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More than a Dog

by Sharry L. Whitney

The last few days of production are pretty hectic. There are a lot of little pieces that all have to come together before going to press. Just at the start of last month’s “marathon,” our old huskymix, Cheyenne, had an attack of pancreatitis. It wasn’t her first, but I still wasn’t prepared for the news our vet gave us—it was time to let her go. Her eyes were still bright, but her hips and organs were failing her.

So everything in our world came to a halt as we spent time saying our goodbyes. We carried her to take a walk in the stream, fed her her favorite meal, and prepared her gravesite under the evergreen in the back yard. I was very sad. Maybe too sad. She had a good life and a good death. I began to realize that it was because she was more than a dog. Not in the sense that she was special. She was. I suppose there are many special dogs, but I was mourning more than a dog. I was also mourning what she represented. When we moved our family from the Tug Hill Plateau to our first home in Clinton, our youngest son began preschool at St. James. We would walk to school every morning and without fail he would say, “I always wish I had a dog.” A few months later we visited Steven Swan Humane Society and fell in love with a year-and-a-half-old husky, named Cheyenne. We had a lot to learn about living in a village with a husky (that our vet informed us was part wolf). She stopped traffic, not only when she got loose (a brilliant escape artist) but also because she was so beautiful people would pull over to comment. We fenced in our backyard and put springs on all the doors. We learned when you call a husky, they usually run faster in the opposite direction.

I harnessed that instinct to run and learned to ski-jor with her in the winter. A thrill.

So I was sad about the passing of the nearly 15 years she shared with us. The years our boys grew into men. Her wild northern spirit that lived with us in our “domesticated” Clinton.

Her beautiful fuzzy ears that my son flipped through his fingers tips, like he had since he was 4 years old, while looking into her ice blue eyes as she passed away.

In honor of Cheyenne our Adventure Club has adopted a terrier from Steven Swan and named him Riggy after Utica’s popular specialty. He will be sharing “Riggy’s View,” the Mohawk Valley from a dog’s perspective. •

MOHAWK VALLEY LIVING MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2015

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Flying Along the “Route of the Air Chiefs”

Mohawk Airlines 1945-1972 from the Oneida County Historical Society

by Brian Howard, Executive Director Over the last half century, air travel has become so ubiquitous in our nation that it is commonplace. The luster of flight has long worn off for a majority of the population; however, there was a time when taking to the skies was as glamorous as attending a Hollywood movie premiere. Older readers may remember the days when they could access this lifestyle right here in the Mohawk Valley...read on for the “Route of the Air Chiefs!”

Oneida County’s role in the jet age was set with the arrival of Mohawk Airlines in the late 1950s. The following sketch hits just some of Mohawk’s high points, which includes its recognition as the largest regional carrier in the country by 1962. Between 1957 and 1972, Mohawk dominated activities at the Oneida County Airport, but its roots extend back to 1945 in Ithaca.

During World War II, an entrepreneur named C.S. Robinson operated an aviation service that provided aerial mapping and other flightbased services. Robinson regularly flew from his home in Ithaca to his business at Teterboro Airport in northern New Jersey, near New York City. Robinson embraced the public’s growing fascination with air travel and initiated formal passenger service in April 1945, even before World War II’s conclusion. By the end of the year the new Robinson Airlines had flown 900 passengers.

In 1946, a Cornell University law student, Robert Peach, left his studies and joined Robinson Airlines as its third pilot. Peach was a naval aviator during World War II, who flew

This brochure from January 1953 was printed just after the company name was changed from Robinson to Mohawk Airlines.

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combat missions in the Pacific; he was also a Hamilton College graduate. It wasn’t long before Peach came to prominence beyond the cockpit.

Within two years he was the fledgling airline’s general manager. Six years later, in 1954, he became the company president. In the interim, Robinson acquired several DC-3 airliners and initiated service across upstate New York’s major cities and into Massachusetts. The most visible change came in 1952 with the adoption of the new “Mohawk Airlines” name.

By the middle 1950s, Robinson had departed and Peach was leading the company. To Peach, it became clear that Ithaca was no longer the best location for Mohawk to prosper. The old hangar could accommodate but two of the 24 aircraft in its fleet. Due to that, and Ithaca’s distance from major transportation arteries and population centers, Peach sought a new location that offered easy access to Buffalo, Albany, and all points in between. The Oneida County Board of Supervisors stepped up with a plan to finance the construction of a new facility at the county airport to the tune of $3 million; the rest, as they say, is history. In 1957, Mohawk left Ithaca for its new facilities between Utica and Rome. The new digs were great for the airline, as was the location—just a few miles north of the recently completed New York State Thruway.

The next decade brought success for Peach and Mohawk. His airline was already the first local carrier to initiate regular helicopter service (1954; it only lasted one year) and the first to acquire pressurized aircraft (Convair 240s, 1955). In 1959 the airline was the first in the region to introduce the Convair 440 Metropolitan to service. That same year, Mohawk shares became publicly traded on the American Stock Exchange.

In 1960, Mohawk carried 576,000 passengers between 47 cities in nine states. By 1962, passenger numbers eclipsed one million annually—not bad for only their 17th year in operation! In July 1962, Peach announced that Mohawk would be purchasing several British Aircraft Corporation 1-11 jetliners, claiming yet another “first local airline to...” distinction. Up to this point, Mohawk had flown piston and turboprop planes; the 1-11s would be the first pure jets in service. While the 1-11s did not take to the skies until July 1965, by that time the airline had moved into a brand new, $1.5 million administration building and adopted Univac computers to enhance flight reservations. The Oneida County Airport complex was growing by leaps and bounds, too. By the end of the decade, the new Edwin A. Link Training Center (opened 1967) and an airline-owned hotel, the Horizon, were built.

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1970s. Just like any industry, though, commercial aviation was subject to liabilities and labor disputes; these would spell the end for Mohawk as quickly as it had grown. The trouble really began right after 1965, which was the company’s record year for profitability. A January 1966 blizzard shut down the airline for a week and incurred huge losses. Multiple strikes between the mid-60s and 1971 exacted a heavy toll as machinists, pilots, and affiliated industry unions sought a better deal for their members. These protracted disputes occurred simultaneously with Mohawk’s massive investment in new airliners and infrastructure improvements; in 1969 the airline lost $5 million.

By the end of the ’60s, Peach had handed over the president’s mantle, but he remained as the CEO and board chairman. He stepped down from the CEO and chairman’s positions in 1970, but he remained on the board of directors. That November, a pilot’s strike forced a work stoppage that led to most of Mohawk’s workforce being laid off; the fleet would remain grounded until the following spring.

By May 1971, the dispute had been resolved but the damage was done. On April 5, the board of directors—minus Peach, who had walked out of the meeting—voted to merge with Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Airlines.

Peach resigned from the board on April 14; six days later he took his own life at his home in Clinton, despondent to see the airline that he had spent the last 25 years building about to disappear. He was just 51.

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Photo to right: Company president Bob Peach standing to the right of two British Aircraft Corp. representatives, probably in 1965; Mohawk bought its first pure jets from BAC.

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passenger flight, #437 from Washington, DC, to Ithaca, on April 11, 1972. After discharging its passengers at Ithaca, flight 437 flew empty to Utica and touched down one last time at the Oneida County Airport. It was indeed the end of an era.

Allegheny Airlines rebranded itself as USAir in 1979 and later became US Airways. US Airways was subsequently acquired by American Airlines and is scheduled to end as a brand in October of this year.

While Mohawk Airlines is gone, its memory remains with many citizens in our region. The Oneida County Historical Society houses a collection of corporate publications, images, and aircraft models. Additionally, the carrier regained some national prominence during the production of the critically-acclaimed cable television series Mad Men on AMC (2007-2015), as a client of the fictional Sterling-Cooper ad agency.

Not a bad legacy for one of the Mohawk Valley’s most visible businesses. •

OCHS volunteer Hannah Becker is holding a Mohawk umbrella used by the airline at the Oneida County Airport during the 1960s.

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‘Stik’ Slabicki by john keller

They say that in this life, you’ll never know whom you might meet. This adage was very true for “Stik” Slabicki. Throughout his fantastic career he has rubbed elbows, met, and performed with a great many stars, both on local and national levels. His music has taken him far and wide, playing stages all across this country.

As a songwriter, he has had his share of fame there, as well, including having one of his songs appearing on the first WOUR compilation.

Many people remember him from his ’70s band, Skychurch, featuring local guitar legend Paul Angerosa. Stik’s musical legacy is timeless.

Throughout the ’60s,’70s, and ’80s, Stik lived out his dreams. Even today, since recently returning to this area, he is performing his incredible songs to fan appeal. His musical tales of summer days, fatherly advice and rock ’n’ rollin’ times still draw listeners of all ages.

Although family obligations are currently the better part of his days, Stik continues to find time to get out and perform. I recently sat down with him to talk about his fascinating life--. and to get inspired.

You’re from the Utica area, correct?

I was born in Utica, and grew up in North Utica. We later moved to Whitesboro.

Did you come from a musical family?

Yes, I did, but having Polish heritage, most of the musicians in the family were accordion

players. Funny, but true. There were a few drummers. I had an Uncle Touch who gave me a guitar when I was very young and I differed from the family in that I wanted to play guitar. Uncle Touch gave me my first lessons.

What bands were you in before Skychurch?

Well, as brief as I can make it, the first band was called Stik and the Branches. That was around 1964. After that came The Barbaric Sounds, then The Norsemen. We appeared on Hank Brown’s Twist-a-Rama and did quite a few shows through him. I even did several onair product commercials.

Following that, I was in a band called The Things that included members from the earlier bands. We played a show at St. Francis De Sales with The Esquires that Paul Angerosa was in.

They wore suits and had their hair combed back in pompadours, while we had long hair and looked like The Kinks or The Rolling Stones.

When we got done playing, Paul asked me to join a band with him. He said that he could play guitar better than anyone. I looked at him and laughed. So, I gave him a copy of Jimi Hendrix’s first album and told him if he could learn one song from it, I’d be in a band with him, figuring that since my band could get heads or tails from it, he couldn’t either. Three days later, he called and said he learned the whole album.

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He introduced me to this 13-year-old drum-

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mer who was amazing. His name was Russ Battalene. And h e sure was amazing! Paul and I were only 15 at the time, still in high school. We were called The Whom. (Can you guess our influences?) I became a Jim Morrison fan and we changed the name to The Other Side with Paul switching to keyboards and adding Danny Birdsall on guitar.

After a while, Paul wanted to go back to guitar and we got Al Galime on bass and became E. Adis Eroff.

After high school, Paul joined Eric and the Chessmen, Al started Holiday, Danny was drafted, and I auditioned and won a spot in the Albany band Dust. The band moved to a commune in Martha’s Vineyard where we played several nights a week opening for name bands like The Flying Burrito Brothers. We later moved to Woodstock and then broke up. I stayed and roomed with folksinger Tim Buckley. I just stayed around Woodstock playing solo here and there, and working in a place called The Pink Elephant. I swept up and did some light maintenance. At the time, The Band was the house band there, so I met and hung out with some of them.

Let’s talk about Skychurch.

About 1968, when Tim got his record deal, I hitchhiked back to Utica where I met Bob

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(BD) Dziedzic, who introduced me to drummer Tommy Pierce. I got a hold of Paul Angerosa again and the four of us started Skychurch. We got the name from a quote by Jimi Hendrix stating he got his song ideas “from the air, from the sky church.” We performed original songs. I was writing a lot. I had catalogs of material.

What were some of the highlights with Skychurch? Places played, etc.?

I think our biggest things were playing the Clinton Arena. They had to close the doors every time because we filled the place. We played The Purple Turtle in Eagle Bay. The Hacienda on Route 12 is where we became the Sunday band. “It’s time for church – Skychurch!” was the advertising. Back then, things were different. Tony Cee’s agency was good to us. He had us playing in Atlanta, West Palm Beach, and Fort Lauderdale. We could play seven nights a week and many times we played eight times a week with an afternoon show on the weekend.

The music scene at that time was fabulous. Every little town had a club that wanted a band.

High school functions every weekend. And the pay was good. We went over like gangbusters.

It really felt that big things may be coming.

What brought Skychurch to an end?

We went through several personnel chang-

es. I was the only permanent member. BD got married and wanted to do more of a jam band like The Grateful Dead. And Tommy was replaced by Russ. We had Daryl Mattison on drums for a while. We also had Steve Edwards (Ronnie Dio’s Elf) and Paul Angerosa together dueling guitars for some time. But when BD left, it seemed as though the heart of the band went with him. I guess it just ran its course. But it was a great five or six years from ’69 to ’74 or ’75.

What did you do after that?

