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elcome to Wellsboro, the home of Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon. Rich with beauty, history, and arts, Wellsboro offers year-round activities and entertainment for everyone.

Wellsboro and its environs provide a full schedule of art fairs, music festivals, concerts, plays, parades, and sport events. Whether you’re looking for an action-packed adventure, a romantic getaway, or a fun-filled family vacation, Wellsboro will exceed your expectations.

The charm of our gaslights welcomes you with a variety of lodging options, restaurants, and family-owned shops and boutiques.

Explore Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon with hundreds of miles of hiking and biking trails for beginners and experts alike. Take in the canyon’s majestic beauty from one of the many easy access lookouts. Join us downtown for First Fridays, and don’t miss our 75th annual Laurel Festival.

Contact us at the Wellsboro Area Chamber of Commerce, and we’ll be happy to help get your stay with us started.

We welcome you to explore Wellsboro.

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Hot Picks for Where to Stay and Be Pampered!

Bear Lodges ����������������������������������� 3 Bucktail Campground ���������������� 31 Canyon Motel ������������������������������ 29 Cedar Run Inn ���������������������������� 30 Colton Point Motel ��������������������� 30 Emerge Healing Arts & Spa ������ 35 Mulberry Hill Estate ��������������������� 4 Penn Wells ����������������������������������� 29 River of Pines Cottage ���������������� 31 Rough Cut Lodge ����������������������� 31 Sherwood Motel ������������������������� 31 Whitetail Hollow ������������������������ 21

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242 Coffee Co ������������������������������ 45 Eddie’s ������������������������������������������ 45 Lambs Creek ������������������������������� 41 Old Antlers Inn ��������������������������� 45 Pag-Omar ������������������������������������ 45 The Steak House ������������������������� 45 Wellsboro Diner ������������������������� 40 Wellsboro House ������������������������ 43

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Elmira-Corning Airport ������������ 17 Little League Museum ��������������� 33 The History Center ��������������������� 25 Mansfield University ������������������ 26 Tioga Central Railroad �������������� 49 Wellsboro Area Chamber of Commerce ������������ 19 Wellsboro Johnston Airport ������ 21

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Black Forest Trading Post ���������� 25 Blak Forge Armoury ������������������ 23 Bernese Mountain Dogs ������������ 23 Draper’s Super Bee Apiaries ������ 23 Dunhams ������������������������������������� 37 Enchanted Hollow ���������������������� 39 European Imports ���������������������� 33 The Farmer’s Daughter �������������� 37 The Fifth Season ������������������������� 39 Highland Chocolates ������������������ 35 Naked Duck Vape Shop ������������� 39 The Painted Cupboard �������������� 37 Peggy’s Candies and Gifts ���������� 35 Pop’s Culture Shoppe ������������������ 37 Pure Hart Soap ���������������������������� 35 Sticky Bucket Maple ��������������������� 2 Sweet Briar Quail ����������������������� 23 Wild Asaph Outfitters ���������������� 23 Woolrich �������������������������������������� 33 Ziggy’s Gun Shop ������������������������ 23

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Hot Picks for Entertainment!

Arcadia Theatre �������������������������� 37 Deane Center ������������������������������ 25 Endless Mountain Music Festival ������������������������������ 15 Hamilton-Gibson Productions. 25 Tioga County Fair ���������������������� 19

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Advanced Air ������������������������������ 25 C&N Bank ����������������������������������� 47 First Citizens Community Bank ����������������������� 47 First Heritage Bank �������������������� 47 Howard Hanna ��������������������������� 47 Laurel Health Center ������������������ 50 Mountain Home ������������������������� 33 Penn Oak Realty Inc. ����������������� 52 Susquehanna Health ������������������ 51 Ward Mfg. ������������������������������������ 33

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FESTIVALS & EVENTS March 6-27 Endless Mountains Regional Exhibition of Student Artwork, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, Wellsboro, Pa. (570) 724-1917 March 12 Hamilton-Gibson’s All-Volunteer Army band concert, 7:30 p.m., Coolidge Theatre, Wellsboro, Pa. (570) 724-2079 March 17 Wellsboro Area Chamber Mixer, 5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m., Warehouse Theatre, Wellsboro, Pa. (570) 724-1926 March 19 Easter Egg Hunt, 1:00 p.m., Lambs Creek Recreation Area (570) 662-3968 March 19 Contra Dance, 7 p.m., Coolidge Theatre, Wellsboro, Pa. (570) 724-6220 March 19 & 20 Maple Weekend Open House, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Hills Creek State Park. (570) 724-4246 March 26 Kevin McKrell Band, 7:30 p.m., Coolidge Theatre, Wellsboro, Pa. (570) 724-6620 April 1, 2, 3, 8 & 9 Hamilton-Gibson’s Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Warehouse Theatre, Wellsboro, Pa. Tickets: (570) 724-2079 April 3-24 Pine Creek Decorative Artists Exhibition, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, Wellsboro, Pa. (570) 724-1917 April 8 Gallery Music Series Concert: Rebecca and the Soul Shakers, 7:30 p.m., Coolidge Theatre, 104 Main Street, Wellsboro, Pa. Tickets: (570) 724-6220

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April 16 Trout Season Opens, 8 a.m., Hills Creek State Park, (570) 724-4246 April 16 Contra Dance, 7 p.m., Coolidge Theatre, Wellsboro, Pa. (570) 724-6220 and deanecenter.com April 23 Earth Day at Mill Cove, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mill Cove Environmental Area (570) 662-3968 April 23 & 24 Hamilton-Gibson Women’s Project, readings by women, Warehouse Theatre, Wellsboro, Pa. Tickets: (570) 724-2079 May 1-22 Russell Richard’s One Man Show, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, Wellsboro, Pa. Free. (570) 724-1917 May 6 Wellsboro First Friday in downtown Wellsboro, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

(570) 724-1082 May 6 & 7 Wellsboro Wine & Art Weekend, downtown Wellsboro, Pa. (570) 724-1926 May 15 Hamilton-Gibson Children’s Choir Homecoming Concert, 2:30 p.m., Steadman Theatre, Mansfield University, Mansfield, Pa. Tickets: (570) 724-2079 May 20 – 22 Mary Wells Days, special sales in various shops in downtown Wellsboro, (570) 724-1926 May 21 Step Outdoors Springfest, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Hills Creek State Park, (570) 724-4246 May 29 Fish for Free Day, Hills Creek State Park, (570) 724-4246 June 3 Wellsboro First Friday in downtown Wellsboro, 5 p.m to 8 p.m.

