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From an Illinois Farm to Carnegie Hall, Mansfield University’s Peggy Dettwiler Made Herself Into One of America’s Finest Choral Conductors

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16 Songs of Survival

Peggy’s Song

By Cheryl Hein Walters

By Brendan O’Meara

The Isaacs share their music and their story.

From an Illinois farm to Carnegie Hall, Mansfield University’s Peggy Dettwiler made herself into one of America’s finest choral conductors.

18 Endless Mountain Music

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20 Picture This

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Peggy’s Song From an Illinois Farm to Carnegie Hall, Mansfield University’s Peggy Dettwiler Made Herself Into One of America’s Finest Choral Conductors

By Brendan O’Meara

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hree times in Carnegie Hall Peggy Dettwiler, her back to the audience, her face, as always, looking to her choir, conducted her legion, calling forth beautiful music from the soloists, the pianist, the entire choir, with the wave of her hands.

This time, at age seventy, Dettwiler watched this April as renowned New York conductor Rob Fisher summoned the magic of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide from the troops she had prepared for yet another performance in the legendary New York City venue.

And the results were just as spectacular.

James Oestreich, the New York Times critic, wrote, “Carnegie Hall’s elaborate concert version of Bernstein’s Candide on Wednesday, celebrating the Bernstein centenary, featured ample star power (John Lithgow, Paul Appleby, Erin Morley, Patricia Racette and William Burden, with cameo appearances by Len Cariou and Marilyn Horne); the typically excellent Orchestra of St. Luke’s; and huge, quietly clever projections designed by Wendall K. Harrington.

Somewhat overshadowed by all of this was the superb work of the Mansfield University Concert Choir, of Pennsylvania, long directed by Peggy Dettwiler.”

That acclaimed Mansfield University choir director, as a young girl growing up on a northern Illinois farm, whose first music making was at her quaint church, never could have imagined the scope of her ambitions and that they’d actually come true.

As a young woman on the farm, she once climbed up a giant grain silo for no other reason than to catch a particularly interesting pigeon. She tamed hardto-wrangle horses. She showed horses. Her sister, Vicki Crone, says Dettwiler once waited for Tricksy, a temperamental equine, to bow its head while eating grass so she could then throw her leg over its back and teach it a thing or two about being ridden. In those days, Dettwiler smiled broadly, all teeth, spread across

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a youthful, vibrant face.

Crone says, “All through school she was an achiever. She ended up president of her class, valedictorian, FHA/FFA sweetheart, involved in lots of cheerleading through the years.”

Training horses growing up, they found the subtle ways to take a hulking body capable of speed and mammalian power and make it bend to the will of its rider, to cede control over to someone far less imposing but no less capable. On the farm, the kids were as free range as the chickens. But roots run deep in the Midwest, such that few people extend much farther than one state in any cardinal direction. “I thought I would graduate from college and I would stay around the Midwest and raise children, and that would be my life. But things didn’t work out that way,” Dettwiler says.

• Dettwiler had a musical gene coiled somewhere in her forty-six chromosomes. Her long-time friend, Celia Finestone, thinks it’s the work ethic of Dettwiler’s immigrant parents: her father a farmer, her mother a musician.

Dettwiler moved north to the area near Madison, Wisconsin, where she taught high school music and roomed with Marlys Kerkman, two teachers looking to split the $160 per month in rent. “Peggy has always been motivated to do and to organize, and I can always remember from the time I first knew her the notes of things she was going to do next,” Kerkman says.

Decades later, when Kerkman was in a terrible car accident and laid up in the hospital for about a month, not sure if she was going to lose a leg or not, “Peggy got in a car and came up and visited me,” Kerkman says, crying. “I really appreciated that. She’s well meaning.

I thought it was great.”

See Peggy on page 8

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Decades earlier, Dettwiler had learned what the support of friends meant in a desperate time, so she gave it no thought to get in her car and visit a friend’s bedside.

