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Cream of the Crop Troy’s Sadie Allen Artfully Separates Farming from Fantasy

by Ruth Tonachel

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Troy's Sadie Allen artfully separates farming from fantasy.

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32 The House that Love Built

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35 A Park Wedding

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38 Twin Legacies

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By Dave DeGolyer Corning's Recycled Runway transforms waste into wonder.

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Cover by Tucker Worthington

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Introducing Sadie Allen

Welcome to the Mountain Home Art Gallery, First Friday, and Our First Artist’s Opening

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hat can you supply to a town that already has so much—restaurants, boutiques, a spa, a candy store, a theatre, a performing arts center? Wellsboro’s other iconic assets include the charming gas lights on the boulevards of Main Street and Central Avenue, the Green, with its famous Wynken, Blynken and Nod statue, and, of course, Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon.

Visitors and residents capture these and other images—the essence of Wellsboro—via brush and camera lens. How could this historic town not have a place to display these images?

Now it does.

“Look at this wall,” building owner David Zavetsky said to us late last year, sweeping his arm toward the ceiling towering overhead at 87-½ Main Street. “This would make a great art gallery.” So the gears started grinding, the elves started working their Christmas magic, and, in record time, the Mountain Home Art Gallery was born. Nestled in the heart of Main Street between Garrisons Men’s Shop and Stained Glass Reflections, the gallery officially opened its doors on December 2, 2016, the

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day before the town’s annual Dickens of a Christmas festival.

Procuring instant artwork proved easy, thanks to the abundance of local talent already waiting in the wings, and the newly painted white walls were soon blooming with eye-catching color and creative compositions.

Many of the gallery’s photographers have had their work appear in Mountain Home magazine—and more than a few have won IRMA (International Regional Magazine Association) and Keystone Press (from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association) awards for the magazine. Besides the familiar canyon and Main Street scenes, local photographers have brought to the walls everything from brilliant sunflowers and columbine close-ups to European cathedrals and Middle Eastern landscapes. Just shy of one hundred framed photographs are currently hanging, and everything displayed in the gallery is available for sale (gallery staff can also arrange shipping of purchases).

Some portion of the exhibit space will always include local photography, but June

marks our first fine art opening. Stop in on Friday, June 2, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. during Wellsboro’s First Friday event and meet dairy farmer/fine artist Sadie Allen (above), the subject of this month’s cover story. Sadie’s on the cover in honor of National Dairy Month, and we will fill the gallery walls with her exuberant dairy-themed paintings, the delightful Dancing Heifer art collection. We will be serving chocolate milk, an adult milk beverage, and very dairy goodies like fudge and cheesecake. Sadie’s prints and notecards will be available for sale that night and throughout Dairy Month.

Later this summer, Cowanesque Valley award-winning painter C.F. Lawrenson, nationally distinguished for his nature landscapes and children’s books, will open a show at the gallery. We’ll let you know in these pages and at www.mountainhomemag. com. For information on gallery artists call (570) 724-3838, or visit the gallery Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ PennsylvaniaNewYorkArt/).

We hope to see you on First Friday!

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Cream of the Crop Troy’s Sadie Allen Artfully Separates Farming From Fantasy

By Ruth Tonachel

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arming is a more-than-full-time occupation and, despite her love of agriculture, Sadie Allen is an artist

Leaning over to pick up a cow tooth as she walks up the barn aisle, she says conspiratorially, “Dad says to let them compost. I use them to make stuff with.

When I teach, kids are startled to find out what they are.”

Born and raised near Granville Summit in western Bradford County, Pennsylvania, Sadie is a unique young woman who paints pictures and makes art that reflects her family farm, the cows, and the other animals that are a big part of her life. Her paintings express joy in rural life. They document the landscape she lives in and make the wild and domestic “critters” (as she fondly calls them) that

she encounters on a daily basis come alive.

Her art is rich with color and the details of nature. It is playful and often humorous.

Her elementary art teacher and good friend, Connie Sickler, describes Sadie’s art as “a whimsical illustrated style in which pictures tell stories.”

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with Sadie on the farm, says that Sadie seemed to feel as comfortable with the farm animals as with people. “I’ve always been impressed by her ability to show emotions with the animals in her art,” Kally remarks.

Sadie is a rarity—creative, intelligent, and born into a precious life and a world that that seems, in some ways, on the edge of vanishing. Much of the worldview she has grown up with on her family’s farm is a throwback to earlier eras. The patchwork of houses scattered over approximately 1,000 acres that once comprised her grandparents’ (Charles and Neva Allen) large farm is now two smaller farms: Allen Meadows, run by her parents, Paul and Arlene Allen, and Allenmeade, run by her uncle, Carl Allen. A brother, grandparents, aunts, and uncles all live in easy walking distance. In addition to her artistic work, Sadie is an integral part of her parents’ farm and an advocate for sustainable agriculture and the farm community. She also helps care for grandparents, other relatives, and neighbors when needed. Looking out at woods and fields from the hillside barn where she works, Sadie says, “It is a pretty good playground.”

At thirty, Sadie is still figuring out how to balance farming, art, an art business, home life, and family.

She negotiates these conflicts with an uncanny grace and good nature that Connie Sickler describes as “always a ray of sunshine.” She continues to grow as an artist, and is learning to market better.

“Most creatives are not wired to do both art work and marketing,” admits Sadie, “but God’s word says, ‘where you are weak, I am strong.’” Sadie believes that her teachers and other adults have been placed nearby to help and direct her when she needs it.

Asked if she sees herself taking over her parents’ farm in the future, she gives a resounding, “No! … I’m just the minion. You can’t be a manager and worker both.” When pressed, she continues, “It’s too big for one person.

