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by Sharry L. Whitney

I don’t think I’ve ever felt more appreciative of living in “rural America” than I have these past few months of “isolation.” Sure, I’ve missed visiting with friends and family, attending events, concerts, and movies. I’ve mourned the canceled season of Glimmerglass Opera, The Sterling Renaissance Festival, and playing Skee-Ball at Sylvan Beach Amusement Park. I am, however, grateful for space. We have much of it here in the Mohawk Valley: trails, parks, rural roads, and wide-open spaces. We have streams, creeks, and lakes. Cool, clear Adirondack mountain lakes. Timeless Otsego Lake. Immense Oneida Lake.

I went sailing last week from Verona Beach out into that large, sparkling body of water. Alone, far from face masks and hand sanitizers, I listened to the water slapping against the hull and thought about these strange times. I reminisced about the things we used to take for granted. I was alone by choice, surrounded by vast water. A good, normal alone. Kaplash! A giant fish (freshwater drum?) burst out of the water and smacked the surface of the lake shocking me out of my trance. It reminding me that there was a world of life teeming beneath me, unaffected and oblivious to our altered reality above. •

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by Roe Hall,

Oneida County History Center Volunteer Human slavery and women’s rights were among the great social issues of the 19th century. The Age of Enlightenment, rooted in the latter 1600s, was convincing in its argument that humane public policy could change lives for the better. Americans were increasingly aware of a multiplicity of social evils long left unaddressed. Among these was the plight of parentless children, who were seen as meriting better than the forced struggle to survive on their own as was their lot on the streets of Dickensian London.

The orphanage movement, relatively minor in the United States during the 1700s, was reaching its zenith in the late 1800s and continued strong through the first part of the 20th century. The movement did not diminish until the onset of government-driven social services, and the establishment of a well-organized, if imperfect, system of child foster care.

Several early orphanages were located in Utica. Perhaps the most prominent of which was the Utica Orphan Asylum whose charter was granted in 1830. As times changed, so did its mission; by 1924, the Asylum had become a hospital for crippled children. The orphans, sometimes still referred to by the Victorian epithet “inmates,” were moved to other facilities. The orphanage was replaced by houses built along a new residential street, Derbyshire Place, named in honor of philanthropist Charlotte Derbyshire who had long been involved with the Female Society of Industry, an organization instrumental in founding the orphanage.

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building on its expansive campus dedicated in 1892, the Home opened its doors the next year to the children of Masons who needed care. By the time they closed some 99 years later, 969 children had passed through its doors.

While today’s Masonic Care Community has embraced the wider mission of providing a variety of health-related and housing services to area residents of all ages and affiliations, the Home’s achievements in providing for the youngest, and perhaps most vulnerable, members of society early on cannot be minimized.

But the Masonic Home and School, according to Kathleen Contino-Turner, Director of Marketing and Communications at the Masonic Care Community, was never actually an orphanage, since its purpose had never been to facilitate adoptions. “Home Kids,” as its children were informally known, typically returned to live with one or both parents or another relative; however, should that prove impossible, then they continued in residence until their schooling was complete. Families were never charged as all costs were assumed by the Masons.

A “Kid’s” admission might result from a request by a Mason who felt unable to care for his children after their mother’s death, or by his widow or another family member. An example can be found in the story of two of Martha M.’s daughters, admitted during the 1950s. Following her husband’s death, Martha, who felt unable to care for all of her five children, had asked his lodge for help in providing for her two oldest. These girls immediately embarked upon a program that included attendance at Utica city schools (schooling took place in-house prior to the 1930s) and a full complement of activities ranging from music lessons to sports, crafts, and more. All Home Kids enjoyed an annual two-month summer sojourn at the Mason’s Round Lake camp in the Adirondacks, 49 miles north of Utica.

Dormitories for girls were in the Knights Templar’s building, while boys lived in Wiley Hall. Both structures, repurposed since the children’s

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home closed, still grace the campus. Children age eight years and younger were housed in a separate nursery.

Large albums, which Contino-Turner calls Home Kids’ registries, were used from the very beginning to detail, in flowing Victorian copperplate, a brief history of each child’s time in residence including the cost of care and, if known, how his or her life played out over the years.

A few such stories are below.

George H. was exactly five years, six months and 22 days old when he was admitted to the Home on March 24, 1894, two months after the death of his father. Discharged on Nov. 4, 1897, his care cost his Mason sponsors $758.32. In later life, George was “engaged as a chauffeur...at a weekly wage of $30.00” and had “an automobile supply shop which (also) brings him an income.”

Clifford G. was just four when he arrived in 1895, receiving both a bowl haircut and a tonsillectomy, both of which appear to have been standard admissions procedure. Clifford remained at the home for nine years, 10 months, and nine days, leaving when his mother remarried.

His care cost the institution $2,070.25. Many children returned to visit the home as adults, as did Clifford, who stopped by in 1908, sharing the news that he was “learning the trade of roofing.”

Evan R.’s tenure as a Home Kid began in 1895 when he was seven, and lasted three years. The boy was “expelled” on March 7, 1898. the report stated that he was “mischievous.” As to what his future might have held? Not known. The follow-up report states, “We have been unable to locate or learn anything about him.”

Thomas G., arriving in 1895, remained for eight years, and withdrew on March 17, 1898, at age 11. “This young man.... worked on the Panama Canal,” the follow-up states.

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Kid, were employed there while remaining in residence following graduation from high school. Charlotte is recorded as having worked with “the small boys” while, at the same time receiving instruction “without cost to her, in stenography and type printing” By 1917, she is employed by Albert O. Steel, Diamond Setter, in New York City, where “she has a splendid position.”

Florence M., admitted in 1900 when she was 10, remained nine years.

Wishing to become a nurse following her graduation from Utica Free Academy, she was placed in the Home (on-campus) Hospital for 18 months.

From there, she graduated from the three-year nursing program offered by Utica’s St. Luke’s Hospital. “When she withdrew from the Home,” the record states, “we gave her $128.00 in cash, and when she graduated, a good watch... As a nurse, she was more than successful and in great demand.”

The cost of Florence’s care totaled $2002.80.

Kathleen H., leaving in 1911 at age 18 after 11 years in residence, was another UFA graduate. Upon her departure, “she was furnished with a complete wardrobe consisting of every necessary thing, enough to last her for two years. She was given $50.00 to open a bank account, $6.00 for her pocket, a trunk, a dress suitcase, handbag, umbrella, raincoat, and carfare to New York City,” where she was employed as a governess.

Howard Y., was 21 and had been a home kid for eight years when he left 1918.

“This boy is a splendid student,” the report writer enthused. He graduated (“with honors”) from U.F.A., and in 1917 was a third-year student at Cornell University.

These accounts are just a fraction of the stories of the Home Kids. Don’t miss part II coming in next (September 2020) issue. •

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Visitor’s to Ferd’s Bog are often serenaded by that Whistler of the North, the White-throated Sparrow.

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There was concern when the COVID lockdown was lifted people might be hesitant to venture back into the Adirondacks. A number of businesses and organizations decided early-on to shut their businesses and institutions for the entire summer, some for the year.