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June 3 History Comes Alive: Charles Sacavage as Teddy Roosevelt, 7:30 p.m., Coolidge Theatre, Wellsboro, Pa. Tickets: (570) 724-6220 June 3 & 4 STPR Road Rally, Wellsboro, Pa. Information: (570) 724-1926 June 5-26 The 43rd Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibit, daily 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, Wellsboro. Free. Information: (570) 724-1917 June 7-11 Wellsboro Fireman’s Carnival, Wellsboro Fire Annex, Information: (570) 724-1600 June 11-19 75th Annual Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival, Wellsboro, Pa. (570) 724-1926 June 24 History Comes Alive: Barry Stevens as Benjamin Franklin, 7:30 p.m., Coolidge Theatre, Wellsboro, Pa. Tickets: (570) 724-6220 July 1 Wellsboro First Friday in downtown Wellsboro, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (570) 724-1082 and wellsborofirstfriday@gmail.com July 3 Fireworks, Dusk, Ives Run Campground, Information: (570) 662-3968 July 3-31 Gail Stan Exhibit of Fine Art Cut Paper, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, Wellsboro, Pa. Free. Information: (570) 724-1917 and gmeinerartscenter.com June 4 Fish for Free Day, Hills Creek State Park, (570) 724-4246 July 15, 16, 17, 22 & 23 Hamilton Gibson’s Oliver! Mansfield Universi-

ty’s Straughn Auditorium, Mansfield, Pa. Tickets: (570) 724-2079, hamgib@ gmail.com and hamiltongibson.org July 22 - AUG 6 Endless Mountain Music Festival.Tickets: (570) 7877800 and endlessmountain.net July 23 Grand Canyon Half Marathon, 7 a.m., Colton Point State Park, pagrandcanyonmarathon.com July 23 Classic Car Cruise-In, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., Downtown Wellsboro.

Information: (570) 724-1926 July 24 Grand Canyon Marathon, 7 a.m., Colton Point State Park, pagrandcanyonmarathon.com August 5 Wellsboro First Friday in downtown Wellsboro, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (570) 724-1082 August 5 History Comes Alive: Regi Carpenter as Private Cari Carpenter, 7:30 p.m., Coolidge Theatre, 104 Main Street, Wellsboro, Pa. Tickets: (570) 724-6220 and deanecenter.com August 7-28 Carol Ann Simon Cillo and Steve Getz Exhibit of paintings, clay pieces and digital art, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, Wellsboro, Pa. Free. Information: (570) 724-1917 and gmeinerartscenter.com August 23 Wellsboro Area Chamber of Commerce Golf Outing, 9 a.m., Tyoga Country Club, Wellsboro, Pa. Information: (570) 724-1926 August 27 Classic Car Cruise-In, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., downtown Wellsboro.

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The Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival As night fell on June 6, 1938, America was shadowed by the Great Depression, and Hitler had conquered Austria. In a time in need of myths and heroes, Superman, who’d grown up with Ma and Pa Kent on a farm, flew into the comic books that year. On Broadway, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town had debuted, featuring a mythical Appalachian town of 3,000 in New Hampshire, but that evening even the Great White Way was dark. Yet in the real small town of 3,000 of Wellsboro, in the Appalachian chain of Pennsylvania, the few blocks of Main Street were ablaze in lights. The windows of the four-story Penn Wells Hotel gleamed with a grand party. The marquee of the Arcadia Theatre was emblazoned in bright white with The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Mountain laurel, the state flower, adorned each shopkeeper’s window, along with photographs of thirty-eight beauty queens. Elephants had marched down Main Street in a great parade.

At the stroke of midnight on the stage of the Arcadia, Phyllis Viola of McKees Rocks was crowned Pennsylvania’s first Queen of the Laurel. The band struck up a tune composed specially for that evening, “Meet Me in Pennsy.” The impresario of what became the Laurel Festival was the master smalltown showman Larry Woodin, the man who put Wellsboro on the map. The manger of Wellsboro’s Arcadia Theatre, owned by his father, Larry in 1929 made the Arcadia one of the first theaters north of the Mason-Dixon Line to start showing “talkies,” and in 1936, Larry had the idea to promote the Pine Greek Gorge outside of town as “The Pennsylvania Grand Canyon.”

Two years later, in 1938, Larry crowned his canyon idea with the first Laurel Festival, a weekend event that has turned into a weeklong celebration, recognized officially in 1999 as The Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival. In April 1944, Larry left for Hollywood as head of studio publicity for Republic Pictures, but a year later Larry came home and ran the Arcadia for his dad, and also became the American history teacher at Wellsboro High School from 1956 until 1972. Larry died on June 26, 1982, at the age of seventy-eight. He once wrote from Hollywood, “Things I miss...free movies (they’re 85 cents out here)…a coke with the boys about 10 every morning…mowing my big lawn…knowing everybody you meet on the street…trout fishing…kiddies all calling me Larry...choir practice... and all of you...hope you don’t forget me.” Don’t worry, Larry. We won’t.

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FESTIVALS & EVENTS Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally Dozens of amateur and professional rally teams will be in town for the 40th Waste Management Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally® (STPR®), which returns to Wellsboro June 3 and 4, 2016, the oldest continuously running motorsports event in Pennsylvania, and round five of the eight events that form the 2016 Rally America National Championship.

