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Cover: Jennifer Fraizer is taking the “Leap of Faith” off of the last platform on the Zip Line Canopy Tour at Bristol Mountain.

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t’s a special person who can see beauty in the old and decrepit. To see life and vitality in something that was in its prime many years ago. Instead of creating something from new materials, they choose to refurbish and make something that’s old new again.

This is now happening throughout the Finger Lakes Region.

The Linden Social Club (page 32) is a cocktail bar on Linden Street in Geneva - a one way tributary among the well-traveled main arteries of the city. The street is becoming known for the niche businesses that are lining it, catering to Millennials and others who are looking for something new, something different. The social club is housed in what was once a paint store, and some of the artifacts from that era – such as paint on the floor that simply wouldn’t come off – are still present as you tour the bar area. That kind of detail just enhances the space. Making use of the “good bones” of the building has helped the club to stand out from others. The owners envisioned a space that mixed the old with the new, and made good design functional.

The National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls is getting a new home (page 24). They are moving across the Cayuga-Seneca Canal to the former Seneca Knitting Mill, which will become The Center for

Great Women. The iconic building will give the museum an incredible amount of space to display all of its artifacts. At the present time, the museum, located on Fall Street, consists of one floor of display space.

The mill will give them four floors of space. The limestone exterior of the building, combined with the interior original hardwood floors will make for a beautiful rebirth of a once proud piece of architecture. The center has a completion goal of early 2017.

The Star Theatre in Dansville (page 48) is close to celebrating almost 100 years of being in existence.

It has gone through numerous face lifts over the years. The marquee and entrance look different from earlier times, but the same excitement of seeing a good movie is still present.

In the early 1990s, the current owner and his father restored the seating and equipment. A coat of paint and a new exterior look – complete with paintings of famous actors – made the theatre come alive once again.

There’s something to be said for restoring and refurbishing, rather than tearing down and building anew. When there are good bones to work with, it’s worth it.

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he article on Peter Gruber (“Rattlesnake Pete”) in the November/December 2016 issue presented a fine overview of one of the region’s “characters” in his day.

If your readers would like to learn more about him, the Gates Historical Society in 2007 reprinted a biography of Pete that was orignally written in 1923 by Charles B. Stilson, a Rochester newspaper reporter who was one of Pete’s friends (and customers, no doubt).

The book includes a foreword to the 2007 edition by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, who served for many years as the Rochester city historian. Her father knew Pete’s parents in Oil City, Pennsylvania, where Pete grew up.

I was pleased to have written the introduction to the 2007 edition. During the research, we found that the historical record is inconsistent about the number of times that Pete was bitten by poisonous snakes. Then, again, for most people, one bite would have been more than enough!

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Letters

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hile reading the November/December 2016 issue of Life in the Finger Lakes, I believe an error was made on page 36 in the Honorable Mention section of your 15th Annual Photography Contest.

The black and white print titled “Weeping Willow in Winter at Sonnenberg Gardens,” taken by Phil Hilden of Victor, is not a willow but is a weeping beech. The weeping beech has long stout branches that grow down to the ground and form a screen as illustrated in the picture. The weeping willow has light hanging pendents that grow downward but do not form a heavy screen.

The print is still worthy of an honorable mention.

– Richard M. Joseph, Canandaigua

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9 Geneva (p. 8, 32) 10 King Ferry (p. 8) 11 Locke (p. 38) 12 Macedon (p. 8)

Corning (p. 56) Dansville (p. 48) Dundee (p. 54) Elmira (p. 8)

13 Marcellus (p. 10) 14 Naples (p. 8) 15 Rochester (p. 54) 16 Seneca Falls (p. 24)

17 Syracuse (p. 8) 18 Trumansburg (p. 30) 19 Watkins Glen (p. 8) 20 Wayland (p. 14)

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January Jan 2-Feb 28...Snow Leopard Days at Rosamond Gifford Zoo 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Zoo goers enjoy half-price admission in January and February. Wander the Wildlife Trails and see animals playing in the snow, keep warm in indoor exhibits like the tropical Diversity of Birds, explore The Curious Cub Gift Shop and swing by the Jungle Café for a tasty treat or hot cocoa. The zoo is the perfect wintertime getaway for families and children. You’ll be sure to have an entertaining, educational and memorable visit--the best day ever. rosamondgiffordzoo.org One Conservation Place, Syracuse, NY 13204 Jan 6…Treleaven Wine & Movie Night Featuring “Jason Bourne” Round up your friends and family, bring a blanket and sip on delicious wine or beer while enjoying the evening’s feature film. “Jason Bourne” is PG-13, thriller/action genre, 2 hours 3 minutes. The winery will welcome guests for tastings until 6:45p.m., and the feature film will follow with a start time of 7 p.m. General admission is $7.50, with children 12 and under admitted for $5. Reservations are highly recommended.

658 Lake Road King Ferry, NY 13081 315-364-5100 treleavenwines.com Jan 7…Animal Encounters: Feeding Series Held from 12 to 1 p.m. at Cayuga Nature Center. Foxes and turtles and lizards – oh my. Discover all of the Amazing Animal Ambassadors that call the Cayuga Nature Center home every Saturday at noon! Our animal care staff will be on hand to answer

all of your questions as part of our series of public feedings.

1420 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, NY 14850 priweb.org Jan 7…Live Music: Nate Michaels Event runs from 1 to 4 p.m. at White Springs Winery.

4200 NY-14, Geneva, NY 14456 whitespringswinery.com Jan 9...The Bud Light Comedy Club A trio of hot comics entertain adult audience members in an intimate theater/night-club setting with both table and tiered seating. Don’t miss your chance to laugh yourself silly in the area’s most popular and longest-running Comedy Club.

207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira, NY 14901 clemenscenter.com Jan 14…4th Annual Home Winemaker’s Dinner Fulkerson Winery’s 4th annual event will be held at 6 p.m. Tickets are $40 per person or $70 per couple (plus tax) and can be pre-ordered and paid for with your juice order. Wine will be provided, but we encourage you to bring your own to taste, share and maybe get some helpful tips.

5576 Route 14, Dundee, NY 14837 607-243-7883 Jan 21…Winterfest 2017 Join Rooster Fish Brewing for their annual WinterFest celebration in Watkins Glen. Enjoy a heated tent, fire pits, live music and so much fun.

Featuring over 20 breweries, wineries, distilleries, food vendors, specialty shops and more. Check out our Facebook for more details. 5 to 10 p.m.

111 N. Franklin Street, Watkins Glen, NY 14891 roosterfishbrewing.com

22nd Annual Ontario County Master Gardener’s Spring Garden Symposium

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re you longing for spring? Cabin fever got you down? Don’t despair! Come join the Ontario County Master Gardeners for a day of horticultural inspiration at the 22nd Annual Spring Garden Symposium. It is being held on Saturday, February 11, 2017 from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm at Club 86, 86 Avenue E, Geneva, NY 14456.

Ken Harbison will be presenting on Pollinator Gardening.

Ken has been a Master Gardener since 2005. He has planted several butterfly and pollinator gardens.

Sandra Ebberts will be presenting on Moon Gardening.

Sandra is a retired nurse and has been a Master Gardener since 2015, but has been a gardening enthusiast for over 25 years.

Dr. Bruce Gilman will be presenting on Invasive Species.

Dr. Gilman is a professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation and Horticulture at Finger Lakes Community College.

His wealth of botanical knowledge is regularly shared with the general public through walks and lectures.

Cost is $40 per person which includes refreshments, hot buffet lunch, registration, and a folder with all the presenters’ handouts.

Registration deadline is February 1, 2017. The registration flyer will be available after January 4, 2017. Contact 585-394-3977 x 427 or email nea8@cornell.edu Jan 21-22…7th Annual Chili and Wine Tasting Event JD Wine Cellars celebrates their 7th annual chili tasting and wine pairing event. The chili tasting will feature two homemade chili dishes expertly paired with JD Wine Cellars wines (or non-alcoholic juices). Guests can select an additional three wines to sample while visiting the tasting room

this weekend. Tickets for this event are $10/person or $5/person for JD Wine Cellars Case Club Members.

Tickets can be purchased day of at the door or online.

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Naples Hosts Vintage Vines and Valentines

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n Saturday, February 11, Naples will host an amazing day with its annual Vintage Vines and Valentines throughout the village.

Bring your lover, your friends and your family.

There is something for all to enjoy throughout the day and into the evening. From wine, beer and cider tastings paired with culinary delights, to horse-drawn wagon rides, renewing your wedding vows as a group,

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bonfire, luminary launch, live music and so much more. Make early reservations at one of the many bed & breakfasts, hotels or cabins to enjoy a fun evening of dining and more live music.

More more information about the 2017 Vintage Vines and Valentines, visit the website at naplesvalleyny.com or call Artizanns at 585-374-6740.

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A Proud Community

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Marcellus story and photos by James P. Hughes

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t’s almost a two-mile ride from the crest of East Hill on Seneca Turnpike down a long straight slope into the heart of Marcellus.

Nestled snugly in its wooded valley, the village center is visible the entire way, postcard-like with church steeples and housetops rising above the tree line. That long downward trek has existed from the time the turnpike was a Native American trail and on through the years when horses and wagons rumbled steadily along its path.

Early settlers of the sheer, fertile slopes above Marcellus began arriving about 1794. They were recipients or purchasers of military tract land set aside for Revolutionary War veterans in recognition of their service. Families left rocky New England for the lush

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area just a few miles north of Otisco Lake, its countryside abundant with water and rich soil ideal for farming.

“Pucker Street”

A community soon formed at the turnpike’s valley intersection with Nine Mile Creek. In keeping with the classical names attached to many military tracts, the village was dubbed Marcellus after a Roman general, but early residents fondly tagged it “Pucker Street.” There are conflicting stories as to the origin of that nickname. According to Marcellus mayor John Curtin, who has written two engaging village histories whose titles include the moniker, “Each version is quite different, each is amusing and each has its advocates.”

Businesses blossomed along Main

Street as trading and manufacturing increased. Stagecoach lines made regular stops along the turnpike at establishments like the popular 1815 Alvord House. Successful businessmen and their families constructed stately village homes on shaded streets, and at one time church spires occupied each of the village’s main four corners.

From the beginning, a rapid series of drops along Nine Mile Creek through and near the village supplied ample power for a variety of mills – woolen to paper to grist. The Crown Woolen Mills became a village mainstay. It provided decades of employment to local residents and immigrants who arrived at the area. Crown produced fine woolens, and proudly furnished material used for uniforms during the Civil War era.

