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Finding the Rainbow

by Sharry L. Whitney

The 4th of July weekend heralds in summer. We’ve been waiting a long time for it to arrive this year, it seems, as it’s been a colder and rainier spring than usual. I inadvertently discovered the perfect cure—plant lots of seeds! Peas, lettuce, and spinach do great in the cooler weather and you don’t need a lot of space to reap the benefits. I have a half dozen long window box-like planters that are perfect for little rows of lettuce, spinach, and pea shoots (which I learned, from Denise Szarek’s column, are a quick crop and make for delicious salads!). So when it rains I don’t feel so bad knowing my plants are being watered with no effort on my part.

Happy plants, happy me!

In this month’s magazine, our writers inspire us with their busy lives. Suzie Jones shares her experiences working with a local egg hatchery and Gary VanRiper’s 17th Adirondack Kids book comes out this month! We get in the summertime mood traveling along with Jorge L. Hernández to Piggy Pat’s BBQ and Melinda Karastury’s family to Sylvan Beach. Also check out our Family Fun Guide to help plan your adventures this summer, and be sure to include some visits to the Erie Canal during its 200th anniversary celebration this year. •

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An inquiry recently came to the Oneida County Historical Society desks about Camp Healthmore in 1916, when someone asked if a great aunt had died there. Like the ripples in a puddle spread, so did my research grow. Camp Healthmore was a tuberculosis camp located on Higby Lane in New Hartford, where 150 acres, formerly the Seaton farm, backed up to Roscoe Conkling Park, now called South Woods. The Utica Dispensary began to raise funds in 1909; Red Cross seals were sold in stores during the holidays to build such a place. Marklove Lowery’s generosity answered the community’s needs and the medical profession’s dreams when he donated his land to build a camp for consumption patients.

Camp Healthmore offered a summer respite. Shelters built by private individuals offered the patients a place to sleep in fresh air, surrounded by Mother Nature. The property already had a barn and smaller buildings where handicraft classes and even dances were held. A healthy program included a balanced diet of vegetables the children had planted in small truck gardens, along with plenty of rest and sunshine. The 1915 Federal Census lists about 22 patients ranging in age from 8 to 33, with their home addresses in Utica. The staff, supervised by Mary Hannas, included two nurses, a cook, and several servants. As the number of patients grew, the camp became outgrown. It moved to Benton Road in Marcy in 1924.

Lowery was a wealthy philanthropist and a landscape architect in Utica. He called the Higby Road area his “Plantadendron” and even formed a Plantadendron Society in Utica to develop a local interest in horticulture and arboriculture. The area was quiet and well-wooded. Lowery, with the help of Elihu Root, F. K .Kernan, and Nicholas Devereux, set out hundreds of white pine and Norwegian spruce saplings to try to “replenish depleted forests.” (It

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was interesting to learn there was a concern for reforestation in the early 1900’s.) Plans were to build a conservatory and greenhouse. Although the society functioned for more than 20 years, it seems that mostly local garden clubs benefited from Lowery’s generosity.

Lowery’s home was on Sunset Ave.—once the club house of the Oneida County Sportsman’s Association, where prominent citizens stood on the porch to shoot pigeons. Here, more than 30 varieties of birds returned each year to settle down on his estate. It was the boarding house of 14 parakeets that were free to fly among the owner’s valuable antiques on the first floor and sun porch. Hummingbirds and wrens populated the grounds using his berry bushes and fruit trees for sustenance and his swimming pool to take a bath. At one time Lowery was Parks Commissioner for the city. His property was sold in the early 1940s. New owners chopped down the trees and bulldozed the gardens, then raised the grade to street level to build the Sunset Bowling Alley. After his father’s death in 1962, Throckmorton Lowery sold more property on Sunset Avenue to the Sturges Manufacturing Co. The Lowery home was razed.

Marklove Lowery’s artistic landscaping ability was not contained to just city surrounds. In July 1926, work began on a stone castle, on the road between Newport and Middleville, which he planned to make his home. The cellar foundation of a knife and fork factory was already there. Lowery used hand-hewn beams from the old Higby Road barn in this construction and went to Vermont to get slate for the roof—for free. He piped water from

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nearby Wolf Creek, letting it trickle down into a stone pool; the castle stood on the rim of a 100-ft. quarry where one could see a double arch stone bridge.

“Marklove pulled the plans out of his head as he went along,” said David Beetle in a 1946 interview with the unusual man.

The structure blended perfectly with the landscape. It was called “Hillandale.”

All too soon the castle was discovered by avaricious sight-seekers. Bus loads of onlookers came interrupting the Lowery couple’s priA handwritten note from vacy; they were forced to John Marklove on Central abandon their plans of resiNew York Pipe Organ Manudency and remodeled a nearby farmhouse instead. Later factory letterhead, 1891 his wife, the former Dorothy Applegate (her father was the well-known reverend at Grace Episcopal Church), called this her summer home and died there in 1938. Vandals attacked the castle in following years, burning the staircase, stealing the antique ship’s bell clapper, and cluttering the grounds with picnic papers.

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of solving his health problem. For 37 years he built organs in his shop on John Street. He was 64 years old when he died, leaving two children—Clifford and Emily, Marklove’s mother.

Emily married James L. Lowery, our subject’s father; she died in Utica in 1983.

James L. Lowery came from Belfast, Ireland as a child, grew up on his father Samuel’s farm in Oriskany. He worked in various textile mills as a mechanic and eventually formed a company to manufacture socks for the U.S. Army until the end of the Civil War. James, Joseph Stuart, and brother William began the cotton waste business called the Lowery Bros. in 1865.

Judge John Walsh says in his book Vignettes of Old Utica: “The Lowery brothers were, indeed, the fathers of the knitting industry in the city.” The company, located on Broad Street, was extremely successful for decades. James and Emily had seven children; their daughters married influential Utica citizens—Reginald Crouse and Samuel Beardsley. The oldest son, James, was the cotton broker and president of Lowery Bros; he died while playing golf at the Sadaquada Club. His brother Jenner Lowery was assistant treasurer of the Utica Investment Club and a member of Hasty Pudding at Harvard. The third son Stuart’s obituary read that he was “a descendant of the Throckmorten and Jenner families of England.” Dr. Edward Jenner supposedly discovered a smallpox vaccine and Thomas Jenner, was president of Magdalen College at Oxford in 1725.

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Cooking Up A Good AdIRONDACKs Story Story and Photos by Gary VanRiper

My wife loves those cooking shows. She loves them so much I end up watching a number of them with her.

On one of those shows, the cooks are given baskets with several ingredients and have the challenge of bringing those ingredients together in a certain period of time to create a winning dish.

Early during this month of July, the 17th book in The Adirondack Kids series of children’s books is scheduled for release. This is the 17th volume in as many years that my son and I have published, but this the first one that felt in the beginning like I was participating in one of those cooking shows!

Ingredient #1 People who visit with us at book signings or on Facebook will often offer us story ideas.

Two years ago, a man from Clinton, NY, who instructs people in scuba diving approached our book booth at a Christmas show and told us he had confirmed an old legend about something that lay at the bottom of the Adirondack’s Blue Mountain Lake. We expressed an interest in learning more and he followed up with some great photographs, diagrams, and some historical notes.

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Ingredient #2 We try not to include a lot of modern technology into our stories because technology changes so rapidly. But with the popularity of geocaching on the rise and with hundreds of caches in the Adirondacks, it was hard not to think about the outdoor activity as having great potential for a story. The challenge? Work geocaching into a story without the use of a GPS or any other modern technology.

Ingredient #3 Two people who have been on our publishing team from the start suggested we consider the late hermit Noah John Rondeau into one of our stories. Rondeau lived in the Adirondack wilderness for more than 30 years. Jay O’Hern from Camden, NY, has written several solid volumes on the hermit who created his own small community in the Cold River Valley. Dubbed the Mayor of Cold River City, we also learned the hermit had created his own alphabet to keep his notes–and that his code had finally been broken.

I have to admit, as time went by after the decision and commitment was made to bring all three of these ingredients together into one story, the task seemed more and more daunting.

Adding pressure to project? We have a tradition of dedicating our books to the latest grandchild whenever he

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I am happy and relieved to say that somewhere during the writing process the story gelled and, according to several of our proofreaders, is one of our best stories yet.

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A Visitor from Earth by carol higgins

Two years ago, on July 14, 2015, a small world in the outer reaches of our solar system had a close encounter with a visitor from Earth. The visitor had traveled for nine and a half years and covered more than 3 billion miles. The day the visitor arrived, millions of people on Earth nervously waited for news and information from the visitor. The small world was Pluto, and the visitor was NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. It has an unusual oval orbit that takes 248 years to complete one trip around our Sun. It is so far away that it’s considered a member of the Kuiper Belt; a region with hundreds of thousands of icy worlds and over a trillion comets. Before New Horizons, scientists only knew that Pluto had three moons and believed it had a thin atmosphere while its surface contained water ices, nitrogen, and methane. But the true composition and surface features of the planet and its moons were uncertain.

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Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University APL/SWRI “wake up call” was Dec. 6, 2014, so mission controllers could test the spacecraft’s systems and instruments, and review and make final updates to the computer system hydrocarbon molecules, it has a mountain that would completely control the space- range more than 11,000 feet high, there is a puzzling frozen ice plain called “Sputnik craft during the flyby.

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Pluto’s surface and was zooming along at So what’s next for New Horizons? It is 31,000 mph. Did the spacecraft survive or currently in hibernation mode again, and is did it crash into Pluto or unknown debris? on its way to its next destination: a small Did the cameras and science instruments Kuiper Belt object called MU69, about a capture data? Could New Horizons com- billion miles past Pluto. It will arrive on Jan. 1, 2019. What will New Horizons discover municate with Earth?

Just over 22 hours after the flyby, the on that New Year’s Day? verdict was in. Right on schedule and ex- Wishing you clear skies! • actly as planned, the first data stream from New Horizons arrived on Earth along with a confirmation that the spacecraft was healthy and had captured lots of science data and pictures. The mission team erupted with applause, cheers and tears. Scientists knew they were in for new discoveries and unexpected results, but no one could anticipate the extent of the surprises.

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M-Fri: 7:30-4:30, Sat: 8-12

146 County Highway 35A, Portlandville, NY

Baby Lock/Koala Dealer

Anniversary Event!

Aug.12 - Fly Creek Fire Hall

• Fabric Designer Deb Strain presents: “From Design to Fabric” • $20 tickets benefit Fly Creek Fire Co. • Quilt Show: “Bee Inspired” • Bloomers Bees Honey • Quilts appraised by appt.

6237 State Hwy 28, Fly Creek

(607) 547-2501

Hours: Tues-Fri 9-5, Sat 9-3, Sun/Mon Closed

www.heartworksquilts.com

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The Everyday Adventures of Mohawk Valley Girl

Beer Belly Bob’s Discount Beverage Center in ilion

I don’t drink beer as much as I used to in my young(er) and (even more) foolish days, either in frequency or volume. However, I still enjoy a cold one now and then, and I like some of the craft brews I’ve tried. I was interested to check out Route 51 Beer Belly Bob’s Discount Beverage Center in Ilion.

The thing I really like about Beer Belly Bob’s is that it offers tastings. I am a well-known lover of wine tastings. I find I like beer tastings just as much. So far, I’ve been to two at Beer Belly Bob’s, and both featured area breweries. Double score Mohawk Valley Girl!

The first tasting I attended featured Woodland Farm Brewery of Marcy. I have been there a couple of times (perhaps you read my article about them in Mohawk Valley Living magazine), but I have by no means tasted all their brews. For one reason, they are always coming up with something new.

The tasting room at Beer Belly Bob’s is separate from the rest of the store, a long room with a bar, tall tables and chairs, and a popcorn maker at the end. The woodwork on the bar is beautiful, and the whole place has a welcoming atmosphere.

“Oh, boy, popcorn!” I said as my husband, Steve, my friend Kim, and I walked in. The other people tasting nicely passed a basket to our end of the bar.

We tried both IPAs they were offering. I thought Jack’s IPA was citrusy and refreshing. Brewtica was a double IPA and so maltier, the fellow pouring told us. I found it tasty but could not really decide how to describe it (even though he gave me two tastes). This is why I am not a professional beer taster.

After tasting, we walked around the store, deciding what to purchase. In addition to all the popular “mainstream” beers, Bob offers a variety of craft brews and other malt beverages. We saw hard ciders and hard sodas as well as non-alcoholic versions. Several beers are available

SUNNYBROOK FARM (315) 841-4910

Grass Fed Beef, Chicken & Pork JULY SPECIAL!