However, it seems people cocooned in their homes for so long were like racehorses just waiting to take off as soon as the gates opened!

In the two areas where we have spent quite a bit of time, the high peaks region and west-central region which is the Mohawk Valley’s big backyard, many of the establishments that did decide to open have been slammed!

And all along the Fulton Chain of Lakes, the trails with prominent and easy access, particularly those with trailheads right along the main highway, have also seen huge numbers. So I wondered where Justin I might hike on a holiday weekend where it might be less crowded.

It has been several years since visiting Ferd’s Bog. Named after Ferdinand LaFrance, a local who discovered the wetland area rich with birdlife, the trailhead is located well off Route 28 in Eagle Bay along the Uncas Road. It was the Fourth of July when Justin and I decided to visit the bog – for him, it was the first time. We had hoped to get some drone footage for educational use, but the bog is part of the Pigeon Hole Wilderness and so the use of motorized equipment and aircraft is forbidden. Despite being a holiday, of the three spaces in the small parking area, only one was taken.

The trail to the bog is only a little over 1/4 mile one way and walking through the forest there had always reminded me of passages from Tolkien’s classic, The Hobbit. The feeling was still the same!

When I first visited the bog, there was no boardwalk. Each step was an adventure, since stepping in the wrong place could mean sinking in up to your hip.

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Over the years I have been fortunate enough to capture on film a number of bird species there, including the Red-breasted Nuthatch, Hermit Thrush, Common Yellowthroat, White-throated Sparrow (that, Whistler of the North) and the Black-backed Woodpecker.

The Black-backed was a special capture since this is the southern-most range for the species which loves spruce bogs. Ferd’s Bog also happens to be a very easy access point for those who long to see boreal birds. I once met a birder from Connecticut and another from England who was there hoping to add the Black-backed to their life lists.

It was late in the afternoon this time when Justin and I made the short hike, and we did not see any bird species. However, there were plenty of wildflowers and we did happen to meet several descendants of Ferdinand LaFrance, a mom with her children, which was really delightful.

It has been too long since visiting that space. I hope to be back soon with 35mm camera in tow – near dawn – when the bog appears most mysterious and the birdlife most active.

By the way, Ferd’s Bog is also a qualifying hike for the Inlet-Outdoor Family Challenge! Complete the challenge and earn a special patch. Visit www.inletny.com for details. Find it under Things to Do! •

Caught by surprise as a red-breasted nuthatch suddenly emerged from this hole in a snag.

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What they say is true: You never know what you will find at the Mohawk Antiques Mall in Mohawk. You’ll also find that they have expanded, so you have even more chances of discovering things you didn’t even know you were looking for. It’s a great place to re-visit because there is always a large turnover of merchandise.

I wandered into the new section, pausing first to admire the artwork on the wall, some by local artists, some framed prints (I noticed at least one I might sneak back and buy for my husband, Steven. Don’t tell him.)

I walked all the way to the back, looking at furniture, Christmas decorations, and beer steins – even a few cans of Billy Beer!

I was especially interested in the vintage clothing. I did not find anything to suit my current theatrical needs, this time. However, as I say, the merchandise often changes. For that matter, so do my theatrical needs.

And there are the fancy little purses, which I collect and love to carry when I dress up.

Returning to the original building, I went upstairs to browse through vintage toys, glassware, and knick-knacks. I admired musical instruments and felt nostalgic when I saw LP record albums.

Back downstairs I gazed longingly at the jewelry. Rhinestones are my personal favorite. I also love looking at the Pyrex bowls, which my mother and grandmother used to use (actually, Mom still does!). I found a shot glass for Steven’s collection. It’s nice to buy your husband a present for no reason.

The library card catalog filled with postcards is still there. Postcards are a particular interest of mine, and I love that they are in a card catalog.

I miss card catalogs! I have said it before: I am not adept at researching with a computer, but I can rock a card catalog!

Alas, I do not have space enough to purchase all I admired! However, most antique stores are happy to have you come in and browse. And I may just treat myself to one rhinestone necklace! •

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The artist was an extraordinary innovator who revolutionized the medium of printmaking in the late fifteenth century.

The exhibition is on loan from the Reading Museum of Art. Sponsored in part by Nellie and Robert Gipson and The Clark Foundation.

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 – 1528, Christ Shown to the People from the Large Passion, c. 1497-1500, ink on paper, Museum Purchase. Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

BLUE GARDENS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GROSS AND DALEY ON VIEW THROUGH DEC 31, 2020

Vanderbilt Estate, Hyde Park, New York. Blue Gardens: Photographs

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It has been fifty-nine years since Alan Shepard became America’s first astronaut launched into space. Since then, we’ve built larger rockets, developed advanced spacecraft to protect crews from the harsh conditions beyond our planet’s atmosphere, sent twelve astronauts to the surface of the Moon, and helped build the International Space Station (ISS), which has been in operation since November 2000. In 2010, a new era of human spaceflight opened when NASA announced a novel approach to creating the next generation of transportation options to carry astronauts to and from the ISS – the Commercial Crew Program (CCP).

Starting in 1981, four Space Shuttles were the primary vehicle for U.S. astronauts. When plans to retire the fleet were announced by President Bush in 2004, NASA began work on new exploration missions.

Funding eventually became a problem, and debates about the direction of the space program continued. But the shuttle retirement plans were underway, and the shuttle Atlantis made the final flight on July 8, 2011, and landed July 21 of that year. Since then, American astronauts have depended on Russia and their 3-person Soyuz spacecraft for transportation. The Commercial Crew Program was created to end our reliance on others.

CCP is unique in the history of the agency. Previously specifications for rockets and crew-capable spacecraft were created, with contracts awarded to vendors who developed and built the systems under supervision by agency staff. NASA retained ownership of the resulting systems. In the CCP partnership, NASA defines safety and

operational requirements for crew transportation services, but leaves the design, development, and testing responsibilities to the companies who submit a plan to meet the requirements. When a company is awarded a CCP contract they retain ownership of their systems and NASA becomes a customer for launch services.

Between 2010 and 2013, companies submitted proposals to NASA. Some were granted funding to develop and test Hanny’s their Voorwerp. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Keel, Galaxy Zoo Team designs. In 2014, NASA announced the two finalists to be awarded Commercial SpaceX Crew Dragon launch May 30, 2020 Crew transportation contracts: Boeing and SpaceX. Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Over the next four years, four NASA astronauts worked with the two companies craft from reaching the ISS. Starliner did on the design and interfaces of their innosafely return, touching down at a planned vative spacecraft: Boeing’s Starliner, and site in White Sands, New Mexico. A thorSpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Extensive hardough investigation discovered software and ware and software tests were performed, hardware issues, which Boeing is addressand ground and mission control teams ing. A second test flight is being planned for trained and reviewed procedures. Last year, later this year. several significant flight milestones were The most exciting event so far is the achieved.

