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by Sharry L. Whitney

We receive calls every day from readers—we love it when the phone rings! A couple from Oneida called and said, “Tell Lance we will always collect this magazine.” Michele Bodensiek of West Winfield called to say, “I’ve learned so much about the area. I hope you’re getting awards for this.” Calls like theirs are better than any award we can think of. We also decided—after yet another call from a reader who said he uses the magazine as a restaurant guide and suggested that “putting them together would make it easier to use”—that we would finally concede.

Look for our new MVL Restaurant Guide on page 53, and thanks for the suggestion! We hope the new format makes it easier for you to find great places to eat when you take a “Road Trip,” and we truly appreciate your support of the businesses who make MVL possible.

We’ve also been hearing a lot from vacationers and business travelers who read the magazine while they are in town and then call us up to get a subscription. We tell them we don’t offer them and direct them to the online version of the magazine.

When we first started the magazine in the fall of 2013 we offered subscriptions and were thrilled with our “success” when out-of-state orders started pouring in. I started keeping a map on the wall to mark all the places our magazine was going—we were even mailing a couple to Alaska! We were spending days stuffing, addressing, and stamping envelopes. What were we doing? It was never was our intention to be a tourist publication or subscription house. Our magazine was designed for our neighbors, for “local tourism.” I think Suzie Jones’ article this month helps put things in perspective.

So, thank you for making the magazine a “success.” When you call, write, email, or Facebook us, we feel like a success. When our advertisers include thank you notes and personal messages with their payments, we feel like a success. When I’m delivering magazines and someone takes one out of the box before I can put them on the shelf and holds it with both hands, smiles, and says, “I love this magazine,” we are a success.

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Remembering the Revolution

The 60-foot high Herkimer monument obelisk, located at the burial plot at Herkimer Home in Little Falls, was dedicated in 1896

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Compiled and edited Brian Howard, Executive Director This article has been compiled from biographies drafted by Joe Kelly, Lou Parrotta, Frank Tomaino, and Brian Howard As we are upon the 238th anniversary of the Battle of Oriskany, it is appropriate to recognize some of our area’s ties to the American Revolution. While we are nearly two and a half centuries past the conflict, county residents need not go far to explore its heritage. In fact, the Revolution’s legacy is all around us!

The most visible link to the Revolution has got to be the Fort Stanwix National Monument in the city of Rome. Opened with great fanfare—and not a little controversy—in 1976, the fort is a first-class interpretive center that welcomes tens of thousands of visitors every year. But if you only visit Fort Stanwix, you’re not seeing the whole picture. To take in the breadth of Oneida County’s role in the conflict, consider stops at several other sites in the area.

Steuben State Historic Site (SHS) in Remsen, the Herkimer Home SHS in Little Falls, and the Oriskany Battlefield SHS in Oriskany all have something significant to offer. Visit the fourteen Herkimer March commemorative plaques that stretch from Herkimer’s home to the Oriskany battlefield. These markers trace the route that the Continental militia traveled en route to the bloody ambush that awaited them in August 1777.

Last, but not least, tour some of the cemeteries around the county. Virtually every one will have graves that are the final resting places for the soldiers who fought in the Revolution. Many of these are well marked, providing the viewer a unique history lesson that reinforces part of what makes our area special.

While every soldier played some role in the Continental victory, a few stand out whose names resonate through the ages. Four of these men—all of whom now rest in our area—have been recognized as inductees into the Oneida County Historical Hall of Fame.

General William Floyd (1734 – 1821) William Floyd came late to Oneida County, but his legacy to the area—and to the United States—is a long one. Floyd was born in 1734 on Long Island into a prosperous family of Welsh heritage, and inherited his late father’s estate at 18.

Over the next twenty years he was a successful farmer and community leader whose first foray into politics came as a trustee for the town of Brookhaven (L.I.) in 1769.

Floyd keyed into the civil unrest of the 1770s and empathized with the co-

General William Floyd’s home in Western

Although Baron von Steuben requested an unmarked grave, in 1804, his remains were transferred to what is now known as the “Sacred Grove.”

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lonial cause against British rule. As a prosperous landowner and leader, he was a natural choice to serve as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774. He returned for the Second Continental Congress in 1775 and was in Philadelphia when the Battle of Bunker Hill occurred in Boston. He returned to Long Island and accepted a colonel’s commission with the Suffolk County militia. The following summer, Floyd was one of four New York representatives to sign the Declaration of Independence. For this, he would pay a heavy price, losing his land and home to the British occupation of Long Island. His wife and children escaped to Connecticut.

Although he reclaimed his property after the war’s end, Floyd’s homestead was destroyed.

After the Revolution, General Floyd served in the first congress under the new Constitution and was a four-time presidential elector (1792, 1800, 1804, 1820). He was a delegate to the New York State constitutional convention in 1801 and was a state senator in 1808.

William Floyd acquired several thousand acres of land along the Mohawk River near the end of the 18th century. Among that property was 1,482 acres that he purchased in what is now the Town of Western in Oneida County. He built a large framed house that still stands on Main Street after living in a log cabin on the site for several years. The home was completed by 1804 and was outwardly similar to his estate on Long Island.

Floyd split his time between downstate and Oneida County for many years. He lived the life of a gentleman farmer in Western and was an integral contributor to the growth of the area’s industries and agriculture in his later life. He died in 1821, and is buried in the Presbyterian Church cemetery in Westernville. He was inducted into the Oneida County Historical Hall of Fame in 1948.

General Nicholas Herkimer, 1728 - 1777 General Nicholas Herkimer lived in a county that now bears his name, but Oneida County claims a close kinship with the general, for it was at the Battle of Oriskany where he fought courageously and gained fame. The battle—on August 6, 1777—is considered by many to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The battle was fought on land that today is Oneida County.

Herkimer was probably born in 1728 in the town of German Flatts, son of Johan Jost and Catherine Herkimer. At age 30, he found himself in the middle of the French and Indian War, fighting with the British to stop the French from wreaking havoc in the Mohawk Valley. Captain Herkimer fought with the militia at Fort Herkimer. Seventeen years later, in 1775, Herkimer joined the American fight for independence from British rule. He was appointed chairman of the Tryon County committee of safety and was made a brigadier general in the Tryon County Militia in 1776.

When Fort Stanwix (Rome today) was besieged by British forces in early August 1777, Herkimer and his militiamen marched to relieve the fort. They were ambushed at Oriskany, and although they failed to lift the siege of Stanwix, they fought with such a fury that the British eventually retreated back to Canada.

Herkimer fought gallantly at Oriskany. He ignored his own personal safety and rode his white steed back and forth along the battle line, encouraging his men to fight on.

Then, an enemy bullet struck and killed the general’s horse and shattered the general’s leg below the knee. After the battle, the wounded general was taken to

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his home near Little Falls. A young, inexperienced surgeon amputated Herkimer’s leg. He neglected to seal the arteries properly and the general bled to death. He was not yet 50 years old.

General Nicholas Herkimer would never know it, but the Battle of Oriskany marked a significant turning point in the Revolution. The repulse of England’s forces there was one of a string of defeats that led to the failure of the 1777 British offensive. Oriskany was a key to the Continental Army’s victory at the Battle of Saratoga later that year and paved the way for French involvement in the conflict. Four years later, the British abandoned the fight for the colonies, thus confirming the birth of the United States. Herkimer was inducted into the Oneida County Historical Hall of Fame in 2012.

Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Baron von Steuben 1730 - 1794 Baron von Steuben was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1730. He was a tough Prussian soldier in Frederick the Great’s army who joined the American cause during the Revolutionary War. Steuben’s departure from Europe is the subject of much conjecture, but his knowledge of battlefield tactics and training that he brought to North America is beyond debate.

Steuben arrived at the Continental Army’s winter encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in February of 1778. He walked into a desperate situation; General George Washington’s troops were cold, starving, undisciplined, and had many more defeats and retreats to their name than victories.

The entire Revolution hung in the balance and Washington knew it. Steuben volunteered his services to the Continental cause, offering his assistance in “planning encampments and promoting discipline.” His timing could not have been better.

Before the snows melted that winter, the newly-christened Major General initiated a training plan to whip Washington’s inexperienced soldiers into shape and turn them into an efficient fighting force. Steuben became the Continental Army’s drillmaster and, said Washington, was “indispensable” in America’s fight for independence from British rule.

After the war, a grateful Congress gave Steuben a $2500 annuity and New York State granted him 16,000 acres of land in the Adirondack foothills. Steuben was now in his late 50s and decided to move to this land in what later became Oneida County. He built a log cabin and settled near Remsen.

The Baron’s service to the nation did not end there. In 1787, he was named to the New York Board of Regents, which was tasked with oversight of the state’s educational and cultural activities. As such he participated in the establishment of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1794, a few months before his death. Hamilton-Oneida Academy has since become Hamilton College in Clinton.

Steuben’s sale of portions of his 16,000 acre tract paved the way for Welsh immigration to the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He passed away in his log cabin in 1794. A replica of this building now serves as a centerpiece of the Steuben State Historic Site. Steuben was inducted into the Oneida County Historical Hall of Fame in 1947.

Major General Baron von Steuben was indispensable as General Washinton’s drillmaster of the Continental Army

The Steuben State Historic Site was dedicated in 1931 with much fanfare

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mercantile house there at age 20, and was so highly regarded that he was sent to New York to further his skills. When the American War for Independence broke out in 1775, Walker joined the Americans’ cause by volunteering in New York’s 2nd Regiment. In the early days of the war, Walker earned much praise for leading 300 men down Bunker Hill.

A chance encounter with Baron von Steuben in 1778 would forever change the course of Walker’s life. Just 23 years old, Walker was an American line officer fluent in French. When a complicated maneuver was not being accomplished by soldiers under Baron von Steuben’s command, Steuben was visibly and voAt age 23, Benjamin cally outraged. The problem was the language barrier between the soldiers and Walker became Steuben. Walker stepped out front and volunteered to translate the Baron’s diaide-de-camp to rections and commands. After serving as aide-de-camp to Steuben for three-plus years, General George Washington summoned Walker to his staff is 1781.

Baron von Steuben After the war, in 1784, Governor George Clinton of New York employed and was eventually Walker as his secretary in Albany. Later, while serving as the naval officer at the summoned to General port at New York City, Walker’s mentor and friend Steuben passed away, and Washington’s staff had another impact on his life, as Steuben willed him half of his estate.

In 1797, Walker settled in Fort Schuyler which became modern day Utica.

He assisted in the founding of Old Trinity Church in 1798, while helping to manage the Village of Utica’s Hotel (renamed “York House” in 1814). On March 4, 1801, Walker re-entered public service when he took a seat as a representative in the Federalist Congress. He served a single term, and returned to the Utica to settle down in what Judge John J. Walsh called “perhaps the finest residence anywhere”—a 15-acre estate with a mansion, located on what is now Catherine Street.

Benjamin Walker—aide to Baron von Steuben and to George Washington, congressman, and Utica resident—died on January 13, 1818. He was originally buried in a plot on Water Street but was exhumed in 1875 and reinterred at Forest Hill Cemetery in the city. He was inducted into the Oneida County Historical Hall of Fame in 2012. •

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Throughout my years of performing, I have had the fortunate pleasure to meet some venue owners who truly care about the performers and their customers as much as their bottom line. Ron Ingber, owner of Club Aqua in Bridgewater, is one of these people. He has turned an abandoned school into a fantastic club that can host all size crowds and bands.

Ron’s outlook is always of a positive nature. He looks after the performers’ needs, makes sure they’re happy with the performing environment, and provides a comfortable place for his patrons. Plus, Ron is involved with other aspects of the local music scene; he attends meetings on the issue and visits many of the other area venues in his infrequent time off.

During one of these times, I spoke with Ron about the club and other things.

Where you from and what brought you to this area?

I’m from New York City. My wife is a country girl, and grew up on a dairy farm about 15 miles from Bridgewater. We met in college a very long time ago. I have always loved rural areas, and we bought a house not far from her parents. When we each retired from our corporate jobs, we moved here full time. My wife and daughter moved here in 1996 and I followed in 2003.

Had you been involved with music prior to opening Club Aqua?

While several family members were involved in music, both in the industry and as professional musicians, I did not have any involvement other than going to concerts.

How did you acquire the school and did you originally envision a nightclub there?

I purchased the school building at public auction from the 2nd previous owner. It was originally set up as a multi-dealer antique center with an indoor skate park. Both of these businesses slowly died off. 14 of the 15 dealers we had here are no longer in business. Skateboarding is no longer as popular as it used to be in this area. After both of these businesses were shut down, I brainstormed to find another use for the space. While these businesses were operating, I hosted 3 huge EDM (Electronic Dance Music) events. This set the idea in place to open a music club/bar.

You’ve had many great bands and performers at your place. What were some so far?