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Above: Crown Mill Apartments today with a picture postcard of the original mill.

Right: Like the mill building nearby, the Marcellus Free Library suggests brick-andgirder construction.

Opposite Page: Entering Marcellus from the winding West Hill of Seneca Turnpike Middle Right: The pioneer cabin at Baltimore Woods Nature Center is still used for activities.

Bottom Right: The Chocolate Pizza Company is a unique business with unusual products (like chocolate pizza and wings) that have been recognized in national media.

Old Blends with New

After a long run dating back to the 1800s, the mill era came to an end when foreign competition and other economic factors took over in the 1960s. Since then, most would refer to Marcellus as a “bedroom community,” since many residents work in or around the City of Syracuse. But Marcellus has avoided the commotion and tract housing of a typical suburb.

Over the years its tranquil village atmosphere has remained intact and its population relatively stable.

As one longtime resident proudly puts it, “Yes, we’re a ‘bedroom community’… and it’s a very cozy and comfortable bedroom.”

Traditional life continues.

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Marcellus Olde Home Days was a town-wide event originally celebrated during the 19th and early 20th centuries. In those days farmers and merchants brought their produce and wares to town to sell or barter, and to just have a good time. After the town’s Bicentennial in 1994, the community decided a revival was in order. Reactivated in 1995, Old Home Days has become “a family affair … a reunion of sorts,” says Mayor Curtin. The three-day June festival draws in not only local folks but thousands from around the surrounding Central New York area. Food and crafts, along with displays of all sorts, line Main Street. A parade, music, pancake breakfast and fireworks add to the festivities – all arranged and contributed to by residents and community organizations.

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PRECIOUS NONSENSE

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The town’s Olde Home Days celebration in 1914.

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The Winding Creek

Nine Mile Creek flows through Marcellus like a friendly neighbor. It begins in nearby Otisco Lake to the south, weaves its way through the town and village, and then drops into “the gorge” on its northward trek to Onondaga Lake. It seems that almost everything in Marcellus has, and always had, a relationship to stony Nine Mile.

The old mills along the creek are gone, but on an original foundation stand the Upper Crown Landing Apartments, their brick construction carefully designed with a tip of the hat to the building on that “footprint” that once fashioned fine woolens.” Nearby, the Marcellus Free Library, newly dedicated in 2010, also has an exterior recalling the brick and girder architecture of mill days gone by.

Daniel’s Grill with its relaxed atmosphere and excellent menu is a popular off-the-beaten-path dining spot with a scenic creekside location. The Marcellus Schools, a continuing source of community pride, are spread across a hillside just above the creek. Many village homes enjoy an ever changing creek view as the seasons roll by.

Nine Mile Creek plays a central role at both ends of the village. On the south, Marcellus Park is a town-operated oasis of walking trails, picnic areas, ball fields, and quiet tree-shaded spots for relaxing beside the ripples of the creek. In the winter, its pavilion is decorated with Christmas lighting and a skating rink provides recreation on a crisp day. To the north, the creek drops rapidly into a scenic gorge. Its roadway passes through several miles of curves between wooded, rock-faced hillsides – picturesque in any season. As the route crisscrosses the creek, Flower boxes are scattered throughout the village.

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This picturesque home sits along Nine Mile Creek in “the gorge.”

it accesses some of the finest trout fishing in Central New York.

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Like many other Finger Lakes communities, Ithaca Marcellus is a great walking town. Appealing homes enhance its neighborhoods and flower boxes decorate many corners. Some street names honor the Scotch and Irish immigrants who once labored in the village mills. A number of shops line Main Street, and the tidy North Street Diner in the middle of town has become a gathering place for good food and conversation.

A stop by the Marcellus Historical Society is worthwhile if you’re ambling about on a Sunday or Thursday. Located in the Steadman House, an imposing 1830s Greek Revival structure on North Street, the society displays extensive exhibits and photographs of Marcellus and its storied past.

A walkable distance from the edge of town is the Baltimore Woods Nature Center. The center boasts 180 forested acres, six miles of trails, educational signage, and a wealth of activities.

A staff of professionals and volunteers endeavor to meet the center’s mission statement: “To connect people to nature.” An Interpretive Center is on site with room for programs, an art gallery, a gift shop, and a Discovery Library for kids. A hike in the good weather or a trek by snowshoes or cross-country skis in the winter keeps Baltimore Woods a busy place year-round.

Before you move on from your Marcellus visit, a stop by the Chocolate Pizza Company is in order. The unique business has been featured on the Food Network and in other media for its delicious, gourmet creations. Chocolate Pizza? Ah … I thought that might get your attention.

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Enterprising

in business

In this photo taken on the plant floor in 1942, members are assembling seamless and sturdy wooden chairs, which used steam bending, Gunlocke’s signature technique.

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CHAIRitage

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unlocke, the internationally recognized manufacturer of high-end office furniture, is located in Wayland, in Steuben County. Since the company’s founding 114 years ago, eight American presidents have made important decisions while sitting in a certain style of high-back desk chair. That leather chair, called “Washington,” is made by Gunlocke.

The company is known for long-lasting and timeless designs, which are often found in private offices and government chambers. You can even spot Gunlocke chairs in television courtroom dramas. Today, everyone who works for the company remains

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dedicated to quality, from its President Don Mead to its 800 or so “members,” the preferred term for those working on the floor and in the office.

Gunlocke is one of the few furniture companies that still does “steam bending,” a technique it introduced in 1912. Basically, strips of wood are steam heated – the applied heat and moisture make the strips pliable enough to easily bend around a mould to create a specific shape.

Steam bending has been discontinued elsewhere in the industry because it is so labor-intensive, but time-honored manual techniques combined with modern technology (a small machine routs the chair parts) give Gunlocke furniture a proud heritage.

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During John F. Kennedy’s presidency, Jackie Kennedy wanted American-made furniture showcased in the White House, so Gunlocke made a set of French provincial dining-room chairs upholstered in mustard yellow for the State dining room.

They have been reupholstered several times since then.

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To see if you might own a Gunlocke, turn the furniture over and look for a small tag on a leg. Early labels were leather, and then paper. Today, they are made of brass and attached with rivets. The label will say, “Gunlocke,” or in the case of older items, “W.H. Gunlocke Chair Co. Wayland, NY.” The tag is also stamped with the date and an individual authenticity number.

The value of character

An expert woodworker can tell you about the character in a single piece of wood: the color, patterns, figure, knots, and other visible features. No two pieces are alike. Even when you rip a board and a lay the two faces side by side, you will see slight variations in pattern and color. The craftsperson who makes a Gunlocke chair also has character.

To create a beautiful piece of wood furniture down to the finest detail is all in the skill and artistry of the person.

Last year, Gunlocke, part of HNI Industries of Muscatine, Iowa, took a serious look at itself, and decided to reposition better in the national market. After delving into the company’s rich history and exploring how it relates to

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Enterprising President John F. Kennedy at work in a Gunlocke office chair while his son, John, plays nearby.

the current people working at the plant, the conclusion was drawn that members are like family. They are vested in quality and problem-solving together to create better products.

There is a renewed appreciation for the individuals performing the challenging tasks on the plant floor, and a reaffirmation of pride in the company’s past.

Today, there are high stakes for sustainability, and contemporary workspaces require different designs for more open office arrangements.

However, 21st-century styles have not changed the original focus of Gunlocke. It still employs motivated craftsmen who have a strong personal interest in designing and building the best products. They are not unlike the original employees of the small family-owned business: predominately German immigrants already well-trained as woodworkers.

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The Gunlocke facility in Wayland.

Family members

William H. Gunlocke and four other wood furniture experts acquired a vacant factory in Wayland in 1902. They established the W. H. Gunlocke Chair Company, which specialized in seating for homes, libraries and lounges. When a new wing was added to the factory in the 1970s, the company expanded its line to include tables, desks, credenzas and book cases.

Howard Gunlocke became president upon the death of his father in 1937. He positioned the company on the national forefront with three major initiatives. He brought Detroit mass manufacturing into the factory, and he made a showroom with product samples for customer viewing. The first traveling showroom, set up in the back of a trailer truck, was also one of Howard’s ideas.

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area about how “Mr. Gunlocke,” made a special investment in his employees. “Hair grows on Gunlocke time,” he famously said, and his company employed a barber to provide free services to its members. There was also a chapel, which still functions today.

At one time, the majority of local high school graduates went to work Gunlocke, as had their fathers before them.

Cars were scarce after World War II, so Howard would send a shuttle bus to nearby villages such as Perkinsville to pick his workers up. He gave many returning veterans a job, and knew every member by name.

Today, it’s not uncommon for three generations in one family to work alongside each other on the factory floor. Sandy Booth, the genealogy coordinator at the Wayland Historical Society, is a second-generation Gunlocke member. Her daughter is a third. Sandy’s father died after working there for 33 years. Mr. Gunlocke came to the funeral home, as he did when any company member died.

Up until the 1960s, members were paid in cash – $2 bills that were first put through a washing machine at the plant. “It came in a small brown envelope,” recalls Sandy. “As a kid, I can remember my father bringing his home on Fridays. He made a deal with me that whatever change was in his pay envelope was my allowance for the week. Many a Friday I waited anxiously as he opened the envelope and dumped out the bills and coins.”

An employee profit-sharing plan was instituted in 1941 and by June of 1950, more than half-a-million dollars in profits had already been paid out to Gunlocke members. One of those dollars was framed and is currently on display at the Wayland Historical Society.

A particularly memorable profit-sharing payout occurred in June of 1963, according to this write-up in the Wayland Register in Gunlocke’s archives. “For the third time in the history of the 23-year profit-sharing plan, the payment was made in cash. A Brinks’ armored vehicle and guard delivered the money. Throughout the day uniformed guards patrolled the office, and armed guards were on the factory roof and on top of a railroad boxcar

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Enterprising on the factory siding. The payment was made up of the largest denomination bills available and there were 72 500-dollar bills, 673 100s, 175 50s, etc.” The armed men on the roof were Gunlocke employees, says a current member. His dad was one of them.

To mark its 100th year in business in 2002, Gunlocke made a donation to the Wayland Historical Society that included several pieces of furniture, vintage photos and historical documents. It is all housed in the society’s Gunlocke Room, which is open to the public.

Sending a new signal

The Gunlocke whistle was a big part of life in Wayland for years. It signaled the beginning and closing of the workday, and the lunch break at noon. Today, it blows at noon when a retiree or a member dies. It blows at 11 a.m. when the plant makes $500,000 in sales in a single day. Members get the news first via an email the first thing in the morning.

