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CLEAR VISION

As Corning Enterprises turned 35 and GlassFest 10, their glassy, classy town is all grown up

By Carrie Hagen

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14 Heroes and the Home

Clear Vision

Front

By Carrie Hagen As Corning Enterprises turned 35 and GlassFest 10, their glassy, classy town is all grown up.

By Gayle Morrow

Remembering Tioga County’s greatest generation.

18 Blossburg Coal Festival

Schedule 20 Hell Bent for Hellbenders

By Peter Petokas

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Getting to know the salamander giants who share our world.

Seeing the Light

24 Wining Your Way Around

By Jennie Simon Glass artist Kathleen Schnell fuses education and inspiration.

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GLASSFEST SECTION 28 The Creative Class Shines In GlassFest

16 Blown Away

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36 GlassFest Schedule 37 Keeping up with the

By Brendan O’Meara CMoG, Netflix, and a love letter to glass.

Smith’s for 170 Years

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44 Stir Crazy

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Cover by Tucker Worthington, courtesy Corning’s Gaffer District; (from top) Clayton Vargeson; courtesy Cottage Glassworks;

by David Leyes, courtesy marblemedia; a desolate Watkins Glen track during the bankruptcy days of 1983, courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center.

34 Corning to the Rescue

By Carrie Hagen The return of racing to Watkins Glen.

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As Corning Enterprises Turned 35 and GlassFest 10, Their Glassy, Classy Town is All Grown Up

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his month, thousands will flock to one of America’s finest art towns when Corning celebrates GlassFest, a weekend extravaganza of art, food, music, crafts, and, of course, glassmaking. From May 23 to May 26, the town’s population of 10,000 will bloom as it plays host to visitors exploring everything from the Rockwell, a renowned western art museum and Smithsonian affiliate, to

the Corning Museum of Glass, which holds one of the finest glass collections in the world. Along the way, they’ll stroll past Romanesque and art deco architecture on Market Street, watch glass shows in the square, take in concerts at Riverfront Park, shop in high-end boutiques, and taste wine under the gaze of decorative terra cotta creatures perched throughout the historic district.

An annual celebration of fine art and craftsmanship, GlassFest highlights a place and the people who make products there. It illustrates the unique partnership between a global corporation and the hometown that grew along with it, never abandoned by it. It tells the story of a man with a vision to nurture community regardless of cost, and the team that has helped to realize that vision.

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The glass capital: Corning Inc.’s iconic gaffer “Little Joe” looks out over the Chemung River.

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Now in its tenth year, GlassFest is a signature event of the Gaffer District, the historic downtown’s business community.

Coleen Fabrizi, executive director of the Gaffer District, has led the festival’s production since it began. A native of the Finger Lakes region, she wasn’t very familiar with the town of Corning when she first visited with a friend in 2002.

“I knew there was a big flood there in 1972,” she remembers, “and growing up, I knew my friends’ schools had gone to Corning Museum of Glass.” At the time, Fabrizi worked for The Hotel School at Cornell University. When she saw Market Street’s beautiful architecture and shopping options, she thought, “I could move my career here.” After serving as president of the Corning Area Chamber of Commerce, Coleen assumed leadership of the Gaffer District in January 2008.

“The first thing that crossed my mind was, ‘How fortunate we are to have Corning Enterprises behind us!’”

Corning Enterprises organized in 1983 as the economic development subsidiary of Corning Glass Works (Corning Glass Works was renamed Corning Incorporated in 1989).

Its first president was Amo Houghton (Amory Houghton, Jr., the great-great grandson of the Corning Glass Works founder, also named Amory Houghton). It was Amo Houghton, says Corning Enterprises president G. Thomas (Tom) Tranter Jr., who envisioned Enterprises and penned its mission statement: “to facilitate, collaborate and partner with local leaders to improve the economy, strengthen human services, and improve the quality of life in the Corning, New York area.”

“You can’t deny the difference,” Coleen says, between Corning and small towns without the investment of an industry that bestows “enormous generosity, generous financial incentives, and community stewardship and volunteerism.”

Agnes and Her Aftermath In June 2001, the New York Times traced the Corning corporation’s “deep involvement” in the community to 1972, the year of Hurricane Agnes and her devastating flood. “Since then,” according to the paper, “it has helped build bridges, sewers, hotels and museums.” But in The Women of Corning: the Untold Story, a 2018 book commissioned by Amory Houghton, Jr., historian Geoffrey Kabaservice writes that Corning Inc.’s investment in the town predates Hurricane Agnes by almost 100 years.

Corporate involvement dates at least to 1875, when the company incorporated as Corning Glass Works and “had a transformative effect on the town,” making “improvements in transportation, machinery, and industry” during Reconstruction.

Born and raised in Corning, Amo Houghton, now ninetytwo, recalls the importance his family’s company played in sustaining the community during the Depression. Images of people helping one another—and needing one another—made deep impressions on him as a boy.

“The men were out of work and it was the women who kept the family together,” Amo says. “The women of our community were absolutely amazing.” Of particular note to him was the compassion of his mother. Kabaservice writes that Laura Houghton worried about the effect of hardship on children, and became a prominent figure in the local Girl Scouts, doing what she could to include “girls blind, deaf, and handicapped in scouting

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Amo reiterated that reassurance decades later, after Hurricane Agnes and the overflowing Chemung River destroyed 19,000 homes and 1,700 businesses, leaving thousands homeless and all without power. On the morning of June 27, 1972, when Amo was CEO of Corning Glass Works, he addressed Corning’s grieving, devastated people on the radio. He called them heroes, and said the company wasn’t going anywhere despite their shared losses.

“We’re not licked,” he told The Gaffer around the same time.

“We are going to bounce back.” That summer of 1972, CGW invested $400,000 in a summer work program for adolescents that would assist needy residents in cleaning up their properties.

Through the Youth Emergency Service, more than 400 young people helped recover approximately 4,500 homes.

Over the next ten years, Corning Glass Works would make significant business changes that would multiply the company’s community investments and partnerships, preparing the way for Corning Enterprises.

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He went to work as a flood plain manager for Three Rivers Development Corporation, a nonprofit private development company founded in 1966. Jack, who would later become the president of Three Rivers, studied the flood plain, considered how to manage it better, and helped the town of Corning optimize the use of open spaces. Corning Glass Works and the Houghton family, says Jack, formed “a true partnership” with Three Rivers, financing and providing many of the resources necessary to help recovery efforts.

“In many cases, communities go into the quick fix,” says Jack.

But CGW, under the leadership of Amo Houghton, invested in “the kinds of projects that needed to be done so [the town’s] future was sustained.” Projects included removing mud from basements, replacing century-old water lines on Market Street, installing fire protection systems flows and new services into buildings, and building mobile home parks for those temporarily homeless.

Numerous hats, helmets, and suits from CGW, Three Rivers, and other nonprofits worked together on the clean-up.