“Our event sponsor, Waste Management, hosts our Friday competitive stages on their company property,” said Meridith Croucher, who chairs the event. “This has become a very popular family event,” she ads, “especially with the Tioga County Fairground stages in Whitneyville, where kids can get up close to the rally cars, meet the drivers [a good blend of internationally-known and local competitors], enjoy some refreshments, and then watch the cars battle on a closed course for competitive times and a chance to win the event, while others like to go into the woods and watch the cars, view the cars on display at the Wellsboro Green, or watch the teams work on their cars at service areas during the event on Saturday.” The Fairgrounds stages cost seven dollars for admission each day (with a five-dollar donation per car to a local church youth organization for parking), with event tickets on sale in advance at the Wellsboro Chamber of Commerce: (570) 724-1926. Besides the 400 volunteers who work the rally, another estimated 10,000 people come to the Wellsboro area either as spectators or workers for the various teams and their sponsors.

In the United States, performance rally teams have a driver and co-driver (or navigator) for each car, and the competitors race in segments (or stages) on closed public roads, trying to get from the beginning to the end of the stage as fast as possible. Unlike other forms of motorsports, there is no practice allowed, and teams are only allowed one pass to review the course at the public speed limit before the event. In competition, the navigator then barks out the route instructions while the drive proceeds—sometimes at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. The cars, all street legal to allow driving on public roads between racing stages, are compact and sub-compact sports cars with varying amounts of performance modifications depending on their racing class. The sight of these cars, running at speed through the woods to beat the clock, makes exciting spectating for the fans. At approximately 262.6 miles long with approximately 119.4 miles of competitive stages, STPR® was the last of the great endurance events on the national schedule maintaining the one-day format and, thanks to the outstanding cooperation of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), some of the best and most demanding roads in the country.

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First Fridays When Brad Goodwin lived in Lancaster and Philadelphia, the first Friday of every month held the promise of a neighborhood, if not a citywide, party, where businesses and galleries would stay open late and throngs of shoppers and diners would stroll the streets, enjoying the evening and one another’s company. So when Brad opened his Red Skillet food truck, which makes its home in downtown Wellsboro all summer long, he wanted to bring that block party atmosphere to his new home. He saw the way communities organized and participated in First Fridays, and knew it would work in Wellsboro.

And so, with the help of a few local business folks, Wellsboro’s first First Friday was held on the first Friday of June 2014.

“The first event featured a scavenger hunt, and we didn’t really know otherwise what was going to go on in detail,” says Brad. But the organizers convinced everyone to stay open late, roped in a face painter, set up a sidewalk chalk art contest, and the rest is history. The event is now a summer staple, beginning in May and running through October, rain or shine, on the first Friday of the month, embraced with both arms by local businesses, non-profit organizations, churches, and individuals alike.

The events vary from month to month and business to business, and develop over the summer. Artists demonstrate, display, and sell their work. Musicians set up and perform all evening. And, all up and down the main and side streets, the heart of the whole event beats, as businesses fling open their doors and host special events inside and out. The list of possible activities are as varied as imagination allows, from cupcake or cookie decorating, pumpkin carving, and dance programs to free giveaways of balloons, hot dogs, and bottled water. The sidewalk chalk art contest and the scavenger hunt have become event staples.

Thomas Putnam, artistic director of the local theater organization Hamilton-Gibson Productions, is also the mastermind of Play Me, I’m Yours, which consists of six upright pianos painted by local artists and rolled out onto the streets for spontaneous performance by strolling pianists, be they of the professional, amateur, or merely “Chopsticks” variety.

Those pianos first rolled into the First Friday scene last year, and will make their appearance in July, August, and September this year. “I’ve seen two-year-olds sit down and play on them with the whole family gathered around,” says Thomas. “There is no limit to the variety.”

If you want to participate in the event as a vendor or performer, you have to be connected with one of the local businesses, so email wellsborofirstfriday@gmail.com for details.

Otherwise, we’ll just meet you downtown!

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The Great Outdoors Rail to Trail & Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon The Pine Creek Rail Trail offers four seasons of outdoor activities for individuals, families, and groups of all sorts. Voted by USA Today one of the “10 great places to take a bike tour,” the trail averages ten to twelve feet wide and is 62.2 miles long, linking Wellsboro Junction and Jersey Shore. For fifty-five of those miles, the trail hugs Pine Creek, a waterway with more tributary streams than any other in the United States. Eagles, deer, and black bear are common sights for visitors.

Its two percent grade and crushed limestone surface support bike and foot traffic alike, as well as strollers and wheelchairs. Walking, jogging, running, biking, hiking, backpacking, camping, bird- and wildlife-watching, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, rafting, canoeing, kayaking, and fishing are among the regular activities along its span (no motorized vehicles allowed, though). An equestrian trail path alongside the main path accommodates horseback riders and horse-drawn wagon rides.

You can enter the trail at Wellsboro Junction, nine minutes from Wellsboro, at the Darling Run access point, fifteen minutes from Wellsboro, or at other access points along the way. The most natural section of the trail is the sixteen miles between Darling Run and Blackwell.

Called Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon, the Pine Creek Gorge, as it is officially known, is considered the state’s “crown jewel” and “paradise” by photographers. Pine Creek is part of the Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers System. With its dramatic rock outcroppings and tumbling waterfalls, it is designated a National Natural Landmark and a Pennsylvania Natural Area.

For hikers and backpackers, the Rail Trail provides access to the Turkey Path, a steep climb up either side of the canyon to reach lookouts for breathtaking all-season views at Leonard Harrison and Colton Point state parks (whose lookouts are also available by auto).

Primitive camping is offered at several locations along the trail with a free permit from the Bureau of Forestry.