In 1981, Dettwiller felt a cold coming on, a bad cold, but a cold that by all accounts would be shaken off in a week or two. But this cold not only stuck around, it began eroding her capacity to feel her extremities and move her limbs. This cold quickly stripped her of her power. Soon she was bed ridden and completely paralyzed with a disease called Guillain-Barre (GheeYAN Bah-RAY) syndrome, or French polio. With Guillain-Barre, the myelin sheaths that insulate the neurons waste away, making nerve conduction impossible. It can advance so far inward that breathing can become labored or, like walking, also impossible. “[The doctor] said we may have to help you breathe,” Dettwiler recalls, “which they did by the fifth day in the hospital.

I was on a respirator and I was in the ICU. I was completely paralyzed, but I was fully conscious, so I was fully aware. I was on that respirator for three weeks and in the hospital for two months.”

She communicated by blinking at a chart. To sleep, nurses taped her eyelids shut.

While fearful of what the disease could do to her life in the short and long term, she thought about the meaning of her illness and what she would do later, of a future unbound.

“I realized when I was completely unable to move my body was that I was still a whole person,” Dettwiler says. “I laughed.

I cried. And I had the range of emotions and the full range of dreams, so it made me think that our bodies are houses in which we live, and sometimes they serve us well and sometimes they don’t.”

The disease struck her from the outside in, and as she began to heal, she could sense the feeling moving back out to her limbs, but the illness left its mark. Her once wide and toothy smile was gone, as the muscles in her face were forever damaged. It meant some people thought she wasn’t as expressive as she could be. She lost the ability to show her teeth. She lost the strength to fully vocalize, this from an aspiring choral conductor. It wouldn’t keep her down long. She regrouped and she forged on.

Over thirty years after her bout with Guillain-Barre, she posted on her Facebook page the following: “1. Despite the fact that my body was completely “out of commission,” I felt like a whole person with the full range of emotions. I came to the conclusion that our bodies are our houses, not who we are.

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So after physical therapy, yoga, acupuncture, electrostimulation, cranial-sacral massage, thermage, and healing touch, I am still left with permanent facial and vocal-fold weakness; something I deal with on a daily basis in my choral conducting career. Yet, I don’t believe I would be where I am today without that illness. From growing up as a farm girl to standing on the Carnegie Hall stage, I discovered a fearlessness to take risks, to

stand up for the truth, and to seek joy in what life might offer.”

Her husband, Jurgen Thym, professor emeritus of musicology at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, credits the illness for pushing her in a certain direction and finding a deeper well of inner strength.

Dettwiler doesn’t remember, or recognize, who she was before the disease. A new person emerged.

“I don’t know if I would have had the courage to move and be more mobile, so it might have propelled me to grow more and to risk more,” Dettwiler says.

• From Madison, Wisconsin, where she earned a BM in voice performance and her MM in music education, she was soon courted by San Antonio, where she enrolled at the University of Texas. She and her first husband, a football coach from the Midwest, tried the long distance relationship, but they were on divergent paths and soon divorced amicably.

She earned another masters degree, this one in choral conducting at UT San Antonio, and pondered where to go next. Dettwiler knew she needed a terminal degree for a tenured university position. She wanted to study under Don Neuen at the Eastman School of Music, so she auditioned in 1986, but didn’t get admitted. The school only takes one PhD candidate a year.

She tried again in 1987, and was rejected yet again.

The feedback Dettwiler received from Eastman was that her talents were appreciated, but she needed more passion in her conducting. Passion was something she felt in the house of her body, but it was something she couldn’t exhibit physically because her illness stole that from her face. She explained this and they listened, but she figured they’d never take her anyway, so she made her peace and moved on.

She had some vague notions of where she wanted to go from there, given the failure at Eastman—most likely a lukewarm move to the West, or to Austin. A friend suggested a more mystical nudging: visit a psychic.

“Well, I don’t really want to know the future,” she told her friend.

“Oh, it’s fun. He’s really good. He’s from India,” her friend replied.

The psychic said her life would take her east and that she would eventually meet a brilliant foreigner.