The organizations shared leadership duties well. “For whatever reason, all the personalities seemed to work,” Jack remembers.

“Interpersonal relationships are really key. It’s all about the network.”

Corning’s internal network would shift in the next couple of years. The sale of television picture tubes plummeted (Japanese advances cut into Corning’s domination of the market), and the profit loss, combined with the recession of 1974-1975, led to significant downsizing. A profile of Amo Houghton in the September 1977 issue of Forbes said the company was transitioning between business models. “The old Corning was TV, scientific glass, Corning Ware and glass for light bulbs. The present Corning See Corning on page 10

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The research effort was in fiber optics.

“Of communication by optical wave fibers,” Amo told Forbes, “they may do for us in the future what television or lighting did for us in the past.” He was right. Optical fiber technology reshaped telecommunications and made the internet accessible to all.

Richard Rahill, a former president of Corning Enterprises, says it was this very research that prompted the subsidiary. At the time, he says, Corning Glass Works was “primarily known for dishware.” To recruit and engage engineers and physicists, Richard remembers, the company needed an answer for questions like, “Why would we come to a small company in upstate New York that made pie plates?” Corning Glass Works had to provide good reasons for people to move into its community and stay there.

Richard, now eighty-four, had moved to Corning after working in Chicago as a salesman for the company’s electronic products. When CGW sold his division, he joined a team that included Amo Houghton, his younger brother Jamie Houghton, and two others who subsequently conceptualized the launch of what became Corning Enterprises. In 1983, Amo passed the role of CEO to Jamie and became Corning Enterprises’ first president. In an email, Amo wrote, “The thought behind forming Corning Enterprises was to focus on the things that created the atmosphere and environment necessary for our community to grow and most importantly to keep and attract people.”

Enterprises’ first project was the rescue and development of the recently defunct Watkins Glen International racetrack, host of the U.S. Grand Prix for Formula One for nineteen years, which had sold in a foreclosure sale to the Bank of New York in 1982. (For more on that story see page 38).

“There was a real fear of losing the track and for the future of Watkins Glen, the economic engine of Schuyler County,” says Ted Marks. A racing enthusiast, he had conducted business in Corning for decades as, among other things, a printer, a bookstore owner, and a head of the Chamber of Commerce. Today, he is the owner of Atwater Vineyards on Seneca Lake, where

Saving History, Creating a Future The steering committee for Corning Enterprises conceptualized a robust downtown redevelopment plan, one aimed at fostering urban renewal without demolishing Market Street’s nineteenth century buildings. Investing in

Spirited streets: Corning’s Gaffer District plays host to many fairs and festivals, including, this May, its tenth GlassFest.

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his family has had a home since 1907. The Watkins Glen track played a significant role in his childhood memories.

“My parents would take me to the races in the early 50s.

Watkins Glen attracted top race car drivers, and I would weasel my way in to meet these people,” he chuckles. The track closed in 1982, says Ted, because its success outgrew its managing abilities. At the advice of a CGW executive named Jim Riesbeck, Amo and Jamie Houghton agreed that the redevelopment of Watkins Glen International would be Enterprise’s first project. Jim Riesbeck oversaw the effort, Corning Enterprises went on to invest in virtually every area of the community, including the redevelopment of the historic district’s downtown, an effort that included attracting hotels, offering seed grants to retail and restaurant owners, constructing new buildings for Corning Community College, and convincing Wegman’s grocers to open its first store outside of Rochester in Corning.

“Bob Wegman had no interest in locating outside of Rochester,” Richard Rahill chuckles. But once he and Corning Enterprises convinced him to visit, Wegman “fell in love with the place,” returned to his board, and told them, “We’re going to do it!”

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Facilitating dreams: Donna Robbins and Amo Houghton, Jr. cut the ribbon to commemorate the new location of Donna’s Restaurant. Joining them were (l to r) G. Thomas Tranter, Mayor Bill Boland, Representative Tom Reed, Senator Tom O’Mara, and Assemblyman Phil Palesano.

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the future by preserving the past, CGW gave the city of Corning a $1.4 million renewal grant so it could work alongside the Market Street Restoration Agency to save 175 buildings from the wrecking ball.

Corning Enterprises later helped business owners secure space in these very buildings.

The Enterprises infrastructure, says Ted Marks, helped business owners “accomplish what we wanted to do” without “telling us what to do.” Current president Tom Tranter gives 47 E. Market Street, now the home of a Tommy Hilfiger store, as an example.

When the retail store was the home of a Rite Aid, Tranter says, building owner George Connors approached Corning Enterprises with a question of how to utilize unused space in the building, which measures over 20,000 square feet.

“Jamie [Houghton] asked, ‘Have you ever thought of making the upper floors apartments?’” Tom remembers. “If you’d consider that, we’d give you a one-time grant and see if it’s something you want to do.” George Connors agreed, and the idea trickled down Market Street, which now has over 140 renovated, high-end apartments.

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live in and stay in,” says Chris Sharkey, vice president at Corning Enterprises. Chris was instrumental in the consolidation and rebranding of Corning’s downtown— Corning’s Gaffer District—in 2004, and has served as its board president for the last eight years. “Market Street’s rebuild after the flood was the country’s first Main Street revitalization. Launching the Gaffer District was the next logical step.” She now chairs the Gaffer District’s board of trustees.

In her over thirty years with Corning Inc., she is proudest of the work she has helped to facilitate in the fields of education and childcare. Her efforts have built on those which Richard Rahill implemented in the early 1980s as he considered how Enterprises could best recruit top scientists and engineers.

Richard, a father of four, recognized that childcare and schools would be two primary concerns for potential recruits.

“How was this company supportive of education?” he remembers asking himself.

He built partnerships with educators, administrators, and the local business community. He went to conferences, and he asked elementary and middle school principals if he could observe classrooms.

“I was absolutely astounded by the

creativity of the teachers,” he recounts with awe. “I saw how they worked with different types of people, and I learned from administrators about the education process and its challenges.”

Over the past thirty-six years, Corning Enterprises has made investments in the school district and ensured that area families have access to affordable preschool and daycare.

“We basically started childcare for our employees,” Tom Tranter says. Corning Enterprises helped facilitate four daycare centers, each with an enrollment divided equally between Corning Inc. families and those from the larger Corning community.

“A Long, Long Process…”

Corning Enterprises has encountered naysayers in its years of development work.

“There were a number of times when people thought we were in competition with them, and we just had to sit down and talk it out,” says Richard Rahill. “We had to be good listeners and build a sense of trust. It was, at times, a long, long process.” His time was well spent, however.

Today, Corning is the home of 200 independently owned businesses. “Each one started as someone’s entrepreneurial dream,”

says Coleen Fabrizi. Corning Enterprises has facilitated many of these dreams, and, late last summer, it saved one from collapsing. A favorite diner on Market Street had received a last-minute eviction notice after fifty years of business. Donna Robbins, owner and operator of Donna’s Restaurant for thirty-three years, reported the news on her Facebook page. Corning Enterprises—and Amo Houghton—took note. For decades, the restaurant had been a favorite eatery of his.