SpaceX Crew Dragon launch of NASA The first occurred on March 2, 2019. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley SpaceX launched a Crew Dragon spaceon May 30, 2020, from Kennedy Space craft on a demonstration flight to the ISS Center. They arrived at ISS nineteen hours to test all spacecraft systems. No astronauts later, and are still onboard the station helpwere on board, but sensors monitored ening with research and spacewalks! So far, vironmental conditions and spacecraft perCrew Dragon has performed very well, and formance during the mission including the the astronauts will likely return to Earth automatic docking process. Crew Dragon sometime in early August. If all goes well, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on the next Crew Dragon will launch in the fall March 8 and was retrieved by a SpaceX reand carry four NASA astronauts for a long covery ship. The test was a great success. duration mission. For the latest news, visit Next was the Boeing Starliner’s first unhttps://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/ . crewed demonstration flight, launched De Wishing you clear skies and good cember 20, 2019. Some problems occurred health! • shortly after lift-off, preventing the space-

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Tuesday: $2.99 All-U-Can-Eat Spaghetti Wednesday: $7.99 Pasta Specials, 10 Boneless Wings $6.00 Thursday: $15.99 All-U-Can-Eat Chicken Riggies Take Out Sunday: .60¢ Wings at bar

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At this time we are happy to service customers by mail.

We also offer curbside pickup and longarm quilting. Call for an opening date.

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antique shopping guide Antiques & Art

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We take the pressure out of estate liquidation, moving, or downsizing.

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Black Cat ANTIQUES & GIFTS A little bit country, a little bit primitive!

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Open Thursday-Monday: Closed Tuesday & Wednesday If coming from a long distance call to check hours

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Indoor & Open Year Round!

Large selection of vendors with an even larger variety of items!

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Your destination for furniture, hand stenciled signs, vintage clothing, warm glow candles, silk arrangements & more!

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Canal House Antiques Multi-Dealer Shop

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Hazel Mae’s

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Dawn Marie’s Treasures Vintage & New Gifts

13 College St., Clinton

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Sales! Sales! Sales!

Our village sidewalk sale runs August 3rd-8th. Lots of great treasures inside and out! Come visit us in Clinton and at Johnny Appleseeds in Erieville.

Aug 21-23

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NATURE in AUGUST

The warning call of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak is distinctive

story and photos by Matt Perry Making the transition from July to August is always difficult for me. It is the time when most songbirds cease to sing and the summer soundscape is taken over by insects – primarily crickets, grasshopper, katydids, and cicadas.

The changeover is a culture shock to me since I get so accustomed to knowing where birds are based almost entirely by their vocalizations. Deprived of the most obvious vocal clues, suddenly I must rely on visual sightings to confirm birds.

That is not to say that birds become completely silent in the latter half of the summer; birds still vocalize, they simply stop using their breeding/ territorial songs. Warning calls, begging calls (given by hungry juveniles), and contact notes can still be heard, although deciphering these calls and assigning them to specific bird species can be problematic. For example, the begging calls of Yellow Warbler fledglings are remarkably like those given by Chestnut-sided Warblers, which are nearly identical to those given

by American Redstarts. Also, the warning calls of Dark-eyed Juncos, Indigo Buntings, Field Sparrows, and Common Yellowthroats are all similar enough to cause some confusion or at least leave us with some doubt about who pre-

cisely we are hearing. Then again, some calls are highly distinctive and leave me with no doubt as to who is producing the sound.

The rattling warning calls of the House Wren, the bright squeak call of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and the “chip-bur” call of the Scarlet Tanager are examples of bird sounds that are easy to assign to specific species. Juvenile Baltimore Orioles produce a three or four-note begging call that is also highly recognizable and when I hear it, I have no doubt who is asking to be fed in the branches above me.

There are lots of juvenile birds active in August especially in a habitat rich with food resources. Most of these young birds fledged in June and July and by early August they are busy honing their foraging and hunting skills.

These birds will be migrating soon and their primary objective is to build fat reserves large enough to fuel their marathon southward journeys. Most of these songbirds have only a few

weeks to fatten up before heading to the tropics and to regions they have never seen before.

Watching a Redstart family is somewhat like watching a small mixed flock containing multiple warbler species – their plumage varies that much! The plumage of the juvenile American Redstarts looks something like that of the adult female Redstart and not much like that of the adult male. The adult males have mostly black plumage with orange markings on the wings and tail, while the female and immatures are greenish with yellow markings. You can sometimes distinguish female immatures from male immatures by the presence of small black spots on the male’s throat. All Redstarts (regardless

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of plumage) show similar behavior when feeding. These insectivores flit around in the tree branches gleaning larva from leaves and nabbing flying insects in mid-air. Often while feeding they swish their tails from side to side. When they do this, they flare out their tail feathers, thus revealing colorful tail spots. These accent marks are orange in the adult male, yellow in the adult female, and either yellow or orange in immatures. Even as they forage for themselves, Redstart fledglings produce soft chattering begging calls. They do this to compel their parents to continue providing food. Redstarts do not sing often in August but sometimes you can hear a stray song or two from adults. Interestingly, with Redstarts, both the male and female produce songs. This sets them apart from most other migratory songbirds, where the male is the only singer in the family.

Some birds are late breeders and may still be found nesting late into August. American Goldfinches are notorious for their late nests. Often, they wait for their favorite food sources to go to seed before raising their families. That is smart planning! Territorial behavior between rival male goldfinches can make an otherwise placid meadow a very lively place. The males spar with each other while rocketing straight up over their contested territory. Cedar Waxwings may also breed late. Some of them seem to prefer waiting until the berry crop is at its peak before setting up housekeeping.

A few songbird species raise as many as three broods during the summer (House Wren, Song Sparrow, and Common Yellowthroat) and they may be found rushing around trying to feed their broods well into August. All in all, August is a good month to look for birds and to observe novel behavior. I encourage everyone to go outside and try to see some of these birds before they leave for their wintering grounds. Don’t forget to bring binoculars. •

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The House and Factory On Moss Island, Little Falls

Reagan’s House, Moss Island, Little Falls

By sue perkins The Herkimer County Historical Society received an anonymous collection of photographs of Moss Island in Little Falls, New York. One of the photographs that captured my curiosity showed a house on Moss Island which had written on the back was the house of Mr. Reagan. I had never heard of a house being on the island.

Who was Mr. Reagan? Thus, commenced my research to find out about Mr. Reagan’s first name.

I first looked in the society’s two vertical files on Moss Island.

I found an unnamed newspaper article dated August 9, 1947, with the following: “The best-remembered owner of the island was John Reagan, who became its possessor in the early 1870s. Following his death, ownership devolved on his widow, Catherine Reagan, known affectionately to the people of the city as “Aunty” Reagan. She sold it to the late John and George L. Smith, father and son, who built the stone mill on the southwest corner of the property, which was for years of one the city’s most prosperous industries.” I then went on www.fultonhistory.com and found an article in the Little Falls Evening Times dated Wednesday, November 17, 1886, that J.H. Smith purchased Moss Island for his wool extract business from Mr. Reagan who sold the island for $3,200 with the privilege of retaining his little cabin and passing the remainder of his days there.