The school she was teaching at in San Antonio prodded her for future plans. Would she stay or go? She had a few days to tell them. Then she received a call from Neuen at Eastman. He told her he wanted to work with her but couldn’t take her this year. If he didn’t audition another candidate, would she enroll in a year?

It was an emphatic yes. She told her school she’d teach one more year and then make the long trip to Rochester, New York, in a year’s time.

Part 1 of the psychic’s prediction came true. Part 2 would soon follow.

• Jurgen Thym was teaching a Beethoven symphony class— fitting, as Thym grew up in Germany. Troubling as it could have been, he and Dettwiler struck up something that would bloom into more than a friendship.

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Harmonious grandeur: Peggy leads the choir during the opening ceremony of last year’s Endless Mountain Music Festival at Mansfield University.

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says. “A teacher and student meet and start a relationship. I came out of a relationship and was separated and was not quite ready.

She had taken my seminar.” When the class finished he told her, “Maybe don’t taken another class with me.”

Dettwiler remembers hosting a party with the brilliant minds of her program and she saw Thym with a string playing with her cat Yum Yum. “I thought if the professor can do that, that’s pretty cool,” Dettwiler says.

While Thym remained at Eastman full time and wouldn’t leave full time teaching until 2000, Dr. Dettwiler took a position at Mansfield University, and they commuted up and down the I-390 corridor.

Following a sabbatical not long after the two were wed, Thym said, “It doesn’t make any sense to have two gardens to weed, and two mortgages to pay, and two lawns to mow. We can get more bucks for our house in your area. We bought this farmhouse here overlooking Tioga County.

We have deer in our backyard and bears who take the bird feeders down.”

Thym had learned about Dettwiler’s fight with Guillain-Barre syndrome and loved her inner strength. It’s evident in all she’s been able to do at MU. “It can be done with commitment and tenacity and proper direction,” he says. “It’s a miracle, in a way, that a small university of 2,000 students is still a major player in choral competitions in Europe.”

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department chair for the past four years, notes that Dettwiler is “a great colleague to work with.”

“I don’t mean this in the way it may sound, but she’s a demanding colleague. She has high expertise and, for people she works with, she keeps us on our toes.”

Rinnert is continually amazed at what once-in-a-lifetime events Dettwiler offers the students, from trips to Europe to opportunities to sing at Carnegie Hall.

“This was an invitation,” he says.

“The students were put up in hotels. It was a professional experience, an orchestra, director, and producer. I don’t know any other college choir that’s getting that. This university on the hill in rural Pennsylvania has this incredible choral director. Not only are her pedagogy skills phenomenal, she takes good singers and turns them into great singers.”

Mandy Rusk, who studied at MU from 2010-2014, says, “She confirmed every reason why I love music.” And also, Dettwiler’s own blueprint taught Rusk the meaning of patience.

“I don’t have to be in a huge rush,” she says. “It took her a while to find what paths she wanted to go down. She’s still finding things she wants to do. [It’s inspiring] to see a woman who is not twenty-five years old and is still hoping to accomplish dreams and setting ambitions.”

Despite the worldwide acclaim Dettwiler has earned for herself and the program, her relationship to every student leaves its personal mark.

“She saw me when I went through

college,” Rusk says. “I had a pretty traumatic experience with a breakup and she was 100 percent ears. She was willing to help, to be there in every way she could. For her to care about her students shows a lot about her as a person.”

Dettwiler could also see past a student’s outer protective layer and to the talent and potential below the veneer. Kyle Rusk, a pianist, who met Mandy at Mansfield and later married her, was such a person.

“I was more cocky than confident coming into school,” he says. “She took that cockiness and molded it into a more professional confidence. People wanted to be around me more. She gave me so many opportunities that not a lot of musicians get.

After a semester, she asked, ‘Do you want to be an accompanist for the choir?’ I said, ‘That’s a pretty big gig.’ She said, ‘I know.’

That formed a deep trust.”

To this day, years after graduating, Kyle can point to why Dettwiler was so effective with him and, by extension, countless others.

“One, her exceptional ability in her musical skill conducting,” he says. “Two, the teaching ability. She is an expert conductress. ‘How do I teach somebody to be better? What is this student doing well?