Bordering the trail are the villages of Blackwell, Cedar Run, Slate Run, Cammal, and Waterville. Each offers something unique—restaurants, hotels, a private campground, a bed and breakfast, a sporting goods store, and a general store are all wayside stops.

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The Great Outdoors To Catch a Trout Trout are the superstars of the fishing fraternity locally from mid-April to Memorial Day. Visiting fishermen would be wise to focus their angling efforts on trout. Each year, a number of local streams get stockings of trout thanks to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC). Local sportsmen’s clubs, through their cooperative nurseries, add thousands more brook and brown trout to local waters.

From downtown Wellsboro, an angler is a twenty-minute drive to the Tioga and Cowanesque Rivers, Asaph Run, the Zimmerman, Wilson Creek, Stony Fork, Hamilton Lake, Beechwood Lake, and others filled to capacity with four species of trout: brook, brown, rainbow, and palomino. Hereabouts one can dangle a baited line, cast a silver spinner, or flail a fly in some of the most celebrated waters in the Keystone State.

The most touted trout waters are found in Pine Creek and its many tributaries. Pine Creek, from Gaines through the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon, will get a big boost with the stocking of tens of thousands of salmonids. In Tioga County alone, trout are placed in four different sections over six different dates. Throughout Potter County and Lycoming County, Pine Creek gets thousands more trout. There’s a 1.06-mile stretch of the River of Pines, from Darling Run to Owassee Slide Hollow (locally known as Owassee Flats), which will be stocked with large, trophy trout in a Delayed Harvest, Artificial Lures regulated area.

Once the weather warms, trout bums tackle the myriad rivulets that teem with native brook trout. In Tioga County alone there are a dozen tributaries to Pine Creek that hold nice brook trout. Most of those waters hold a scattering of native brown trout. Smaller streams tempt? Expert brookie fishermen just enter the state forest areas. When they see running water along the road, cross a creek on a rickety bridge, or see a sluice pipe, they start catching natives. The best suggestion: head to Colton Point and follow the West Rim Road. You might get lost, but you’ll surely find wild trout.

Warmer water in lakes and large streams ushers in summer fun for all anglers. At any of the Army Corps of Engineers impoundments—Cowanesque, Tioga, Hammond—kids line the lake and take panfish and might land an occasional bass. Boaters further out might bring in walleye, northern pike, or even a mammoth muskie.

Anglers will need a license. The PFBC site (www.fishandboat.com) has lots of information about fishing in Pennsylvania, and licenses are available online. A visit to the site is a must for novices.

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ARTS & MUSIC Endless Mountain Music Festival What happens when your wife says, “This town would be the perfect place for a music festival.”? If you are Maestro Stephen Gunzenhauser, and your wife Shelly is very wise, and the town is very agreeable, you start one. And so Wellsboro and its surrounding towns, nestled as they are in the rolling hills of northern Pennsylvania and southern New York, host what is, during the weeks of July into August, arguably the best symphony orchestra in the state: the Endless Mountain Music Festival, now beginning its eleventh year. Maestro Gunzenhauser is a master of eclectic programming, and his 2016 season could easily be titled “Something for Everyone.” Celtic, blues, pop, baroque, rock, jazz, and classical music are all on the scores for this summer’s sixteen concerts, at multiple venues in the Twin Tiers. It begins Friday, July 22, at Mansfield University’s Steadman Theatre, with Heroes and Villains. Hollywood movie footage will add to the opening night excitement as the symphony orchestra performs music from films like Batman, Evita, The Wizard of Oz, Frozen, and Star Wars. (And a children’s costume contest gets parents of participants in the door at half price.) All three Friday night symphony concerts will share the same Mansfield University venue, and all three Saturday night symphony concerts will take place at the Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium, including the festival closer Saturday, August 6, which will bring legendary Chicago blues harmonica virtuoso Corky Siegel back together with the EMMF orchestra, opening with the world premiere of Siegel’s Symphonic Blues No. 2.

The second Friday program will feature a pre-concert by the University Choral Camp singers, conducted by MU’s Director of Choral Activities Peggy Dettwiler, performing Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the orchestra. Then the orchestra will join pianist Asiya Korepanova in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor. The Celtic group Across the Pond will be in town, as will Festival favorite Bram Wijnands, playing in a cabaret-style setting with, for the first time at the Festival, his Kansas City Bram Wijnands Jazz Band.

Siegel on harmonica and Wijnands at the piano will jam in Towanda; the Festival Brass Ensemble will perform under the Milky Way at Cherry Springs State Park, a free event followed by telescope stargazing; and chamber events will fill every day and every venue between, from Elmira’s Arnot Art Museum to the Penn Wells Hotel.

Instrumentalists from around the globe comprise the sixty-two-member Festival Symphony Orchestra. One of the striking effects on the town is the intimacy of having so many musicians on site for two weeks plus. Returning musicians, like principal cellist Gita Ladd, with the festival since its opening year, is known by sight if not by name to what seems half the town, and vice versa. It is music camp for the musicians, and heaven for music lovers. Tickets for the symphony orchestra concerts are $35; chamber music concerts, $30.

For tickets, passes, or more information, call the Festival Box Office at (570) 787-7800, email info@endlessmountain.net, or visit www.endlessmountain.net.

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Mansfield University is the only university in the state of Pennsylvania that is recognized as a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC). COPLAC is a distinct and diverse consortium of public colleges and universities from across the United States and Canada.

COPLAC limits its membership to one institution per state.

At Mansfield our students have the opportunity to collaborate with students from 28 other COPLAC schools on undergraduate research

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and projects, as well as participate in student exchanges and shared study-abroad programs. As a student member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (The State System), students also have the opportunity to engage with the other 13 state universities in joint educational, social and athletic events.

Mansfield University offers the best the state has to provide, while also offering unmatched opportunities through our COPLAC affiliation.