My uncle did a dairy business alone— but that’s crazy hard. I’m not good with machinery—I break stuff. Farms are meant for big families. My parents

probably should have had ten kids…”

• Sadie’s parents built the dairy barn and silo that are in use today and are iconic in Sadie’s paintings. There was some infrastructure on the property—a house (“they chased the raccoons out and moved in”), older barns, coops, and sheds—when they bought it from her grandparents. Although Sadie doesn’t see herself taking over the farm, the future of the kind of agriculture she grew up with does concern her. She sees generational skills and infrastructure being lost and wonders how farms can survive in this region in the future. As we talk, water trucks pass frequently on the dirt road, heading for gas wells somewhere along the base of Barclay Mountain.

As for her own future, she says dryly, “I’m not sure yet what we are going to do with me.” While it is probably impossible for her to stop making art, marketing has to increase in order for her to make enough money to pay bills. That requires time and energy. At present, she could not be doing what she does artistically without her family supporting her in many ways. She is grateful for the job she has working on the farm and believes that it “develops a person to be doing work. People are blessed for doing what they are supposed to do.” She also adds cryptically, “Working on the farm keeps me out of trouble…”

Sadie lives with her uncle, Carl Allen, less than a mile from the home where she grew up. She and Carl—a conventional farmer who gave up his own dairy herd two years ago in favor of a less physically taxing beef operation—have a genial relationship and help each other out in various ways.

The living room is decorated with her artwork—and over this past winter also housed a large portable mural she was painting for the Mt. Pisgah State Park Nature Center. She is very grateful for the upstairs space Carl’s house allows her for a studio and a room of her own.

She admits to being a bit messy and knows that, as much as she loves her parents, being this short distance away and having her own space is better for all of them. Her business is conducted See Allen on page 10

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fter a major fire in the on-farm restaurant at Milky Way Farms in March 2011, the Seeley family decided to rebuild and expand. In looking to bring their own unique perspective on farming in Bradford County into view for their customers, the Seeleys contracted Sadie Allen to paint the mural that now greets everyone who walks into the restaurant. Sadie worked on the cinderblock wall throughout the summer and also became familiar with the farm cows and dogs (even some no longer living).

Parts of the mural were textured with a teasel and Kim Seeley can name all of the animals depicted—with the exception of one generic black dog that Sadie added for compositional reasons. Below the section of the mural celebrating the fields, woods, and livestock on the farm is the depiction of a picnic with foods that are regularly prepared and served in the Milky Way restaurant. Marie Seeley’s luscious berry pie is being eyed by a bovine with a lurking tongue, thus tying the foods served by the restaurant and farm together—just as they are on a daily basis in real life. Connections between Milky Way Farms and Sadie’s family go back years. When she was barely an adolescent, the Seeleys took Sadie to a Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) conference, an event which they think may have been the catalyst for the Allen family to start thinking about going organic. In any case, Sadie has been a strong PASA supporter ever since. In recent years she has created artwork annually for the invitations, T-shirts, and other promotional pieces for the Dairy Dash, a fundraiser for the Shon Seeley (Kim and Ann Seeley’s son) Legacy Fund for Sustainable Farming Education—a PASA fund set up after Shon’s tragic death in 2012. ~Ruth Tonachel 9

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from her parents’ home, however, because they have Internet access and Carl does not.

A group of semi-feral cats gathers on the porch and around the house where she and her uncle live. They are treated like wildlife and observed with Sadie’s eagle eyes and compassionate grins. Carl apparently coerced Sadie into adopting her short-haired border collie, Jaxon, of whom she has become fond—although she says she wouldn’t call him talented.

“He’s clumsy. But he’s very smart so we can work with him.”

Every morning, Sadie drives an ATV down the road to her parents’ barn where her primary responsibilities include feeding and caring for calves and young livestock. To help prevent illnesses that could require medication, calves at Allen Meadow are not weaned until they are twelve to fifteen weeks old (conventional dairies wean at eight weeks). “Weaning is the hardest transition for the calves—on any farm,” Sadie says. “I watch the health of each calf every day, I observe their temperament and thriftiness.”

She gets to know the quirks and habits of each individual—where they like to be scratched, how they interact with the others in their pen, and how well they grow.

Starting with bottle-feeding, the calves move quickly on to nipple buckets. “The buckets are communal, so they need to be strong to compete,” she relates. They are fed baleage (hay fermented within plastic wrapping) and a grain mix that Rockwell Feed Mill in Canton prepares to meet organic standards. Supplements like kelp and vinegar are also used to keep animals healthy. Calves will move out to grass paddocks and then to the heifer herd to be bred Bradford County, Opportunities for Everyone of All Ages so they can our join the milking string. Sadie notes that sometimes • Developing Bradford County within its borders • Growing tourism outside borders • Assisting Bradford County’s 501c3 and c6 • Non-profit agency thebyfirst year of organizations through room tax grant program. funded hotel occupancy tax milking is another rough transition for the cows.

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might go off to a birthday party, she continues, “If they go on to someone else’s house, they have to adapt there, too.”

Sadie’s parents’ farm became certified organic over ten years ago. They ship to Organic Valley Cooperative, which gives them a price set in advance, thus making budgeting possible. Most dairy farmers do not have that luxury. Becoming certified organic requires more paperwork but it wasn’t a hard switch for the Allens because they had been grazing their cows for years and they have a closed herd (the only cows added to the milking string are those born and raised on the farm). Sadie’s mom says their certifying agency—NOFA-NY—gives them lots of help and feedback so they meet standards when the USDA inspection takes place. “Organic is more about prevention of illness. However, it is in the rules that we can’t withhold antibiotics if an animal is suffering. The animal is likely to be sold since it can’t rejoin the herd, but it is a misconception that we let animals suffer and never use medicine,” says Arlene. A wall of awards from the Co-op attests to the Allen’s success as organic milk producers.

• Growing up, with their parents nearby but busy running the farm rather than entertaining their kids, Sadie and her three brothers fended for themselves in the barn with the admonition to “stay out of the way” while their parents were working. Sadie started drawing on the barn walls at an early age for amusement.