What is something he or she can improve?’ and communicate that effectively. Three, being a visionary, not only for the students but for herself.

“It takes a person with a true vision, who in 1990 is starting off at Square 1. And, just shy of thirty years later, she’s been to Carnegie Hall four times.”

Mark Twain Country And, to quote Rinnert, “She feels like she’s in the prime of her career. She calls herself a late bloomer. She feels that she’s getting to do all the things that people do at forty-five or fifty years old, but not at retirement age. Even at seventy years old, she’s not slowing down.”

• The worry, if it can be called that, about Midwest roots is that they run too deep, and a possible global talent might be stifled by geography, family, and the farm. For some that is a noble life, but not for all. For others, the sight of the horizon isn’t a fence, but a siren call beckoning further exploration.

“In a way the Midwest is wonderful for an upbringing on the farm,” Thym says, “but it’s also a hindrance that the roots are so strong that people don’t want to move away. That [Peggy] finally did it, doing it late, her career is peaking now.”

She’s taking on more and more, like becoming the president of the American Choral Directors Association eastern division and lobbying for the 2020 ACDA conference to be in Rochester, the same city where she earned that coveted doctorate in conducting, where she met her future husband, all predicted by an astute Indian psychic.

Naturally, Dettwiler will have a prime role in the upcoming Endless Mountain Music Festival where she’ll conduct the community chorus through the first four movements of Ralph Vaughn Williams’ five-movement In Windsor Forest.

Despite the places she’s gone and the places she’ll go, she can always return to that warm spot in Illinois, as she did back in March 2016, when it was anything but warm.

The bus, loaded with forty-three students for an eight-day tour, took a slight detour on its trip to Madison, Wisconsin, so Dettwiler could swing through her hometown and sing again in the church of her youth: Afolkey Church. The bus pulled up to a scene of skeletal trees, partly cloudy skies, and months-ago-harvested farmland. The church’s parking lot was full and the homecoming of the town’s premier émigré had an audience.

They even drove past the farm where Dettwiler grew up, the same farm where she once climbed up the grain silo with a burlap sack to catch a charismatic pigeon, where she rode and raised horses, milked cows.

In the Mansfield University newsletter Hear the Voices, Dettwiler cites a verse in her introductory essay often attributed to Kahlil Gibran: Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

She closes her essay quoting J.R.R. Tolkien, writing “‘Deep roots are not touched by the frost.’ Coming home brings us back to our roots, not touched by frost and time.”

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tory and music each have a certain power, a power amplified when the two are combined. The Isaacs, a family of bluegrass/gospel singers, are returning to Mansfield this summer, July 28 at 7 p.m., to be exact, and it will be a perfect time to experience the power of their music and their story. The group sings in scrumptious close harmony, and, for this free Smythe Park event, will be playing guitar, mandolin, and stand-up bass outdoors on a greengrass summer night (with a rain location at Mansfield/North Penn High School Auditorium, by the way). Peace and a lively blessing saturate the melodies. You can’t help but tap your toes and feel lucky to be alive, living on this side of the pond, in America, as The Isaacs sing the stories of their faith and of their lives.

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mother, Lily, are writers, musicians, and storytellers. Their most powerful story is of friendship and how these sweet-singing sisters, brother, and mother owe their very lives to a good friend of their grandmother’s in the middle of Nazi-controlled Poland during World War II. Lily Isaacs, with Shawn Smucker, wrote of her life in a book titled You Don’t Cry Out Loud, published by New Leaf Press in 2014.

Lily Isaacs’ mother was called Feigle (Yiddish for Little Bird). She was a mere nineteen years old, living near Chenstochov, Poland, in the fall of 1941, when her mother sent her to the market one day with her younger sister and brother. Feigle had a bad feeling about leaving the house ever since the Germans had invaded Poland. When they returned from the market, their mother and crippled sister were gone.

They soon discovered they had been taken out and shot.

As Jews were rounded up into ghettos, Feigle fought to stay close to her sister, Zlotta, even after they were forcibly separated from their brother, Mendel. All the men were killed, even Mendel, who was just a boy.