We have had a large variety of bands and performers here at Aqua, ranging from those who were making their first public appearance to widely popular local bands. The BOMB, The Fulton Chain Gang and Grit ‘N Grace have been great bands. We had the honor of

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How do you see the area’s music scene?

I do whatever I can to support the local music scene, by attending performances as time allows, helping bands and other venues connect and of course giving new and upcoming bands a place to play to the public. I have provided practice What would you like to acspace for a band that had lost complish? What are the their space, and allowed “Band members downsides to club ownthem to store equipment and affiliated ership? here. The area’s music A major accomplishand club scene is strugsupport companies ment would be for the gling (as I see it). There need to come out business to be financially are a number of contriband support other self-sufficient and for me uting factors. One, is that bands...” to start being able to pay some popular bands are myself. I spend 70+ hours insisting on large amounts a week working on different of money to play. I am NOT aspects of the business and rely saying that the band is not worth on other income to pay my personal exwhat they are asking for, but it becomes penses. We are barely at the break-even point hard for a venue to risk a large investment if financially, and this has required deferring there is not a big turnout. I have had to reach some major expenses. The major downside into my personal funds to pay bands when to club ownership at our small scale is a con- there was a low turnout. Some bands play out stant struggle to pay bills and the needs to do so frequently that they dilute their fan base, huge amounts of work myself, as there is not especially when they are doing large numsufficient money to pay others. bers of “free” (to the public) events, and the venues suffer from low turnout. The issue of You’ve been a strong supporter of local turnout is a major one for us, as we are out in music. I see you out and about all over. the country, 15 miles from Utica, and have have also had preliminary talks about hosting a MMA (mixed martial arts) event here.

These types of events can often take a year’s worth of planning. I would like to see more art shows and wine tasting events and we are working to put these together.

a very difficult time getting people to travel here.

What, in your opinion, could improve this?

I believe that an informal organization of music venue owners could help all of the venues. There are lots of issues that we all face that we could help each other by sharing ideas and brainstorming possible solutions.

Band members and affiliated support companies (sound, lighting, recording studios, etc.) need to come out and support other bands and venues when they are not actually working themselves.

Is there anything you’d like to add?

One of the most difficult problems we face, and others face as well, it just getting the word out to potential attendees. Advertising in the local media is expensive, so only huge events with big money behind them can afford to advertise. The media sometimes sponsor big events by contributing advertisements, but they are very selective as to which events they can support.

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Hiking Above the North Pole

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Rock from this quarry was used for the Whiteface Memorial Highway. (pictured: Justin VanRiper)

at the (L)EDGE of the World Story and Photos by Gary VanRiper

This is the time of year when many families take their vacations and venture farther into the mountains.

Last month in these pages, we considered a hike up Whiteface Mountain – the fifth highest peak in the Adirondacks.

This month, we’ll head up the same highway, past Santa’s Workshop at the North Pole, and turn right at the fork in the road for a much shorter hike, one recommended by locals for families with young children.

The Cobble Lookout trailhead is less than a quarter mile past the Whiteface Toll Road. The 1.3-mile trail is so new (it was freshly cut last autumn) that when we hiked it with our children and grandchildren in July, there was not yet a roadside sign to mark the entry point. The spot with roadside parking was easily found with a free map and guidance we secured from the Wilmington Information Center, which is located near the center of the hamlet. We discovered the entire trail itself was generously marked with blue foot trail discs.

Early on, one of our 4-year-old grandchildren became our guide.

Taking charge with map in hand, he pointed up to a blue disc on a tree and loudly announced to our group, “only 20 miles to go, everybody!”

I had actually scouted out the location the day before and not far along the trail noticed through small openings in the trees what appeared to be a sheer and towering wall of gray rock off the main trail to the left. Some slightly bent grass suggested a light herd path in that direction and I had to investigate. It was indeed a wall of rock and it

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was towering all right. During the family hike, I lingered with my son Justin to grab a photograph for perspective. It is so easy to suddenly feel small in these mountains! It was later, at the Information Center again, where I learned that this spot was an old quarry where material had been harvested for the wall along the Whiteface Memorial Highway and for the former wall along the bridge right there in Wilmington.

Continuing the winding walk through the woods toward the lookout, there were occasional man-made structures to help keep footwear (somewhat) dry in the form of wood bridges over areas of run-off, and planks running along the more soggy areas.

There is virtually no transition from the woods to the lookout that is sprawling and littered with boulders and loose rocks and stones. We quickly reeled in the excited and fearless grandchildren who, like most young ones, were only too happy to run ahead without a proper sense of safe boundaries.

The boast in the brochure that this was “one of the best views in the Adirondacks” was not an

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exaggeration. I have climbed more than 60 of the highest peaks in the region and this payoff is very impressive, especially given the relative ease of the approach to arrive there.

Out in front of us was Mount Esther and way off to our left the hamlet of Wilmington, NY. The view successfully whetted the appetite of our older grandchildren, who turned and asked me when we would be able to climb Mount Jo. If they enjoy that, it might even bring us full circle to another mountain we could see the tip of right there from the Cobble Ledge: Whiteface. For a trail description and map online, visit www. whitefaceregion.com . For the free map and guide, stop at the Whiteface Mountain Regional Visitors Bureau in Wilmington, NY. Phone: 518-946-2255 • Gary VanRiper is an author, photographer, and pastor at the Camden Wesleyan Church. He has written 15 children’s books with his son, Justin. Find out more at: www.adirondackkids.com

Justin VanRiper at Cobble Ledge in Wilmington, New York. To his right is Esther Mountain.

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It’s always something of an adventure for me to drive down Genesee Street, especially when I am not sure where I’m going.

I knew the number was 303, but I did not know what it was near or even which side of the street it was on. Those mysteries solved, it took me a couple of trips around the block to find a parking space. Despite that minor inconvenience, I was pleased to see how full the parking lot was.

It’s good to see a library doing a booming business.

A friend had told me Utica’s library was worth a visit for the architecture alone. As I approached the building, I saw what she meant.

In 1899, Thomas R. and Frederick T. Proctor donate land and W. P. White gives $1,000 to start the building fund for a new library. The cornerstone for the grand Utica Public Library was laid in 1904.

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That, I said to myself, is what is known as an imposing edifice. Inside, it was even more impressive. The main room is three stories high with a skylight. You can see the upper levels with wrought iron railings at the edge.

I walked up the marble stairways, marveling.

I found a book (what a surprise), but I was more interested in walking around and looking at the place. I wandered through

the rooms, one with computers, one with comfy-looking chairs, all with gorgeous woodwork at the doorways and windows.

I admired two magnificent fireplaces and a couple of rooms with large tables that would be good for meetings or classes. As I looked for a good place to sit and write, I noticed a sign for Chapter One Café. After chatting with the lady working there, I decided to get an iced tea and sit down.

After all, Hemingway used to write in cafés (didn’t he?

Must read A Moveable Feast again).

I confess, the only thing I started to write was a letter to a cousin. I hadn’t even gotten very far with that when another lady asked me if I was a writer, and we got into a conversation. Well, I always like to talk to people, and she had a lot of interesting things to say. Soon, however, it was Dylan Fitzgerald of Utica buys a cup of coffee at the time for the café to close, library’s Chapter One Café. so I finished my drink and took my leave. As I checked

out my book I told the lady that it was my first visit to the library and how fascinating I found it. “And I’m so pleased to see so many people taking advantage of it,” I said. “Some people say libraries are over, but it is so not true.”

“Because we’re also a community center,” she said, giving me a brochure about the library. The brochure lists many things the Utica Public Library offers, including genealogy and local history resources, free computer classes, group tours, and adult and youth programs, just to name a few.

Maybe I’m the only library geek who gets a kick out of exploring other libraries.

Then, again, maybe I’m not. In any case, the Mohawk Valley is blessed with many libraries that are, pardon the expression, worth “checking out.” •

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One of the many benefits of being a member of Slow Food is the access it provides to an international culinary network and, in particular, to individuals struggling to preserve biodiversity and defend local food traditions. Whenever and wherever I travel abroad nowadays, I make a point of contacting the local Slow Food chapters to seek advice on producers and restaurants of note. During a recent trip to Istanbul, Turkey, I engaged the resources of local SF chapters, through which I identified a host of superb dining spots and cooking workshops. One of the many remarkable restaurateurs working on the cutting edge of New Istanbul Cuisine is Semsa Denizsel, chef-owner of Kantin Lokanta (http://www.kantin.biz/about-us.php), who took time from her busy day to discuss her farm-to-table approach to cooking and then helped us select an array of her daily specials for a picnic lunch. We enjoyed a number of cooking classes and food walks as well—of particular note a visit to the Egyptian Spice Market followed by a class with Selin Rozanes of www.turkishflavours.com, whose approach to Turkish cuisine emphasized use of quality local ingredients and classic techniques. I returned from Turkey with a fuller appreciation of this little known yet highly sophisticated eastern Mediterranean cuisine. I likewise returned craving a local source for authentic doner, kofte, lahmacun, and the dazzling array of Turkish meze. And we found just such a source in Utica: Café Hummus on Mohawk St. (just a few streets north of Memorial Parkway, opposite the Hannaford shopping center).

The gregarious owner of Café Hummus, Ismail Yildirim, greeted a group of us Slow Food enthusiasts with an enthusiasm that made us feel immediately at home. Ismail hails from Izmir, on the Aegean coast of Turkey, and was raised in a food-obsessed family—his grandparents owned a bakery and his aunt, a restaurant. From childhood, he assisted in kitchen preparations and learned the family techniques: “I was rolling grape-leaves when I was 7 years old.” Ismail gained experience as he bartended in Greece, Turkey, and at Turning Stone, and waited tables throughout Europe, but his passionate goal was to share his family’s recipes—and to experiment with them—in his own restaurant, which he opened in February 2014. He was originally attracted to Utica to study at MVCC, and we are lucky that he decide to remain here.

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ters of assorted meze (appetizers)—stuffed grape leaves (made fresh daily in-house), lahmacun (a thin bread topped with minced lamb and Turkish spices), fried halloumi cheese from Cyprus, two types of flavored hummus (out of nine different varieties he offers, made fresh every morning), babagannush (chunks of roasted eggplant with garlic), “cigar rolls” stuffed with feta and pepper sauce (recipe below), and his special version of Turkish tabouleh (cracked wheat, with a bit of parsley). We have all tasted many variants of these dishes before, but Ismail’s were uniformly outstanding—fresh, perfectly spiced, and made with care. Ismail tries to source as much product locally as possible (except for the spices, which come from Turkey). One of our tablemates, Debra Richardson, gushed: “This is the best babagannush I’ve ever had!” The lahmacun might have been the group’s favorite, but given that both platters were licked clean, there might be some argument over that.

For entrées, Ismail offers the great classics of the Turkish kitchen, kebabs from roasted lamb, minced lamb, or chicken, doner (the layered meat slow-roasted on a vertical rotisserie), kofte (the flattened Turkish meatball beautifully spiced), and cevapi (a typical Bosnian dish of minced beef). We all tried different entrées so that the table could experience pretty much the entire menu. I ordered the Iskender kebab, because I was curious to compare it to the dish of the same name I enjoyed in Iskender Restaurant in Bursa (a coastal town near Istanbul), which claims to be the originator of the dish four generations back. I was not disappointed! Thin slices of seasoned lamb are served over toasted pide bread and topped with a slightly piquant tomato sauce with sides of grilled zucchini and yogurt. Ismail urged us to try dessert and brought out two plates, one of walnut baklava and a second of kunefe. Kunefe is a sweetened shredded wheat nest stuffed with a kind of clotted cream made in-house. We were breathless after inhaling it. Be sure to ask for it when you visit—it takes a few minutes to prepare but is well worth the wait.

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gredients at one of the Bosnian markets in Utica. I recently found yufka (the Turkish triangle-shaped filo dough) and cheeses imported from Turkey, Bosnia, and Bulgaria at Ruznic (801 Albany St., Utica).

An easy starter recipe to try at home: Sigara Boregi (“cigar rolls”). Mix a filling of feta, a bit of minced parsley or dill, an egg, and a bit of red pepper (preferably Turkish biber). Shape a heaping teaspoon of the mixture into the form of a cigar stub, place it at the wide edge of a slice of yufka (or a piece of filo cut to resemble an elongated slice of pizza) and start to roll up toward the point, folding the sides up over the filling to enclose it. Wet the end of the yufka with water to seal the roll. Pan fry until golden in vegetable or olive oil; or brush with oil and bake until lightly browned. •

P.S.: Kudos to Ismail and family for donating about 5,000 portions of hummus Mixed grill platter for the Utica Boilermaker after-party!

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Visitors from Outer Space by carol higgins

Comet ISON taken in October

Remember the excitement you felt when you saw your first “shooting star”? Whether you’re young or old, seeing that bright streak across the night sky is always fun. Want to see lots of shooting stars? You’re in luck – get ready for August’s amazing sky show, the Perseid meteor shower.