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ARTS & MUSIC Drama Camp for Kids When Hamilton-Gibson Productions (HG), Wellsboro’s community theater group, held its first Summer Theater Arts Camp in 1999, eighteen campers took part. Last year, seventy-five budding thespians attended the camp, now held at three locations in Tioga County. For four days, children entering grades four through nine get to experience all the facets of rehearsing a stage production, from improvisational acting, mime, music, choreography, stage movement, and vocal training to art and costuming. Day four culminates in a stage production showcasing their new talents. Corrine Evans, who will be coordinating the camp this year, has a deep attachment to the job.

Now a junior acting major and musical theatre minor at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, Corrine says, “Drama Camp was a place I was able to step out of my box and create things I didn’t think were possible. It was a place I could express myself fully and use my imagination. It taught me how to use my talents on stage and in front of audiences. It was really one of the main places where my passion for theater was sparked.” Drew Bastian, former camper and former camp junior staff member, is now a professional musician in New York City.

But though some students have found a calling on this stage, the experience is enriching for everyone. HG founder and artistic director Thomas Putnam says, “The majority, of course, do not go on to professional performing careers, but I sincerely believe—and many parents testify to this—that their children are much more confident and grounded as a result of the experience. The camp is a safe place, a place of nurturing encouragement.”

This year, camp-goers are invited by HG to join “a dramatic exploration of all things Charles Dickens as we sing, act, dance and play on stage.” This year’s three camps will be held in Knoxville June 13-16 from 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. with a public performance June 16 at 3:00 p.m. at the Knoxville Community Center; in Blossburg June 20-23 from 9:00 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. with a performance June 23 at 3:00 p.m. at Blossburg High School; and in Wellsboro June 27-30 from 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. with performances June 30 at 3:30 & 7:30 p.m. at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts. Admission to the public performance is pay-what-you-can. Snacks will be provided daily, and campers need to bring their own lunch the first three days. Enrollment is limited, and the fee is $99. Scholarships are available; no child will be turned away because of financial concerns. The cost is $20 off for each additional child. For an application, or to register, call (570) 724-2079, email hamgib@gmail.com, or visit www.hamiltongibson.org.

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ARTS & MUSIC “Almost World Famous” Town Band When percussionist (and Mansfield University Director of Bands) Adam Brennan took over the “Almost World Famous” Wellsboro Town Band in 2014, he was only the third director since the Band’s 1979 founding by director Lee Copenhaver. But, armed with nineteen years’ experience in the Band, he noted to his predecessor (and trumpeter/professor/jazzman) Mike Galloway at his retirement after thirty-two years, “How do you make a conductor? You take one stick away from a drummer!”

Adam directs a group of eager musicians who self-select for the Band: any musician who is entering high school right up to and including retired seniors are eligible. The three required rehearsals for each of the three free concerts begin the week after Laurel Festival.

The concerts are on alternating Wednesdays beginning a week later, held on The Green at 7:00 p.m., with the audience bringing blankets and folding chairs to settle in for the show (unless rain drives it all inside the Wellsboro High School Auditorium). Participating high school students are eligible for scholarship dollars for summer music camps from any donations collected (which also supply the Band’s music).

586 members have marched through the Town Band in its three-plus decades, according to Mike. (He admits those numbers are padded by a few dozen names of questionable origin, like Slopford Hoggley on slide swinette, added to the personnel list by band member/ trombone professor/jokester Steve McCuen.) Musicians come from everywhere. Joining the band one night was trumpeter and composer Andre Canniere. A graduate of Galeton High School and Mansfield University, he had played in the band beginning in ninth grade and continued throughout his college career. Now living in London, his presence on The Green added one more bit of luster to the solid-gold reputation of the “Almost World Famous” Wellsboro Town Band.

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Our neighbors Little League Baseball World Series Let’s start this off with a solid pitch.

Admission to all Little League Baseball World Series games has always been and continues to be free. And, to top it off, visitors to the Little League Baseball mecca in South Williamsport are served a large slice of Americana, like sliding down a large hill on makeshift cardboard box sleds and trading Little League pins with fellow collectors. And it’s a feast sprinkled with international flavor: spectators experience cultures like Mexico, Japan, the Netherlands, and Uganda via international visitors joyful to be visiting the United States and to be a part of the storied Little League tradition. Simply the sight of Little League’s Howard J. Lamade Stadium has been known to make grown men cry.

“I remember this one guy—a burly guy from Texas, in his fifties,” relays Tom Speicher, a Williamsport-based broadcast journalist who will cover this year’s series for his nineteenth consecutive year for WRAK Radio, the Williamsport station that has covered the Little League Baseball World Series since its beginnings. “He didn’t have a kid in the series; he had just always wanted to come, so he drove from Texas. I interviewed him overlooking Lamade Stadium, and he just stood there, crying, because he was finally here.”

Why are people so drawn to this place, tucked in rural north central Pennsylvania? “I think it’s because of what the series represents—innocence, fair play. It really is a field of dreams,” Speicher says. “Many people have watched the series for years on TV and, to get here, it’s like ‘the quest’ to finally be here. And, it’s true what people say about it being so much better to be here watching it in person. It’s an amazing event.” Some attend as fans, while others come to be volunteers, serving as ushers or in other goodwill capacities.

It is also common for fans that have a cultural connection to a competing international country to attend games for the sole purpose of cheering on that country’s team. In some cases, Speicher notes, these fans have even hosted picnics for their “home” team or cooked for the players.

It all begins with the Grand Slam Parade & Festival in downtown Williamsport on Wednesday, August 17 (festival at 4:00 p.m., parade at 6:00) as a welcome to the sixteen visiting teams. The seventieth annual Little League Baseball World Series opens August 18 in two stadiums on the grounds of Little League International’s complex, located along Route 15 in South Williamsport (570 East Central Ave. for parking). The showcase for the top eleven- and twelve-year-old teams in the world culminates with the championship game on Sunday, August 28.