From the ghetto they were first taken by train, with no food or water, to a Polish work camp. Sometimes the soldiers would douse the windowless train cars with water and people would strain, open-mouthed to catch drops from the dirty ceiling, desperate for a drink. The sisters survived the work camp but were then moved to a death camp, Bergen-Belsen, arriving in the freezing cold of January. The hell of a Nazi prison camp rarely varied. The prime objective was to not be shot by the guards. Standing for

hours at roll call in all kinds of weather, after being stripped and shaved, waiting for their names to be called, was torturous. But that was not as bad as the terror of watching someone be shot and killed—sometimes just for standing too close to a gate—or waiting for illness to strike. Anne Frank, of the famous diary, arrived in October of 1944 and died of typhus as that disease swept through the starving camp.

One day, a guard began separating the women into lines.

Feigle was separated from her sister and their friend, Sabrina.

As the line moved away, Sabrina grabbed Feigle’s arm and said, “She’s coming with me,” which was ignored by the guard, allowing Feigle to change lines. Everyone in the first line went to the gas chamber. Everyone in the first line was killed that day. Sabrina saved Feigle’s life. And that angelic action of a friend is the reason The Isaacs are on stage in 2018, living and breathing and sharing their lush, spine-tingling music with their audience. In the course of her life, Lily became a Christian; her story has made a powerful, interesting, and moving book. When Lily reads from it on stage, you won’t be the only one who fishes out a hankie. Unforgettable story, amazing music.

The story is reminiscent of The Diary of Anne Frank. Dr. Peggy Dettwiler, choral director at Mansfield University, conducted a chamber orchestra, vocal soloist, and the one-hundred member Festival Chorus in a production of Annelies (Anne’s full name), the story of Anne Frank, set to music by James Whitbourn, in the spring of this year at MU. Annelies is the first major choral setting of the iconic book, and was musically and emotionally challenging for both performers and the audience. Most folks know the unforgettable, utterly sad story of this young woman, even if they have never read the book that bears her name. Anne Frank died about a month before British soldiers liberated BergenBelsen. Feigle, of course, lived. Unforgettable story, amazing music.

Also at Mansfield University earlier this year was Syrian violinist Mariela Shaker. She spoke her truth as she played classical and native folk tunes at Butler Music Center on an ordinary Monday night, but, like The Isaacs and Anne Frank, her story is far from ordinary. She spoke of her country and showed pictures, before and after the war, of her home in Aleppo. Although Mariela has not lived as a captive, she remembers the day the bombing began. She was in high school when the Syrian civil war started.

Fear is surely a captivating force as bombs rain down and one’s life is forever changed. But Mariela’s musical talent brought the attention of a wealthy businessman from Dubai to her aide. His generosity helped pay for her undergraduate degree, and she has been teaching and performing as she finishes her graduate studies in the United States. She is the living face of a refugee and continues to tell her story with music. Her powerful testimony about the suffering and destruction of war in Syria has earned her the Anne Frank Humanitarian Award. Unforgettable story, amazing music.

When The Isaacs return to Smythe Park on the last Saturday of July for that free concert (made possible by an anonymous donor), be generous to yourself and bring friends, a blanket, and an open heart. The goose bumps are also free.

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he Endless Mountain Music F e s t i v a l ’s o p e n i n g n i g h t performance promises to dazzle the audience with not only the sounds of the world class festival orchestra, but also an accompanying visual panorama custommade by videographer Steve Ulrich.

Steadman Theatre at Mansfield University will be the scene for the concert on Friday, July 20, at 7:30 with the theme “Legends of the Screen,” featuring music from Gone with the Wind, Dr. Zhivago, Somewhere in Time, and other classic cinema offerings.

Ulrich, whose company is based in Marietta, Pennsylvania, describes what he will be doing at the performance as being akin to a video jockey, a VJ, if you will,

although he says it isn’t a term that is really used.

“Curating video images is a challenge, and the timing of live music, which can change each performance, makes it even more challenging,” he says.