She invented hopscotch-type games by drawing a grid or other play space on the barn floor. Neighbors and relatives gave her chalk and other art supplies. “The rule was that I could draw on paper and the walls or floor in the barn, but not on the walls in the house!” says Sadie.

Sadie attended East Troy Elementary School where Connie Sickler—now proprietor of Settlement House in Sylvania–taught art. Connie recalls that all the teachers liked Sadie.

“She would draw all over her papers but no one in the building had any issue with that. Sadie was a very good student academically.

She had supportive parents who thoroughly encouraged her interest in art—despite her other academic capabilities.”

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Steve Sliwinski was Sadie’s art teacher at Troy High School.

“I’ve known Sadie’s family forever,” says Steve. “I had her dad as a student back when he was wild. He’s made a nice turn-around and done a wonderful job raising his kids.”

Sadie graduated from Troy High School in 2004. As Connie was, Steve Sliwinski was impressed with her talents. “She was one of the top three students of about 12,000 kids that I had in my entire career. I knew that a girl as talented and motivated as she was would go far under the influence of college art professors.

She has grown exponentially as an artist since then.”

Sadie credits Connie and Steve with encouraging her decision to go to college. Because she wanted academics as well as art, she did not apply to institutes but rather to various regional colleges with strong art departments. She says Steve Sliwinski helped her negotiate the scholarships to make it possible for her to go. She ended up attending Keystone College in LaPlume, Pennsylvania, as a four-year visual arts major with an emphasis in painting. She graduated in 2008.

College was challenging psychologically, in that Sadie’s background and worldview is so different from that of her peers.

She had professors who “disrespected morals” and she was exposed to students whose art was designed to shock or that focused on their own internal battles and scars.

“My number one inspiration is creation itself,” Sadie says.

“Everything I make comes from something I’ve seen that’s helped me form an idea. People enjoy my work because they find a sense of joy, of goodness and wholesomeness in it. My work takes too long to complete to spend it on painful or bad ideas. I try to celebrate the good things I have in my life to be grateful for. I hope I never focus on scars…”

By throwing herself into academics and limiting her social life, she made huge leaps in technique and skill at Keystone

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and says she also had professors who “gave me the fundamental technical training I needed to make a lot of personal, artistic breakthroughs.” Sadie’s college work included creating some of the images she still markets today in the form of prints, cards, and puzzles. Many are pastel paintings of animals and wildlife that seem to be from the rather unique perspective of a rodent or insect. There is a carrot lying in the dirt with a large dark rabbit behind it. A broken raw egg with the tongue and whiskers of a cat looming. A pair of squirrels in a cave or tree root with two huge clawed paws facing them. Sadie describes this work as “technical explorations as part of learning. Some are color studies with pastel layers and ink. They do contain a dark quality.”

Two paintings that have been shown and reproduced in various forms ever since she finished college were done during her senior year. Ironically, she painted the powerful bull standing in a field with dark clouds and lightning behind him (Tip This, pictured on page 3) while on Christmas break and did not take it back to school. It was shown locally and “that somehow got in the newspapers so my professors found out about it.” They made her bring it in and while they critiqued technical aspects she also learned that the Wow factor can be equally important in art. Sadie describes the bull and the lightning as “both totally amazing things that are also totally terrifying.” The painting manages to convey her awe and her fear.

What has become her most well known painting so far, Thrill of Spring, was also done during her senior year of college, and she hid it, too. “I had my easel set up in the studio at school and I would alternate working on it secretly and then work on a dummy piece. I just wanted to do something like the spring cows. It took time for me to mesh technical and playful. And I was very surprised at the response.”

Met with enthusiasm from her professors, Thrill of Spring See Allen on page 14

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Hedgerow Hop Bunnies: Sadie's focus is not always about cows. This painting's attention is all about bunny bedlam.

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was hung for the first time in 2008 in Keystone College’s graduation show. Sadie was very surprised that it sold immediately.

However, she retained the copyright, so she has been able to market the image in a variety of forms ever since. She refers to it as “the famous one,” and in this region, thanks to her generosity, it has been used repeatedly to promote local food, tourism, and agriculture. Eye-catching in so many ways, the painting conveys exuberance and the solidity and timelessness of a dairy

farm on the land—all important aspects of Sadie’s world.

When Thrill of Spring was included in a 2012-14 regional exhibit focused on places with special meaning to local residents, Sadie wrote: “This painting is an attempt to capture one of those moments that keep farmers inspired to farm. At various times (mostly winter) it is mandatory to keep the cows inside the barn, for their own safety and to keep the water pipes from freezing.

By the time the ice and mud have subsided, the cows are most anxious to go outside and

do cow things: kick up their heels, smell the spring smells, and eat all the tasty new greens.”

Ultimately, the lesson Sadie learned in creating that painting and the subsequent response to it was “me just being me was all I needed to be.”

• Since then, “every year, things get a little bit bigger and better, income wise.”

She has been hired for commission jobs painting murals on walls and barn doors.

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“I think of it as hosting friends you haven’t met yet,” says Riah Irion, a local WarmShowers host. “They are people I would already be friends with if they lived in my town. And if I’m in any one of these countries or cities, I have a place to stay, free, with people who know me and are interested in my life.” Riah and her husband, Aubrey, owners of Wellsboro’s Shady Grove Natural Market, have been members of the WarmShowers and Couchsurfing communities for several years. There are other Couchsurfing hospitality locations in the Tioga County area, notes Riah, but she

and Aubrey are the only WarmShowers site.

During a trip to Europe in 2011, the couple used Couchsurfing to meet some of their accommodation needs. “It’s pretty popular in Europe,” Riah says. When they got home, they decided to try being hosts themselves—not a huge stretch as the two often have, as Riah laughs, “random people at our house.” Couchsurfing is for travelers of any kind, she says, and “I would get a fair amount of cyclists that way.” One of those cyclists suggested they sign up with WarmShowers, which is unique to those using two wheels and pedals as their mode of transport.