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Simple Indulgences Emerge Healing Arts Spa When Laura Lee Robinson finishes your massage and advises you to “take your time sitting up,” it would be wise to listen.

The complete state of relaxation you enter into with the services at Emerge Healing Arts & Spa in Wellsboro is enough to trigger an out-of-body experience of the best kind. It makes it deliciously difficult to know where you are for a moment. The converted house at 28 Central Avenue (www.emergehealingarts.com; (570) 360-8180) envelops you in peace and comfort from greeting to departure. Laura Lee and husband Jesse have created an oasis of serenity by putting their own special touch to some long-favored spa treatments. Many have enjoyed a hot-stone massage, but the inclusion of alternating cold stones as well elevates the feeling to something close to thrilling. The room for hosting couples massages looks like something out of a magazine, and even the preparation for a treatment feels like a treatment in itself.

Laura Lee thinks education is as much a part of her services as the actual hands-on interaction. “I know people consider facials, massages, and beauty treatments a luxury, but they really should think of them as medicine. When a person is focused and balanced, they present a much more confident and happy person to the world.”

While many of her clients are women seeking a break from the hectic outside world, Laura Lee says all kinds of people come to Emerge for all kinds of reasons. Women, yes, but also construction workers and people who experience chronic pain. The approach at Emerge is holistic enough to be part of a wellness plan for those who suffer. That approach extends to the products used on clients. All natural organic oils and aromas add a wonderful dimension to the treatments. The white clay mud wrap is infused with locally harvested, organic herbs. The hair treatments are ammonia free and use additions of vitamins and wheat protein to make an impact. On this day, Laura Lee had just finished a meeting to decide on a line of beauty products to carry. Only high quality items without harsh chemicals made the cut.

An upstairs studio is used for private parties, from brides to birthdays, where refreshments are welcome. The organic hair salon offers indulgent mani and pedi packages, some of which include hot stone reflexology. There are plans in the works to expand the space dedicated to a retail boutique that specializes in those all natural beauty products. Lucky is the out-of-town visitor who makes time for a visit to Emerge. Luckier still is the year-round resident who can visit often!

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Boutiques & Specialty shops Garrisons Men’s Shop Al Garrison stands in Garrisons Men’s Shop with a tape measure draped around his neck and a story at the ready. The third generation Garrison to claim this space, Al, after getting a business degree, came to work with his dad, Lewis “Lew” Garrison, in the early ’80s.

When his dad passed away in December 1989, Al was on his own at the helm of the family business.

The Garrison family had owned a clothing store in Mansfield since the mid-1930s, owned by Al’s grandfather Merle Garrison. Merle’s two sons, Al’s dad Lew and his older brother Ben, were both interested in carrying on in the family business. With Ben, as the eldest, slated to take over the shop, it was obvious that they needed to open another store. Merle had a great admiration for the town of Wellsboro, but he also had a good friend in the business here, and didn’t want to compete head to head. But when Merle’s friend passed away and his widow held a going out of business sale, Merle was freed to expand the family business.

So he rented half the space where Garrisons conducts business to this day at 88-89 Main Street, and, in April, 1955, Garrisons Men’s Shop Wellsboro (www.garrisonsmensshop.com; [570] 724-3497) opened their doors. It was a family affair from the start, and everyone was on deck for the grand opening (pictured above on that occasion are [from left] Merle, wife Jane, Lew, Ben, and Ben’s wife Lois). Some of the original fixtures built by Ben and Lew, handy carpenters both, are still at work in the store, including the shelves where the jeans are displayed. A hat case they built (also pictured above) stood until last year’s renovation.

Garrison’s is not a “traditional” men’s shop, since they can outfit a man for any activity from rugged to formal. They sell fine tailored suits and rent tuxedoes, but they have always carried men’s work clothes, jeans, and sportswear. Brands like Carhartt, Kühl, and Levi’s are staples.

Al’s slogan is “Dress, work, or play, we’ve got you covered.”

The biggest change since Al took over the reins two and a half decades ago was the addition of a women’s clothing and accessories line in 2014. “It’s been a really, really fun addition, as well as a bit of a challenge,” says Al, who considers himself a student still, and appreciates the support of his female customers for embracing the change. “We started small,” he says, “and we are constantly increasing the women’s line.”

Al is also grateful to his forefathers, and especially appreciates his grandpa’s foresight. “He was right. This is a great town.”

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Boutiques & Specialty shops Pop’s Culture Shoppe “You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” So said the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato, and so reads the back of a T-shirt for sale at Pop’s Culture Shoppe. Original comic book art lines the walls; games, toys, puzzles, and art and building kits fill the shelves. Julian Stam, who with wife Anja owns and runs Pop’s, describes it as “hands-on learning and fun.”

Julian has been playing board games all his life and, as a kid, would even resort to bribery to get a game going. “I would pay my sister a quarter to play bingo with me,” Julian laughs. In 1988, when the Stams were purchasing their first home, Julian’s parents found his childhood collection of comic books and returned them to him. Julian took them to a comic book convention and soon grew to love trading and selling them with fellow collectors.The Stam family moved to Wellsboro in 2004 after deciding that the big city of Boston was not the right fit for them, and, soon after, the hobby of selling comic books evolved into selling game pieces which became a full-time online business which eventually became a bricks and mortar location at 25 Main Street. The name of the shop hearkens back to a pre-electronic era. “This all started with comic books, and those are sort of the epitome of pop culture. It’s also Pop’s culture, because I’m not necessarily into things that are popular today,” adds Julian.

The Stams, always on the lookout for local craftsmen and authors and Made in Pennsylvania games and toys, have brought the quest home by producing something intensely local.

An annual photo contest garners over 100 entries from amateur and semi-professional photographers. The prize? Being selected for production in the limited-edition souvenir puzzles for sale at Pop’s. “It’s such a pleasure to be able to present our local beauty and talent, and to share it in this way,” says Anja.