Ulrich will sit in on the concert rehearsal the morning of the performance with all of his video footage, and then will spend the rest of the day working on the timing of the images in concert with the music to make sure it comes out right.

“There are so many variables that could change everything when you are working a live performance,” Ulrich says. Even the rehearsal can be far different than the actual performance if a piece or movement needs to be played again for any reason.

This will be the third time Ulrich has worked with EMMF in his capacity as videographer. Ulrich has a long relationship with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, documenting various events the orchestra does for community outreach and benefits.

That is how he came to work at the Endless Mountain Music Festival. Stephen Gunzenhauser, EMMF conductor and music director, is also the conductor and music director of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. Ulrich has played the trumpet for years and notes, “I think that it is very important to keep symphonic music alive.”

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And Ulrich has his hands in a couple of non-video related pots as well. A couple of years ago, his business purchased an old bank building at 100 West Market Street in Marietta, and while that is where his videography work is done, as well as digital conversion of just about any media a person wants converted, there are also a couple of surprising side businesses.

Last March the enterprising Ulrich and others put in an escape room with a twist. For those of you who don’t know what an escape room is, here’s the Cambridge Dictionary online definition: “a game where people are locked into a room and have to find a way to escape by finding clues in it [the room] and solving puzzles…”

In Ulrich’s escape room, First National Escape, the game’s objective is not to escape, but rather to break into the bank vault and gather as much money as possible in the least amount of time.

Participants get a short tour of the historic building, which has been decorated and filled with vintage artifacts to authentically recreate the feel of an 1875 Victorian bank. Then off they go, trying to find the tools, clues, and hints needed to successfully break into the vault. Players have sixty minutes to break into the vault, gather up as much cash and gold as they can, and then “deposit” it with a bank teller or risk being busted by the bank watchman. Up to eight people can play at one time.

While being interviewed for this story, Ulrich excuses himself and disappears for a minute or two. When he comes back to the phone, he confesses, “I am not quite sure why we thought it would be a good idea to put in an ice cream window at the bank.” When his children are at school, Ulrich is also responsible for selling ice cream to people who come to the window. He is looking forward to the end of the school year and the beginning of summer break so his children can take over that duty!

But Ulrich’s profession is most definitely that of a videographer. “Really, I am a video editor by trade. I have a librarian’s mind when it comes to video footage. It is all organized in my head,” he says.

If you come to the opening concert of the Endless Mountains Music Festival you will see that mind at work.

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That will be the headquarters for beer and wine sales and the setting for two of the festival’s headline events—a dinner theater and a Speakeasy Dance and Costume Contest. Down the street at La Famiglia Original Italian Pizza, the Saturday lunch crowd can enjoy “Pasta with Capone,” as the Chicago big boss gives his take on the pesky Agent Ness and the other spoilsports who can’t understand why a thirsty public might want to occasionally wet its whistle.

After the 3 p.m. parade, it’s “Capone’s Arrest” on the street corner between the Hotel Crittenden and Olga’s Café, where Eliot Ness will show up for a give-and-take with his nemesis.

Sunday events begin at 11 a.m. with an ecumenical worship service at the courthouse square gazebo, conducted by Eliot Ness’s house of worship, the First United Presbyterian Church.

The Rigas family, owners of the historic Coudersport Theatre, have made the venue available for public programming for all three days. Programs scheduled include The Fourteenth Victim, a riveting look at Eliot Ness’s pursuit of a Cleveland-area serial killer nicknamed The Mad Butcher; “Meet the Real Eliot Ness,” an authors’ roundtable, and interviews with local residents who will share their personal memories of Ness during his Coudersport days in 1956-57; “Eliot Ness in Cleveland: Saving an American City,” presented by historian Rebecca McFarland; “Law Enforcement: Yesterday and Today,” presented by agents and supervisors of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Scarface vs. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables, featuring author A. Brad Schwartz; a screening of The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner; and a film festival featuring episodes of the 195963 television program of the same name, starring Robert Stack.