Buy 1 lb. ground beef get 2nd lb. 1/2 OFF!

Hours: Mon-Fri :8-4, Sat: 8-Noon

Pick up at Williams Fence 2033 Brothertown Rd., Deansboro www.sunnybrookmeats.com

Beer Belly Bob’s employee Susan Ingerham

Infinity Tree

Energy Healing & Wellness Using ancient healing traditions and modern science to help you feel better physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Amanda Wallis

Alternative Energy Healer

(315) 527-3042

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on tap, so you can purchase a large or small growler.

We decided to get a “mix your own” six pack, so we could try a few more different things. Our choices included Two Dragons from Empire Brewing Company in Cazenovia, Backyard India Pale Ale from the Cooperstown Brewing Company, and Syracuse Pale Ale from Middle Ages Brewing Company of Syracuse. Suddenly, I was getting a whole list of new places to check out.

When Kim and I returned to Beer Belly Bob’s for another tasting, we were introduced to yet another brewery we’d like to visit: Adirondack Brewery of Lake George. The Bear Naked Amber Ale earned my highest accolade of “Yummy.” The Tangerine Summer Dream was a specialty ale, a combination of a pale ale and a fruit ale. I found it fruity, but not too sweet. Another lady tasting said it was a “Sunday morning beer.” When the fellow pouring heard Kim and me making plans to visit the brewery, he gave us one of his cards, telling us to show it at the brewery for a free beer.

Back home, I made sure to Like Beer Belly Bob’s page on Facebook, so I can keep informed of future tastings. Of course, I will try to keep myself under control. I would hate to be known as Beer Belly Cindy! •

Beer Belly Bob’s Discount Beverage Center 70 Otsego St., Ilion (315) 895-0936

Cynthia M. Quackenbush, a.k.a. “Mohawk Valley Girl,” writes a daily blog about her everyday adventures in the Mohawk Valley.

Follow her frugal fun at: mohawkvalleygirl.wordpress.com

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Look for our hydroponic Basil at local grocery stores and markets!

t e k r a M Farm sh Greenhouses Open!

ON THE GO Row by Row Adventure is in full swing.

Located at the Shoppes at the Finish Line Mon: 9:30-8, Tues - Fri: 9:30-5 Sat: 10-4

Come in and get your free pattern!

Christmas in July?

Holiday fabrics are here!

Full farm market open May-October featuring our own fresh produce and NY hot house tomatoes!

Flowers all season, plus garden supplies, potting soil, mulches and fertilizers!

Full Bakery

Including homemade donuts!

Bulk foods and candies like Dutch Valley Foods and Jake & Amos

Route 5, West Schuyler

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Open 7 Days a Week

Mohawk Valley road trip

FAMILY fun

sylvan beach

People have been drawn to the shores of Oneida Lake since the Oneidas and Onondagas fished the waters. During the 19th century, with the advent of railroads and ferries, the Sylvan-Verona Beach area became a desirable resort destination. Today visitors from all over Central New York come for the sun, the fun, and the nostalgia.

Photos and captions by Melinda Karastury

Beach Information & Swimming

Melinda Karastury smiles as she digs her toes into the warm sand and watches the children play in the water.

For swimming conditions call: (315) 762-5582 Open from June 26th until Labor Day: 10am - 7pm Lifeguards must be on duty for swimming in the swim area.

Sylvan Beach Amusement Park

Open daily 11 am - 11 pm Phone: (315) 762-5212 www.sylvanbeachamusementpark.com

Isaiah Palmer’s smile is as bright as the sun as he enjoys his first swim of the summer season.

Since 1928

See us for your favorite treats!

Join us for

Consignment Shopper Swap!

WOODLAND

Oneida Lake is the largest lake located entirely within the borders of New York State.

It is sometimes referred to as the “thumb” of the Finger Lakes.

Farm Brewery & Taproom

CONSIGNMENT SHOPPE

Wedding & specialty cakes, Italian pastries, miniatures, and cookies. Also serving coffee, cappuccino, espresso, lattes, and pastries in our dining room.

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667 Bleecker Street, Utica (315) 724-8032 Open Mon: 8-3, closed Tues, Wed-Sun: 8-5

Quality pre-owned ladies, junior, & plus size clothing, shoes, handbags, jewelry & household items.

(315) 896-2050

8024 Route 12, Barneveld

Open

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Live Music

12pm-9pm Tues - Sun

Beer Wine Cocktails

Tuesdays & Sundays

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Manager - Jared Alesia, pastry chef C.I.A. Martin Alesia, cake decorator

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Oneida lake feeds the Oneida River, a tributary of the Oswego River, which flows into Lake Ontario. Since the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, the lake has been part of an important waterway connecting the Atlantic seaboard of North America to the continental interior.

Sylvan Beach Amusement park has roots traced back to 1881 and is one of the ten oldest amusement parks in the nation.

The long-time owners, the Goodenow Family of Utica, NY, recently partnered with Doug Waterbury (owner of “America’s first theme park” The North Pole, a.k.a. Santa’s Workshop) to revitalize this slice of Americana rarely found anywhere else in the country.

Brother and sister Josh and Alana, and their cousin Isaiah experience unlimited rides at Sylvan Beach Amusement Park with non-stop smiles and laughter.

Josh Karastury, Alana Karastury, Melinda Karastury, and Isaiah Palmer purchase a Super Saver unlimited ride wrist band for unlimited rides and free special events!

This summer enjoy: • FREE Cider Slush • Meal Deals • FREE Cookbook • FREE Racing Duck The kids will love our new duck race!

Artisan Cheese handmade by the Felio Family and sold locally throughout the Mohawk Valley!

For locations visit: www.threevillagecheese.com Also see us every Saturday at the Oneida Co. Market at Utica’s Union Station!

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Visit FlyCreek.com for coupons, directions and tour information.

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For over a century the “Coney Island of Central New York” has been offering carnival rides, roller coasters, fun houses, and arcades. Sylvan Beach Amusement Park features ten Kiddieland rides for the little ones, Laffland, the Bomber, Tilt-A-Whirl, Bumper Cars, Rock-O-Plane, Bumper Boats, arcade, Treasureland, Bonanza Shooting Gallery, Super-Slide, and the Galaxi Coaster.

R.A. Dudrak “The Window King”

If you can’t clean your windows in 5 minutes, CALL US for windows that tilt!

VINYL PATIO DOORS, EXTERIOR, STEEL AND STORM DOORS VINYL REPLACEMENT AND CUSTOM BOW AND BAY WINDOWS WE HAVE WINDOWS FOR MOBILE HOMES

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(315) 794-9175 Rte. 365, Holland Patent

Over 50 Years in Business at the Same Location!

Specializing in Weddings & Banquets

EXCEPTIONAL CUISINE • COMPETITIVE PRICING PROFESSIONAL WAIT STAFF ACCOMMODATIONS UP TO 200 GUESTS WEDDING RECEPTIONS • REHEARSAL DINNERS • BRIDAL & BABY SHOWERS FAMILY REUNIONS • BUSINESS MEETINGS • ALL OCCASION PARTIES

Friday night dinners featuring our famous fresh haddock fish fry!

Full menu available - Serving every Friday 4-8:30

16 Erie St. Yorkville, NY 13495 (315) 736-9359 www.clubmonarch.net

FINGER LAKES MEAT PROJECT

Find your farmer!

39 Point Road, White Lake

www.meatsuite.com

Lakefront home on pristine spring fed White Lake! This home is well kept and in immaculate condition! Total 2600 square feet with full finished basement. Sprawling rear yard walks out to 168’ lake frontage. Property is complete with floating dock and boathouse. Backyard facing west offers spectacular sunsets, there are views of the lake from every room. Home has 2 fireplaces, large master bedroom, a sauna, decks, patio and attached 2 car garage. Private setting on large mature 1.2 acre lot with convenient year around access just off State Route 28!

A PROJECT OF CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OF TOMPKINS AND STEUBEN COUNTIES

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Find farmers in Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins, Seneca, Schuyler and Steuben Counties (NY).

Connect directly with your farmer to purchase the full suite of great local meats.

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Serving Central New York Since 1976 Art VanVechten Broker/Owner cell (315) 723-0477 artvanvechten@gmail.com 2617 Genesee St., Utica, NY 13501 (315) 732-3113

Building Better Pools for over 50 Years!

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234 South Caroline St., Herkimer 315-866-4030 • www.geratypools.com

Serving “The Heart of Utica” Since 1910

The classic Carello’s Carousel Arcade has been at the heart of the amusement park since 1896.

Here you’ll find Skee-Ball, photo booths, cranes, and arcade games all with tickets and great prizes to choose from. You’ll also find “Zoltar,” the fortune teller from the movie Big, but no need to wish to be a kid again, that magically happens whenever you visit Sylvan Beach Amusement Park!.

There are many special events this summer including Pirate’s Weekend Thursday, July 20 - Sunday, July 23. The event features the Pirate Pub Crawl, beach treasure hunts, live music, bonfire, and sand castle building contest, and a Pirate’s Parade on July 22. The 3rd annual Pirate’s Weekend 5K event on Sunday is a run/walk through the village of Sylvan Beach. The entire family is welcome to race including strollers and dogs. Check out the list of events at www.sylvanbeachny.com/ pirates-weekend

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• children’s bookstore • reading tutoring • arts enrichment • literacy enrichment • birthday parties Space still available for summer camps!

FAITH PROPERTIES Diane Lockwood Cell: 315-717-5379 315-735-2222 ext. 6660 • 2306 Genesee St., Utica

$669,000

150 Cook Hill Rd., Herkimer

Mon: 10-2, Tues-Fri: 10-7, Sat: 10-4

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(315) 765-6262 • 587 Main St., New York Mills

Quality 4bd/4bth, with open floor plan 2 kitchens, hardwoods, and 4 car garage!

IRONWOOD Furniture

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The Everyday Adventures of Mohawk Valley Girl

Moose river coffee in ilion

I love coffee but I usually don’t make it myself. If my husband, Steve, is not around to make it, I am happy to go to a local café, especially if I have time to sit, sip, and write. I recently discovered some of the best coffee I have ever tasted at Moose River Coffee in Ilion.

The place was recommended to me by a friend, and I was bold enough to ask an out-of-towner to meet me there for my first visit. We were both delighted with the coffee. I was also delighted to find that they serve donuts from Friendly Bake Shop of Frankfort, only some of the best donuts on the planet (admittedly, I have not tried all the donuts on the planet, although I would like to). Sandwiches are also available, but I have not tried them yet.

I was happy I had given my out-of-town acquaintance a good impression of our Mohawk Valley. I was so impressed that I returned on Saturday morning, intending to sit, sip, and write. Of course, my plans are nothing if not flexible, and when I walked in I found one of my favorite families enjoying a cuppa. I decided visiting with friends is also important and I would write later (don’t worry, I did, anybody who is concerned with my literary ambitions).

“We’ve been playing charades and checkers,” one of the girls told me. I had not noticed the shelf of games near the comfy-looking sofa and chairs. I like places where you are encouraged to linger and have fun.

I got my coffee and sat down with my friends at a table made out of a pallet. A glass top made the table smooth, and papers under the glass made it interesting. The café has a few tables made with pallets as well as a couple more traditionally made, smooth wooden ones. Rustic decorations on the walls include a pair of old wooden skis and a wooden fishing net. The table we sat at had two ornate wooden benches.

But, getting back to the coffee, YUM! They roast their own beans, and it is some of the smoothest coffee I have ever tasted. One of my friends had a shot of coconut in hers, which sounded delicious. I tend to go with regular coffee more so than the flavored kind, but one must be open to try new things. •

A primitive mix of new and old purposeful clutter, handmades including wreaths, dolls, ornies, grubby prims, cabinets, framed prints, bird houses, finds, signs, seasonal wares & one of a kinds!

6170 Valley Mills St., Munnsville (315) 495-2470 Tue - Sat: 10-5, Sun: 11-4

Owner Kim Fiato and business partner Yvonne Winter

Moose River Coffee

70 Otsego St., Ilion (315) 985-0490

Wine & Spirits Ilion

10 East Main St., Ilion • (315) 894-8142 Open Mon-Sat: 9-9, Sun: 12-5 • All credit cards accepted

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downtown utica

new businesses in downtowN! by michelle truett

Frank Vita’s Men’s Clothier 200 Genesee Street, Utica • (315) 797-7677

Background photo by Matt Ossowski

If you’ve walked by the Radisson Hotel lately, you’re sure to have seen the new clothing store on the corner. Frank Vita’s Men’s Clothier is one of the newest businesses to relocate to an ever growing downtown, adding a high-end retail option to Genesee Street.

