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At center, John’s graduation photo from RPI; from top (left to right) with daughter Ellen at a Coudersport basketball game; with fellow panel member and then governor Milton Shapp; with sons (l to r) Timothy, Michael, and James; John and new wife Doris in 1953; high school classmates (l to r) Harold Schen, John Rigas, Gregory Theoclitus, Dorr Graves, and Don Norton; John and brother Gus (left); John throwing the first pitch at a Wellsville Nitros game; while in the U.S. Army; with former President Ronald Reagan; father of four; with Peter Ryan (right) at a St. Bonaventure basketball game.

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The Legend

At 93, Fallen Adelphia Founder John Rigas Gracefully Lives His Winter Years Back Home in God’s Country.

By Gayle Morrow

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ou can get the facts about John Rigas from online sources. He was born in 1924 in Wellsville, New York, in an apartment above the locally beloved Texas Hot restaurant, to Greek immigrants James and Eleni Rigas. He had three siblings. He graduated from Wellsville High School, then enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was in an armored infantry division and saw combat on French soil.

Post war he returned to Wellsville for a time, then attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he earned a bachelor of science in management engineering. He took a job with Sylvania Electric Products Inc. in Emporium, Pennsylvania. He married Doris Nielsen and they had a nice family—Tim, Mike, James, and Ellen, and, in the ensuing years, several grandchildren.

He bought a movie theatre in Coudersport, Pennsylvania (which is, by the way, about halfway between Wellsville and Emporium), and then a cable television franchise. Then he bought more cable franchises and a hockey team. He saw Coudersport thrive as corporate headquarters of one of the country’s largest cable companies, and, then, experienced the unraveling of it all.

He’s ninety-three years old now, and not well. Two years after he was released from prison, having served more than a decade for fraud in one of the great corporate falls in U.S. history, the Adelphia founder is back home in God’s Country.

Those are the facts. But what you can’t get, unless you talk to the man, are the stories.

Driving John Rigas Peter Ryan understands that those who don’t know John, who may only know of him, may be surprised to learn about his friend’s community-mindedness.

He was a Little League coach. He served on the board of Charles Cole Memorial Hospital for thirty-five years. He was a trustee for Mansfield University and for St. Bonaventure University. He was involved in helping Coudersport build a new high school and in bringing the Pure Carbon Company to the borough. Pete, a retired dentist, has known the Rigas family for forty-plus years, and has spent a bit of his free time during the past couple of those years serving as a driver for the man who put Coudersport on the map. They go to doctors, to Bonny basketball games, dig each other a little about their respective alma maters (Peter graduated from Alfred), and recently discussed the possibility of a fly-fishing trip to Montana. They went one other time, Pete relates, and, though it was John’s first fly-fishing adventure, he thoroughly enjoyed himself.

A good cup of coffee It’s a frigid day, but toasty in John’s bright office, which is on the top floor of a large building near his home outside of the borough of Coudersport. He has just arrived; his son, Mike, helps him up the stairs. John has on a red cardigan over an Oxford-type shirt. He is wearing a tie. His wide gold wedding band catches the light.

His wife, Doris, who died in 2014, was quite involved in planning and designing this building, Peter says, and wanted a lot of light in it. John turns the thermostat up just a little, as his son predicted he might, then he, Mike, Pete, and a visitor settle in with coffee and conversation. When asked if it’s true that he enjoys a good cup of coffee, John acknowledges it is.

“I prefer my coffee in a canteen cup with rust on the bottom,” he says, to chuckles all around, then adds, “I prefer

to do business in a restaurant. I like the clatter of dishes.” He says he used to spend a lot of time in restaurants, “but found I was monopolizing the phone.” So, with the owners’ permissions, he had his own phone lines installed.

“I had ’em all over,” he says. The waitresses would bring him “his” phone before they’d bring the coffee, Pete recalls.

John is not a big man, but nevertheless looks quite at home behind his large desk.

The office clearly is the working space of a prosperous person, but it is not pretentious (well, the carpeting is delightfully luxurious under sockfeet). There are pictures of John with famous folks—Ronald Reagan, Ted Kennedy, George H.W. Bush, the Pope—and there are pictures of family.