I basically stopped playing for a bit. I moved out to Arizona. My wife got pregnant during one of the hottest years and we moved back to New York. I ended up in a country band named – Arizona. Later I joined Eddie Reilly and Dan Sisti in Greenback. I’ve been lucky to play with some of the best area musicians over that time. I also put a band together with Tim Boehlert and Lenny Milano just to play Four Acres in Marcy.

I began writing songs with Tim, which leads to an interesting story. I was at a party and Beckin, with Joel Beaton and Mike Allinger, were playing. They asked me to play and agreed to let me do an original song. So I went into a corner with Tim and a few minutes later, we came up with a new a song, “Let It Slide.” We quickly taught it to Beckin and performed it for the first time.

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When I left for Los Angeles, Paul Angerosa asked if The Frogs could use “Let It Slide.” I agreed. It became a hit for them. It’s on one of the WOUR albums. That kept my name alive around here while I was gone. I appreciated that.

So what happened in Los Angeles?

I went out to audition for bands and played solo gigs as well. I joined a couple of guys from a formerly popular band (that I won’t name).

It wasn’t very good. Michael Della Gala (Sail) came out to see me in rehearsals for a show at The Topanga Canyon Corral. Although they had money and fame, he saw it wasn’t going to work. So Michael started playing with me and adding harmonies to my songs, and we used the name Stik and the Branches again.

After some time, Paul moved out there and Russ was already living in the area, so we continued as a Stik on vocals, Paul Angerosa on guitar

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You have a few interesting tales from those days, don’t you?

Oh, yeah! I tried out for The Doors movie and met Oliver Stone. Stone said, “When I close my eyes and listen to you, it was as if Jim was there, when I open them, you look like one of the Beatles.” So needless to say, I didn’t get the part. I also auditioned for Van Halen after David Lee Roth left. I was working as a chimney sweep and requested for jobs at musicians’ homes and got many of them. That’s how I met Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli. It was Valerie who encouraged me to try for it.

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We spent a long time talking and listening to music that day. I got quite a bit of chimney work through him for the rest of his band and for Earth, Wind, and Fire members.

What was next for Stik?

When I was playing my originals in L.A., they were saying I was too country. Rural country they called it. So I went to the Midwest and headed to Nashville. There, I was a little too much rock. I came back here in 1991. I couldn’t seem to get anything going here, so I went to work in a publishing house in Nashville, but pay was minimal and I left. This time, I moved to Ohio. But the club scenes were drying up, more places were for dance music and hip-hop, so I didn’t play as much. I worked for Whirlpool and played on weekends. I stayed there for several years.

What brought you back home?

My mom got hurt and didn’t want to go into a nursing home. She and my family asked if I could come to help take care of her. I thought I’d try it for a while, but now I’ve gotten quite comfortable and finally feel at home. I never really felt at home in L.A. or Ohio. I love the Adirondacks and I have my roots here.

pret it well. One new song in particular that I’m proud of is one I wrote for a Songwriter’s Circle called “2/9/64.” It gets a great reaction when I perform it. Especially at The Tram. Actually, one of the things that is convincing me to stay is places like The Tramontane Café. Robin and Garrett have a great thing there. They’re one of the positive things here in the Mohawk Valley.

It reminds me of a place I used to play in L.A. called The Blah-Blah Club. A funky little place with great music.

I understand you have a project, Long Distance. Can you tell us about that?

When I came back in ’91, my nephew Don Van Pelt asked if I’d like to hear his band. Speaking on that, how did you find the music They were recording at his friend Tom Burke’s scene when you came back and what would house. They were writing songs and they were you like to see happen? pretty good. I started writing with them.

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This Autumn, Find Your Own Moss Lake Story and Photos by Gary VanRiper

Chasing fall colors can be a fun thing to do. I’ve done it a lot. You see a beautiful scene. Stop. Take a photograph. Drive to find the next one. There can be so much to see when the leaves are dressed in fall color, you’re afraid you might miss that “extraordinarily beautiful,” “calendar-worthy,” “impress all your friends on Facebook” shot that might be just around the next bend. But there are other strategies for approaching the season with sights that can take your breath away.

Last autumn, my wife and I visited an old familiar spot— Moss Lake. I’ve photographed common loons on that body of water near Eagle Bay in the Adirondacks for two decades and am very familiar with the layout. Numerous times, my wife has walked the three-mile trail that winds through the woods that largely circles the lake, but which offers few views of the water from land. The color in the region was near peak, and I had heard the water was extremely low, so I was curious to see how far around the perimeter of the lake itself we might be able to bring walking and water together. We arrived early and it was overcast; you could smell the threat of rain in the air and the water was still. In other words, it was nearly perfect. We thought we could spend hours in this one spot, and we did.

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the grand landscape, which is what usually captures the attention of a passerby. It caught ours at Moss Lake and, of course, we snapped away.

In this case, that landscape was a tan-andblack shoreline, littered with fallen trees and driftwood. Much of the liquid edge was thick with pine needles, and red and yellow and purple and orange leaves. Deciduous trees heavy laden with most of their flamboyant dress still intact reached out over the water.

Occasionally, a branch would surrender a little more color as a refresher.

The clouds nicely diffused the light, making the colors soft, and the final images appearing more like pastel paintings than photographs. The grand landscape (temporarily) out of the way, it was time to get lost in the pool after pool of hues at our feet. The combinations of color and form were endless.

The light changed—it didn’t rain after all—and the landscape took on an entirely new character. The same shoreline looked

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Turning away from the water, sumac morphing with the season was screaming, “Hey, what about us?” Stepping just a few feet into the woods and looking back at the lake, the trees themselves boasted that in the right light, they can show off any angle.

We did get to walk fairly far and linger longer. I’m not sure what we will do this autumn: chase or linger. Probably both. But I’d encourage you, if you’ve never done it, to try the latter. Find your own Moss Lake, and before moving on, allow the spot to offer up all it wants to give you. •

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The museum is located at 134 W. Main St. I love strolling down the Main Streets of the villages in New York State. The architecture is often beautiful and there are usually at least a few really old-fashioned storefronts. Richfield Springs is blessed in this respect, and the museum is housed in just such a storefront.

Entering the museum, we were fortunate enough to encounter James Kurkowski, who has resided in Richfield Springs for many years and has many stories about the area. As we looked at old pictures of Main Street, he pointed out how the top story had been taken off one building while another had been torn down entirely.

One prominent hotel had actually been two buildings with a false front, one building for the ladies the other for the gentlemen. Kurkowski had heard stories about how sometimes boys would put a board between two windows and go across to have a party with the girls (“party” wasn’t a verb in those days). The fellow who had told the story got invited to all the parties, because his father was a bootlegger. When Kurkowski mentioned that his father had been one also, I remarked that he must have been at the parties, too.

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“Oh, no, I’m only 88,” he said. “I was too young to be invited to the parties.”

His father had also raised hogs. He would put a trash can behind the hotel with a bottle of liquor in it for the cooks and they would make sure all the good garbage went into that can for the hogs.

While we were talking, another association board member showed up, Bob Hazelton. When I said how much we were enjoying Kurkowski’s stories, Hazelton chuckled and pantomimed shoveling horse manure. I thought the stories sounded pretty authentic. Then again, Kurkowski also told us a rule a former boss of his told him: “Somebody asks you a question, you give ’em an answer. They don’t know if it’s the right answer or not, that’s why they’re asking the question.”

Hazelton told us some of the history of the historic association. There were originally several organizations and associations, which eventually coordinated into the current group. This was largely due to the efforts of association President Marjorie Walters, who along with her husband raised a lot of money for the cause.

A plaque on the wall lists people who donated. The museum was originally located on Lake Street in a feed mill owned by J. Bernhardt. Bernhardt also owns the place that now houses the museum, the historic Gladstone Building. Walters recently stepped down as president. Harriet Geywitz is interim president until elections in April. Membership in the association is a $10 donation.

Steven and I had walked around the museum already, but Hazelton took us on a guided tour to make sure we had not missed any highlights. One highlight was

a n old pump organ with, I think, eight stops.

He told us the really valuable organs had 12 stops.

“That’s where we get the expression pulling out all the stops,” I said, realizing that for the first time.

We enjoyed looking at all the photos and artifacts.

We also looked at the little shop, which offers mugs, DVDs, stationery, and more. Hazelton showed us some note cards with pictures he had drawn. We talked a little about the creative process, me with writing, and he with drawing.

I am sorry to report that Kurkowski and Hazelton are not always available for stories and tours, but the museum is well worth a visit even without. It is staffed by volunteers, such as the very pleasant Georgene Hawe, who was there the day we visited. I’m sure she would have taken very good care of us even without the gentlemen’s help. •

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Pail Shop Vineyards in Cooperstown

Finding Pail Shop Vineyards was a happy accident. Steven and I were driving out of Cooperstown looking for a turn to someplace else (I shan’t tell where, so nobody feels bad that we didn’t make it). We were not having a great deal of success in finding the turn (Steven thinks he knows where it is now), when I saw the sign for Pail Shop and recognized from our own MVL magazine. . “Let’s go to the winery instead,” I said. “We like to go to wineries.”

As we pulled in I was immediately charmed. Two Adirondack chairs sat in front of a pond where some ducks and geese were hanging out.

Beyond that we could see rows of grapevines.

“I bet people sit in those chairs sipping wine,” I said.

The tasting room was a rustic looking indoor/outdoor kind of place.

We found a space at the bar near the indoor end and were almost immediately taken care of by a beautiful young lady named Andi. She was able to tell us a lot about the winery and about the wines we were tasting, and she rinsed our glasses between every taste.

We started out with the 2014 Marquett-Noiret, which is made from two hybrid grapes. Andi explained that while Pail Shop grows many of its own grapes, the winery gets the Noiret from the Finger Lakes. It was developed by Cornell University.

I should perhaps pause here and insert a word about my oenophile (wine enthusiast) credentials. In short, I have none (I don’t even pronounce “oenophile” correctly), but I love to taste wine and to write about tasting it. The Marquett-Noiret was very smooth. I pronounced it yummy, my top rating for a wine.

Seven Mills is a white blend of Vidal, Vignoles, and Traminette. The winery grows the Traminette, which can survive temperatures down to 15 degrees below zero. Unfortunately, this past winter temperatures dipped below that. I enjoyed the wine’s floral bouquet and found it very light.

The 2013 Traminette was another wine with a floral bouquet. I liked it because it was not too sweet.

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The 2014 Rosé is not typical, being a blend of Rosé juices, Traminette, and Noiret. I thought this would be a good wine to serve at a party, as it would appeal to different palates.

I thought the Painted Pail White was a great summer wine. I could really taste the pineapples. The Painted Pail Red was sweeter than I like, but it was tasty. That wine is 85% Concord grapes grown at the vineyard and 15% Noiret. Andi said that some people get a hint of pepper and mint at the very end, but I’m afraid my palate is not that sophisticated.

Painted Pail is named after one of the original mills that was there when Fly Creek was established. It grew to Seven Mills, the name of the wine we had previously tasted. There is a Pail Shop Corners in Fly Creek. We’ll have to look for that.

Pail Shop does all stainless fermentation. Full disclosure: I overheard a guy standing nearby ask that question. It’s one I should have thought to ask myself, though. One thing I have learned is that I personally prefer wines aged in stainless steel to wines aged in oak. If you ever want to look snooty, the next time somebody offers you Chardonnay out of a box, ask them if it was aged in stainless or oak. They’ll think you’re a real oenophile. •

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“Lee’s Folly” was the name people gave to the large barn that Lee McConnell built during the Great Depression. It was the largest in Oneida County at the time and is still being used by the McConnell family today.

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If you continue on Post Street two miles past the Kirkland Town Park in the Town of Marshall, you’ll come to the four corners where Post Street crosses Maxwell Road. This is known as McConnell Corners— there’s no sign to tell you this, but it is. A tenth of a mile farther you’ll come to the Post Street Cemetery, where members of the McConnell family are buried, including Thaddeus McConnell who came here on horseback from Pittstown, NY, in 1795. He bought 95 acres of land and a log cabin and brought his family here to settle the following year. The cemetery overlooks a farmstead where his descendants still live today.

There’s a lot of history here, just ask Dorothy McConnell, she wrote the book—or at least edited, John McConnell Remembers, the memoirs of her late husband, John McConnell, a lifelong dairy farmer. After he passed away in 2013, his writings, along with other family members’ poems and anecdotes, were compiled, printed, and bound.

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7th and 8th generation McConnell’s work the land like generations of McConnells before them. From left: Becky and her husband, Jim McConnell, their son, John.

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many years she served as the town’s historian. She raised her own family in the old McConnell farmhouse and still lives there with her son Jim and his wife, Becky.

“Everyone’s lived in this house,” says her grandson John Rouse McConnell.

