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Alice Freeman at American LaFrance, Elmira, NY. June 18, 1975.

Murphy family reunion, Geneva, NY. May 25, 1975.

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Calling All Butterflies and Hummingbirds Three Steps to Turn Your Garden into Their Hangout

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Our Favorite Items and Where to Find Them

- Cayuga, Monroe and Steuben Counties

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Nooks & Crannies Twenty Years of Wandering

Dining Delicious Dishes

Enterprising Creating in the Judgement-Free Zone

17 Music

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Creature Comforts Lost Dogs of the Finger Lakes

55 How-To

Capturing Finger Lakes Beauty With a Camera

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tarting a new chapter in life can be very exciting. The uncertainty of what’s next can also provoke feelings of anxiety and a little trepidation. But the only constant in life is change, and to embrace that concept means that you can always be growing and expanding.

I recently purchased a new-to-me home in the Finger Lakes. It’s not very large, but it’s got good bones and, quite frankly, I think it looks great! After doing some cosmetic work inside I was ready to move in. I’m very excited to have a home in one of the best spots in the region.

Once upon a time it was my dream to live in the Adirondacks. The first time I visited that region I was amazed at the wilderness that was not very far away. Don’t get me wrong, I still love visiting there and spending time hiking, camping and exploring that region. But after moving to the Finger Lakes in 1993, I have completely fallen in love with the region. It has everything here – metropolitan areas, villages and hamlets; farms and forests; lakes, rivers and streams. And its history, culture and arts in this area is second to none.

One of my goals this year is to create a backyard that’s cozy but low maintenance. It’s not a large area, and I’m excited to create some gardens that attract flying friends such as hummingbirds, butterflies and songbirds. Carol and Derek Doeffinger give us some really good tips on how to create such a garden on page 36.

I’m also excited to be in a neighborhood where walking on safe paths and sidewalks will enable me to get outside more often. Plus, I’ll have easy access to country roads for cycling. Outdoor activities really became popular in the last year with a lot of people, and I don’t anticipate that to be changing anytime soon.

The sun is out, the birds are chirping, and the temperature is much more comfortable. Here’s to a beautiful spring and early summer!

mark@lifeinthefingerlakes.com

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e were fortunate enough to get a copy of your magazine from friends of ours who live on Cayuga Lake and who subscribe to the magazine. We enjoyed it very much.

We vacation on the lake, as well. My wife’s family has many generations in the Finger Lakes area, so we got our own subscription.

We’re surprised we had never seen the magazine before. Keep up the good work.

— Gordy Barnes am restarting my subscription to your magazine. Going into my old store preCOVID haunts to buy newsstand copies may not be a good idea at present.

As I have an otherwise complete set since your first issue (that I found years later a library sale), this is very important to me!

—Judy Braell

hat a pleasant surprise to see the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway highlighted in the March/April 2021 edition of Life in the Finger Lakes! The Board of Directors of the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway, Inc. would like to thank Helen Heizyk for her “Spring Road Trip to Cayuga Lake,” sharing some wonderful images from our byway. As the not-for-profit charged with managing the byway, we appreciate the coverage to spread the word about the many places to experience around Cayuga Lake, the largest of the Finger Lakes. Ms. Heizyk touched on a few of the assets, but to see all the different ways to enjoy our area, visit our website cayugalake.com.

— Sue Poelvoorde Executive Director, Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway, Inc. just want to thank you for the article “Rabbits to the Recue” in the March/April 2021 edition of Life in the Finger Lakes. Most publications when discussing pets focus only on cats and dogs, and I really appreciate the attention you gave to what wonderful pets rabbits can be. Sadly, a few days after reading the article, my precious Dutch dwarf rabbit, Lucky passed away. I miss him following me around the house, the long walks we used to take on a nearby nature trail (a combination of me carrying him in my arms and him hopping along on a leash) and just cuddling and playing with him. I cherish the nine+ years he was part of our family.

Thanks again for encouraging folks to consider rescuing a rabbit for a loving pet.

— Rochelle Cohen Lempert

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Editorial & Production Editor....................................... Mark Stash ...........mark@lifeinthefingerlakes.com Graphic Artist............Maia VanOrman Associate Editor............... Tina Manzer Assistant Editor...............J. Kevin Fahy Freelance Editor.......Bethany Snyder

Contributors............................. Libby Cook ............................................. Carol Doeffinger ............................................Derek Doeffinger ......................................................... Kirk House ............................................ James P. Hughes ........................................Nancy E. McCarthy ................................................Cynthia McVey ............................................ Rebecca Parshall ....................... Linda Scalise Schamberger ............................................Laurel C. Wemett

Life in the Finger Lakes is published by Fahy-Williams Publishing, Inc. and owned by Eleven Lakes Publishing, Inc. Co-owners: Mark S. Stash; Timothy J. Braden. Copyright© 2021 by Eleven Lakes Publishing, Inc. No part of this publication may be reprinted or otherwise reproduced without written permission from the publisher. TO SUBSCRIBE, RENEW OR CHANGE ADDRESS: write to Life in the Finger Lakes, P.O. Box 1080, Geneva, NY 14456, or call 315-789-0458. Subscription rates: $16 for one year. Canada add $15 per year. Outside North America, add $35 per year. For renewal or change of address, include the address label from your most recent issue of Life in the Finger Lakes. For gift subscriptions, include your own name and address as well as those of gift recipients.

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Through June 26...Walking With Nature: American Landscapes from the Collection The exhibition, “Walking with Nature: American Landscapes from the Collection” featuring celebrated Hudson River School artists, is on view in the East Gallery. Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, noon - 5 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday and Holidays. Admission: $7 per person, free to those under 18. Admission is always free to museum members.

Arnot Art Museum 235 Lake Street, Elmira, NY 14901 arnotartmuseum.org 607-734-3697 May 3...Classics In Spirituality - The Teachings of Black Elk with Jan Carr Virtual event occurs from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Hehaka Sapa, known as Black Elk, Oglala Lakota, was a warrior, a medicine man, and a converted Catholic. Who was this spiritual leader, this teacher recognized as a medicine man of the Lakota and yet converted to Catholicism? How do his visions seem to span all faiths? The presenter is Jan Carr, founder and owner of Cobblestone Springs Retreat Center in Dundee.

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May 22...”The Earth and I” Compost Workshop 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Composting is a wonderful way to enhance your soil, save your food scraps from going in the landfill and make a difference for the environment. But where do you start? Barbara Cummings, Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener, will present information on composting, its benefits, and how to have your own composting at home. Come for the presentation and walk away with things you need to get started on composting.

Finger Lakes Museum 3369 Guyanoga Road, Branchport NY 14418 fingerlakesmuseum.org May 30... Bluegrass with Aaron Lipp and the Slacktones 1 p.m. at Ravine’s Winery. Original Rockabilly / Americana Music from Naples, New York. Bringing back the old sound with a new flame. Bluegrass, Country, Rockabilly for your soul and feet.

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its relation to salamanders. Participants interested in attending this program can sign up via the Finger Lakes Museum website with discount tickets available for participants who want to attend all four programs in the series.

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June 17...”The Earth and I” Lecture Series: Salamanders and Land Use History of the Finger Lakes Region 7 - 8:30 p.m. The final program in “The Earth and I” program series is a Zoom lecture led by Hobart and William Smith professors Dr. Kristen Brubaker and Dr. Bradley Cosentino. Their topic will cover the relationship that we have with our land, discussing the land use history of the Finger Lakes region and

June 19...Canandaigua Antique Show at the Canandaigua Civic Center 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sponsored by the Genesee Country Antique Dealers Association. Over 65 dealers showcasing textiles, furniture, Americana, folk art, jewelry, pottery and much more. Events at the show: all you can eat pancake breakfast sponsored by the Canandaigua Kiwanis from 7 -10 a.m., Meat The Press Food Truck from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., wine tasting from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. sponsored by Arbor Hill Winery, classic car show 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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“Soaring bald eagle over South Corning” – David Phelps “Mallards at Montezuma” – FingerLakesMagazine.com photo post

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Delicious Dishes Seafood Chowder

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then and now

Gallon of Milk

2001 vs. 2021

2001 - $2.89 2021 - $3.59

Life in the Finger Lakes magazine is 20 years old.

Some things have changed since 2001. Let’s take a look!

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for housing were 55.8 percent higher in 2021 versus 2001

Gallon of Gas 2001 - $1.46

Increase in Tourism Cost of Living 2001 Average cost of a new car - $25,850 U.S. Postage Stamp - $.34 Loaf of Bread - $1.82 Dozen Eggs - $.90

Visitor spending increased from $1.8 billion in 2001 to $3.3 billion in 2021, a 83 percent increase that typically was used on accommodations, food and drink, shopping, entertainment, transportation and other items.

According to a historical data sheet from the Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance.

Finger Lakes Land Trust Conversation by the Numbers Publicly-accessible nature preserves

Miles of trails on their nature preserves

Total acres protected

16 in 2001 38 in 2021

29.2 in 2001 46.1 in 2021

5,485 in 2001 26,253 in 2021

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music

Ani Kavafian and Geoffrey Herd

Geneva Music Festival 2021 Season

“First Decade Retrospective” Brings Diverse Musical Influences, Formats

by Cynthia McVey

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he 2021 Season of the Geneva Music Festival, “First Decade Retrospective,” showcases the diverse musical influences the festival has celebrated since its inception, including Jazz, Latin, African American and women composers and musicians. The 2021 season features live-streamed and in-person concerts at the Smith Center for Performing Arts, Geneva On The Lake and other venues, all in keeping with CDC safety protocols. This year also sees the return of audience favorites who have taken part in the Festival over the past decade, including Hannah Collins, Eliot Heaton, Jinjoo Cho, Clive Greensmith, Eric Wong, Ettore Causa, Michelle Cann, Ani Kavafian, Kirsten Docter, Esther Park, ATLYS quartet, JP Jofre and La Voz de Tres.