One, circa early 1900s, is a seriouslooking young woman in black. The black scarf over her head trails down past her fingertips. Eleni is her name, and she would become John’s mother. She was still in Greece when this photo was taken. John explains that his father, having had some success as a businessman in Wellsville, and concerned about looming immigration restrictions imposed on Greece and other Mediterranean countries, decided it was time to marry.

So, John continues, his father contacted family and friends in Greece and, soon after, he found himself meeting a boat and a lady in Boston. The couple took a train back to Wellsville, married a week later, and settled in over the Texas Hot. “They had a beautiful marriage,” John says of his parents. He and his siblings, of course, benefited from that, and perhaps, by extension, the patrons of Texas Hot did as well, even those who couldn’t buy a meal.

John recalls that his father would help the “bums…who came off the train looking See John on page 8 7

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for a free meal.” He would give them twenty-five cents worth of food—coffee and a piece of pie, or coffee and a hot dog.

“That’s where you learned some generosity,” notes Pete.

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As do kids in rural America everywhere, John played football with his neighbors.

“When the big boys tackled me they’d pile on, and it hurt, but I kept on,” he says. He made the high school football team, but acknowledges he was “generally the smallest” guy on it, and in the huddle would often appeal to his teammates: “Don’t give me the ball.”

“But every once in a while there was an opening in that line and you’d have to decide,” John reflects. “In life you’ve gotta take the ball. You might fumble, but in life there comes the opening and you have to decide if you’re going to take it or not.”

When World War II came, John and the young men he had grown up with in Wellsville all wanted to serve. He had a bad knee, thanks to some of those football games, and worried that he wouldn’t pass the physical.

“Nobody wanted to fail the exam,” he says. But there was no fumble there. He found himself in an armored infantry division, and saw combat in France.

“We had a job to do and just went about it. It was a feeling of one nation all united, one purpose. It was one of the most import ant experiences—I wouldn’t wish anyone to go through a war, but it was a great privilege to serve. When I went to the Normandy beaches and saw crosses and Stars of David, I can’t help but think why I was spared and him not. I also think about how young those boys were. That has always remained with me. I can never betray what they fought for or what they believed in. I am also proud to say I received a Combat Infantryman Badge, the only badge that really meant something to me.”

Pete, the dentist, lightens the momentarily somber moment by sharing a story from his own military service.

“I was on the drill team,” he says.

John’s next play was college. Education was important in his family, he says, “but my parents didn’t know one university or college from another.” So he followed a group of childhood friends who had headed north to Troy, New York, and RPI. “For me, I couldn’t have picked a better school,” he says, and while he admits that “my heart wasn’t in pure engineering courses, it worked out fine.”

Discipline, good news, and bad news Earning a degree in management engineering helped him a lot, John continues, because engineering requires discipline.

“You are presented with a whole lot of problems,” he says, “and first you need to know your goal, what you’re searching for, what you’re dealing with, and what you have to work with.

Basic training in discipline was a huge piece in how I went about attacking various issues.”

Pete has a discipline-related story to add here. He recalls the mornings when he would be driving into work—his dental practice in Coudersport—grousing to himself a little bit about having to get up and around, and he’d meet John on the road, headed home for

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welcome to one thing or another, having already been at work for some hours.

Anyway, college was behind him and the world awaited. John took a job with Sylvania Electronic Products, Inc. in Emporium, a “booming place in those years.” Sylvania was making vacuum tubes, transistors, and fluorescent lighting; John’s role was as a member of a technical group in marketing, specifically marketing tubes.

“We were showing things to the Japanese,” he says. “That was the beginning of them coming out of the ashes of World War II.” By 1951, John was five years out of the Army, a year out of RPI, and two years away from marrying Doris. It was the year he purchased the theatre in Coudersport. He worked days at Sylvania, and in the evenings sold movie tickets, ushered, and made the popcorn. One of his film salesmen (this one happened to be with the RKO studio) had the idea that John should purchase the fledgling cable franchise that existed in Coudersport. John recalls that early cable television technology built on the work of a fellow over near Scranton who had the idea of putting an antenna on a hill and stringing a line from that. The Coudersport system in 1952 was one of the first in the country and was about equal in complexity. People paid $3.25 a month for service (some strung their own lines off their own hill and paid nothing) and got two snowy channels, one from Altoona and one from Johnstown. The RKO salesman assured John that cable was the up and coming thing, though. He told him that the customers he would lose at the box office as a result of cable’s burgeoning popularity he could regain through cable.