John, 26, is the eighth generation McConnell to be raised on the farmstead and grew up in the old farmhouse like many McConnells before him. He is named after his grandfather and is the fourth McConnell to be named John Rouse. The name Rouse was the surname of Thaddeus McConnell’s wife, Hanna. John McConnell now lives just up the road with his wife, Brittany. His sister Amber lives next door with her husband, Travis Barrett (she works at White’s Farm Supply and he at Clinton Tractor). John’s other sister, Kimberly, lives nearby in Jordanville with her husband, David Grescheck.

“Kimberly still enjoys visiting and feeding the calves,” Becky McConnell says. “All the family helps when they can.”

John, though, knew at an early age that he would carry on the dairy farming tradition of the McConnell family.

“Growing up, I always did chores because they had to be done,” he says. “But when I was about 12 or 13 I knew this life was for

Top right: Congressman Sherwood Boehlert visits the farm, with Dorothy, John, Jim, and Becky McConnell. Bottom right: Dorothy and her late husband, John McConnell, enjoyed attending local farm events. In the old days, generations of McConnells enjoyed Saturday nights at Lincoln Davies, where they’d grocery shop, get a haircut, and socialize with friends

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me.” After graduating from Clinton High School, he enrolled at Morrisville College to study Dairy Science. He is now the farm’s herdsman and a partner in the business.

“We never told them they had to be farmers or that they couldn’t be farmers,” Becky says.

After John graduated from college the family added on a big addition.

“Well, big for us,” Jim McConnell concedes.

It afforded them the space for 60-100 more heifers, bringing their total herd to about 220. The new addition was added to the old barn that was built in 1931 by Jim’s grandfather Lee McConnell during the Great Depression.

The original barn was lost to fire earlier that year, but instead of being discouraged by the loss, McConnell built a bigger barn. In fact, he built a two-story, 36’x75’ barn that was the largest in Oneida County at the time. At a cost of $3,000, his neighbors thought it was foolish and swore he’d never fill the haymow. They dubbed the barn “Lee’s Folly.” The late John McConnell wrote in his memoirs that it took his father 10 years to pay off the debt.

“We raised a lot of potatoes,” he wrote. “…700 bushels of potatoes. My father peddled them in Utica for 50 cents a bushel to help pay for the barn.”

Not only did Lee McConnell manage to fill the barn’s haymow, but his barn would stand strong and serve many generations of McConnells. Almost 85 years later, his grandson and great grandson are still utilizing “Lee’s Folly,” and the barn proudly bears the McConnell name as well as the “Super Milk” sign in recognition of their quality standards as an exemplary Empire State milk producer. The family has set their sights high just like Lee did. John McConnell recently purchased a 135-acre farm in Paris Hill where they now keep some of their growing herd.

The McConnells milk approximately 100 cows themselves every morning and evening. They are part of the Holland Patent Farmer’s Co-Op, which means their milk goes primarily to Chobani and Hood. When work gets tough or their

On the hill overlooking the farm is a cemetery where generations of McConnells are buried

John McConnell is the farm’s herdsman and an 8th generation dairy farmer

Generations of McConnells grew up in this farmhouse. An old maple tree planted by 4-year-old Lee McConnell still shades the home

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equipment breaks down, thoughts of their ancestors milking by hand by the light of lanterns puts things in perspective. A quiet, old 1926 Farmall tractor forever parked near the barn is also a reminder of the past.

“Dad’s been gone awhile,” Jim says.

“But he never wanted to part with it. It was the first tractor on the farm and worked alongside the plow horses.”

His father, like his father before him, was a lifelong dairy farmer. Ironically, when his father was 14 years old, he was told by a doctor that he would “never be a farmer.” A wagon accident had broken his hip and put him in a children’s hospital for nine months. At the hospital he was put in traction, operated on, had a bone spike put in his right hip to fuse it in place, and

was put in a cast from his chest to his toes. In his memoirs he wrote about being in the hospital just after the polio epidemic and seeing many kids worse off than he was. He wrote, “It was here that I learned a lesson that has carried me through life. Never feel sorry for yourself.”

The old tractor, the farmhouse, the giant maple tree planted by Jim McConnell’s great-grandfather (the second John Rouse) and his 4-year-old son, Lee McConnell, Lee’s barn, and the cemetery on the hill are all reminders of the McConnells that came before, as is the etched powderhorn of Thaddeus McConnell that is kept in the family safe. But it seems, reading through the late John McConnell’s insightful and often witty memoirs, that the real treasure handed down from generation to generation of McConnells is the knowledge of how to live. •

Top: Four generations of McConnell’s gather to celebrate Dorothy McConnell’s birthday which fell on Mother’s Day this year; Above: the old 1926 Farmall, the first tractor to be used on the farm; Left: Thaddeus McConnell’s etched powderhorn from 1779

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A September walk through the nature preserve’s fields and meadows can easily result in sensory overload. As I walk up the main trail and through our largest field my ears are met with the trills and buzzes of countless insects.

The din created by crickets, katydids, and their allies is accompanied by the ceaseless buzzing of thousands of bees. Bees of several species work throughout the warm part of day. I watch and listen to them as they collect pollen from an outright explosion of blooming goldenrods and asters. As I crest the hill, I look back to see how the goldenrod has painted the old field with the widest possible brush. A 40-acre stretch takes the form of a rich yellow canvas, speckled and blotched with clusters of purple and white asters. Upon close

inspection, it’s clear that every inch writhes with insect life.

At this time of year, the green darner dragonflies begin their southward migration, and as I continue my walk I come upon one after another perched on the trailside. They seem to hang more than perch; they grasp onto to an outer leaf of a trailside plant with their heads pointed skyward and their abdomens aiming to the ground. As I get closer, each one in succession takes flight. Soon more than 50 of them are filling the airspace above the great yellow expanse. Together with their smaller cousins, the bright red meadow hawks, they dart around with great speed, picking off flying insects and consuming them on the wing. By tomorrow or the next day, the darners will be heading south again, perhaps reaching Pennsylvania. No doubt, wherever they are they’ll be looking for another prey-rich field to hunt in. For them it would be another of many stopovers on their journey to the far southern U.S. or Central America.

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I hear a group of chickadees calling to each other in the woods. They are making their way in my direction, foraging on leaves and branches as they go. At this time of year the chickadees inadvertently act as Pied Pipers to mixed flocks of migrating warblers and vireos.

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Unlike the omnivorous chickadee, the chestnut-sided warbler is a fairly strict insectivore, and I watch him as he gleans small caterpillars from foliage, thereby recycling them into his own flesh.

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Since August, I’ve been assessing the amount of wild food available at the preserve.

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Jenn Krohn of Utica took pictures of Chip while at the Oneida County Public Market. males, depending on the farmer’s protocol. It is a great system, one which we use religiously during the height of our kidding/lambing season over the winter. But its effect on bonding only works if Mom is jugged during labor or placed with her babies very quickly after giving birth.

It is during the busy summer months, when we have far fewer babies, that I abandon the jug system altogether. Because we’re not feeding hay (the goats spend their days out on pasture) and because summer is so hectic, I am not doing regular baby checks nor taking the time to put them in a jug. I may not even notice we have new babies out on pasture until the evening check, and by then the critical bonding time has progressed to the point that a mom will not recognize her own baby if they have been separated. It is then that I am reminded how truly cruel life can be—for if I place Mom and all of her babies (including the rejected one) in a jug together, Mom will “butt” the rejected one (sometimes to the point of injuring it) and refuse to allow it to nurse.

I then have to tie the mother up, milk out some colostrum for baby or coax baby to suckle—a surprisingly physical and painstaking process.

(Colostrum is the first milk that Mother makes—a thick, rich milk that contains critical antibodies and is easy for the newborn to digest. If a baby does not get colostrum, their chances of survival are quite low.

Many farmers will keep additional colostrum in their freezer for such an emergency or use a store-bought mix made from powdered colostrum.)

We’ve successfully raised many bottle babies over the years, but it is not a job I relish. Babies simply do better under their mothers’ care and I have more pressing things to do. It has been our two daughters’ job this summer to bottle-fed little Chip several times every day. He has been nibbling and getting more nutrition from grass and will soon be off the bottle altogether. Chip is much too big now to be brought to farmers’ markets and would most certainly help himself to some of my fellow vegetable vendor’s wares. He’s still awful cute, though, and still gladly accepts hugs, kisses, and the occasional photo. • 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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What we call “fall vegetables” are ones that do best when the weather is cooler and actually may be the same as many vegetables you would grow in the spring here in the Mohawk Valley. Spinach, broccoli, peas, and even cabbage may be grown during fall.

Timing for planting is crucial, as each plant will have a certain number of days required for full maturity. In the case of leafy greens, this is not as important since you can harvest them early. Flowering vegetables, such as broccoli and Brussels sprouts, need to mature before first freeze in fall.

A rule of thumb we have learned over the years of growing greens all winter is that everything for winter must be planted by October 15th. Succession planting of greens after that date does not work and invites disease to take hold. We have the luxury of growing all winter in a greenhouse, but you certainly can have good luck growing greens in cold frames all winter in our area if you plant before October 15th.

Before you plant anything new, you should always do a simple soil test to make sure the pH is still up at above 6.0. If not add 1 pound of lime per 100 square feet for each .5 below that number. Hydrated lime will work quickly to correct pH for fall vegetables. Remove all the dead plants that are no longer producing fruit. Most can go into the compost pile, but any diseased plant or insect problems should be disposed of to avoid carry over to next season.

Add an inch or two of good compost and rototill the beds, but make sure weeds are removed carefully so that seeds are not spread all over your garden. Any portion of the garden that is not going to be planted again until

spring should be covered with hay, black plastic, or you can plant a cover crop of clover or rye grass to turn under in the spring for additional nitrogen.

Broccoli, spinach, peas, lettuce, and greens can all be grown in fall. Most are frost-tolerant and some can withstand freezes and even snow on the ground. Lettuces and greens are full of nutrition, and they will thrive with cooler nights and actually taste sweeter. Plant them while it is still warm and watch them get larger as the temperature drops. Spinach, one our favorites, can be grown here in the Mohawk Valley all winter long with a covering of special lightweight fabric placed over plants (available through Johnny’s Selected Seeds).

Greens are the easiest vegetables to grow.

You can even grow them with only a half day of sunshine or in containers with fantastic results.

But you’re not limited there; here’s a list of veggies for your winter garden in the Mohawk Valley: arugula, collards, endive, kale, lettuces, mustard, spinach, pac choi, and Swiss chards.

But don’t stop there! You can also grow beets, carrots, radishes, leeks, and bunching onions.

Most of these vegetables will tolerate a light frost (usually 29 to 32 degrees) late into the fall and winter. But some of your greens such as kale, spinach collards, and Swiss chard tolerate hard frosts (usually 25 to 28 degrees).

Clean Out the Refrigerator Soup

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So now that you have all these wonderful fall veggies planted, what do you do with all the veggies hiding in your fridge from your summer harvesting? If you’re like me, by the end of summer I have a collection of veggies in the fridge, half an onion in a Baggie, a green pepper in another, a lonely car-

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rot in the crisper, a bowl of leftover boiled potatoes, a couple of grilled ears of corn, a bottle of wine with a mouthful of wine left in it, or a small hunk of Parmesan cheese. In the freezer are all those little leftover bags of frozen veggies. Usually in the spring and fall I make what I call “Clean out the Fridge Soup.” The profile changes with the veggies I have available, but the base starts out the same.

In a large stock pot (large!) put a 28 oz. can of tomato sauce, or if you’re a canner this is a great place to get rid of some of the tomato, stewed tomatoes, or spaghetti sauce you’ve put up. (Yes, that left over spaghetti sauce in the bowl in the back can go in here. Add to it 2 cups of chicken or beef stock, leftover wine, and water as needed.

Play with your spice profiles: herbes de Provence or Italian seasonings work well, but tarragon and marjoram are a great combo as well.

Next, start dumping in all those frozen veggies from the freezer, then add all the veggies from the fridge, rough chopping as necessary. Now head out to your winter garden to pick some greens, kale, spinach, or Swiss chard to add to your soup at the end. I let this simmer at least half an hour. At this point, add your greens and let them wilt down in the warm soup, and add some of that leftover Parmesan grated on top or cut up some stale bread, place in the bottom of your soup bowl and pour the soup over it.

Any leftover soup I put into quart jars, leaving an inch head space (fill to an inch from the rim of the jar) and place in the door of my freezer to have as a quick meal later in the season. If you are not planning on freezing your soup, and you are a meat eater, by all means add in that leftover chicken leg, or cut up that leftover pork chop or steak to the soup. The sky’s the limit with this soup, and after it’s made, you have a clean fridge, some space in your freezer, and a ready-made meal for a quick weeknight dinner. •

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story and photos By Melinda Karastury The Mohawk Valley sits at the base of the Adirondack Mountains—a paddling paradise with more than 3,000 lakes and 30,000 miles of rivers and streams. It is only a short journey from the Mohawk Valley to the mountains for a day of kayaking.