“We have been truly fortunate over the course of our first decade to consistently present world-class musicians,” says GMF Director and violinist Geoffrey Herd. “With the

need to move concerts to a virtual format last year, we were able to reach a wider audience base with unforgettable performances and interactive experiences. I’m thrilled the 2021 season will represent the largest variety of music offered in one year, and in formats that will make the concerts safe and accessible to wide audiences.”

The season opens on May 20 with the ATLYS Quartet concert in Canandaigua. In 2019, ATLYS took audiences on a journey around the world through their music; this year, ATLYS features a world premiere, the Sonnenberg Suite by Ari Fisher.

This massive work, born from ATLYS’ first visit to the Finger Lakes in the late spring of 2019, is dedicated to the spectacular, diverse and eclectic gardens of the Sonnenberg Mansion State Historic Park where the performance will take place.

The following weekend, favorite GMF artists Jinjoo Cho (violin), Ettore Causa (viola), Clive Greensmith (cello) and M ay/J u n e 2 02 1 ~

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GENEVA MUSIC FESTIVAL IS BACK WITH LIVE CONCERTS!

Come and celebrate our First Decade Retrospective as we bring diverse musical influences to the community once again

others present a concert featuring rarely heard masterpieces

by Beethoven as part of a continued celebration of the composer’s 250th birthday. The festival is also proud to continue promoting the work of women composers with the unique and intense Zwilich Septet and Fanny Mendelssohn’s romantic Piano Trio.

GMF rings in Memorial Day weekend with performances that explore the long-lasting and interwoven influences of German classicism throughout Europe and America.

Performances of works by Beethoven, Florence Price and Dohnanyi feature Eliot Heaton and Herd (violin), Max Geissler (cello), Michelle Cann (piano) and Eric Wong (viola). Then, on Sunday, May 30, the tune will change drastically as Aaron Lipp and the Slacktones join the festival for the first time with

• – Thursday, May 20 –

WHEN THE FLOWERS BLOOM

ATLYS at Sonnenberg Sonnenberg Gardens, Canandaigua NY – Sunday, May 23 –

FORGOTTEN MELODIES

An evening of rarely heard masterpieces Smith Opera House, Geneva NY – Saturday, May 29 –

INTERWOVEN DIALOGUES

Beethoven, Price and Dohnanyi Smith Opera House, Geneva NY – Sunday, May 30 –

AARON LIPP AND THE SLACKTONES Rockabilly and cookin’ country swing Geneva On The Lake, Geneva NY – Friday, June 4 –

POETS, PEACE AND POWER

2021 Grammy© winner baritone Dashon Burton and pianist Michelle Cann Smith Opera House, Geneva NY – Sunday, June 6 –

LA VOZ DE TRES JAZZ

Smith Opera House, Geneva NY – Thursday, June 10 –

HARD TANGO BY JP JOFRE Smith Opera House, Geneva NY – Saturday, June 12 –

THE GRAND CHAMBER MUSIC FINALE Smith Opera House, Geneva NY •

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bluegrass from the band’s old-time music roots.

On Friday, June 4, baritone Dashon Burton returns to the festival with Cann. These renowned artists take audiences on a musical journey featuring the dreamy and sensuous world of Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love), soothing lullabies for love-sick hearts and songs that will call us back to this world, waking us up to embrace the possibilities of a new day.

Performances continue that weekend with La Vos De Tres and their blend of infectious rhythms and nuanced songwriting traditions of Latin America, original compositions and picks from the Great American Songbook.

They are joined on this program by Tom Bergeron on trumpet.

On Thursday, June 10, award-winning bandoneon player JP Jofre presents an evening of his “Hard Tango.”

The Grand Finale will then take place over the weekend and features Ani Kavafian and Herd (violin), Kirsten Docter (viola), Hannah Collins (cello) and Esther Park (piano). The program opens with a work by Jessie Montgomery, a brilliant young composer who interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, language, and social justice. The program also includes Rebecca Clarke’s heartfelt Dumka and concludes with Brahms’ riveting Piano Quintet in F-Minor.

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Absorbing the

Finger Lakes Twenty Years of Wandering story and photos by James P. Hughes

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egendary for his flowery rhetoric, Jell-O museum William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) is perhaps the most remembered orator of his era. True to form, he portrayed a short visit to the village of Naples and its surrounding countryside as “a spread of poetry written by the Great Author of the universe.” Had Bryan traveled the Finger Lakes Region further, he might well have added to his eloquent description.

In 2021, Life in the Finger Lakes is observing its 20th anniversary. With perception, prose and photography, the magazine has highlighted and celebrated all the region has to offer … its natural beauty, its history, its people. It’s a welcoming area that represents many things to many people.

Once retirement arrived, spending more time absorbing Finger Lakes country was high on my priority list. Travels from lakeside to hilltop, from country lane to village, from the subtle to the grand have never disappointed. The publishing of

freelance articles and photographs of my wanderings by the magazine has been both gratifying and a privilege.

So where to begin? In every season, the vineyards, waterfalls, quaint communities and crystalline lakes are remarkable … so much so that we too often take them for granted. While the natural beauty of the area is anticipated, in fact expected, there is so much more to discover.

Writing under the banners of “A Proud Community” and “Nooks and Crannies,” random travels left me with a wealth of material. At every stop, conversations with friendly, helpful folks typically led to insights and surprises … often unforeseen, always enjoyable.

Picking favorites is a difficult task … there have been so many. Allow me to ramble a bit with just a few memorable encounters.

A Jell-O museum? The classic American dessert’s quirky

Tintype photographer John Coffer

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Two-story outhouse

Che-qua-ga Falls in Montour Falls.

history, along with rare trinkets and early artwork, are celebrated at the Jell-O Gallery Museum in LeRoy. The sweet treat was created there, quite by accident, in 1897 by a local couple dabbling in their kitchen. “There’s Always Room for Jell-O.” John Coffer lives in a remote, rustic cabin called “Camp Tintype” near Dundee, well away from the trappings of modern society. Known as the go-to “master” of the 19th century art of tintype photography, John holds workshops on his craft for students of every stripe from Civil War buffs to hobbyists to college professors.

Sauerkraut. That delicious, fermented cabbage has been celebrated at a gala festival in Phelps for more than a half century. The focus is frequently on food at many Finger Lakes fests: apples, strawberries, corn, grapes, tomatoes, maple products, potatoes and garlic among them. Indulge!

An outhouse? Yes, but not just any remote, rickety outhouse! Situated in a brick tower at the stately Howe House Museum in Phelps, it is not your typical petty potty or common commode. No! This structure is a rarity, a peculiar privy … it is a twostory outhouse … two story! Ponder the logistics of that for a moment.

Jim Greengrass grew up in the Steuben County village of Addison and played five seasons of Major League baseball in the 1950s, with the Phillies and the Reds. During a long and enjoyable phone chat, Jim reminisced about the “wonderful memories” and his “happiest days” growing up in the small Steuben County village.

Che-qua-ga Falls. There are so many waterfalls, but the beauty, roar and mist of this 160-foot cascade dominate Main Street in Montour Falls. Che-qua-ga always makes its presence known and is so impressive and unusual that its image is used during opening credits of a popular Hallmark TV series.

In 1957, the “sleepy hamlet of Apalachin” unintentionally cemented a place in gangland history when dozens of prominent mobsters gathered at a remote estate to consolidate power within the American Mafia. Foiled by State Police, the “Apalachin Meeting” publicly exposed the extent of organized crime to the nation for the first time.

Even a simple tree may be notable. The Scythe Tree near Waterloo and its poignant Civil War era tale is a favorite. Another is the sturdy Robin Hood Oak. It grew from an acorn retrieved from Robin’s legendary Sherwood Forest by a Syracuse University professor in 1926, then planted upon on his campus return.

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This Balm of Gilead tree in Waterloo has grown around three scythes left there by men who have gone off to battle; the first in the Civil War, and two during World War I. Lina Robertson

Invincible spirit? My neighbor, white-haired Lina Robertson, was discussing her former business career and retirement interests, from charity work to antique collecting. Then the sedate lady divulged an unforeseen surprise! As a post-World War I teenager, she had fearlessly “barnstormed” as a wingwalker, parachutist and aviatrix. At fairs and events during the early 1920s, the resolute Lina was colorfully touted as “Daredevil Dolly.”

Many, many years ago, two sisters shared a home on Rushville’s Main Street, a house that straddled the Yates/

Ontario county line. To be “fair,” officials determined that the sisters must register to vote in separate counties … and to maintain that voting status must choose bedrooms situated on the “appropriate” side of the county line.

Business magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) is still considered “the richest person in American history.” Yet young John was born on a modest Tioga County farm near Richford. His unstable family’s vagabond existence led them to homes near Moravia and Owego before young “John D.” eventually set out to make his fortune.

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nooks & crannies

Syracuse’s salt industry

Salt potatoes? In the bygone days of Syracuse’s booming salt industry, a worker’s lunch typically consisted of spuds tossed into the boiling brine, creating what persists to this day as a regional favorite – savory salt potatoes.

Additional unique eats to sample for first time area travelers? Try white hots and grape pie.

Deftly woven into the Finger Lakes mosaic is the vivid red, white and blue of the American flag. In 1966, Congress declared “Waterloo, New York as the birthplace of Memorial Day,” the cemetery’s initial patriotic celebration was held in 1866 to honor fallen Civil War soldiers. In addition, our Pledge of Allegiance was authored by Francis J. Bellamy (1855-1931), a gentleman born and raised in Livingston County’s Mount Morris.

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Curiosity led me to knock on the door of an odd, angular, Ontario County building. What was it? For owner Cheryl Rozell, it has been home since 1965, but from 1904-1930 was a station for the R. & E. Interurban Railway. After a tour of every corner of the curious residence, Cheryl sent me home with a box of her excellent homemade cookies!