A “shooting star” isn’t really a star. It’s usually a small piece of rock or dust that hits our atmosphere, heats up, glows, and then burns up – creating the trademark streak. That small particle is called a meteor and is often the size of a grain of rice. Sometimes a meteor is larger and survives, and when it hits Earth it’s called a meteorite. But, what’s a meteor shower?

A meteor shower occurs when Earth travels through a stream of debris, usually created by a comet. The August shower is thanks to Comet Swift-Tuttle, discovered in 1862 by astronomers Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle. Swift made his discovery July 16, 1862, in Marathon, NY, near Cortland. Three days later Tuttle observed it from the Harvard College Observatory. Eventually, they both received credit, and it was named in their honor.

Comets vary in size and composition, and Swift-Tuttle is fairly large at about 16 miles in diameter. Its orbit takes it out past Pluto and into the Kuiper belt, then back around the Sun, completing one orbit in 133 years. It was closest to the Sun in 1992, and will return in 2125.

A comet is made up of ice, rock, frozen gases, and dust. As it gets closer to the Sun it warms

2013 by the Hubble telescope. up and creates Image credit: NASA its own atmosphere called the “coma” and sometimes a “tail” that can extend millions of miles. The comet leaves lots of particles littered throughout its orbit, and that debris stream causes a meteor shower when our orbits cross.

When is the best night to watch the Perseid meteor shower? August 12 to 13 is considered the “peak,” although you’ll see meteors all month until August 24. The best time is between midnight and dawn. The shower is named “Perseid” On July 22, 1994 Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 because most meteors seem to originate from conbroke apart and collided with Jupiter. stellation Perseus, so look toward the Northeast.

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The Skwaras searched the Northeast for a farm of their own and found “home” at the old “Wheeler farm” in Newport. They raise flowers and food for their fruit and vegetable store on Main Street.

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story and photos by sharry l. whitney Growing up the grandson of two truck farmers in Bucks County, PA, Michael Skwara remembers being “dragged” to his grandmother’s large family vegetable garden to help out. As a youth, Michael was more interested in tractors than vegetables, but by the time he was a teenager in the 1990s, he was put in charge of his own acre of sweet corn. His first thought? “I need a bigger tractor,” he recalls.

After working at local farms throughout middle school and high school he saved up enough money to buy his own tractor—a 1957 John Deere 520.

After high school, Michael headed off to study horticulture at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, PA. There he met another future horticulturist (and future wife) Wendi Seton. Wendi went to school with the plan of working in floral design and landscaping. “I wanted to work outside,” she says. “Then I became interested in growing things you could eat, too.”

Michael and Wendi starting farming right out of college—renting land for growing their crops. A few years The growing Skwara family: Annalee, Michael, Wendi, and Truly. The girls will become big sisters this fall when they welcome a new baby to the family.

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later, in 2008, they were married. They continued renting land to grow more vegetables for their market farm called Tall Pine Farms in Rushland, PA, but when their first child, Annalee, was born in 2012, they wanted the security of owning their own land. They had been searching throughout Pennsylvania and New York for a farm, and when they came across an old farmstead for sale in Newport, NY—known locally as “the Wheeler farm” after the three generations of dairy farmers who one lived there—they knew they found their home.

MAWS Farm (for Mike and Wendi S) is a sustainable farm comprised of 120 acres of 40 different fruits and vegetables, as well as beef cattle, pigs, and laying hens. This year marks the Skwara’s fourth growing season in Newport. They had to adjust a little to the Mohawk Valley climate.

“The growing season is shorter,” Wendi says. “but the cole crops like broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage do really well here.”

Michael is still trying and determined to grow okra. “You can fry it, or make gumbo, but I love it raw when it’s small Top right: Annalee helps her mother harvest Swiss chard as tall as she is.

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and tender,” he says wistfully.

They also grow four kinds of kale and have sweet corn from the 4th of July (almost) through the fall. They also grow less common crops like fennel, kohlrabi, and Italian pole beans—all available for sale at their market located right on their farm on Rt. 28 in Newport.

“We sell everything from apples to zucchini,” Michael says.

They also sell at the Little Falls, Old Forge, and Whitesboro farmers markets, as well as the winter markets in Whitesboro and Morrisville. Michael is in charge of a brand new winter market in Little Falls starting this winter.

There are plans to reestablish the farm’s old apple orchard, too. “It’s going to be a smorgasbord of apples,” Michael says. Another goal is to have greens year round in their new high tunnel greenhouse.

It’s a lot for just the two of them to handle, especially with little ones Annalee, age twoand-a-half, and Truly, going on 1. The couple is expecting their third child this fall.

“There are a lot of 90hour work weeks,” Michael says, but he still has the help of his “first love,” his ’57 John Deer. It’s been joined by his grandfather’s ’48 Ford 8N, a John Deer 5400, John Deere 3020, two Farmall Cubs, and a four-seater UTV—complete with a baby seat, of course. •

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The Kingbirds nested over the beaver pond earlier in the season

A male Indigo Bunting – freshly returned from the tropics A fledgling Eastern Kingbird waits to be fed

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In August, the beaver pond becomes a rich hunting ground for insect predators. Chief among them is the appropriately named Kingbird. The Eastern Kingbird is a medium-sized songbird with uniformly light colored underparts and a slate gray back. The very end of the bird’s otherwise dark tail shows a thin band of white.

This king has a crown; it’s reddish, very small, and is typically missed by observers. Earlier in the season, a pair of Kingbirds built their nest directly over the water on the branch-

The Great Crested Flycatcher nests in tree cavities over the pond

es of a dead buckthorn tree. Now their two fledglings beg to be fed from another dead snag located up on shore. Both parents are keen to provide A young Eastern Phoebe for them and in tandem they serve up inhunts for flying insects sect meals to one and then the other chick. at the pond There is almost constant sound coming from the adults as they dart to and fro over the water, adeptly securing insects on virtually every sortie. Their thin rolling twitters and emphatic “peent” calls sound almost like they could be produced by insects since they are so thin and lacking in tone. Though the young KingBald Eagles. birds look much like their parents now Indeed, they have no fear. At the pond in August, and seem more or less capable of look- they are mainly escorting Blue Jays and Gracking after themselves, the adult pair con- les out of the vicinity. This is understandable, tinues to be highly protective of them. since those species are known egg and nestling They rigorously police the territory thieves, but why chase away a Yellow-shafted and chase off any other bird that could Flicker? even remotely be perceived as having One day, I watched in amazement at a predatory bent. During the breeding the method a Kingbird used to take a bath. It season, I’ve witnessed overzealous flew at the water and lightly skimmed the surface parent Kingbirds attack breeding with its body and then returned to its perch on an

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open branch. There, it proceeded to preen.

This procedure was repeated about six times until the Kingbird was thoroughly soaked.

Kingbirds are not the only flycatchers at the pond in August. In fact, there are a variety of other species converging there. They come down with young in tow to take advantage of the mid-summer insect bonanza. Most of these flycatchers, like the Eastern Wood Pewee, Eastern Phoebe, and the Alder Flycatcher, have nested elsewhere in adjacent woodlands and meadows, but the Great Crested Flycatcher probably bred somewhere nearby in an old dead tree above the pond.

The eggs and nest of a Great Crested Flycatcher

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This attractive yellow bird sports reddish brown highlights in its wings and tail and is the only one of our flycatchers that nests in tree cavities. That’s one of the reasons for their affinity for beaver ponds. Beaver ponds have a reliably good supply of dead trees and there are always plenty of used woodpecker homes available for a flycatcher to lease. This is an important consideration, since the Great Crested Flycatcher is incapable of excavating its own nest hole.

Earlier in the season I watched a Great Crested Flycatcher bringing material into its nest site. Tufts of white hair and a snakeskin were among the materials compiled. Where she was finding such things, I had no clue. The purpose of a shed snake skin decorating the top of the nest is a subject of some conjecture. Perhaps it’s meant to dissuade potential egg thieves from plundering the nest. Certainly, if a predator is fooled into thinking it’s stumbled into snake’s den instead of a bird’s nest, it might send them quickly on their way.

The Cedar Waxwing could be considered an honorary flycatcher

During the summer, and especially in August, Cedar Waxwings transform into honorary members of the flycatcher family. A flock of 15 to 30 of them will come to the pond daily and expertly catch insects on the wing. Sometimes, it can resemble a feeding frenzy as the waxwings swoop over the water in all directions, crossing paths and creating a mesmerizing display. From the flying insect’s perspective, crossing over the pond must be akin to someone in a hang-glid-

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er sailing through a flock of pterosaurs. Now that may dispel the image of waxwings as gentle fruit eaters, famous for passing berries to each other and softly trilling sweet nothings into each other’s ears.

As landlords or stewards of the habitat, what exactly do the beavers get out of this bargain with the birds? After all, they provided the wetland habitat that the birds exploit for its rich prey potential. Perhaps that’s precisely what they get out of it: insect control. It’s hard not to notice that lack of biting insects at the beaver ponds, especially when mosquitoes and

deer flies are so numerous in just about every other corner of the preserve. While the waxwings were darting out from their perches and fluttering directly over my head, they were obviously picking off insects that had me in their crosshairs. This gave me an instant understanding of the value of having them there and on the job. Of course, the beavers too would glean this benefit.

As August proceeds, other species of flycatchers join the fray, including the Least Flycatcher and the ever charismatic, Olive-sided Flycatcher. The latter bird just arrived from the North Country, where it bred around boreal bogs and wooded swamps. The beaver pond must seem a promising site to ply his trade. In true flycatcher fashion, the Olive-sided lays claim to a high perch on a dead snag over the middle of the pond and makes repeated dives into the air. His success as a hunter is impressive and he snatches an insect with just about every try. He caught a midge (a small fly) on his first trip, an ichneumon (a type of parasitic wasp) on the second, and then a meadowhawk (a type of dragonfly) after that. Typically the

Olive-sided returns to the very same perch at least a dozen times before selecting a new launching-off site. This species, like most of the flycatcher clan, doesn’t possess very colorful plumage; his feathers are brownish gray and he has a light throat and belly. Prominent olive patches on his breast make it look like he is wearing a dark vest. Indeed, unlike the other species at the pond, he’s all dressed up for dinner. The white patches on the sides of his rump are visible when he flies, but not always so obvious in the perched bird. When he stopped by this same place back in the spring, he had a king-of-the-hill battle with a Red Squirrel over who would get the best seat on the high snag.

Why the Red Squirrel was interested in it, I’m not sure. It was a bit touch-and-go for a while, and the Olive-sided Flycatcher had some good moments, but ultimately the squirrel prevailed and won the coveted perch.

The next time the dog days of August tempt you to cool off at the edge of a pond, be on the lookout for flycatchers, Kingbirds, and Cedar Waxwings and be glad you’re not an insect on the wing. •

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A sweeping view of the Mohawk Valley from Jones Family Farm in Herkimer

ering the need to modernize and make farms more efficient. If you are making milk in the Northeast, for example, and dairy farms in the South are able to produce milk with fewer inputs or at lower cost, the farmer in the North will have a harder time competing and, ultimately, may not survive long periods of low milk prices.

Despite this harsh reality, the push for ever-increasing efficiency has had a tremendously positive overall effect on our food supply.

There are 200 million fewer people starving on this planet than there were just 20 years ago, even though global population has increased by 2 billion during that time. Technology has allowed the 1% of our population that still farms to make food for the rest of us, increasing crop yields, decreasing soil erosion and compaction, even lightening the load of manual labor with smart tractors and robot milkers. Globally, modern agriculture has allowed people to rise above subsistence farming, increasing education levels, and lowering birthrates. Indeed, we will need the very best of modern agriculture to feed the nearly 9 billion people expected to inhabit this planet by 2050.

While the leaps in technology have been in large part an overwhelming positive in my mind, there have undoubtedly been some undesired side-effects of modern agriculture. Just as cell phones, texting, and social media have forever changed the way we communicate with one another, people no longer know their farmer—or any farmer, for that matter. That knowledge gap poses a variety of very real problems, especially regarding public policy. People fear the safety of our food supply and are dubious of methodologies that farmers employ.

Marketers take advantage of that fear and demonize the competition for their own benefit. I hear and see misinformation shared every day, from antibiotics in milk to hormones in chickens. The level of mistrust—and in some cases, complete vitriol for “industrial” farmers— that is largely the result of a complete lack of knowledge makes me incredibly sad.

Perhaps that is why I enjoy our small, community-focused model as much as I do. I enjoy the relationships and the ties that bind us and our customers, our friends and neighbors, and our fellow farmers. It is one of complete transparency and honest, open communication. I will never romanticize farming with our customers nor paint a caricature of other farmers—and I find it offensive when others do. Our farm is not a model of efficiency, nor do I have any illusions that our type of farming could feed the world. But I chalk up one small “success” every time I’m able to reconnect people with their food and those who raise it. • Suzie Jones and her husband, Peter, own Jones Family Farm in Herkimer. Together, with their children, they produce specialty goat cheeses and gelato. Find them at local farmers’ markets and at: www.anotherjonesfamilyfarm.com

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Squash Blossom Special!