“He came into my diner in 1985 to ask if he could make an announcement that he was running for Congress, and he just kept coming in,” Donna told The New York Times in 2004. Amo had also announced his retirement from Congress at Donna’s after serving nine congressional terms.

“Donna’s Restaurant is a Market Street institution that nobody else was going to save,” says Chris Sharkey. Corning Enterprises stepped forward to secure a new location for Donna’s on Market Street, less than a block away from its original spot.

On April 1 of this year, the same day that Donna’s Restaurant turned thirty-four, Dick Puccio retired from Marich Music, a business he had operated for over forty years (his son-in-law now runs the store, located on Market Street). Dick and his wife Marilyn first opened Marich on Denison Parkway just after they married—and just before the flood of 1972 hit.

Dick remembers a day when a man walked into the store and asked to buy a $300 cymbal he had hanging on the wall. The customer said to put it on his account. Dick said he preferred payment up front, and the man told him to write down his name and he’d send a check to the store later that day.

“What’s your name?” Dick asked.

“Amo Houghton,” the man replied. Turns out he was a drummer. He played in at least two bands, and the men became fast friends. Corning Inc. also became a faithful customer, renting sound equipment for events and meetings, and wireless microphones for museum programming.

“This town has been wonderful to me,” says Dick. When, twenty-five years ago, the Corning native was diagnosed with leukemia, people brought meals to his house for nine months.

Growing up, Dick says, he wanted to get a job in a big city far away from home. And he did go to Los Angeles—for a time. “Those big places,” he reflects, “there’s a lot to do, and a lot of money to do it. Here, everybody knows everybody. Corning’s my home.”

It’s a sentiment shared by a man, Dick says, who “gives real meaning to the word ‘gentleman.’” Amo Houghton told The Leader in 2017, “I love this place. I totally identify with this community. Corning is a containable place. It’s not sprawled all over so you can’t put your arms around it.”

Through Corning Enterprises, Amo Houghton has been able to do just that—reach his company’s arms into and around the town that has held his family for five generations. By sustaining and developing Corning’s infrastructure, encouraging its preservationists and entrepreneurs, and uplifting its artisans, Amo and his team at Corning Enterprises have promoted Corning not only as a destination for artists, art lovers, and the arts, but as a hometown.

Inspired and haunted by true stories, IRMA and Keystone Awardwinning writer Carrie Hagen is the author of We Is Got Him: The Kidnapping that Changed America. She lives in Philadelphia.

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Heroes and the Home Front Remembering Tioga County’s Greatest Generation

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eneral Edward C. Meyer, formerly the United States Army Chief of Staff, points out in the documentary People of Honor—World War II that “an army doesn’t fight a war, a nation does.”

Or, in this case, a county.

Gale Largey, local historian, retired Mansfield University sociology professor, and documentary filmmaker, concurs.

For his powerful 2001 film People of Honor—World War II, Gale and his students interviewed more than 100 Tioga County WW II veterans, and the documentary tells their moving stories of the county’s home front and its heroes from that “Greatest Generation.” The film has become a local classic, and Mountain Home magazine, the Wellsboro HomePage, and KC101 are sponsoring a special screening of it at 7 p.m.

Friday, May 24, at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts in Wellsboro in honor of Memorial Day. Gale will be on hand to speak, and local veterans are encouraged to call (570) 724-6220 so they can be honored with seating in a special section.

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A reception will follow with appetizers, refreshments, and a chance to meet with the filmmaker and veterans. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted, with proceeds going to Goodies For Our Troops.

Gale says he has always been “sort of intrigued” by World War II. He had five uncles in it, he had heard them talking about it, and he knew they hadn’t all had the same experiences.

“The experiences of war were quite different for the different ways you served,” Gale says. “Some were drafted and some were volunteers. Some saw action and some did not. There are many different types of veterans—we tend to lump them all together.”

That means the young ladies who donned their shorts (and sunburned their legs) to sit on the roof of the Penn Wells on a summer day to watch for enemy aircraft could be considered a kind of veteran.

The kids who gathered milkweed for the military to use as flotation device stuffing were also veterans. The fourteen-year-old who worked, albeit illegally (no working

papers), at a factory in Covington grading bomb pins for size—he’s a veteran, too.

The “soldiers of the soil,” those folks who stayed on the county’s farms to help keep everybody fed, experienced the war as well.

“It was kind of a come together time,” says Jerome Copley, one of the interviewees reminiscing about how things were in Tioga County during the war years.

Another veteran, John Frazier, recalls that his father, who ran the post office in Liberty, where the family lived at the time, took him to Williamsport to sign up for the service. While they were there, his dad, then in his early forties, decided to enlist as well.

“Mother knew nothing about this,” John says, and notes that when the pair returned home, his father asked him who would be the one to tell her. “Dad, I’m not even going in the house,” was John’s response.

One of Gale’s favorite fun scenes in the film shows Blossburg resident Keith Lindie, who died last year, describing the many uses of the G.I.’s steel helmet. Gale had turned to Tioga County historian Scott Gitchell

welcome to for help in procuring a helmet—it was all Keith from that point.

Keith, who had been a tank commander, explains that the helmet’s liner could be removed, making it an ideal place to store something flat and flexible and oh-so-necessary: toilet paper.

“You had to go to the bathroom, whether you was in a war or not,” Keith tells the camera matter-of-factly. The helmets, he continues, also made great cooking pots, especially for the occasional chicken the soldiers were able to finagle; they worked as small but serviceable clothes washing pots; flipped over, they made an ever-available seat, as Keith demonstrates with a big grin.

“It was an amazing piece of footage,” Gale notes.

Another favorite vignette, more poignant than humorous, involves a letter Tom Rockwell wrote to his Tioga County family after he went overseas. In the letter, he assures his family that he’s OK, that he’s pretty sure he won’t die but, if he does, says that he’s had a “wonderful life, either way.” He did die, on Christmas Eve, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. His mother’s ashes are buried with him, at her request, in a European cemetery.

Allen Scranton recalls his own Christmas Eve/Battle of the Bulge experience. The sounds of Christmas carols began drifting over from the enemy lines, and soon the Allies joined in.

“It was very touching,” he says, and adds, after a moment, that “those guys were there because they had to be, and we were there because we had to be.”

Then there’s Archie Watkins. Also from Blossburg, Archie had been a prisoner of war. He weighed around 150 pounds when he went in the service, and about seventy when he came out. He wasn’t looking for any special recognition, but he had always kind of wanted the Combat Infantryman’s Badge. Gale remembers that about three months after the movie was completed, he was able to help arrange for Rick Santorum, who was then a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, to honor Archie with the badge. Gale included a photo of the presentation at the end of the film.