My children, Joshua and Alana, best friend Justin Lee, neighbor Kathy Reilly, and I are all ready for an adventure on the river. We head to Old Forge and Mountainman Outdoor Supply Company, owned by John Nemjo, located on the Moose River at the beginning of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. We arrive in the morning and company manager Mike Schoen assists us by assessing and measuring for kayaks and life jackets.

He then maps out the trek down the river and gives pointers, “dos and don’ts,” and estimated time of arrival. Mike says, “Enjoy the North Street trip.

It’s an authentic, rustic view of Moose River, wildlife, and the Adirondacks.”

Bathing suits or quick-drying clothing and sandals or sneakers is proper kayaking attire. Sunscreen and bug spray are also musts, as well as water and snacks.

Mountainman employee John Grabowski drives us a short distance to the start ing point. John carries the kayaks and paddles to the water, provides a short demonstration on the basics of paddling, and assists with getting us into the kayaks. Moose River is a slow-moving, flat water river that winds through the beautiful Adirondack landscape. The journey down the river is slow and steady and starts off by passing under a bridge. The water is cool and clear, so the bottom of the river can be seen, along with minnows, turtles, water bugs, and crayfish. Sandy beaches are around every bend affording opportunities to get out of the kayaks to swim, rest, or picnic.

The river is surrounded for several miles on each side with ponds, marshes, and plant life. A beaver dam and pool can be seen along one of the outshoots along the river. Joshua can’t help but scoop up and salvage a beaver-chewed log to bring home as a souvenir.

There is one carry-over for which teamwork is required, and helping a fellow solo kayaker is always appreciated. The carry-over is 300 yards over a bridge, around a rock garden, down a trail, and back into the river. After a bend, there are signs of civilization, and golfers can be seen from the river. The kids find a few golf balls along the shore line and use their pitching arms to try to get them back on the green.

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The kayak trip became a full day of paddling, swimming, searching river life, finding cool driftwood, and viewing the untouched Adirondack scenery. “This was awesome! Thank you, thank you,” Alana and Josh say. Justin chimes in, “You can invite me anytime; kayaking is one of my favorite things to do!”

I smile and silently take in all that Moose River has to offer and marvels at the kids’ excitement without a single complaint.

Mountainman Outdoor Supply Company can be seen from the river, and the kayaking day trip comes to a close. All kayakers, canoes, and paddlers converge to the same place as the sun gets lower in the sky. Grabowski again assists us at the bank with the kayaks, paddles, and says, “It was nice to meet you all and I hope you all return to Moose River again soon!”

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Riding the chair lift allows for a magnificent view of the mountain scenery and foliage without the strenuous hike. In autumn, the chairlift has double the capacity with half the wait time. Today’s clear blue skies ensure clear viewing for miles and miles. As the

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Alana finds a beautiful blue-colored dragonfly dancing around her and it follows her around the top of the mountain. She names him Azurite after one of her favorite minerals. Exhausted from a day of kayaking, the quick trip up the mountain is relaxing. The incredible view includes the historic Fulton chain of lakes as it stretches to the east with the line of high peaks rising beyond.

We agree next time to bring a lunch and binoculars. On the way down is an entirely different view and experience. Alana points at the distant mountains, lakes, and says, “I can see Enchanted Forest Water Safari over there.”

The chairlift is a unique experience that all ages can enjoy, plus you can be at the top and bottom of a mountain without a hike. It is the perfect ending to a wonderful Old Forge day trip adventure. Steve and Ray thank us for coming and Alana skips to the car, a last burst of energy, before some much needed food.

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If you want authentic summer cuisine, Kayuta Drive-In is the place to stop. Minosh will accommodate you for a quick bite, some amazing creamy ice cream, or a sit-down meal, and the wait staff is superb. We couldn’t help but feed our sweet tooths and get some ice cream to go for the 40-minute car ride home.

As dusk colors the evening sky, the kids all snooze for the journey back home. I enjoy the silence and passing scenery after a fun-filled day in Old Forge. •

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This month the Adventure Club heads to the village of Camden, located 18 miles northwest of Rome. It is known as the Queen Village because, according to the Pioneer History of Camden, 1897, “seldom can be found a more beautiful place than our village...” The area is know for fishing, hunting, skiing, kayaking and, of course, snowmobiling.

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Local children’s book series

Meet the author, Sandra Reilly! September Signings: Sept 12th at Mojo’s, 10-2, 1256 Albany St, Utica Sept 19th at Ballister’s Bistro, 10-12, 307 N James St., Rome www.sandrareilly.com (315) 542-9208

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The Camden area was first settled around 1792 between the Mad River and a branch of Fish Creek. These sources of water power gave rise to many mills in the 1800s, like grist mills, saw mills, and a woolen mill. Today Camden is the world headquarters of International Wire and Mystic Stamp Company.

Traditional Dexter Breeding Stock Since 1989

Enjoy the taste of pasture raised Dexter Beef, & get your decorative mini bales for home or business!

Available at: Little Falls Farmers Market: Saturdays 8am-Noon, Mohawk Farmers Market: Wednesdays, 2-5pm, MV Produce Auction: Fridays in Ft. Plain, and on our farm in Southern Herkimer County

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Call: 315-868-7605• 351 Lighthall Rd., Ft Plain

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The Adventure Club has a 10am tour scheduled at Mystic Stamp Company.

This mail-order postage stamp dealer began in Camden in 1923 and today is one of the world’s largest and employs nearly 100 workers. On the tour the kids see thousands of stamps.

Pony Express!

Mystic has historic Covers (envelopes that were stamped and mailed), including one sent by Pony Express in 1862, one from a Confederate soldier in 1864 writing home from prison in the North during the Civil War, and another sent on the very first Air Mail flight in 1918. You can read or subscribe to This Day in History at: www.mysticstamp.com

Over 200 Aquariums!

Wood-fired Artisan Bakery

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Old World breads

Wood-fired Pizza Hand-crafted Old World artisan breads & wood-fired all natural Neapolitan pizza.

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The Carriage House Museum was established by the Queen Village Historical Society in 1975 in a building that was once a carriage house. It is open from June to September on Tues, Fri, & Sat from 1-3pm. Be sure to stop in during Camden’s Annual Homecoming Festival & Craft Show, Saturday September 26, 9-4pm. Walk-ins welcome, but please email or call in advance before traveling. 2 N Park St, Camden, (315) 245-4652, historycamdenqvhs@gmail.com

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The Camden Homecoming Festival is Saturday, September 26, 9am-4pm, the fun kicks of with the 27th Annual Copper Wire 5K Run. The Adventure Club kids are running the 1 mile fun run at 9:30am. Register here: www.camdennychamber.com There’s a Craft Show that takes place in the Village Park and a large Homecoming Parade in the afternoon. The highlight of the parade is the Camden Continentals, a famous fife & drum corps that has been around since 1850 and even played at the inauguration of President Ulysses S. Grant!

Lunchtime!

For lunch they head down Harden Blvd. to Nicole’s Restaurant featuring the Blue Devil Den named for Camden School’s mascot. Nicole’s is famous for their barbecue, so the Adventure Club enjoys some on the new outdoor patio. They also order some fried green tomatoes, another Nicole’s specialty!

9501 Harden Blvd (Rt.13), Camden Den open: Tues-Sat: 11-close, Sun: Noonclose. Dining room open: Fri & Sat: 4-9, Sun breakfast at 8am, visit www.nicolesofcamden.com

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ing! p p o h S Time for The kids visit some shops on Main Street including, Full Moon Reflections at 80 Main Street.

Full Moon Reflections features a gallery of local artwork and offers art classes, too.

Find them on Facebook to see all that is going on.

The kids find a large collection of chainmail jewelry and ask about taking an upcoming chainmail class!

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They head down Main St. to Camden’s famous Meyers Chocolates.

They get to meet Mrs. Meyers herself. Meyers Chocolates started way back in 1984 and has been featured in “O, The Oprah Magazine” and “Martha Stewart Wedding Magazine!”

The kids each pick out their favorite piece to eat and some to box up and share at home.

38 Main St, Camden www.meyerschocolates.com

come back next month for more exploring with The Mohawk Valley Adventure Club!

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Chicken riggies are a signature dish at Georgio’s Village Cafe.

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mv family road trip

a day in utica story By Melinda Karastury

September brings cool shorter days, fall harvest, and vibrant colors to the Mohawk Valley. Summer vacation comes to a close and the kids head back to school.

A trip to the City of Utica is in order to immerse young, curious minds in rich local culture, heritage, and arts before another school year begins. Living on the outskirts of a city makes it convenient to have the best of both worlds: country living with city amenities. A city adventure is on the itinerary with my sister Andrea Crissey, her two daughters, Eliana and Lilian, and me and my daughter, Alana.

Watch out Utica, here we come!

It’s only a short 20-minute drive from rural life to tall buildings and bustling streets. It is a whole new world for Lilian and Eliana. The sisters stare out the car windows with wide eyes and wonderment. The party of five exits the vehicle, and all three girls appear so small next to the city landscape. All of us stroll down the sidewalks to Caffe Caruso Italian Pastry Shop, an authentic neighborhood bakery, located on Bleecker St. in East Utica. Carmen and Catherine Caruso started the business in 1958. When approaching the building a smiling gentleman (and loyal customer for more than 50 years) opens the door and welcomes us to one of the best pastry shops in town.

The children are immediately drawn to the display case, licking their lips and pointing in every direction and say, “I want one of each!” Christina Raymond is our server, and we each choose something different; a cannoli, a lobster tail, an éclair, a cream puff, cheesecake, and biscotti. Each of us takes a seat at two round tables with pastel polka-dot tablecloths. The adults order espresso to jolt the day.

The walls are decorated with photographs that tell a tale of many generations of a family-owned business filled with passion, love, and dedication. The treats are all devoured, and Eliana enthusiastically declares, “This is the best cannoli I have ever had!” Christina smiles with gratitude and shares her favorite aspect of her job saying, “Sunday is my favorite day of the week because the place is filled with the “regulars” I have known since I was tall enough to see over the counter.”

That’s a true testament of family, friends, and loyalty. Andrea says, “It’s refreshing to still find the family atmosphere, delicious homemade desserts, and knowing the love for what they do is expressed in the whole experience.” We thank our gracious hostess, and then exit this truly authentic Italian Pasticceria into the noisy street.

Next, we venture down the city street and look into storefronts and can’t help but peek in the “One and Only” Florentine Pastry Shop to check out another pastry option for another day. We leave the sweet smell of Italian pastries behind us

Stonegate Golf Course

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A scenic mountain golf course overlooking the beautiful Unadilla Valley. This 18 hole course will challenge everyone from beginner to seasoned pro. After golf, relax and enjoy a sandwich and beverage in our club house with a view.

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and head to the car for our next stop in the city, an art museum.

Munson Williams Proctor Institute Art Museum, located on Genesee Street, was founded in 1919. Currently, the museum offers a rare opportunity to see works of art from the vaults. For the first time in its nearly 80year history, it offers an exhibit of French Impressionism entitled, “Monet to Matisse: The Age of French Impressionism.”

The exhibition features more than 60 paintings and pastel drawings by leaders of French Impressionism. Impressionism is characterized by quick brushwork and unblended paint applied directly to the canvas, creating shape and volume through the contrast of colors.

The exhibit is exquisite. We are all lovers of art and immerse ourselves in everything the museum has to offer. The Monet to Matisse exhibit has two activity centers that encourage children to explore and create art. The kids are able to color pictures at one station and, using dot stickers, collectively create a French Impressionism wall mural at another. The kids are delighted to not only see a rare showing but experiment with the techniques used in Impressionism. In the words of Henri Matisse, “The chief function of color is to serve expression.” Lilian gets up close to several paintings and comments, “I can smell something funny, is that the paint?”

It makes everyone giggle and I tell her, “That is the oil paint smell.”

Alana says, “The artwork looks wet, like it was just painted.”

Comments like this make for a truly authentic art museum experience.

A perfect complement to the Monet to Matisse exhibit is “Peasants and Parisians: French 19th-Century Graphic Arts,” which demonstrates the widespread role printmaking has played in visual arts circles of the period.

Peasants and Parisians includes more than 70 original etchings and lithographs made throughout the century by artists both famous and unfamiliar.

The MWPAI Museum exhibit Monet to Matisse offers many activities for kids and adults to explore Impressionism

The interactive gallery, Art Odyssey room, includes activities designed around drawing and exploring the elements of art

Lilian in the arms of mom, Andrea, is using a magnifying glass to look at the details of etchings and lithographs

Living close to a city like Utica offers rural families access to world-class art

MONET to MATISSE The Age of French Impressionism

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), Port of Dieppe, Evening (detail), 1882, oil on canvas, 23 x 28 3/8 inches.Collection of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis.