He told John he really needed to get that franchise.

John was not convinced, nor did he have the money. But the RKO salesman “kept bugging me,” he says, so John talked to the man who had only a few weeks before purchased the franchise and he, for whatever reason, was eager to sell. There was some haggling, some talks with other partners who were already involved, and then, the good news. John Rigas found himself owner of a cable franchise. And the bad news? He found himself owner of a cable franchise. Now what?

“The equipment was primitive,” he reflects. “We had to get permission from Bell Telephone to use their poles (for the line).”

His engineering background helped then, as did his long-time projectionist at the theatre. That man became the cable system’s first technician. People resisted paying the initial hook-up fee— John explains that the business rationale for charging a relatively large hook-up fee was that nobody was certain how long this cable television thing would be around, so costs had to be recouped up front. Ultimately hook-up was free. John says he “learned how excited people were to get shows, snowy or not.”

It was another case of “don’t give me the ball,” but, once it was in his hands, he ran with it, and scored.

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convicted on various fraud charges, he served as a tutor to other inmates. When he was released two years ago because of poor health, hundreds lined the streets of Coudersport to welcome him home. Pete says John has been loyal to the people around here, so that’s why they remain loyal to him. They remember that he served on the Charles Cole Memorial Hospital board, that he worked to get doctors to come to the community, that he made sure there was a theatre for their kids to go to and a school for them to attend.

“He was instrumental in bringing kindergarten to Coudersport and helping to get a new high school,” says Mike.

“School issues became very confrontational,” John remembers, admitting that he really doesn’t like to be confrontational. “It was hard.”

Now But that was a long time ago. These days it’s confrontation of another sort.

“We’ve been working on our appeal,” John says. “We’ve been actively engaged with trying to prove our innocence and 10

get Tim home.” Tim, his son, remains incarcerated.

And these days, there also is Zito.

Zito, in Greek, means “rebirth” or “the dream lives.” Zito is a much smaller version of Adelphia (their use of that name, which means “brother” in Greek, is now legally forbidden), offering digital telephone, television, and high-speed Internet service to subscribers in seventeen states. John helped with contacts while James and Mike have assumed the leadership roles. The triple package is popular, Mike says, but the business centers around the Internet.

John also has his input regarding family land holdings. Just outside of Coudersport there are side hills, farm fields, clean streams, and stands of sugar maples and Christmas trees, all part of what is known as Wending Creek. It is archetypical Potter County, and it is the family’s intention to leave it undeveloped.

That’s a good story for another day.

Keystone Press Award-winning columnist Gayle Morrow is Mountain Home’s managing editor.

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Courtesy Benjamin Johnson, Glenn H. Curtiss Museum

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By Mike Cutillo

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enjamin Johnson says guys like Bob Harris—motorcycle aficionado, collector, shop owner, and founder of the Odd Ball Old Dog Motorcycle Group—are a one-of-a-kind breed.

“Guys like Bob…I mean, I don’t think I like anything as much as they like motorcycles,” Johnson says with a laugh. “They eat, sleep, breathe everything motorcycles. They’ll drive ten hours and sleep in the back of their pickup truck if it means they can go see a swap meet or a motorcycle get-together of a specific brand or type.”

Fortunately for those diehards in northern Pennsylvania and the Finger Lakes, however, they won’t have to drive quite that far to indulge their passion this February.

The aptly named 2018 Wintercycle Therapy event is slated for February 24-25 at the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum at 8419 State Route 54, just outside the bucolic and historic little village of Hammondsport on

the southern tip of Keuka Lake.

Johnson, a Nebraska native who has been executive director of the Curtiss Museum since 2016, expects over one hundred vintage and classic motorcycles from 1904 through the 1970s to be on display, many provided by the museum, others by Harris (above with the museum’s V8) and other collectors. There also will be vendors, raffles, food, play areas for the kids, and the museum’s regular collection of items related to early aviation, motorcycles, automobiles, bicycles, and local history.