Gunlocke sets the pace in the industry for its environmentally efficient and conscious approach to manufacturing. It uses low-off gas emissions in its finishes, water-based varnishes, and an innovative “mushroom board” grown using mushrooms and corn husks – waste from a nearby farm. It’s way to make furniture but not leave a huge footprint on the Earth.

Although walnut and oak are the prime woods used, Gunlocke also offers a line of all-aluminum furniture. Other functional office arrangements use partial wood that designers incorporate into signature Gunlocke styles.

The salespeople collaborate with customers to determine the best furniture option for them, to make sure it provides optimum productivity, versatility, and space efficiency. Silea, for example, a popular line with lawyers – a large customer base – features drawers for large legal files and plenty of storage.

Gunlocke started manufacturing casegoods in the 1970s. Its tables, desks, credenzas and bookcases furnish private offices and open office space, as well as casual conference areas for quick touchdown meetings.

A popular section on the company’s s website is “My Gunlocke Chair,” where owners share stories about their particular chairs. It brings Gunlocke full circle with a sense of deep satisfaction in a job well done.

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Off the Easel

creating art

Artist Judi Cermak

All Things Art

by Nancy E. McCarthy

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anandaigua artist Judi Cermak taught art in the Bloomfield Central School District for 32 joyful years. She had so much fun in her classes that a student once asked if she got paid to come to work.

“Coming into an art room is such a relief,” Cermak explains. “They just like being there.”

Graphic designer Kim Torpey of Naples, a former student, concurs.

“The art room was my refuge, the one place where I was proud of the work I accomplished.”

Cermak retired in 1996 but remained busier than ever: getting involved with the Ontario County Arts Council, making her own art and stretching her skills across several disciplines

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and media by taking art classes.

“Learning, teaching, making, promoting and collecting art is a big part of my life,” says Cermak who creates and lives in an art-filled Canandaigua home where she and Fritz, her husband of 54 years, raised their family.

Cermak grew up in nearby Bristol Center, the middle child of Genevieve and Herbert Rogers. She credits her mother, who encouraged her three children to make things with found objects, as her earliest artistic influence. It was June Kesel Harris, her seventh grade art teacher, who inspired Cermak to become an art teacher. Before then, she had never taken an actual art class.

At Buffalo State College, Cermak was exposed to many visual art forms while pursuing an education degree. She liked everything – which was a good thing since she was required to master all genres well enough to teach them.

Fiber art became a lifelong favorite focus.

Cermak was drawn to vintage folk art handwork, and also took some graduate courses in textile design at Rochester Institute of Technology.

She was a college junior when she met future husband Fritz in downtown Canandaigua where they both had jobs. They married in 1962. Fritz was a banker and later worked in the newspaper business while his wife’s early teaching career was start-and-stop with the births of their two daughters, Jill and Jan. In those days, women weren’t permitted to teach during their pregnancies.

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scholarship. OCAC is completely volunteer-driven and receives its funding from donations, events and grants.

OCAC no longer has a physical address but Cermak remains president of its board, which includes Canandaigua’s mayor Ellen Polimeni, an ardent arts advocate.

“Not only is Judi Cermak a talented artist in her own right, she is also a gifted organizer,” says Polimeni. “Judi has kept the Ontario County Arts Council active for decades, making sure that all aspects of the arts – visual, theater and music – are addressed through various yearly events. We, Ontario County, are blessed to have her as our ‘Leader of the Arts.’”

For the past few years, Cermak has been creating fiber “paintings” using wool felt like a canvas, and dyed rovings (soft wool fibers not yet spun into yarn) as her paints. Cermak makes her own design patterns and is able to shape the rovings into her desired image by poking and prodding with needle felting tools. Single strands of embroidery thread provide fine details.

The visual effect is rich in texture and dimension. The finished piece is stretched over a foam core board and framed. Subjects include landscapes, people and animals.

Cermak will contribute one or two of her works for OCAC’s ct two of Cermak’s artistic Annual Member Exhibition held life began after her retirethis year at the Williams-Insalment more than 20 years aco Gallery 34 at Finger Lakes ago. Shortly after she started Community College (FLCC). volunteering for the Ontario The group show opens FebruCounty Arts Council (OCAC), ary 2 with an Artist Talk from 2 the organization moved to a to 3 p.m. and a reception from large downtown Canandaigua 4 to 6:30 p.m. and runs through storefront dubbed All Things Opposite page: Cermak in her Canandaigua home next to her first March 10. Cermak has been Art for All People (ATA). The ATA fiber “painting.” “Valley Road” evokes the style of folk art hand work. featured in numerous gallery location sold art and handcrafts Top: “Inspiration” features some women Cermak admires including and library exhibits through and hosted exhibits, workshops American feminist artist Judy Chicago known for collaborative, the years including a recent and events. It was an exhilarating provocative art installations. Below: Local landscapes, both fiber works. Middle: “Water’s Edge” Bottom: “Vine Valley Sheep.” one-woman show at Wood – but expensive and financially Library in Canandaigua. fragile – 11-year run. By 2010,

The artist maintains a Cermak (by then board presifull and busy schedule that keeps her connected with many dent), downsized by moving OCAC headquarters down the talented artists and art lovers. And she still takes art classes – street to an office in Finger Lakes Gallery & Frame. drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics – at FLCC.

The Arts Council now sponsors the highly successful Fin“That is what art does, it enriches our lives,” says Cermak. ger Lakes Plein Air Competition & Festival, organizes art exhibits

To contact Judi Cermak or find out more about the in various locations, donates library display systems, hosts Ontario County Arts Council, visit ocarts.org. arts-themed fundraisers, and awards an annual art studies

But once Cermak started in Bloomfield, countless middle and high school students were educated and encouraged in her art room. Some went on to pursue art careers. Cermak modestly won’t take credit for that or for their successes, but some of her students differ.

“Judi was the first person who introduced me to the idea that I could pursue a career in the arts” and “planted that seed of confidence in me,” says Torpey, a former Disney animator who drew “Stitch” for the “Lilo & Stitch” film and other iconic animated characters. Torpey owns her own graphic design business now and founded The Neopolitan Record, a local community publication in Naples she edits and designs.

Bristol muralist and fine art artist Amy Colburn also characterizes her former teacher as highly influential.

“She encouraged me to always draw, no matter what kind of art I studied or created,” says Colburn. “She said the basic practice of drawing and sketching is instrumental.” Colburn has passed that “solid advice” on, and says it still helps her to break out of a creative rut.

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Fruit of the Vine

wine, spirits and brews

Barry Family Cellars A Hands-on Approach Story and photos by Jason Feulner

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he scale of harvest for most wineries is just big enough to overwhelm the average observer. At the busiest times, there is a small army running and manipulating crusher-destemmers, stacked bins of fermenting red grapes, conveyers, must pumps, forklifts, giant stainless steel programmable bladder presses, and clamped hoses running every which way. Winemaking can look and feel like an industrial process.

And then there’s Ian Barry of Barry Family Cellars, loading Cabernet Franc into an old workhorse press with a shovel.

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Barry Family Cellars cess – as it currently stands – at Barry Family Cellars is not to castigate. On a smaller scale, this hands-on approach makes perfect sense, and Ian is certainly no stranger to large industrial winemaking. He has held posts at some of the largest wineries in the Finger Lakes and has worked in Washington and Oregon to boot. This is the way he wants it.

I visited Ian Barry during the harvest of 2016 to get a sense of how he was approaching his new venture, his thoughts on starting a winery, and to see for myself a rather unusual tasting room setup.

We spent the first half of the afternoon talking while he loaded the press, one shovelful at a time.

is located near the southeast shore of Seneca Lake in the Village of Burdett. From Watkins Glen, take Route 79 just after it branches off from 414 (route to Ithaca).

During the warmer months, the tasting room is open seven days a week.

Check the website (barryfamilywines.com) for limited winter hours, e-mail barryfamilycellars@gmail.com or call/text 607-569-2352 for an appointment.

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arry Family Cellars was bonded in 2011, but it has only begun production in earnest in the last few years. It is still quite a small operation; the production facility is located in a converted outbuilding in Ian’s backyard in Burdett, just above the southeastern shore of Seneca Lake. Despite its simplicity, the facility’s size will more than allow for the few thousand cases that Ian plans to make in the coming years.

Right now, the winery is focusing on Riesling and Cabernet Franc, but the plan is to expand to other varietals.

Ian just planted the beginnings of his own vineyard: an acre of Pinot Noir to start, as well as half an acre of an Austrian red called St. Laurent.

A native of Hoosick Falls, New York, Ian cut his winemaking teeth in the small Shawangunk wine region while attending SUNY New Paltz. He worked a few harvests in Oregon and Washington before returning to New York and landing a job at Heron Hill in 2003. From 2006 to 2010, Ian was the head winemaker at Swedish Hill, one of the larger wineries in the Finger Lakes, where he made a variety of wines in significant quantities.

Feeling the itch to strike out on his own, Ian has spent the last several years consulting while he formed his vision for Barry Family Cellars, an effort made in conjunction with his extended family and his wife, Tricia. It is no accident that Barry has taken a very hands-on and somewhat rustic approach.

“I’m into the vibe of repurposing things,” Ian tells me as he loads the decades-old horizontal basket press by hand, purple juice streaming off his shovel. “The tanks, the press, this building – I guess this is more philosophical than I’m even aware of at times.”

Just behind us stands a small basket press, filled with white grape skins from a pressing the day before. He apologizes that he’s not yet cleaned up the skins. I marvel at the use of a device that one would mostly see in home winemaking. This is Ian’s personal wine workshop.

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The first press run of the Cab Franc complete, we head a quarter-mile down the road to the newly opened Barry Family Cellars tasting room. The setup is unlike any other tasting room in the Finger Lakes. Located in an old storefront, the aptly-named 1800 building is an ancient structure that once housed the post office in the very early days of Burdett. While most tasting rooms in the Finger Lakes aim toward the new, this place embraces the old.

The long plank floors and decorative molding hark back to the image of an authentic rural Finger Lakes.

Tasting Notes

As a “new” winery, Barry Family Cellars doesn’t offer a deep bench, but it’s already a striking one. The highlight is the series of single-vineyard Rieslings that Ian didn’t set out to make. He just couldn’t bear to blend the various lots. The 2014 Tuller Vineyard Riesling is very interesting and complex.