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The kids enjoy using magnifying glasses to examine the etchings and lithographs. They are quick to identify and announce each new discovery. Moving from room to room, there is something new to discover for every adult and child. The “Robert Knight: In God’s House” exhibit focuses on the adaptation of religious spaces and the communities they support in and around the Central New York City of Utica. The artist utilizes photographs and video to examine how religious groups have and have not changed across a spectrum of different religions.

Andrea and Eliana sit for a few moments in silence and reflection to admire Robert Knight’s work and appreciate the movements captured in the photographs. Before leaving the museum we enter the Art Odyssey room, where the kids can move about a little more freely. The children are able to utilize colored pencils and easels to make still life paintings, or free draw on paper to display or take home. A young boy, Elias, gifts his beautiful pencil drawing of a flower to us.

The day is jam packed with awe-inspiring art that evokes “oohs and aahs” from every child and adult. Each of them choses a favorite piece and shares their many reasons why. It is very interesting to get a youthful perspective and insight on artwork. There is so much for kids and adults alike to see and do at the museum that you could make an entire day of it and all of us agreed to come back another day.

Creative minds whirling and bellies hungry, the five ladies make their way back to Bleecker Street to Sammy and Annie Foods owned

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“Delicious!” they all declare. This writer savors the delicious roasted eggplant sandwich, and the greens with prosciutto is divine! Andrea enjoys her BLT and agrees the side of greens is the perfect compliment to her sandwich. Chris sends us on our way with pastries to go and enjoy on our next adventure, a stroll through F.T. Proctor Park.

Proctor Park, off Rutger Street., is the smallest of Utica’s parks at 62 acres; it is considered the “crown jewel” of the city’s parks. It was originally designed as a “country” park, renowned for its grand entrance, grand lawn, ravine, lower meadow, and upper field. The lily

Andrea and Eliana Crissey take a quiet moment to look at Robert Knight’s: In God’s House photographs.

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The kids all love going up and down all the beautiful stone staircases. Talking with many who grew up in Utica, Proctor Park has been enjoyed for many years, and with a little respect and appreciation it can be enjoyed for many more years to come.

The historic City of Utica is ethnically diverse with a rich culture, heritage, and the arts. The day trip barely scratched the surface of possibilities within this multicultural city. The adventure will be forever etched in the memories of Eliana and Lilian, who experienced a “city” for the first time. Tall city buildings, noisy bustling streets, authentic Italian eateries and pastries, an impressive art museum, and a beautiful city park made the day truly memorable for all of us. •

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Roger Smith: Where I’m Going

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Roger Smith is one of those true Renaissance men.

Among many things, he has been a world traveled photo-journalist, published writer of poems and short stories, and a well-received musician/songwriter. His latest CD offering, Where I’m Going, encompasses all of his musical passions–blues, world, country, and jazz–culminating in his own personal style.

Utilizing mainly Roger’s voice and solo guitar (with sparse additions) on these tracks, the songs come across strong on this album. Opening with a lonesome blues tune, “Love’s Pain Is Soul’s Way,” one can feel the heart’s pain and compassion of Roger’s words. This is followed by the 1930s-style jazzy composition “Summertime Love” with a plaintive harmonica accompaniment.

One of my personal favorites on this disc is a song called “Neon.” Roger strings together real neon signs that he had seen and/or photographed throughout New York City interspersed within a love song. Backing is provided beautifully by Anthony Angulli’s guitar. “Let the neon streets set you free,” indeed!

Roger seems to find inspiration in some odd places. The next title, “Sugar on the Bottom of My Shoes,” is a very cool jazz-pop number that equates love with a stepped-on, melted ice cream cone. His verbal visuals are fabulously entertaining.

Performing a pseudo-live original flamenco piece, “Amor Amor (Los Banyos La Ventana),” Roger’s expert guitar playing comes to the forefront, driving the strings into a quivering frenzy before gently caressing them melodically onward. It’s a truly incredible work of art.

The CD finishes with a beautiful ballad, “Come to the Sunshine.” This is a duet with the vastly talented Shaye Jennings, who has added her silky vocals to Roger’s previous albums. The song ends with wonderful a capella voicings.

Additional backings on tracks, as well as production duties, were done admirably

by Brian Premo. The tracks are superbly mixed and the songs flow well.

Roger Smith’s Where I’m Going is a perfect addition to any CD collection.

It’s also a great piece in his growing catalog. His live shows are filled with fantastic stories, incredible finger picking, and sensational songs. You can find copies of his albums at The Tramontane Café and Off-Center Records, both in Utica, or by contacting Roger B. Smith via Facebook. •

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The Golden Guide to Birds

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the golden guide story and photos by matt perry OK, I admit it, my naturalist career started out with a crime and some seem to think I’m still up to no good even to this day. The truth is that I stole my first bird book from the grade school library when I was 7 years old. Allow me to elaborate: When I was in second grade our class had been brought to the library to have some instruction on the Dewey Decimal System and to learn how to properly sign out a book. As the librarian patiently explained everything to us, as usual, my attention was completely out of the window. As it happened, in the courtyard there was a House Sparrow busily collecting items (probably insects) from the cracks in a walkway. He appeared to have a hungry brood hidden away in a hole in the brick wall. Now how could Mr. Dewey Decimal possibly

compete with that? Though I had the ability at that age to hyper-focus on things that were interesting to me, I was more or less physiologically incapable of paying attention to things that existed outside of my limited range of interests. In other words, virtually everything my teachers said sounded like “blah, blah, blah.” Actually, if they literally had been saying, “blah, blah, blah,” I may have been more attentive. So the librarian continued her dissertation for 15 more minutes (or maybe it was hour, I couldn’t possibly know since I wasn’t mentally there).

All I know is that one moment my mind was happily contemplating the world of the sparrow and the next moment, my attention had been yanked back inside the room where my classmates were beginning to rise and fan

out into the greater library. I gleaned from what other children were saying that our charge was to select a book, any book, and sign it out in the manner we just learned. The spreading out and disappearing into the library, now that I could understand and I was all for it, but I had no clue as to how to go about finding where the interesting books were. So I instinctually headed for the most distant, dark corner of the room. It was really pretty incredible. The usual thing was to be assigned to read something deemed appropriate, but in this case we were being encouraged to select a book on anything that interested us as individuals. That made this as much an exercise in freedom as it was an exercise in book-lending protocol.

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Hey, maybe I should’ve left that book where it English House Sparrows are present in was! Anyhow, there were urban and rural landscapes two copies of the hallowed Golden Guide and they actually did have golden bindings though perhaps they were slightly dingier than I had just indicated.

I pulled one off the shelf and opened it up to a random page and immediately saw a familiar creature.

It was the Barn Swallow, a bird I had seen myself many times. In late spring, they built neat mud nests beneath the rafters inside the barn behind our house. the room, I passed by the shelves of books These swallows were deep blue, with dark that were intended to interest children of my orange on their faces and throats and had age, fun-looking volumes with cartoonish deeply forked tails. They slid through the covers or fairytales with fanciful names. In- air as adeptly as any bird could and were stead, the forgotten dank corner I ended up easily the most agile birds I’d ever seen. in was the natural history section. Though When their young left the nest, they would I came upon it entirely by accident, it was all be perched in a tight row on the power most probably the only section in which I line that stretched from the barn to the old was likely to find something that interested milk house. There, the fledglings, so recentme. The natural history section was minus- ly out of the nest, would patiently wait for cule but there were a few volumes that had their parents to come up and feed them. But recognizable words and compelling titles like The Trees of North America and A Guide to Freshwater Fishes. The binding of another small book seemed to be glowing on the shelf – even to the point of illuminating the drab books around it. It beckoned to me like the proverbial golden chalice. I could even hear an ethereal choir singing in the background, but in reality that may have been coming from the music room down the hall. This unearthly beacon was a bird book, the first I’d ever seen. It was a Golden Nature Guide – titled simply Birds. This was the golden key that would unlock the door to a future of wonderment, joy, companionship, work, The male Scarlet Tanager more work, back aches, neck aches, mud, more mud, writer’s cramp, and insect bites.

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Another random shuffle through the pages of the Golden Guide brought me to another bird, this time to a species I was completely unfamiliar with. It looked a little like the male cardinal that made regular visits to our yard, but his beak was different and he sported jet black wings and tail. I desperately wanted to know more about that bird and find out where it lived. Even though I’d never seen it before, it instantly became my

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favorite bird. It was the Scarlet Tanager. That little bird guide, even as savagely abridged as it was, truly was like gold to me and I immediately had a deep connection to it. I really wanted to sign it out, but of course that would require understanding the procedure of how to do it, and since I wasn’t paying attention when the whole process was painstakingly explained, my options were limited.

I could either admit to the teacher that I had no idea what she was saying for the last hour, or I could just take the book without signing it out. Naturally, I chose the latter option and it launched me into the unexpectedly criminal enterprise of birding.

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What birds?” he retorted while taking a few steps forward. Standing alongside me now, he cast his gaze in the direction where I’d been looking, perhaps expecting to see a Bald Eagle posing majestically on an open tree branch, or a Greater Flamingo wading in the tiny wetland by the tree line, something that might lend credence to my story. I instantly sensed an opening. I may be able to extract myself from this sticky situation after all. I went on to list for him 25 species that I had either heard or seen in the trees around me, and by the end of the list I could see real pain in the man’s face; he surely had never been so bored. “OK, OK, so you’re looking at birds. Well, I’ve got to get back to the dogs.” Just to nail the lid on it, I called out to him as he was hiking out, “Wait, I can show

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you pictures of all the birds I mentioned in this Peterson’s Field Guide! (Don’t worry, readers, that guide has a blue cover.) He yelled back, “No, please! Thanks, but I really have to go!” His vehicle was soon speeding down the highway. I found out later that the police were searching for an abducted person, suspected to have been murdered and buried locally. Yikes! In other words they were not looking for a sacred Golden Guide to Birds or the low-grade criminal type that took it. Note to criminals: Consider boring the law off your scent by giving them copious amounts of bird data. It might work to keep away solicitors, too.

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behind bushes, and standing vigil for hours in a meadow or on a roadside is considered suspicious behavior by some. Who could have known? I remember once being at a local park during spring migration. There was one particular place in that park that I referred to as “the maze,” where mixed flocks of warblers would move through in waves.

The maze itself was a few acres in length and was made up of an irregular placement of bushes and hedge-like groves of young trees. There was mowed grass between them that really gave it the feel of a labyrinth.

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“What are you doing looking at me and my wife from behind those bushes?” he asked in a menacing way. “I’m not looking at you and your, uhmm... wife. I’m looking at birds.” I said this as non-confrontationally as possible, and I actually had no idea what “wife” he was referring to; I only saw him. “What birds?” he said, and he looked around awkwardly as if there might be an Ostrich or an Anhinga standing blatantly in the grass behind him.

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He seemed to be mustering up a kind of forced aggression that gave the impression he was barely able to contain his fists.

“Wilson, aye?” he Dueling displays by male sneered. “Listen, I Northern Flickers don’t want to see you around here again. If I do there will be trouble!” It made me wonder what he and his invisible wife were up to that someone could’ve found so interesting. Perhaps it was someone else’s invisible wife that he had out there in those hedges. Or maybe he was married to that elusive Wilson’s Warbler. At any rate, I continued what I was doing and, presumably, he continued what he was doing, whatever that was, and no trouble ever came – none of the visible kind anyway.

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I was keeping my voice as calm as possible because it honestly looked like he might

suffer a stroke at any minute. “You’ve been following me and watching me for weeks!

You’ve been at my place and you’ve been everywhere I go – all the while watching me!” he said with wild eyes glaring. I honestly had never seen this guy before. I suspected that I may have been watching birds and inadvertently did it somewhere near his house or farm or cave – that was possible. I tried to explain to this person, melting down in the middle of the road before me, that he was wrong. I said, “I am not a spy, I am a reasonably honest fellow, taking part in the honorable tradition of birding. I live only a mile away from where we’re having our delightful little chat. Perhaps we’re neighbors.

Howdy, neighbor.” My calming tone seemed to ratchet his intensity down slightly. Either that or he simply ran out of gaskets to blow.

“Just don’t let me see you around here again!

And I mean it!” With that familiar refrain, he turned around and stomped off to his vehicle. Alas, it looked like yet another avenue had closed to me for birding. One complicating factor was that I had no idea where he thought I was watching him. It would be hard to avoid such a place as that. It did make me wonder what exactly he was up to that made him so wary of spies. Perhaps he

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had his own ill-gotten Golden Guide squirreled away somewhere, or maybe he was a moonshiner. Anyhow, I didn’t do anything different following that encounter and I never seemed to raise his hackles again. Perhaps he had a fatal attack after that or discovered the psychological benefits of medication. Or just possibly the real “big brother” caught up to him and scared him straight.