The genesis of the winter event is actually a summer show that the museum started hosting over a dozen years ago. It was so successful they decided to try a winter show as well about ten years ago. “The idea is that there are lots of get-togethers and ride-ins and motorcycle shows, car shows, in the summertime,” Johnson says. “The weather’s great, it’s a beautiful part of the country to get out and ride. But there’s a

subset of our people that are motorcycle lovers that, by the time it gets to be January and February in this part of the world, have been off their bikes for two, three, four months and are itching to get back out there.”

Put another way, by Harris: “We made up the name Wintercycle Therapy because that’s what this is, cycle therapy. What else are you gonna do in the winter? We ride on the ice a little bit, but that’s about it.

We’re bored to death.” Harris, who lives about sixty miles from Hammondsport in Belfast, is well known in the area for his passionate love of motorcycles. He was enlisted as the main organizer—“My wife says I’m like the hub of the wheel, and I say it’s a wheel that has to be odd and has to be old”—and has watched like a proud papa as the Wintercycle Therapy show has gone viral before his eyes. “It’s really grown by leaps and bounds from those first years,” says Johnson, noting that last See Curtiss on page 23

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Courtesy Cary M. Becraft

The Sweet Life of a Chocolatier

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n a bitterly cold day in upstate New York I’m seeking chocolate.

Not remnants of a sad stash of grocery store-bought chocolate, bland and unabashedly my cheap fix, but the good stuff—exceptional artisan treasures I’ve heard I can find right in the Finger Lakes.

I recently learned of Car yMo Chocolate Candies & Confections, LLC, and disappointment quickly set in as I realized these exquisite sweets had been right under my nose. Seriously!? I could’ve been indulging in these dreamy creations for the past decade! So, I take to the road in search of these gems and to learn more

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Cary M. Becraft is sole proprietor and lone employee of this gourmet chocolate company (CaryMo was her nickname growing up; “Mo” is short for Moreland, her middle name). Time spent in the production kitchen involves creating and taste testing the incredible flavor combinations she’s known for—making chocolates, and fulfilling orders. Notably, Cary’s fillings include wine reductions, like a cabernet sauvignon. Others borrow notes from local wines to create fillings with a local product, like apples, that complement a particular varietal.

I find myself at Anthony Road Wine Company, situated on a picturesque spot on the western shore of Seneca Lake. This is where CaryMo Chocolates are handmade in small batches, and where I’m hoping to purchase a box of indulgence. Chatting to the helpful staff while doing a wine tasting, I’m informed there are no chocolates available to purchase today, and sadly leave empty handed. However, I am bolstered knowing Cary is working just up the road at Billsboro Winery—my next stop.

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charismatic, with a delightful smile and friendly welcoming style. We settle in for conversation and an unexpected treat—a CaryMo Chocolate Tasting paired with Billsboro wines. Cary’s instructions are simple, “Sip the wine; bite the chocolate; sip the wine; finish the chocolate.” She eagerly and with ease dotes on patrons, offering details about the wines we’re tasting and her chocolates, too.

Cary’s journey to becoming a premier chocolatier begins in an iconic restaurant, one of the best in New York City: The River Café in Brooklyn. Devoting fifteen years of her professional life to baking and the pastry arts opened the door for a position in the pastry department. “I worked at the Café from 1997 to 2000,” she says, “and we made molded chocolates and other refined candies for our petit four plates to serve at the end of the meal. I immediately fell in love. I fell in love the way I did when I first baked bread…and when I began to make pastry. The beauty of it, the aroma, the love that people feel when they experience a warm baked good, or a beautiful plated dessert, or a decadent piece of chocolate!”

Soon, Cary was crafting confections on her own, putting a modern twist on traditional flavors. She explains, “A traditional flavor is a simple caramel, but if you put a twist on it, like a miso caramel with candied ginger, you have modernized it.”

The story continues as we begin the second tasting. “I was working in the fashion industry in the city in early 2001.

I’d bring chocolates into work and the models, hair and makeup stylists, and photographers encouraged me to start boxing and selling them. I incorporated my business and started selling boxed chocolates in 2004.”

Cary’s energy, talents, and interests complement her world view, one captured through a creative and colorful lens, a perfect fit for an exciting metropolitan life. So what brought her and her husband, Peter, to a tight-knit, world-renowned wine producing community with its quiet serenity and seasonal rhythm? And, then, how did she stay plugged in to all that she loves doing?