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She is currently working on the mural for Mt. Pisgah Park. Ranger Nicole Carman Harris gave her a list of “critters” that she wanted included, and Sadie decided to depict all four seasons as well as some places of which she is especially fond. There is a massive tree with roots in an exposed under-water area, a stone wall, a church and cemetery, house, barns, a sugar shack, and tapped maples. Numerous varieties of wildlife are depicted in the air, the water, and on the land. It truly represents much of the best of Bradford County.

Following college, Sadie began work on a series of cows-in-all-seasons paintings. In 2009, Summer Nap Disrupters won Best of Show and a substantial monetary prize in an annual alumni show at Keystone College.

“I was the youngest alumnus entered. I took my grandmother with me and I didn’t even want to stay for the reception. I could not believe it when they announced my name,” she says in her typically humble way. Her Winter Cows painting shows cows with nostrils flared tumbling in the snow illuminated by the flare from a gas well.

Sadie is fascinated with the way

animals (and humans) move. “My creatures should all look like they can move within my paintings,” she says. Her desire to paint nature correctly requires that she study field guides and spend time in nature. “I’m interested in going mushroom hunting this spring. That’s my way of smelling the roses,” she remarks.

Hunting—be it mushrooms or deer— is not just a release from work or a way to put food on the table. It’s something essential for Sadie to know what she is painting. In order to focus on nature, she also intentionally blocks out much of what many people consider the modern world.

She does not watch TV or go to the movies.

She reads no modern fiction. While Sadie’s world is complicated and uncertain in some ways, it is also glorious and rich—and she is clearly happy in it. “I love learning about the things that live around me that I can go investigate and appreciate,” she says.

In the words of Steve Sliwinski, “Sadie is a great example of a regional artist. She is also just an all-around super individual and humanitarian. She deeply cares about the environment and people in general.”

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• You can meet Sadie Allen and buy some of her wonderful art at an open house for her work at the Mountain Home Art Gallery on Friday, June 2, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. during Wellsboro’s First Friday event.

Her artwork is also available at Settlement House on Route 6 in Sylvania; at Valley Gallery and Gifts in Jersey Shore; at Friends Art and Unique Gifts in Tunkhannock; and online at Etsy (Dancing Heifer Art). She also participates in several annual festivals and fairs: the Troy Fair, Wellsboro’s Dickens of a Christmas, and Victorian Christmas in Bellefonte. In 2017, she was at Athens Art Fest and in 2016 she set up at the Troy Sale Barn on Small Business Saturday (Thanksgiving weekend).

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Lynette, who lives these days in Canton, specializes in making necklaces, bracelets, and earrings with embroidery and wire beading. She displays her creations at many juried shows and events alongside other talented vendors, but it’s her use of embroidery techniques and harder-to-find materials, such as Shibori silk, that sets her pieces apart. Shibori, she explains, is a Japanese dyeing technique that often produces a pattern on fabric. “I get the Shibori silk from a friend in California,” Lynette says. “It’s an ancient art.”

The Shibori silks used in her designs are vibrant with color—the necklaces and bracelets include hues of pink, purple, burgundy, blue, green, and red. Several of the pieces have a center section made of a polymer clay bead that has been molded into the image of a face surrounded by hair created with the Shibori silk. The faces have an almost cherubic, ethereal quality to them, giving them a vintage-inspired look.

As a native of the Northern Tier, where opportunities for outdoor activities are abundant, Lynette enjoys spending time outside and knows that this influences her style. She describes herself as “not an office person—if it’s blue jeans and outside it’s me.” Many of her pieces incorporate metal leaves, Lucite flowers, and the vivid greens, reds, and oranges of autumn and spring seasons—versions of what she sees outdoors. She mixes the animal world into some of her creations, too—a necklace she made recently See Wearable Art on page 30

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Lynette, born and raised in Watrous, a tiny community along Pine Creek in Tioga County, credits her mother, along with the natural world, with sparking her creative interest.

“When we were little, there was no iPod, so my mother taught me to embroider. I learned when I was six or seven. That’s what you’d do in the winter.”

When she got a little older, her friend Lisbeth Martin invited her to stay with her in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and train in jewelry making. “I still have the first pair of earrings I made,” Lynette says. It was at this point that she realized there is “a whole world of beading and embroidery.” She studied the works of well-known bead and embroidery jewelry makers, such as Jamie Cloud Eakin and Sherri Serafini. She began traveling—as a military spouse, she moved around the country several times—and making jewelry in her spare time.

Lynette spent a few years in Europe, and her time overseas would greatly influence her work and help make it unique. The experience opened her eyes, she acknowledges.

“It was seeing other cultures and realizing everything isn’t just blue jeans and T-shirts,” she says. “When you’re standing on top of the Eiffel Tower and you’re overlooking France or when you’re standing on top of the Swiss Alps, you realize there’s so much out there.

It’s surreal. It really opens up your creativity.” She also saw a variety of different fashions in Europe, and one popular European material she uses now is soutache, a flat decorative braid that is often used in trim. It can be found as trim on official uniforms and also was used on Victorian-era garments, she explains.

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“I love the people. Sometimes they will get back to me with a picture and say that they wore it to an event.”

Lynette still travels, exhibiting at juried shows in Pennsylvania and throughout the country. She can be found locally at the Athens ArtsFest, Wellsboro’s Dickens of a Christmas, and the annual Apple & Cheese Festival in Canton. She also teaches every year at the Women of the Wilds show at Mt. Pisgah State Park in Troy, with this year’s event scheduled for August 12. This summer, too, she will be teaching at a fiber college in Maine and also has been asked to teach in Texas.