“That was quite an event,” Gale says. “Blossburg did it right.

It capped the whole film.”

Archie died two weeks later. And so goes the living memory of those seventy-plus-years-ago days.

Gale says there are a couple of things he would do differently if he had the movie to make over again. One would be interviewing more veterans.

“Obviously we missed some, which we regret,” he says.

He would also include more stories about the “in-between.”

“One of the shortcomings of the film is it shows the war front and the home front, and all that was in-between is not there,” he notes. There was also footage he could not use, as some of the subjects got very emotional. But, overall, making the film gave him and all those involved with its production an opportunity to learn how people look at things differently.

“It was a generation that had just come out of the Depression—they were used to hardship,” Gale says.

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Merging old with new: Kathleen Schnell creates with vitrograph and murrini, the artist’s candy.

Seeing the Light

Glass Artist Kathleen Schnell Fuses Education and Inspiration

By Jennie Simon

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s an artisan and the proprietor of Cottage Glassworks, just outside of Wellsboro, Kathleen Schnell says her glass is “a combination of colors, shapes, inspiration, and ideas” she experiences in life. Particularly, the artist loves working with fused glass.

“It’s always new and the possibilities are endless,” she says. “Glass can be transparent, opalescent, and changes throughout the day or night with artificial and natural light. The colors of glass inspire me.”

Family heirlooms add special touches to this artist’s rural studio. Woven rugs made by her grandmother, and her mom’s painted plates, part of an inspiration wall, are vital links to Kathleen’s early aspirations.

The young artist was fascinated with stained glass.

“I remember seeing old windows removed from houses, and being drawn to them,” she says. “New Hampshire had many 16

artisan shops that displayed wonderful local stained glass work. I knew I had to make it also.” After high school, she enrolled in an adult-education course. Finishing a conch shell piece, she began acquiring the tools necessary to immerse herself in a variety of creative projects.

“I made sun catchers, windows, and candle boxes. My mom got the early work, which she has cherished. Later I added an electric grinder to shape the glass with finer detail and soldering techniques improved. I loved it, studied it, and lived it.”

For about twenty years, Kathleen created gifts of stained glass, and had a piece on display at the Southwest Florida International Airport on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Her artistic vision expanded in 2002, and she purchased a small used kiln to make fused art glass.

“Fused glass is stained glass without the lines,” she explains. “I can blend, shade,

and include whimsical details, or be bold and dimensional. The choice of glass— transparent, opaque, patterned, dichroic, and/or iridescent—are deliberate and purposeful. Fusing glass with heat allows layering of colors, shapes, and types of glass. Often a pattern is used in stained glass work. In fused glass, not so much!” A fairly nondescript trivet was the glassworker’s first classroom piece. The next project was a company logo, using sheet glass and powders. Classmates and the teacher were impressed, she recalls. Kathleen has added a broad collection of fused objet d’art over the last sixteen years, and is still evolving.

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Hell Bent for Hellbenders

Getting to Know the Salamander Giants Who Share Our World

By Peter Petokas

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y exploration of Pennsylvania waterways for the giant, yet elusive, Eastern hellbender salamander began some fourteen years ago with a training dive in Loyalsock Creek in mid-November. My wet suit offered little protection against the bitter cold and I shivered endlessly as I waited for the instructor’s call to dive thirty feet down to the creek bottom. I had paid for this experience because I was told I might see a hellbender, but the opportunity I was hoping for did not materialize. In subsequent years, I acquired the ability to find these amazing salamanders with relative ease and have become something of an expert on the ecology of a unique amphibian that few Pennsylvanians will ever see.

Eastern hellbenders are giants of the salamander world. They can attain lengths of up to twenty-nine inches, but very few reach such a massive size. Comparing a hellbender to the common red-spotted newt or red-backed salamander is like comparing apples to oranges, as the hellbender is only distantly related to those more familiar

amphibians. They are more closely related to the giant salamanders of China and Japan.

The hellbender is clearly a descendent of those Asian titans, who sometimes attain lengths of four or five feet, and whose evolutionary history clearly had them living in North America over ten thousand years ago. But advancing glaciers and an inhospitable climate took their toll on the giants, leaving the hellbender as the sole North American representative, one whose fossil history shows it lived at the same time as other megafauna such as the woolly mammoth and saber-tooth tiger.

For the past eleven years, I have been studying the hellbender in streams and rivers of the state’s north country, including Pine Creek. Difficult to find, the giants secure themselves beneath rocks of massive size and rarely venture out to feed or find mates. They are sit-and-wait predators that grab a passing food item, almost always a crayfish, by using a powerful suction-feeding mechanism. The hellbender “vacuums” a crayfish into its mouth, then swallows the crustacean whole. One might suppose that the armored skeleton of a

crayfish should not be digestible, or very palatable, but the hellbender’s tough gut can process every last bit of it for needed nutrients and energy.

Hellbenders live a solitary lifestyle inside gravelly chambers that they excavate beneath boulders in places where the current is hard and fast. In early fall, the females are enticed to deposit long strings of pearl-like eggs inside the males’ chambers, where the males then fertilize them.

The females depart after the egg-laying, leaving the male, or denmaster, with the responsibility of tending the eggs. For six to eight weeks, the embryos develop slowly and then, in flurry of activity, the tiny, gilled, larvae with bright yellow bellies burst through the outer membrane to join siblings huddled in a corner of the chamber. The job of the denmaster is not finished until mid-spring, when the youngsters move out to seek a shelter of their own and to forage for stream insects, or perhaps become food for fish, crayfish, or even larger hellbenders.

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Wining Your Way Around Seneca Revamped Seneca Lake Wine Trail Invites Investigation

By Karey Solomon

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n a day when either sunshine and warm breezes or the gloom of cabin fever make it absolutely necessary to refresh the spirit with a quick vacation from the ordinary, the wineries around Seneca Lake await discovery.

Whether you’ve been many times before or are having your first visit, there’s going to be something new to experience. Of course, it’s always possible to do this in a serendipitous, meandering journey of exploration, but, in order to make the most of your time, a little research can make a big difference.

Enter Brittany Gibson. She took the helm as executive director of the Seneca Lake Wine Trail at the end of November, 2018, and says she’s returned to her roots at this new position. Having experienced the wine industry from both sides as a winery worker as well as a consumer, one of her first efforts has been the upgrading

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and re-configuration of the trail’s website— senecalakewine.com—to make it far more user-friendly. For instance, web visitors will now be able to plan their visit based on individual needs, including the wish to find particular amenities. Is Fido riding shotgun? Look for pet-friendly tasting rooms. Is this visit mostly to find your new favorite Rieslings or would you like to try varietals you’ve never tasted before? Would you like to eat lunch at a winery restaurant where wine and food pairings have been pre-selected? Does the winery host art exhibits? Is there a night they stay open late and offer music?

There are currently thirty-one member wineries (plus additional non-member wineries around the lake), so hard choices need to made.