By Denise A. Szarek

Squash blossoms are like a breath of summer—delicate and short lived. If you want to eat them, it helps to have a garden with a few winter and summer squash plants or a good friend with a garden. You might also find them at a Farmers Market, but you want to get there early in the morning as summer heat ruins them. They are so extraordinarily perishable that few supermarkets bother trying to keep them in stock.

Both the male and female blossoms of winter and summer squash varieties can be used interchangeably. But the male blossoms last the longest.

Once you’ve clipped them from your garden or bought them at the Farmers Market, place the stems in a glass of cold water, cover them with a wet paper towel and refrigerate them. Try to use them within a few hours, but they will keep overnight of properly stored.

With only 5 calories in one cup of blossoms, they contain 1 gram of carbohydrates and 1 gram of protein. That said squash blcssoms are high in calcium, iron and especially Vitamin C & A. Now that you have harvested some flowers, you might wonder what to do with squash blossoms. They are flavorful and colorful when used as a garnish on salads.

Their flavor is like that of a flower but one with tiny hints of mushroom and squash flavors. Traditional cooking method is to stuff them with soft Cheese, roll in egg wash and bread crumbs and fry, but....

Let’s make pizza! This pizza crust recipe has been with me since my days as a member of Green Star Co-operative in Ithaca, circa 1980. It’s the only pizza crust recipe I ever use, yes it’s that good!

Cast Iron Skillet Squash Blossom and Ricotta Pizza.

By Denise Szarek Pizza Dough (makes 2) 2¼ tsp dry active yeast 1 tsp granulated sugar 1½ cup warm water, about 110 degrees F 2½ cup bread flour 1 cup all-purpose flour 2 tsp salt 2 T olive oil 1½ T Honey Pesto (makes about 1 cup) — you can us store bought, or find my recipe at www.mohawkvalleyliving.com Toppings for Pizza: 1 small zucchini, thin sliced 6 squash blossoms, stamens removed 1 red onion, sliced ½ cup shredded mozzarella ⅓ cup whole milk ricotta (we love Three Village Cheese for this) ⅓ cup local cheese blue-veined cheese or a local farmstead cheese A sprinkle of fresh ground nutmeg (trust us on this one—you don’t want to leave it out) sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste DOUGH: In a small bowl, whisk together yeast, sugar and warm water. Let stand of 5-7 minutes until mixture is cloudy and foamy. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a hook attachment, whisk together the bread flour, all-purpose flour, and salt. Pour in yeast mixture. Mix together on low speed until dough starts to come together. Add olive oil and honey. Increase speed to medium and mix until dough has come together to form a smooth ball, about 3 mins. Transfer ball of dough to a lightly greased bowl. Cover

bowl with plastic wrap and place a kitchen towel over bowl. Allow to rest for 1 hour until dough has doubled in size. Punch downGarden doughTip! andToilet placepaper on a tubes protect plants lightly floured work surface.

Divide dough intothat twoare susceptible to cutworms equal parts.

Lightly cover dough with plastic wrap and allow to rest 15 mins before shaping into pizza* ASSEMBLY: Preheat oven to 500 degrees F. Warm a lightly oiled skillet over medium heat. Gently sauté sliced zucchini and the squash Blossoms until lightly softened.

Set aside. Spread about 1 T olive oil in a 12 inch cast iron skillet. Place dough in oiled skillet and gently push and pull dough to fit the bottom of the skillet. Spread pesto on dough, leaving ½ inch border around the pizza (you should have enough pesto to make 2 pizza). Sprinkle mozzarella and local cheese evenly over pesto. Arrange zucchini, red onion and squash blossoms on top. Distribute spoonfuls of ricotta over the pizza. Lightly sprinkle freshly grated nutmeg (don’t forget this, I promise it will be delish!) Season with salt & black pepper.

Transfer skillet to stove over med-high heat. Warm up cast iron skillet and cook pizza dough for about 3 mins. Until bottom of the Crust has set and the oil is bubbling along the outer rim of the pizza.

Transfer the hot skillet into the pre-heated oven.

Bake for 8-12 minutes until cheese has melted and bubbling. Remove from oven and let sit for 2-4 mins. *Dough recipe makes two 12-inch pizzas. If making two, double the toppings listed above. Otherwise store dough in an air-tight container in the fridge for no more than two days.

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cooperstown story and photos By Melinda Karastury

On a recent Wednesday evening, I celebrated a ladies’ night with my friend Sharry Whitney and her neighbor Ellen Pierno. We embarked on a journey to Cooperstown: “America’s Most Perfect Village.” It is known as the home of The National Baseball Hall of Fame, but it is so much more. Our drive to Cooperstown was beautiful from my rare backseat viewpoint. The landscape zipped by as I listened to the front seat chatter and laughter. I chimed in occasionally and smiled at the conversation and energy. Our evening started at the Fenimore ArtMuseum. The impressive neo-Georgian early 19th century farmhouse on the shore of Otsego Lake is grandiose and beautiful. In 1944, an avid art collector named Stephen Carlton Clark donated his family property to the New York Historical Association, to be used for the association’s headquarters and a museum. In 1995, a new 18,000-square-foot wing was added to showcase the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art. Our personal tour guide on our visit was Public Relations Director, Todd Kenyon.

He has an extensive knowledge of the exhibits on display. We entered the museum and headed upstairs, straightaway, to see the Maxfield Parrish: Art of Light and Illusion exhibit. A hush of awe waved over us upon entering the gallery. Maxfield Parrish (1870– 1966) was an American painter and illustrator known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. We worked our way around the exhibit, silently taking in Parrish’s work. I was ecstatic and realized that I had ever only seen Parrish’s work in textbooks and print. We poised ourselves in front of each and every painting and read the informational signs. We could have stared transfixed at the paintings all day.

Next, we ventured to the vibrant Marc Chagall’s Magic Flute: Highlights from the Metropolitan Opera exhibit. The Fenimore Museum coordinates a series of exhibitions to complement the Glimmerglass Festival’s summer schedule and are exhibiting artifacts associated with the Metropolitan Opera’s 1967 production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”

Then we made our way down the curving staircase to the foyer area and on to the next flight of stairs. We immediately saw the large scale paintings of the Raymond Hans: Still Lifes and Figures exhibit, which contains approximately 20 paintings. Hans is an American painter who is a master of photorealism, still life, and figurative painting. Hans resides in the village of Cooperstown.

Lastly, we ventured to the spectacular collection: 50 at 20: Masterpieces of American Indian Art from the Thaw Collection. The collection is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and the current exhibit highlights 50 outstanding works of art spanning 2,000 years of art in North America.

A grand staircase leads down to the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art

On display is the work of Cooperstown artist Raymond Hans — a master of photorealism, still life, and figurative painting.

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The outdoors beckoned us and we exited through the back doors and stepped out onto to the most spectacular patio and breathtaking view of Otsego Lake. We walked the grounds and breathed in the lake air and basked in the sunlight before we headed off to our next destination: a “secret garden.”

Brookwood Point is garden located just a mile north of Fenimore Art Museum at 6000 State Highway 80, West Lake Road, Cooperstown.

The Otsego Land Trust took over stewardship of Brookwood Point in a 2011 merger with The Cook Foundation. Over its past 100 years, Brookwood has fostered many young children and young minds, from the seven Townsend children in the early 1900s to SUNY interns and Clark Sports Center Adventure Camp kids. The view from Brookwood Point is outstanding, and the weathered statues throughout the garden tell a tale of a love for children and the beauty of nature. The Cooperstown community and grants make it possible for this tucked-away garden to be open and enjoyed by the public.

The late afternoon was turning into evening and we continued our ladies’ night at a Wednesday night harvest dinner at one of the most unique and quintessential organic restaurants in Cooperstown, the Origins Cafe at Carefree Greenhouse. Origins Cafe was started in October 2011 by sisters Kristen and Dana Leonard. The Leonard family’s a mission is to bring about a positive change to the world through food. The goal is to provide the community with food that is good for the body, clean for the planet, and fair for the global community. The cafe celebrates a daily harvest for lunch Tuesday through Saturday and brunch every Sunday. The Leonard sisters have traveled all over the world; just this past winter, Kristen journeyed to Kaua’i, Hawaii and brought back with her, “The teachings of the plants, as well as the incredible feeling of peace from the magical jungle garden of coconut palms, towering ginger, and sugar cane. Life started in a garden, and to the garden we

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Sharry Whitney and Ellen Pierno enter the “secret” garden through a door in a stone archway at Brookwood Garden on the shores of Otsego Lake in Cooperstown.

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will return.” Origin’s Cafe hosts a special harvest dinner every Wednesday evening. The night we attended there was special guest herbalist and expert forager, Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower, who lead a foraging walk for weeds, leaves, seeds, and shoots right in the backyard of Origins Cafe. She identified edible wild plants and their uses and we were taught about stinging nettles, yellow dock, burdock, dandelions, black mustard leaves, wild blueberries, hawthorn, and sumac berry.

After the walk, we found our reserved table in the greenhouse. We settled into our chairs and enjoyed live music by special guest Mike Herman. A ladies’ night is always a reason to celebrate, and we brought a bottle of wine to enjoy with dinner (it’s BYOB). We eagerly looked over the evening’s menu in anticipation. The first course was a verdant creamy spicy nettle soup with yellow dock crackers. Marguerite informed us that the soup is good for the immune system, containing vitamins A, C, iron, potassium, magnesium, copper, and silicon. The yellow dock crackers were delicious, nutty, high in B vitamins, and gluten-free.

The main course was a fluffy burdock frittata baked with garlic scapes, tomato, cauliflower, and local Spurbeck’s cheddar cheese topped with Chanterelle mushrooms gathered from the shores of Otsego Lake. It was served with a salad of

A bright green and delicious Nettle soup.

Wild greens with dandelion capers served with a fluffy burdock frittata.

On our visit there was a special “Weed Walk” with herbalist Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower before dinner.

Origin’s Cafe celebrates a harvest dinner every Wednesday evening throughout the summer and fall.

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Origin’s Cafe owners Kristen and Dana Leonard wild greens and dandelion capers. The carnival of flavors on the tongue was tantalizing, delicious, and like nothing I had ever tasted before.

The perfect ending to any ladies’ night is always dessert, and the wild blueberry tart with sumac and hawthorn berry drizzle was flaky, fruity, and fabulous! We all loved every moment at Origins Cafe and we thanked our beautiful hosts and the guest herbalist/wild foods forager for a delicious and inspiring dinner.

All good things must come to an end, and as the moon followed us home, we sleepily talked about our fantastic evening. Origins Cafe was truly an exceptional experience and I feel fortunate to have shared a memorable evening with two extraordinary women, Sharry and Ellen. Together, we enjoyed a wonderful evening of art, gardens, and greenhouse dining that nourished our bodies and souls. Let’s all toast to an August ladies’ night and celebrate our natural roots and origins! •

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It’s the middle of summer, so the MV Adventure club heads to what they call “FIM” country (Frankfort Ilion Mohawk) to visit Frankfort. The town was established in 1796 from part of the town of German Flatts and was named after one of its earliest settlers, Lawrence (Lewis) Frank.

The kids pop in to D’Alessandro’s Nursery & Landscaping to see the beautiful waterfalls and koi, and to get a flowering tree for Luke and Toby’s mom’s birthday in August.

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On their way to Frankfort the team stops on Frankfort Hill at the historic District #10 one room schoolhouse. It was built in 1840s and served as an active public school for 110 years until 1956. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

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Bake in a 400-degree oven for about 45 minutes until bubbling and golden brown.

Maya and her grandfather enjoy blackberry picking at Brick House Acres Berry Farm for her grandmother’s blackberry pie!

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The Mohawk River and Erie Canal come together in Frankfort near the Frankfort Harbor Marina. The Adventure Club takes the opportunity to do some river and canal canoeing! There are big plans for the marina in the near future including kayak launches and trail development. located on Marina Park Drive off of Railroad St., Frankfort

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It’s a beautiful evening, so the kids head back up Frankfort Hill to the Frankfort-Highland airport because it’s MV Firebird night! The RC club meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 7:30pm, but you might find someone flying there on other nice evenings too.

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The kids take a tour of CTM Corporation. The company has built parts for NASA’s Mars program including pieces for Phoenix and Curiosity.

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herkimer While in Herkimer dig for your own Herkimer Diamonds. See our MV Family “Diamond” Road Trip on page 60

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Ace of Diamonds Mine in Middleville, looks like an old prospectors’ town

diamonds story By Melinda Karastury

The Mohawk Valley is rich in arts, culture, heritage, and, perhaps the most treasured of its attributes, its geology and the unique quartz crystals known as Herkimer diamonds.