Finger Lakes swim? Rejecting the climbing of Mount Kilimanjaro as somewhat prohibitive, I set out with retired friends in need of a challenging “Excellent Adventure.” We chose the task of swimming in each of the 11 Finger Lakes in one day… “swimming” defined simply as “getting wet.” With dexterity, fortitude and untold antics, we accomplished the venture, plunging into Conesus Lake on the west and finishing with Otisco on the east. A memorable

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day indeed!

The way is clear. Certainly, any Finger Lakes visit must include a sampling of its attractions, from wine tasting to local cuisine to countless photo ops. But like so many pebbles scattered across the ground, fascinating facts, stories and nuggets of interest abound just waiting to be gathered.

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Creating in the Judgment story and photos by Libby Cook

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’m what they call an outsider artist,” Corinne Stern says.

“I’m not art-school trained, but I’ve wanted to be an artist since I was a little kid.”

The Ithaca-based artist, teacher and entrepreneur has been living out her childhood dream and inspiring her students through collage-making from a home addition-turned-art-space called FLOOF Collage pARTy. Corinne’s friend and local artist Alice Muhlback inspired the brand when she told Corinne she admired her ability to just “floof things up.”

For over nine years, Corinne’s studio has become an inviting escape for all artists. The space is packed with opportunities for self-expression. Each wall is adorned with neatly stored supplies like piano keys, fabric swatches, deconstructed designer high heels and anything else in which she finds artistic potential. Handmade signs encouraging creators of their capabilities are scattered around the room, and a stack of hot glue guns await the next project.

“I find uses and beauty in all kinds of things,” Corinne says, admiring a computer circuit board transformed into a miniature cityscape. “I love taking things apart. It’s what my sister calls the ‘little scientist’ in us. I take apart everything that breaks in my house, and whatever is salvageable comes to the studio. I guess it’s my imagination, but I can see possibilities.”

Much like Corinne’s art training, which includes a painting class she took when she was eight years old and a few recent art courses at Cornell, her path to building FLOOF was quite unconventional. “My husband calls it my checkered career path,” she laughs.

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Corinne pursued multiple careers before settling in Ithaca with her husband. She taught deaf preschool students and worked at an advertising agency as a layout artist before attending nursing school when she was 38. Corinne was a nurse for 16 years and simultaneously took up photography as a creative outlet. Eventually, she found working in the medical field to be too emotionally taxing. It

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Corinne worked as a curatorial typist at the Johnson Museum and assisted a leather crafter in making jewelry. In Ithaca, she taught hearing students for a year before launching her own fashion brand, selling renaissance and wedding hats, as well as kippahs for men and women at the Ithaca Grassroots Festival. For over a decade, she attended the festival and traveled around the country, wholesaling her hats. Today, Corinne has put all her energy and focus into growing and creating with FLOOF.

Before the pandemic, Corinne welcomed students of all ages and artistic backgrounds into her studio for FLOOF events, birthday parties and after-school programs. She was delighted to share her space with other artists and wanted to incorporate teaching into the experience. “I wanted to be an art guide,” says Corinne. “I go over the color wheel and I say to my students, this isn’t just art. It’s physics. Say you make a mobile. How are you going to balance the two sides? There’s math in measuring things. There’s geography in picking up a handful of seashells and asking where they came from. It’s history.”

During her after-school program visits, Corinne also helps students with life skills. “A lot of the after-school programs that I’ve taught have kids who are in English as Second Language classes,” she says. “I found this is a great way to teach English less formally. The kids teach each other, or they learn how to

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Corinne also makes an effort to teach her students about sustainable creation. Almost all FLOOF materials are upcycled.

In her newest product, “Art-Maker Paks,” over 80% of supplies are upcycled. “This is one of my ways of giving back and saving the planet,” she says.

When her guests began requesting goody bags, Corinne thought about introducing the paks. She’d offer them a bag and a chance to gather supplies from her inventory she’s named “miscellaneous madness.” The paks have kept FLOOF artistry alive throughout the pandemic. Corinne sells the paks through her Etsy account, @FLOOFCollagepARTy. She offers six different size paks, ranging from one ounce to one pound, that can be shipped or picked up at her studio.

When Corinne isn’t putting together paks for her customers, she keeps busy donating supplies. She has given paks to the Belle Sherman after-school program, a local synagogue and auctions hosted by non-profits, including Hospice Care and Suicide Prevention. “I think this is important right now because people need something joyful and creative to take their mind off their stress,” she says. “It’s also empowering because you don’t need any talent to do this. I always hate it when people say, ‘I don’t have an artistic bone in my body,’ or ‘I can’t even draw a stick figure’! That’s not what art is about. Art is about expressing yourself any way you want.”

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Cayuga County

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he name Cayuga is a tribute to the Cayuga people, a native tribe of the Iroquois Confederation, who occupied the land until the end of the Revolutionary War. Cayuga County has an area of 864 square miles. With 692 square miles of land and 172 square miles of water, the county has more freshwater coastline than any other county in New York.

The city of Auburn was originally founded as a town in 1793 amid a post-Revolutionary War settlement. It later became the county seat in 1805 and was eventually chartered as a city in 1848.

Throughout the 1850s, the city was home to abolitionists William H. Seward and Harriet Tubman, who both owned safehouses in Auburn designated to help free fugitive slaves through the Underground Railroad.

Cayuga county is bordered by some of the region’s major lakes, including Lake Ontario to the north, Skaneateles Lake and Cross Lake to the east and Cayuga Lake to the west. Owasco Lake is located at the center of the county. Cayuga County is in the western-central part of the state: west of Albany and Syracuse, east of Rochester Finger and is directly north of Ithaca.

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Cayuga county is made up of 23 towns, nine villages, two hamlets, one city and one Census-designated place.

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Things to Do! Auburn is home to several historical sites including the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and the Seward House Museum. There, you can tour the historic safehouses along the route of the Underground Railroad. The Cayuga Museum of History and Art is also located in Auburn. There, you can tour the historic Willard-Case mansion, home to the Case Research Lab, and learn about the history of Auburn, Cayuga County and the Finger Lakes Region.

Cayuga County has over 65 miles of trails for hiking, biking and horseback riding, including the Erie Canal Recreational Trail in the village of Jordan. Emerson Park in Auburn, Cayuga Lake State Park in Seneca Falls, Long Point State Park, Fair Haven Beach State Park and Glen State Park in Moravia offer a variety of summertime activities around the lakes including camping, boating, bird-watching, fishing, swimming and waterfall chasing.

Local wineries, cideries and breweries are located throughout the county. The Cayuga Lake Wine Trail is the longest-running wine trail in America and offers terrific scenic views from wineries and eateries around the lake, year-round.

The Lake Ontario Wine Trail tours wineries, cideries, distilleries and local shops, farms, restaurants and bed and breakfasts around the southern edge of Lake Ontario.

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by Libby Cook

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onroe County was named after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States and the president at the time of the county’s establishment. Following the Revolutionary War, New York was organized into counties that were organized and divided again and again over several decades. Monroe County was created from a division of Genesee County and Ontario County in 1821. Monroe has an area of 1,367 square miles, with 657 square miles of land and 710 square miles of water.

The city of Rochester was founded in 1788, named the county seat in 1821 and incorporated into a city in 1834. As it grew as a manufacturing center with many flour mills along the Genesee River, Rochester was one of the country’s first “boomtowns” due to its rapid population increase. Today, it is the third-most-populous city in the state, following New York City and Buffalo.

Monroe County is connected to Canada by the southern shore of Lake Ontario. The county is located in the northwestern tier of New York state: west of Syracuse and Albany, northwest of Ithaca and northeast of Buffalo.

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Things to Do! Rochester has a wide variety of attractions. The George Eastman House and International Museum of Photography and Film is the world’s oldest museum dedicated to photography. There, you can visit the home of George Eastman, the founder of Kodak, and tour one of the world’s oldest film archives. The Rochester Museum & Science Center is a great option for families. At the RMSC, you can visit the science museum, planetarium and nature center.

For sports fans, Rochester is home to several professionallyaffiliated sports teams. Sports enthusiasts can catch a baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, or lacrosse game at Blue Cross Arena, Frontier Field and Marina Auto Stadium.

The Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester is home to over 90 species of animals from all over the world. The zoo is open to visitors year-round. There, you can visit exhibits, including the Genesee Trail and Discovery Center, which is the zoo’s first landscape immersion exhibit and learn about environmental conservation through the zoo’s wide range of educational programs, camps and other experiences.

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Monroe County is home to over 11,000 acres of all-purpose parkland, including Lake Ontario, the Genesee River, the Erie Canal and the Finger Lakes for water activities. Hamlin Beach State Park, located in the town of Hamlin on the shores of Lake Ontario, is open year-round. The park offers hiking, fishing, camping and boating, as well as ice fishing, skating, snowmobiling and cross country skiing in the winter. Irondequoit Bay State Marine Park is also a great getaway for water activities.

Located north of Rochester in the town of Irondequoit, the park is open during the summer months for boating and fishing on Irondequoit Bay and Lake Ontario.

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Steuben County

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Corning made the first glass bulbs for Edison.

hen Steuben County was first formed back in 1796, it was comprised of six towns and was larger than it is today, which is somewhat difficult to imagine given that it is currently larger than the state of Rhode Island. You’ll find over 60 communities these days ranging in size from a couple hundred residents to about 11,000 in Corning.

At one time, homes, streets and towns were illuminated by the wild flickery flames of candles, torches and lanterns. When Thomas Edison needed special glass containers for his electric incandescent lamps, Corning Flint Glass created them.