Here are two different accounts on who purchased Moss Island. I found that in 1887, John H. Smith (1832-1905) formed a co-partnership with Dr. B. E. Bushnell organizing the Little Falls Wool Extract Co. In 1895, he purchased the business from Bushnell and it alone until July 1904 when the company reorganized under the name of Adirondack Woolen Company. He then formed a partnership with

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Moss Island, 1906 his son George L. Smith and Olin W. Timmerman. In researching newspapers they are not always accurate in their reporting. George L. Smith (1864-1946) purchased the remaining stock and became sole owner of the Adirondack Woolen Company in 1906 one year after his father’s death in 1905. The Barge Canal was being built from 1906-1910 right through his property. The mountains of rock had to be leveled to extend the mill site farther north. In addition, several buildings had to be removed and new ones built. In 1946, the floors of the old Adirondack Woolen Company, loaded with paper stock, collapsed causing the death of four men and many believe, indirectly causing the death of George L. Smith three months later on April 25, 1946, according to The Little Falls Evening Times of Monday, July 10, 1961.

New Central Railroad eliminated the Gulf Curve and relocated the Mohawk River, the State then purchased Moss Island and razed Adirondack Woolen Company in July of 1961. There were plans in the works in 1958 to build a Canal Museum and Park on Moss Island.

The Society has a copy of the Progress Report dated November 1959 for this proposed project. The report was signed by Donal Hurley (1899-1980) was a businessman and Edward J. Cooney (1899-1980) was the Little Falls City Historian.

After finding Mr. Reagan’s first name, I then looked in the newspaper obituary card file. The card stated the obituary was in the Herkimer Democrat October 19, 1887. It just said he died October 7, 1887, at the age of 80 years. I then went on www.Ancestry.com. I found John Reagan (ca. 1807 -1887) married Catherine (1810-1901) both born in Ireland listed in 1850 and 1860. In 1875, they lived in the town of Danube. The Reagans were not found in the 1880 Census. The 1883 and 1886 Little Falls Directory states that John Reagan lived on Goat Island. John died in 1887. Catherine moved to Mohawk to live with her relative Daniel Crowley (1849-1905). Daniel Crowley had lived on Goat Island in Little Falls in 1883 according to the City Directory. Catherine’s obituary stated that she was found dead in her bed at the home of Daniel Crowley in Mohawk. She died in 1901 and was 78 years old.

I couldn’t write the article on John Reagan without telling the story of Adirondack Woolen Company on Moss Island. It is hard to imagine all the industry that was in Little Falls at one time. Thank you to David Krutz for information on Moss and Goat Islands.

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Summer is by far our busiest season on the farm. We’re raising chickens on pasture for area restaurants, small stores, and farmer’s market customers. We’re making cheese (almost) every day of the week in our dairy processing plant.

And because everyone is trying to support local businesses during these difficult times, it has been a challenge to keep up with demand! The vast majority of small farmers and food producers that I know and chat with regularly are all finding themselves dealing with a similar, yet welcome problem: keeping up. If you’ve been looking for a silver lining during this global pandemic, “loving local” is unquestionably helping small producers like us.

Our gelato business has been particularly brisk this year. Sales have more than doubled over last year, and we have had to make adjustments in our make schedule and processes to keep up with demand. But what we do and how we do it seems to be a real mystery to most folks.

Our gelato starts with the morning milking at a friend’s dairy farm. Four cows are lead into the milking parlor at a time, as the hum of the compressor and the swishing of the tails fill the air. The girls are happy to get their treats, moving slowly but deliberately in line and to their spaces in the parlor. They know exactly what to expect and even seem to enjoy their daily routine, something their farmers have performed religiously for decades.

Each udder is washed and wiped clean; a teat here or there is stripped to test milk quality. Before long, the milk is flowing and pumped into gleaming stainless steel cans, foam billowing above their brims. The barn cats know the routine well, too, and begin to swarm as they wait for their bowls to be filled. The milk house is steamy from washing and the sweet, heady aroma of dairy saturates your hair and clothes. (If you’ve ever been in a dairy barn or poked your nose in the milkhouse during milking, you know exactly what I mean!)

The magic of all dairy begins right here. I wish more people could experience it; I wish more people appreciated and valued it. What most consumers find on grocery store shelves is so far removed from the source, it hardly resembles dairy anymore. Jugs of milk and cartons of heavy cream have been extracted from the whole, a pale and sad substitute for the real deal. Don’t quite believe me?

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Strain into bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Add your favorite flavorings and freeze in your tabletop ice cream maker the next day! same ingredients are there, even all the vitamins and minerals.

But the freshness is lost; the flavor gone. One is bland while the other is alive with compounds that fade with time. Milk is no different: homogenization and high-temperature pasteurization strip milk of its freshest flavor compounds.

Once our stainless steel cans are filled, they make the short drive back to our farm. Steaming hot, the milk is gently poured into our vat pasteurizer. We add ingredients to make our base, including egg yolks and sugar. The paddle is put in place to stir the mix and the chart recorder is started. Multiple heating elements slowly increase the temperature of the jacket while steam is pumped over the surface of the milk. The mix must be pasteurized at 155° for 30 minutes, but we increase the temperature to nearly 180° to make a crème anglaise or custard.

But we have to be careful...eggs will scramble if the mix gets too hot!

After pasteurization is complete, the mix must be cooled.

Cold water is circulated through the vat’s jacket, all while the paddle continues to stir the contents. Just a few short hours after getting fresh, raw milk, we have a mix ready to churn into gelato. But for the mix to properly set, it must “cure” overnight in our walk-in cooler.

The very next day, we prepare the flavorings and labels and set up the equipment to churn and freeze the mix. We have a 24-quart batch freezer, much larger than your typical tabletop ice cream maker. But the concept is very much the same, of course. The flavored gelato mix is poured into a barrel that slowly freezes while beaters churn and scrape the mix from the sides. Some air is churned into the mix as it freezes. In fact, the speed of the beaters will determine the density of the end product. Once the mix is frozen, we use a machine we affectionately call “Mr. Squirter” to fill 8-ounce cups that then quickly go into our blast freezer. Less than 48 hours after milking, we have gelato from cow to cone! • 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 online at www.anotherjonesfamilyfarm.com

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About 25 years ago, a family friend gave my brother and me a tour of the woods on his property. It was a brief, but memorable, experience. Over a period of twenty years, Dave had planted a section of his property with trees. He also had a woodlot that he allowed to evolve on its own. As we walked up the old farm road, he began pointing out individual trees, identifying them by species, and telling us how much each was worth in board feet.

“That Black Walnut tree alone is worth ten grand.”, He said, trying to impress us. “Hey, that’s a lot of dough standing there doing nothing.”, I said, putting on my best city-slicker accent. Ignoring my snarky comment, Dave continued introducing us to various other stately trees as if we were lumber purchasers. He pointed to a crooked Black Cherry tree which had a bifurcated trunk. The main trunk split in two about 15 feet above the ground and then both hefty branches twisted their way into the forest canopy. He said that the cherry tree was “flawed” and not worth much at all.