The life of a felonious birder is an active one. Another time I was on the campus of a local college. I was out searching for fall migrants in trees that bordered a large playing field. Migrants often travel along woodland edges and when they do, it’s much easier to see them since you’re able to get a clear line of sight. When in the interior of the forest, trying to see small flitting birds in the tree tops is near impossible due to the all the intervening foliage. So there I was, walking slowly up the side of the field, peering lat-

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erally at the forest edge, watching as flocks most probably in the very direction where of tiny songbirds made their way along the the offended student was. At any rate, it tree line. Some of the flock members crossed seems that my answer made clear that I was over the field, passed by me and flew in the sufficiently nerd-like to make me seem an direction of the college dorms. They were unlikely criminal and he left without even going to the fruit-laden ornamental crab ap- saying the obligatory line that he didn’t want ple trees growing along the drive and park- to see me around there again. That was a ing lot. I followed them with my binoculars nice change. in order to identify what species they were. Some of these experiences have led me I was back looking at the forest edge when a to the inescapable conclusion that I would campus security officer approached me from make a terrible private detective. It’s not behind and abruptly spoke to me. “What are that I ever really wanted to be one, but it’s you doing out here and why do you have never fun learning how absolutely rotten those binoculars? We received a complaint you are at a certain vocation. I seem to be from a student in the chronically oblivious to dorm that said there’s the goings-on of peosome guy looking in ple, particularly when Juvenile Peregrine Falcon on Hotel Utica’s ledge windows,” he said, I’m focused on the peering at me. I admuch more fascinatmit to being relieved ing world of birds and he wasn’t investigatother wildlife. There ing a missing Golden may in fact be murGuide from the colders and all manner of lege library. I replied, human intrigue taking “Well, that wouldn’t place all around me be me. I’m here but as long as there’s watching birds. It is some finch collectmigration season and ing thistledown for the birds have been its nest, I’m not going particularly active along this tree border.” He to notice anything other than that. It’s very came back with the familiar retort, “Birds? much like when I was back in school and What birds?” He gave a quick glance around unable to focus on what my teachers were the area on the off-chance that he was miss- saying as long as there was a window or my ing a flock of Scarlet Macaws festooning a imagination to divert into. nearby tree. I explained: “They are mostly I’ve now gone a long time without really neotropical migrants. These are very small getting into trouble for birding. For the Uticolorful songbirds that spend the breeding ca Peregrine Falcon Project, and particularly season here in the North and migrate to the during our fledgling watch, a number of us tropics to spend the winter months. A lot of spent a considerable amount of time wanderthem breed right here in these woods.” At ing around downtown Utica with binoculars that point I began giving him a list of bird and cameras. Amazingly, during that time, species, “There are a few Scarlet Tanagers, we received only a scant amount of interest a few Least Flycatchers, two Chestnut-sided from passers-by and from the authorities.

Warblers, a Blackburnian Warbler, and over When we were noticed it was invariably a there are three Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.” positive interaction that resulted. Granted, a With that last example, I pointed to the crab lot of people seemed to know what we were apple tree where the birds had flown, and doing, staring up at buildings from every an-

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gle, and trying to ascertain which fledgling was on which roof or window ledge. Then again, in cities people are probably more accustomed to strange behavior and maybe the falcon crew didn’t seem that weird in comparison. I have to think that to some we must have seemed like overly keen hillbilly tourists that descended on the downtown area and seemingly could never get enough of its remarkable sights – its skyscrapers and everything. Occasionally, I couldn’t help but take on a generic rural drawl and say things like: “Why just look at all the stories on that building! It’s practically reaching the clouds!

We sure don’t have anything like that in Chickasaw Falls.” Now that I think about it, someone in a uniform did approach me

one time and asked me not to take pictures of the State Office Building. Well, I might have considered that if only the building would move out of the way when I was trying to take a picture of the falcons!

I recently rediscovered my ill-gotten copy of the Golden Guide to Birds. It was at my mother’s house, but I needed to rifle through a lot of shelves and drawers before I put my hands on it. I think I must’ve glanced at every book that came over from the old family house in New Hartford more than a decade before. It was a strange amalgam of everything our family read over the course of 60 years or more. The books told volumes about the kind of people we were and still are. I found myself wishing that the books had been systematically organized. That’s right, I was wishing for the Dewey Decimal System. As it was, the bird guide was the very last book on the very last shelf it could’ve possibly been on. For a while I was thinking that it must have been re-stolen – just imagine that, folks! But no, it was there, once again banished to a dark and forgotten corner, not unlike the one I ”liberated” it from nearly 45 years before. Unsurprisingly, the book still retained its luster. I didn’t hear any choir, though, although some low percussive notes did seem to be creeping in

through the window (I think that sound emanated from a marching band rehearsing at the nearby high school). No longer chained by categorization, the anarchy of the book’s current situation put it in disparate company, among novels, textbooks, reference books, and biographies. Instead of being with books on trees and fishes, it was sitting close to Dickens’ Bleak House, a manual on the game of chess, a biography of Mary Queen of Scots, and a book with the unlikely title of Killer Salt, which I think was one of my mom’s nutrition-themed books. Anyhow, I extracted the Golden Guide to Birds from its place of obscurity and randomly opened it to a page. It was the Barn Swallow. I’d come full circle. Perhaps it’s time to return this book to the library. • 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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By Susan Perkins, Town of Manheim Historian

William Druse (1828-1884) and Roxalana (Teft) Druse (1842-1887) lived on Hogsback Hill Road in the Town of Warren in Herkimer County in a small farmhouse with a green door. The Druses had three children: Mary (1866-1915), Ellen “Nellie” (1869 – 1879), and William George Stewart Druse (1875-1944). Roxalana’s nephew, Frank Gates (1875-1950), was living with the family to help around the farm.

William Druse was always in debt and was known for his bad temper. William and Roxalana argued a lot about lack of food and money. Arguments were exchanged in front of the children. One could say they did not have a loving relationship.

One morning on Dec. 18, 1884, Roxalana asked Frank and George to leave the house. An argument ensued between William and Roxalana. The boys had gone 30 feet away when they heard a gunshot.

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She took the pistol back and shot two more times.

She then gave the pistol to Mary, who fumbled with it trying to load it. It accidently went off and the bullet went by her mother and Frank.

It is believed that William was wounded but still alive. Roxalana retrieved an ax that William had threatened her with moments before and raised it over her head.

William was lying on the floor by this time. He pleaded with her as she raised the ax over her head saying, “Oh, Roxy, don’t!” She ended William’s life by chopping his head off and proceeded to chop up the rest of his body and burn it in the parlor stove. Mary covered the windows of the house with paper so no one could

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see what was going on. The floor boards had to be washed and then painted over to cover the blood stains. In the meantime, neighbors noticed black smoke coming out of chimney and a bad odor. They had no idea what Roxalana had done to her husband.

Neighbors soon became suspicious.

They would ask Roxalana where her husband was. She told them he was in New York City, but they didn’t believe her. Charley Pett paid a visit on Jan. 6, 1885, and demanded to know when William would be returning from New York City. Roxalana

kept up with the same story that William had taken a wooden model of a waterwheel to find a potential investor. Pett didn’t believe Roxalana’s story. It took him three hours to get to Herkimer to meet either with the sheriff or the district attorney. He ended up at the law office of Abram Steele, where he told his story about William Druse being missing since mid-December, seeing black smoke, the awful smell, and newspaper covering the windows. Steele paid a visit to the Druse household. He told Roxalana and the children to get warm clothes because he was taking them in for questioning. It was then 8 p.m. and too late to travel to Herkimer. He took them to Jeremiah Eckler’s home to stay overnight.

The next day, Steele, along with Pett, Clarence Marshall, and Justice of the Peace Daniel McDonald took Frank Gates to look for the remains of William Druse. They

turned on to the Van Valkenburg Road, but in a few minutes stopped when Frank pointed toward the cedar swamp. Buried in the mound of snow were the ashes and a few bone chips and metal buckles, all that was left of William Druse. All the evidence associated with the murder, including William’s overcoat, boots, and model of the waterwheel were burned in the parlor stove.

The ax head and pistol were disposed of at Weatherbee’s Pond.

The murder trial was held in the 1874 Herkimer County Courthouse. Dr. A. Walter Suiter, who was a pioneer in forensic medicine, was hired by District Attorney Abram Steele to make a detailed scientific study of the remains to decide if the bone fragments were human.

Roxalana’s lawyer, Dwight Luce, defended that this was justifiable homicide.

He said that William Druse had attempted to kill his wife with an ax and that she shot him during the struggle. Mary testified at the trial but kept changing her story.

Judge Pardon Williams ordered Mrs. Druse hanged by the neck on Nov. 25, 1885.

The case was appealed twice. Resentencing took place on Nov. 8, 1886.

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To learn more about this case, read the book Last Woman Hanged by James Greiner, available for sale at the Herkimer County Historical Society’s gift shop. •

Interior of the Druse house showing the axe and wood stove.

The New York State Woman Suffrage Association had written Governor Hill in November 1886 asking that Roxalana not be executed.

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Mary Druse was placed in Onondaga State Penitentiary in Jamesville, NY. She was pardoned 10 years in 1895. She married John Gannon, who was a harness maker, and lived out her life in Syracuse.

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These are excerpts and reflections from Peggy’s journal chronicling their adventures. See issues 1-12 for her diaries from their first year.

When I graduated from Westmoreland Central School in 1966, girls had to wear dresses or skirts, no matter how cold it was. Pants or shorts were an exception allowed only in gym class. The big challenge for administrators was to figure out how to discretely determine the acceptable length for female students in all their stages of size and growth. They finally decided that if we knelt, the hem of our

skirt should touch the floor. See-through blouses were acceptable and skin-tight, button-up sweaters worn backward, but no pants!

I didn’t really mind wearing skirts, but they got me into trouble in kindergarten.

Our jungle gym was a framework of pipes in the little playground outside of the old Spaven House in Westmoreland, where kindergarten and first grade was held. I was part of the post-WWII baby boom (born in 1948), and I guess they couldn’t fit us all into the main school building across the street. One recess, my teacher called me away from my climbing and said I couldn’t use it any more that day.

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loved to climb, swing from my hands, and hang from my knees. The jungle gym was the high point of my day.

“You need to wear underwear, Peggy,” she stated matter-of-factly.

“How unfair,” I thought. “What does wearing underwear have to do with climbing on the jungle gym?”

In first grade, I advanced from finger paint to blackboards and chalk. The chalk looked like the right size and shape, so I thought I’d find out if it would fit in my nose.

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Whew! It came out.”

And I don’t remember what hapPeg going to pened to it afterfirst grade with ward. a new pencil Fast forward to one September many years later in our adulthood when Tim and I return to the church year. Tim has a challenging encounter with a troubled diet. man when he is preparing the sanctuary I poke for opening service. The burly fellow en- my fork into a succulent ters from the back and picks up a large, looking chunk of crispy, white old, iron cross from the greeting table. head lettuce in my salad bowl.

He raises it over his head like a weapon “Hmm. Why won’t my fork go and stalks up the center aisle toward Tim, through it?” I try to cut it and spouting scriptural epithets. Tim is con- am surprised to discover that I templating doing a drop-kick to his knee am trying to slice a crumpled, if necessary, but first raises one arm with white paper towel tossed with hand open like a traffic cop stopping cars, savory Italian dressing. and calls out, “Thou shalt not kill!”

“Should I say anything or Fortunately this stops the fellow, and just leave it on the plate?” I The Spaven House in Westmoreland where kindergarten he leaves, but we hear later that he moved wonder as I contemplate the and first grades were once held. on to another church in the area, caused a happy faces of my host and disturbance, and had to be hospitalized. my hostess.

We’re invited to a welcome-back I decide on a sleight of hand. “Excuse shoulder. I’m wordinner with a dear, retired couple in the me, I forgot to wash my hands,” I say, and ried about him now, though. Since the church. There are cocktails and an array do my best to exit gracefully with subtle first fall frost, he’s become very lethargic. of beautiful African violets to admire drops of dressing dripping from a fist full He doesn’t want to play, and can’t seem before we sit at a well-appointed table of delectable paper towel that I surrepti- to climb anymore. What’s going on? He’s with their best china. The hostess always tiously place into the trash. done so well all summer on the vegetarimakes a wonderful salad with macaroni My new kitten, Sooty, has quickly an diet I gave him: tofu, nutritional yeast, and cheese to accommodate our meatless learned to trust me and rides around on tempeh, and cooked vegetables.

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He had no trouble climbing trees last summer.

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“Tim, we have to get him! It’s not safe in the woods for a kitten!”