In collaboration with some other winemakers, Ian helped make a pétillant naturel under the label Fossil & Till. This is basically a form of sparkling wine made with a traditional/ primitive method. At first glance, it resembles a cider in its body and nose, and is unlike a typical wine. Definitely worth a try!

I was privileged to get a sneak peek at some recently-fermented Cabernet Franc from the tank – very tasty with deep and luxurious fruit.

The 2016 vintage looks very promising for Barry Family Cellars.

Ian and Tricia have preserved the old charm of the place, but have added some funky, homemade décor.

A collection of old 45s lines the shelves around the wine bottles, and a hearty sound system pumps out tunes. Wine can be purchased by the glass as well as by the bottle, and there are chairs for people to sit and mingle. Ian not only sells his own wine, but some wine from other small producers with whom

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he has collaborated or befriended – a rather unusual arrangement. To Ian, this acknowledgement of others who share his craft seems natural.

During our tasting, I ask Ian if he fears that being above the lake, away from the main drag, might deter the foot traffic that a tasting room needs. He relates the story of how he and Tricia fell in love with the building, but with some additional thought adds, “We want the people to find us who are really looking for this type of place.”

Ian wants Barry Family Cellars to offer good wine, but it’s obvious he’s

looking to do so in a certain way, in a style that is just a little bit different than what is currently the typical Finger Lakes approach. “I’ve always admired the self-reliant lifestyle,” Ian jokes when I ask him to describe why he’s founded a winery that appears easygoing and yet goes against the grain. Hardly loquacious by nature, Ian seems comfortable letting the place, and the wine, speak for itself.

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Center for

Great Women

by Jon Ulrich

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riving from Ithaca, the road to Seneca Falls is a desolate stretch of state highway buttressed on both sides by expansive fields of corn. There are few landmarks to pass between the towns of Ovid and Romulus, save for Swedish Hill Winery. A more likely encounter is the

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The Seneca Knitting Mill on the Cayuga-Seneca canal will become the new Center for Great Women. Rendering courtesy National Women’s Hall of Fame

occasional horse-drawn carriage.

In the middle of this barren landscape, the village of Seneca Falls appears like a mirage, rising from the banks of the Cayuga-Seneca Canal.

Linking the Erie Canal with Cayuga Lake, this waterway was crucial to the area’s economic growth in the early 1800s. Flour, pork, whiskey, lumber and

wool all found passage here through a series of manmade locks.

In 1848, 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments in Seneca Falls, the document that argued for equal civil, social and political rights for women. Here, the National Women’s Hall of Fame now stands.

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Above: The southern face of the new Center for Great Women.

Right: View of the Knitting Mill from the Seneca Falls Historic District.

Below: A construction crew works on the building’s exterior rehabilitation.

nonprofit organization in 1969 to showcase the achievements of great American women. Since it first opened its doors, the organization has honored more than 250 inductees. A few years ago, with so many plaques, artifacts and documents to display, the building started to feel cramped. The board of directors decided it was time to move.

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As I cross the bridge overlooking the Cayuga-Seneca Canal, I take a left onto Fall Street and enter the city’s historic district. A driving rain and dense fog make it difficult to see the Hall’s unassuming façade, and I drive past it by mistake. I park in front of the Visitors’ Center to get my bearings and that’s when I see it. Across the street, flanked by stone columns, is the building’s main entrance.

I expected it to be bigger.

I walk across the street and shuffle inside. The door chimes and a woman with glasses and a kind face greets me with a smile.

“I’m Irene,” she says, extending her hand.

“Jon,” I say with a nod.

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The Mill’s roofing was the focus of extensive rehabilitation efforts.

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space,” she explains. “What you see here is only a fraction of the artifacts we have in storage. We simply don’t have enough room to display everything.”

The historic building, on the opposite side of the canal, will be called The Center for Great Women.

Built in 1844, the knitting mill is the logical choice for the Hall’s relocation efforts. In addition to being a stone’s throw from its current address, the building has strong ties to the women’s suffrage movement. Its original proprietors, Charles Hoskins and Jacob Chamberlain, were among the men who signed the Declaration of Sentiments. (Hoskins and Chamberlain were also abolitionists who refused to process cotton in their facility.) The new site will enable the hall to expand from its current single-floor space to four stories, housing everything from a Welcome Center to interactive exhibits to a gift shop. It’s an ambitious project.

I thank Irene and begin a self-guided walk through the museum.

Each inductee is commemorated with a framed photograph and a description of her achievements.

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Great Women philanthropists, scientists, authors and politicians have all found a place on these walls.

When I first walk in, I see a pair of Amelia Earhart’s high heels. Later, I come across the bench on which Susan B. Anthony sat when she was tried and convicted for illegally casting a ballot in the November 5, 1872, general election.

And toward the back is the typewriter used by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gwendolyn Brooks.

This hodgepodge of artifacts seems to confirm what Irene said earlier: the hall needs more space.

April 20, 2016

I’m standing in front of the Seneca Knitting Mill when a black Lexus pulls into the parking lot. Out steps Jeanne Giovannini, president of the hall’s Board of Directors. She’s dressed in a smart brown jacket and dark clogs.

“You must be Jon,” she says.

Giovannini, a Seneca Falls native, has been involved with the Hall for the last decade. She alternately fields a call on her smart phone and fills me in on recent events as we walk toward the building’s handsome limestone portico.

“Chelsea Clinton was here on Monday,” she says. The former first daughter was touring Upstate New York in anticipation of the state primary, which her mother, a 2005 Hall of Fame inductee, won with 58 percent of the vote.

“Katherine Switzer will be here for the race next month,” Giovannini adds. She’s referring to the hall’s inaugural “Right to Run 19k,” named so because of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Switzer, the first woman to compete in the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry in 1967, was inducted into the hall in 2011.

I walk beneath a sign that reads “Danger: Hard Hat Area” and step into the mill. The interior is skeletal, but remarkable. The original hardwood floors, though buckling in spots, have been beautifully preserved. Each replacement window is being sized to fit its unique frame. Water pipes,

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which were stolen by vandals from the building’s upper floors after the mill closed in 1999, have been replaced.

“We’ve completed the abatement of the property,” she says. “Now we’re waiting on a Certificate of Occupancy.”

The organization’s projected move-in date is December.

“Will you be ready by then?” I ask.

“We’ll see,” Giovannini says. “We’ll see.”

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It’s been six months since I last visited the Seneca Knitting Mill, and its transformation is still underway.

As Giovannini dons a pink hard hat, Project Supervisor Chris Keir shows me the exterior’s detail work.

“We’ve replaced the lintels,” he says, indicating the horizontal blocks above each window. Keir and his crew also re-pointed the building’s outer walls, painstakingly restoring each mortar joint by hand.

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Great Women installing new windows. Across the canal I can see Wesleyan Chapel, home of the Seneca Falls Convention and the place where the Declaration of Sentiments was penned.

Giovannini is awaiting approval from the State Historic Preservation Office to continue the building’s interior rehabilitation. She and her constituents are planning to open the new Center for Great Women in phases, beginning with the ground floor.

We step back outside and the clouds begin to part. The building, though incomplete, is striking. Giovannini shows me an artist’s rendering of the space, and it isn’t difficult to make the mental leap from the Spartan structure standing before us to its newer, stylish edifice.

Giovannini eyes the building with pride, as if it were a child she’s raised from infancy. Though it’s a bit behind schedule for the proposed December opening, she knows the project is nearing completion.

“We’re aiming for early 2017,” she says with a determined smile. “It’ll happen.”

Support for the Seneca Knitting Mill rehabilitation project has been provided by local, regional, and national businesses; National Women’s Hall of Fame board members; private citizens and foundations; and the Town of Seneca Falls. Matching grants have been provided by the National Park Service’s “Save America’s Treasures” program; the New York State Environmental Protection Fund; the New York State Canal Corporation; the Erie Canal Way National Heritage Corridor; and the Rochester Area Community Foundation. To learn more about the Center for Great Women or to make a donation, please visit womenofthehall.org.

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Taughannock Falls has always called to me. As it has to you and many others.

From near and far, we feel its draw.

From Rochester, Syracuse, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, Korea, India, Mexico, Germany, Canada, Israel, South Africa, we come. And come again. To see it. To feel its presence. To marvel at the transformation of water into an undulating curtain over two hundred feet long.

At the overlook, we squeeze

together to include it in our selfies or to ask a stranger to photograph our group in front of it. Then we turn around to stare across the expanse. It just feels good to look at Taughannock Falls.

We watch as couples holding

hands seem to melt into each other.

Twice I’ve seen couples embrace on the steps as an officiant completes a seemingly impromptu marriage in the midst of bustling but puzzled tourists who eventually catch on and burst into smiles.

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Falls has no more surprises up its sleeve, you learn otherwise. On this particular day, fresh snow revealed what many of us have long known: Taughannock Falls is the heart of the Finger Lakes.

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ehind the unassuming raisin-colored door at 12 Linden Street in Geneva are all the fixings of a modern speakeasy, including dark walls, tufted leather benches and liquor. The Linden Social Club is Geneva’s new craft cocktail bar and its goal is to provide patrons a thoroughly enjoyable social experience.

With its roots in the 17th-century communal punch bowl, the cocktail has a distinctly social history. Not even Prohibition could stop its rise to popularity as the primary feature of American social culture. Today, the cocktail remains irrevocably tied to social gatherings.

What’s more, it’s been experiencing a renaissance as an entire craft-cocktail movement takes hold. It’s a mixologist’s dream, and the founders of The Linden Social Club have made their dream come true. James-Emery Elkin and Joe Kennedy have created a place that honors the cocktail’s captivating allure and attracts all generations of cocktail lovers. The Linden is where the cocktail can do what it does best: bring people together.

“We wanted The Linden to feel welcoming,” says Kennedy, “by having consummate service and providing a stellar product.”

Everything from the antique gold trim to the handmade tonic they use is designed to enhance the social experience. Guests will find nothing to distract them from the enjoyment of good company and good drinks – there are no neon signs in the window, no televisions lining the walls. “The cocktail’s heyday was a party,” explains Kennedy. “That’s why people still go out today: to dress up, meet new people, have fun and express themselves.” That is exactly what The Linden Social Club is all about.

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THE HISTORY

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In 2013, Elkin, who is also the owner of Microclimate Wine Bar on Linden Street, approached Joe Kennedy with an idea to open a cocktail bar in Geneva. Kennedy is a mixologist and had vast experience with cocktails. Elkin’s interest lay in the restoration of old buildings. Together they pursued a city grant to realize their dream. The grants, funded through the federal Microenterprise Assistance Program, were being awarded to several local entrepreneurs to encourage the urbanization of Geneva. After being awarded a grant, The Linden was born.