Steuben has long been a destination of innovation. It was there at the turn of the 20th Century, in tiny Hammondsport, that inventors, plucky aeronauts, and pioneers of flight gathered to take early aviation to new heights. It’s where men like Glenn Curtiss helped make flying a realistic mode of transportation and where women like Blanche Stuart Scott first dared to touch the sky.

It was in that same small town that New York’s premiere wine region got its start and where, over a century later, the Vinifera Revolution began, forever changing winemaking in the eastern United States. In Steuben County today, scientists, winemakers and others continue to lead the way.

Hammondsport native Ruth Viola Tice Davis made the first parachute jump from an open cockpit airplane.

Pleasant Valley Wine Company was U.S. Bonded Winery No. 1.

Glenn Curtiss built the very first “travel trailer.”

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Visit world-renowned Corning Museum of Glass to see mind-boggling glass art and innovations, then make your own glass keepsake. Explore the Glenn Curtiss Museum to learn about the “fastest man on earth,” then take a seaplane flight off Keuka Lake where seaplanes were first developed over 100 years ago. Stop by the Finger Lakes Boating Museum and learn how steamboats and handcrafted fishing boats made the region a tourist draw since the mid-1800s. Rent a boat, kayak, or paddleboard and get out on a stunning Keuka Lake.

Where else can you taste exceptional wines at the winery that revolutionized winemaking for the entire region, enjoy hard cider from the most awarded-farm cidery in the country in 2017, hike along the Finger Lakes Trail, drive a mere 20 minutes and tour a Bison Ranch from the safety of your car or try goat yoga on a homestead just down the road, then 20 short minutes later stroll through the town square voted “best public park” in the country for 2021 before exploring an historic district with over 100 boutiques, antique shops, galleries, and restaurants? And we’re just getting started.

Learn more or download the ExploreSteuben app at corningfingerlakes.com

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Top: Queen Anne’s lace and milkweed are favorites of some butterfly caterpillars.

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o you like butterflies and hummingbirds? We do.

We like to watch them. And we like to photograph them. That’s why we have spent the past several years trying to attract more of them into our garden.

Since we’ve had some success luring butterflies and hummingbirds away from the neighbors’ yards and into ours, I thought I’d pass along some of our best strategies. Does that sound overly competitive? Well, it’s actually one of our strategies. We’re not really poaching these colorful fliers from our neighbors. Indeed, we are not even competing with them.

Instead, we’re cooperating with them.

Three households at our end of the street share plants and exchange seeds of favorite butterfly and hummingbird flowers. This makes for an extended and more varied habitat that includes perennial gardens, annuals, herbs, a vegetable patch, a pond, a woodpile and woods with several kinds of mature trees. All these features provide extra food sources and shelter for butterflies, caterpillars, hummingbirds, orioles and gold finches. They now have a mini-reserve and can go from garden to garden.

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time in the right place. After reading extensively about butterfly life cycles and food preferences, we’ve made several additions (and a few subtractions) to our plant list. And we’ve watched how our improvements performed and adjusted accordingly.

Evaluating your changes is critical because every garden differs and may require different approaches.

Getting Butterflies to Belly Up to the Bar

Forget the pretzels and salted nuts: butterflies, lacking mouth parts for chewing, are drinkers. A pub crawl for monarchs, viceroys, admirals, painted ladies, swallowtails and fritillaries begins with a quick fly-by check of your garden’s menu. Butterflies are near-sighted (anything beyond 10 to 20 feet is a blur), so use large swaths of bright colors to grab their attention. Planting in groups of the same flower (rather than tucking in a single specimen here and there) also gives your fliers loads of blooms to keep sipping from. They linger – and you get more time to enjoy and photograph them.

Keep in mind that your goal is to open a quality and reliable restaurant for your guests, not a fried Snickers stand at a carnival. For energy, butterflies crave a wide selection of flowers that are rich in accessible

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A monarch butterfly (left) and a painted lady butterfly

nectar. Constantly tweak your garden so it offers a choice of great tastes all season long.

During the high season from May through September, you have an opportunity to attract from almost nearly seventy kinds of butterflies living in the Finger Lakes.

Your Reward? Entertainment

In exchange for your gardening efforts, your colorful guests will delight and entertain you with their antics. You’ll see pairs of butterflies spiraling skyward in a mad courtship chase. On your knees weeding, you’ll hear an odd sound, a low “thrum” coming from just above your shoulders. Looking up, you’re just inches away from a ruby-throated hummingbird.

He hovers, stares, looks you over and sizes you up. Friend or foe? And because bees will certainly crash the nectar party you’re hosting, there will be more than a few kinds stopping by. A favorite of mine, bumblebees, are built like tiny offensive linemen and also behave like them. Clambering around atop a flower, their bulky thighs padded with yellow nectar, they sometimes encounter a rival insect. No problem – they simply head-butt the competition right off the blossom.

By mid-August, a gold finch munches on a cone flower’s seeds.

Choose a Garden Upgrade that Suits You

Okay, let’s get down to the business of attracting more butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden.

These suggestions are intended to be integrated into your current plantings, to add extra punch to the well-loved butterfly-friendly flowers that you already have. So, keep planting those zinnias, marigolds and cosmos, but try out some of our recommendations and then check out other butterflyfriendly plants at local garden centers.

The suggested quantities that follow are just starting points. Don’t hesitate to adjust them based on the size of your garden.

Left, top: Mark Holdren’s full-sun stone wall garden excels for butterfly friendliness. It includes Mexican sunflowers, cone flowers, butterfly bushes and, just behind it, a natural area filled with butterfly favorites.

This monarch has just hatched from the chrysalis attached to a common milkweed.

Left: Derek is putting together a dedicated butterfly-hummingbird garden with about half the flower varieties listed in Upgrade 2.

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Our visiting hummingbirds seem to favor cardinal flowers the most.

1 The Basic Upgrade: Fast and Easy with Five Favorites Add these plants (about two hours of labor) and your overlooked garden quickly becomes a destination bistro for butterflies and hummingbirds.

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6 purple cone flowers 2 non-invasive butterfly bushes 4 red cardinal flowers 3 bee balms On the subject of butterfly bushes … Plant only sterile butterfly bush varieties, as the species and older hybrids of Buddleia davidii are considered invasive and are actually banned in some states. Several new hybrids are completely safe. One line of these is the “Flutterby” series, developed by Peter Podaras when he was at Cornell University.

You’ll find that “purple” cone flowers come in red, orange, yellow, green, white, pink – and purple. Fliers and pollinators love them all, but the purple ones are probably the most vigorous. Mexican sunflowers, big and bushy, dazzle with dozens of blooms. Each is three inches across, vivid reddishorange and seldom free of butterflies and hummingbirds. At their seed stage, they’re also great favorites of goldfinches and chipmunks. While “deadheading” spent blooms lengthens flower production, the acrobatics of the finches and chipmunks more than make up for fewer blooms.

In addition to offering a wealth of irises, Iris Country Garden in Geneva is one of the few local nurseries selling native butterfly plants such as Joe Pye weed, butterfly weed and common milkweed (the main source of food for monarch caterpillars).

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These choices do well in all-day, full sun, but cardinal flowers like some shade and moist soil. Hummingbirds and butterflies love them, and so do we. An outstanding hybrid is Lobelia cardinalis, “Queen Victoria,” which has scarlet blossoms and purple leaves. Other varieties (some annual and some perennial, like L. cardinalis) give you a choice of red, orange, pink, purple and blue blooms, but first plant the Queen!

Bee balm, which belongs to the genus Monarda, is also known as horsemint, bergamot and Oswego tea. It’s a must have. It’s not fussy. It’s what hummingbirds and butterflies have at the top of their wish lists. The wild form is tall and pinkishlavender; hybrids range in height from a tiny eight inches to over three feet. You can purchase this member of the mint family in lavender, pink, purple, scarlet, deep red, magenta and white.

2 The “Indulge Them Like Grandkids” Upgrade: Something for Everyone

For this level, your goal is to provide continuous blooms from late spring through the first frost.

Plant the same flowers in Upgrade 1, but double the quantity. Then add these flowers: 4 phlox, 3 pentas, 2 butterfly weeds, and 2 lantanas. Consider putting the pentas and lantanas in pots (hanging or on the ground) and moving them around to reinforce areas not performing well.

Are certain flowers proving to be especially popular in your garden? Add more of them. To reduce territorial squabbles, increase the distance between flower groups. If you want to be prepared for early-arriving hummingbirds, you may want to plant columbine, foxglove and even a rhododendron or two.

At this point, pause and really plan out your next move.

Your goal is to provide your guests with a source or sources of nectar from late spring through the first frost, so read books, take a class, drool over catalog listings and visit friends’ gardens and public gardens. Spy on butterflies.

3 The Airbnb Upgrade: Mi Casa es Su Casa

Here your goal is to provide for family needs so they keep them coming back. Consider creating a separate garden dedicated for fliers. To truly accommodate the needs of butterflies and hummingbirds, you need to fine-tune the food plants you provide and then help with their other needs, such as shelter, water, safety and offspring rearing.

For this upgrade, you start by planting all the flowers listed in Upgrade 2, then start incorporating the following suggestions.

Add Native Plants

For eons, butterflies and hummingbirds have evolved and adapted to native plants and used them to raise their young.

Providing some native plants likely delivers some obscure critical nutrients or other health resources that will help them thrive. Native plants like common milkweed and Queen Ann’s lace feed both adults and larvae. Milkweed and butterfly weed are well known as the plants monarchs lay their eggs on because their caterpillars feed on them. Great spangled fritillary caterpillars will only eat the leaves of common blue violets (the wild kind).