Our MV family road trip s month is a sparkling diamond adventure! My daughter Alana Karastury, her best friend, Alexandra Kiesel, and I are looking forward to a day of excavating 450-million-year-old treasures.

We head north of Herkimer to Ace of Diamonds Mine in Middleville. This diamond in the rough, has been family-owned for 52 years and is home to a huge outcrop of dolostone. Inside these rocks are unique quartz crystals that look to the untrained eye like diamonds. They are found only in Herkimer County, so it’s only natural that it was given the name “Herkimer diamond.” Herkimer diamonds are hard enough to scratch glass and are of a hexagonal structure and doubly terminated (points on both ends). We arrive and are greeted by Ted and our guide, Shelley Schaaf. Ted goes over the mine’s map and explains to us how to search for Herkimer diamonds, and what to look for, using examples. “You might just get lucky and find a good one,” owner Ted Smith says. When his family took over the mine, most visitors were serious rock collectors. “Now it’s turned into a place for the whole family,” he says. “All the crystals are the clearest crystals in the world and you can go anywhere in the world and somebody’s gonna know what a Herkimer diamond is,” he continues.

Mining for Herkimer diamonds is an outdoor activity, rain or shine, and is enjoyed by people of all ages. There are picnic areas if you want to bring your own lunch. The Rock Shop also sells cold soda, ice cream, candy, and other snacks. The ticket entitles you to enter and leave the digging area as many times as we would like. We plan to stay for the day, but Ace of Diamonds Mine also has campsites you can rent directly across the street.

Diggers take home all the diamonds and rock specimens they find. Bring your own hammers, chisels and small garden tools if you have them. Ace of Diamond Mine Rock Shop also sells or rents prospector tools. Wear old clothes suitable for digging in the dirt and closed toe shoes suitable for climbing over rocks and walking in the mud. We recommend you wear sun block, gloves, safety glasses, and even a hat, and bring a collecting container/bucket. Sunglasses are NOT recommended because you want to be able to clearly see the crystal sparkle in the sunlight. If you don’t want to try your luck splitting rocks open, the best time to find crystals out in the open is after it rains.

Shelley joins us as we rent some tools and get ready to dig. The girls and I are very excited to get started, and we are led to the mining area while Shelley gives a little history and geology lesson. The girls are so enthusiastic that they make a running start up the huge mound of rocks. I watch as they laugh and hold hands helping one another at the top. We are ready to get ourselves dirty and digging. Our guide has an eye for Herkimer diamonds and finds them quickly in the rubble and dirt. Shelley says, “I am hooked on Herks,” as

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Ace of Diamonds Mine owner Ted Smith instructs Alana Karastury and Alexandra Kiesel on how to find the 450 million-year-old herkimer diamonds in the dolomite limestone.

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she scoops up another one twinkling “hello” in the sunlight.

The hammers swing and the sound echoes through the mine with each contact. We found simple garden tools work best and we discover many, many Herkimer diamonds. The girls are ecstatic, jumping around and shouting out with glee, “Found one!” Mining is hard work and will make you sweat. The sun beats down on us, as we make sure we take breaks and stay hydrated. We are amazed at all our Herk finds, We each have collection of Herkimer diamonds of varying sizes to bring home with us, as well as drusy, calcite, and a dolomite limestone piece with a Herkimer diamond too beautiful to disturb. Alexandra is also excited to find some pyrite and lava stone amongst the rocks. Alana loves climbing the rocks, scanning the mine, and waiting to see a sparkle. We thank Shelley and Ted for a gem of a day and head out on our next adventure: waterfalls and pools.

We are feeling hot and sweaty and ready for a cool dip. We use GPS coordinates and helpful directions from a local farmer to find our way to Old City Brook. We park at the bridge and we can hear the rush of water in the distance.

West Canada Valley’s first mill town was built along the Old City Brook with its more than 30 waterfalls. Soon after the Revolutionary War, seven mills were built along one mile of the brook. They included a gristmill, sawmill, bark mill, tannery, and mills for carding, fulling, dyeing, and cloth dressing. When larger, more productive mills were built on West Canada Creek, the mills were shut down. Old City Brook is unique in the Mohawk Valley because of its waterfalls, but also because the last mile runs over solid rock right to the mouth of the stream. This flat-rock bottom makes the lower reaches of Old City Brook relatively easy to explore.

We quickly get into our bathing suits and bring a towel and lay it on the rocks.

Without hesitation the girls run into the water to cool off, and laughter and pure joy emanate from them. Wading through rapids and pools, and climbing and sitting in small waterfalls is great fun. Upstream from the bridge is the highest waterfall on Old City Brook. It didn’t take long for the girls to discover that algae-covered limestone makes great water slides ... whoosh, down the waterfall

Cooling off after a hot day prospecting in the sun.

Our guide Shelley Schaaf points out to Alana and Alexandra a cavity of herkimer diamonds

A few of our Ace of Diamond Mines “Herks” after a scrub and a clean at home.

Best friends walk under the bridge for a swim in one of the over 30 waterfalls on Old City Brook in Middleville.

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into the pool of water below! The girls sit repeatedly on the waterfall and love the sensation of the water washing over them. They climb the rocks to explore and find one waterfall after another. We do not venture far from the bridge; after a long day of laboring in the sun, we just did not have the energy. Instead, we played and swam in the two falls closest to the bridge. I find patches of black caps along the brook edge and gather enough for a pie, but instead we eat all of them. We relax and cool down in the crisp water. The sun begins to lower in the sky and our bellies begin to rumble. Sadly, we had to leave this beautiful place but all agree we will be back to explore more of it. We dry off, change our clothes, brush our hair, and try to look presentable for a dinner at the CC Pub & Grille.

The Crystal Chandelier was established in 1982, “Casual Dining at Its Finest,” and later named the CC Pub and Grille by owner Rudy Scialdo.

Located next to the world famous Herkimer Diamond Mines and KOA campground, the Crystal Chandelier caters to all social and business functions, from wedding receptions to corporate meetings. The CC Pub & Grille menu has a wide variety of items, ranging from steaks, to salads, to homestyle cooked food. We are greeted by Nickey, who is also our server, and she leads us to our table on the sun porch. The naturally-lit room is casual, comfortable, and it brings the outdoors in.

The girls and I are hungry after all our hard work and play. We order drinks and a fried meatball appetizer to start. The meatballs are large and crispy on the outside, but tender and moist on the inside. We all enjoy dipping the meatballs in the flavorful marinara sauce. After much consideration, my daughter Alana and I went for the “House Specialty since 1982” ribs.

Alana orders the ribs off the kids menu, and it included a chicken breast and cheesy thinly sliced potatoes. She is always brave and tries new things, for which we commend her. Alexandra went with her favorite: shrimp scampi with angel hair pasta. The ribs fall off the bone and are very delicious. The well-balanced homemade rub and barbecue sauce is both sweet and spicy and I love the bold kick at the end. The seasonal vegetables, green beans,

Playing in the cool waterfalls of Old City Brook

Neighboring Herkimer Diamond Mines offers a fun and educational Herkimer diamond museum and shop.

The Crystal Chandelier was established in 1982 and caters to all social and business functions.

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are cooked just right to retain their beautiful color and crunch. The sliced cheesy potatoes are a nice complement and side to the meal. Chef Mike Scalise came out to the sun porch to ask us if we all enjoyed our dinner. We answer with a resounding, “Yes, thank you!”

The girls get up from the table to explore the restaurant and admire the dolomite limestone and Herkimer diamond-embedded wall on the sun porch. The dessert plate is shown to us and we can’t help but order two cheesecakes to share: key lime and traditional, topped with strawberries.

Alexandra has never had cheesecake and she absolutely loves it. Food coma sets in and I enjoy a cup of coffee, and a caffeine kick, for the drive home. Also, before we leave, owner Rudy Scialdo takes time out to give us a tour around the restaurant and banquet hall. The CC Pub & Grille is the perfect friendly casual dining place, close to the mines, and casual enough that it doesn’t matter if you’re a little bit dirty.

On the drive home the girls are talking away and giggling in the backseat. They each examine all their Herkimer diamonds and share their excitement and finds with one another. The fun doesn’t end there; when we arrive home, they get started scrubbing away all the millions of years of dirt and grime. The cleaning of the Herkimer diamonds helps to bring out their gorgeous splendor! Diamonds are a girl’s best friend after all, and Herkimer diamonds are no exception! •

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Alexandra’s delicious shrimp scampi over angel hair pasta.

The first course appetizer, fried meatballs with marinara sauce.

The star of our meal, key lime cheesecake!

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Rome sculptor Jim McDermid is drawn to large hollow tree logs. He uses a chainsaw to physically shape them into being. In front of his studio, on Route 291 in Marcy, are very large sculptures in process and natural logs yet untouched waiting quietly for attention. The lawn is covered in wood shavings and in the center is a rounded sculpture on which he is currently working. He prefers to use hollow logs so that the inner space will be an active part of the finished art and also because a solid log gets very heavy. His favorite logs are walnut; a good friend Patrick Vedder gifts them to him.

Although his studio is expansive, he works primarily outside, so he is limited by the elements. His latest piece, “Passages,” he describes as a

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McDermid’s creations are completed through improvisation and embody the natural wood forms

doorway, or surfing on waves of movement.

“I worked on this piece this past winter, surrounded by snow, and the refracted light illuminated the carvings. Now the snow’s gone and the work looks entirely different.”

Typically, his design changes many times throughout the process. He uses chalk to mark where he left off.

McDermid has always enjoyed working

with his hands, and it was only natural after college that sculpture became rampant in his life. He was born in Chicago, IL. He received has a master’s degree in painting from Syracuse University and a master’s in painting with a minor in sculpture from Crambrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

McDermid taught sculpture at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute and sculpture and printmaking at Hamilton College.

He was a resident at Sculpture Space in 1976, 1977, 1979, and 1987. He is married with three sons, Edward, Orin, and Brett.

Son Brett also shares his father’s love and passion for wood, and is an expert furniture maker in New York City.

Inside McDermid’s large studio there are sketches, paintings, and sculptures in different states of completion, including a curious bust of a Mohawk. He shares that while he was working on the piece, he discovered a leather locker handle and a horse bit in a box of items he collected. He added the pieces to the sculpture to represent the oppression and silencing of the Mohawk people. Together, we research the original word for Mohawk and I had the honor of helping name the sculpture, Kanien’kehá:ka.

Jim McDermid is a happy, energetic host, but I sense an overwhelming sense of “sadness” in his works. I am deeply affected by a sculpture of a woman in a seated potion with her arms covering her head and her legs pulled inward. A rope is wrapped around her, with a small iron ball hanging between her legs. I lift the ball and cannot believe the weight of the seemingly small ball.

There is beauty in the way wood is removed and forms emerge with the energy of McDermid’s saw. The tool is the most direct way for the sculptor to combine think-

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“I try to find the human in nature and the nature within my own being,” he says.

As a spectator, McDermid feels you have to find your own connection to the sculptures.

“You want to be alive, and you want to try and put that energy into the wood, and that is better than just being purely abstract. It is not about a story but about itself,” he says.

One of McDermid’s favorite sculptures is Rondanini Pietà, the last marble sculpture that Michelangelo worked on before his death in 1564. The sculpture is of a woman who gives comfort to a man who is weak or fallen. The two are bonded as one figure. Michelangelo said, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Inspired by his mentor, McDermid looks to the medium for guidance and through improvisation his work echoes the natural forms.

You can’t help but circle around the towering abstract sculptures and get up close, touch, and step back again to view them at every angle. A second story loft offers a view from above and another perspective of the crowd of sculptures.

My tour is coming to an end and I cannot help but revisit some of the sculptures again before I leave. Just when I think I’ve begun to know a piece, I discover a new dimension.

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Perhaps it’s an odd thing to walk through a placid woodland setting while imagining a storm of catastrophic proportions—one capable of uprooting forest giants and breaking their trunks like matchsticks. It may be equally strange to intentionally interrupt a woodland songbird chorus with the conjured up sound of long-ago axes and chainsaws, but this is all part of reading a forest and unlocking its past by analyzing its current state. Signs of the land’s evolution are not as hidden as one may think.

It’s all right there in the way the trees are growing and in what’s growing around them. It can be seen in the contours of the forest floor and in the artifacts of human occupation.

The way trees grow can tell us volumes about the conditions they developed in during the course of their lives and they provide clues as to what the forest was like in the past. For instance, it’s clear that a large tree that branches out low on its trunk has spent its formative years in open sunny condi-

tions and not in a shady forest. In contrast, a tree that has a trunk that stretches high before dividing most probably spent the early years of its life under a dark forest canopy. Two of the oldest trees in our woods provide examples of both distinct forms.