“Through my position at The River Café, Peter was drawn to the world of

winemaking. The transition from Brooklyn to the Finger Lakes was so he could follow his dream,” she reflects. Today, Peter is head winemaker at Anthony Road Wine Company. “It took a while for everything to fall into place for me and I’m still perfecting my craft. I have used all my experience working with food to help me find my niche. I love being able to create flavors for my chocolates that pair with wines at Billsboro. The pairings are challenging for me and I enjoy it very much. I’ve also paired with beer, bourbon, and other distilled beverages.” That turned out to be not only a natural progression but a wise decision, since craft beer and spirits are a huge part of the growing agri-tourism and craft food and beverage industry here.

As we move on to the third pairing, Cary shares fun stories about nine-year-old son Giles, running CaryMo, and creating a new life while honoring what lovingly defines her. “I work at Dano’s Heuriger on Seneca (a traditional Viennese winery restaurant) on Tuesdays, April through November, making pastries. I’ve been doing that for ten years because my first love was baking and pastry. And, I am a freelance fashion stylist because I love fashion.”

As we conclude our tasting and time together, she offers, “This is my first season working full time at Billsboro in the tasting room. I’ve paired my chocolate with Billsboro wine for five years, and I’m thrilled—they’ve been very successful.

When I’m pouring wine and people find out I make the chocolate they are so enthusiastic about my product! It is very satisfying and makes the hard work worthwhile. Everybody wants to love what they do, right?”

Yes to that. And yes to finding the sweet life in the Finger Lakes on a cold winter day. Order your chocolates directly from the company Web site at www.carymochocolate.com or stop in at Billsboro Winery for a tasting and some chocolates to go.

Ann Duckett is a certified cheesemaker and former cheesemonger who now devotes her time to educating and helping others find their cheese bliss through classes, presentations, special events, and cheese catering.

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year’s event drew about 1,500 patrons in the two days, or again, in the words of the colorful Harris: “It’s crowded like the mall on Black Friday.” Wintercycle Therapy is family friendly and very true to the museum’s namesake, Glenn Curtiss, who was born in Hammondsport in 1878 and was an aviation and motorcycling pioneer and one of the founders of the U.S. aircraft industry. In fact, one of the most popular motorcycles at the show will be an exact reproduction of the V-8 model that Curtiss rode to earn the title of “Fastest Man on Earth” in 1907.

“He had this aptitude for mechanical things, for making them better, more powerful and faster,” Johnson says of Curtiss.

“He basically got started when he saw an ad in a magazine for a single-cylinder gasoline engine, and when it showed up, he was disappointed. He said, ‘I can build something better,’ and then he went about doing that.”

Curtiss began, like his competitors the Wright brothers, building and racing bicycles. When he started fiddling with engines, he moved on to racing motorcycles. That all culminated, Johnson said, at Ormond Beach, Florida, near Daytona and nicknamed “The Birthplace of Speed” with Curtiss’s runs “where he became the fastest man in the world on a self-designed, selfbuilt motorcycle.” His world record speed of 136.36 miles per hour at Ormond Beach stood until 1930.

“He had some guts. You’ve got to have a little bit of a daring streak to do some of the stuff that he did,” Johnson says. “I’ve talked to guys who say, ‘I’ve been one hundred miles an hour on modern bikes with modern materials and modern brakes, and the world is going by awfully fast.’ These guys can’t imagine going one-hundred-thirty-plus miles an hour on an old bike like that.”

Other Curtiss-built bikes from the period will be on display at Wintercycle, along with some rare and vintage Hendersons and Indians (America’s first motorcycle company), early HarleyDavidsons, and even foreign-built Yamahas, Suzukis, Kawasakis, and BMWs. “There’re even some more of the older oddball ones thrown in there,” Johnson adds. “So it’s fun, even if you only have a passing interest in motorcycles or engines or any of that stuff.

They’re working pieces of art.”

Harris expects to have fifteen or sixteen of his own motorcycles on display at the show, including a 1937 Scott Flying Squirrel, a 1969 Laverda American Eagle, and probably at least a couple of dirt bikes. Johnson says it’s the diversity in the types of motorcycles that draws everyone from the hardcore enthusiasts to those who are just curious. Admission is ten dollars for adults and seven dollars for children ages seven to eighteen. (For more information go to www.glennhcurtissmuseum.org or call 607-569-2160.)

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