Frank Vita looking sharp at Frank Frank grew up in the clothing business. He and his father (who Vita’s Men’s Clothier now works at Ralph Lauren at age 80!) both worked at Joseph and Feiss in Utica for many years. Frank starting as a bundle handler on the assembly line, became a shipping clerk, and then mastered proficiency on 113 operations of the factory. He transferred to their plant in Cleveland, Ohio where he worked for seven years, learning every part of the industry. Eventually he made his way bake Utica and in 2002, he opened his first showroom on Albany Street. He later moved to Genesee Street in South Utica, where he operated for many years. This year, he saw an opportunity to move to Downtown Utica to get some more foot traffic for the business and to capitalize on visitors staying at the hotel, as well as businessmen who work in the downtown area. He opened the doors in April.

Frank Vita’s carries some of the best lines in the business and is the only place in the city where you will find Italian-made, exclusive clothing for men. He offers everything from suits, sports jackets, and neckwear to gorgeous dress shirts and even jeans. The store boasts popular designers such as Bresciani, Sartoria Tosi, Gionfriddo, and Bartorelli Napoli. He has a great range of clientele – many local and others that come in from as far as Albany or Rochester to find one-of-a kind, impeccably made items. Tailoring is done right on site and customers benefit from Frank’s great eye, ability to assure a perfect fit, and his jovial personality that hits you as soon as you walk in the door.

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MUSEUM & COUNTRY STORE

See Remington firearms and artifacts from the 1800s to today.

Shop for clothing, hats, and souvenirs in the Country Store.

14 Hoefler Avenue, Ilion (315) 895-3200 FREE! Mon-Fri. 8am-5pm (store closes 4:30pm)

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In a garden, amongst the beans and carrots, lives a young tomato who just doesn’t fit in. Follow his adventures as he wanders into the depths of the garden and learns about jealousy, appreciation, and fate from the other garden dwellers.

Available at: Amazon Your purchase of this book helps www.barnesandnoble.com local author and artist Autumn Kuhn and www.rosedogbookstore.com pay off her student loans.

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Feed your body, nurture your soul.

Quality Products for 21 years!

Open Mon: 10-5, Tues-Fri: 10-6 8024 Route 12, Barneveld 896-2820

Batroun Rotisserie 36 Bank Place • (315) 624-9924

First, let’s start with the name. Batroun (Bah-TROON) rhymes with “balloon.” Owner Pete Mazloom named it after a city on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon that he visited and was inspired by their many shawarma shops and cafes. Second, “shawarma” is the Middle Eastern way to prepare meats on a spit or rotisserie over an open flame. With those two important things out of the way, we’d like to introduce Utica’s newest eatery.

Pete has always loved preparing food and would create meals for the family that were widely loved. About a year ago, he starting planning a restaurant that celebrated his Lebanese heritage and served something you couldn’t find elsewhere. He concentrates mainly on shawarma, and Batroun now offers a focused menu with limited items done perfectly – wraps and salads and also a manoushi (Lebanese-style grilled cheese). The Adele salad is named after his aunt. The dishes are definitely specialty items that you can only find at this destination spot on the top of Bank Place.

The restaurant itself is bright, airy, and welcoming with large windows Pete Mazloom named his restaurant, Batroun Rotisserie, on two sides. The walls are a bright yellow that matches the color of olive after a city on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon oil, the original tin ceiling was painstakingly restored and the hardwood floor – after removing layers of plywood, linoleum, tarpaper, and thousands of staples – was perfectly refinished. Along one of the enormous walls is a gallery of artwork by a local painter and he plans to switch out the show every couple of months to keep the décor fresh and to help out up-and-coming artists.

The restaurant is a mix of great food steeped in culture and a great place to enjoy Find out more on Facebook: “Downtown Utica” camaraderie and community. •

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Little Falls Cheese Festival A gardener’s wonderland! o

Large Selection of Rare Plants Ponds, Patios, Walks, Complete Grounds Pondscaping • Fountains Handcarved Bluestone birdhouses

Saturday, July 8, 2017 10am - 5pm Main Street, Little Falls, NY Enjoy delicious, savory local artisan cheeses and related products from New York State Live entertainment and more…

Easy access from NYS Thruway, I 90, Exit 29A free parking, free entry littlefallscheesefestival.com and on Facebook

1346 Higby, Frankfort, NY (315) 738-0434 Over 40 Years Experience!

Sponsored by Platinum Sponsors: Feldmeier Equipment, Inc., NewsChannel 2 Silver Sponsors: Stewart’s Shops Harry & Kevin Enea Family Funeral Home and by the City of Little Falls, Little Falls Family YMCA, Main Street First, Inc. and other generous supporters

In celebration of the Erie Canal’s 200th anniversary, artist Tom Leytham has developed a series exploring the canal’s architectural remnants. On display at the Arkell Museum.

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The Legacy of the Erie Canal: Watercolors

by Tom Leytham Through August 16, 2017

Walking Around With a Camera: Clinton Edition, Photographer Zach Lewis

One of three solo shows on display. In celebration of the 200th anniversary of construction beginning on the Erie Canal, Leytham has developed a series exploring the architectural remnants remaining along the Erie Canal and Mohawk River Valley. Many of his paintings depict overlooked or forgotten sites of the hand-built manufacturing age.

Local Photographer Zach Lewis will be exhibiting his photographs of Clinton at the Clinton Historical Society

Arkell Museum

Clinton Historical Society

2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie, NY • (518) 673-2314 www.arkellmuseum.org

July 1 - September 4, 2017 Reception: Sat., July 1, 1-4pm

1 Fountain Street, Clinton • (315) 859-1392 www.clintonhistory.org

FRIENDLY BAKE SHOP www.mvfoodaction.com

Berry Hill Book Shop

Over 75,000 used books!

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2349 Rte 12-B, Deansboro, NY 315-821-6188 Open Tues-Sat 10-5 dls@berryhillbookshop.com

The Viti Brothers “Quality is our Specialty”

1222 E. Main St., Frankfort (315) 894-8861

www.thefriendlybakeshop.com

Tues. - Fri. 7 - 5, Sat. 7 -3, Sun 7 - 12:30

8211 State Rt 12

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Earlville Opera House Annual Quilt Show July 15 - Sept. 2, 2017 Opening reception: Sat., July 15, 12-3pm

Earlville Opera House

18 East Main Street, Earlville, NY • (315) 691-3550 www.earlvilleoperahouse.com

315-896-3934

Tues-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 10-2

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Celebrate the Graduate in Your Life!

Preserve diplomas and graduation pictures with custom framing!

Rise up Singing: Jazz Portraits by Herman Leonard Through September 4, 2017

Renowned photographs of many of the 20th century’s greatest jazz artists by photographer Herman Leonard (1923-2010), including Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lena Horne

Just Add Water 3 July 18 - August 18, 2017 Reception: Sunday, July 23, 4-6pm Original artwork by local artists confined to a 4”x 4” canvas.

Kirkland Art Center

9 1/2 East Park Row, Clinton, NY (315) 853-8871 www.kacny.org

Fenimore Art Museum Image Credit Line: Tony Bennett, NYC, 1950 © Herman Leonard Photography, LLC

5798 Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY (607) 547-1400 • www.fenimoreartmuseum.org

Adam Prescott Chrisman, graphite pencil, watercolor July 5 - July 27, 2017 Reception: Saturday, July 8, 5:30-7:30pm

Fusion Art Gallery

8584 Turin Rd, Rome, NY (315) 338-5712 photoshoppeofrome.com

Nursery & Garden Center

Annuals, Perennials, Trees & Shrubs!

A third generation family business with an expert staff offering you service and advice on plant selection, care, maintenance, and problem-solving.

Gift Cards available!

160 Kirkland Ave., Clinton, NY (315) 853-5547

Facebook: George’s Farm Products

www.georgesfarmproducts.com

Exploring Abstract Expressionism, Constance Avery July 3 - 31, 2017 Opening: Thurs, July 13, 6-8pm

Kirkland Town Library

55 1/2 College Street, Clinton, NY (315) 853- 2038 www.kirklandtownlibrary.org

Sculpture Space Works in Progress Reception

Roaring into the Future: New York 1925-1935

Wed., July 26th, 5-7pm

Through October 9, 2017

During the 10 years that took America from glittering heights to the depths of economic devastation, New York State transformed the nation. The exhibition is a pioneering exploration celebrating the Empire State as the driving force behind the creation of 20th-century modernism.

Sculpture Space, Inc. 12 Gates Street, Utica, NY (315) 724-8381 www.sculpturespace.org

Barbara Kellogg: Gestures Through July 24, 2017 Gestures in nature and calligraphy are the primary inspirations for Barbara Kellogg’s work. Kellogg especially enjoys working in a variety of water media, due to the oftentimes unintended surprises and marks that occur.

Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute

310 Genesee Street, Utica, NY (315) 797-0000 www.mwpai.org

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Mills Electrical Supply Over 50 Years in Business Your Headquarters for All Your Electrical & Lighting Needs!

• Electrical Supplies • Indoor/Outdoor Lighting • Commerical and Residential • New Contractors Welcome

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piggy pat’s in new hartford story and photos by Jorge L. Hernández

Once on a visit to the Low Country of South Carolina, a perky tour guide gave us her version of the origin for the culinary treat hush puppies. Yapping backyard dogs were quieted, she claimed, by kitchen workers who tossed fried cornbread to the pesky creatures with the admonition, “Hush, puppy!”

Here’s my take on the story: The beef rib special at Piggy Pat’s in New Hartford would tame any creature, from puppies to lions to humans, with its dinosaur-size butter-tender single rib, smoked and cooked and sauced to melt-away perfection in the eatery’s signature style. Hush, puppy, indeed!

That special was recommended the Friday evening of this visit by Conor McCann, general manager at Piggy’s these past seven years. He didn’t steer us wrong.

The rib was preceded by appetizers of jumbo Southern fried chicken wings (for those like us who are not fans of Buffalo style or any sauced wings) and savory Reuben balls, the restaurant’s take on corned beef, sauerkraut, and cheese croquettes.

Our sampling was complemented by the Friday fish tacos and a Cuban sandwich—pork, ham, and grilled cheese, panini-style--plus our usual sides of mac and cheese and collard greens. We’ve eaten the pulled pork, beef brisket, pork ribs, and barbecued or Southern fried chicken for years.

The new choices were inspirations, but what else can be said about a restaurant that’s been a Mohawk Valley icon for nearly 25 years, first in Middleville, NY, and then at its present location in New Hartford!

The Piggy Pat’s back story is the stuff of legend. Here’s what I gleaned from past interviews with restaurant founder Pat McCann, my chat with his son, Conor, and the BBQ joint’s web page. Pat and his wife, Brenda, of Lake City, SC, met while working for President Gerald and Betty Ford in Vail, CO. “The first time I ever had southern BBQ was at a pig-pickin’ in Vail… . This redneck buddy of mine from North Carolina…dug a hole in the ground and cooked a pig all day… . I was hooked!” Pat recalled. After getting married and starting a family, the McCanns moved to CNY to be around family and bought a dairy farm in Middleville. When that venture started to go south, figuratively, the couple in 1994 converted a pole barn into a BBQ shack and were pleasantly surprised when the business took off.

In June 2001, Piggy Pat’s became a full-service restaurant at its present location

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that includes take out, catering for on- and off-site events, Trivia Nights on Wednesdays, and live entertainment on Friday nights. Piggy’s boasts grassfed meats (meaning organic, Conor assures), and local products from eggs to milk to cheese. Locally homemade pies include coconut cream, strawberry rhubarb, Mississippi mud, and cheesecake.

Conor, now 32 and still from Middleville, says he learned the business as a 9-year-old bussing tables. He’s a busy man working long hours running the back end of the restaurant these days.

“The pulled pork is one of our staples that keeps people coming back,” Conor relates. Unlike others, he says, Piggy Pat’s smokes its own meats, including turkey, brisket, sausage, pork shoulder butts, pork, and beef ribs, with the larger cuts taking up to 14 hours overnight in closed wood pits that encourage tenderness and infuse the meats with a delicious hickory wood flavor.

That’s the genesis for the restaurant’s catchy phrase on its popular T-shirts that invite the wearers to “Come Smell Our Pits.”

Conor credits return customers for the business’s success. “We have lots of regulars; they’re like family,” he says. “So is the staff—we’re close, too.

Sometimes they’re what get us through the night.” Those loyal staff members include red-headed Kellie Edwards of Whitesboro, a 15-year employee that people ask for by name, as we do on our frequent jaunts there. Kellie did manage to coax these sated customers with a taste of pie this evening.