Our oldest Sugar Maple is approximately 200 years old, and unlike a tree of the deep forest that spent its early years in a sprint to reach the sunlight, it had been exposed to full sunlight at a field’s edge. For the maple, light deprivation never pruned all of its lower branches, and to this day it exhibits a form not unlike a typical curb side shade tree. Another one of our mightiest trees is an American Beech of similar age, but its trunk grows straight up for over 40 feet before branching and spreading its foliage into the canopy. Like the maple, this old giant is close to a property border but, unlike that tree, forest conditions must have prevailed on all sides for much of its life. Just as the maple was left alone to serve as a border marker (and probably as

This 200-year old American Beech shows the scars of being hit by buckshot a sap producer), the beech was probably allowed to remain because of its location and possibly for its coveted beechnuts.

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in the brush-covered site for about an hour before calling it quits. The young This old Sugar Maple Tree grew minks knew to stay quiet at the edge of a meadow for when potential predators most of its life were lurking. I finally saw the mother mink make a visit to the site sometime after.

The other day I came upon an old mason jar partially imbedded in the soil. It lay on its side and was half filled with moss. It resembled a tiny terrarium.

Inside the long abandoned vessel had developed a micro habitat, one which was moister than the surrounding soil. No doubt over the lost. The corruption of beech bark associated with decades many invertebrates BBD has also effectively obliterated the carved ini- and possibly even an occasional salamander found tials of generations of teenagers. One border tree it an apt shelter. Near the jar was a spattering of that was recently destroyed by the disease bore the pottery fragments. Some resembled glossy white initials “JSK.” I didn’t need to estimate how long stones. They appeared to have percolated up from ago those initials were carved since the letters were a square meter of soil at the base of a Black Cherry accompanied by a precise date, “June 15, 1928.” Tree. One large shard had a vibrant blue glaze and Today that tree, the monogram, and all of the other clearly bore the mark, “Made in Germany.” Likely, evidence recorded on its bark are gone, all lost to it derived from a plate that once graced the table of that disease. a nearby farm house. Certainly, all of the artifacts Signs of human influence on the forest are quite found here were generated locally and possibly by literally everywhere, but some of the most tangible the same family. Large American Basswood and signs may be the artifacts–the items people lost or Bitternut Hickory trees now grow on this spot that intentionally discarded. These things are usually was likely once the edge of a pasture and a prime considered eyesores by those of us who like to have place to dump household refuse. There are sevour wilderness experience unsullied by reminders of civilization and prefer the illusion of a pristine natural world. Many of the objects left behind by people have at least been partially reclaimed by the environment. They’ve been repurposed as animal housing or otherwise incorporated into the surrounding habitat. Some objects are used again and again by wildlife. The carcass of a household appliance becomes a stand-in for a hollow tree and an old rusted water tank becomes a ground burrow for some forest denizen. I recall a few years ago that a mink raised its family in one of those recycled dwellings. I had heard some high pitched calling emanating from the heart of an old dump and at first thought a mother cat had kittens there. I even brought a few of Spring Farm’s domestic animal The remains of a stone wall that bordered an old field care staff out to help investigate. We poked around

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A rusted old tank, half buried in the soil, has been used as a shelter by wildlife eral old dumping grounds around our nature preserve and, I dare say, on just about any other large piece of land in the area. Some of these make-shift dumps would seem to have been used only a few times, while others, like the one the minks lived in, may have been used many times over a period of years. An archeologist would no doubt be able to find some interesting relics by sifting through those piles of mostly bottles and cans. It’s said that you can learn anything you’d want to know about people simply by examining their trash, and I’m sure that’s true, but the aim of this article is to examine phenomena–whether imposed on the land by people or by nature—and see what it can tell us about the forest and its history.

Though dumps are most often located within a property, typically at the periphery of a cultivated area and usually well out of sight, they can give you some idea of where there was hedgerow or border.

But they are surely not as good an indicator as piles of stone and old barbed wire fences. Around the borders of fields used for crops are typically found great quantities of field stones. They had been removed from the land during cultivation and amassed in piles along the field’s edge. These are often found right along a fence line or a property border. Over time, some of the stone piles become indistinct as they are covered by foliage and some may be obscured by a build-up of soil but many remain surprisingly visible, as if they’d been stacked only the day before. Seeing a random line of piled stones meandering through a forest seems incongruous, but it speaks to the change in land usage over a period of time. An estimate of the tree ages

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on either side of an old fence line gives us an idea of how long ago the fields were abandoned and allowed to grow in.

At the preserve, we have some woodlands that are growing on land that had at one time been cleared and leveled for farming. On the south side of one old field border, the oldest trees are about 45 years old, and on the north side the trees are as old as 80. On the south side, the relatively level forest floor tells us that the land was most probably used to grow crops, while on the north side, the uneven, undulating forest floor indicates that the land was never leveled for farming and was most likely used as pastureland. The presence of broken-off lengths of barbed wire protruding from old border trees confirms that it was at one time used to pasture livestock. Nearby, another similar piece of forest on uneven ground was quite probably maintained as a timber reserve or woodlot. There, the diversity

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This row of relative giants was spared the ax only by virtue of their fortuitous position. Land owners on both sides of the line tolerated them because they marked the border or created a windbreak, or as mentioned before, they earned their keep by producing sap or nuts. Perhaps the landowners feared to cut them because they couldn’t predict whose property they’d fall on. For what ever reason, they were allowed to live to their natural life expectancy. From these very trees came the seeds that gave rise to the present day forest. For up to two centuries, their seeds rained down onto surrounding lands and when the farmers loosened their grip on those adjacent fields and pastures, the forest began to regenerate.

We really have no sizable remnants of original old growth forest in the Mohawk Valley, but we do have some terrain that recalls its presence. The forest floor or what’s sometimes referred to as the “microtopography” of a forest can be fascinating to examine because it can indicate where giant trees once stood and even in what direction they fell.

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places to look for pit and mound landscapes are in the vicinity of A Yellow Birch Tree grows on top of an old tree stump wooded gorges. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries they, too, were subject to deforestation along with the rest of the land, but most of these areas escaped being leveled.

Just a few short years ago, one section of my favorite forest in the region was destroyed by a storm that produced very strong straightline winds. The winds were part of an intense storm system that also spawned a few tornadoes, including one that briefly touched down on the eastern border of our own nature preserve at Spring Farm. At Hamilton College’s Kirkland Glen, the storm bowled down at least a dozen trees that were well over a century old. Some had been torn up smooth, undulating topography like waves on an ocean. It’s an interesting thing to stand among the by their roots, while others were broken off about pits and mounds and imagine the forest as it was 15 feet above the ground. All of the massive trunks lay parallel to each other on the ground, which is before Europeans arrived.

One might think that these kinds of gouges characteristic of this type of blow-down. Many on the forest floor wouldn’t persist or remain dis- years from now, the disaster that befell that grove cernible after generations or centuries, and that the of immense trees will be apparent even after the dynamic forces of nature, principally the relentless trees’ wood and root systems rot away. The blowforces of water and gravity, would erase all traces down site quickly becomes a nursery where sapof that vanished world, but in the few obscure cor- lings vigorously compete to fill the gaps in the forners that people didn’t deliberately alter, the con- est canopy. These new forest trees will be growing tours of the ancient forest floor do remain. The best on a pit and mound landscape similar to that which

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Although the forest abounds with signs and artifacts of its current animal inhabitants, it holds little evidence of the wildlife that existed here a generation ago and longer. For such proof one needs to look harder and deeper. Since most woodpeckers excavate their nests and extract their insect prey from dead wood, their carvings don’t usually last more than a decade, but that largely depends on the species of tree and how well it resists rot. However, sapsuckers make their living by drilling sap holes into live trees. As a result, their work can persist for many years as evidenced by the lines of hole scars that can be easily located on the bark of trees throughout the forest.

About eight years ago at the preserve, an old Eastern Hemlock tree was shattered by a lightning strike. Most trees when hit become burned and/or deeply scarred, but this one essentially exploded.

Much of the tree’s bark blew off and some of the heartwood fragmented into large splinters that went flying in all directions. Some pieces as thick as 2 by 4s were discovered embedded a foot deep in the ground. Luckily, no one was around at the time of that incident. When examining the remains of the tree, I was able to peer deep into the tree’s heartwood, and counting back about 100 years in annual rings, there was a clear lateral line of dark spots. These were the scars from holes made by a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker about a century before.

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This is proof positive that sapsuckers were in the region plying their trade way back then. Of course, this is not earthshaking news, since we already know from old bird observation reports that sapsuckers were increasing in the region at that time.

However, a solid confirmation like the holes found deep in the tree is always nice to have.

A lightning strike can leave a fissure that travels the entire length of a tree trunk. If the strike doesn’t kill the tree, the bark heals around it and leaves a long scar that remains visible as long as the tree stands. Finding lightning scars is fairly easy in a forest with a lot of tall trees. Judging by how the healed bark appears, we can estimate when the lightning strike took place.

Forests where logging has taken place can make for more complicated reading, but they, too, are decipherable. Discerning blow-downs from old selective logging operations can be done even long after all the old tree stumps have rotted away. Since the trees are sawed off at their base and the majority of the trunk’s wood is trucked off-site, there is no pit and mound topography created from logging.

Instead, there may be long furrows–parallel ruts where machinery was driven through the forest.

The evolution of a forest clearing, whether it derives from logging or natural causes, usually follows a similar path. The increased amount of light reaching the forest floor fosters a period of dense plant growth. The brambles that take hold can reach up to six feet and may dominate the clearing for over a decade or until the high canopy closes in

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again. Some of our woods at the nature preserve were selectively logged nearly 25 years ago and many of the stumps from beech and hemlock trees are still quite visible. Most are blackened by fungus and/or covered with moss; all are being slowly consumed. A few of the Eastern Hophornbeam stumps have taken on the highly weathered appearance of driftwood. With the exception of a handful of beech stumps that continue to sprout new growth, it is doubtful that there will be any trace of these stumps once we pass the 35-year mark.

A few wild animals regularly leave lasting marks for us to interpret. Like teenagers carving their initials into the bark of trees, male Whitetailed Deer use their antlers to scrape the bark off of young trees. The resulting gouges are sometimes enough to kill the tree. More often, the tree survives and the wounds begin to close but the characteristic scars remain. The lack of old scars of this kind found on the region’s larger diameter trees helps to confirm what is already known about deer population in our region—that they were once far more rare here and only increased to their current population densities in the last half century. Beavers also have a penchant for leaving marks on trees–in their case, teeth marks. Most of the trees that beavers start to work on get felled, but some remain standing and display tell-tale scars for decades. Beavers exert a lot of control over their habitat, arguably more than any animal besides humans. By felling trees and creating dams and wetlands, their impact on the land can be substantial. After decades pass,

a former beaver site may superficially resemble a blow-down, but the fallen trees will be in close proximity to water. That detail will help separate them from evidence of wind damage, as should the absence of pit and mound topography.

It’s a great thing to walk through a forest and appreciate all it has to offer, from its trees and flowers to its wildlife. But there are many more dimensions to any habitat and a greater understanding of those hidden worlds can only add to our appreciation. In this article, I’ve only scratched the surface by introducing a few simple techniques to better understand our forest and its evolution. I challenge all to rediscover the habitats that exist around us, to tease out their secrets, and learn to see the forest for the trees. •

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 writes a weekly blog about the nature preserve, which can be found at: talesfromthewilds.blogspot.com

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The Herkimer County Court House and jail were housed in a wooden structure located on North Main Street in Herkimer, diagonally across from the Herkimer Reformed Church. It was built some time after 1791, when the county was formed. In 1797, the jail was considered inadequate.

The Mohawk Courier and Gazette reported on January 30, 1834, the following: “Fire at Herkimer—The court house of this county, together with the church in the village of Herkimer, was completely destroyed by fire on Saturday evening last.

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According to a latPhotograph of an early view of the 1834 Herkimer County er history of Herkimer Jail with the wrought iron fence out front of the jail.

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Sheriff Frederick Bellinger and Undersheriff Francis E. Spinner went to Auburn Prison to learn about its security measures. It is unknown who the architect and designer of the jail were, but I am sure Bellinger and Spinner had a hand in it. In the Herkimer County Historical Society’s

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Spinner papers’ collection is a drawing of the floor plan of the jail in 1833. It was probably drawn by him, because the hand writing is very similar to his. The 1834 jail cost $10,300. It is made of limestone quarried near Little Falls. The first sheriff of the new jail was Francis E. Spinner. The jail is Federal in style and is on the State and National Register of Historic Places.

According to reports, “Beneath the front entrance, a few stone steps led down to the kitchen, sheriff’s office and the cell block. As the only kitchen in the building, the large, brick hearth was used to prepare food for prisoners, law officers and the sheriff’s family.”