And although her experiences in Europe were remarkable, Lynette has affection and appreciation for Pennsylvania’s Northern Tier. The region has an abundance of artists and artisans, she acknowledges. When asked why she thinks that so many creative folks live and settle here, she cites both the economy and “the quietness and how beautiful it is here. I think all of that helps create an artist,” she says. “Artists here are supportive of each other.”

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But the scope of offerings has grown over the years. “We’re able to offer advanced skin care from luxurious relaxing facials to advanced treatment including microneedling, dermaplanning, microdermabrasion, and treatment of minor skin irregularities including removal of skin tags, red capillaries, aging spots, and other irregularities. Each of our facials include use of our wild-crafted signature product line, with ingredients customized for each individual skin care need from acne to anti-aging to rosacea."

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“We work with a lot of bridal parties and can customize our services to what they are looking for. We can offer packages which include massages, makeup, hair and nail at Emerge, and a place where

the members of the party can relax, have snacks, and enjoy the experience in a stress free setting,” says Laura Lee. Located at 28 Central Avenue, Emerge (www.emergehealingarts.com) is a three-story Gothic Revival dating from the nineteenth century within walking distance of La Belle Auberge (www. labelleaubergeinn.com). Both are just footsteps from downtown Wellsboro with its cafes, boutiques, theater, galleries, and romantic gaslights.

“At Emerge we try to connect with our guests,” she says. “Today everyone is overstressed and overworked. We want their visit here to be magical and joyful.”

A.J. Sors an Alfred University graduate makes Western New York her home. An experienced journalist, she enjoys traveling, kayaking, music and relaxing in the backyard.

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here are 121 state parks in Pennsylvania. If you are interested in having your wedding at one of them, Scott Morgan, assistant director for the Tioga/Potter park complex that includes Colton Point, Leonard Harrison, Denton Hill, Hills Creek, and Lyman Run, offers a few helpful dos and don’ts.

Do, he says, have a few dates in mind and then begin a conversation with park officials (888-PAPARKS or www. pennsylvaniastateparks.reserveamerica.com) as soon as possible, as there are “certain procedures” to be followed and a letter of authorization that must be finalized before the big day. Weekends are, of course, most people’s pick for a wedding, but he suggests considering a weekday since that would likely mean fewer people at the park.

“You don’t want a wedding during major holidays,” he says.

“We also have scheduled events, so as soon as you know…” Plus, parking space is limited at the parks, and parking areas cannot be blocked off or reserved for wedding guests.

Do decide if you want just your wedding ceremony at the park or if you’ll want the reception there as well. Anything other than the actual wedding ceremony needs prior approval from the powers that be.

“Prices depend on what they’re looking for,” Scott says. Many of the parks have pavilions and picnic areas and camping; some, such as Prouty Place State Park, have no facilities whatsoever. And while an outdoor picnic-type reception may be just what you have in mind, do remember that if you want your reception to include adult beverages, those are not permitted in state parks. However, “we can do a waiver for the toast,” notes Scott.

Keep in mind that not all of the pavilions in the parks have electricity, that not all pavilions are near restrooms, and that some of the restrooms that are available are of the pit/vault latrine type.

Remember that you will be outdoors, so it might be buggy, rainy, windy, unseasonably cold, or really hot. Throwing birdseed or rice is not allowed in the parks, nor is releasing birds or insects of any kind. Scott also suggests making a site visit to determine if the park you’re considering for your big day meets your needs.

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The Magic of a Second Life

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By Dave DeGolyer

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re you craving something out of the ordinary? An experience that will leave you spellbound? Mark your calendars for June 3, then, and prepare for an evening full of gasps and applause and outright wonder, when something magical happens as the auditorium at the Corning Museum of Glass is transformed into a world of the unexpected. That’s what Recycled Runway has become. What began as an attempt to add something unique to the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes’ annual meeting has grown into the organization’s signature fundraising event, and with good reason. It is spectacular.

Imagine an outfit made with barbed wire. Or log shoes. Or a fruit vest. That’s right, real fruit.

“Last year,” says Amelia Harnas, who helped found the first Recycled Runway event in Corning six years ago, “one artist saved rinds of fruit and avocados. She froze them, then meticulously cut them into shapes and patterns. Being such a perishable fashion, it became very precarious.”

According to Amelia, who has designed a piece for this year’s event, that sense of risk and danger and unpredictability adds to the excitement of this unusual fashion show featuring one-of-a-kind creations made from recycled or repurposed materials. You watch and wonder if they’ll even make it up and down the runaway. But they do.

“Some of the fashion is elegant,” says Connie Sullivan-Bloom, 36

executive director for the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. “We also often get big theatrical pieces. Dramatic pieces.

One year there was a dragon with wings made out of milk jugs that were cut down into dragon scales and spray-painted. The wingspan was, maybe, four-and-a-half feet. It was huge.”

Other pieces could be worn for a night out. One artist collected handkerchiefs and other items that had belonged to or had been made by her family and friends. From these she made her actual wedding dress—a beautiful gown created out of the memories of family and friends.

“What I like most,” says Connie, “is the surprise.” There is, indeed, an inherent reward in being surprised in such a way, in being caught off guard by something that is at once beautiful and unexpected. It’s the state of disbelief and astonishment one feels when seeing a creation most people wouldn’t begin to imagine and saying, “I can’t believe you made that out of that. How did you do that?”

Coming up with ideas that rely on unusual materials to create that outcome is certainly appealing to designers. There’s an art to seeing the potential in a material that has been discarded, in noticing the beauty in a thing most might deem worthless. Yet, Connie says, probably one-third of the designers are people who wouldn’t call themselves artists. But they love the notion of creating something beautiful out of something that seems to have run the

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What makes Recycled Runway such a great fit for Corning, says Connie, is that “artists in our area will make art out of whatever they can get their hands on.” Anyone can apply to participate, but this is a juried show, and the selection process is quite thorough, with special attention given to the materials.