If you’re a Finger Lakes wine newbie, you might want to visit at least one winery

offering a tour. Or you might choose to visit during the less-frequented seasons when tasting room staff are less rushed and have more time to talk about each wine.

Generally late summer and fall see the most visitors to the area; weekdays are quieter times than weekends. Vineyards and wineries follow an agricultural calendar, so there’s always something interesting going on in the fields as well as in the wine cellars.

If you like the buzz and specialoccasion atmosphere of a party, there are more than half a dozen trail events each year. On these weekends, visitors purchase tickets enabling them to taste a number of wines and sample complementary foods at each winery they visit. Designated drivers get deep-discounted tickets and a warm welcome, with coffee, soft drinks, and snacks at most wineries, as well as the gift that goes with ticket purchases. Because

most visitors try to experience more than the usual number of wineries during these event weekends, a driver is highly recommended.

For smaller, non-event getaways, Brittany recommends always packing a cooler with snacks and bottles of water. “Visiting three to five wineries in a day is plenty,” she says. “The more wine you taste, the more work your palate is getting. In order to get the best experience, you don’t want to over-taste.” And you’ll also want to budget for tasting fees—most wineries charge three to seven dollars per person for a selection of tastes.

The ideal wine-trail visit begins with a hearty breakfast. “I generally enjoy two wineries and then a lunch stop, and then maybe a couple more wineries,” Brittany says. “And make sure you leave time for pictures.” If you remembered the water but forgot the snack, many wineries offer cheeseboards or charcuterie, and a few scenic seating areas so you can enjoy them, or the lunch you packed, and the view. Taking that break refreshes your taste buds, enhancing your experience.

“One of the benefits of having so many tasting rooms is that it’s really about tasting—not just about varietals,” notes Brittany.

“Use this as an opportunity to enlist the help of your server.

They’re generally well-trained people who are eager to share what they know. I’ll taste a few things I want, then ask them to pick a wild card for me. What should I really try? The tasting room staff is generally excited to get that opportunity and you never know what you’re going to find.”

Reacquainting herself with wineries she’s previously known from her early work experiences, then as a wine enthusiast with a particular appreciation for Seneca Lake terroir, Brittany made it a point during her first months on the job to visit every member winery.

“Because I grew up here and was raised here, I know how great the people are,” she says. “What impresses me the most is they don’t ever seem to have a ceiling! They’re always looking for ways to do better and do more. That speaks to who they are as people. In some industries, people rest on their laurels. Here they’re really passionate about what they do. It doesn’t surprise me, but it continues to impress me that the level of energy and dedication they have is unmatched. They’re all modest people and they wouldn’t tell you that—but I will.”

The striving spirit includes bringing new tastes to the region using lesser-known varietals that find new expression in our microclimate, particularly with red wines.

“Seeing how they continue to develop their dry red portfolios is really exciting,” she notes. “What our growers and winemakers are proving is that we make some really incredible dry wine. The sky’s the limit at this point.”

The trail’s by-words are “Grown here. Made here.” Those phrases sum up two requirements of member wineries as well as the experience of tasting the flavors unique to the region.

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As adults, they are at little risk from predators other than humans, who sometimes kill them not realizing how harmless they are or how valuable they are to stream and river ecosystems. Sportsmen in north central Pennsylvania had a tradition of “hellbender hunting” that reached its heyday in the 1930s when they sought to rid streams of the perceived enemy of their beloved trout, not knowing that hellbenders dine solely on crustaceans. Fortunately, the hunts were not entirely successful.

However, the hellbenders are today on the verge of extinction in many parts of Pennsylvania, and throughout their North American range, extending from New York through the central Appalachians to northern Georgia. To the west, the Ozark hellbender, a variant of the Eastern hellbender, has been designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an endangered species, and I would argue that the Eastern hellbender should be listed as well. Since the mid-1800s, Pennsylvania streams have been poisoned by mine and tannery discharges, stream channels straightened and rocks removed to float timber, and

stream rocks slowly but progressively covered with the sediments released by logging and agricultural activities. While today we have improved water quality, the large-rock habitat that this animal favors remains buried beneath thick layers of stream sediment.

Even so, the underlying cause for the recent declines and local extinctions of hellbender populations is not easily attributed to anthropogenic stream degradation. Instead, disease seems to be a likely culprit, but we do not yet know if it is the destructive skin fungus that has been killing off amphibians across the globe or some as-yet unidentified virus.

Whatever the cause, the stress of poor water quality, lack of rock cover, and invasions by non-native rusty crayfish may also be contributing factors.

The hellbender will need our assistance in order to reestablish itself in Pennsylvania waterways. With the aid of high school and college students, I have been installing “bender huts” in area streams. The concrete huts serve as shelter for the salamanders and provide us with a means to collect fertile eggs and hatchlings. In October 2014,

100 hellbender eggs and larvae from north central Pennsylvania were placed in the care of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo in New York. In August 2018, at age three and a half, the juveniles were released into a historic hellbender stream.

Monitoring is now underway to assess the success of this nascent reintroduction project. High school students with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Student Leadership Council are being recognized for writing a bill designating the Eastern hellbender as the official Pennsylvania state amphibian. The bill has been voted out of Senate committee and is awaiting further action by state legislators and the governor.

If you see a hellbender in a Pennsylvania stream, be sure to give this animal the respect it deserves and let it be. If you would like to share your experience with these amazing giants, or for more information, visit lycoming.edu/~petokas Peter Petokas is a Research Associate with the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute in Williamsport, where he conducts research on vernal pools, amphibians and reptiles, and native and invasive crayfish species.

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natural world. Tony and Gwen have been featured artists for the Corning based Garden of Fire Project, are on the faculty of 171 Cedar Arts Center, are guest teachers at the Rockwell Museum, as well as local youth centers, schools, and libraries. Their educational work receives support from the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

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Scott Griffin, from upstate New York, has been working with glass since 1995.

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transparent colors that are manipulated with fire using the flameworking process.

The forms are then carved in such a way as to capture and distort light as it shines through the work. The visual phenomenon created is inspired by the art deco cut glass of the 1930s.

Amanda Warren, ceramic technician and instructor, Kirk Allen, instructor, and special guest artist Alan Bennett will join forces for a raku extravaganza during GlassFest. Raku, based on Japanese technique, is a type of firing for pottery that calls for quick, very high heating and then rapid cooling. During these sessions, students will learn the process and then participate in the exciting firings for the eager crowds in Centerway Square on Saturday and Sunday of GlassFest weekend. In addition, students will have the opportunity to attend a firing at Alan Bennett’s studio prior to GlassFest to see and experience firsthand what raku has to offer. The whole opportunity will culminate with students working in shifts to glaze, fire, and finish their pieces with the guidance of instructors, demonstrating for the public all of the techniques and intensity that raku entails.

Contact 171 Cedar Arts at 171cedararts. org or (607) 936-4647 about participation requirements.