As with most good ideas, a modest beginning proved to have growing power. The location the founders leased on Linden Street was originally half its current size. What was intended to be a small craft cocktail bar doubled in size when

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they decided to expand into the neighboring space.

They added a small kitchen and took on the talents of Chef Max Bonacci, who was moving back to the Finger Lakes after successfully working on the west coast for 17 years. He added a list of epicurean bar snacks, or “botanas” to the menu, and enhanced the quality experience that defines The Linden.

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Art Nouveau light boxes frame the massive bar mirror with a chic blue light. The winged goddess Artemisia holds up an absinthe fountain atop the distressed copper bar. A modern chandelier hangs in front of a wall of vintage art. Every interior detail of The Linden Social Club is designed to bridge the gap between a 1920s speakeasy and a modern craft-cocktail bar.

“Good design is functional,” says Kennedy. “We don’t want people to feel like they’re in an old place. It’s nostalgia we’re aiming for. And the way we do that is with high detail in small areas.” Furnishings such as the vintage Chippendale silver bowl they use as a salt dish and the tufted leather benches for seating were chosen with careful deliberation.

Additionally, the owners embraced certain design elements original to the building. One of the main wooden beams, charred in a long-ago fire, was left exposed to add vintage charm. The tin ceiling tiles, more than 100 years old, were covered with layers of chipped paint, but the team discovered that the backs were untouched. After flipping the tiles and painting them, the ceiling looks as fresh as the day it was installed.

One of the primary design elements in The Linden is the copper bar. Copper countertops, a modern trend in design, develop a patina over time that creates an ever-changing surface, a metaphor, notes Kennedy, for the ever-changing experience of a bar.

The copper creates a perfect setting for the cocktail, the primary draw of The Linden Social Club.

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THE COCKTAILS

The average guest might be surprised by the array of unusual bottles lined up behind the bar. Instead of a bevy of familiar names and brands, they see instead a collection of fascinating spirits, such as Gauvaberry from St. Martin; San Cernin from Navarra, Spain; and Amer from Alsace, France. “What drew me to the cocktail – what fascinated me – is the fact that it’s a truly worldly industry,” notes Kennedy. “These spirits come from all over.”

By combining spirits and flavors from around the globe, a cocktail can become a tour of the world in a single glass.

At The Linden, the aim is not only to expand the guests’ palates through exotic and unique spirits but to give them a better tasting drink by using the freshest ingredients. Most of the juices they use are straight from

the fruit. They make their own simple syrup and tonic, and pay careful attention to the garnish. Aside from looking pretty, the garnish affects the nose of the cocktail.

For the bartenders at The Linden, the space behind the copper bar is more like a playground than a place of work, and the result is pure enjoyment for the guests. As Kennedy puts it, “With a wall filled with seemingly outlandish liquors, we have our own laboratory, and we can create whatever we want. We can make the drinks we always wanted to make.”

From the growing success of The Linden since its grand opening on July 1, 2016, it’s clear that owners James-Emery Elkin and Joe Kennedy have a gem on their hands and a place unlike any other. “One of the saddest things, I think, is to look around a bar and everyone’s either got their head down or they’re looking at a TV screen,” says Kennedy. “We’re not that type of place. When I look around

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WHAT’LL IT BE? From behind the bar, mixologist Joe Kennedy is as much an apothecary as a bartender, mixing up recipes for happiness no matter what the visitor’s mood.

Want to warm up for a night out? On the way to dinner, stop in for the Aperol Spritz. This aperativo, a stimulating mix of Aperol and champagne, will energize the senses and alert the stomach to get ready to digest.

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Want a relaxing after-dinner drink? Try the mellow Negroni PX. With equal parts Cynar (an Amaro made with artichoke, all spice, cinnamon, and murr), Pedro Ximenez Sherry and Uncle Val’s Peppered Gin, this drink tastes like an evening by a blazing fireplace. The Cynar, a digestivo, will settle the stomach after a heavy meal.

In the mood for a refreshing classic? For those who want something delightfully refreshing and a little bit different, try the Ramos Gin Fizz. With Old Tom Gin, egg white, homemade vanilla syrup, heavy cream, soda and orange blossom, this old time favorite tastes like nostalgia in a glass. Due to the egg white and heavy cream in this frothy delight, this drink is sure to satisfy. (Watch the bartenders shake this one for five minutes!)

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The Linden, and I see everyone talking with someone, that’s the most rewarding thing.”

In the 1920s, Americans flocked to speakeasies to enjoy cocktails, forget their worries, and have a good time.

Today, guests of The Linden Social Club are treated to the same experience.

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he Finger Lakes has become the largest sheep-holding region east of the Mississippi River. Raised for meat, milk, yogurt, cheese and wool, flocks are grazing on more small farms these days.

For Matt Kyle of Avon and Dave Galton of Locke, raising sheep is big business. Determined to create healthy, family-based enterprises, both men have made million-dollar investments to meet the demand for trending food.

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At Kyle Farms, founded by Matt’s parents 40 years ago, there were always a few sheep around, often for 4-H projects. Family photo albums document sheep-focused memories with farm tours and cooperative meetings. Raising sheep even led to a merging of families through marriage.

In the early 1990s, the family ran a Community Supported Agriculture business model, (CSA) connecting directly with customers who valued the lamb they bought from their local neighborhood family farm. Their sheep sausage quickly sold out. “We also tried the public market. We tried everything,” Matt says.

Then in early 2006, partners Matt Kyle, his brother DJ, and their cousin Nathan Hatch went all in and invested nearly $1 million in custom-designed, temperature-controlled, state-of-theart barns. Ten years later, their ewe count is 3,500 Dorset, Finn, and Ile de France. Male lambs are generally used for meat, and some adult males are kept for breeding purposes. Termed “natural,” sheep from the Kyle Farm are fed alfalfa, silage, corn silage, grain, corn, and soybean meal grown within a 10-mile radius.

Matt’s cell phone rings about as

often as you hear a “baa.” In his early 30s with a hearty outdoor look, he had wanted to raise sheep since he was a kid. When he was old enough, he toured New Zealand (a mecca for sheep), to kick start his shearing skills.

“The first day I clicked (removed fleece by shearing) 148 sheep, and I was the slowest one,” he recalls. “When I left, I could do 322 a day but I was still last.”

When he returned home he attended Cornell University where he met his wife Shannon, who markets fresh vegetables for her family’s farm in Batavia.

In 2010 a USDA-approved, climate-controlled barn went up. Two more barns followed. “I said if we are going to go bankrupt we might as well do it now while we’re young,” Matt jokes. “We were either going to keep it under 50 sheep as a hobby or do more than 2,000 to survive. In farming, there really isn’t room for anything in between. At the same time, we can’t lose track of the foundation we’ve built for many years, or our hard-earned reputation for caring and quality. Right now we are totally focused on producing volume and consistency in our lamb, both for its ideal weight for market and its flavor and texture valued by the end users. That’s what the market demands.”

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became an angel investor. “We own the sheep and lease the barns from My-T Acres,” explains Matt. “We are so thankful that the Call family went out of their way to help someone else get started in commercial farming.”

Prior to birthing, the ewes – all– are sheared to promote cleanliness and health.

While shearing is labor-intensive, the price of wool is low. Luxury wool comes from other breeds. Of the 200 recognized breeds, desirable characteristics address human needs for: meat, milk, cheese, wool and hides. Sheep are also used for medical research because the anatomy of both sheep and human hearts share some similarities.

Kyle Farms lamb is sourced at New York City butcher shops where strong ethnic backgrounds and/or food traditions determine customer preferences.

From top to bottom: Dave Galton's operation, all 35,000 square feet of it, houses 2,000 milking sheep and 500 milking goats – milked daily – plus their inevitable offspring.

Kyle Farms has three brand new, temperature-controlled barns to facilitate year around production.

Twins and even triplets are common among certain breeds of sheep. The Kyle Farms flock include Dorset, Finn, and Ile de France breeds.

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Each year, hundreds of single, twin, and even triplet lambs arrive in January, March, May, July, September and November. A freelance lamb whisperer, Alecia Williams from Michigan, works seasonally at Kyle Farms to get tiny newborns strong enough to “latch on” to the milk machine filled with replacement formula. It’s a career, emphasizing touch and smell, and she began learning it as a kid.

If there are orphan lambs, their chances of survival are about 50/50, she says. She remembers one lamb that was so tiny she could carry it around in a pouch in her shirt.

With multiple births beyond twins, the smallest are removed for fostering. “Sometimes the ewes might reject the smallest lamb,” she says.

Different colors of plastic tape tied to the gates alerts staff to what’s going on in the pen.

Kyle Farms sheep are monitored all day long.

Sheep are watchful and curious and easily disturbed. Anything strange in their environment can cause them to panic. On being successful with sheep Matt advises, “They know what is going on. Just be calm around them.”

Enhanced curiosity is evident when they are moved to new pasture. Beyond fresh greens, he says, they also enjoy playing. In fact, animal behaviorists call sheep “gregarious.” And they’re self-protective – they can see behind themselves without raising their heads.

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There is even a proverbial black sheep amid a predominantly white flock of ewes in Avon. “It happens,” Matt says with a grin.

Kyle Farms’ flocks move around in 1,200 acres of conservation-protected acres. A drive along Nations Road in Geneseo demonstrates how perfectly they fit into the ageless, pastoral landscape reminiscent of the 1800s.

Water comes through pipes from natural springs nearby. Grazing management prevents overgrazing.

A sheep’s taste for invasive plants is legendary. Needing little shelter, even in harsh climates, sheep are less expensive to keep than beef.

Talk about farm to table. Matt estimates almost the entire market is specialty groceries and butcher shops, most of them located in New York City.

At this point, lamb takes such a small bite out of domestic meat consumption that large, vertically integrated agribusiness ignores them. Sheep still get to live like sheep.

By re-introducing sheep to the Genesee Valley, Matt and his family are moving forward agriculturally by turning back time in the Finger Lakes.

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Thousands of Sheep and Goats Milked in Locke, Cayuga County

In the farm-to-table movement, you can’t get much closer to delicious worldly cheeses than the Black Sheep Cheese brand, sold on the web and at trendy merchants. The origin story is firmly rooted in the Finger Lakes. Just as there is an occasional black sheep born, Black Sheep Cheese serves the deepening demand for artisan cheese and all-natural yogurt .