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ave you encountered caterpillars among your garden plants and been curious enough to identify them? Want to raise Other native nectar producers for adult butterflies include them? Keep in mind that choosing the right food plants is Joe Pye weed, ironweed, thistles, teasel, red clover, New really important. For example, if you’d like to encourage great England asters and touch-me-nots (jewel weed). spangled fritillary caterpillars, you must provide the little crawlers Provide Water with common blue violets – the wild kind – because that is the Hummingbirds can get by with a bird bath, although they only food they will eat. do enjoy a gentle spray on hot days. But butterflies don’t bathe or

After emerging from its chrysalis, an adult fritillary will drink from bird baths. To satisfy a thirsty butterfly, build a puddler. sip from a wide variety of flowers, but you may see that it is This is simply a shallow area with a thick slurry of sand, fresh water partial to bee balm, purple cone flower, milkweeds, butterfly and some flat stones to rest on. Another butterfly amenity – for question marks, red admirals and others – is well-ripened fruit. bush and Joe Pye weed. Nevertheless, when it comes time Here’s a pop quiz. Why do so many male butterflies hang out in to lay her eggs, the female will make a beeline for violet mud puddles? Answer: They are sipping dissolved salts and minerals foilage, just as a female monarch will lay her eggs only on that make their flight muscles stronger. During mating, males pass milkweed plants. these same minerals to their mates – and from the ladies, they’re forwarded on to help ensure the viability of eggs and caterpillars. (Note to self: Add a “puddler” to the garden – and don’t forget to mix in a wee dollop of plain old manure.)

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Our rubythroats were wasting a whole lot of precious energy chasing each other away from favored flowers and the single nectar feeder. I couldn’t move the disputed clump of Crocosmia, but – ignoring Star Trek’s Prime Directive – I did add a second feeder about 50 feet away. For the feeder, mix ¼ cup white granulated sugar with one cup of water; change (and wash) the feeder two or three times a week.

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A garden paradise for hummingbirds might include a supply of lichen bits and spider webs. You can gather some of these and then leave a few caches near their nectar feeder.

These are a couple of the nesting materials that female rubythroats incorporate into their nests. The lichens help to camouflage the wall of the nest, and spider webs enable the nest to expand as the baby hummingbirds grow.

Fine-Tune the Arrangement

How you arrange your plants may determine how effective your garden is for building the loyalty of your flying guests.

Sunlight is essential for the success of both flowers and fliers. Butterflies flourish only in warm temperatures (reportedly a minimum of 55 degrees F), so they prefer flowers in full sunlight. But they also need places where they feel safe to spread their wings and wait for the sun to warm them up. In bad weather, they need shelter from heavy rains and strong wind; you can help them by planting shrubs or small trees nearby. (Choose these not only for their own attractiveness, but also for

their ability to do double duty as food plants for both summer and winter visitors. Great examples are crabapples, dogwoods and viburnums.)

Rather than install bird feeders for orioles and hummingbirds within the garden, you may want to hang fresh oranges, grape jelly and nectar feeders from tree branches, or place them on poles where you can enjoy watching from your windows or deck. Although we’ve never witnessed a hummingbird or any other passerine grab a butterfly to snack on, some experts strongly caution against incorporating both bird feeders and birdbaths into a butterfly garden.

And Finally

Enjoy your garden. And be patient. It may take days or weeks before your garden blooms start bringing in butterflies. Half the fun is matching wits with the wild things. And if you succeed, your garden will be colorful both on the ground and in the sky.

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FLX KODACHROME: National Geographic Photographer

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Beginning in May 1975, Nathan Benn photographed the Finger Lakes over four seasons for National Geographic magazine, focusing his lens on subjects of heritage, stability, industry and the cultural homogeneity of the region in the 1970s. A selection of those photographs will be on view in the spotlight exhibition FLX KODACHROME at The Rockwell Museum in Corning from May 28 – Sept. 7, 2021.

“In 2021, all of the exhibitions and programs at The Rockwell stem from the annual theme of Environments Examined. We are exploring the myriad ways artists engage with, connect to or interrupt natural, built and social environments,” says Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Kirsty Buchanan. “Nathan Benn’s work explores the tangible landscape of the Finger Lakes Region while revealing the social climate that existed during the 1970s.”

Benn’s upbringing with Jewish parents near Miami, Florida, exposed him to issues of racism, cultural segregation and social justice from an early age as the city was welcoming its first Cuban exile refugees. As a kid, his wanderlust was stoked by days spent at the Florida East Coast railroad station watching snowbirds disembark from streamlined passenger trains. Gifted a camera as a teen, Benn snapped photos for his high school paper before working his way through the University of Miami as a photographer for the Miami News and Palm Beach Post; he began his almost 20-year career with National Geographic as an intern in 1972. He now divides his time between homes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Rebecca Abrams, a fine art photographer.

Benn is known for embracing color photography before it was considered a suitable medium for documentary photoreportage. Over a span of two decades, his assignments were equally divided between domestic and overseas projects; 300 of his photographs were published in National Geographic magazine and hundreds more can be found in numerous National Geographic Society publications. His reportage for National Geographic included the Netherlands, the Dead Sea, Prague, South Korea, Scotland, Florida, Vermont, Massachusetts, the Mississippi River, the Finger Lakes, Hasidic Jews, the Jewish diaspora, medicinal herbs, human physiology, Bible lands archaeology in the Middle East, pre-Columbian archaeology in Peru and skyscrapers.

Benn is drawn particularly to people in their authentic environment; he rarely poses or manipulates subjects. He recalls that his months in the Finger Lakes were personally gratifying, and he enjoyed the unique landscape and friendliness of the people he encountered. At the same time, he found a challenge in capturing real farmers, glassblowers, house painters and retirees of Western New York. For Benn and many documentary photographers, making meaningful

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Dr. Konstantin Frank, owner of Vinifera Vineyards. Hammondsport, October 6, 1975

images from quotidian life can be more formidable than recording exotic subjects.

FLX KODACHROME includes sweeping aerial landscapes of the Finger Lakes and surrounding small towns, as well as portraits of assembly line workers, glassblowers, winery pickers, auctioneers, parade spectators, scout troops and racing enthusiasts of the ’70s.

Visitors will recognize locations such as the Watkins Glen International, Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated), the Columbian Rope Company, American LaFrance, Widmer Wine Cellars, Bully Hill, Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery, the Mark Twain family farm and the boathouses of Canandaigua Lake.

Kate Swanson, interpretation and public engagement educator at The

Rockwell, works to enhance featured exhibitions with engaging, interactive elements. Nathan Benn’s photography captures a moment in time in the Finger Lakes of intertwining stories. As part of the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to contribute their own written stories or memories that are sparked as they view the photographs, Swanson explains. “Photography is often how we make sense of the identity of a region, whether that’s through treasured vacation photos or images of familiar locales,” she says. “We hope to elicit positive memories from visitors while also pushing folks to consider the complexity of nostalgia and what we remember through rose-colored glasses.”

Meaghan Frank, vice president of Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery, was pleased

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FLX KODACHROME: Nathan Benn Left: Spectators departing Watkins Glen racetrack area at dusk on the day before the Grand Prix. Watkins Glen, October 4, 1975.

Below: Elmer Blair holds a 10. 41-pound prize winning lake trout at a fishing tournament on Seneca Lake.

Geneva, May 25, 1975 Bottom: Spectators watch competitive teams of firemen in games at the Northern Central Convention of Volunteer Firefighters. Farmington, June 14, 1975

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Max Erlacher, a master engraver who worked with Steuben Glass in the ’60s and ’70s, was moved when he saw a capture of fragile Steuben glass contrasted with the makers’ rough hands. “It was such an exciting time,” he says. “I worked with six highly skilled engravers, mostly working on special, limited edition pieces. I remember the Madonna and Child piece so well because of the gentle figures and elegant flow and drapery of the garments. It was a pleasure to go to work each day and watch the magic of the engraving unfold.”

FLX KODACHROME will be complemented by contemporary photography of the Finger Lakes Region in the special exhibition, From the Shadows: The Photography of Chris Walters, also on view at The Rockwell this summer (on view June 11 – Dec. 31, 2021). The theme of Environments Examined is expanded through AIDS’ Dark Terrain: Woodblock Prints of Robin Tichane (on view now through January 2022), as well as a unique ANTIGRAVITY installation by Elaine K. Ng (on view now through February 2022).

A proud Smithsonian Affiliate, The Rockwell Museum’s permanent galleries represent a visual narrative of the everevolving American experience. The museum aims to provoke curiosity, ignite imagination, challenge perspectives and foster conversation with visitors through the works of American artists. Families will enjoy engaging gallery activities and the KIDS ROCKWELL Art Lab, located just around the corner.

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ven today, we brag about how much horsepower we have. Once upon a time, America moved by horse (and mule) (OK, and oxen, too). When the Erie Canal revolutionized transportation in 1825, it was horses and mules that pulled the boats along.

Besides providing transportation, horses performed heavy labor. I asked an elderly friend about that life; he’d started his farming career behind a horse near Ithaca. “What most people don’t realize,” he said, “is that you can’t work a horse in the field all day, then

hitch it up and drive it to town. That horse needs to rest.” It made sense once I thought about it. You have a tractor for field work and a car for road use. You need one of each.

Finger Lakes folks owned well over 100,000 horses at the time of the Civil War and into the 20th century. Aviation giant Glenn Curtiss famously started out in a Hammondsport bike shop, but from the barn in the back he sold harnesses and horse blankets, and that’s where he spent most of his advertising money.

A huge new harness factory was built in Bath in 1914. But with America helping feed France and Britain as well as itself, World War I spawned a roaring demand for foodstuffs, even as millions of young hands were yanked off the farms and shoved into uniforms. The new farm bureaus quickly set up tractor seminars, and internal combustion, already starting to dominate the roads, moved into the fields as well. Horses were becoming symbols of a quaint and faraway past.

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Now and then, it’s been known to snow in the Finger Lakes. In days gone by, the goal was to pack the snow and keep it on the roads for as long as possible, rather than clearing it off. Horse-drawn sleighs glided almost silently atop the hard-packed surface.