Every Friday, Pop’s hosts free open play game nights beginning at 6:00 p.m. (There is an entire wall of demo games available for people to try at any time.) It provides the setting and the activities for family and friends to unplug from their computers, televisions, and video games. Game night, Julian says, “brings people together who might not otherwise have known each other.” Regular clubs meet here weekly—chess on Tuesdays, mahjongg on Tuesdays and Saturdays, Yu-Gi-Oh! on Wednesdays, Pokemon on Thursdays, and Magic the Gathering tournaments two to three times a week. Special events and game launches occur weekly (check their calendar for dates and times: www.popscultureshoppe. com; [570] 723-4263).

“We get to see people interacting and learning from games, which is why we think they’re so important. There are kids who are math phobic who are adding, subtracting, and multiplying. In a non-threatening situation, it is much easier for them to translate these skills,” Julian says. “We just want to share joy,” adds Anja. “There is something for everyone at Pop’s, and we want to make sure that all ages keep on playing!”

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The Steak House

For a century, a restaurant at 29 Main Street has welcomed patrons to sit down and eat.

Back in the ’20s, the Rotary even lunched here on the porch. But it wasn’t until 1957, the year Fred and Jo Howey bought the Orange Tea Room, moved upstairs with their three children, and rechristened the restaurant the Steak House, that a family tradition was born (www.thesteakhouse.com; [570] 724-9092). It took years for the name change to stick with the town, but it is now as solid as the thirty-odd key-back chairs that still tuck under many of the tables, originals from the tea shop days.

Fred and Jo’s son Dave, with his wife Barb, bought the business from his parents in 1979.

In 2005, Dave and Barb’s daughter Chris, with her husband Geoff, bought the restaurant from her parents. Says Dave (above left, next to wife Barb, daughter Chris, and son-in-law Geoff), “My dad had it for twenty-two, we had it twenty-six. Who knows how long they’ll

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have it?” he asks, nodding at Geoff and Chris. “Thirty-six years,” responds Geoff without missing a beat.

The improvements have rolled on with the decades. The booths are long gone from the bar room. The back dining room, a dirt-floored garage when the Howeys bought the place, is now one of three dining rooms and, in an affectionate nod to the past, is called the Tea Room. The latest change is the widened and copper-topped bar that Geoff installed over the winter. But some of the best things are constants: the best cocktails in town, mixed by 6’5” Geoff for someone his own size; a classic steak house menu with all the trimmings; and pies that are baked by Chris, using recipes from her mom and grandma. Their English walnut pie is a must-try, a northern—richer and less sugary—answer to the South’s wonderful but tooth-tingling pecan pie. But the truth is any pie by Coffee is worth saving a little room for after dinner. The pie menu changes from week to week and season to season, but strawberry-rhubarb, bumbleberry, blueberry, and raspberry English walnut (a new spin on that old favorite) all make their way onto the menu. Chris has recently added a new/old pie, coconut custard, unearthing an old recipe of her grandma’s (not to mention a very modern vanilla bourbon salted caramel sauce of her own).

And the future? After Geoff and Chris are through their thirty-six-year term, will we be looking at another generation in the house? Seventeen-year-old daughter Jordyn works weekly washing dishes and busing tables, but hopes to take her golden vocal chords to a college voice degree before long. But son Aidan, only twelve, washes dishes some nights just for fun, according to his dad. Hmm. We may be seeing a pattern here.

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great eats Boutiques & Specialty Shops Wellsboro Growers Market

For over thirty years, local farmers and craftsmen, loosely organized as the Wellsboro Farmers Market, gathered during the summer months to sell their goods. They populated the parking lot of the Wellsboro Plaza. They tried to settle in next to First Heritage Federal Credit Union. They gave the parking lot of the Penn Wells Hotel a go. But nothing ever rooted.

All that changed in 2011, when a group from the First Presbyterian Church, studying the books 50 Ways to Save the Earth and Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, decided to put their feelings and their faith into concrete action, and convinced the church leadership to provide a home base for the Wellsboro growers as “a practical way to celebrate God’s good earth and to provide healthy local food for the community.” Their mission became organizing and marketing the newly minted Wellsboro Growers Market so the farmers could in turn concentrate on what they do best: raising and creating their local produce. The result is a boon to anyone who values fresh and local. All produce and products sold at the market must be grown and/or produced by market vendors or other local Pennsylvania farms and properties within fifty miles of the vendor’s farm. The vendors, who generally live within eighty miles of Wellsboro, make all the homemade products and handcrafted items (and craft items are juried in advance).

It all unfolds in the shade of the towering evergreens at 130 Main Street, on the broad lawn of the First Presbyterian Church (which offers the venue for no return but their mission). This year the season opens May 5 and runs until October 13, every Thursday from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Finally rooted in one place, the growers set up their canopies and tables for aficionados of good eats of all varieties. Liz McClelland, of Yorkshire Meadows, is always here with her homemade confections: jams and lemon and lime curd, plus homemade scones on which to slather them, not to mention the more than occasional shortbread cookie and Eccles cake. Tim and Todd Webster, whose family has since 1927 owned the land that is now Hillstone Farms, have been breeding cattle there for thirty years, and bring to market beef, pork, chicken, lamb, and turkey. Lonny Parsons, who grew up in Tioga County, owns Parson’s Greenhouse with his wife Cindy. Together with their children, they bring organic, open pollenated, non-GMO plants and vegetables to the market. From honey to maple products to goat’s milk soap to gluten-free baked goods, the bounty of the county is on display every week. Find them on Facebook (Wellsboro Growers Market) or email wellsborogrowersmarket@gmail.com for information or to get on the weekly newsletter list.