“I think people might not realize how serious we are that the materials are recycled and repurposed,” she adds. “We’re purists about that. All materials—aside from glue, thread, tape—must be recycled and repurposed. You can’t just buy a suit coat at the thrift shop and call it recycled.”

Amelia echoes the importance of that focus. “Over the years,” she says, “the push has been to ensure that the fashion honestly includes recycled materials, giving it a new life and a new purpose instead of just adding more stuff in the world.

That requires a certain resourcefulness from the designers that’s a key component.”

This year, for instance, one designer is using the plastic rings from water bottle caps, the part everyone discards without thinking about it.

“That is, to me, the most exciting part,” says Amelia.

“There’s a lot of ugliness out in the world and any time you can do something that is magical or transform something to make it extraordinary, something that gives people pause, to have a moment in your day where you’re not just going through the motions, but you’re actually seeing something a new way… that’s exciting.”

And, the fundraiser aligns perfectly with the ARTS Council’s mission to support arts and artists directly and indirectly. “There’s a youth group from the Southeast Steuben County Library,” says Connie, “who submit something each year. There are two adults, one who was a professional designer, who act as advisors and teach the kids fundamentals of design.

But the kids come up with the idea. They source the materials, and they create the fashion under the guidance of those experienced advisors.” The ARTS Council also assigns mentor designers to novices to help ensure their success.

That first year, Recycled Runway was at 171 Cedar Arts, an ideal venue, really, because it is an intimate space. “People were sitting on stage with us,” says Amelia, “which was fun and it was a unique way of doing it.”

But the event has gotten bigger and wilder each year, so much so that it needed a larger setting. The world’s largest museum devoted to glass art and artifacts adds a level of prestige, an element of pomp and circumstance. Of course, the event, with cocktails, a silent auction at 7 p.m., and the fashion show following at 8:30, wouldn’t have grown to the level it has without the support of the local community, from artists to shop owners, restaurants, and a variety of businesses.

Get your tickets for the 2017 Recycled Runway at www. earts.org/recycled-runway. More than just a creative fundraiser for the arts, the event has evolved into an evening of uninhibited creativity.

A reluctant reader in his youth, Dave DeGolyer became a writer, of all things, with a day job that allows him to share stories about the Finger Lakes region.

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Twin Legacies

One Big Boat—and Generations of the Simiele Clan—Harbor in Watkins Glen

By Mike Cutillo

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here may not be a sea-faring vessel anywhere in the world as appropriately named as the Seneca Legacy. And if there is, chances are it doesn’t have a history as rich as the 100-ton, 110-foot-long, steel boat that serves as the centerpiece of Captain Bill’s Seneca Lake Cruises.

The ship was named in a local contest when it first sailed into Seneca Lake in 2006. The name primarily honors the legacy of the late William Simiele, the original Captain Bill. But it also pays homage to the Captain’s family, with roots in Italy, boating and tourism in the Finger Lakes, the Erie Canal, even the celebrated nautical history of Cape Cod. Built in 1963 to be used as a 460-passenger ferry between Hyannis Port, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard, the ship—known then as the Cross Rip—was purchased in 2006 by Mark Simiele, second-generation president of Captain Bill’s. It was put into service in 2007 and this summer is celebrating its tenth anniversary as the Seneca Legacy, specializing in lunch and dinner cruises and special events such as weddings, rehearsals, corporate outings, and the like.

That’s the short of it.

The long of it goes back to the early 1900s when two couples

from Italy—Philip and Rose Simiele and Dominick and Theresa Roccisano—got off the train in Watkins Glen, ready to start a new life in America. Two of their children, William Simiele and Julia Roccisano, would marry, and William would end up developing the very lakefront location where that train station once stood.

First, though, he was a successful liquor salesman in Rochester until 1963 when the Palmer brothers decided to put their little company, which included a sightseeing boat, up for sale.

As Mark Simiele tells it, his father and five friends and relatives pooled their resources to buy the business.

“They were all going to keep their full-time jobs and do this as a sideline,” Mark says with a laugh. “Over time, the partners dropped out, realizing they couldn’t do both. It got down to my dad, his brother, and a cousin, and dad said, ‘Either you guys buy me out or I’m going to buy you out because it’s got to be a full-time thing.’”

William bought out the others and named the business Captain Bill’s.

Mark, now fifty-seven, came onboard, as it were, in 1986. After graduating from Oneonta State and then working for five years as a sales rep in Florida, he decided to return home to Watkins Glen See Legacy on page 40

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and go into business with his dad. His sister Gina also helped the burgeoning company.

“My dad was the best. I learned from him,” Mark says. “Some kids played catch with their dad and built model airplanes.

Our project was we built this business together. We were very close, and he allowed me to be a part of the business, he made me feel like a part. I probably wasn’t, but he made me feel like I was.”

The business grew—it now includes the dinner boat; a smaller wooden sightseeing boat, the Stroller; a restaurant for landlubbers, Seneca Harbor Station; a gift shop; and a small marina.

“I had a vision, an idea,” Mark says.

“So dad gambled and slowly over the years we evolved from an operation with six employees and a single sightseeing operation to what we have today.”

That means 140 employees, including the crew that sails the Seneca Legacy every day the weather allows from Mother’s Day until deep into the fall.

One of those employees is Bill Darrow, who is the company’s marketing director and also fills the role of either captain or first officer on dinner cruises during the summer.

“I’ve been lucky and blessed,” Darrow says. “I think every guy always wants to work on a boat.”

Lucky and blessed, in fact, are two wonderful words to describe the Seneca Legacy’s voyage from its original home in Fairhaven, Massachusettes, to the southern tip of Seneca Lake in 2006.

“The process to get it back here was really a feat,” says Mark, who first lined up a crew that included his father-in-law, a cousin, and two captains, including Captain Bill’s’ Tony Compese.

They encountered the roughest seas on the week-long voyage early as the ship navigated Buzzards Bay, Rhode Island Sound, and Long Island Sound before rounding Manhattan and heading north up the Hudson.