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Clockwise: The daisies are blooming in Erwin, but five men and eight horses (not to mention two boys) have no time to stop and smell them.

Are they working the farm, or are they about to grade the highway? Until the early 1900s, road work was accomplished largely by a labor tax, and the rural town of Urbana had 71 highway superintendents – no doubt producing wild variations in the quality of the roads.

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Harrowing is hard work for man and horse alike, but this matched team of large animals seems to be managing. Some horses knew the job as well as their handlers did. “Vineyard horses” discing or furrowing on the hillsides learned to stop instantly when they felt an obstruction, lest they tear out the vines. Steuben County Historian Horse-powered life required a vast infrastructure of blacksmiths, feed stores, farriers, livery stables, harness-makers, “horse doctors” and veterinarians. It seems romantic now, but blacksmithing meant heavy lifting, hard labor, dangerous fires and large, cranky animals.

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We don’t see very many photos of people riding horses – we suppose that in most of the Finger Lakes they were work animals, and riding probably wasn’t a skill that many people needed to cultivate. This welldressed gentleman has a well-kept mount, so he’s presumably a person of some prosperity; the horse may be his equivalent of a sportscar. He’s on East Market Street in Corning, crossing Cedar headed east. The building on the corner with the angled doorway now houses an AT&T store. Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes

Left: A horse is one of the family, and naturally you want to make it feel at home. Dort Drake welcomes a friend onto the porch of their summer place on Keuka Lake, at Drake’s Point in Pulteney. We suspect that this scene would not have been repeated back at home in Corning. Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes

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Above, right: Many horses on regular delivery routes could walk them unguided, freeing their driver to run back and forth from vehicle to doorsteps. Back in the 1930s, “Bert” made deliveries for Shults Dairy in Avoca. At the end of each day’s run he stepped up onto the curb at Prices’ Ice Cream Parlor and crowned his labors with a candy bar. Steuben County Historical Society Above: Last stage from Troupsburg! It’s 1907, and the final run for Knoxville, Pennsylvania, is about to embark. A stage ran between Prattsburgh and Hammondsport as late as World War I. Steuben County Historical Society

Left, top to bottom: The graves of World War I soldiers are often marked with such ranks as “Teamster” and “Muleteer.” The U.S. Cavalry mounted its last charge in the Philippines in 1942, and the U.S. Army used mules in the mountains of Korea. By the 1920s, though, it was clear that the age of the military horse was rapidly drawing to a close. Even so, Colonel J.F.C. Tillison, commandant of the V. A. Center in Bath, clearly thought highly of his mount. And it seems to have been mutual. Steuben County Historian We like the juxtaposition in this Hammondsport photo ... a horsedrawn dray hauling Curtiss motorcycles to be shipped out on the steam-driven train. Glenn H. Curtiss Museum Despite all the new technology readily available, up into the 1960s, Frank Pierce worked his farm in Coopers Plains largely as he had when he was young – and just as his family had worked that same farm since the 1790s. Steuben County Historical Society And the more things change, the more they stay the same. As the 21st century approached, Amish and Old-Order Mennonites began to flow into the Finger Lakes ... turning the calendar back and once again making the Lakes Country the home of the working horse.

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Capturing

Finger Lakes Beauty with a Camera

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atural beauty is in abundance in the Finger Lakes Region. Taking striking photographs of that beauty takes a bit of technical know-how, some familiarity with the landscape and an affinity for exploration. From the breathtaking curve of the Milky Way to the roar of a waterfall in the rainy season, stunning views are everywhere – just waiting to be captured. Get your camera ready and follow along with these tips.

A long exposure and tripod are necessary to soften a waterfall.

Try 1-2 seconds so you don’t blow out the texture of the falls. For this image, I used a neutral density filter to darken the light coming in for that longer exposure during the day, which is not possible otherwise. Use the lowest ISO setting possible, along with f/11 or higher.

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Above: Shooting the Milky Way requires some prep work, as you need to know the best time of year and the exact time it rises – it changes nightly – to capture the Galactic Center. I use an app called SkySafari to get this data. I shoot in portrait (vertical layout) to gain the full aspect of the Milky Way along with a nice foreground. Your camera must be on a tripod, as a long exposure that brings in a lot of light is needed. Shooting a 20-second exposure is best here; anything longer will capture a bit of movement in the stars from earth’s rotation and result in a more blurry look. You want the stars to be sharp and crisp.

Above, right: Consider shooting autumn foliage on a cloudy day, as sometimes the harsh light from the sun can drown out the beautiful colors and result in too much contrast. I shoot with a telephoto lens to capture both the ski lift wires and the vibrant colors in the distance on the mountains. It’s best to underexpose this capture a bit so you don’t blow out the vibrant colors of the leaves. A typical exposure setting for this photo would be f/11, 1/250 shutter speed (SS), ISO 250

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A telephoto lens was used to capture this more close-up look and bring in the dynamics of the falls at Letchworth State Park. If you want to soften the waterfall, use a tripod for a several-second exposure. A neutral density filter was used for this long exposure during the day.

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Lost Dogs of the Finger Lakes

Posting Pups Gone Missing

by Nancy E. McCarthy

It’s an unimaginable nightmare if your dog takes off and vanishes.

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euniting lost dogs with owners is the mission of Lost Dogs of the Finger Lakes, a Tompkins County-based volunteer group launched in 2013. LDOTFL has attracted over 36,000 dog lovers to their Facebook page and last year posted 700 photos of lost or found dogs. With such a large base of followers, information is quickly shared.

“Viral” posts alert residents and engage communities resulting in countless happy endings.

“Many dogs, upon reunion with their owners, will cry out over and over in a way that I can only describe as the sound of pure joy. It brings tears to my eyes every time as there is no sound as beautiful,” says Charlene Mottler who assumed the role of Lost Dogs’ volunteer director when founder Lisa Freelove moved out of state last

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year. The current Lost Dogs team also includes assistant director Jacque Harrington and five other volunteers.

Reinventing the wheel

Using Facebook to locate lost pets isn’t a new idea but what motivated Freelove to start her own page was the absence of crucial details from many lost and found dog posts.

Though well-intentioned, some lacked photos or pet descriptions, town of origin or owner contact information.

It was often unclear how to report a dog sighting or connect a picked up pup with its owner. And something else was missing besides the dog— how animal shelters and dog control officers (DCOs) interact in lost dog situations which vary in different towns or counties.

So Freelove, along with Charlene

Mottler and Karen Wadsworth, developed an improved template starting with concise posts including all pertinent details plus current photo. Behind the scenes, they began connecting anxious owners with the right resources in their locality.

LDOTFL became one of those resources when their mission expanded to include involvement in extreme cases of recovering fearful dogs on the run. These scenarios require understanding lost dog behavior, sharing techniques with owners on how to safely lure a panicked pup back home and coordinating with local agencies such as shelters or DCOs to humanely trap them. One primary function of a DCO is responding to stray/lost dog sightings, so it was shocking to Mottler that many owners didn’t even know

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Volunteer director Charlene Mottler with her beloved dog Joey, who passed away in 2019.

their town had a DCO. To address this critical gap, LDOTFL compiled a comprehensive DCO and shelter contact list from cities to hamlets in the 10 counties they cover—Mottler calculates nearly 10,000 square miles.

Search and rescue

Strategic trapping became a passion for Mottler who leads LDOTFL’s volunteer search and rescue team. “My first case was staking out a dumpster with Lisa at Taco Bell in Ithaca in the middle of the night; waiting for an elusive dog to appear,” says Mottler.

“From that point, I was hooked.” After much research and independent study, she began taking trapping and rescue courses.

Most missing dogs don’t require herculean efforts to reunite them with their owners. Typically the more difficult cases revolve around dogs adopted into loving homes coming from heartbreaking situations: animal hoarders, puppy mills, chained or caged dogs or outright physical abuse.

“One of our hardest cases by far was Wren who lived her entire two years of life inside a crate,” says Mottler.

“She came from a hoarding situation and escaped within two weeks of arriving at her new home.” Wren was on the run in deep woods near her Brooktondale home in Tompkins County for 47 days. She was finally caught by LDOTFL with support from her owners, multiple animal agencies, community involvement and a customized trap built for the crateaverse pup.

If a runaway dog is sighted, trapping is a useful rescue tool. Scent trails of smeared food start from the sighting area and lead toward a food station placed in a safe location. A trail camera monitors the station. Once the dog finds the station and an eating pattern is established, a humane trap is transported to the site. Food is left outside and inside the trap but not set. Desensitizing the pup to the trap’s presence is especially important for skittish canines that fear confinement.

Once the camera captures the dog entering the trap to eat, it is later set with a trigger plate or motion sensor.

Team Tara

In January 2020, Pastor Garrett Plitt adopted Tara from the Finger Lakes SPCA (FLSPCA) in Bath, Steuben County. Tara, a Lab mix, was part of an animal cruelty case. She was Plitt’s first dog and his constant companion.

About six months after adoption, something spooked Tara during a walk and she broke free with her leash trailing behind her. Tara was missing for 10 days with sightings back and forth across New York and Pennsylvania state lines including her own backyard in Lindley, New York.

Plitt was devastated. While Googling lost dog pages, he found and contacted LDOTFL. Mottler immediately set in motion the time-tested techniques to lure Tara back home. Her SOS text to Vicki Mosgrove, executive

Right: In June 2020, Juno, a farm dog not accustomed to indoor living, escaped for three days in South Dansville. Her new owner Meliea DeStefano lured Juno to safety with coaching from LDOTFL.

Where’s My Dog? “By far, the top two causes for dogs to become separated from their humans is being let outside without supervision or not leashed with properly fitting collars or harnesses,” says Mottler. Noises, like gunshots or fireworks, can also send a pup into a panic. Newly adopted dogs rescued from a rough life bolt through doors, jump over or dig under fences. Seniors get confused and wander away. The list goes on!