Alan Bennett recalls that when he was five he caught a bluegill. He thought it was so beautiful that he kept it in his pocket, where his mother found it several days later when she did the laundry. Alan 30

received an MFA in ceramics from Ohio State University and a BFA in drawing and painting from Arizona State University.

He worked as a designer and technical consultant for El Palomar Ceramics in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico, and together with Rosemary, his wife, started their business together in Bath, New York, in 1990 as full time clay artists. In addition to leading workshops around the U.S., Alan is a professor at Mansfield University.

Experiences in or around the water, and growing up with Jacques Cousteau television specials, strongly influence his and Rosemary’s work. The process starts with a series of sketches using stoneware clay or porcelain to make the basic forms.

These forms are manipulated, hollowed out, and added to. The teeth and eyes are made out of porcelain. The pieces are bisque fired. Glazing techniques include fish glaze, raku, and crystal glazes, and are applied by dipping, spraying, and by brush. The work is about form, expression, color, texture, and movement. See their work at West End Gallery.

Amanda Warren started teaching at 171 Cedar Arts in 2013 and became the fulltime ceramic technician in 2014. She is a graduate of Alfred University with a BFA in ceramics and art education. She earned her M.S. in art education from Syracuse University in 2012. Amanda is certified in New York as a K-12 visual arts teacher.

While she works mainly in ceramics, she has practiced in glass blowing, printmaking, and drawing. Originally from Schenectady, Amanda now lives in Hornell with her husband, Matt, and

their kitties Hazel and Willow. Amanda is happiest when in the studio and classroom making art with her students and passing on her love for all things art. She likes going to the movies, being outside enjoying nature, or out and about on an adventure.

Her favorite color is periwinkle.

Kirk Allen has been a ceramic artist for twenty-five years. He has a bachelor’s degree in art, theater, and recreation, with a focus on ceramic and print making, from Northwestern College, in Orange City, Iowa. He was a ceramics instructor at Orange Street Pottery in Wilmington, North Carolina, and is currently teaching at 171 Cedar Arts Center. He currently works in a small pottery studio at home, with a focus on wheel thrown functional wear. He enjoys helping out with his wife’s basket making, brewing beer with friends, cooking, and woodworking projects.

The focus of Kirk’s work is to make beauty that supports the joy found in the everyday. For him, pottery is a personal journey of self-exploration and problem solving. In clay, he says, we can find where we come from and who we are. The potter can dig clay from the ground, form it into a vessel, fire it with discarded brush, then add fresh vegetables from the garden, and provide a meal to enjoy with friends.

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Expert artisans: CMoG’s team of glassmakers assists contestants in the Blown Away finale (l to r) Tom Ryder, Chris Rochelle, Eric Meek, George Kennard, Helen Tegeler, G. Brian Juk, and Catherine Ayers.

Blown Away

CMoG, Netflix, and a Love Letter to Glass

By Brendan O’Meara

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orning, and specifically the Corning Museum of Glass, finds itself, unsurprisingly, at the center of the glassmaking and glass blowing universe.

Marblemedia, in partnership with Netflix, and in conjunction with Blue Ant Media, launched a new competition reality show—Blown Away—which features ten world-class glass blowers in a bout to see who can sway the judges with their artistry and their unique connection to their craft.

Hosted by Nick Uhas and featuring one of the most respected names in glass art, Katherine Gray, Blown Away aired in Canada and will this year be available for streaming in the United States.

Eric Meek, senior manager of hot glass programs at CMoG, was a guest judge and vital point person for the project.

“There’s sort of a spectrum of perceptions of the community,” Eric says.

“It’s the talk of the town. Everybody really loves this and loves what we do. Everybody would feel really bad if it was made into a

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spectacle. Glass is our passion, and that of the community in which we are a leader. For us to be involved, we needed to be sure that the medium and artists working in it would be presented with great respect.

“Let’s face it, these competition shows don’t have the best reputation,” Eric continues. “But the production team helped us feel confident that what they were creating was essentially a love letter to glass.”

Marblemedia constructed a ten-bench Hot Shop where each of the contestants could have their own working space. It is being billed as North America’s largest Hot Shop, further illustrating Marblemedia’s commitment to showcasing the art form in the best possible way.

Eric says the program will depict the struggle and triumph that goes into the craft. And when the public sees it, they’ll know that Blown Away’s great intent is to showcase a cast of artisans dedicated to glass.

“Rising tides float all boats,” Eric contends. “This is a global platform to

expose everyone to this material that we love—from the comfort of their living rooms. All the people are exposed to this amazing thing. I’m convinced it can mean nothing but good things for anyone who’s working in glass, whether they’re making ornaments at a holiday fair or showing fine art to a museum.”

CMoG was approached in the summer of 2018 by the Toronto-based media company, who wanted to showcase a beautiful art form, a historic skilled trade that goes back some 4,000 years. However, as Eric recalls, “they were still very much in the planning phase, but the show had a green light—and it came from a very powerful source: Netflix. It was far too inviting to pass up an opportunity to partner.”

So, Nick Uhas hosts each show with Katherine Gray as the main evaluator.

A guest judge accompanies the pair. In the early rounds, a single glass blowing student from Sheridan College joined each

welcome to contestant. “I know from having done this for twenty-five years, even if you’ve blown glass for four years, you’re still a beginner,” Eric says.

For the finale, CMoG provided its six expert glassmakers— three per contestant—one of which was Helen Tegeler.

Helen first joined CMoG in 2010 and, like just about everyone involved, was wary of a reality show featuring this trade she loves. She wasn’t sure if the show would try to make glassmaking look like an acrimonious, selfish endeavor. With respect to drama, she says, “I hate to see that in the hot shop.

There’s joy in glass blowing. Once [Marblemedia] talked about the people involved, and knowing who Nick and Kathy were added a lot of validation. I was impressed that [the show] focused on the art, the people, and the collaboration, putting a positive spin on it.”

Indeed, her favorite aspects of the form are its collaborative nature and the personal discipline, which fed perfectly into her participation in the finale as she got to help fulfill another artist’s vision. “Just our sheer presence and experience, how familiar we are with that nimble nature, gave them the comfort to push their limits.”

Watching the competition unfold, what surprised Eric was how were they going to structure these challenges over ten episodes. For instance, what kind of range is there and how exciting could the show be if it always came down to who could make the perfect wine glass? The competitions became “inwardly focused,” and Eric says, “That made the challenges relatable to a broad audience.” The challenges became more creative and more human, not simply technical.

“I was impressed by what the artists came up with,” he continues. “It’s really hard work. It’s easy to make something proportioned. It’s hard to put a piece of yourself in that, to represent a feeling in your work. The contestants did that week after week. The two finalists, they were in this zone. It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.”

After the first nine episodes, those remaining two were battle-worn and weary. And wouldn’t you know that Eric would figure into that final episode as the guest judge.