I’m wondering if next time Conor would let us test that South Carolina tale we heard by throwing hush puppies to whatever critters may be lurking in the backyard ... but they’ll have to beat me to it! •

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Butterflies of July and an Unexpected Porcupine story and photos by Matt Perry The Eastern Tailed Blue Butterfly flies low over the meadow paths

July may be the best month for seeking out butterflies in the Mohawk Valley. The other months of summer can be productive as well, but in terms of number of species that can be encountered, July is best. Although you may be able to chance upon a few butterflies no matter what the weather conditions are (short of heavy rain), for optimal results it must be warm (over 70 degrees), sunny, and relatively windless. That last variable is probably the hardest thing to achieve at our nature preserve, where the winds only rarely subside. It all has to do with our location near the top of a big hill. You might think that in order to find lots of butterflies you need to bushwhack through the fields and thickets but, conve-

niently enough, the best way to proceed I was hoping to get close enough to get a is to just follow foot paths. I choose paths good picture of her as she laid her eggs, but that traverse a variety of different habitats, I wasn’t fast enough. Before I had closed the trails that cut through meadows and track distance, she bolted ahead down the trail. I close to a wooded border or the edge of a thought I might catch up with her at a patch wetland can be good for seeing a variety of of Common Milkweed that still had some species that utilize different habitat types. blossoms, but she sped right past. Evidently Trails through the woods can sometimes be she wasn’t interested in nectaring today, just productive, at least in terms of finding some in laying eggs. species that you may not ordinarily encoun- All the fritillary species that occur in our ter. Generally, butterflies like to follow paths region are flamboyantly beautiful, but the and they can often be seen nectaring or just Great Spangled is the largest of the group perching on trailside flowers and assorted and the one most reliably found in the Valvegetation. As it happens, many butterfly ley. The male shows a bright orange leopard food plants grow alongside trails and these pattern on his top wings and large silvery plants may provide opportunities for butterThe Black Swallowtail Butterfly frequents flies to lay eggs. As I meadows where parsley grows walk down the trail that goes through our middle reforestation field, I see a female Great Spangled Fritillary repeatedly coming down to the ground about 20 feet ahead of me. What she was doing was obvious.

She was laying single eggs on the leaves of violets that were growing right in the path.

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The female looks much the same, only somewhat browner. Although the fritillary wasn’t interested in the milkweed flowers, other butterflies were, including a very fresh looking Striped Hairstreak and a White Admiral. Early July is traditionally the time when the first hairstreak butterflies begin to be seen. These are nickel-size species that, in their larval or caterpillar stage, feed on the leaves of deciduous trees. We’ve had six varieties of hairstreak butterflies at the nature preserve and each is a treat to encounter.

Of all those, the Striped Hairstreak is the most colorful, but like the other members of the hairstreak clan, it keeps most of its allotment of color locked up on top of its back between closed wings. In fact, hairstreaks never seem to open their wings unless flying and their flight is so erratic and swift you can scarcely hope to see it then. Fortunately, and almost as a consolation, the hairstreaks have patterns of spots and areas of color on their underwings. The Striped Hairstreak possesses

one of the more intricate designs as well as the brightest colors. The leading edges of their wings are burnished with orange and they have blue and orange “eye spots” at the base of their tails. Several silver-bordered streakslike markings give the species a striped appearance and are responsible for the name, “Striped Hairstreak.”

As I continue to walk the trail and just before the meadow habitat gives way to young woods, I see a very small Eastern-tailed Blue Butterfly flying low over the clover in the path. This is typical for this species, which never seems to fly more than a foot or two above the ground. Unlike the hairstreak butterflies, which are stingy about revealing their blue top wings, the Eastern-tailed Blue has no such reservations.

The Viceroy Butterfly only looks like a Monarch, but is not closely related

Upon perching they will open their wings wide and allow you an extended look at their vividly colored scales. They are also relatively slow in their flight, so tracking them isn’t very difficult. This butterfly has an especially short proboscis that limits it to feeding on nectar from shallow-necked flowers. That explains why

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The female, whose wings appear as slate-colored, will lay her eggs on legume species, such as the vetches that are so abundant along the meadow trail.

Part of this reforestation field is dominated by Black Locust Trees. The Black Locust itself happens to be the main food plant for Silver-spotted Skipper Butterflies, and near this grove I usually encounter a few of these large skippers sampling the nectar of various field plants. However, this time I was in for a bigger surprise. About 15 feet up in one of the locust trees was an adult porcupine. It obviously saw me and apparently froze in mid-climb. With its forelimbs out-stretched, its lanky posture reminded me of a sloth and its ultra-slow-motion movements served to enhance that notion. It’s still quite a novelty to come across porcupines in the Mohawk Valley, since they are relatively recent colonizers of the region. Supposedly this region was part of the species’ historic range, but I know of no local accounts of them from the Colonial period. Then again, there were relatively few accounts of any indigenous wildlife, aside from the more economically exploitable furbearers. I wasn’t aware of any affinity that porcupines have for locust trees. They do eat the leaves and inner bark of several tree species, but as far as I knew, locust was not on their menu. Perhaps the porcupine scaled the tree to avoid a predator. Locust trees, like the porcupine itself, are very spiky and some pursuers might think twice before

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For the May issue of Mohawk Valley Living, I wrote about the many support businesses that farmers rely upon in their day-to-day operations. There are so many things farmers need…be it parts or seed, or custom work they hire someone else to do. The highly specialized nature of farming in our modern era means farmers simply can’t do everything—or at least it doesn’t always make economic sense to do so. For example, some friends of ours hire a third party to make all their hay for them; others we know don’t raise their own replacement heifers, preferring to buy young stock from trusted sources. In both of these examples, these activities—although extremely important to running the farm—are not “core activities.” In other words, the farmers in these cases have identified an area of their businesses that is best outsourced to either another farmer or specialized company, so they may concentrate on what they do best. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

We buy day-old chicks from a local hatchery, rather than raising our own. Our “core activity” is raising meat chickens to slaughter weight and then processing them on farm for sale to restaurants and individuals. This means our focus is on raising healthy chickens with steady growth,

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When our daughters were in kindergarten classes at West Canada Valley, they incubated eggs as a class project. It was fun and educational, and no one was terribly disappointed when only a small percentage (read: none) actually produced a living, peeping chick. As it turns out, there is a great amount of care required to get those little buggers to develop!

It takes 21 days for a fertilized egg to mature into a chick and hatch. Fertilized eggs need to be kept at a constant 99.5-101.5° F, and turned several times a day. Humidity should be 4550%, increasing toward the hatch date. Finally, great care must be taken to ensure bacteria do not enter the pores of the shell to compromise the developing chick—so their environment must be kept sanitary and hands must be washed before handling the eggs. All of these factors are vital to achieving the highest hatch rate and healthiest chicks possible…rather important hurdles when one is hatching eggs for a living.

Enter our local hatchery, the Northeast Pastured Poultry Association (NEPPA). Ken and Jill Gies, the owners of NEPPA, have been supplying us with day-old chicks for about 10 years. Quite frankly, we could not do what we do without them.

The story of NEPPA started almost 20 years ago. A number of local chicken producers banded together in an effort to make the butchering process easier and more affordable

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by building a mobile processing unit. (Equipment and facilities can be fairly expensive, oftentimes too much for a small-scale grower.) The group also proved to be a knowledgeable source of chicken-raising advice. Eventually, the need for a local hatchery was identified as a critical barrier for local producers. As active members of NEPPA, Ken and Jill were asked to manage that hatchery, eventually becoming its proud owners. They have since grown it into an expanding business, shipping meat bird chicks, layer pullets, even turkey poults as far as 200 miles away—throughout the year. Ken and Jill keep a lot of us farmers very well stocked with healthy, hearty birds.

As an added benefit, the NEPPA hatchery is close by on the outskirts of Fort Plain. The short drive means we are able to pick up our chicks the day they are hatched. Large or small, the vast majority of chicken producers in this country receive their day-old chicks via some form of shipment. It may sound crazy, but the tiny, peeping fluffballs are ideally suited for surviving 72 hours before needing food and water. Before hatching, the chick takes in the remainder of the yolk, providing it enough sustenance to survive for at least a day or so. But we like picking up at NEPPA for two reasons: First, our chicks won’t have to experience even the slight stresses of shipping. Secondly, we get to visit with Ken, Jill, and sometimes their grown children. All too often, business transactions are impersonal and we don’t get to know the people behind the goods and services they provide. Such a shame! We relish the opportunity to connect with the Gies family and learn to appreciate the value of what they do.

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By Denise A. Szarek

This curious edible (actually a berry, but eaten as a vegetable) probably has more names in varieties of the English language than any other. That’s because it has been cultivated for a very long time and it’s been widely transported around the world from its homeland in eastern and southern Asia.

The Arabs introduced it to Spain from India in the early eighth century and the Persians took it to Africa.

The name eggplant was given by Europeans in the middle of the 18th century because the variety they knew had fruits that resembled the shape and size of goose eggs. That variety also had fruits that were whitish or yellowish in color rather that the purple that is familiar to us today. So, the sort they knew really did look like eggs.

In Britain and France, it is usually called “aubergine,” a name that was borrowed through France from its Arabic name “al-badinjan.” In India, it is known as “brinjal.” In Italy it is called “melanzana” and scientists call this plant “solanum melongena.” As a member of the solanaceae family, the eggplant is known as a night-

shade and closely related to the potato and tomato.

In the southern United States, it’s known as “Guinea squash.” This gives a nod to the migration of the fruit from Guinea in Africa. It is believed that Thomas Jefferson aided in the migration from Guinea, as he is known to have cultivated it in his garden in the 1800’s.

Just as every country has its different names for this wonderful fruit, so do they have a variety of delicious dished made with it. France has ratatouille; Greeks enjoy moussaka; in the Middle East a favorite dish is baba ganoush; in Italy it’s melanzana alla parmigiana; and in Sicily it’s my favorite: caponata.

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It might be easier to just purchase eggplant starts from the garden center; however, the selection won’t be as great as the offerings in seed catalogs. If the idea of purchasing plants sounds good to you, here’s a tip: patience. Most big box stores and even local garden centers offer eggplant way too early in the season. Wait until the soil has warmed, the days are consistently sunny, and all threat of frosty cold nights has passed before buying. Patience will be rewarded. Eggplants do not like to be cold and will not thrive when conditions are not to their liking. Always look for short stocky plants that are not root bound. The plants should not have flowers or fruits already formed. Here on the farm we refuse to sell any warm weather plants like eggplant until Memorial Day weekend.

When it’s time to set the plants out in the garden, place your plants in fertile, well dug beds. Water well in warm weather. But remember eggplants do not like standing in water, so mature plants should be watered deeply but infrequently. But don’t allow the leaves to wilt during the day.

Eggplants are very susceptible to flea beetles, which make pin holes in the leaves and can cause considerable damage.

The plants can be covered with row covers early in the season to help prevent the first wave of flea beetles. Most healthy plants will recover from the leaf damage. Once or twice during the growing season feed your eggplant with a light application of fish emulsion, manure tea, or compost tea. This helps to supply potassium that the plants needs to keep producing fruit.

If you’ve treated your plants well, you should have a bountiful harvest. Pick your eggplants when they are bright and shiny. Dull-skinned fruit has begun to form mature seeds and tough skin. On the farm we grow a variety of eggplant and have the plants available in the spring for sale.

Our favorite variety is Triviata, a beautiful heirloom Italian variety, great for caponata, moussaka, and baba ganoush, although I also like to make these dishes with the some of the white varieties like Casper and White Beauty; the color makes the dish more appealing and shows off the garnish.

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1 rib of celery, finely chopped 1 lb. eggplant, peeled and diced 1 C. olive oil or sunflower oil for frying Salt and pepper 2 T. olive oil 1 small red onion, peeled and thinly sliced 1 red bell pepper, cut in ½ inch dice 1/3 C. large green Sicilian olives, pitted and coarsely chopped 2 T. capers, rinsed and squeezed dry ¾ C. plus 2 T. best quality tomato sauce 3 T. red wine vinegar ½ tsp. honey or sugar ½ C. raisins 1 C. pine nuts–best quality you can afford Red pepper flakes, optional Chopped flat leaf parsley for garnish Set oven to 375 degrees and toast pine nuts until golden brown ant nutty, about 15 mins. Set aside.

Bring a small pan of water to a low boil and simmer the celery until crisp-tender, about 5-7 mins. Drain and rinse well in cold water. Set aside.