Here are tips from LDOTFL to help you find your missing furry friend.

• Check your yard, street and nearest yards.

• Call your local DCO and animal shelter to report your lost pup.

• Go door-to-door to alert your neighbors.

• Contact Lost Dogs of the Finger Lakes.

• Share LDOTFL’s post on your own Facebook page and community pages.

• Hang scent items, such as pillowcase or socks, and smear pungent food around your property’s perimeter.

• Post flyers with photo and contact information within a mile radius of your house. Expand the radius if your dog remains missing.

• If your pet is chipped, make sure its profile is current.

Notify the microchip company.

• Dogs are drawn to farms.

Visit nearby farmers to alert them.

Left: Wren was safely trapped after 47 days on the run.

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director of FLSPCA, included a request for a trap. Then Mottler coached Plitt on how to lay scent trails to lead Tara to the backyard. FLSPCA coordinated pick-up of traps loaned by Elmira Animal Control and Shelter and Hornell Area Humane Society. This intensive effort required close collaboration and communication between Plitt, volunteers and agencies.

When the trail cam captured Tara's nervous behavior around the trap, it was determined that a much larger size was needed. FLSPCA purchased an 8’ x 8’ poultry pen and added a customized door and trigger mechanism. Plitt could also monitor the trap from a window in his home.

“I remember the relief in Garrett's voice when he called that she was in the custom trap,” says Mosgrove. Mottler received an exuberant text: “WE GOT HER!” Then Mosgrove, along with FLSPCA volunteer Sue Arthur, drove over to help Plitt bring Tara safely into the house. “That week-and-a-half felt like a year. When I got her back it felt like a heavy weight was lifted from my shoulders,” says Plitt.

Tara is doing great now: friendly, less fearful and fully recovered from her scary flight. But Plitt always walks his best friend with a firm grip on her leash. “I’m not taking any risks,” he says.

As for Mottler? She was thrilled but ready for the next case. Mottler has enough stories for a book—which she intends to write someday.

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people in the know

Alan Milanette Timber Frames Inc

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ocated near Canandaigua, Timber Frames, Inc. uses a method of construction sometimes called “post and beam” for each of the individual timber frame homes they build. Their craftsmen cut and secure their framing timber one by one, by interlocking mortise and tenon joints, pegged with oak trunnels.

What is one new project that you’re working on that especially excites you?

This year’s outdoor patio addition to the Billboro Winery is a small piece of the exciting future for the Finger Lakes food and beverage industry.

When did Timber Frames Inc. start? What is it known for?

Alan: In 1977 my wife and I erected our first Timber Frame home and fell in love with the concept. By 1980 we were exclusively doing timber framing. Each structure is made up of joinery hand cut by skilled craftsman in our local shop in South Bristol. Timber Frames is known for its innovative and one-of-a-kind designs uniquely crafted for the Finger Lakes geography. We are also known for building customer relationships that have lasted a lifetime.

What part of the Finger Lakes do you like the most?

The reason we love all of the Finger Lakes is because it has it all. My wife and I are avid boaters, hikers, music lovers, cross country skiers, and epicureans.

What is one of your most defining moments in life?

In 1976 my wife and I took a road trip around the United States to find a place to call home. After a 12-week tour, we made our way back to the Finger Lakes and literally bought the house next door where we started our family and Timber Frames, Inc.

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Fine Artist Kate Timm

by Nancy E. McCarthy

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andscape and still life are distinct genres and rarely are these two subjects combined in one painting.

Fine artist Kate Timm’s work is among those rare exceptions. Her vibrant paintings depict charming tabletop arrangements of colorful objects as foreground with a window view of a natural landscape as background.

The relationship between the two is seamless. The realistic images beckon us to the table to pluck a piece of candy from a pretty dish or sniff a fragrant floral arrangement while taking in the breathtaking outdoor scenery beyond.

Timm’s works are very large. “It allows the viewer to be a part of the space,” she explains. An average sized oil painting is 50 x 50 inches.

The allure of landscape

The outdoors plays an important role in her artwork and her life. Timm, one of six siblings, enjoyed exploring the woods and fields with her brothers near their childhood home in Skaneateles. From an early age she developed a love of the local landscape, of birding and gardening. “To this day, I garden and can tomatoes, pickles, hot peppers, and assorted fruits, jams and jellies,” she says. These homemade canned goods were the subjects of her first still life paintings.

Today the landscape represented in her paintings is exclusively the 124 acre property surrounding the farm in Sterling where she lives with her husband Al Bremmer. From

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Autumn Reflections, oil on canvas, 62” x 42”, Juror’s Citation Award, 83rd Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, 2018.

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Left: 8 Glasses, 2 Roosters, oil on canvas, 62” x 42.”

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the large 1,600 square foot studio she shares with Bremmer, an abstract painter, she captures all seasons: the stark winter whites and dull browns, the burst of new growth in spring, summer’s rich pops of color and a riot of deep autumn hues.

Timm has amassed a variety of items for her still life compositions such as bird nests and cages, fish aquariums and fabrics. She sources natural materials from her own vegetable and flower gardens. Brightly colored candies, like jellybeans and gumdrops, add a touch of whimsy to some arrangements. Timm collects glassware, too, with a fondness for vintage Murano, Depression and Anchor Hocking. The majority of objects come from antique shops and yard sales or are donated by family and friends. “Even though vintage and antique materials are used, the paintings are meant to be contemporary and current in nature,” says Timm. Her collections are curated and stored on shelving her husband built.

Capturing the natural light flowing in, around and through the selected objects is the unifying force of depicting indoors and outdoors in a single painting. Every element of the painting, including Timm’s use of light, is equally important.

Psychology and art

“There’s a motivation, a need to produce art,” says Timm who delights in the process and the result. “If I am out of the studio for too long, I get a little crazy.” She paints daily since her 2014 retirement from her 27 years as an art media specialist at SUNY Oswego.

SUNY Oswego was impactful in her personal and professional life. It was where Timm attained two Bachelor’s of Art degrees – one in psychology and another in art, followed by a Master’s of Art in 1976.

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Kate Timm in her studio

The Artist’s Process

A painting begins with the selection and placement of still life objects to complement the landscape view. For instance, an autumn landscape might include seasonal flowers and vegetables. Items are adjusted until a composition evolves. Similar colors unify, like red gladioli and red apples, while pairing an ornate green candy dish with simple red glassware provides contrast. Contemporary relatable items, like comic books and birds, provide some whimsy.

Timm photographs the arrangement numerous times to finally select a composition that will be successful as a painting. The image is then projected onto the canvas and the outline of the objects is drawn. It’s a time-saving device to eliminate the freehand drawing process. Painting the most perishable items first, she refers to the actual still life as well as photographs for visual input.

Professional oil paints, odorless thinner and stand oil plus a variety of sable and synthetic brushes are used. Timm builds, stretches and tripleprimes her canvases. An average-size oil painting of 50” x 50” requires 3-4 months to complete. She also paints with watercolor on paper. The images are generally as complex but the paintings are smaller and require 1-2 months for completion.

Though her initial career path was clinical psychology, after taking some art electives her trajectory changed dramatically. During college, Timm was a realist painter with landscape and street scenes as preferred subjects. She was influenced by the turn of the 20th century Ashcan School painters (a group of artists in New York City inspired by painter Robert Henri and known for gritty urban scenes, a dark palette and gestural brushwork).

As an undergrad, she learned about the unusual artwork of contemporary artists Janet Fish and Jane Freilicher who combined still life with landscape. Though it may have planted a seed, Timm didn’t consider intertwining these genres for her own work until years later.

Timm met her future husband at SUNY Oswego while in graduate school. Bremmer, now a retired Professor Emeritus, was an art professor at the college for 35 years. While both were employed there, the couple made many friends; some of whom became collectors of their work. Their friends Sara Varhus and her husband David Hill, retired English professors, own four Timm paintings.

Their favorite is Haying Time. “We love that the painting prompts questions,” says Varhus. In the landscape, freshly

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cut hay lies in rows and the trees are lush green. “The still life seems to echo the theme of a bountiful harvest, but in the midst is an animal skull, and if you look closely, there are little spots of decay on some of the vegetables,” Varhus explains. “And all of this is arranged on a fabric printed with the words to ‘The Yellow Submarine.’”

Dr. Stephen Weber, a self-described art addict and retired president of SUNY Oswego, purchased Timm’s Pescevino and Tamaracks. The 42” x 88” oil painting was part of a solo exhibit at the college. “It is a beautiful, well-executed painting that perfectly captures the spirit and atmosphere of that lovely place: the gray autumn sky, the gently rolling hills, the remains of recently-harvested corn,” says Weber.

“Kate’s talent for color, perspective, and composition are extraordinary and quite distinctive.”

In 1980, Timm and Bremmer moved to their farm in Sterling, an area they loved. Relaxing into a more rural lifestyle, she gradually began painting the views she enjoyed from home instead of cityscapes. With the addition of vibrant still life materials, her intent was to capture the beauty and unique quality of ordinary objects, set with a background of the Upstate New York landscape. The format has worked beautifully for the artist for nearly four decades.

Timm has exhibited widely in solo and group shows in distinguished venues such as the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse and Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, garnering many awards along the way. She is represented exclusively by Oxford Gallery in Rochester and will be part of their upcoming “In a Different Light” exhibition running from October 16 through November 26.

No doubt Timm’s mastery of light in her artwork will shine brightly.

Visit oxfordgallery.com to view or purchase Kate Timm’s paintings.

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or many years, our family in Middlesex has been collecting books. All six of our children love reading, making us frequent visitors to libraries, book stores and used book sales. Over the past 12 years of homeschooling, we have amassed a collection of over 3,000 books, most of which are classics or high-quality vintage literature geared toward children and young adults.