“It’s funny, the producers said all along, ‘Eric, you’re going to be involved in this. We’re here to tell you it’s going to be really hard.’” To this, he thought, how hard can it be? There will be a clear winner, no hairs to split, no nuance to factor.

“It was so hard,” admits Eric. “Either one of them could have won. They’re both doing amazing things. They put their heart into it. It’s so hard to choose one over the other. For me, looking back at the participation, [I wonder] how it must have been for them. You’re judging a person.”

Ultimately, Eric hopes that, after this show, when people think of glass, they will think of Corning. Once it hits Netflix and gets binged alongside other competition shows, then most of the world will know what people in this region have known for decades: that glass and Corning are, in effect, one and the same.

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ome to the store at the right time and you’re likely to be waited on by the boss. Matt Smith (above), fourth generation president and CEO of the Corning Building Company, likes to spend time daily on the sales floor. That way, he can help his employees when things get busy, and stay in touch with his customers.

Back in 1848, the now 170-year-old company helped supply the building needs of a growing community. When the buildings at Corning Incorporated and much of the downtown area were being built, the Corning Building Company offered lumber, building materials, plumbing and electrical supplies, hardware and appliances, and cement. After the devastation of the 1972 flood, CBC relocated and consolidated their storefronts under one roof housing 42,000 square feet of sales and showroom space. They’ve opened a branch in Bath. They stopped selling furniture in 2011, but now sell high-end appliances.

The resurgence of interest in downtown living means many owners of historic buildings have been renovating their second and third stories as apartments—space that may not have been updated for decades. Matt sees growth around the Finger Lakes, too, including transition of lakeside cottages into larger year-round homes. His outside sales force frequently visits constructions-in-progress to see what’s needed—and sometimes bring we-need-it-now materials to the job sites.

He says the success of the business rests largely on the shoulders of dedicated employees. “We have a wonderful group of employees—the company would not be where they’re at without them. We try to keep a family atmosphere and reasonable hours and treat people right. Typically if someone works here three to four years, they’re here until they retire.”

He and his siblings learned the business from the bottom up, helping their parents in the stores, learning to drive dump trucks before they were old enough to drive cars. Matt’s oldest brother, Jim Smith Jr., is the only other family member currently involved. Who will take over many years down the road when Matt retires? He says he couldn’t even begin to predict. “At this point, the jury’s still out on next generation.”

Find Corning Building at 346 Park Avenue, at (607) 936-9921 or (800) 270-1759, or at corningbldg.com. The store is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ~Karey Solomon

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Corning to the Rescue The Return of Racing to Watkins Glen

By Carrie Hagen

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n a November day in 1982, a few lawyers and a few hundred people gathered at the Watkins Glen courthouse steps to witness the sale of 550 acres covering a hilltop southwest of town.

Surrounded by dairy farms, the property’s main feature was that it had once been an international sporting destination.

The Watkins Glen International racetrack had hosted the U.S. Grand Prix for Formula One for nineteen years, but over the past decade, track updates, dwindling crowds, and hosting costs had led the organization into bankruptcy and the property into foreclosure. Those standing at the courthouse didn’t know what type of developer might buy the renowned

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racetrack. A local lawyer placed the first bid, for $100,000. The second and final offer came quickly: $1,250,000. Within seven minutes of the auction’s opening, the property had sold to the Bank of New York.

The track stayed under the bank’s ownership for several months, until a lawyer from Corning Incorporated began negotiating the corporation’s purchase of the land.

A man named Jim Riesbeck was behind Corning’s interest. Riesbeck, a racing enthusiast and the comptroller for Corning Glass, had visited Daytona International Speedway in Florida and had ideas for replicating its success in the Finger Lakes region. Should Corning Inc. invest in the

Watkins Glen racecourse, Riesbeck knew, the company would restore an economic driver in the town. And by making the track primarily a stock car destination and not a Formula One venue, Corning could lower operating costs and create a greater sustainability for the site. It was a decision that would write Corning Inc.’s legacy into the history of Watkins Glen.

In the Beginning Car racing in the Glen began not on the track but on village roads. Local historian Bill Green remembers watching the town’s first road race on October 2, 1948. His widowed mother worked at a See Rescue on page 40

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appeal of the race was the uniqueness of it,” he said. “You had this town of 2,700 people in upstate New York hosting a race that was the focus of international attention.”

The facility’s economic troubles grew in 1971, when significant alterations expanded the course by over a mile and made it more challenging—a multimillion dollar decision that attracted even more entrants but put the organization in debt. Throughout the seventies, financial pressures abounded, with drivers’ associations calling for greater safety measures and costly maintenance work.

The hosting expenses for Formula One events multiplied, corporate sponsorships weakened, and rowdy spectators kept larger audiences away. Formula One left Watkins Glen after the 1980 U.S. Grand Prix, and the racetrack went bankrupt the following year.

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tavern in town, and she sat her son on the porch that day so he could watch the event whip through town.

“I had never seen a road race before,” Green says.

Twenty-three drivers competed in the qualifier for the Watkins Glen Grand Prix at noon that day. From his perch, Green watched the European-style aerodynamic cars rush past him as they chased one another four times around a 6.6-mile loop. Fifteen qualified for the main event, eight loops (52.8 total miles) across public roads and a railroad track (the New York Railroad had agreed to delay trains passing through that afternoon). Ten cars finished the run, with Frank Griswold from Wayne, Pennsylvania, taking first place in an Alfa Romeo 8C2900 coupe.

That single amateur race, says Green today, sparked the “rebirth of road racing in America after World War II.” Its mastermind was a Cornell law student named Cameron Argetsinger from Youngstown, Ohio.

Argetsinger knew the area well from summer vacations spent with his family in a cottage along Seneca Lake. He designed the potential course after studying maps of 40

the village, and, after pitching the idea to the Watkins Glen Chamber of Commerce, executed his vision.

From 1948 to 1952, the best international names traveled to compete on the public roads of Watkins Glen.

Spectators lining the course were electrified by their close proximity to the drivers, easily visible through the open cockpits. This distance grew after the 1952 event, when a car hit a child, killing him instantly. In 1953, after state legislature attempted to outlaw racing on public highways, a second course was drawn on town roads. That lasted until 1956, when the race committee purchased 550 acres for a permanent racecourse and created new roads within it.

In 1957, the Watkins Glen racetrack held its first professional race, a NASCAR Grand National Division stock car event.

The Glen’s popularity led to its becoming the longest-running host of the U.S. Grand Prix, part of the Formula One World Championship (Watkins Glen held the competition from 1961-1980). In 1998, the track’s former press chief talked to the New York Times about the draw of the racetrack, which competed with settings in more exotic parts of the world. “Part of the

Then, in 1983, Corning Enterprises, a new subsidiary of Corning Glass Works, bought the track from the Bank of New York.