Of course, for the tree, being flawed was its ticket to a long life.

On that day I began to understand that there was a great incentive for forest trees to exhibit eccentric growth patterns. That would seem to be the best way to keep the loggers at bay and ensure their longevity. If you are ever in a forest and wonder why the only mature trees around have twisted trunks or show obvious signs of heart-rot, it is because the lumber people passed over them.

Interestingly, our friend Dave was himself not a logger or lumber merchant. He was a landowner that looked at the woods on his property as a cash-crop.

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it is clear we have been at war with the forest for centuries. Settlers of European descent treated the forest as the enemy of civilization. They could not rid the land of it fast enough (they had a similar attitude to the forest’s wild denizens and indigenous peoples). The settlers were eager to transform the new land of dark, foreboding forest into productive agricultural land, like the familiar landscape that characterized much of northern Europe. I think that even my friend Dave would be horrified by the profligate use of forest resources during the American colonial period, as many trees were toppled and burned where they stood. Settlers probably would have capitalized on the timber, but they lacked the infrastructure to transport it. And, even if they could move logs, there were few facilities to process them. It was deemed better to just torch them and fertilize the soil with their ash. In colonial days, people were ignorant of the myriad services forests provide and what environmental changes were apt to occur in their absence.

Since trees stabilize the land, prevent erosion, and help to regulate the flow of water over the land, deforestation led to more severe flooding events. Also, spring snowmelt occurs more slowly on a wooded landscape, and the loss of the forest results in more severe spring flooding.

Generally, deforested landscapes are colder in winter and hotter in the summer. Wind speeds are also modified by the presence of a forest.

It is generally known that a planted row of trees can serve as a windbreak or as a snow fence. By extension, a whole forest of trees greatly inhibits wind speeds and limits the drifting of snow.

It is amazing to me how many people are under the misapprehension that a forest needs to be thinned in order to be healthy. That is a fallacy promulgated by the forestry industry and the government agencies that oversee it. Unfortunately, their doctrine is accepted by most landowners who may be eager enough (like Dave) to receive cash for their trees. It is a cookie-cutter approach to forest manage-

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There exists an interdependence between forest trees. An intact network of tree roots and fungal fibers functions as an effective communication system, and forest trees use it to transfer chemicals and water. When a disease or blight is detected somewhere in the forest, trees can relay specific information to each other

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by producing certain chemicals. The chemicals produced by a tree that is fending off disease are channeled into the root network where they can be received and reproduced by other trees. Those trees can then attempt to protect themselves from the disease by producing and deploying the same chemicals. When trees are killed and their roots die, the network is broken and will take time, perhaps many decades to reconstitute. Gaps in the forest created by felled trees also make the remaining trees more vulnerable to being damaged or toppled by high winds that have an easier time permeating a fragmented forest. Trees not targeted by the logging operation may be gouged by the equipment. Soil compaction caused by heavy vehicles can also damage tree roots and woodland perennials that live in the forest understory.

Back in 1995, when I first visited the nature sanctuary where I now work, I encountered a forest damaged by selective logging that took place four years earlier.

I saw relatively fresh tree stumps of Sugar Maple, American Beech, Eastern Hemlock, and a few other species. I saw the deep double ruts of logging vehicles that crisscrossed the woods, drove up streambeds, and scarred the sides of gorges. All along the course of the logging roads grew

thick brambles – enabled by the flood of sunlight that took advantage of a newly opened tree canopy. Several invasive plant species had already availed themselves of the logging trails and had made it to the heart of the forest. Thick blackberry and rose brambles superseded and shaded out native wildflowers and other plants that inhabit the forest understory. The woods had been plundered of some of its finest trees.

The energy they had sequestered for a century had been stolen from the ecosystem and would never return to enrich the soil. Not Bear’s Head Tooth Fungus grows on a forest tree only was the forest canopy disrupted by the loss of tree branches and foliage, but branches and treetops were strewn everyso was a vast and unseen where; the smell of cut wood and green sap area below the soil.

Back in 2007, a wooded property that permeated the air. Honestly, if you must borders the nature preserve was selective- selectively long a mature forest habitat, at ly logged. The loggers chose the absolute least do it during the winter when breeding worst time of year to do it – it was late birds are not present on the land. In winter, spring. The breeding season was underway the forest floor is typically frozen hard and for forest-living songbirds and not as easy to dig ruts into and compress. the forest floor was moist and It is illegal to directly kill protected native tender. What resulted was a birds in this country, but somehow it is permajor disruption in the habitat. missible to destroy their habitat with them Scarlet Tanagers, Rose-breast- in it. That is a loophole big enough to drive ed Grosbeaks, Wood Thrushes, a logging truck through.

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nials. Presumably, the trees’ underground root systems have been at work reestablishing the broken connections in their network, but that is difficult to confirm. Tree stumps are still visible, but they become smaller every year as fungi continually work to break them down.

The stumps of some species degenerate faster than those of other species. Interestingly, some American Beech stumps still retain living bark three decades after being cut down. Since a grove of beech trees routinely share root systems, a stump’s neighbors (which are technically its clones) continue to feed it and keep it alive.

I realize that some reading this article will be horrified and believe that I am advocating doing away with all lumber production. I am not advocating that. I merely want to point out that certain forest types do not need to be plundered to be healthy. Mature deciduous forest, particularly tracts of one hundred acres or more, should be kept intact at all costs. These woodlands are vital habitat for neo-tropical songbirds (a class of songbirds that is greatly decreasing in number) and spring ephemeral wildflowers. This habitat is also important for the tree communities themselves. If you or someone you know owns or has control over a forest of this kind, please consider preserving it. You would be doing the greatest favor to nature and to those of us who appreciate it in all its magnificent diversity. • Matt Perry is Conservation Director and resident naturalist at Spring Farm CARES in Clinton. He manages a 260 acre nature preserve which is open for tours by appointment. Matt is also regional editor of “The Kingbird”, which is a quarterly publication put out by the New York State Ornithological Association. Matt’s short nature videos can be viewed on the web. Look for Spring Farm CARES Nature Sanctuary on Facebook.

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The Poblano pepper is a very popular Mexican chili pepper. It’s very dark green, ripening to a dark red or even brown color. They are mild, large, and heart-shaped. Thick-walled, they are great for stuffing and roasting. When dried, they are sold as ancho chilies.

On the Scoville heat index, they come in at 1000-2000 units, well below the heat level of jalapeno peppers. My kind of spicy - mild!!

Those who know me--I’m not a spicy gal! This is as much heat as I can handle. I often change out poblano for jalapeno peppers in recipes. Because of their lower heat index, they are a very family-friendly pepper. Poblanos are the pepper I wait for every summer with anticipation. Its earthy, smoky flavor adds so much to my favorite salsa recipes and my cowboy caviar! If you’re not a fan of spicy either, give them a try in a recipe in place of a spicer pepper!

Poblano peppers originate in Puebla, Mexico, and are named after that Mexican state. They are the main ingredient in chile rellenos, a classic Mexican dish. As a dried Ancho pepper, they are the main ingredient in many sauces and moles.

