyons Falls. See page 31.

1. Don’t miss this annual festival in Little Falls on October 1st. See Page 31.

4. May and September are the best months to experi ence this bird happening.

6. The first state?

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The official change from summer to fall occurs on September 22, but that’s not the only notable astronomical event this month. A dramatic story is unfolding about seven million miles from us, a true tale containing the stuff that sci-fi mov ies are made of. It’s about a spacecraft launched from Earth and currently on a mission to crash into an asteroid – on purpose! Meet NASA’s DART mission.

Ground-based telescopes have al ready been monitoring the binary aster oid pair and will continue to observe and document any orbital changes over time once the impact occurs. Another excel lent resource will be a mission current ly under development by the European Space Agency. Scheduled to launch in 2024, their Hera spacecraft will visit the Didymos pair and perform in-depth stud ies of the surface and interior when it ar rives in 2026.

Hanny’s Voorwerp. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Keel, Galaxy Zoo Team

Hitching a ride on DART is LICI ACube, a small but powerful satellite developed by the Italian Space Agency. Onboard are two optical cameras, and other systems for tracking, propulsion, and communications. Its mission is to deploy from DART about 10 days before impact, fly by Dimorphos about three minutes after the DART impact, and capture images of the event and effects which may include a debris plume and perhaps a crater.

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DART will be traveling about 14,000 mph when it impacts Dimorphos, and sci entists estimate the test may shorten the asteroid’s orbit around Didymos by sev eral minutes. The data from the DRACO instrument on DART before the collision and the additional information from LI CIACube will help scientists learn more about the test itself and the capabilities of this potential planetary defense strategy.

So, get ready for the first-ever plane tary defense test. Some preliminary data should arrive on Earth about 38 seconds after impact. For more information about the DART mission, visit NASA’s https:// dart.jhuapl.edu website. you clear skies!

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What has been missing—what I’ve been hoping and trying to in terject into our charming country fair for the last few years--are the an

I am particularly excited about this year’s Little Falls Cheese Fes tival, set for Saturday, October 1st. I have been a part of the planning committee since the festival’s inception and every year it seems to get bigger and better. (Plus, I get to work with a passionate, creative crew that cares deeply about cheese—the ultimate bonus!) As an agricultural food fair, the Little Falls Cheese Festival seeks to celebrate our area’s rich history in cheesemaking and to highlight the next generation of artisan cheesemakers that dot our state’s beau tiful landscape. We host brilliant area musicians to entertain attendees and provide space to the talented players of the Little Falls Theater Company (LiFT) for a whodunnit play fun for all ages. There’s a food court made up entirely of food trucks and free shuttle buses running between multiple free parking lots to keep visitors (and residents) hap py.

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And as a member of the planning committee, I am also hy per-aware that our visitors could get hurt or sick. Animals bite from time to time, especially if they are upset or confused. And although we would provide handwashing stations nearby, not everyone would wash their hands after petting the animals. The transmission of e-coli would be very real possibility, especially unfortunate at a food-centric event.

No, we would not be introducing live animals at the Little Falls Cheese Festival.

imals. It is hard to imagine a celebration of cheese without recognizing the cows, goats, sheep, and even water buffalo that are the origin story of cheesemaking.

Suzie Jones and her husband, Peter, own Jones Family Farm in Herkimer. Together, with their chil dren, they produce specialty goat cheeses and gelato. Find them at local farmers’ markets and online www.anotherjonesfamilyfarm.comat

I must admit, I am so excited for this performance! There is some thing intangible about being a farmer, caring for her animals, and ex periencing the everyday quirks and behaviors of my goats and sheep that I have not been able to completely convey through this monthly column or via posts on Facebook. My animals have charmed me, this is true. They’ve also changed me in more ways than I’ll ever know.

We ARE however, introducing something much more playful!

I have since worked very hard to bring the troupe to our festival. I am incredibly proud to have written a grant to cover a large portion of their performance fees and was successful with my visa petition to bring the Canadians here. If you enjoy read ing this monthly column, I beg you to come check out the performance troupe that has bewitched this farmer!

But how to bring all of this to a public event? How can our festival celebrate the animals and their caretakers as well as cheese?

And it’s not just the animals. It is the relationship between man and beast, the coexistence of caretaker and herd, the role a dairSep tember and October are the perfect months for country fairs through out Central New York. The cooler breezes, the chilly night air, and the changing color of the leaves always seem to announce the coming of “festival season” ...and I couldn’t be more excitedy farmer plays in animal husbandry. By honoring the animals so important to cheese making, we must also give a deep appreciative nod to the farmers that coax the milk to flow.

As a farmer, I always shudder just a bit when I see live farm an imals at public events. I know how stressful it for them and for their keepers. The crowds, the strange noises and smells, and the travel all conspire to confuse and bother farm animals unaccustomed to such events.

We have hired CORPUS, a world-renowned dance troupe from Toronto, Canada that will be performing their original work, Les Mou tons (“The Sheep”). Performers dress up as sheep and imitate sheep behaviors in a way that will delight and amuse festival attendees. The performance comes complete with a shepherd, who will herd them through the festival and past the vendors’ booths, perhaps pausing to shear or milk one of the “sheep.”

When I first saw a performance of Les Moutons online, I was absolutely charmed. I recognized the behaviors as remarkably accu rate; I knew from experience the interactions between shepherd and sheep were true. But they turn reality on its ear, with human actors portraying sheep to playful effect.

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