Area businesses are participating with special events, including the Hotel Crittenden, which has a close connection to the featured character. In early 1957, Eliot Ness and co-writer Oscar Fraley met in Fraley’s room and in common areas at the Crittenden to hammer out the manuscript that would become The Untouchables, a highly sensationalized account of Ness’s battle against Capone that launched the Hollywood frenzy.

And if that’s not enough, festivalgoers can enjoy a colorful bus tour that spotlights the known speakeasies and booze distribution points in Coudersport during the Prohibition era. Or they can follow the footsteps of the lawman himself on “Eliot Ness’s Last Walk,” which was completed moments before he dropped dead of a heart attack, May 16, 1957, just a block from the center of town.

They can stroll through the vintage car show and see authentic vehicles from 1924 through 1931, including a 1924 Rolls-Royce that was purchased new by the publisher of the Chicago Tribune and specially detailed with armor and bulletproof glass to ward off attacks by vengeful mobsters.

They can, perhaps, imagine what life was like as an Untouchable.

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he wineries along Seneca Lake offer stunning views of the Finger Lakes landscape. The changing colors of the lake as clouds drift are mesmerizing.

The parallel rows of grapevines stretching endlessly down the steep slopes evoke the bucolic atmosphere of landscape painting.

Maybe you are seated at a café table enjoying a glass of Chardonnay or Riesling while the scenes unfold. Or, maybe you are waiting at the winery for your yoga class to begin.

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Katy’s one-hour yoga classes held on Wednesday’s at Chateau LaFayette Reneau are open to all ages and genders, from beginners to experienced practitioners. For those whose knees or hips don’t conform to the particulars of a pose, she offers modifications.

Students from last year’s classes, which ran from June into the fall, included tourists and summer residents, local teachers, and people working in the area’s food and beverage industries. Katy expects that it will be a similar mix of students for the 2018 summer sessions at the winery, a class she calls a Slow Vinyasa Flow focusing on breath awareness, stretching, and alignment.

It’s a practice guided by the breath, followed by deep stretching to improve flexibility and open tight joints. Each session is offered for ten dollars (or ninety dollars for ten sessions). In good weather, classes are held outside overlooking the vineyard, but, even when chased inside by storms or cold, the western wall of windows in the winery provides a panoramic view of the lake.

The goal of Slow Vinyasa Flow, according to Katy, is to create space in your mind and your body. Susan, who’s taken the class, says that listening to Katy’s soothing voice while practicing poses and gazing at row upon row of ripening grapes, “restores her balance.”

Following yoga, the senses are awakened, the mind calmed.

Wine tasting, too, relies on the senses: the color of the liquid, the nose of the vintage, the tastes on the palate. That’s what makes part two, the wine tastings, extra special. Students are relaxed, they enjoy the peace and beauty of their surroundings and the echo of the yoga session’s affects over a glass of wine.

Katy feels that “when we come to the mat, we create space within our own individual minds, bodies, and hearts. As we find peace within ourselves, we are better equipped to be members of the local and global communities. The conversations that happen after class—maybe after a glass of wine or maybe not—are meaningful. Once the mind is cleared of daily ramblings, then we are better able to listen to others and offer insight from the heart.”

Chateau LaFayette Reneau offers a five-dollar glass of wine (and a 10 percent discount off any purchase) to each participant in the yoga class. Students can choose any of the award-winning wines on the menu. While Susan might have a penchant for the Proprietor’s Reserve Chardonnay aged in French oak, you might want to admire the color and taste of a Pinot Noir Rosé (the 2017 vintage of which won a double gold at the American Fine Wine Competition last month), or feel the bubbles of a Frizzare Moscato. The winery’s motto is “come for the wine, stay for the views.” After a yoga class you will appreciate both even more. For more information call Chateau LaFayette Reneau at (800) 4699463 or go to clrwine.com.

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hat to do when you want to promote your city’s artistic flair, but have had your fill of arts and crafts shows? Look down, at all that lovely, blank asphalt.