GROWING POBLANO PEPPERS The bush has multiple stems and can reach 25 in. in height. The fruit is 3 to 6 in. long and 2-3 in. wide. An immature poblano is dark purplish green in color, but the mature fruits eventually turn a red so dark as to be nearly black.

Poblanos grow from seed in hardiness zones 10–12, but are also

easily grown in the Mohawk Valley from transplants and do best with a soil pH between 7.0 and 8.5. Poblanos are great candidates for growing in containers. They typically prefer full sunlight and may require additional support for the growing fruits during harvest in late summer. A poblano takes around 200 days from seed to harvest and requires soil temperatures of at least 64 °F to germinate.

Bear in mind that the more water and fertilizer you give to poblano peppers, the less hot they are likely to be. If you want hotter peppers, keep watering and fertilizing to a minimum.

You can pick poblano peppers when they are green or you can wait for them to ripen on the plant. Note that if you harvest peppers early, the plant will produce blossoms more frequently; however, you will want your poblanos to turn red if you plan to dry them.

When dried, poblano peppers are known as ancho chilis. As with all peppers, you will want to cut the fruit from the plant with scissors or shears when harvesting. This is preferable to pulling them off, which can damage the delicate branches.

Be on the lookout for pests like aphids and hornworms. They are easily managed with insecticidal soap.

This pepper is a great addition to your garden and can be found at farmers’ markets and farm stands in late summer. The recipe I’m sharing this month is one of my favorite ways to eat poblanos – roasted! •

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Roast the peppers over a stovetop flame, rotating often, until the skins char and blister up--about 10 minutes. Alternately, you can bake them in the oven until skins blacken and blister, about 15 minutes. Cool and set the peppers into a plastic bag to steam. This will help loosen the skins. Peel the charred skin from the roasted poblano peppers and slice them into strips about ¾ inch thick.

Heat a large pan to medium heat and melt the butter. Add the onion and cook 5 minutes, until the onion strips are translucent and soften up. Add the pepper strips and cook another minute, stirring.

Swirl in the crema/sour cream and stir to incorporate. Stir in the melty cheese a bit at a time, constantly stirring, until it melts thoroughly. Add the chili powder and Mexican oregano and stir. Reduce the heat and let the mixture warm for about a minute or so, stirring here and there. Serve with warm soft tortillas!

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TALES FROM

SHAWANGUNK Chapter 69

by Peggy Spencer Behrendt

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

The late summer garden is not just an epicurean feast of fresh, juicy, healthy vegetables and fruits. It is a poem of taste, texture, perfume and colors. Yes, last spring, we delighted in the infant rows of green sprouts nestled in rich, chocolate brown loam. And in early summer, we relished the dramatic, vigorous growth of our lovingly tended adolescent vegetables.

Now, however, is the time of fulfillment, the fruition, the epic of reproduction and harvest of life-sustaining food.

There’s something very comforting about a well-tended garden: the ordered rows of healthy plants, the plethora of green shades and textures of leaves, the aroma of sun drenched flora. It’s an experience of greens and golds, with little jewels of red, yellow and orange fruits sprinkled here and there playing a symphony of exquisite plant music in the sun, rain and gentle summer winds.

Each exudes its own deliciousness. You may have rubbed the leaves of celery, sweet basil or mint as you pass, and put your fingers to your nose, just to savor their heavenly scent, but have you ever noticed the subtle, earthy

fragrance of a carrot when you pull one fresh from the ground?

Even our cat, Mittens, enjoyed spending time in the garden with me, keeping me company and “helping” just by being there. After nineteen years together, my feline friend was finally taken this year by the sad, but inevitable temporality of life. Losing a beloved pet is such a deeply profound and personal loss that is inexpressible.

For now, I am turning to our wild chipmunks for furry friendship. Like living with a cat, this has its pros and cons. The good thing about them is that we never grieve their loss, because every spring, a chipmunk shows up, and they help me in the garden by storing little caches of sunflower seeds that sprout up. All I have to do is separate and transplant them to create a sunflower garden. Besides their tawny fur and sporty stripes of charcoal and white, chipmunks are soft, and cute, and beg so charmingly raised on back legs with trembling front paws hanging helplessly and great, dark eyes full of yearning. Sometimes they stuff their cheeks so full, they can hardly close their mouths!

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uproot young cucumber or squash plants to reach the ghost remains of the seed below, so I have to cover them with hardware cloth or pieces of old, metal screening. ​Chipmunks are easy to tame. Simply crouch as close as you can with open hand extended holding a little pile of sunflower seeds and stay as still as you can. They will see it, and will not directly approach, but will pretend to ignore you, scouting right, left and behind before letting it appear that they are interested.

If you are very, very still, and quiet, eventually, they will risk approaching, and you will gain a new friend.

Their little claws clasp your fingers gently, but firmly, and an initial test nibble on your finger will startle you, but not hurt nor pierce your skin. I wouldn’t try this with Red Squirrels, but have had only positive experiences with chipmunks since I was a child, watching them dive into Grandpa Joe’s shirt pocket for bits of cracked corn.

In fact, one is scampering across my computer keyboard as I write this in our screen gazebo, which is obviously not totally bug (or rodent) proof. This is a charming annoyance, since I confess I’d rather be weeding, watering and admiring my garden than writing about it. I​’m further distracted by a cacophony of calls and long talks by a blue jay family across the garden, fluttering about in the ebony shadows of towering forest trees. At first, I think they must be “helicopter” parents offering endless and repetitive advice to their young about survival, but two of them land on fence posts near me and I can see that the now adult-sized youth, with unblemished, brilliant, blue plumage is following its beleaguered parent, with wings fluttering and pestering chirps. This is appears to be more a situation of “adultolescence” since the youngster is obviously capable of getting its own food, but still expects the parent to feed them.

Our children, grandsons, and now two great grandchildren are spending much of their youth at Shawangunk. One grandson came for summer visits from a very different, urban environment. I recorded his reactions in 1987, when he was four years old.

Early in the summer Brandon & (his older brother) Todd went to the Holland Patent “Mud Days” with their parents.

Brandon was quite amazed at the behavior and events. He saw one man get hit in the back by a can thrown by another man. It

looked like there was going to be a fight when they confronted each other and the man who was hit said: “What “_” do you think you’re doing?” as he pushed the other guy.

“You “_” didn’t even recognize me!” replied the can thrower as he grabbed his old friend by the neck. They wrestled with each other for a bit and departed without anything more to say.

I guess these Mud Days are the place to be obnoxious, loud, and belligerent and still be accepted. When the trucks drive by after a race, they cheer and compliment the winner and boo and say derogatory comments to the loser; “Why don’t you drive that to the junk yard!”

Brandon asked; “Why do we always like the winner?”

A person nearby an-

Tim and Peg bike most every day

swered sarcastically; “Because nobody likes a loser.”