In 1834, the cells were built to accommodate a single prisoner, while the prison rooms could hold several people. Interior cell walls were made of limestone and were two-feet thick. The floors of the cells were made of flagstone, and the doors were heavy iron grated.

In 1898, the stone cell structure was removed and a new steel three-floor structure was put in its place. The steel structure, which is the present structure, pulled the cells forward and included a caged exercise room or “bull pen.”

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en into the cell block area, which was in the back part of the jail.

The first floor consisted of a Federal-style formal entry hall, stairway, and rooms on the left and right for the sheriff’s residence. One cannot access the second floor of cells without either going to the first floor or the third floor. There was a peek hole in the sheriff’s residence, so he could look in on the second floor cell block.

The second floor housed three rooms and a bathroom for the sheriff’s family. At the top of the stairs was the access to the

third floor of the cell block area. Two cells for the female prisoners were housed there, with an outer area with bars. This is where Chester Gillette was held. Chester, who murdered Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake near Old Forge on July 11, 1906, was found guilty of the murder and was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Auburn State Prison on March 30, 1908. Craig Brandon wrote a book on the murder of Grace Brown titled Murder in the Adirondacks in 1986. There are two larger cells on the third floor.

The sheriff and his family lived on the second and third floors of the front part of the jail. The jail was used until 1977, when the Herkimer County Correctional Facility was built.

The wooden structure on the left of the limestone structure of the jail housed the laundry room in the basement and a staircase up to the first floor of the sheriff’s residence.

There is another set of stairs to another room.

Roxalana Druse, who murdered her husband, William Druse, in 1884 in the Town of Warren, was housed on the third floor, which today is the attic area over the cell block.

Roxalana was found guilty and sentenced to die by hanging in the backyard of the jail on

February 28, 1887. James M. Greiner wrote a book on the Roxalana Druse titled Last Woman Hanged in 2010.

The Herkimer County Historical Society has research materials on both the Druse and Gillette cases, along with research on the Herkimer County 1834 Jail.

The Friends of Historic Herkimer County formed in 2005 and has taken on the restoration of the Herkimer County 1834 Jail. To date, the sheriff’s quarters have been cleaned out and flooring has been put in and the walls painted. The third floor has been painted and made to look similar to what Chester Gillette’s cell looked like. The three floors of cell area walls need plastering and painting. Funding is needed to repair the exterior walls of the jail. The jail is open occasionally, so be sure to check your local newspaper or Facebook to see when the jail will be opened. • Sue Perkins is the Executive Director of the Herkimer County Historical Society and historian for the town of Manheim.

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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. See issues 1-12 for her diaries from their first year.

August, 1976: The murmured songs of July’s infant crickets blossom to full chorus as they reach maturity now, fulfilling the splendor of late summer. They sing to me as we ride our bikes on Pardeeville Road through our wildflower gardens. I can think of these ancient fields of hay gone wild as ours, because there’s no one to say otherwise. I love the myriad colors, textures, and shapes of wild flowers, and even the grasses, with their full, seeded heads nodding in ambrosial zephyrs, casting a diaph-

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anous glow over a rainbow of purple vetch, crimson clover, white yarrow, yellow buttercups, and orange black-eyed Susans.

I’m pleased to discover some white-blossomed boneset in this medley, with its unique opposite leaves that encircle the stem. I gather some for medicinal tea. I read that though it’s bitter, it’s good for winter colds. I can handle bitter, right?

Ha! Not this bitter! We settle for a nodding acquaintance in the future.

August 3rd, we celebrate Tim’s 39th birthday with wild blueberry cobbler before our girls return to their alternative school in Salt Lake City. It’s a bittersweet party, since we will miss them terribly, and letters and phone calls must suffice until Christmas.

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We harvest 310 pounds of honey from the hives we’ve placed at the Goodney Dairy Farm in Poland, which we like to call the “Land of Milk and Honey.” It’s thrilling to spin the frames of honeycomb in the extractor, creating centrifugal force that causes the uncapped combs to release their precious nectar. This delectable liquid gold pours out of the spout in the bottom, easily filling jars with no further processing needed.

We decide to also try three hives here in the woods. Our elderly neighbor Louie Muzyk advises us to protect them from bears, so we nail some old pieces of chainlink fencing around and over three stout stumps, totally enclosing them. Louie crawls over it, bouncing and shaking it with mighty force, to test if it’s truly bear-proof, and gives it a thumb’s up.

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access the hives, we have to unlace heavy wire connecting the fencing, squeeze through wearing hat, veil, boots, gloves, and overalls, carrying smoker and pry-bar, and then take hives apart in a bent-over position. Meanwhile, hundreds of bees are flying around, getting really, really mad if the smoker is too hot, or not smoky enough.

I often do it wrong and, as a result, end up with my whole body vibrating with honeybees trying to sting me through my overalls in this little cage. I have to remind myself to stay calm, but it’s a true test of mental control to not freak out. I know I’m getting too close to the edge, so decide to let Tim have the privilege, instead.

When we’re not taking their honey, we learn to get along peacefully with bees. One day, a bee lands on my bare arm when I’m sitting outside. I tense up, but don’t move.

She casually cleans herself and rests a bit before flying off without any harm to me.

We learn that if we move slowly around them, they are not threatened, but it’s not always possible. I tend to throw weeds over the fence when I’m gardening, and when it gets too near the hives, the guards get mad and come after me. Tim wonders why I’m suddenly sprinting out of the garden, leaping over the gate, dashing into our cottage, and slamming the door behind me.

After a few years, we sell all of our hives. They require a lot of care and time we don’t have—supplemental feeding, collecting swarms, cleaning supers, protection from skunks, raccoons, and bears, loss from fungus and disease. And, we feel guilty about taking their honey, even though we call it their “rent.” After leaving my dentist’s office crying because he told me I had twenty-two cavities, and reading William Duffy’s book Sugar Blues, we give up eating sweets anyway and stick to fresh fruit.

We have more affection and appreciation of all bees after this. We allow wildflowers like dandelions, forget-me-nots,

and white clover to bloom in our yard before mowing it, to provide food for them. We call it a “Managed Meadow.”

It’s beautiful! Too bad more lawns couldn’t be maintained this way.

1980: We’re excited to read about Ruth Stout’s no-work garden mulch method. Mulch holds in moisture, keeps down weeds, keeps the soil cooler, and makes digging unnecessary. Less work.

I like that idea! There’s lots of moss and leaf mold in our woods.

With an empty feed sack, I look ahead for the easiest route through the woods, around jumbles of fallen trees with dead branches sticking out like giant porcupine quills, and just as painful to run into. Then, in the darkest, wettest recesses, I find wide vistas of succulent carpets created by green sphagnum mosses, flowing up and down the hillocks, embracing the trees as far as I can see—a fairyland.

But underneath, is a quagmire of boggy muck, knee deep, or deeper. So, I pull up handfuls of eight-inch tall mosses along the edges. It seems like a sin to damage this, but I spread my harvest holes apart so they can re-grow easily.

I hike home, bent over like a beast of burden, with the old feedbag on my back, full and heavy from the water in the moss. My shirt gets soaked, and I pray I won’t get lost and make the trip longer than necessary.

We also pick-up bags of leaves and grass left in front of homes we drive by. We squeeze some in the back of Vicktor the VW, and pile so many on the roof the car almost disappears and we just look like a mound of bags

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traveling along the highway. But I wonder how organic this stuff really is.

All this helps create a loamy soil, but besides being a lot of extra work, it works too well in one way. It keeps the soil cooler, but here in the Adirondack Foothills we need to warm it up. It also, unfortunately, provides a nice, safe blanket for moles and voles to live under, and they eat our root crops. No more mulch.

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One year, we notice that the morning glories I planted to decorate our outdoor shower stall are exceptionally luxurious compared to the ones by the garden gate. In fact, they look like Jack’s beanstalk the way they’re growing up, into the pine trees. One day when we’re commenting on this, I shyly confess to Tim that I occasionally pee in the outdoor shower. He acts shocked, then humbly confesses that he does, also. Hmmm. We wonder if there a correlation?

Tim showering with the morning glories We ask our friend Eugene Patula, retired professor of botany at Hamilton College, about this.

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With the south wall and the porch gone, the cottage is smaller, about 16 feet by 16 feet, but it feels huge, and so bright. It’s just like we’re outdoors. We put screening up, until we have time to frame in the windows.

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“Who’s been eating our apples?”

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their shocked reaction at the music that came out. I am beginning to understand how the Three Bears felt when Goldilocks intruded and am almost afraid to look into our bedroom loft.

“Whoever it was, they’ll be back!” Tim predicts.

And he is right. The next morning we are awakened by the sounds of scuffling outside the house near the screen I’d stitched up. We both pop our heads over the edge of the loft openTim is napping inside by our new glass wall ing.

“It’s a bear!” Tim yells.

It is standing on back would legs facing the house with its front paws have such dexterity. The bucket gently patting the screening like a delicate isn’t even tipped over!” spider web.

“Look at this, Tim!” I say. “They took Tim is instantly in action, growling, the lid off the lentils that were soaking on yelling, and attempting to climb head first the stove!” down the loft ladder, in his excitement.

As I look around further I see muddy After remembering he’s not a squirrel, he paw prints on my piano keys. turns and climbs down from the loft feet “Someone’s been playing my piano, first. Though he’s only eight feet away too!” I exclaim, amused, and imagining from the bear, he stamps his feet like all the

other forest animals do when they’re defending their territory. Tim growls, hisses, and yells, “Get out of here!”

The bear does not seem very ruffled by all this fuss, but drops onto all fours and slowly, gracefully, saunters away, looking back once as it ambles down the path.

I imagine he’s thinking, “Well, those wild apples are a little old, and I know where there’s a fresh tree full of them, the lentils aren’t cooked, and the piano isn’t in tune. There are no meats or sweets….Not a good place to bring the wife and kids for a picnic!” •

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“Here’s the plan, guys,” Jackie said, “we need to keep our eyes open for anything shiny.”

Justin agreed. “My mom said she talked to Nick’s mom and there were other coins mixed in with that silver dollar. Quarters, about five dollars worth.

Nick groaned. “Twenty quarters, too?” he said. “That means I’ll probably see one of those and be all happy and then find out it’s not the silver dollar.”

“Hopefully the sunlight will make every coin shine and we can find them all,” Jackie said.

Nick was the first one into the water. He felt terrible about losing his grandfather’s special coin and was still determined to find it.

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swam toward her, but the calico’s stare never wavered. He was hoping to catch a glimpse of the fish that was holding her attention.

But, it wasn’t a fish at all. “Hey, you guys,” he said, calling over to his friends. “I think Dax found something.”

Jackie and Nick were still splashing around and did not hear him.

6 Dax had been keeping an eye on a very shiny object. It was much smaller than a quarter, but shone brighter than any of the coins the kids had found that day or the lures the day before Nick’s party. Justin swam the six feet down to retrieve it. He resurfaced and climbed up onto the dock where Jackie and Nick finally joined him, interested to see what he had discovered.

Justin held it up to show them. “It’s a ring,” he said. “It looks like a really expensive one.”

“They put jewelry inside the piñata, too?”

Nick asked. “Is that a diamond? I’ll bet it’s a fake one from a cereal box or something.”

Jackie shook her head. “I don’t think it was in the piñata,” she said, “and I don’t think it’s a fake.” She turned to Justin. “Are your parents still home?”

“Mom is,” Justin said. “Maybe she can tell if it’s real.”

Both excited and curious, Justin and Jackie removed their flippers and took off.

Nick struggled trying to remove his, and called after them as they ran across the dock and up the steps toward the Roberts’ family camp.

“Wait up, you guys,” he said, and decided to follow after them still wearing the rubbery fins, his feet awkwardly slapping the ground every step of the way.

“Mom, Mom!” Justin yelled as he and Jackie burst through the door of the camp.

“What is it!” Mrs. Robert said. She came dashing out of the kitchen in a panic. “Oh my, I thought maybe one of you had been hurt. You can’t come running into camp yelling like that, you scared me half to death!”

“Sorry, Mom,” Justin said. “But look what we found!” Justin held out his hand, showing his mom the ring. “Do you think it’s real?”

Mrs. Robert stared at the ring for a moment, and then burst into tears.

Nick flopped in just in time to witness her crying and saw Justin and Jackie standing there in silence, not knowing what to say. He whispered to Justin. “Are we doomed?”

That made Mrs. Robert laugh and cry at the same time. “No one is in trouble,” Mrs. Rob-

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ert said, wiping her wet cheeks with the back of her hand. “This ring was my mother’s engagement ring.” She kept talking without removing her eyes from it, as if it might suddenly disappear again. “It was handed down to her from her mom. It is one of the most precious heirlooms in our entire family and I was sure it would never be seen again.” She looked at the three of them who were staring up at her. “It was lost more than 40 years ago.”

“In the lake?” Nick said. “So, I’m not the only one who does that?”