The Elmira Street Painting Festival turns the streets of the city into canvas and turns 150 artists loose with pastel chalks and their own creativity. The result is a kaleidoscope of color and design that lends itself perfectly to a summer weekend. July 6, 7, and 8 is the weekend this year and Jennifer Herrick-McGonigal is crossing her fingers for clear skies and big crowds.

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city’s fifty-two-block Business Improvement District, planning and managing special events, including a weekly farmer’s market (elmiradowntown.com).

“Years ago, Elmira did something called Arts in the Park. It was a great event, but when I moved back to the area in 2007, I wanted to try something different,” Jennifer says. She heard about the elaborate street painting that went on in Lake Worth, Florida, and headed south to learn all she could. Eleven years ago, the Elmira Festival began with thirty-five artists.

“The city is doing so much to grow and embrace activities that encourage people to come downtown. I wanted this festival to grow along with the city,” Jennifer says.

That it has done. Those 150 artists include six professionals, all of whom submit samples of their work ahead of time. The rules are simple and allow for a wide range of pictorial subjects. (Go to elmirastreetpaintingfestival.org or call Jennifer at [607] 734-0341 for more information.)

“No religion or politics, especially these days,” Jennifer laughs. “And nothing offensive. One year we did have a depiction of Michelangelo’s David, but that’s one of the great master works, so it was allowed.

There was an Abraham Lincoln portrait that people still talk about. And one year, there were paintings of Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe on opposite corners. That

got a lot of smiles.” In 2010, the region celebrated the Year of Mark Twain and the legendary author’s library of works provided much fodder for artists. “Often they will depict iconic landmarks of the area. We encourage them to use the rich history of our city as inspiration,” Jennifer says.

One of the most anticipated aspects of the festival is the “Chalk It Up” program, which offers kids from third grade to high school seniors a chance to participate with their own artistic efforts, culminating a four-week program under the guidance of local artists and art teachers. The kids get spaces four by six feet big to express their talents. Last year, seventy kids took part; Jennifer says the best part is watching the growth of the young artists over the years.

“We’ve had kids who started in the youth program and moved right up to the adult level,” she notes. There are prizes for the three best efforts by kids and several categories for the adults, including Best in Show, Most Original, and People’s Choice. There is no cost to artists unless they don’t register until the day of the festival—then there is a small fee. “Artistic folks sometimes forget the detail stuff like that.” Jennifer sighs.

Vendors will showcase regional arts and crafts. The restaurants will be offering their best dishes and music will fill your ears while your eyes feast on the art. The street painting dovetails into another event on that Friday night. Alive After Five is a celebration of the end of the workweek that brings people downtown for music, food, and special business promotions. While that is happening on Friday, July 6, the street festival volunteers will be marking out 100 squares for artists to produce their magic.

Let’s talk about where those squares are. The City of Elmira has been “very kind” to the festival, according to Jennifer, which is fortunate, because shutting down city streets on a summer weekend needs to be a group effort. From Friday at 8 p.m. to Sunday, July 8 at 7 p.m., vehicular traffic is prohibited on West Water Street from the Clemens Center to Columbia, and North Main Street from Ferris Street (Southside) to Church Street. The awards ceremony happens at 3:45 on Sunday.

Visitors are encouraged to come watch the artists in the creative process and see how the paintings develop. “Our artists are the stars of the show,” Jennifer says. “They spend up to sixteen hours on their creations, down on the hot pavement. And they know their work is truly temporary.”

Ah, the fleeting existence of street art. The artists come equipped with tarps and the full knowledge that Mother Nature could wash all their efforts away with one of our region’s sudden, intense summer storms. They are a resilient bunch and, if the heavens open, they simply wait it out and re-draw the areas that have been muddled. “The streets are all slightly crowned, they are higher in the center to allow for drainage,” Jennifer says, showing off the knowledge she gleaned from her colleagues in the public works department. “Did I know that? Not before all of this!”

Jennifer admits that re-opening the streets after the festival is hard. “Watching that first car drive over those wonderful paintings, it just breaks my heart.” But, if the weather cooperates, the images are visible for a couple of weeks, prompting smiles from drivers, even in rush hour traffic.

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