This influence did not please us. When he taught Phys. Ed., Tim made a point of rewarding all participants who made a good effort, and ironically, ended up with a champion track team. At home, he developed new rules for games like basketball and football, which involved working cooperatively to achieve a goal together, rather than just beating the other guy. Yes, there’s room for many different approaches to games.

At home in the forest, Brandon’s first impulse was to destroy anything moving; “Look at the pretty moth, Brandon.”

“Kill it” he’d say, and try to stomp on it.

“Put the little fish back into the water now or it will die,” I’d say.

“I want it to die.” He replied.

After a summer of feeding chipmunks out of his hand, feeling minnows tickle his bare feet in our brook, watching baby robins hatch and learn to fly, walking through a flutter of swallowtail butterflies dancing all around him on our road… he reacts differently.

“Look at how the butterfly flies, Brandon.”

“Why does it do that?” he asks.

Brandon was also introduced to Family Meetings, which we raised our kids with. We felt it was an important way for children to feel empowerment and learn democratic techniques for interpersonal problem solving. Each person

Grandsons Todd and Brandon graze on Sugar Snap peas.

had a chance to voice their opinion for two minutes on the topic for which the meeting was called, and then another minute to react to what was said by others, before brainstorming for possible solutions or compromises. Then we’d vote.

Brandon’s first meeting was about popsicles.

Grandpa Tim said to him one morning; “No more popsicles for the rest of the day if you don’t finish your oatmeal.”

I thought that was extreme, so we called a meeting and took turns expressing our opinions. I thought he should be able to have one after lunch if he finished it. Brandon thought he should have one “right now.” His older brother, Todd, said he should be able to have one after supper. Tim still held out for no popsicles all day if he didn’t finish his oatmeal.

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We voted, and Brandon voted with me, so he didn’t have to finish his oatmeal, but boy did he eat lunch! He ate lots and lots of corn bread and lentil soup and his little tummy stuck out quite a bit for a while. After eating his popsicle, he and Todd had a grand time playing in the creek all day, totally soaked from dumping water on each other.

One day, Brandon & Todd helped their Dad work on our friend’s camp and Brandon especially loved hammering nails. The next day we asked him; “Do you want to work or go to the beach, Brandon?” “Work.” he replied. ( He became an Airplane Mechanic, and Todd became a Dean at a college.)

At the end of summer, when it was time to go back to the city, Brandon said that he wanted to “stay forever.”

Our tomato plants are heavy with fruit, and it’s time to start canning. It’s too hot to cook inside, so I set up an outdoor kitchen. The kerosene hot plate I used forty years ago has been replaced by a portable gas one, and Tim constructs a wind break for the flame. “Chip”, the ubiquitous chipmunk, often keeps me company. Meanwhile, Tim goes through our tools and replaces broken handles with stout tree branches. He tends to make them very long, which I find awkward, but they’re easier to shorten than lengthen. We keep good track of them with an assigned place, and sometimes, an outline and label for each implement. This way if we see one is missing, we announce a “Tool

Alert” and brainstorm for its location while our memory is fresh on where it was used last. My Great Grandparents hung their garden tools in the low branches of a tree, with handles dangling down like disconnected saplings. I guess this was quite handy, but they must have rusted from rain.​ Cucumbers are sneaky vegetables. I try to pick them while they’re still very small, but they hide in the shadows of their leaves and it annoys me to find great, big, seedy fellows skulking on the back side of a cucumber trellis post. I made pickles for a few years, but now that I have a small freezer, prefer to cook and puree the excess, thus creating a base for a soup in the winter, which has the delicious, fresh taste of high summer. ​I recently came up with a sugarless recipe for lemonade that we love. Just mix five parts organic apple juice with one part organic lemon juice. It’s tangy, sweet, and easy to make. ​We ride our bikes at the end of a late summer’s day through pink mists and fields dressed in goldenrod. In the hedgerows, white & purple asters, and tiny red leaves dappled among the gold foretell the glory of autumn to come. The sweet melodies of song birds are mostly gone now, but we are accompanied by the purring of crickets and the occasional song of a cicada.

The last of milkweed blossoms offer wafts of sweet perfume and I always wonder why no one has marketed this incredible ambrosia? We are reluctant to let this evening end when we

return, so take a walk through dew-drenched mosses on our old airstrip meadow which is lined with blue-bottle gentian, reminding me of spring crocus. These are listed as “Exploitably Vulnerable in New York At the far end, where deep moisture lingers longer and hot sunlight is tempered by towering forest trees we admire a rare carnivorous plant; the beautiful sundew (Drosera) which traps insects on its sticky tentacles and digests them. Listed as endangered in some states, the primary threat to sundews is loss of wetland habitat.

We carefully wend along the dusk-shadowed path from the road to our cottage without a flashlight, because this is the best way to savor the symmetry of patterns created by wild “Cinnamon” and “Sensitive” ferns that border it. Their leaves no longer blend into the mass of greenery as they do in daylight, but shine distinctly above the shadows of night that have gathered on the earth below them.

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Dick’s Wheel Shop, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . 51 Books Berry Hill Book Shop, Deansboro . . . . . . . 7 Treehouse Reading Room, New York Mills . . . 7 Bowling Adirondack Diner and Lanes, Barneveld . . . . 18 Breweries and Wineries Prospect Falls Winery, Prospect . . . . . . . . . 52 Cabinets and Kitchens Custom Woodcraft, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . 12 Knotty By Nature, Bridgewater . . . . . . . . . 30 Catering Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 RoSo’s Cafe & Catering, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Willie’s The Original Bagel Cafe, Utica . . . . . . 22 Cheese (see Produce) Chiropractor Assoc. Chiropractic, Tucciarone, Clinton . . 53 Clothing Paca Gardens, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Queen’s Closet, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . 26 The Village Crossing, Clinton . . . . . . . . . 9

Events and Local Attractions Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown . . . . . . . 3 Old Forge Visitors Center . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Farm Equipment Clinton Tractor, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Hobby Hill Farm Sales, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 60 White’s Farm Supply, Waterville/Canastota . . . . . . 64 Farm Markets Cooperstown Farmers Market . . . . . . . . . . 51 Horn’s Family Farm, Remsen . . . . . . . . . . 25 Juliano’s Farm and Grweenhouses, Utica . . . . . . . . 11 North Star Orchards, Westmoreland . . . . . . . . 34 Fencing B&K Fencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Financial Services Van Meter & Van Meter, Little Falls . . . . . . 9 Funeral Services Prince-Boyd & Hyatt, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Furniture Ironwood Furniture, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Jeff ’s Amish Furniture, Richfield Springs . . . . 2 Furniture Makers Custom Woodcraft, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Consignment The Online Exchange, Dolgeville . . . . . . . . . 28 The Queen’s Closet, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Renewed & Rescued, Herkimer . . . . . . . . . . 28

Garden Center and Greenhouses Juliano’s Farm and Grweenhouses, Utica . . . . . 11 North Star Orchards, Westmoreland . . . . . . . . 34 Szarek’s Succulent Shack, Clinton . . . . . . . . . 12

Contractors Ed Smith Contractor and Handyman . . . . . 52

General Contractors Ed Smith Contractor and Handyman . . . . . . . . . 52

Delis Bosonne’s Sausage, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . .