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GREAT EATS Canyon Pilots Association Fly-In Breakfast There is the astronomical way of marking summer, which begins with the Summer Solstice and ends with the Autumnal Equinox. And then there is the gastronomical way, which begins with the Fly-In Breakfast on Sunday of Memorial Day weekend and ends with the Fly-In Breakfast on Sunday of Labor Day weekend. And this way, our favorite way of measuring the golden months, involves stack upon fluffy stack of buckwheat pancakes served up at the Wellsboro Johnston Airport at 112 Runway Road in Wellsboro.

Upward of a hundred airplanes taxi in from all over Pennsylvania and neighboring states (you can usually count on airborne visitors from New York, Ohio, and New Jersey), which, for a morning, turns the landing strips at this small airport near Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon into one of the busiest airports in the state. Aviation buffs have a chance to get close to all manner of aircraft. Light sport, experimental, vintage (including a World War II bi-wing trainer), ultralight, drone, and radio controlled craft will all be on the tarmac.

There is something special about this fly-in, appealing to all ages and interests. The lady sitting at the controls of the Cessna in the picture above is two years old; one of the folks manning the griddles will likely be a nonagenarian World War II veteran; and the breakfast has become such a popular stop for motorcyclists that a special parking area has been carved out for them.

The Canyon Pilots Association and the Canyon Country Ultralight Club, with a group of faithful volunteers, are at the controls of coffeepots and griddles all Sunday morning.

Pilots soar into the broad valley that holds the airport for all-you-can-eat heaps of buckwheat pancakes, eggs, and ham, and bottomless pots of coffee and orange juice. Breakfast is served from 8 a.m. to noon for $7 (children under 12, $3). It is a favorite local event, so count on seeing old friends as well as making new ones. Proceeds benefit the associations and the airport, and a significant amount has gone to aviation scholarships and aviation camps. Fixed-wing airplane and helicopter rides, weather permitting, take place all morning for $35 per person.

This is a rain or shine event, as breakfast is served in a big hangar off the tarmac. But hope for sunny weather, because there’s no better show than watching the planes land and take off into the bright blue yonder, and no more glorious way to welcome summer or to bid her adieu. For more information contact the airport at (570) 724-3746.

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BECOMING A LOCAL

Wynken, Blynken and Nod Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe— Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

“Where are you going, and what do you wish?

The old moon asked the three.

“We have come to fish for the herring fish That live in this beautiful sea.

Nets of silver and gold have we,” Said Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. Those first stanzas of the poem commonly known as “Wynken, Blynken and Nod,” or “The Dutch Lullaby,” set sail in print in 1889, off the pen of Eugene Field. The statue commemorating the poem’s characters docked gracefully on The Green in Wellsboro on September 23, 1938.

The day was sunny, a band played, and 2,000 spectators, including Mabel Landrum Torrey, the statue’s creator, stood by for the unveiling. Torrey, who grew up in a sod house in Colorado before attending the Art Institute of Chicago to major in sculpture, was in Wellsboro to see the dedication of the second version of her statue to the iconic verses of childhood innocence and wonder. Her first version of the statue was originally created for the city of Denver.

Two Wellsboro natives, the Honorable Fred W. Bailey and his wife Elizabeth Cameron, had long lived in Denver. But Elizabeth’s roots were deep here: her great-great grandfather Richard Mitchell was one of the pioneer settlers of Tioga County. And so, upon his wife’s death, Bailey, a stockholder in the Cripple Creek gold mines and the Brown Palace Hotel, as well as a Colorado state senator, commissioned Torrey to craft a bronze replica of her original statue to dedicate in Elizabeth’s memory in her hometown of Wellsboro.

On that sunny day in September, the statue was dedicated to the children of Wellsboro.

The Baileys were childless, but the love of a husband for his wife, of a wife for children as well as her hometown, have become a lasting legacy, and a lasting legacy of love, on Wellsboro’s Green.

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BECOMING A LOCAL

The Cox Family Wellsboro is a close-knit town filled with hard-working people that care about the well-being of each other and the community. The Cox family is one such example, a family whose roots, after more than a century, are still deeply imbedded here.

Robert (Bob) Cox, Sr., who passed away in 2011 at the age of ninety-six, left behind a strong legacy for his family and the town of Wellsboro. During the course of his work as an attorney, he helped put together what has become the current three school districts in Tioga County.

He was treasurer and member of the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, retiring from law practice in 1997 after fifty-nine years of service.

“He was always an avid supporter of Wellsboro, and a very highly thought of man,” says fellow Wellsboro attorney Lowell Coolidge.

As a co-founder of Growth Resources of Wellsboro (GROW), which was established to attract industry to Wellsboro, Bob Sr. was instrumental in getting Dresser Industries (now Wellsboro Industrial Park) to come to Wellsboro. He was Chairman of the board of the Commonwealth Bank (after several mergers, still here as Northwest Bank), chairman of the board of directors for the Green Free Library, and a member of the endowment committee of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital.

In his later years, as Wellsboro created a performing arts center as a downtown anchor, he served as chairman of the endowment board for the Deane Center for the Performing Arts Center from its inception until his passing. He was a longtime member of Rotary and a deacon and elder at the First Presbyterian Church.

“He did everything. He was caring, very concerned for his community, his church, and his family. He was a loving person. He worked very hard all of his life. He absolutely made an impact on my life,” his son, Robert Cox, Jr., said. Bob Cox Sr. and Jr. worked together from 1971 until Bob Sr.’s retirement. Bob Jr. ended up expanding on his father’s school district and municipality work. Bob Jr. was involved in many municipal projects throughout Tioga and Potter County for sewage, water, and solid waste, as well as school projects.

Bob Jr. also followed his father’s footsteps into GROW, serving as president the year GROW received a million-dollar grant and fundraised over $200,000 to buy the railroad from Wellsboro to Corning, after Conrail announced they were going to abandon it.

Bob Jr.’s daughter, Kasey, and her husband Kevin Coolidge own From My Shelf Books (www.wellsborobookstore.com; [570] 724-5793), a bookstore at 7 East Avenue, Wellsboro, continuing on a family tradition of dedication to the town.

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