It is pricey; sheep and goat milk cost about four times the price of cows’ milk.

Dave Galton is owner/founder of the state-of-the-art sheep- and goat-milking facility in Locke, and the original developer of Black Sheep Cheese and Yogurt. Varieties include

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Dirt, the sheep-herding dog

So You Want to Be a Sheep-Herding Dog?

All dogs are good at something, even if it’s making mischief. Herding breeds (also called stock and working dogs) breeds are often collies, especially border collies which are hard wired to herd anything from sneakers to sheep. Responding to the sound of a bell, whistle, voice, and hand signals for more than a dozen distinct commands, they herd to live and live to herd.

While herding dogs can lead, a heeler is a hound who drives animals from the rear, sometimes nipping at their heels, hence the name. Shepherds and sheepdogs, including Australia’s red and blue heelers, might apply.

There are also tending dogs—again some shepherds and Briards—who create a living fence to control and protect the flocks, also known as a “mob” of sheep, as they move them around.

Finally there are livestock guardian dogs following a history beginning in 150 B.C. in Rome. The Great Pyrenees, often called gentle giants, are a popular choice in the U.S. While a puppy, the dog is bonded to the flock and remains a full-time, sweet-faced, king-size member of the group.

From top to bottom: Lambs and kids in coats of many colors share the warmth of a sheltered existence under the heat lamps. Various ink colors help the caretakers keep track of any medications.

Goats, Alpine and Saanen, are beautiful and come in a variety of colors and markings.

Dave Galton’s farm milks 3,000 sheep and 500 goats once a day. While sheep and goats give less milk than cows, they produce a premium-priced product found in artisan cheese and yogurt.

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Nancy’s Hudson Valley Camembert, made with sheep, cow, and cream; Ewe’s Blue, a 100-percent sheep-milk cheese reminiscent of Roquefort; and Kinder Creek, 100-percent sheep’s milk.

Black Sheep yogurt is naturally thick and not strained, and it pairs well with maple syrup and local cherries

After spending 34 years as a professor in the Department of Animal Science at Cornell University, Dave retired two years ago. “You have to do something,” he explains in a wry sort of way.

“I retired to do something different.

“There are not more than 12,000 dairy sheep in this country, and 2,000 of them are right here,” he tells me as he walks through the 56,000-square-foot barns full of sheep and goats. “Until recently most cheese from sheep was imported from France and Italy. Today, Americans want artisan cheese and they want it local. They want to know where it’s coming from. They want the assurance of purity.”

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His milk parlor is nearly identical to that of a modern dairy farm. But unlike dairy cows and beef, which are most often kept in confined areas, and not outdoors on pasture, sheep and goats can go outdoors to graze in 450 grass-filled acres.

Plans are in the works to build the Black Sheep Cheese Creamery in nearby Dalton. They will also age cheese to create hard varieties.

Feta from Bulgaria and Greece, Roquefort of France, Manchego from Spain, and Pecorino Romano and Ricotta from Italy are all traditionally made using sheep’s milk. All of the farm’s goat milk, from Alpine and Saanen goats, is sold directly to Coach Goat Farms in the Hudson Valley. The cheeses are made by artisans in Old Chatam.

Because sheep and goats have two teats, the smaller animals produce less milk than cows. But they also take up less space, need less shelter, and produce a product in which the protein and fat are all digestible.

“Sheep products are definitely a niche,” Dave says. “Millennials are the main customers of trending sheep products. They will pay for it.”

Animal-centric work is exhausting.

Mammals demand feeding, watering, cleaning up, fresh bedding, and even help with socialization, breeding, gestation and death. Animals never take a holiday or leave early. Sheep farms attract workers who love animals. Here in the US, they include foreign born nationals who support families back home, and younger men and women – many college trained – who wear Carhartt overalls, muck boots, and wool caps pulled down for warmth.

Wandering freely outside the pens at Dave’s high-end facility is one lucky, unusually colored ewe who appears to have the run of the place.

None too pleased, Dave dismisses it as the caregiver’s pet; he cares not to know its name. Dave is all business, and his business is all about taking excellent care of the animals, so one lucky free-ranging ewe gets to stay in the picture.

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A New Home

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The large blue camera was the first TV camera used in Rochester in 1949. It filmed programming at WROC Channel 8 (formerly WHAM).

The smaller TV camera was owned by WHEC Channel 10 and was used perhaps as late as 2000. Photo courtesy of AWM

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ore than 60 years ago, the Antique Wireless Association (AWA) started with nothing more than a collection of old radios and electronic equipment stored in a barn. Eventually, the nonprofit organization founded the Antique Wireless Museum (AWM). Following four moves, countless acquisitions and donations, and members who live all over the world, the AWA’s signal is being heard “loud and clear” from its spacious new museum.

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Located on scenic Routes 5 & 20 in the town of Bloomfield in Ontario County, the AWM now has much more space to tell the story of how technology has been used to communicate and entertain. Curator Bruce Roloson and his staff have done an outstanding job in developing the many exhibits. There are radios and other artifacts as far as the eye can see, and they are just the tip of the iceberg. And speaking of icebergs, the museum has a replica of the Titanic’s wireless room. It’s filled

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with authentic devices from the Marconi Wireless Company like those used on the ill-fated transatlantic passenger ship in 1912. Why the wireless rooms on the ships closest to the Titanic were shut down when the superliner hit the iceberg is just one of the intriguing anecdotes revealed on a tour of the museum.

In addition to changing exhibits, there are 20 permanent exhibits complemented by colorful signage, thematic posters, and three-dimensional objects from the past. Listening to “his master’s voice” are several large models of Nipper, the iconic dog sitting near a gramophone. Right on cue, music from a bygone era wafts throughout the building to set the perfect mood for visitors to explore the past 200 years of communication.

Then and Now

In 2011 I wrote about the museum, which at that time was located at the Bloomfield Academy building, also home to the East Bloomfield Historical Society (lifeinthefingerlakes.com/ antique-wireless-museum). From 1975 to 2013, the AWM occupied an unheated portion of two upper floors. After a rather steep climb, I was navigated through the somewhat cramped space by AWM’s Deputy Director Bob Hobday, whose knowledge and enthusiasm for the rare radio and electronic communications apparatus seemed limitless.

But what a difference six years makes! Today, the number of visitors has quadrupled at the new ADA-accessible facility which opened three years ago. It is fully heated and air conditioned to provide a comfortable environment for year-round traffic. The space has expanded from 1,800 square feet at its former location to the current 7,000 square feet. Thanks to AWA Director Tom Peterson, Jr., an entrepreneur from Cleveland, the AWA acquired buildings in Bloomfield located about two miles from its previous home.

“Back then we had the museum and a storage and work building,” explains Hobday. Today they have four buildings on five acres. “Before we could only display 15 percent of the collection; now it is up to about 30 percent, but the collection has tripled or quadrupled in those three to five years.”

The Dr. Max Bodmer Media Center is housed in a building separate from the museum. Another building provides storage, a staging area for exhibits and a workshop for repairs. On the north side of Routes 5 & 20, a fourth building is used as a conference center, offices and storage.

This rotating display featured Zenith radios.

The origins of the Zenith Company date to 1918. By the 1920s the company began using the slogan, “The Quality Goes in before the Name Goes On.” Photo by Laurel C. Wemett

Right, middle: Bob Hobday, Deputy Director of the Antique Wireless Museum, regularly gives tours. A building that originally served as an antique store has successfully been adapted for the museum’s new home. On the soffit (upper left) there is a delightful mix of radio signage. Overhead (upper right) are several models of the dog, Nipper listening to “his master’s voice.”

Right, bottom: Inside the fictitious Davis-Wolf Station – E. Bloomfield Western Union Station are artifacts which date from 1850 to 1920.

The typewriter was called a “mill” by operators and only has capital letters. Photos by Laurel C. Wemett

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Some of the newest items in the collection came from the Voice of America (VOA) Delano Station in California. “People Antique Wireless Museum risked their lives to listen to Voice 6925 Routes 5 & 20 of America,” says Hobday of the Bloomfield, NY 14469 historic shortwave broadcasts that Located on the south side of 5 & 20 have reached people, particularly just east of the State Route 444 intersection where freedom is threatened, since 1942.

Open Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

In 2007, after nearly 60 years Saturdays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. of service, the California station The AWA Museum is closed holiday weekends was shut down by the governand on Tuesdays, if that day is a holiday. ment and the equipment was scheduled to be sold for scrap.

Adults: $7.00; AWA members free Hobday was convinced this imKids and Teens: free portant piece of communications For information about membership, group tours, history should be rescued. or to use the Dr. Max Bodmer Media Center,

“In May 2014 we got a letter call 585-257-5119 or visit antiquewireless.org. from the General Services Administration with good news saying, ‘You can have it,’” recalls Hobday. to the cause, going to California to take

The bad news was that they delivery. To facilitate the acquisition, the had only two weeks to pick it up in CaliAWM also collaborated with the Collins fornia. Private donations had to be raised Collectors Association, a group dedicated to fund the project. The VOA transmitto preserving Collins Radio equipment, ter and control room weighed 38,000 the company that built the transmitters pounds and required two trucks to move for the Delano Voice of America station. east. Since the AWA membership spans Within 12 months, AWM’s Hob the country, those in the Midwest rallied

day, Roloson, and a group of 30 dedicated volunteers had the equipment operating as an exhibit. Although there is no longer any broadcasting allowed, the exhibit appropriately has recordings of jazz music playing. “Jazz is America’s unique contribution to the world,” explains Hobday.

“It’s free, innovative, and not stylistic.”

Davis-Wolf Station – East Bloomfield Another engaging exhibit is a rare assemblage of Western Union equipment acquired from a Boston collector. The display presents a “fictional” Western Union office in East Bloomfield named for the individuals who acquired and donated these artifacts.

Like the VOA equipment, it took many man-hours to prepare the equipment for shipment from a New England location.

It is tantalizingly presented behind a large wall of multi-paned windows, suggesting an old-time shop front. The visitor can literally peek through the

Getting acquainted with the Voice of America equipment are visitors Jim Pruitt, Chris Riedl, and Steve Dampoft. Photo courtesy of AWM

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panes to see the old standard Underwood typewriter, a telephone, maps and other period ephemera, antique lighting, and the telegraph where Morse code was tapped out to relay messages.