“Oh, don’t worry,” he says. “I’m sure he’ll come back soon enough.”

“I’m not so sure!” And I head out with a flashlight.

I hear scratching sounds nearby and catch a glimpse of Sooty scooting up a small tree. I decide to climb up and bring him down. I find him a few yards up, but as I reach for him with one hand, I think I feel a pine bough brush across my opposite hand. “That’s strange,” I think. Then when I move it, it hurts, so I aim the flashlight on it.

“Oh, no, porcupine quills in my hand!” I see at least 20 quills sticking out. The porcupine is on the opposite side of the tree from Sooty.

It really hurts when I move my hand, so have to use my elbows to climb down with the kitten and the flashlight in each hand.

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pull them out, so I can do it myself. I just have to clip the ends off like this, to remove the vacuum, and pull them out with pliers. See?” I tug on one, my skin lifts up, but it doesn’t come out.

“Ouch!”

“OK, I’ll really yank on it this time,” I decide.

“Owwww!” The room starts getting darker than it really is, and I have to lie down.

“Will you do it for me, please, dear?” I humbly ask.

Tim does a good job, I don’t faint, we disinfect my hand and it’s only sore for about a week.

Sooty and I survived the porcupine, but now he can barely walk and he’s only a few months old. I decide I’d better try giving him commercial, dry cat food, and within a few days he starts to perk up. In two weeks he’s back to normal! Eating meat has made this much of a difference?

But he never had meat (or mice) until now, so why the sudden deterioration after the frost?

Finally, I remember that during the summer, while in the garden with me, he often caught and ate grasshoppers.

I couldn’t stop him. They must have been providing the extra nutrients his body needed. This is a great insight to me.

It must be that some creatures must live on other creatures.

All cannot live on plants alone. And this helps me accept it later when I find I must (regretfully) add fish to my diet to regain my health after a lingering illness. Thank you, Sooty.

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Once you have picked your apples be sure to stop in and browse the country market. Enjoy farm fresh fudge, old fashion candy, homemade jam, country crafts & florals, fresh organic eggs, mums, aged NY cheese, maple syrup, local honey, fresh made cider donuts and of course our refreshing apple cider. We also have sample tastings of our jar goods on the weekends.

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Farm Store Opens August 29thpre-picked apples and peaches available

Opening Weekend September 12th!

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the break down in tears.

Sometimes we pick wild blueberries and take them to the store to trade for cooking oil, flour, and tofu.

Weddings are a big financial help, and always very interesting. I play music while Tim officiates. In one wedding, instead of the mother, the bride cries through the

whole ceremony. Is this

a good sign?

At another wedding, the enthusiastic groom can hardly stop kissing his bride long enough to say, “I do!” And then, there is the sweet, little flower girl who trips and falls just as she reaches the altar, bursting into tears as her flowers fly into the air, landing at the feet of the bride and groom!

Tim saves extra money on gas by put-

ting our VW Beetle in neutral and turning off the engine. Unlike modern cars, it keeps rolling and doesn’t lock up. He often tries to set new records for how far he can coast. I guess this keeps his commute to Utica more interesting; however, I get really annoyed when the coast gets too slow. As we near home on old Pardeeville Road, we inch along sometimes under 5 mph, even under 1 mph, trying to reach some new goal he’s set for himself on these back roads. I wish I’d brought my knitting.

One day Tim and I are turning right as we pull up and out of the parking lot at the Grant Hotel. As usual, the driver’s side door pops open and the seat tilts out.

Tim automatically pulls himself back in by pulling on the steering wheel, and slams the misaligned door shut while he is pushing in the clutch and changing gears.

“You know, Tim,” I observe. “It’s not normal to have to do that every time you turn a corner in a car.”

“You’re right. Maybe it’s time for a

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We go to McVoy’s in Poland and in the early ’80s, buy our first, brand-new car with monthly payments.

How exciting! We now have a car that has amenities beyond the safety basics of good brakes, tires, and lights. It has seats that don’t tip over, doors that don’t pop open when we’re turning, bumpers that are attached to the frame instead of the hood, heat, defrosters, and elbow room! I am so happy to be done with old VWs. I never want to ride in one again! Tim places an ad to try to sell Vicktor, and I think it’s foolish. Who would want a dilapidated old VW? But, unbelievably, a buyer comes and, equally unbelievably, as I watch Vicktor puttering out our road for the last time, tears well up in my eyes for our dear, old bug that somehow, carried us safely over many, many miles and saved money that made it possible to buy our first 59 acres of lovely woodland.

We’re learning that simplicity is not simple, and homesteading is lots of hard work. We’ve realized that many skills are necessary to live off the land, and the ability to creatively problem-solve is essential, not only for our physical needs, but in our relationships.

We hoped that we could live a sustainable lifestyle that minimally alters the earth. We’ve tried to take it a little too far at times, sometimes working too long and too hard, sometimes going without adequate food or heat. We must be kinder to ourselves.

But we love to work hard at meaningful tasks.

We love the little cottage and garden we created and all the forest creatures that we share our lives with.

And we love the power, the serenity, the ferocity, and beauty of this woodland where we wander through the mystery of being. •

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Look for more from Peggy’s memoirs next month.

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

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Lead paint poisoning affects over one million children today.

Learning disabilities, hearing loss, speech delays, violent behavior and, in rare cases, seizures and even death: these are just some of the effects lead paint poisoning has on young children. If your home was built before 1978, lead paint on your walls, doors, windows and sills may be dangerous. And it’s not just large paint chips that can cause damage. In fact, three granules of lead dust are enough to poison your child. Let’s make all kids lead-free kids. To learn more about the simple steps you can take to safeguard your family, log on to LEADFREEKIDS.org or call 800-424-LEAD.

For more information contact the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program at 315-266-6147.

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GAllery Guide

Family Farm by Tracy Helgeson a working artist living on a farm in Upstate New York. Her work is currently on display at the Cooperstown Art Association

William Joyce: Guardian of Childhood September 26 - January 3, 2016 William Joyce has world-wide recognition as an author, illustrator, filmmaker and pioneer in the animation industry.

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

Adinkra, The Visual Language of the Asante of the Coast of West Africa September 4 – October 9, 2015 Opening: Fri., Sept. 4, 1-6pm

Adinkra presents cultural objects of the Asante and neighboring cultures that engage the Asante visual language of Adinkra. Adinkra is symbolic, message, meaning and communication.

Barrett Fine Art Gallery

Utica College, 1600 Burrstone Road, Utica, NY (315) 792-5289 www.utica.edu/gallery

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

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Waiting for the Moon, Sculptor Jennifer Smith and Watercolorist Maureen Culbert

Vartan Poghosian

Sept 5 - Sept 30, 2015 Opening: Sat. Sept 5, 5-7pm

Vartan Poghosian’s interest in crystalline glazes began seven years ago. Since then, he’s been experimenting with form.

Cherry Branch Gallery

25 Main Street, Cherry Valley, NY (607) 264-9530 www.cherrybranchgallery.com

The 24th Annual Fine Craft Invitational Made in New York Through Sept 25, 2015 The Art of Wood and New Work by Tracy Helgeson

Cooperstown Art Association 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY (607) 547-9777 www.cooperstownart.com

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A full country breakfast is served Monday-Saturday.

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September 5 -October 31, 2015 Opening: Sat, Sept 12, 6 pm - 7:30pm

Earlville Opera House

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Lavern Kelley: The Art of the Farm September 19 - December 31, 2015 Lavern Kelley was a local dairy farmer who took up whittling as a young boy after an appendectomy and continued to carve his entire life.

Fenimore Art Museum

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Juanita F. Finn, Open Studio Sept 26 & 27 and Oct 12, 2015, 1-7pm Quilt-inspired accent paintings

18th Annual Great Art Giveaway Works by select regional artists Through October 4, 2015

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Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts

9530 Main Street, Remsen, NY (315) 205-4001

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A Feast for the Eyes, an Exploration of Still Life Paintings Through January 3, 2016

Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute

Coincidental Correspondence, the work of faculty members Christine Miller and Christi Harrington

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Juergensen Gallery

Information Technology building, MVCC Campus, 1101 Sherman Drive Utica, NY www.mvcc.edu/gallery

Wes Sherman: August at Great Camp Sagamore September 12 - November 8, 2015

Excavations: Paintings by Tom Townsley

Wes Sherman’s paintings combine traditional landscape painting with subtle inclusions of abstraction and geometry.

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September Surprise:

a Total Lunar Eclipse by carol higgins

One of the best objects to view in the sky is our Moon. It changes on a daily basis, going from a small crescent all the way to a “full” phase.

Sometimes we see it during the day, other times it travels across the night sky. But have you ever seen the Moon turn red? Well, on Sept. 27 you’ll have your chance–the Mohawk Valley is in for a total eclipse of the Moon.

There are at least 173 moons orbiting around the 8 planets in our solar system. Interestingly, our planet is the only one with a single moon.

Mercury and Venus don’t have any, while Mars has 2. The “gas giants” are the big winners: Jupiter has 67, Saturn 62, Uranus 27, and Neptune with 14. Ours is the fifth largest moon.

About 4.5 billion years ago an object about the size of Mars hit the young Earth. Over time, the impact debris merged and formed our Moon.

On average, it orbits Earth at 2,280 mph and is 239,000 miles away. The rate it spins on its axis is the same it takes to orbit once around Earth–29.5 days. This “tidal lock” has caused the same side of the Moon to face Earth for millions of years.

The Sun illuminates the surface, giving us spectacular views from Earth. Just look up or use binoculars, and you’ll see numerous large flat plains called “mare,” ridges, grooves, and lots of craters from impacts by asteroids, comets, and other space rocks.

The sunlit portion we see is different each day because of the Moon’s orbit. For example, when

Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, we see a “full Moon.” In the following days we see less and less until it moves between the Sun and the Earth. That’s called “new Moon” and the side facing Earth is dark.

The Moon’s orbit is slightly tilted, and occasionally a full Moon completely enters the shadow of Earth–a special event called a total lunar eclipse. That’s what will happen Sunday night, Sept. 27.

Starting at 8:11 p.m., the full Moon begins to enter Earth’s shadow, called the “umbra.” Over the next couple of hours you’ll notice a dramatic change in brightness. Then at 10:47 p.m. it happens–the total eclipse. Depending on sky conditions the Moon often turns a copper or deep red color, thanks to a filtering effect by Earth’s atmosphere.

A total lunar eclipse is quite a sight, and it’s definitely worthwhile to take photos.

It’s completely safe to watch, so don’t worry about your eyes or camera. Get ready for September’s amazing surprise.

Wishing you clear skies!

Free Stargazing Event!

Sat., September 12 • 8pm

Sherrill Brook Park

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The Moon during the April 15, 2014 total lunar eclipse. Photo by MVAS club member Chuck Higgins.

During a Total Lunar Eclipse, the Moon is in the Earth’s shadow or “Umbra”.

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G. Roberts Kolb Name: G. Roberts Kolb Age: 66 Hometown: Clinton, NY Musical Activities: conductor, singer, actor Age when began musical activity: piano lessons at age 5 Education: A.B. Occidental College; M.A. California State University, Fullerton; D.M.A. University of Illinois Current employment/position: Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Music, Director of Choral music, and Chair of the Music Department at Hamilton College Influences: It was Howard Swan at Occidental College who infected me with the “choral bug” and Paul Vermel at the University of Illinois who was principally responsible for the development of my conducting technique. And of course countless other influences along the way...

Upcoming performance: Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale will rehearse and perform Handel’s Messiah this fall. Singers welcome (no audition required) beginning with first rehearsal at 7pm on September 20 in the Schambach Center for Music on the Hamilton campus. Concert is Tuesday, December 1 at 7:30pm

“As a conductor, I cannot create music without members of an ensemble. They cannot do it without one another.

But together we can do wonderful things that none of us can do by ourselves. And with choral music, we have an additional dimension: words. Words that come out of the human condition and attempt to express something about that condition: joy, sorrow, anger, fear, love. A performing artist—and this includes a choir—must communicate these emotions through the music, and once you have done this, you are not the same—you are changed. When we do it right, choral music gives us experiences that make us more aware of what it is to be human, to be alive, to appreciate artistic beauty—to appreciate one another—experiences that make us more aware of those common bonds that we all share.”

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live & local September is here and there’s lots of live local music to catch.

One great option is the bi-monthly Mohawk Valley Blues Society open jams, hosted each time by a different band.

These nights get started with an opening set from the host band, followed by the “jammers” who come out and sign up to play. Whether you play or just love the blues, you can enjoy these nights. A who’s who of local blues players show up to play, as do the guys who don’t play in bands. The atmosphere is relaxed, and welcoming players of all skill levels make for a great time.