Books are one of the ways that our children connect to one another – relationships built on sharing quality literature are strong because children can always find something about which to reminisce (“Remember the time when Mom read us Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?”), and something about which to debate (“Why do you think Jo should have married Laurie?”). Shared literary experience provides a scaffold on which children build vocabulary by using new words in conversation with one another, and it helps cement the traits that build character, as heroes and heroines model the traits we wish our children to exhibit as adults.

Reading the classics, especially those outside of our time period, provide

Above: Fossils and other nature finds are frequently on display and children love to add to the collection.

Right: The two-room library, located in the old summer kitchen of the house which was built in 1820, has its own entrance.

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We had discussed cataloging our collection – scattered on various shelves in different rooms – in order to enable us to find a book more quickly, but the time required for this project would be substantial. It would require touching every single book, finding its appropriate entry using a library cataloging app, labeling each one, then using the Dewey Decimal System for shelving so that it could be located quickly. The potential benefits of such a project were great: We could more easily loan books to other homeschooling families and people interested in good literature, and we could avoid duplicate purchases because we would have remote access to an online catalog.

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canandaigua | marketplace six children afforded little free time for tackling such a project. Our activities mostly revolved around the children’s hobbies, our flock of fiber sheep, and hives of honey bees and community service projects. Now we had expanses of time that were suddenly at our disposal, day after day.

Our 14-year-old daughter spearheaded the effort to catalog the books, taking on the task as energetically as she approaches a new weaving project on her floor loom.

It took weeks, but was made much easier by the fact that apps exist to create an online catalog from your book collection. They also recommend the most appropriate Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress number for accurate shelving. We used the free app LibraryThing for this task.

Taking the project to the next level required construction help, which we received from McHugh Carpentry in Shortsville, who brought our organizational vision to fruition.

Our library project is still ongoing.

We never stop collecting books, and more shelving is in the works. We have a small community of patrons and we enjoy plucking books based on queries (“What do you have on China for kids?”). We have a collection of books that are out-of-print and hard to find, and they are often written at a surprisingly high reading level, as most older books are.

Today we have a small number of dedicated patrons who seek our books not because we have the current bestsellers in kids’ literature or because we have a big selection of recent authors, but because they appreciate good literature that doesn’t talk down to a child, that inspires, and is written by authors passionate about their subject matter. We are grateful to the many people, including homeschooling families and school libraries in the surrounding areas, who have donated books that have outlived their usefulness in those places and have renewed lives in our library.

For more information and a link to the catalog, email Rebecca Parshall at rwparshall@frontiernet.net.

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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – and Women to Medicine Janice P. Nimura W. W. Norton & Company wwnorton.com 2021

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isters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, who immigrated to America with their parents and numerous siblings from Bristol, England in 1832, are the subjects of this compelling and wellresearched biography. Each sought a medical career in 19th century America and Europe at a time when only men became doctors. Elizabeth was the first woman to obtain a medical degree. In 1849, after receiving rejections from many medical schools, she was admitted to Geneva Medical College (now Hobart College) through a student vote – a lighthearted gesture. She later earned their respect.

Emily, less well known, also succeeded in becoming a doctor. Like her sister, she pursued additional training in European hospitals. Elizabeth practiced medicine in New York City, establishing a dispensary in 1857. The sisters later started the Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary in 1868 to increase the number of rigorously educated female doctors. Under Emily’s guidance, it survived for 30 years after Elizabeth returned to Europe. These life stories rely on the Blackwell family’s correspondence to reveal the sisters’ opinions on contemporary medical practices and details of their personal lives and relationships.

Janice P. Nimura is the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, a New York Times Notable book in 2015. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in many publications.

Cider Revival: Dispatches from the Orchard Jason Wilson Harry N. Abrams abramsbooks.com 2019

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ider was America’s original favorite beverage. During Prohibition, orchards were destroyed and neglected. Other alcoholic drinks surpassed it, but cider is now experiencing a rebirth. New York State leads the nation with about 90 licensed cideries. The story behind the cider

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revival unfolds through conversations with those involved in apple orchards found in the Finger Lakes, the Catskills, New England, the West Coast and beyond.

The Finger Lakes is playing a pivotal role in cider’s resurgence. “The thin isthmus between deep blue Cayuga and Seneca Lakes may have the finest concentration of artisan cideries in the nation,” writes Jason Wilson. His broad knowledge of wine and spirits makes him well suited to discuss ciders and he draws comparisons between cider production and winemaking. Wine comes from fermented grapes while cider is made from fermented apples. The perfect unblemished dessert or culinary apples produce “modern” sweet ciders that are lower in alcohol. The book’s focus is the heritage ciders made today by smaller producers using assorted heirloom apple varieties such as the Northern Spy and wild apples foraged from uncultivated trees.

An award-winning journalist and knowledgeable travel-writer, Jason Wilson has served as a judge at North America’s largest cider competition. An appendix offers top cider bars and notable American cideries to help readers to sample ciders for themselves.

Faces of Civil War Nurses Ronald S. Coddington Johns Hopkins University Press press.jhu.edu 2020

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fresh perspective on the Civil War is offered through this selection of stories of 77 women who served as nurses, aid workers and vivandières.

The latter were freelancers who were unofficial attachés to regiments during the bloody conflict. Each female appears in a likeness reproduced from a surviving tin type or carte des visite.

While the majority of these women provided support for the Union cause, three Southerners are included in this collection.

The first subject, Almira Fales, is shown holding two baskets of supplies used to tend Union soldiers. Like Fales, some of these little-known patriots came from New York State and the Finger Lakes area. She relocated to Washington, D.C., where boarders welcomed into her home included Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. The author does not dwell on well-known figures such as Barton or Dorothea Dix, the person charged with the administration of military hospitals. Instead, he features women with intriguing stories that have not yet been told.

Author Ronald S. Coddington successfully humanizes the Civil War through these well-written biographies and accompanying images. He is the editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education and the editor and publisher of Military Images magazine. His previous books focus on Union, Confederate, and African American soldiers, along with sailors who served in the Union and Confederate navies.

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Murder & Mayhem in the Finger Lakes R. Marcin The History Press historypress.com 2020

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eal-life homicides in the Finger Lakes Region from 1828 to 1911 are recounted in this engrossing book of high-profile crimes. A sometimeschilling read unfolds through the vivid descriptions detailing each murder and the circumstances leading up to the fatal attack. Background information explains the relationships between victims and their assailants. Trials and executions of the accused were then fully covered in the local press. The author has carefully researched newspaper accounts where the murders occurred – in Seneca, Cayuga, Wayne, Ontario, Tompkins, Schuyler, Livingston and Yates Counties.

The accused murderers are male with the exception of Elizabeth Rogers and Elizabeth Brooks, tried for the death of a man who forcibly sought admittance to Rogers’ home on Pulteney Street in Geneva. Rogers reportedly defended herself by inflicting deadly blows with a large pottery milk pitcher.

After learning the facts of each case, the reader may consider whether the accused was rightfully judged. Hangings, one punishment facing those found guilty, were often public events, attracting many spectators. Surviving illustrations of some of the accused persons and diagrams of crime scenes enhance these 10 tales.

Author Rikki Marcin has a master’s degree in French literature. She has written for the Watkins Review and Express and the Observer in Yates County. This is her first book.

Mountains Can Move Paul Mitchell Bootstrap Publishing 2020

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The characters in this story are relatable and well-drawn.

Toxic family dynamics are played out primarily around Albert’s Rochester home. His son Andy, a Wall Street lawyer whose own life is unraveling, insists on solutions that clash with the expectations of his sister Bonnie, their father’s primary caretaker. Only Albert’s 21-year old granddaughter Sophie understands her grandfather’s artistic passion and recognizes his ability. The family’s Christian faith, old friends, new acquaintances and even Albert’s old restored truck affect the outcome. Readers will enjoy numerous references to Rochester and the Finger Lakes area.

Author Paul Mitchell is a retired nurse practitioner, a resident of Middlesex and an accomplished photographer. This is his first book.

Salt City Trivia III – The Erie Canal Dick Case Onondaga Historical Association cnyhistory.org 2019

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he history of the Erie Canal, the 19th century waterway that contributed to commerce in New York State, is replete with trivia. Which town is at the exact midpoint of the original Albany to Buffalo canal route? The answer is Camillus, where today the Camillus Erie Canal Park preserves a seven-mile stretch of the Erie Canal. Like many communities, nearby Syracuse, or “Salt City,” grew and prospered after the canal allowed its products to be shipped more easily.

The compact book was drawn from the author’s love of “little facts that sometime are lost in the broader sweep of history.” Full-color archival illustrations accompany brief accounts and happenings related to canal history across the state. Some are familiar, like the image of Governor Dewitt Clinton pouring Lake Erie water into New York Harbor in 1825. Less well known is the newspaper account of the first female pathmaster. In 1904, Mary Porter of Baldwinsville daily patrolled a 10-mile section of the towpath and berm to seal leaks.

This is the third “Salt City Trivia” book written by Dick Case, who passed away shortly after the book’s release. The Central New Yorker was a native of Marcellus and graduate of Syracuse University. He was active with the Onondaga Historical Association after retiring from a long and successful career in journalism.

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Areas of Interest in the May/June 2021 issue 1 2 3 4

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Addison (p.23) Avoca (p.54) Bath (p.54) Canandaigua (p.48)

9 Farmington (p.50) 10 Freeville (p.46) 11 Geneva (p.17, 45) 12 Hammondsport (p.49)

Corning (p.47, 53) Dundee (p.23) Elmira (p.48) Erwin (p.53)

13 Ithaca (p.28) 14 Montour Falls (p.23) 15 Naples (p.46) 16 Phelps (p.23)

17 Pulteney (p.53) 18 Richford (p.25) 19 Skaneateles (p.48) 20 Trumansburg (p.54)

21 Waterloo (p.46) 22 Watkins Glen (p.50)

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