“It was a heavy weather day. It was so rough with nine-foot chops coming into the Sound before they got protected,” Mark says. “My father-in-law said they couldn’t even stand up.”

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special measures had to be undertaken.

The ship was too tall to challenge the canal’s low bridges, so it had to be cut down. Literally.

“We had to cut the pilot house off and the top deck off to give it a lower profile,” he continues, adding that those parts of the ship were welded back on when it got to its new home in Schuyler County. The crew also had to purposely take on water in a couple of compartments to sink the bow another two-and-a-half feet because the ship still wasn’t low enough to get under some bridges.

Oh, and there was one more crucial step. “We had to pray that it didn’t rain, because the canal system is very volatile as far as coming up,” Mark recalled. “We had very good fortune because that was the driest spring that I can remember, and we had no increase in water level, otherwise we might have been stuck in Albany for the summer.”

Captain Bill had passed away by then, but his son credits him with looking after their voyage from a crow’s nest somewhere up above.

The ship cleared the lowest bridge in the system in the Cayuga-Seneca Canal “by three inches,” Mark says, and then it was clear sailing on down Seneca Lake to Watkins Glen, where workers and contractors spent the rest of that summer gutting the ship and turning it into the 270-seat dining and entertainment vessel that it is today.

Even though his dad died without getting to see the Seneca Legacy put into service, Mark is sure Captain Bill would have been happy with it.

He also would have been happy that one of the workers helping to get the ship ready for its tenth anniversary season represents the third generation of the Simiele family. Will, named after his grandfather and the oldest son among Mark and Michelle’s six children, is expected to carry on this remarkable and charming legacy.

Mike Cutillo is bullish on the Finger Lakes region, where he has been a full-time journalist for thirty-five years. When he’s not writing about the wine, food, or craft beers in the area, he usually can be found sampling them.

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Farm to Table Gets a New Spin Burdett Plays Host to the Finger Lakes Farm to Fork Fondo

By Ann E. Duckett

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ed Marks looks out over the pastoral view from the deck of Atwater Estate Vineyards, a view that leads the eye past new plantings and burgeoning vines down to the waters of Seneca Lake and beyond. In his eighteen years as proprietor of Atwater, he’s come to embrace both the solace of the winter months and the summer swell of tourists looking to capture the essence of the Finger Lakes. This season, he and his staff are also anticipating their roles as host to the first Finger Lakes Farm to Fork Fondo on June 24 and 25.

What’s that, you say, Farm to Fork Fondo? Scheduled from early June to late September, these one-day farm-to-table events, inclusive of all riding abilities, occur in six different rural farming communities in the northeast, from Maine to Pennsylvania.

Rides are designed to immerse participants in all that these regions have to offer, from unique cuisine and libations to spectacular scenery and remarkable residents. Each event kicks off with a Farmer’s Dinner the

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night before at hosting partners’ venues like Atwater Estate Vineyards. The following morning, riders hit the saddle and head out.

The Farm to Fork Fondo concept is the brainchild of former professional cyclist Tyler Wren. He competed for thirteen years in some of the most grueling cycling tours at home and abroad; participating in Italy’s Gran Fondo—loosely translated as “big ride”—was the impetus. Tyler started his new venture in 2015 as founder and principal of Wrenegade Sports, and event director of the Farm to Fork Fondo.

“I wanted to stay in the industry and build something of my own,” he explains.

“It was a natural transition for me from racing to creating events. I feel inspired to help others, and the Fondo connects people, strengthens the link, and improves the health and wellness of both the rider and the farming community. Participants experience firsthand where food is grown in a fun and healthy way.”

It’s also about keeping the wheels of

the local farm economies moving forward.

Tyler’s awareness of the life of a farmer and the challenges he or she faces comes from his deep appreciation and understanding the cycle of food and healthy eating.

“Ever y region has unique and compelling stories of the people who live and work there,” says Tyler. “The Finger Lakes has a deep farming and wine making history, beautiful scenery, rich soil, and equally rich stories. I was scouting out the area and met Ted Marks at Atwater Estates and it clicked.”

Ted, for his part, couldn’t be more honored to be hosting the inaugural Finger Lakes Farm to Fork Fondo. Atwater is nestled on the southeastern shore of Seneca Lake, one of the largest of the eleven Finger Lakes, and the enchanting beauty of Burdett, a tiny village of about 300, plays the backdrop for the winery. “We are one community and this is just the type of event we want—it’s a great opportunity to showcase the beauty of the region with

its unique wine and farming industry,” says Ted. “It aligns with our values at the winery and among other growers and farmers.

Our vineyard philosophy is committed to providing sustainable viticulture practices that enhance the quality of the fruit and the earth it stems from.”

If this is your first foray into the world of fondos and you’re feeling a bit wobbly when it comes to your finesse on two wheels, don’t despair. These events are pretty customizable—you can select the distance and route you want to ride from four options. The longest route, the Gran Fondo, averages eighty-five to ninety-five miles. Or, take the Rambler Route, a ten- to twelve-mile cruise.

Included along the well-marked routes are deluxe aid stations hosted by local farms where bikers can rest and enjoy small bites prepared by local chefs.

If you’re not a cycling enthusiast, you can volunteer instead— corporate as well as friends and family teams are encouraged and welcomed. Worth noting is the spin Tyler takes on enriching the host communities through making donations to land trusts, farming education centers, libraries, and individual farm projects.

Volunteer teams are an important spoke in the proverbial wheel, as riders vote on the most welcoming, supportive, and encouraging volunteer teams. Volunteer teams submit their favorite local organization and work hard to win dollars earmarked for donation.

Last year’s donation was $15,000; this year Tyler’s on track to distribute close to $20,000.