Heat about ¾ inch of olive oil or sunflower oil in a large cast iron skillet. Cook the eggplant in batches, turning then occasionally, until they are browned all over. Remove from skillet with a slotted spoon and drain on a baking sheet lined with paper towels. Season with salt, and continue until all eggplant is done. You may have to add more oil.

In a large skillet or Dutch oven heat olive oil. Add onion and cook, stirring frequently until wilted and starting to turn golden brown, 5 to 7 mins.

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OK, Aunt Viola was a little eccentric, but unsurprisingly she didn’t stand out in a family like ours, at least not usually. She would get especially silly when she encountered one of our animals. Invariably, at least one of the cats would elicit an impromptu silly song, most often accompanied by a just as impromptu silly dance.

One of our cats at the time, an extraordinary fella we named “Yeti,” always warranted both a song and a dance from Viola. Yeti was entirely white with feet that featured lots of extra toes. He also had thick, stocky legs and surprisingly coarse

hair. But it was his white coat and large feet that earned him the name Yeti (a.k.a., the abominable snowman of the Himalayas). Yeti had a white face, but his pink nose and his eyes (one was blue and the other yellow), gave his face a most colorful look. He was, however, completely deaf, and although I’m confident he appreciated the attention my aunt lavished on him, the two-word theme song was almost certainly lost on him. I’m pretty sure that Viola understood this and that she performed the ritual mainly for her own and for the family’s amusement.

Of course, we weren’t all amused. My father took particular exception to the lyrics of the song, which were about as uncomplicated as they were inexplicable to the uninitiated. The song went, “Whitey De Blanco, Whitey De Blanco, Whitey De Blanco, Whitey De Blanco” and was accompanied by a shuffling dance step that was in sync with each syllable in “Whitey De Blanco.” “Who in blazes is Whitey De Blanco?” would have been a natural question for anyone to ask. For some reason I neglected to ask that for about two years of witnessing my aunt’s

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whimsical performances. I ultimately learned that Whitey De Blanco was the name (nickname and surname) of a white haired jazz drummer that my mother was friends with in the mid 1940’s. Much to Dad’s chagrin, the ridiculous song was contagious, and soon some of my siblings and I were also regaling Yeti with our own renditions of the Whitey De Blanco tune. None of us could do justice to the little dance, though; that would remain the exclusive domain of its creator.

Fast-forward about 40 years and there’s a different animal that’s being greeted with the name “Whitey De Blanco.” It’s a mostly white Red Squirrel that has been visiting our backyard bird feeders on and off for about two years. I just saw her today munching away on seeds in one of the bird feeders. I guess that utilizing that name is a homage to my late aunt and to my mother’s drummer friend of my mother’s long distant acquaintance, but it has also become the standard way for us to refer to anything white that shows up in our yard. Yes, whatever it is–be it a white squirrel, white skunk, or white Blue Jay, they all become known as Whitey De Blanco. Not to worry, it never gets confusing, primarily because there never seems to be two Whiteys occurring in the yard at the same time. That would get confusing. We would have to start numbering them: Whitey De Blanco 1, Whitey De Blanco 2, and so forth. I can just imagine what that would do to the cadence of the song.

Finding an all-white or even partly white animal in the wild is always intriguing. Especially when it involves a species whose hair or plumage color isn’t normally white. Often these animals are inaccurately referred to as albinos or partial albinos. In fact true albinism is quite rare in most species and “partial albinism” is something akin to

being half-pregnant–it’s just not a thing.

Leucism is the term used to describe abnormally white creatures that are not true albinos. Like albinos, leucistic individuals lack melanin-producing cells in their feathers or hair, but unlike albinos they still retain normal pigment in their eyes. The eyes of albinos invariably appear pink. Both albino and leucistic animals may still show some color if their normal plumage/hair color is created by pigments such as carotenoids, but with albinos, the eye color remains diagnostic.

Whitey De Blanco the squirrel or Mrs. De Blanco (as we began calling her once we learned she was female) is mostly white, but does show some orange highlights. This means that she is leucistic. From some angles she looks a bit like a cross between an ermine in its winter coat and a creamsicle with legs.

Being a white Red Squirrel doesn’t seem to unduly hamper Mrs. Whitey’s life. She behaves more or less like your standard normal morph Red Squirrel. Every few days she comes into the yard from the

A visiting leucistic Blue Jay

neighbor’s land and she spends a few hours sampling the fare in our birdfeeders. She sometimes is chased away by other Red Squirrels, but they don’t seem to treat her like a pariah on account of her aberrant fur color. I would say they give her the standard intruder treatment and nothing more. Perhaps more interestingly, instead of her leucism making her more timid and retiring, she is the opposite. Although I don’t see her getting into fights, she seems more apt than a normal Red Squirrel to return and assert herself in a foreign territory. Obviously, being white didn’t stop her from finding a mate and a territory! Although her nest is not in our yard, there is some evidence that she did have a nest on the property of a friend of ours. As the crow flies (or perhaps, more appropriately, as the squirrel runs), this woman’s house is less than a half mile from our place. In late May she told me she saw two little white Red Squirrels in one of her trees. Yes, little De Blancos! Seriously, though, we infer from this that Whitey’s lack of pigment didn’t hinder her ability to breed or to hold a territory. It also tells us that her leucism is heritable, which is very interesting.

If she and her progeny continue to successfully breed, the Village of Clinton may someday be known for its colony of Whitey De Blanco squirrels. I can just imagine my Aunt

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About a decade ago, we had a leucistic Red-tailed Hawk in our neighborhood. I’ve never encountered a more secretive and stealthy bird. I was only able to get unsatisfying glimpses of it when it perched in the trees that border the meadow in our back yard. In order to see it at all, I would have to sneak through our little woods and peak at the raptor through a veil of trees. The large female was completely white with the exception of her tail that was a rich chestnut red.

From a distance (which is the only way

I ever saw her) she resembled a Snowy Owl, but with the narrower head of a hawk and, of course, the red tail. The color of her tail told us that she was a full adult, which meant she had survived at least two years of life with the “disadvantage” of being white. Since most raptors rely on stealth (as well as speed and the element of surprise) to secure their prey, a large white hawk is unlikely to be able to hide from their quarry. Of course, some raptors get away with being white, mainly northern species like the Snowy Owl, which is adapted to blend in with snow-covered terrain. Since our leucistic Red-tailed Hawk was seen only in winter in our neighborhood, it’s very possible that she spent the summer in the far North where her plumage color would be more of an asset than a hindrance. I hoped that the white Red-tailed Hawk would become a regular winter visitor–a wintertime Whitey De Blanco, if you will, but we never saw her again. I recall seeing a leucistic Red-tailed Hawk–one that wasn’t quite as strikingly white--in the Deansboro area about 18 years ago.

Word had it that a pair comprised of a

leucistic individual and a more typical Red-tailed Hawk had nested in that area sometime prior to my sighting. Perhaps our White, Red-tail was a relative of the Deansboro birds.

One of our more recent yard animals to be “honored” with the title of Whitey De Blanco was a skunk–a Striped Skunk to be specific. Although they are always black and white, the appearance of our skunks can be quite variable, with the black and white patches and stripes creating different patterns. I recall once get-

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The Snowy Owl’s remains white throughout the year

ting a very close look at a mother skunk with her six kits and noting how none of them had precisely the same pattern of black and white. Indeed, sometimes it seems that no two look alike. I have seen a range of different white/black patterns over the years. For most people, when they think of a skunk they imag-

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Often enough their patterns of black and white are not symmetrical. The one in our yard that we called Whitey De Blanco was all white with a small black swirl shaped patch on its left hind leg. Now in the case of that white skunk, it wasn’t leucism or albinism, it was just an extreme version of what we would consider a white morph.

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Virtually all animals (including humans) are aware of the skunk’s reputation and heed the white warning stripes. The notable exception is the Great Horned Owl, which often specializes in preying on skunks. No surprise here–the owls have

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The Striped Skunk is a member of the weasel family, and the weasel family has other members that are famous for their ability to alter the color of their coats.

The Short-tailed Weasel and the The Hoary Redpoll is whiter Long-tailed and has a smaller bill than Weasel both inthe Common Redpoll habit the forests of the Northeast and both can be found in the Moa poor sense of smell. Whitey De Blanco the skunk visited our yard for only one hawk Valley. The two species are diffiseason. Although we did occasionally cult to distinguish from each other since sing the Whitey De Blanco theme song both are very small (only about seven for him, understandably, we only did inches long) and show no obvious difit when we were at a great distance or ferences in color or pattern. Both species while safely inside the house. We knew are referred to as ermines. In winter, the

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One day, right after I said his name, he Of those, only the House Finch was seen hopped directly up to my feet! To be hon- over the course of multiple years. I reest, I had been standing pretty still and he ferred to the House Finch as leucistic, may have merely thought I was a tree. I but I’m not sure how accurate that was didn’t push my luck by performing my in his case. First of all, the plumage on aunt’s De Blanco dance. Unlike the er- his entire body was normal, except for

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his head that was white and pink. He was an interesting bird in other ways, too. He would only make visits of short duration–of only a day or two, and he did this over the course of six years. He was, of course, highly recognizable and I never had any doubt that I was seeing the same bird. The Black-capped Chickadee also wasn’t white enough to warrant the customary De Blanco song or dance.

Its white plumage was limited to some feathers on his wings and back that when he was perched gave him a frosted look. I called that chickadee “Frost” and he was seen around the nature preserve for about a half year.

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ply being white puts a bird at greater risk of predation. It’s likely that in most cases a leucistic individual will have difficulty fitting in with other members of its species. They may not be able to find a mate or hold territory. That alone would keep them from remaining in the same area for a prolonged period.

In the cases of some birds, including most raptors, being covered in white downy feathers is how they begin life. After breaking out of their egg shells and drying off, raptor nestlings are completely white. This adaptation seems to make the most sense in cavity nesting species, like American Kestrels and Eastern Screech Owls, when white plumage makes a nestling easier to find in the darkness of a hollow tree. But what advantage is gained by other raptors that use open nests? Surely, species like Cooper’s Hawks, Red-tailed Hawks, and Bald Eagles would have no difficulty locating young in their nest no matter what color they were. One would think that the increased visibility would only make the chicks more obvious to predators when parents are away from the nest. Perhaps white chicks that fall from

the nest or wander away would be easier for parents to locate, but few raptor parents show any inclination to rescue or care for chicks that fall out of the nest, so that reason isn’t very compelling. As it happens, white feathers provide a great advantage to nestlings on hot sunny days since they reflect the sun’s rays, whereas darker plumage absorbs light and heat.

Young nestlings are highly susceptible to overheating and could easily expire when their parents are away from the nest and not actively providing shade.

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We slowly made our way through the hedge that bordered the little valley until we emerged into a clearing where we could get a slightly better view. Still, all I could do was to confirm what the bird wasn’t. After a few minutes, the bird flew off low into the woods south of the main beaver pond. When it lifted its wings, I could see that the whole underside of the bird, its underwings and body were a ghostly pale. Was this a leucistic hawk?

Nope, it was an immature Northern Goshawk and, although this individual was undeniably paler than normal, it couldn’t be considered very far out of the range of a normal plumage morph for a juvenile of that species. Seeing it did remind me

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of how rare that species had become in the Mohawk Valley. In fact, so rare, that now just the sight of one can be easily conflated with seeing a spirit bird.

Snow Buntings and Hoary Redpolls are two bird species that breed in the far North. The Snow Buntings are regular wintertime visitors to our part of the country, while the winter visits of Hoary Redpolls are decidedly infrequent. Snow Buntings are sparrow-size birds that are normally seen in big flocks flying over windswept agricultural fields and lake shores. These habitats are reminiscent of the birds’ breeding ground on the Arctic tundra. When they are with us they forage on weed seeds and on the undigested grain seeds they find in cow manure that farmers spread out on their fields.

The buntings have stark black-and-white plumage and, when taken together with their undulating flight, make them resemble living snow flurries. In late fall or early winter, when the bunting first arrive, they possess more rust color in their plumage. However, as the season progresses, they begin to lose some of their rust pigment. It actually wears off with the tips of their feathers. What is re-

vealed underneath becomes their bright white breeding plumage. Hoary Redpolls look much like their more frequently encountered relatives–the Common Redpolls, but they appear much paler, and the adult males in particular lack the dark streaking on the side of the breast that characterizes the Common Redpolls.

Again, when compared to the common species, mature male Hoary Redpolls are very frosty looking around the face and on the back. Their undersides are stark white with pale pink wash on the breast. I recall seeing one perched in a buckthorn tree beneath one of our finch feeders and thinking how it resembled a snow ball, albeit one that someone got a splash of cherry juice on. That Hoary Redpoll was one of three (the others were females) that were visiting the bird feeders, along with a much bigger flock of Common Redpolls. It is always helpful to have the two species side by side for the sake of making direct comparisons.