Jackie poked him with her elbow. Hard.

“No, Nick, you are far from the only one to lose something special in the lake,” Mrs. Robert said. “Actually, I am the one who lost this ring.”

That surprised even Jackie. “You lost it?” she said, wishing she hadn’t blurted it out.

“How, Mom?” Justin asked.

“The ring was so beautiful that I kept pleading with my mother to allow me to wear it,” Mrs. Robert explained. “One day we were on the dock and mother was reading a book and she slipped it off her finger and handed it to me.

‘Be careful with it now,’ she told me. I can still see her smile. Minutes later I simply dropped it on the dock and watched it roll and slip from sight between the boards. My father and his friends took the dock apart that summer to try

and find it.”

Still sniffling, Mrs. Robert reached out her arms and drew all three of them in close to her tightly for a giant hug. “Thank you so very much,” she said. “You have no idea what this means to me.”

7 Justin, Jackie and Nick sat on the dock as the sun was slowly going down. It was their favorite place in the world to be together that time of day. Dax sat with them so they supposed it was her favorite place to be as well.

“I’ve never seen my mom like that before,” Justin said.

Nick sighed. “Well, I know we didn’t find my grandpa’s silver dollar, but at least Dax found that ring. I can’t believe it’s been down there moving around on the bottom of the lake for 40 years.”

“Yes, Nick, and who knows?” Jackie said.

“Maybe one day your children will find your grandpa’s silver dollar and give it back to you.”

“Maybe,” Nick said. “But I’ll tell you one thing for sure right now.”

“What’s that?” Jackie asked.

Nick replied firmly. “If they do find it and give it to me, they won’t catch me crying!” he said, and then paused. “At least I don’t think they will.”

Justin grinned. “What is it?” Nick asked.

“If your kids find that silver dollar, you won’t have to worry about crying over it,” Justin said.

Nick frowned. “Why not?” he asked.

Justin looked straight at him. “Because they’re your kids, you old pirate – they’ll spend it!”

The laughter of all three Adirondack kids echoed across the lake. •

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First up congratulations to Gunnar Coston. He has earned the drummers chair with the band WICKED. Having spoke recently to mgr. Bob Acquaviva. Gunnar comes from a musical family and was a perfect fit for the band. He even bleached his hair for the audition. Way to go Gunnar.

Also early in the Month The Utica Zoo Brewfest happens again always a great time with live music from CHina Pig, if there is any truly talented and ecclectic band. it is CHina Pig. Dan Hapanowicz, Joe Peccorello.John Leogrande and Zubby are the long standing members Bill Mirgo is a recent addition China Pig have been playing this great event for all 17 years.

They cover songs from King Crimson, the Moody Blues, The Doors to Pink FLoyd David Bowie and Capt Beefhart.

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Another band who popped up out of Nowhere is Alpha2 the return/continuation of Alpha Centori. Alpha 2 recently played a show recently at The Mohawk Station. Also on that bill was the return of hard rockers Fallin Angel. Art Newman Todd Lewis and crew have rocked a long time in CNY and lets hope we see more shows from both bands soon.

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TeamFit, Sherrill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Flooring D&D Carpets of Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Tru-Line Hardwood Flooring, Whitesboro . . 44 Florists Clinton Florist, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Michael’s Greenhouse, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . 88 Village Florals, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Funeral Services Enea Funeral Service, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . 93 Nunn & McGrath, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Furniture Adirondack Furniture, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Ironwood Furniture, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Jeff ’s Amish Furniture, Jordanville . . . . . . . . . 16 Just Lean Back, Richfield Springs . . . . . . . . . . 46 Furniture Makers Custom Woodcraft, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Garden Centers and Greenhouses Benson Farms, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 D’Alessandro’s Landscaping, Frankfort . . . 39 George’s Nursery & Garden, Clinton . . . . . 18 Juliano’s Greenhouses, Schuyler . . . . . . . . 21 Melinda’s Garden Barn, Richfield Springs . . 19 Michael’s Greenhouse, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . 88 Szarek Greenhouses, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Top Notch Garden Center, Newport . . . . . . 36 Tunnicliff Creamery, Richfield Springs . . . . 57 General Contracting KL-JR Building Contractor, Clayville . . . . . . . 46 Gift Shop s Artisans Corner, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Between Us Sisters, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . . 85 Bittersweet Farm Mercantile, West Burlington . . 30

Butternut Barn, Richfield Springs . . . . . . . . 78 Clinton Pottery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Cobbler and Company, Sharon Springs . . . . 83 Country Connections, Boonville . . . . . . . . . . 66 Fusion Art Gallery, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Hummingbird Kreations, Rome . . . . . . . . . 43 Little Falls Antique Center, Little Falls . . . . . 18 Main Street Gift Shop, Newport . . . . . . . . 57 Mystical Dragonfly, Richfield Springs . . . . . 72 Newport Marketplace, Newport . . . . . . . . . 36 The Owl & Moon, West Burlington . . . . . 43 Pathway of Pearls, Schuyler . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Remington Country Store, Ilion . . . . . . . . . 15 The Old Blacksmith Shop, Schuyler Lake . . 19 White Begonia, Sherrill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Golf and Recreation Golf Club of Newport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Stonegate Golf Course, West Winfield . . . . 60 Twin Ponds Golf & Country Club, NY Mills . . 10 Woodgate Pine Golf Club, Boonville . . . . . . 70 Grocery/Convenience Stores B & F Milk Center, Whitesboro. . . . . . . . . . . 81 The Country Store, Dolgeville . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Deansboro Superette, Deansboro . . . . . . . . 14 Meelan’s Market, Clark Mills . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Mohawk Village Market, Mohawk . . . . . . . 13 Olde Kountry Market, Vernon . . . . . . . . . . 85 Reilly’s Dairy, Inc., Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Hardware/Farm & Home Lincoln Davies, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Pohlig Enterprises, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Pohl’s Feed, Vernon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Morgan’s Hardware, Waterville . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Turner Lumber, Barneveld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Independent Living Acacia Village, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ice Cream B&F Milk Center, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Ice Cream Station, Illion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Kayuta Drive-In, Remsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 The Knight Spot, Frankfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Tunnicliff Creamery, Richfields Springs . . . . 57 Voss’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Wendy’s Diner, Cassville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Marinas Bird’s Marine, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Massage, Therapeutic Zensations, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Iron Work - Architectural & Ornamental Raulli’s Iron Works, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Media 1420 The Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1450 WKAL, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 92.7 The Drive WXUR, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Clinton Courier, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Weekly Adirondack, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . 22 WCNY, Syracuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 FOX33/WUTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Jewelry Clinton Jewelers, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Fall Hill Bead & Gem, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . 83 Goldmine Jewelers, New Hartford . . . . . . . 41

Monuments & Memorials Burdick & Enea Memorials, Clinton . . . . . . . 80 M.N.M. Monument Maintenance, Yorkville . . 64 Yorkville Memorials, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Lawn Mowers Bowen Power Sports, Ilion . . . . . . . . . . 68 J.B.’s Small Engine Works, Utica . . . . . . . . 78 SD Outdoor Power, New Hartford . . . . . . . 25

Museums Black River Canal Museum, Boonville . . . . 32 Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown . . . . . . . . 34 Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown . . . . 34 Goodsell Museum, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Remington Arms Museum, Ilion . . . . . . . . 15 View, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Insurance Gates-Cole Insurance, New Hartford . . . . . 33 Farm Family Insurance, Boonville . . . . . . . . . 64 Turnbull Insurance, New Hartford . . . . . . . 23

Lighting Mills Electrical Supply, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Liquor Stores and Wine Seneca Liquor, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Trenton Station Liquor & Wine, Barneveld . . . 62

Heating Oil Little Falls Fuel, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Lodging Canal Side Inn, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Lights of Home B&B, Oriskany Falls . . . . . . 86

Hobby Shops Locomotion Hobby, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Logging Heritage Logging, Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Horseback Riding Lessons Reindance Stables, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Manufactured and Modular Home Builders G & I Homes, Utica/Vernon/Oneonta . . . . . 16

Libbey’s Stitched with Prayer!

Maple Syrup Ben & Judy’s Sugarhouse, West Edmeston . . . . 11 Shaw’s Maple Products, Clinton . . . . . . . . . 33 Tibbits Maple, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . 75

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77 East State Street (Route 5), Sherrill

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Natural Food Stores Brenda’s Natural Foods, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Cooperstown Naturals, Cooperstown . . . . . 15 Peter’s Cornucopia, New Hartford . . . . . . . . 67 Sunflower Naturals, Barneveld . . . . . . . . . . 72 Tom’s Natural Foods, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Olive Oils/Balsamic Vinegars Adirondack Olive Oil Co., New Hartford . . . 24 Optometrist Towpath Vision Care, Little Falls . . . . . . . 23 Pet Memorialization and Cremation

Whether you prefer a simple private gathering, full traditional funeral, Veteran’s service, cremation, or a non-traditional service, we provide the very best in personal and professional services and have pricing for everyone’s budget.

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527 East Albany St., Herkimer 20 Bridge St., St. Johnsville

Burdick & Enea Memorials, Clinton . . . . . . . 80 Pet Services Not Just Poodles Pet Salon, Whitesboro . . . . 14 Pet Shops Wild Things, New York Mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Pharmacies Garro Drugs, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Photography Fusion Art/The Photo Shoppe, Rome . . . . . 11 Gail Haile Fine Photography, Clinton . . . . 19 Physical Therapy Fitness Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Inertia PT, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Pizzerias Bazan Bakery, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 DiCastro’s Brick Oven, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Primo Pizzeria, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Pools/Pool Supplies and Spas Swan Pools & Spas, Ilion/Washington Mills . . . 19 Primitives Between Us Sisters, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . 85 Bittersweet Farm Mercantile, West Burlington . . 30 Butternut Barn, Richfield Springs . . . . . . . . 78 Main Street Gift Shop, Newport . . . . . . . . . 57 Public Service Herkimer County HealthNet . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Oneida County Health Department . . . . . 84 Quilt and Yarn Shops Heartworks Quilts & Fabrics, Fly Creek . . . . 9 Stash Away Quilt Shoppe, Rome . . . . . . . . 30 Tiger Lily Quilt Co, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Real Estate Bird’s Realty, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Scenic Byway Realty, Richfield Springs . . . 63 Record Stores Off-Center Records, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Restaurants and Cafés Ann St. Deli, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Ballister’s Bistro, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Black Cat, Sharon Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Cafe Crete, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Cafe Ucopia, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Canal Side Inn, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Cavallos, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Copper Moose Ale House, Little Falls . . . . . 54 DiCastro’s Brick Oven, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Dominick’s Deli, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Georgio’s, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Heidelberg Baking Co., Herkimer . . . . . . . . 54 Karam’s Middle East Bakery, Yorkville . . . . 59 The Knight Spot, Frankfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Knuckleheads Brewhouse, Westmoreland . . 59 Main Street Ristorante, Newport . . . . . . . . 57 Mitsuba Hibachi, New Hartford . . . . . . . . 56 Ohio Tavern, Cold Brook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Papa Joes, Washington Mills . . . . . . . . . . 59 Phoenician Restaurant, New Hartford . . . . 56 Piccolo Cafe, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Quack’s Village Inn, Madison . . . . . . . . . . . 55 CC Pub & Grille, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Rosa’s Trattoria, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Roso’s Cafe & Catering, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Sammy & Annie Foods, Utica . . . . . . . . . . 59 Voss’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Recreational Vehicles Bowen Power Sports, Ilion . . . . . . . . . . 68 CJ Motor Sports, Boonville . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Riding Stables Reindance Stables, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Seamstress & Tailors Libbey’s Sew Blessed, Sherrill . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Sheds and Garages Shafer & Sons, Westmoreland . . . . . . . . . 33 Shoes Karaz Shoes, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 The Village Crossing, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . 83

Small Engine Repair J.B.’s Small Engine Works, Utica . . . . . . . . 78

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Soap Cranberry Ridge Goat Milk Soap . . . . . . . 81 Specialty Wood Wightman Specialty Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Tent Rentals Brownie Tent & Awning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Tourism Old Forge, Town of Webb . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Towing Services Clinton Collision, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Trailers Blizzard Manufacturing, Boonville . . . . . . 47 Travel Agencies The Cruise Wizards, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . 87 Websites Utica Remember When . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Weddings and Banquets Cavallos, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 DiCastro’s Too, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Twin Ponds Golf & Country Club, NY Mills . . 10 Wellness and Alternative Health Therapy Mystical Dragonfly, Richfield Springs . . . . 72 Pathway of Pearls, Schuyler . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Windows RA Dudrak, Holland Patent . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Window Treatments Joan’s Draperies, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . 15 Wine Bars and Ale Houses Cavallos, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Copper Moose Ale House, Little Falls . . . . 54 Wineries Pailshop Vineyards, Fly Creek . . . . . . . . . 18

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