“Sparking” the Generations

Visitors of all ages will be amazed at such things as the size of the first cell phone displayed at AWM. Youngsters will also have a chance to hear from a parent or grandparents about their “first” radio or television as they peruse those on view. Anyone who was in the military where radio communication was critical to victory will see military Listening to “his master’s voice” is one of several models of Nipper, the iconic dog sitting near a gramophone. Nipper originally appeared in a painting dating 1898 and was adopted as the advertising symbol of the Victor Talking Machine Company around 1921.

The dog was later acquired by RCA when that company acquired Victor Talking Machine.

radio artifacts that range from the World War I years to some of today’s latest equipment.

A Discovery Center provides hands-on exhibits that include a working shortwave radio, a teletype machine, a computer to watch videos, and an artifact database.

The AWM’s popular 1925 Radio Store exhibit from the museum’s former location fills one long wall. Hobday’s own interest was spurred by visits to real stores where early amateur radio operators and experimenters could buy parts for building receivers and transmitters.

Tourism Destination

Since arriving at its new location, the AWM is regularly a stop for motor coach tours bringing tourists to the area.

“I believe the Antique Wireless Museum is one of Ontario County’s greatest hidden treasures,” says Karen Miltner, public relations manager of the Finger Lakes Visitors Connection. The county tourism bureau awarded Hobday a 2016 Tourism Ambassador Award. It honors an employee, volunteer or organization that passionately promotes Ontario County as a premier destination in the Finger Lakes and New York State.

“Most people don’t expect to find a museum on this topic in the Finger Lakes, and when they go, they are pleasantly surprised at how thoughtfully curated the museum is,” says Miltner. “Bob does an amazing job of giving tours. I often take travel media there and always learn something new each time I go.”

What lies ahead for the AWM? Plans call for a 60-seat auditorium to be used for programming, and by local theater groups and outside groups for meetings and events. The building’s façade will be updated to take on the appearance of a very special 1936 Sparton blue and chrome art deco radio, just like one on display.

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ne of my favorite pastimes is to visit the stately Star Theatre in my hometown of Dansville in Steuben County. Underneath the aroma of buttery popcorn, I can detect the mild scent of history in the walls as I make my way down the sloping floor to my seat.

The theater turned 95 this year.

With a single screen mounted on what was once a fully functioning stage, the Star shows first-run movies every night at 7, with matinees on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday. It seats 278 people.

The theatre first opened for business in 1921, and hosted vaudeville shows and black and white silent films. The organ that was once used for accompaniment is still there. Among the celebrity

entertainers were a young George Burns, Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason. Franklin D. Roosevelt took in a show there, pre-presidency. During Hollywood’s heyday, people flocked to enjoy the glamour of “going to the movies.”

In the mid 1980s, though, the popularity of home viewing systems pulled people from its seats, and the theatre’s doors were forced to close. It stood empty for about nine years until local resident Charles Schmidt stepped in. He couldn’t stand the thought of letting the Star just fade away, so he bought it and invited his family to get involved.

“He didn’t have to do much convincing,” recalls his son Edgar, laughing.

Together, they began to restore and repair the building. They installed new seating and equipment and the Star was

Capable of seating 278 people, owner Edgar Schmidt likes to welcome the movie-goers from the balcony before each showing.

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brought back to life.

“Edgar knows every board and every screw in that place,” says frequent theatre attendee Marilyn Gray, 62. “It’s something he’s really passionate about and would really like to see succeed. He won’t let go, and won’t even sell unless he knows that the owners would keep it going and not try to change it.”

When his father retired, Edgar became the owner and operator. With occasional help from Cameron, his teenage nephew who lives in an apartment upstairs, Edgar is a one-man show. The movie-time routine is ingrained in his system.

Zipping around in a Star Theatre long-sleeve shirt, he flicks on switches, unlocks doors and adjusts garbage cans without missing a beat. The staircase up

Schmidt credits his love for the Star Theatre to his father, Charles, who brought the theatre back to life in the 1980s- after it had been closed for almost a decade.

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Top: Back in 1921, celebrity entertainers like George Burns, Lucille Ball, and Jackie Gleason graced the Star Theatre’s stage. Pre-presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt is known to have attended one of these live shows.

Bottom: Larger-than-life portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando and Lucille Ball adorn the façade of the historic Star Theatre in Dansville. In 2011, theatre owner and operator Edgar Schmidt commissioned local artist David Shera to create them to celebrate the building’s 90th anniversary.

to the off-limits balcony and projector room is not only narrow, but also piled with items ranging from decorations to small tools and other objects. But nothing slows Edgar’s speed as he navigates up in the dark – not even the low ceilings (he’s tall and thin) and awkward combination of ramps and half-steps. He converses with me the entire way. “You can choose to rent a projector, but then Hollywood is monitoring and controlling how many times you show the films and which films you’re playing,” Edgar told me.

“We’re a sole proprietorship and my dad always said, ‘You don’t bank where you buy.’”

At the top, it’s clear to see why he moved his somewhat cluttered desk and office space from the cramped projector room to the open balcony, which is closed to the public purely for insurance reasons. From his seat, Edgar can look out onto his personal kingdom. The chandelier above, and the seats, screen and stage below, are all in his sights. Up there, he calls the Star Theatre “home” and stores everything that needs to be fixed or isn’t in use.

He even has a plush “Mrs. Bates” propped up in a seat in the wings of the balcony, as though she’s there to enjoy the show with the rest of the viewers. From that balcony, Edgar continues to welcome customers and announce the start of the show himself.

Photos courtesy the Star Theatre

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Preserving the authenticity of the theater was most important to Edgar’s father, and remains important to Edgar today. He tries to contain updating to what is essential and authentic to the hands-on history of the theater. Necessary changes were made to the lobby and reception area, including the addition of a concessions counter. “It used to just have vending machines, which was really lame,” he said, “so now we have a cool, full-service snack bar.”

About 25 minutes before show time, Schmidt opens the front doors and takes his place at the register, where he prepares to greet people and run ticket and snack sales at the same time. “We’re cash only,” he says. “It’s been that way for 95 years and we’re not changing.”

It’s apparent that he makes an effort to know those who come and support his efforts, and while I was there, he struck up conversation with a couple he’d never met before. “I’m horrible with names,” he admits, “but I can remember faces. One time, a little boy came in with his grandmother and he said, ‘See, Grandma, this is how movies are supposed to be seen.’ That made me feel good.”

The number of moviegoers has become smaller and smaller of late, partially because of operations like Netflix and On Demand, he believes, and partially for reasons he’s not quite sure about. Eight people attended the Saturday matinee when I was there. Edgar mentions that evening shows are typically better attended, though never quite ideal.

In order to siphon up more interest from the community, he added a variety of features and deals to the standard show times. He created a series of movie passes that don’t expire, and hosts birthday parties during off hours. “They can bring in their own movie or watch what we’re playing,” he explained. “We just have to maintain regular show times because, first and foremost, we’re a movie theater.”

In the future, Edgar hopes to restore the stage so that live shows can be held again. “It’s one of those things in the 10year plan. Nineteen years later, we’re still working on it,” he says.

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Outdoors

Wildlife Eye-dentity

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story and photos by Bill Banaszewski

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redatory animals such as fox and bear (1) have eyes in the front of their heads. Binocular vision, which means both eyes are used together, gives predators a wider field of view that enables them to see the prey they are pursuing. In short, their eyes are designed to seek out food.

Great horned owls (2) also have binocular eyesight but only have a 110° field of vision. However, when they rotate their heads their field of vision increases to 270°.

Owls have very large eyes which is typical of predators that hunt at night.

Their large cornea (the transparent outer coating of the eye) and the pupil (the opening in the eye) adjust at night allowing more light to strike the light absorbing retina.

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Predators that hunt both day and night such as red fox (4) have pupils that narrow into slits to reduce the glare of the sun when hunting during the day.

Bald eagles (5) are believed to have the sharpest sight of any animal. Their striking yellow eyes can spot wildlife two miles away and can see field mice from 600 feet above. No doubt why sharp sighted people are called “eagle eyes”.

Folks with poor vision are sometimes labeled “blind as a bat”, but in fact bats (6) can see insects quite well when hunting at dawn and dusk. They also rely on a unique form of “vision” in the dark known as echolocation, where prey is located by reflected sound.

Animals that are hunted for food have eyes on the sides of their heads.

Their greater peripheral vision allows them to spot approaching predators from the side, front and behind.

White tail deer (7), our largest prey animal, have eyes on the sides of their heads providing them with a 300° field of view. A slight turn of the head reveals the other 60°.

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Outdoors slightest movement. On my walks in the woods, deer spot me at quite a distance. Because I remain still, it’s not quite sure what it’s seeing.

After staring me down, snorting, and nervously stomping its front foot, the deer slowly comes forward to get a closer look. With my slightest move, it high-tails away.

At birth, whitetail fawns (8) have a cloudy bluish-grey coating in their eyes. As a result the world around them is somewhat of a blur for a few days.

Gray squirrels’ (9) eyes are also located on the sides of their heads, but are positioned slightly upwards. This gives them the ability to search the skies for avian predators such as redtailed hawks and eagles.

Green frogs (10) are near-sighted, which means they don’t see well at a distance, but their prominent eyes are so sensitive to movement that they would probably go hungry if their food source didn’t move.

Interestingly when green frogs capture a meal such as a dragon fly, its eye balls retreat into the roof of its mouth to push the dragon fly down its throat.

Great blue herons (11) are quite successful at capturing frogs because they stare at their prey with unblinking eyes and are patient and motionless hunters.

Many predators and prey alike possess a third eyelid called the nictitating membrane. This membrane acts like a windshield wiper, sweeping across the eye from side to side, moisturizing and cleaning the eye of debris.

Eagles and owls can clear their eyes during flight, while herons, green frogs and soft shelled turtles (12) employ the membrane like goggles giving them a clear view underwater.

Garter snakes (13) which hunt on the ground use the membrane to clear dust and dirt.

Rock bass (14) and other fish with water constantly cleaning their eyes have no need for the nictitating membrane.

Let’s face it. The eyes tell the story.

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18th Annual Canandaigua Classic Antique Show & Sale

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et antiques warm up your winter with a visit to the 18th annual Canandaigua Classic Antique Show and Sale. This popular event is returning to the Lower Clubhouse at the Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack, 5857 Route 96, Farmington on Sunday, February 12, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be over 40 quality antique dealers displaying their goods. The show is conducted in partnership with The Kiwanis Club of Canandaigua.

Admission is $6. Download a coupon for a $1 off at canandaiguaantiquesclassic.org. Food is available throughout the day. Plenty of free parking available.