As I write this I am also monitoring our Utica Peregrine Falcon nest. At this time the young inside the nest box are experiencing their first molt as their white downy feathers are giving way to their

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juvenile plumage. Right now they have a salt and pepper look as their primary wing weathers, tail feathers, and body contour feathers push in. Only a week ago, they were completely white as cotton. During that time we, in the Utica Peregrine Falcon Project, had sponsored a naming contest for the nestlings. As one of the committee members tasked with selecting four winning names from those submitted by the public, I wasn’t able to submit my own choices. If I had, it would have been only too tempting to use Whitey De Blanco as one submission. I’m sure my aunt would have approved–my father might have thought otherwise. •

Matt Perry is Conservation Director and resident naturalist at Spring Farm CARES in Clinton.

He manages a 260 acre nature preserve which is open for tours by appointment. Matt is also regional editor of “The Kingbird”, which is a quarterly publication put out by the New York State Ornithological Association. Matt’s short nature videos can be viewed on the web. Look for Spring Farm CARES Nature Sanctuary on Facebook.

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Family Summer FuN GuidE: JULY

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Sylvan Beach Amusement Park

Open daily during 4th of July week; Summer hours: Wed.-Sun. at noon www.sylvanbeachamusementpark.com

Caveman Mini Golf at Gold Rush

Discover dinosaurs at the new Caveman Mini Gold at Gold Rush Adventure Golf.

Route 233, Westmoreland, open dialy 10am-10pm, (315) 853-1337

School’s out for summer and kids are ready for some summertime adventures.

Here are just a few of the many adventures your family can have this summer!

Family Fun EVents

Levitt Amp Concert Series at Kopernik Park, Oneida Square, Utica

Join the fun all summer long! The Monday night concerts are 6-9pm through Sept. 4th. Bring your lawn chair, no pets or alcohol. Rain location is MWPAI.

July 3: Julie Falatico Quartet, The Lao Tizer Quartet (jazz). (Fountain Elms, MWPAI.) July 10: The Old Main, Root Shock (reggae).

July 17: Fulton Chain Gang, Rolling Nectar (rock ‘n roll).

July 24: Swamp Drivers, The Lustre Kings (rockabilly).

July 31: Zz with Rich Bostick, Sophistafunk (soul, hip-hop).

Seasonal Attractions

Enchanted Forest Water Safari Open daily 9:30am-7pm through August 20, 2017 and 3183 State Route 28, Old Forge www.watersafari.com

Take a Boat Tour!

Mohawk Valley Boat Tours

Board at Bellamy Harbor Park, Rome 1 hr. or all-day scenic canal cruise, historical tour, or fishing charter.

Book a reservation: (315) 335-2270 www.mohawkvalleyboatcharters.com

Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo

Summer hours thru Sept. 4th: Daily 10am to 5pm, Adm.: Children (2 to 15): $7.95 includes admission to Wild Creatures Playland; Under 2 free; Adults: (16 +) $9.95 5135 Rome-New London Rd., Rome www.fortrickey.com

Independence Day at the Fort

Tuesday, July 4, 9am-5pm Celebrate of our nation’s birthday. Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldiers, cannon & musket salutes, Declaration of Independence readings at 11 am & 1 pm, and many hands-on activities too.

Fort Stanwix National Monument 100 N. James Street, Rome (315) 338-7730 www.nps.gov/fost

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103rd Annual Springfield 4th of July Parade and Celebration

Follow the parade to the Springfield Community Center for live patriotic music, food including Brooks’ chicken barbecue, quilt show, historical displays, games and more. Concert at 7:30pm followed by fireworks at Glimmerglass State Park. 137 County Road 29A, Springfield www.facebook.com/SpringfieldParade

lery exhibits, historical society exhibits, and kids’ art activities. Free concert at 8pm by Albany Symphony, one of America’s great orchestras. www.albanysymphony.com/the-tour/ littlefalls

3rd Annual Little Falls Cheese Festival Saturday, July 8, 10am-5pm Enjoy booth after booth of delicious, intriguing, and savory New York State artisan and farmstead cheeses and related gourmet products. www.littlefallscheesefestival.com

Bavarian Festival

July 14-16, 2017 at 12pm Food, music, and fun. Featuring the Frankfurters and Edelweiss Schuhplattlers Folk Dance Group!

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31st Annual Ilion Days/Doo Dah Parade 200th Anniversary Erie Canal Celebration Concert by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Little Falls Wednesday, July 5th. Canal Place Street Festival 2-6pm with food, music, gal-

Town of Frankfort Summer Concert Schedule Tues. Aug 1st-Classified Wed. Aug 2nd-Showtime Concerts are free and start at 7pm

St. Francis Society grounds, 152 8th Ave., Frankfort Refreshments, Food available, Bring your own chairs

July 15-23, 2017 Huge village-wide celebration with a parade, fireworks, drinks, raffles, and car show. This year’s theme is “Spotlight on Ilion.” Week-long event schedule: www.iliondoodah.com/schedule.html

Midsummer’s Night Picnic, 3rd Thursday in Little Falls Thursday, July 20th, 4-9pm Free fun for all. Shakespeare in the Park, Kids music with Dan & Mike, Picnic (buy one or bring one), Stargazing, and more.

Canal Place, Little Falls www.ExploreLittleFalls.com

crafters, amazing food vendors, and local handmade goodies. www.herkgemshow.com

Honor America Days Erie Canal Bicentennial Celebration

Saturday, July 22, 2017 Opening ceremony at noon, music

by Classified 1-3pm, Salt Cuty Jazz Collective 4-6pm, Alex Torres and Latin Orchestra 7-9:30pm followed by fireworks! Bellamy Harbor Park, Rome

3rd Annual Herkimer Diamond Gem Show & Festival Saturday and Sunday, July 22 and 23.

Glass blowing demonstrations, geode crackers, artists, local miners, national TV personalities, authors, handmade

Train Robberies Aboard Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad Saturday, July 22, 2017, 1pm Travel back in time to the exciting world of Outlaws and The Wild West! $20 adults, $19 seniors, $17 children 3-12, free kids under 3.

Reservations: (607) 432-2429 www.lrhs.com

They’ll grow on you!

Open by appointment in July & August

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SHAW’S MAPLE PRODUCTS

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The News Source of Old Forge, Inlet and Surrounding Communities FREE Newspaper Available in the Greater Old Forge Area! www.weeklyadk.com

Visit us at the farmers markets this summer!

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Boonville/Oneida County Fair

July 25-30, 2017 10am-10pm, gates open at 8am Admission: 60 & Over $3; Adults 13 & Over $5; Children 0-12 free Boonville Fairgrounds, Boonville www.boonvillefair.com

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Call for a free at home consultation available at-need or pre-need.

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PEPPA PIG’S SURPRISE Thurs | Oct 19 6:30 pm

ElVIS lIVE: AlOhA FROM hAWAII PERFORMED BY KEVIN MIllS

Fri | Dec 29 | 7 pm

Tour our outdoor display anytime and explore our large selection of monuments, vases, benches, mausoleums, portraits and pet markers. We also offer cemetery lettering services, restoration, cleaning, maintenance, and veteran marker attachments.

Burdick & Enea

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Honor America Days Parade and Symphoria Concert

Saturday, July 29, 2017 Parade starts at 10am; Free Symphoria Concert at 8pm On the lawn of Fort Stanwix National Monument, Corner North James & West Dominick. Rome www.romechamber.com

Railfan Day at Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley Railroad

Saturday, July 29, 2017, 10am-4pm This fun celebration includes: Track Speeder Rides Velocipede and Pump Car Rides Hy-rail Truck Rides Historic D&H, (607) 432-2429, www.lrhs.com

Online resources for local events www.herkimercountychamber.com www.mohawkvalleyliving.com www.oneidacountytourism.com www.romenewyork.com www.thefuzemagazine.com www.thisiscooperstown.com www.uticaod.com

MV Living Ice Cream

Ice Cream is synonymous with summer.

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Riverside Diner

9663 River Rd, Marcy

Skyline Ice Cream and Food

B&F Milk & Ice Cream

Old-Fashioned Frozen Custard!

6506 State Route 5, Vernon

Famous for shakes!

38 Roosevelt Dr., Whitesboro

So Sweet Candy Cafe

Kayuta Drive-In

Ice Cream now available!

531 Varick St., Utica

Car shows & Woof Nites.

Dogs are people too at Kayuta!

10101 Dustin Rd, Remsen

Wendy’s Diner

Mix it up with a Butterfingers parfait!

1717 Route 8, Cassville

The Knight’s Spot

June’s Flavor of the month: I Scream for Cake!

264 E Main St, Frankfort

Voss’

A favorite for over 78 years!

Erie St, Yorkville, Ilion Marina, and at the Utica Zoo.

Papa Rick’s

Kids love the mud pie sundae with “worms!”

2005 N. James St, Rome

Owned & operated by John Markley

Only $15 per night

PGA

• Large Grass Tee Hitting area • 15 mats • Private lessons • Clinics • Selling Ping, Titleist, Callaway • Custom fitting available • Paying top value for trade-ins i

Open 7 days a week dawn to dusk 4725 St. Rt. 233, Westmoreland (315) 725-9644 ns 3 Generatio e th g Servin y! lle Mohawk Va

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Complete Landscape Services & Nursery • Planting design & installation • Spring and Fall Cleanup • Pruning, Edging, and Mulching • Lawn Installation and Renovation

www.acetisclassicgardens.com 47 Clinton Rd (Rt 12B) • New Hartford

• Walls and Water Gardens • Walks and Patio Installation • Mulch Delivery or Pick-Up • Lawn Mowing

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Tour the Boonville Black River Canal Museum!

FREE Admission!

• See “The Walter C. Pratt” canal boat!

• A fully operating mini-canal for the kids!

• Explore the Bardo Blacksmith Shop!

BLACK RIVER CANAL

MUSEUM

Open 10-4 weekends only in June Open daily July 4th-Labor Day Open weekends only Labor Day-Columbus Day Just off Route 12 at Main St., Boonville

(315) 942-6763 www.blackrivercanalmuseum.com

Barney’s Angels Small Dog Sitters

(315) 525-3330

Reese Rd., Frankfort Home Environment Clean, Safe Friendly & Spacious Daily FB videos www.barneysangelsdogsitters.com

Jewett’s Cheese House

A family business since 1970 NY State aged cheddar 1-20 years old!

Over 400 items of cheese & gourmet foods.

(800) 638-3836 934 Earlville Road, Earlville (between Poolville and Earlville) Open Mon-Fri: 9:30-5, Most Sundays 10:30-3, closed Sat. www.jewettscheese.com

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Adirondack Base Camp

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McCauley Mt. Summer Scenic Chairlift Ride Adults ONLY $6

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Nothing’s finer than...

HOME STYLE COOKING

Friday Fish Fry!

•Daily breakfast

& luncheon specials •Ask about our family bowling special!

BOUCKVILLE

8125 Rt.12, Barneveld, NY

Full breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu

Catering and Banquet Facilities (up to 100)

(315) 896-2871 Open early everyday!

“Home cookin’ at it’s finest!”

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6798 State Rt. 20, Bouckville

(315) 893-4044 • Open Mon-Sat 6-2, Sun 6-Noon

101 Ford St., Boonville (315) 942-4359 Open Wed, Thurs, Sun: 8-8, Fri & Sat: 8-9:30

Friday Fish Fry: 11:30am-8pm

It’s ice cream season!

Serving breakfast and lunch daily

Freddy’s Diner

1/2 lb.

Juicy Angus Burgers!

NewSpecialty Sundaes!

50 Soft Serve Ice Cream flavors!

50 Milk Shake flavors!

A Variety of Parfaits!

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Open 7 Days a Week • Open 6am-8pm or later, Serving Breakfast 6am-Noon

CLINTON 1

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at the Kettle

315-381-3231

The Most Unique Upside Down Pizza You Ever Tasted!

Celebratining 8 Years !

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Specialty Rolls

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Weekday Specials Tues- 20” X-Large Cheese Pizza . . . . $9.95 (Toppings 2.25 ea, X-Cheese 2.95)

Where good friends Meet to Eat! Enjoy breakfast or a quick lunch!