Little Italy Imports, Utica . . . . . . . . . . .

Olde Kountry Market, Vernon . . . . . . . .

Pulaski Meat Market, Utica . . . . . . . . . .

Gift Shops/Shopping Between Us Sisters, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . 58 Fusion Art Gallery, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Heartsome Handicrafts, New Hartford . . . . 55 Main Street Gift Shoppe, Newport . . . . . . . 27

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Diners Adirondack Diner and Lanes, Barneveld . . . . . 18 Charlie’s Place, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Riverside Diner, Marcy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Sheri’s Diner, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Wendy’s Diner, Cassville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Dog Sitting Barney’s Angels, Frankfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Estate Sales Attic Addicts, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 The Potting Shed Antiques, Whitesboro . . . . 28

Golf Courses and Driving Ranges Woodgate Pines Golf Club, Woodgate . . . . . . 7 Brimfield Driving Range, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . 46 Grocery/Convenience Stores The Country Store, Salisbury . . . . . . . . . . 20 Deansboro Superette, Deansboro . . . . . . . . . 36 Little Italy Imports, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Olde Kountry Market, Vernon . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Handyman/Repairs Ed Smith Contractor and Handyman . . . . . . . . . 52

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Hardware/Lumber/Farm & Home Lincoln Davies, Sauquoit . . . . . . .

Morgan’s Hardware, Waterville . . .

Turner Lumber, Barneveld . . . . .

Wightman Specialty Woods . . . . . .

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Hearth Shops and Fuel Buell Fuel Hearth & Home, Deansboro . . . . . . . . . 11 Hemp and CBD Products Knarich Family Farm, Mt. Vision . . . . . . . . . . . 5 RAW ADK, Barneveld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Utica Hemp Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 G

Ice Cream Gilligan’s, Sherburne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Wendy’s Diner, Cassville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Insurance Farm Family Insurance, Boonville .

Gates-Cole Insurance, New Hartford HBE Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . .

Turnbull Insurance, New Hartford .

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Interior Design/Custom Window Treatments The Added Touch Drapery, New Hartford . . . . . . 43 Ironwork Raulli’s Iron Works, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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Jewelry Alison’s Jewelry & Repair, Utica . . . . . . . . . 7 Goldmine Jewelers, New Hartford . . . . . . . 30 Lawn Mowers, Leaf, and Snow Blowers SD Power, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Lighting Mills Electrical Supply, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 17 Liquor Stores and Wine lion Wine & Spirits, Ilion . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Prospect Falls Winery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Trenton Station Liquor & Wine, Barneveld . . . . 52 Maple Syrup Ben & Judy’s Sugarhouse, West Edmeston . . . . 14 Shaw’s Maple Products, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . 51 Tibbits Maple, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . 49 Meats, locally raised (see Produce) Media 92.7 The Drive WXUR, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . 61 FOX33/WUTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 WKAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Monuments & Memorials Yorkville Memorials, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Musical Instrument Sales, Rentals, Lessons Big Apple Music, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . 30

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Natural Food Stores Cooperstown Naturals, Cooperstown . . . . . . . 60 Peter’s Cornucopia, New Hartford . . . . . . . . 56

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Optometrists Towpath Vision Care, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . 28

White’s Farm Supply Welcomes Joe Clark

Paint and Painting Supplies Urbanik’s Paint & Wallpaper Co., Utica . . . . . . . 7 Physical Therapy Inertia PT, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Pizzerias DiCastro’s Brick Oven, Rome . . . . . . . .

Primo Pizzeria, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . .

Rosato’s Pizzeria & Bakery, Utica . . . . .

Tony’s Pizza, New Hartford . . . . . . . . .

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Pools and Spas Swan Pools & Spas, Ilion and New Hartford . . . . . . . . 6 Portable Toilets and Bathrooms Mohawk Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Primitives Between Us Sisters, Munnsville . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Butternut Barn, Richfield Springs . . . . . . . . . . 27 Main Street Gift Shoppe, Newport . . . . . . . . 27 Produce, Local Ben & Judy’s Sugarhouse, West Edmeston . .

Grassy Cow Dairy, Remsen . . . . . . . . . .

Jewett’s Cheese, Earlville . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jones Family Farm, Herkimer . . . . . . . .

Shaw’s Maple Products, Clinton . . . . . . . . .

Stoltzfus Family Dairy, Vernon Center . . . .

Tibbits Maple, New Hartford . . . . . . . . .

Twin Orchards, New Hartford . . . . . . . .

Windy Hill Orchard, Cassville . . . . . . . .

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Quilt and Yarn Shops/Services Love & Stitches, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Tiger Lily Quilt Co, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Real Estate John Brown Team, Coldwell Banker . . . . . . . . 46 Record Stores Off Center Records, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Restaurants and Cafés Ann St. Deli, Little Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 The Country Store, Salisbury . . . . . . . . . . 20 Delta Lake Inn, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 DiCastro’s Brick Oven, Rome . . . . . . . . . 20 Karam’s Middle East Bakery, Yorkville . . . . 22 Killabrew, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Main Street Ristorante, Newport . . . . . . . . 27 Michael’s Alder Creek Inne, Barneveld . . . . 18 Nola’s Restaurant, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ohio Tavern, Cold Brook . . . . . . . . . . . 19

White’s Farm Supply, Inc. is excited to welcome Joe Clark. Joe grew up on a dairy farm in Peterboro and currently raises Hereford and Angus cattle. Joe resides in Peterboro and enjoys fishing, camping and off roading. He is looking forward to serving our current and new customers as our in store sales person at our Waterville location. Joe can be reached at 315-841-4181 for all of your outdoor power equipment needs.

Papa Rick’s Rome . . . . . . . . . . . .

Patio Drive-In, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Phoenician Restaurant, New Hartford . . . . . .

Rosato’s Pizzeria & Bakery, Utica . . . . . . . .

RoSo’s Cafe & Catering, Utica . . . . . . . . . .

Route 69 Steakhouse, Whitesboro . . . . . . . .

Sammy & Annie Foods, Utica . . . . . . . . . . .

Voss Bar BQ, Whitesboro and Ilion . . . . . . . .

Wendy’s Diner, Cassville . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Willie’s The Original Bagel Cafe, Utica . . . . . .

The Willows, Utica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Roofing Mohawk Metal Sales, Westmoreland . . . . . . . 57 Shoes Karaz Shoes, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Sneaker Store, New Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Snowmobiles/ATVs Hobby Hill Farm, Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Storage Sheds & Garages Shafer & Sons, Westmoreland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Towing Services Clinton Collision, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Trailers and RVs Boulevard Trailers, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . . . 58 Tree Services and Tree Farms Rick Turk Tree Service, Rome . . . . . . . . . . 58 Weddings and Banquets Club Monarch, Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Wineries Brimfield Farm Winery, Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Yarn and Knitting Supplies Love & Stitches, Whitesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Yogurt Stoltzfus Family Dairy, Vernon Center . . . . . . . 50

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