The jams take place on the second Wednesday at the Snubbing Post in Rome and on the fourth Wednesday at Happy Sam’s at the Ramada Inn in New Hartford. The fun starts at 7 p.m. For more info go to www.mvblues.org Another big event coming in September is the Utica Music and Arts Festival. In its eighth year, the festival attracts more than 100 bands from across the country and is hosted in 10 locations in Utica, mostly on Varick Street.

This is the perfect opportunity to check out some new and hot talent. Local acts are also involved, including the Carmen Carmonica Jazz Trio, Rick Compton, and Dennis Jacobs. The music genres run the gamut from the aforementioned jazz to funk, rock,

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reggae, and more.

Some local faves like Hank and Cupcakes were introduced to the area at this music festival.

Whom will you discover this year? Tickets are 10 bucks in advance. Check out www.uticamusicandartsfest.com.

I also have to give a shout out to the Tramontane Cafe. I recently attended an open mic there. What a great time, and what great talent! Join them Sundays at 7 p.m. News and notes: If you want your band written up here, e-mail geneseejoe@927thedrive. net . If you have gigs for your band or want to know who’s playing where, go to www.927thedrive.net/calendars/community-calendar.

Listen at 6:20 weekdays to hear the list on “The Joe Show.”

Go see live music!!

Listen to Genesee Joe live on 92.7FM, The DRIVE. geneseejoe@927thedrive.net

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Walk-in Closet, Barneveld . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Coin, Currency, and Bullion Dealers Upstate Numismatic Services, Utica . . . . . 68 Consignment The Online Exchange, Dolgeville . . . . . . . . . 67 The Queen’s Closet, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Treasures Lost & Found, New Hartford . . . . 9 The Village Basement, New Hartford . . . . . . 70 Walk-in Closet, Barneveld . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Delis Kountry Kupboard, Madison . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Olde Kountry Market, Vernon . . . . . . . . . . 84 Diners Adirondack Diner and Lanes, Barneveld . . 54 Charlie’s Place, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Riverside Diner, Marcy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Wendy’s Diner, Cassville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Dry Cleaners Dapper Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 M & M Cleaners, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Electrical City Electric, Marcy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Estate Sales Attic Addicts, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 The Potting Shed Antiques, Whitesboro . . . 31 Events, Entertainment, and Activities Children’s Museum, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Earlville Opera House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown . . . . . 35 Hamilton College P.A., Clinton . . . . . . . . . . 65 Herkimer Co. Hist. “Roxy” Sept 11-3, 18-20, 2015 Madison Co. Craft Days, Sept 12&13 . . . . . 69 Madison County Hop Fest, Sept 18-20 . . . 50 Mollin-Clay Jazz Duo at Horned Dorset . . . 76 The Stanley, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Utica Art & Music Festival . . . . . . . . . . . 64

View, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Wightman Specialty Woods, Open House . . 50

Michael’s Greenhouse, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . 84 Village Florals, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Farm Equipment Clinton Tractor, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Hobby Hill Farm, Lee Center . . . . . . . . . 17 Springfield Tractor, Springfield Center . . . . 37 White’s Farm Supply, Waterville/Canastota . . 96

Funeral Services Enea Funeral Service, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . 73 Nunn & McGrath, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Farm Produce Grassy Cow Dairy, Remsen . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Jones Family Farm, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 K-RO Acres Dexter Beef, Herkimer Co. . . . . 48 North Star Orchards, Westmoreland . . . . . . . 22 Oneida County Public Market, Utica . . . . . . 13 Szarek Farm & Greenhouses, Westmoreland . . 7 Stoltzfus Family Dairy, Vernon Center . . . . 72 Sunnybrook Farm, Deansboro . . . . . . . . . 70 Twin Orchards, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . 44 Windy Hill Orchard, Cassville . . . . . . . . 79 Feed and Farm Needs Pohl’s Feed, Vernon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Fencing Williams Fence, Deansboro . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Financial Institutions Adirondack Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Financial Services Turnbull Insurance, New Hartford . . . . . . . . 26 Van Meter & Van Meter, Little Falls . . . . . . . . 16 Fitness & Gyms Curves, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 TeamFit, Sherrill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Flooring D&D Carpets of Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Tru-Line Hardwood Flooring, Whitesboro . . 44 Florists Clinton Florist, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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Furniture Adirondack Furniture, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Ironwood Furniture, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Jeff ’s Amish Furniture, Jordanville . . . . . . . . 18 Furniture Makers Custom Woodcraft, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Garden Centers and Greenhouses Blooms by Bogner, New Hartford . . . . . . 40 Casler Flower Farm, West Winfield . . . . . 33 D’Alessandro’s Landscaping, Frankfort . . . 39 George’s Nursery & Garden, Clinton . . . . . 19 Juliano’s Greenhouses, Schuyler . . . . . . . . 23 Melinda’s Garden Barn, Richfield Springs . . 20 Michael’s Greenhouse, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . 84 The Mum Farm, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . 46 River Road Greenhouses, Marcy . . . . . . . . 43 Szarek Greenhouses, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Top Notch Garden Center, Newport . . . . . . 36 Gift Shop s Artisans Corner, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Between Us Sisters, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . . 84 Bittersweet Farm Mercantile, West Burlington . . 30 Butternut Barn, Richfield Springs . . . . . . . . 78 Clinton Pottery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Cobbler and Company, Sharon Springs . . . . 81 Country Connections, Boonville . . . . . . . . . . 64 Fusion Art Gallery, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Hummingbird Kreations, Rome . . . . . . . . . 42 Little Falls Antique Center, Little Falls . . . . . 65 Main Street Gift Shop, Newport . . . . . . . . 57 Mystical Dragonfly, Richfield Springs . . . . . 70 Newport Marketplace, Newport . . . . . . . . . 36 Pathway of Pearls, Schuyler . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Remington Country Store, Ilion . . . . . . . . . 24

The Old Blacksmith Shop, Schuyler Lake . . 20 Golf and Recreation Golf Club of Newport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Stonegate Golf Course, West Winfield . . . . 60 Twin Ponds Golf & Country Club, NY Mills . . 23 Woodgate Pine Golf Club, Boonville . . . . . . 68 Grocery/Convenience Stores B & F Milk Center, Whitesboro. . . . . . . . . . . 71 The Country Store, Dolgeville . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Deansboro Superette, Deansboro . . . . . . . . 15 Meelan’s Market, Clark Mills . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Mohawk Village Market, Mohawk . . . . . . . 14 Olde Kountry Market, Vernon . . . . . . . . . . 84 Reilly’s Dairy, Inc., Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Hardware/Farm & Home Lincoln Davies, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Pohlig Enterprises, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Pohl’s Feed, Vernon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Morgan’s Hardware, Waterville . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Turner Lumber, Barneveld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Heating Oil Little Falls Fuel, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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

WCNY, Syracuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 FOX33/WUTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Jewelry Clinton Jewelers, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Fall Hill Bead & Gem, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . 81 Goldmine Jewelers, New Hartford . . . . . . . 41

Milk Cedar Park Farm Goat’s Milk . . . . . . . . . 74

Lawn Care and Property Maintenance Wright’s Lawncare & Snow Plowing, Rome . . . 52 Lawn Mowers Bowen Power Sports, Ilion . . . . . . . . 65 & 66 J.B.’s Small Engine Works, Utica . . . . . . . . 78 SD Outdoor Power, New Hartford . . . . . . . 25 Learning in Retirement MVILR at SUNYIT, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Lighting Mills Electrical Supply, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Liquor Stores and Wine Seneca Liquor, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Trenton Station Liquor & Wine, Barneveld . . . 62

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

Lodging Canal Side Inn, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Lights of Home B&B, Oriskany Falls . . . . . . 85

Horseback Riding Lessons Reindance Stables, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Manufactured and Modular Home Builders G & I Homes, Utica/Vernon/Oneonta . . . . . 18

Independent Living Acacia Village, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Maple Syrup Ben & Judy’s Sugarhouse, West Edmeston . . . . 12 Shaw’s Maple Products, Clinton . . . . . . . . . 34 Tibbits Maple, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . 75

Ice Cream B&F Milk Center, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Ice Cream Station, Illion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Kayuta Drive-In, Remsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Riverside Diner, Marcy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The Knight Spot, Frankfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Voss’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Wendy’s Diner, Cassville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Insurance Gates-Cole Insurance, New Hartford . . . . . 25 Farm Family Insurance, Boonville . . . . . . . . . 11 Turnbull Insurance, New Hartford . . . . . . . 26

Museums Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown . . . . . . . . 35 Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown . . . . 35 Goodsell Museum, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 MWPAI, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Remington Arms Museum, Ilion . . . . . . . . 24 View, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Natural Food Stores Brenda’s Natural Foods, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Cooperstown Naturals, Cooperstown . . . . . 16 Peter’s Cornucopia, New Hartford . . . . . . . . 65 Sunflower Naturals, Barneveld . . . . . . . . . . 70 Tom’s Natural Foods, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Olive Oils/Balsamic Vinegars Adirondack Olive Oil Co., New Hartford . . . 31 Optometrist Towpath Vision Care, Little Falls . . . . . . . 26 Pet Memorialization and Cremation Burdick & Enea Memorials, Clinton . . . . . . . 73 Pet Services Not Just Poodles Pet Salon, Whitesboro . . . . 15

Marinas Bird’s Marine, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Pet Shops Wild Things, New York Mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Massage, Therapeutic Zensations, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Pharmacies Garro Drugs, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Media 1420 The Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1450 WKAL, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 92.7 The Drive WXUR, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Weekly Adirondack, Old Forge . . . . . . . . . . 24

Photography Fusion Art/The Photo Shoppe, Rome . . . . . 12 Gail Haile Fine Photography, Clinton . . . . 20

Libbey’s Stitched with Prayer!

Monuments & Memorials Burdick & Enea Memorials, Clinton . . . . . . . 80 M.N.M. Monument Maintenance, Yorkville . . 11 Yorkville Memorials, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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Quality work from first stitch to finish!

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77 East State Street (Route 5), Sherrill

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Physical Therapy Fitness Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Inertia PT, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Pizzerias Bazan Bakery, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 DiCastro’s Brick Oven, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Primo Pizzeria, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Pools/Pool Supplies and Spas Swan Pools & Spas, Ilion/Washington Mills . . . 20 Portable Toilets and Bathrooms Mohawk Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Primitives Between Us Sisters, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . 84 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 . . . . . 83 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Ballister’s Bistro, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Black Cat, Sharon Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Cafe Crete, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Canal Side Inn, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Copper Moose Ale House, Little Falls . . . . . 55 DiCastro’s Brick Oven, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Dominick’s Deli, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Georgio’s, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Heidelberg Baking Co., Herkimer . . . . . . . . 55 Karam’s Middle East Bakery, Yorkville . . . . 59 The Kitlas Restaurant, Frankfort . . . . . . . 55 The Knight Spot, Frankfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Knuckleheads Brewhouse, Westmoreland . . 59 Main Street Ristorante, Newport . . . . . . . . 57 Mitsuba Hibachi, New Hartford . . . . . . . . 57 Ohio Tavern, Cold Brook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Papa Joes, Washington Mills . . . . . . . . . . 59 Phoenician Restaurant, New Hartford . . . . 57 Piccolo Cafe, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Quack’s Village Inn, Madison . . . . . . . . . . . 56 RoSo’s Cafe & Catering, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Sammy & Annie Foods, Utica . . . . . . . . . . 59 Voss’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Recreational Vehicles Bowen Power Sports, Ilion . . . . . . . . . . 65 CJ Motor Sports, Boonville . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Riding Stables Reindance Stables, Sauquoit . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Seamstress & Tailors Libbey’s Sew Blessed, Sherrill . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Sheds and Garages Shafer & Sons, Westmoreland . . . . . . . . . 34 Shoes Karaz Shoes, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 The Village Crossing, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . 81

Small Engine Repair J.B.’s Small Engine Works, Utica . . . . . . . . 78 Snowmobiles Schoff Polaris, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Soap Cranberry Ridge Goat Milk Soap . . . . . . . 71 Specialty Wood Wightman Specialty Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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Tent Rentals Brownie Tent & Awning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Tourism Lewis County Tourism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Old Forge, Town of Webb . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Towing Services Clinton Collision, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Trailers Blizzard Manufacturing, Boonville . . . . . . 47 Travel Agencies The Cruise Wizards, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . 86 Websites Utica Remember When . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Weddings and Banquets Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 DiCastro’s Too, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Twin Ponds Golf & Country Club, NY Mills . . 23 Wellness and Alternative Health Therapy Mystical Dragonfly, Richfield Springs . . . . 70 Pathway of Pearls, Schuyler . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Windows RA Dudrak, Holland Patent . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Wine Bars and Ale Houses Copper Moose Ale House, Little Falls . . . . 55 Wineries Pailshop Vineyards, Fly Creek . . . . . . . . . 19

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