8170 Seneca Tpke., Clinton (315) 732-3631

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Wed-Small Cheese Pizza & 20 Wings . . . $15.95 Thurs- 2 Large Cheese Pizzas . . . . . $16.95

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Sm. Cheese & 20 wings. . . $17.95 Lg. Cheese & 20 wings. . . . $21.95 Lg. Cheese & 25 wings. . . . $24.95 Lg. Cheese & 40 wings. . . . $31.95 Lg. Cheese & 50 wings. . . . $35.95 (plus tax. celery, blue cheese, toppings extra)

Tues-Thurs: 11am-9pm, Fri & Sat: 11am-10pm, Sun: 1pm-8pm

7756 Route 5, Clinton Located next door to Spaghetti Kettle www.primopizzeria1.com

2755 State Rt 8, Cold Brook, NY 13324 • 826-5050 Mon. 4 - 9pm • Tues. Closed • Wed. - Sun. 12 Noon - 9pm Great Food • Great Spirits • Great Times

Life is Good at The Ohio Tavern!

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FRANKFORT

HERKIMER

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner!

Window Service and Take Out • Outside Seating!

Serving Breakfast and Lunch M-F: 7am-2:30pm FREE WI-FI

Let me create a culinary experience for you!

“At home” dinners our specialty!

by Chef Dominick Scalise

(315) 866-7669 122 W. Albany St., Herkimer 22 years in business!

Alex's Fat Boy 1/2 lb. burger!

2 for Tuesday Hoffman Hot Dogs!

Super giant shakes! Loaded fries!

The

Seafood & more!

Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor since 1974! 264 East Main Street, Frankfort, NY

Open Mon-Fri: 6am-10pm, Sat & Sun: 7am-10pm www.theknightspot.com (315) 894-4054

LEE CENTER

Quality Food - Fresh Ingredients Relaxing Atmosphere Offering Daily Specials!

200 King St., Herkimer (315) 866-5716 Wed-Thurs 11-7; Fri 11-8; Sat Noon-7

little falls Open Daily 7am-3pm

Raw or cooked • Eat in or take out!

823-3290

Breakfast, Lunch, Homemade Soups & Sandwiches and our delicious Desserts Including our Famous Cream Puffs!

Canal Place, Little Falls Next to Showcase Antiques

Catering & Banquets too! (315)533-7229

5345 Lee Center-Taberg Rd., Lee Center

Celebrating 30 Years!

Serving healthy and delicious salads, grilled sandwiches, and homemade soups.

Heidelberg Bread & Café 3056 Rte 28 N., Herkimer (315) 866-0999

Mon-Sat: 7am-6pm, Sun: 7am-5pm Find us on Facebook!

Wed 3-9, Thurs 12-9, Fri & Sat 11:30-9, Sun 11:30-8, Closed Mon & Tues

www.gonecoastalrestaurant.com

Baking all natural breads – available throughout New York State

Great food served in a relaxing atmosphere.

RESTAURANT & BAR Est. 2005

27 draft beers on tap featuring many NY state craft beers.

518 East Main Street, Little Falls (315) 508-5156

Open Mon-Thurs 4-10, Fri & Sat 4-11, closed Sun

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Casual American Cuisine

Breakfast & Lunch Espressos • Lattes • Cappucinos

good food, good wine, good friends, good times

500 East Main St., Little Falls

123 Mohawk St., Herkimer • 866-1746

Made to order Cookie platters • Desserts • Custom cakes

(315) 823-9236 • Tues-Fri: 8-5, Sat: 8-2

www.jamosrestaurantandbar.com Now Open 7 days! Sun-Thurs: 11-9, Fri: 11-11, Sat: 11-9

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9663 River Rd., Marcy

Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner Take-out • Catering

7239 Route 20, Madison

www.quacksvillageinn.com (315) 893-1806 Sun, Tues-Thurs: 6:30am-7pm, Fri & Sat: 6:30am-8pm

Enjoy authentic Lebanese Cuisine

Soft and Hard Ice Cream!

19 Flavors of Hard Ice Cream 33 Flavors of Soft, Flurries & Milkshakes Serving Food Outside!

Take Out & Delivery!

PLUS Fresh Haddock • Giambotta Mushroom Stew • Chicken & Biscuits Meatloaf Goulash & More!

Call for our summer hours 797-7709

NEW HARTFORD

Homemade comfort foods

Full Buffet & Salad Bar served Mon-Fri 11:30-2:30 Wednesday Night Buffet 4:30-8:30 Serving Lunch & Dinner Mon-Sat Full Menu Available Mon-Thurs 11:30-9pm, Fri & Sat 11:30-10pm 623 French Road New Hartford (315) 733-2709

Experience the taste of Naples!

Full menu available til 2am!

22 beers on tap, specializing in NY State craft beers!

Craft Beer & Wine Available!

Clams & Jams!

Wednesdays 7-10pm

Nova Scotia Clams & Live Entertainment!

10 Clinton Rd., New Hartford • (315) 732-9733 Mon-Sat: 10am-2am, Sun: 12pm-2am

Specializing in Authentic Neopolitan Pizza!

Using only the highest quality ingredients!

Pizzas only take 90 seconds in our 800+ oven!

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Truck available for on-site catering!

Also look for our Food Truck!

Enjoy traditional, naturally flavored, healthy soup and entrées at Pho Ever Noodles Vietnamese Cuisine.

Come try our refreshing Bubble Tea and Traditional Pho or make your own noodle soup!

CHECK OUT OUR NEW SUSHI BAR! Plaza 5, 8469 Seneca Turnpike • New Hartford • (315) 733-6888 Open Mon-Sat: 10am-8pm, Sun: 10am-7pm • Like us on Facebook!

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Book for the season now!

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“We are your home town pizzeria!”

past 5 years!

Voted #1 pizza for

(315) 736-4549 • Open 7 days a week • 4462 Commercial Dr., New Hartford www.tonyspizzeriaanddeli.com

Locally Owned & Operated

1700 North James St., Rome (315) 336-1111 Breakfast & Lunch daily 7am-3pm

Catering Available • Homemade Desserts Every Day

2634 Genesee St., South Utica (315) 724-6795 Breakfast & Lunch daily 7am-3pm Dinner Wed - Sat 5pm-10pm

4784 Commercial Dr., New Hartford (315) 736-1363 Breakfast & Lunch daily 7am-3pm

www.raspberriescafeutica.com • Facebook: Raspberries Rome / Raspberries Utica • Kids Menu Available

Oneida

REMSEN

Specializing in the area’s only coal-fired pizza oven!

Live Music!

Customizable catering for any size event!

Chesterfield’s

tuscan oven

DRIVE-IN Open Tuesday-Sunday

Open Mondays starting Memorial Day!

Breakfast Lunch Dinner

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A family tradition since 1963! A local favorite for simply delicious family fare, great sandwiches, and delicious ice cream.

2184 Glenwood Plaza, Oneida (315) 361-9900 Mon-Thurs: 11-9, Fri 7 Sat: 11-10, Sun: 12-8

10101 Dustin Rd (Route 12) Remsen (315) 831-5181

ROME

Brenda’s Natural Foods Something Good & a Lot of It!

www.brendasnaturalfoods.com

Natural Food Cafe Now Open!

Featuring: Gluten-free options and homemade soups!

Champagne Brunch

Natural Groceries • Supplements • Local Foods Organic Produce & Plants

Weddings

8524 Fish Hatchery Rd, Rome, NY 13440 315-533-7710 www.deltalakeinn.com

236 W. Dominick St., Rome (315) 337-0437 M-F 9:30-6, Sat 10-3

Weekend Specials!

Banquets

Restaurant • Ice Cream Parlor

Haddock Specials

Prime Rib Every Sat. Night!

Wood Fired za!

Brick Oven Piz t Take Ou y! & Deliver

Authentic Homemade Pasta Available!

5 Signature Sauces To Create Your Own Entree!

DiCastro’s

(315) 33PIZZA

615 Erie Blvd. W., Rome

BRICK OVEN

Open M-Thurs 11-9, Fri & Sat 11-10, Sun 12-8

salisbury

See our summer entertainment schedule! www.paparickssnackshack.com

OPEN DAILY 11am-10pm End of N. Madison Street at Ridge Mills, Rome • (315) 339-2622

sharon springs

The Country Store with More!

www.countrystoreny.com

Innovative food made with local & organic ingredients whenever possible.

Exceptional service with a warm atmosphere.

Snacks, Beer, Pizza, Wings, Subs, Gas, Diesel, Non-Ethanol Gas, Gifts and much, much more!

Mon-Thurs 11-3, Fri-Sun 8-3 195 Main St., Sharon Springs (518) 284-2575

2114 Rte 29, Salisbury 315-429-3224 Open 7 Days a Week

www.blackcat-ny.com

utica simple. fresh. delicious. breakfast • lunch espresso • pastries • cakes

Now serving wine & beer!

Creaciones del Caribe Newly Expanded Bakery!

Located behind Bite Cafe at 52 Seneca St.

Bakery Hours: Mon-Sat 8-6, Sun 8-1 Cafe Hours: Mon-Thurs 7-8, Fri & Sat 7-10, Sun 8-1

53 Franklin Square, Utica • (315) 790-5747

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(Creations of the Caribbean) Fresh & all natural ingredients

Luisa Martinez - chef

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By Susan Perkins, Town of Manheim Historian

This year marked the 200th anniversary of the Town of Danube founded on April 17, 1817. The town was once part of Minden, Montgomery County. The town of Stark broke off in 1828. Its name comes from the Danube River Valley in Europe.

Many of the families who came over were German Palatines. The land is fertile along the Mohawk River. The southern part of the town is hilly.

The town is made up of several land patents: Vrooman’s (1700), Colden’s (1738), Van Horne’s (1770), and Lansing (1753) patents and, smaller portions of Fall Hill (1752), Vaughn’s, and L’Hommedieu’s (1786) patents.

King Hendrick, the Indian war chief, and Joseph Brant, the Indian War chieftain lived in the Upper Castle of the Mohawks during the Americana Revolution. It was located east of the Nowadaga Creek.

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Brothers Nathan Wilcox (1766-1842) and Isiah Wilcox (1762/63-1844) were born in Westerly, R.I., moved to Connecticut and then moved to Herkimer County in 1793. They were the first settlers on the flats in the vicinity of Newville, which was named by its citizens in 1810. Newville is the only village in the town.

Samuel Houpt (1773-1851) came to the town of Danube from Pennsylvania in 1804. He established a grist mill, saw mill, distillery, carding and fulling mills, and a limekiln. He built a federal-style home in 1810 located beside the Nowadaga Creek. Upon Houpt’s death Benjamin Jones (1791-1863) acquired the house and operated the mills until his death in 1863.

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Capt. Daniel Bellinger (ca. 1796- ca. 1877) fought in the War of 1812, served as a state assemblyman in 1840 and serves as a captain in the militia 1822 Council of Appointments. He was a cheese manufacturer.

In the fall of 1867 the Newville Cheese Factory was being built. It was completed in the spring of 1868. It was located in the eastern part of the village of Newville. In 1879 the Elm Grove Cheese Factory was erected on the farm of Henry Mesick (18541906). The Danube Cold Spring Cheese Factory was established in April1865 in the western part of the town; a stockholder was Elijah Covell (1828-1901).

The Valley Cheese Factory was located on the farm of Mrs. Van Allen about a mile west of Indian Castle Church. The Fink’s Basin Cheese Factory was located in Fink’s Basin on the canal.

There were several churches in the town. A Dutch Reformed Church was organized at Indian Castle on July 18, 1808. A Methodist Episcopal society existed for only a few years and went extinct in 1840.The Newville Union Church at Newville was organized July 20, 1834, by the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Free Will Baptist Church. At one time it included the Universalist Society. It eventually became just the Lutherans using the church. The Evangelical Lutheran Church at Newville was organized in the school house in 1814. A Dutch Reformed Church was once located in the southern part of Danube. It was organized in 1816. No records of this church exist. Today only the Indian Castle Church and the Newville Union Church remain.

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

From my diary Wednesday, July 19, 1976 We prepared for (our daughter) Becky’s 13th birthday party. She and her sisters, Jenny and Heidi, cleaned both our cottages really well, and Jenny did some extra laundry.

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Becky’s cake. Along the way I discovered that the wild raspberries were ripe and I stuffed myself. Yum! The shelf I built in the tool shed fell down!

Tim complained, and I felt hurt, but he fixed it for me when I was making Becky’s cake.

Tim went around writing signs in chalk.

On Uncle Grunt he drew “P.U.” and a face with xx for eyes. He wrote “Don’t Step On Me” on the ladder he built so we could reach the clothes line, and “Kissing Bridge” on the boards that cross our creek on the way in.