In just three years, Tyler’s six events have captured the hearts of avid cyclists—Fondo Followers, if you will. Numbers have grown from 810 three years ago to an anticipated 3,600 this year. Registration fills up fast. For a complete list of Farm to Fork Fondo doings—event dates and locations, registration information, recipes, training plans, and cycling tips—visit www.

FarmForkFondo.com. Participants hail from twenty-five different states across the country to join in the fun, some taking in all six events in a year. Others who have heard the calling include foodies, farmers, and supporters—all serving in such capacities as volunteers, team organizers, and sponsors.

“We focus our events on connecting directly to the food growers and producers, telling their stories and honoring the work they do,” says Tyler. “Our team delivers one of the best cycling events in the country in some of the most beautiful rural locations, taking every detail into consideration, from well-marked routes to medical and safety concerns to sourcing the best food created by each region’s top chefs.”

At the end of the day it’s about the experience Tyler is trying to capture and provide for others. From serious cyclists to those reacquainting themselves with the seat of a bicycle, his events are about sharing the beauty of the back roads and connecting with the farms and families dotting the countryside along the way.

Through this, he remains committed to helping preserve the rural landscape, doing his part to ensure that the land remains open to future generations. One more thing is certain: he’s encouraging everyone to keep riding.

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No, That's Not What We Mean—But Bake a Roast in Moo Juice and Sit Down to Wonderful

By Cornelius O'Donnell

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ince this issue is devoted to the area’s dairy industry I thought I’d take a look back to a favorite place to take kids (or adults like me), who never really visited a farm. It was the glass-enclosed milking parlor at Dann’s Dairy in Painted Post, and the dates of my visits had to be pre-flood 1960s and 1970s. I could watch those girls giving their all for hours. Well… maybe half-hours.

After giving the subject of dairy some thought, I became aware of just how important milk and cream and yogurt and, of course, cheese are to cooking. A splash of heavy cream can make a dreary soup taste

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like ambrosia, especially when it’s made the trip from refrigerator to microwave too many times. Soup for one is not the best idea in the culinary world. But milk as a more or less major ingredient? And then it hit me.

I thought back to a week several years ago that I spent in San Francisco assisting the late, great Italian cook Marcella Hazan.

She was giving cooking classes at a friend’s school out there and I happily took vacation time to learn, learn, learn. My job was to slice and dice and, on command, hand her something stronger than wine every now and then (she was allergic to the tannins in

vino.) Do the initials J.D. bring something to mind? (And to think her husband, Victor, wrote the best book on Italian wine.)

I look back at how fortunate I was, and at one recipe in particular, that she prepared for one of the classes. There was a bit of murmuring on the part of the students when she announced her menu.

The centerpiece of the class was to be Pork Braised in Milk Bolognese Style.

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Marcella uses a pork rib roast in her recipe, using both the meat and the bones that you have the butcher remove. That’s for better flavor, and it was delicious. I have made the recipe one or two times since. For some reason I never checked out this technique with my other favorite Italian cook, the Englishwoman Elizabeth David, who wrote this in her 1953 book Italian Food (highly recommended for the Italian food lover, and worth searching out in second-hand bookstores or on the Web): “In central and northern Italy there is a highly commendable way of stewing meat or poultry in milk. These dishes are well worth a trial. The milk finally emerges as a creamy sauce. The stages of its transformation are fascinating to watch.”

I shouldn’t have been surprised that the English chef, Jamie Oliver, came up with a recipe called Chicken in Milk. The technique for “milking” the bird is somewhat different than the one for the piggy. In both cases, though, you want the meat to be nicely browned before the milk goes in and the simmering begins.

Marcella’s recipe is simplicity itself: butter and vegetable oil, the pork rib roast, salt and black pepper, and then the 2-½ cups (or more) of whole milk. Heat oil and butter, brown the roast, add milk, and let simmer away. Jamie’s version adds some flavor boosters. And I have to add that they really perk up the dish.

Jamie Oliver’s Chicken in Milk 1 whole chicken (3-4 pounds) Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste ¼ c. unsalted butter at room temperature ¼ c. extra virgin olive oil 1 small cinnamon stick 10 cloves garlic, skins left on 2-½ c. whole milk 15-20 fresh sage leaves* 2 lemons Heat the oven to 325-degrees F. Season the chicken aggressively with the salt and pepper. Place a pot that will fit the chicken snugly over medium-high heat on the stove and add to it the butter and oil. When the butter is melted, and starting to foam, add the chicken to the pot and, using tongs, brown the bird, See Chicken on page 49

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turning every few minutes, until it has browned all over.

Turn the heat down to low, remove the chicken from the pot, then drain off all but a few tablespoons of the fat from the pot.

Add the cinnamon stick and garlic to the pot, and allow them to sizzle in the oil for a minute or two, then return the chicken to the pot along with the milk and sage leaves. Use a vegetable peeler to cut wide strips of skin off the two lemons. Add the peels to the pot.

Slide the pot into the preheated oven, and bake for approximately 1-½ hours, basting the chicken occasionally, until the chicken is cooked through and tender and the sauce has reduced into a thick, curdled sauce. If the sauce is reducing too quickly, put a cover halfway onto the pot.

To serve (and I’m quoting Jamie), “use a spoon to divide the chicken onto plates. Spoon sauce over each serving.

Goes well with sautéed greens, pasta, rice, potatoes, bread.”

I like to bake smallish red potatoes in a separate pan along with the chicken.

Just give the spuds a good squirt of oil and bits of butter then toss everything together. Use a thin-bladed knife to check when they’re done. Keep them warm under a foil cover until the chicken is done. When ready to serve, smash the potatoes on a heatproof platter with a heavy fork, and then spoon the chicken and sauce over the top. Chopped parsley finishes it off and I can promise you, your family and guests will finish off the dish! *One of the many reasons I love this recipe is that I am celebrating the second birthday of a bay leaf bush that has remained hale and hearty for two full years. Well, haler-r and hearty-r than the owner!

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