“Fate dealt the cards the right way,” says Bill Green today. When he heard in mid-July of 1983 that Corning had completed the deal and was indeed restoring the Watkins Glen International racetrack, he felt elated. “It was a very sunny day, but the lights got even brighter,” he laughs.

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Stir Crazy

By Cornelius O'Donnell

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am not referring here to life in a too-busy Asian restaurant. No, I even looked up the term to find that it means “restless because of confinement or routine.” And, since most of us have confined our cooking to inside the four walls of our kitchen since (probably) before Thanksgiving, me thinks it is an appropriate moniker for a May column. Because as nice as your kitchen

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might be, I’ll bet you are looking forward to that first cook-out/picnic/patio/porch event of the year. So check out a new cookbook for all the information about outdoor cooking that you’ll need.

Feast by Firelight: Simple Recipes for Camping, Cabins, and the Great Outdoors.

That’s the name of the book, and it’s written by Emma Frisch. You may know

of her through her charming newsletter.

Her bio talks about her extensive traveling around the globe, her work on a farm in Connecticut, and how she and her husband, Bobby, co-owned a restaurant in Nicaragua.

She’s already been a guest on the Food Network’s show Food Network Star.

Her cooking lessons began at home by helping her Italian mother in the kitchen

and in the garden. Her family includes an identical twin sister, and she and her husband are the parents of a three-year-old and a six-month-old.

Today, she and Bobby own Firelight Camps in Ithaca, a business providing comfortable, stylish, and revitalizing glamping experiences. As she says, “I’ve been able to weave my experience as a self-taught chef and cooking instructor, food blogger, and backcountry guide.”

Advise and Content What will give you the flavor of the book (well, you know, the flavor of the recipes)? There’s the foil-packet salmon with lemon, thyme, and blueberries, or perhaps the honey-coriander glazed pork chops with roasted corn salsa. Then there’s her accurately named main course: rhubarb-ecue country ribs. Try some homemade heavenly vanilla marshmallows. (Take that, s’mores!)

All get you thinking of spring and, perhaps, summer camp, or, these days, glamp, memories.

The practical advice is what I like, and the book describes the differences in cooking on a campfire, camp stoves, and grills.

The following two selections can be prepared ahead so you can enjoy your guests and the great outdoors. And, I might add, the book contains a wealth of color photos—some of the food, some of the author and her family, and some of regional sites that I recognized, being a local. Sadly, the photos are not captioned, but if you’ve driven around the environs, they will look familiar.

I was taken by the following burger recipe that, as Emma says, “even my meat-loving sister will devour.” She concocts these at home and reheats them on the grill. And to make these even easier she uses instant brown rice, thus saving forty-five minutes of cooking. Who wants to take time away from enjoying a sunset—or even a squirrel race?

Best Veggie Burger According to Emma, these burgers take about forty-five minutes of prep time, and they serve twelve, depending on the size you make them. They can be made smaller and used as sliders.

For shredding the vegetables, I turn to my spiralizer.

1 c. cooked instant brown rice 2 c. peeled shredded beets 2 c. shredded carrots 1 c. minced onion 1 c. finally chopped fresh parsley 1 garlic clove, minced 1 c. shredded cheddar cheese 1 c. toasted sunflower seeds ½ c. oat flour, rye flour, or any gluten-free flour ½ c. sunflower oil or other vegetable oil, plus 1 Tbsp. (optional) 2 eggs, lightly beaten 2 Tbsps. tamari or soy sauce 1 tsp. kosher salt 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper Line a baking sheet with a paper towel. In a large bowl combine all ingredients. Use your clean hands to mix thoroughly.

To absorb some of the moisture from the beets and carrots, spread the vegetable mixture in an even layer on the prepared baking See Stir Crazy on page 46

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sheet and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes or up to 2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Remove the vegetable mixture from the refrigerator. With the palms of (again) your impeccably clean hands, shape about ¼ c. of the mixture into a patty and place on a second rimmed baking sheet. Repeat until you’ve used all the mixture to form 12 patties, placing them about 1 inch apart. Bake the burgers for about 25 minutes or until the edges begin to brown.

Let cool completely. Store in an airtight container, chilled, for up to three days, or cover each patty with plastic wrap, place in a large zip-lock bag, and freeze for up to three months. (Later, they will double as ice in your cooler.)

If the patties are frozen, remove them from the cooler about one hour prior to your cooking them.

Fire the campfire or grill to medium heat and position the grate four inches above the coals. Reheat the patties over direct heat until just slightly charred—one to two minutes per side. Or, using a camp stove, cook in an iron skillet with the tablespoon of oil three to four minutes per side.

Serve at once and chill any leftovers, airtight, for up to three days. And wouldn’t it be fine if you had a terrific homemade ketchup to go with this? Well, here’s one of the many condiment recipes you’ll find in this all-inclusive book.

Best Ketchup on Earth This sounds like a fun project when it’s too rainy to cook out.

1 (750-gram) box strained tomatoes (such as Pomi) ½ c. minced white onion ½ c. apple cider vinegar ½ c. maple syrup 2 tsps. molasses ½ tsp. kosher salt 1 tsp. grated garlic (I use a micro-plane for this) Combine all of the ingredients in a heavy pot on the stovetop and bring to a slow boil. Reduce the heat and cook, stirring and scraping up the bottom of the pot every ten to fifteen minutes until the sauce reduces by half, about one hour. It should thickly coat the back of a spoon. Remove from heat and let cool.

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You can’t just stand looking at the mesmerizing light of a campfire with only tongs in your hand, so Emma provides ideas on what potables to serve. Sure, most folks might opt for what my brother used to call a “frostie” (that’s beer), but I’d opt for her campari sangria spritz or maybe her northstar gluhwein.

Even her desserts put a new spin on old favorites. I can’t wait to make her old-fashioned bourbon fool with cherries when those Finger Lakes trees pour forth their delicious orbs.

No need to be stir crazy any longer! Fire up the grill and your appetite.

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“We are setting up a woodworking shop too! I’m looking to incorporate multiple art forms in my work,” she enthuses.

To shine the proverbial light on fused glass, Kathleen offers herself as a speaker and a teacher.

“Highly technical and artistically advanced glass working methods are being developed continuously,” she notes. “This medium has growth potential.” Her classes are open to all ages, and one needn’t be “artistic” to participate. The medium seems to have a way of energizing its students as they contemplate elements, patterns, and arrangement. They start by choosing a design and combination of colors and cuts, and place the mix in a mold or container. The work is heated in a kiln, and the glass fuses together. Different glass types and shapes are combined for effect and functionality. The glass can be re-fired for more shaping.

Kathleen is also a “candy” maker via Vitrograph and Murrini—both methods of glassmaking that involve pulling and cutting molten glass. The resulting colorful discs, twisties, and stringers add texture, and create the fun novelties. “If I could not pull my own Vitrograph and Murrini I wouldn’t have half the interest in creating fused glass. When students see the drawers full of “V and M,” most understand why I call it my candy,” Kathleen says.

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