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of guests coming long before it arrived, just as we were finishing our dinner of chapattis and soup. They were so excited! Heidi ran out to look, and then ran back ahead of them when they came in. We do that, too, because we don’t get visitors very often here in the woods.

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I made Becky’s cake from a mix this year and baked it outside in the camping oven over the kerosene cook stove. It worked beautifully, so much better than last year when I attempted to make a carrot cake by grating some carrots mixed with raisins and put crumbled tofu on top. I was hoping it looked like frosting, but it was a flop. The chocolate squares I put on top of this one didn’t all melt uniformly, so the top looked messy, but they liked it anyway.

The guests all held differently sized and colored candles outside, with Becky holding the 13th for her 13th year. As we sang “Happy Birthday,” she went to each guest to blow them out. Her gifts were funny little things like a furry toy mouse, sunflower seeds, stationary....

Tim and I sang and played a Virginia reel for them on banjo, guitar, and harmonica. We

made up verses like “Looking for a friend on a long summer’s Jenny does laundry day;” “Looking for a hug on a long summer’s day.” It was really cute. Heidi screamed and ran away when Sal tried to hug her. I thought that our rendition of “The Old Grey Goose” sounded like a Dylan ballad!

They did the “The Bump,” (a popular dance where you bump hips every other beat), talked, sang, ate, drank, read comics, and Jenny pretended to hypnotize volunteers on the porch. Jenny slept downstairs, but the other eight climbed into the loft where they felt safer from the possibility of bears, and slept crossways on the beds.

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“I’m so glad the weather is good for this party,” I say, tired of hearing about skeletons. “July is so unpredictable!

Remember that Fourth of July picnic on Hinckley Lake with all our friends, when it was so miserable?”

Tim groans, “We rowed all the way from Grant to Price’s Beach only to have to come right back in a cold rain!”

He tells the story of his Grandmother Spencer.

“She and her sisters celebrated Independence Day by participating in a patriotic play soon after they emigrated here from Yorkshire, England, in 1916. It was probably performed in the old Clark Mills Grange. Grandma was chosen to be the Statue of Liberty because she was the tallest at 5’5”. Shorter sister Gertie, red-haired, freckled, and athletic, played some portly English gent, while their soft-spoken, shy sister, Bertha, looked like a feminine Uncle Sam. I wonder how ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ would have sounded with their Yorkshire dialect? Like we do here in the forest, they often entertained themselves with singing, stories, and games like dominoes and cards.

“They did love sports, too, and later on, in the mid 1950’s took some of their grandkids to visit Carmen Basilio’s training camp at Sylvan Beach when he was still Welterweight Champ of the World. Later on, he went up to middleweight, defeating champion Sugar Ray Robinson in 15 rounds in 1957. What celebrations there must have been for our ‘home town’ World Champion! I remember seeing Grandma’s brother Uncle Ted bent close to the TV watching a boxing match, with his fists vicariously punching the air.

“When I was growing up in the 1940s, in Ashtabula, Ohio,” Tim continues, “We had fun camping out at each other’s houses or on the beach of Lake Erie. We didn’t just sit

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One particular backyard was usually lush with those succulent, ruby morsels, and we knew exactly when they would be ripe.

“After dark, we’d dart between light beams from the houses like soldiers on a secret mission in enemy territory,” he goes on, “stopping to rest only on the dark side of one of the ancient, gigantic oak trees on our

village streets (Ashtabula was famous into the loft, filtered through fragrant tree for its huge, old trees). When we final- boughs, ly reached the little backyard orchard, I climbed down the tree ladder, walked we’d stealthily crawl below the lighted along the little trail to the cottage where the windows and climb lickety-split up into girls were sleeping, started a fire in the stove, the low- limbed fruit trees. and began cooking breakfast on it. They qui “In the dark recesses of those etly read comics, then enjoyed my fresh, hot, leafy bowers we feasted, and you could whole-wheat chapattis with apples, granola, faintly hear the gentle sound of smack- and milk. ing lips and subdued burps amid the soft They went out and did gymnastics on the rustle of leaves. All would be well until balance beam we built between two stumps a neighbor’s dog barked an alert, or one by the garden, and then made up a game of my buddies groaned or cursed when where someone would lead one of he slipped off a branch, alerting the own- them a short diser. What a sight it must have been when he turned on the yard light! A cavalcade of skinny little rascals dropped out of his trees like giant fruit in a tornado! We tore away in all directions as fast as our legs would take us as he bellowed, ‘You kids stay out of my trees!’”

Paul left for home and Tim and I had our first night sleeping in the Children’s Cottage. It was beautiful. Our dreams were accompanied by the bubbling brook and the songs of whippoorwills singing deep in the Sara Goodney and Heidi on the woodlands. We woke to the golden rahomemade balance beam diance of morning sunlight streaming

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Tim gives his daughter Becky a birthday kiss at her 13th birthday party in the forest. tance into the woods and they had to find their way back in one minute. We made sure they had whistles for safety and signals.

Scott’s boy, Richard, came by on his noisy motorcycle and made silly remarks when the girls talked to him (trying to be funny). Still, as the only young male in the group, he got the attention of a celebrity. We asked them to mention to him that they liked mufflers and quiet engines because Tim thought he might respond better if the girls said it instead of us.

I don’t think it’ll have any effect though.

Meanwhile, since our cottage was

warmed up from cooking breakfast, I started a fire outside and baked pizza in the camp stove oven for lunch. I guess they liked it because they ate about five pieces each. We saved some for (our son) Dave, who’s been helping with haying at the Goodney farm.

As the time drew near for the party’s end, we asked each child to use our chalk pastels to draw and sign a picture in our guest art book. Where we lived before, our girls used larger, colored chalks to paint “Sidewalk Art Shows” on the sidewalk in front of the parsonage, whenever they could save enough nickels from their allowance to buy some varnish from Bill Hinge’s Hardware. They’d paint it over their fragile pictures so they’d last longer. Of course, we no longer have a sidewalk, so the artistic guest book is a fun alternative.

The children all piled into the back of our truck with admonitions to stay seated, but the energy was irrepressible. Young arms stretched out to wave in the warm breezes, and long hair tossed about, amid songs, shouts and animated chatter as we puttered

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slowly past meadows lush with ripening blueberries, and summer warm woods with cobalt flashes of blue jays.

We took them to the bridge in Grant where, with screams of terror and delight, they jumped into the cold and brimming Black Creek in groups of two or three. Then we went on to the State park to swim and play touch football before Sally’s mother, Mary Schulz, came to pick them up.

Now, they will get to spend time in their old town, with old friends, enjoying the bright lights and bustle of village life, with its baseball games and modern television.

That night, back in our own cottage, our sleep is disturbed by the rustle of busy mice scurrying about, having their own party. They must have been attracted to all the crumbs dropped the night before and come in, uninvited. Sigh! We’d better get out the Havahart trap and move this mouse party back into the woods. • The Shawangunk Nature Preserve is a deep ecology, forever wild, 501©(3), learning and cultural center. Tim and Peggy still live there and can be contacted through their website.

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Soul Injection on Independence Day and beyond Also on July 4th, there will festivities at the annual Utica Party in the Park at Proctor Park at Culver Avenue and Rutger Street from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., There will be food vendors and beverages, including soda, beer, and wine.

Music will be by Soul Injection, an eight-piece powerhouse of funky soul and rock ’n’ roll classics. Soul Injection has a hot horn section and is fronted by longtime singer Freddie Piperata. The band is comprised of Upstate New York musicians who have toured with both regional and national acts throughout the world. SI also will be at Harpoon Eddies in Sylvan Beach on July 7th and at Papa Rick’s Snack Shack in Rome on July 15. Check them out on Facebook or at soulinjection.org.

The Levitt Amp Concert series The series returns to Kopernick Park on Genesee Street again this year, featuring national touring acts with local openers. This second annual series

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begins Monday, July 3, and runs every Monday night Freddie Piperata and Soul Injection at 6pm through Labor Day. perform at Proctor Park on July 4th July acts include jazzer Lao Tazer, Root Shock, Rolling Nectar, and SophistaPhunk.

Full information can be found at levittamp.org/utica or 927thedrive.net Loosen up before you lace ’em up Boilermaker weekend begins with Ricky Zee’s All Star Tribute to Billy Joel at The Stanley. Ricky puts together a “Who’s Who” of local musicians as they bring the music of Billy Joel to life—this band is incredible! The show starts at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, with the race taking place on Sunday, July 9.

Dine in style at the Stanley 92.7 The Drive’s Fine Food and Craft Beer pairing is July 23rd, featuring food prepared by The Tailor and The Cook along with award-winning beers from Brewery Ommegang and music by Strung Sideways. More info and tickets at www.thestanley.org.

There’s plenty of great live local music this summer, so get out and enjoy the fun. For more info check out the listings of events and submit your own at 92.7therdive.net for the Live and Local Calendar. • Listen to Genesee Joe live on 92.7FM, The DRIVE.

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Portable Toilets and Bathrooms Mohawk Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Massage, Therapeutic Zensations, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Meats, locally raised (see Produce) Media 92.7 The Drive WXUR, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . 74 FOX33/WUTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Weekly Adirondack, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . 51 WKAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Monuments & Memorials Burdick & Enea Memorials, Clinton . . . . . . 52 Yorkville Memorials, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Natural Food Stores Brenda’s Natural Foods, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 59 Cooperstown Naturals, Cooperstown . . . . . 50 Peter’s Cornucopia, New Hartford . . . . . . . . 70 Sunflower Naturals, Barneveld . . . . . . . . . . 24 Tom’s Natural Foods, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Optometrists Towpath Vision Care, Little Falls . . . . . . . 13 Paint and Painting Supplies Lincoln Davies, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Pohlig Enterprises, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Urbanik’s Paint & Wallpaper Co., Utica . . . . . 8

Primitives Between Us Sisters, Munnsville . . . . . . . . .

Butternut Barn, Richfield Springs . . . . . . .

Main Street Gift Shop, Newport . . . . . . . .

Simply Primitives, Boonville . . . . . . . . . . .

Turnpike Antiques, Madison . . . . . . . . . . .

Tue - Sat: 10-5, Sun: 11-4

59 57 55 57

23 62 63 65 64

Produce, Local Ben & Judy’s Sugarhouse, West Edmeston . . . . 45 Clinton Farmers Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Grassy Cow Dairy, Remsen . . . . . . . . . . 69 Jewett’s Cheese, Earlville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Jones Family Farm, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . 73 Juliano’s Greenhouses & Market, Schuyler . . 16 Meat Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Meelan’s Meat Market, Clark Mills . . . . . . 13 Shaw’s Maple Products, Clinton . . . . . . . . . 51 Skeeterboro Farms, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Stoltzfus Family Dairy, Vernon Center . . . . 44 Sunnybrook Farm, Deansboro . . . . . . . . . 15 Three Village Cheese, Newport . . . . . . . . . . 18 Tibbits Maple, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . 35 WintersGrass Farm Raw Milk, Sauquoit . . . 15 Quilt and Yarn Shops/Services Heartworks Quilts, Fly Creek . . . . . . . . . 14 Tiger Lily Quilt Co, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

A primitive mix of new and old purposeful clutter, handmades including wreaths, dolls, ornies, grubby prims, cabinets, framed prints, bird houses, finds, signs, seasonal wares & one of a kinds!

6170 Valley Mills St., Munnsville (315) 495-2470

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Roofing Maple Lane Roofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Mohawk Metals, Westmoreland . . . . . . . 11 Sharpening Services Ron’s Scissors Sharpening, Sauquoit . . . . . . 7

Wine & Spirits Ilion

10 East Main St., Ilion • (315) 894-8142 Open Mon-Sat: 9-9, Sun: 12-5 • All credit cards accepted

Sheds and Storage Buildings Shafer & Sons, Westmoreland . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Shoes Karaz Shoes, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Sneaker Store, New Hartford . . . . . . . . 42 The Village Crossing, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Small Engine Repair J.B.’s Small Engine Works, Utica . . . . . . . . 44 SD Power, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Snowmobiles/ATVs Hobby Hill Farm, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Specialty Wood Wightman Specialty Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Tent Rentals Brownies Tent and Awnings, Clinton . . . . . 69 Towing Services Clinton Collision, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Tree Services Turk Tree Service, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Travel Agencies The Cruise Wizards, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . 71 Weddings and Banquets Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Twin Ponds Golf & Country Club, NY Mills . . 52 So Sweet Candy Cafe, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Wellness Infinity Tree Healing, New Hartford . . . . . 15 Windows R.A. Dudrak, Holland Patent . . . . . . . . . . 20 Yogurt Stoltzfus Family Dairy, Vernon Center . . . . 44

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