Appraisal Opportunities: In addition to checking out all the antiques, find out the value of one of your own. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. H. Price Prazar will return to provide a verbal appraisal of antiques, books & collectibles for $6 per item. Books are 2 for $6.

Show Sponsors and proceeds: Earnings provide scholarships for college-bound high school students in Ontario County and a firstyear Finger Lakes Community College student seeking a career in education. Grants are also awarded to non-profit groups in Ontario County to support the arts, culture and learning.

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Jan 27…Friday’s Happy Hour and Free Live Music at Ventosa Vineyards Buy one get one – for wine, beer and mixers 5 to 6 p.m. Live music from Shelter – Classic & Contemporary Rock Covers – 6 to 9 p.m. Cafe Toscana serving seasonal menu items and daily specials until 9 p.m.

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Feb 4…Finger Lakes Frostfest A celebration of winter in the Finger Lakes, this event incorporates large scale ice sculptures, plus music, local food, wine and beer tastings, signature ice bar martinis served through ice luges and a huge fireworks display over icy Seneca Lake. Event will be held at the Ramada Geneva Lakefront. Proceeds benefit Geneva Family YMCA. 5 to 9 p.m. Tickets limited – buy early. Tickets available at Geneva Family YMCA or online at brownpapertickets.com. $25 per person 21 and over only please.

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Just check in and pick up your gift item at your chosen starting winery then start sampling dishes paired with award-winning wines. Regular tickets purchased in advance are $40 per person. Friday, 1-5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are good for 2-1/2 days. Come for one day or the whole event weekend. senecalakewine.com

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57 Fire Lane 23., Scipio $349,900

ground that is ideal for building, a shallow ravine on the North side of the 132’ of West Sidefalls, Owasco Lakefront property that is easy to access and has many picturesque pools and with OVER 110 ACRES/PRE-EMPTION ROAD newly remodeled Summer Home. This creek beds. The property is filled with hardwoods and has an abundance of natural light plus the road is in very good condition top 1tobath bottom. $250,000 beautiful, 2 from Bedroom, summer home The 500’+ of lakefront has a spectacular view of the lake from the top and has been completely remodeled from the Just .4 of a mile off Route 23 and just 6.4 miles fromsteps Watkins Glen.

This is a great piece to the lake shore. A unique piece of property. Don’t wait! of level ground for a home or recreational purposes. Hunting, trails for walking, riding or 4 wheeling plus there are cleared areas for camp sites. Over 2600’ of road frontage. This property has been well maintained. No clear cutting of timber. Great location.

Henry Kimball

Licensed Real Estate Broker Cell/Text: 607-738-1237 • Office: 607-732-0200 hmkimball59@gmail.com

www.kimballrealtygroup.com NY-0000784050

REAL ESTATE REPRESENTATION AND CONSULTING OVER 110 ACRES PRE-EMPTION ROAD $250,000

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gleaming hardwood floors up, to the leveled, re-supported foundation below. Enjoy the pristine views from the large, 3 season lakeside sun-porch or simply step out onto the very generously sized deck.

Newer septic system and well.

Very, very deep lot. Lovely landscaping.

Call today to schedule a showing!

Just .4 of a mile off Route 23 and just 6.4 miles from Watkins Glen. This is a great piece of level ground for a home or recreational purposes. Hunting, trails for walking, riding or 4 wheeling plus there are cleared areas for camp sites.

Over 2600’ of road frontage. This property has been well maintained. No clear cutting of timber. Great location.

Henry Kimball

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Feb 25... Corning Civic Music Association Presents “The Blind Boys of Alabama” Since the original members (including Jimmy Carter, who leads the group today) first sang together as students at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in the late 1930s, the band has become one of the most popular roots music groups in the world.

During the Jim Crow era of the 1940s and 1950s, the Blind Boys flourished thanks to their unique sound, which blended the close harmonies of early jubilee gospel with the more fervent improvisations of hard gospel. As the years passed, many gospel singers crossed over to record secular popular music, but the Blind Boys persevered to create a new generation of gospel fans. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Purchase tickets at corningcivicmusic.org Corning Museum of Glass 1 Museum Way, Corning, NY 14830 corningcivicmusic.org

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Feb 18-19…Cheese and Wine Lovers Getaway on the Keuka Lake Wine Trail Celebrate the Valentine’s season and President’s Day weekend with the perfect pair- wine and cheese. Enjoy a wide range of creative and savory food samples prepared lovingly by our wineries with a variety of spectacular local cheeses, and paired beautifully with the great wines of Keuka Lake. keukawinetrail.com

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Entries open January 1, 2017. For information, call Ron Dougherty at 585-414-827.

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ANTIQUE WIRELESS MUSEUM

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Index of Advertisers January/February 2017

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Americana Vineyard & Winery..........41......... 607-387-6801......... americanavineyards.com

The Inn on the Lake........................... 37......... 800-228-2801......... theinnonthelake.com

Belhurst Castle........................................7......... 315-781-0201.......... belhurst.com

The Jewelbox........................................50......... 800-711-7279......... fingerlakescharm.com

Bristol Mountain Winter Snowsports........................... 5, 26............................................ bristolmountain.com

Kendal at Ithaca...................................C3......... 877-915-7633.......... kai.kendal.org/FL Kitchen Theatre Company.................12......... 607-272-0570......... kitchentheatre.org

Caves Kitchens..................................... 28......... 585-478-4636......... cavesmillwork.com

Morgan Marine.................................... 29......... 315-536-8166.......... morganmarine.net

Clifton Springs Chamber of Commerce..................... 26......... 315-462-8200......... cliftonspringschamber.com

Naples Visitors Association................12............................................ naplesvalleyny.com New Energy Works.............................C4......... 585-924-3860........ newenergyworks.com

Cobtree Vacation Rentals...................15......... 315-789-1144.......... cobtree.com

Quality Wine Tours..............................19......... 877-424-7004......... qualitywinetours.com

Corning Museum of Glass................ 43......... 800-732-6845........ cmog.org

Rasa Spa................................................ 27......... 607-273-1740......... rasaspa.com

del Lago....................................................9............................................ dellagoresort.com

Route 96 Power & Paddle..................18......... 607-659-7693........ powerandpaddle.com

Downtown Ithaca Alliance................ 37......... 607-277-8679......... downtownithaca.com

Seager Marine...................................... 43......... 585-394-1372......... seagermarine.com

Elmira Corning Regional Airport.......16............................................ ecairport.com

Seneca County Chamber...................17......... 800-732-1848......... fingerlakescentral.com

Ferris Hills..............................................C2......... 585-393-0410......... ferrishills.com

Seneca Lake Winery Association.....50......... 877-536-2717.......... senecalakewine.com

Finger Lakes Tram............................... 47......... 315-986-8090......... fingerlakestram.com

SignLanguage Inc.................................13......... 585-237-2620......... signlanguageinc.com

Fireplace Fashions............................... 49......... 877-409-6555......... fireplacefashions.com

Starkey’s Lookout.................................18......... 607-678-4043......... starkeyslookout.com

Gardner Construction........................ 47......... 315-573-1474.......... gardnerconstructionny.com

Timber Frames......................................13......... 585-374-6405......... timberframesinc.com

Halsey’s Restaurant................................4......... 315-789-4070......... halseysgeneva.com

Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel..................3......... 607-535-6116.......... watkinsglenharborhotel.com

Hangar Theatre.....................................19......... 607-273-ARTS........ hangartheatre.org

Wild Birds Unlimited.......................... 27......... 877-266-4928......... sapsuckerwoods.com

Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca......................2......... 877-STAY-HGI......... ithaca.hgi.com Hotel Ithaca...........................................41......... 607-272-1000......... thehotelithaca.com Hunt Hollow Ski Club..........................15......... 585-374-5428......... hunthollow.com I-Wood-Care......................................... 29......... 800-721-7715.......... iwoodc.com

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Bristol Mountain Your Family Winter Adventure Destination

by Drew Broderick

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ristol Mountain has been the centerpiece of the winter season in the Finger Lakes Region for 53 seasons. It has grown from a local ski hill that at one time was touted as the largest illuminated ski resort in the country, to a mountain of distinction with 35 trails, 3km of Nordic terrain, five Terrain Park Pods, a Race Park, and a reputation for excellent snowmaking and grooming.

The winter season at Bristol Mountain features downhill skiing, snowboarding and Nordic skiing. Now add to this a guided zip line canopy tour that Bristol Mountain Aerial Adventure debuted last winter. This 5,000 feet guided zip line adventure through the trees is available by reservation all year. It is currently featured on the front cover of the 2017 “I Love New York State” Winter Guide.

There are a variety of winter programs for guests to take advantage of at Bristol Mountain. For example, if you have never skied before, the VIP Gold Learn to Ski program, for ages 13 and up, is a four-time lesson package that includes a free

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pair of Elan skis. There is a similar first timer’s four-day campstyle program for ages 8 to 12. On January 6, Bristol Mountain is a host ski area for the World’s Largest Snowsports Lesson event. For only $10 per person, first time skiers or snowboarders can participate in this lesson. For Valentine sweethearts, there is a private skiin, ski-out dinner at the Morning Star Café, a beautiful mid-mountain lodge. Nordic Skiers love the Full Moon Nordic ski events that are hosted each winter.

Bristol Mountain is proud to have five former freestyle team athletes competing on the 2017 US Ski Team. The Freestyle “Fab Five,” Jon Lillis, Dylan Walcyzk, Morgan Schild, Harrison Smith and Chris Lillis, will be at Bristol Mountain for the Ski With A Champion fundraiser on Monday, January 9.

If you are looking for ideas for staying active this winter, contact Bristol Mountain at 585-374-6000, or visit bristolmountain.com and bristolmountainadventures.com.

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83488 Kendal at Ithaca — Skiing Ad — Cornell Alum Magazine — Dec 2015 — T: 8.25” x 10.875” B: 8.75” x 11.375”

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A fresh blanket of powder and sunny skies mean getting out and enjoying the great outdoors.

For Kendal residents, like Joan and Don, spending more time experiencing the changing seasons is important — especially now that they have the time to do it.

Living on the 105-acre campus at Kendal not only keeps them involved in the lifestyle they love, but also connects them to any future care they may need. And, from here, the story just keeps getting better.

Come for a visit and tell us your story. Call 800-253-6325 or go to kai.kendal.org to learn more.

2230 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850

A not-for-profit continuing care retirement community serving older adults in the Quaker tradition. ©2015 KENDAL

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– John Burroughs

Dansville’s Star Theatre • Winter Adventures at Bristol Mountain • The Center for Great Women • Marcellus

“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.”

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