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The Last Great Place

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By Michael Capuzzo Mountain Home welcomes the spring with new offices at 25 Main St., Wellsboro and two new staff members.

The Finger Lakes spring to life with tastings and treats. Mansfield University kicks up with its thirtieths anniversary jazz festival.

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The Perfect Retort

By Patricia Brown Davis If only you had the perfect retort before you reached the stairs.

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To Pick a Peeper

Doings ’Round the Mountain

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Trout Guard

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Toast to a Titanic Survivor

By Gregg Rinkus An essay on traditional hand fishing.

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Caught My Pride

By Fred Metarko Barbers tell no tall tales, and neither does The Lunker in this big fish story.

By Alison Fromme Photos by Curt Weinhold Fisherman turned waterdog, Pete Ryan dives in to protect and monitor local streams and rivers.

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The Distractions of Natural Gas

By Lilace Mellin Guignard From her “little slice of Marcellus Shale,” Lilace shares how the natural gas boom has influenced her life.

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Yogamama Says

By Kathleen Thompson Driving Under the Influence of Yoga.

By Michael Capuzzo A Watkins Glenn Festival honors the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking, and the life of a local survivor.

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The Better World

By John & Lynne Diamond-Nigh The hierarchy of politeness.

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Book Review: One Woman’s Vengeance

By Jelaina Jones Local author Dennis Miller’s latest hit.

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Cooking with a Catch

By Cornelius O’Donnell People can be afraid of cooking fish, but not O’Donnell. He shows us how to cook Brook Trout simply and deliciously.

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My Favorite Things

By Becca Ostrom What a treat! Yorkholo’s take on veggie pizza.

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Mother Earth

By Gayle Morrow The sounds of spring are unique, wonderful, and always welcome.

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Finger Lakes Wine Review

By Holly Howell The Finger Lakes commemorate the 100th aniversary of the Titanic’s sinking; Holly reports on the wines that went down.

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An Eggsacting Act

By Clint Decker Edith Volpe preserves the ancient Ukrainian craft of Pysanka.

Editors & PublishErs Teresa Banik Capuzzo Michael Capuzzo AssociAtE PublishErs George Bochetto, Esq. Dawn Bilder MAnAging Editor Derek Witucki dEsign & PhotogrAPhy Editor Elizabeth S. Young coPy Editor Pete Boal covEr Artist Tucker Worthington contributing WritErs Sarah Bull, Angela Cannon-Crothers, Jennifer Cline, Barbara Coyle, Kevin Cummings, Patricia Brown Davis, Georgiana DeCarlo, Clint Decker, John & Lynne Diamond-Nigh, Lori Duffy Foster, Audrey Fox, Alison Fromme, Donald Gilliland, Lilace Mellin Guignard, Steve Hainsworth, Martha Horton, Holly Howell, Jelaina Jones, David Ira Kagan, Roger Kingsley, Adam Mahonske, Roberta McCulloch-Dews, Cindy Davis Meixel, Suzanne Meredith, Fred Metarko, Karen Meyers, Dave Milano, Gayle Morrow, Tom Murphy, Mary Myers, Jim Obleski, Cornelius O’Donnell, Brendan O’Meara, Becca Ostrom, Thomas Putnam, Gary Ranck, Gregg Rinkus, Kathleen Thompson, Joyce M. Tice, Linda Williams contributing PhotogrAPhErs Mia Lisa Anderson, Bill Crowell, Bruce Dart, Anne Davenport-Leete, Ann Kamzelski, Ken Meyer, Barb Rathbun, Tina Tolins, Sarah Wagaman, Curt Weinhold sEnior sAlEs rEPrEsEntAtivE Brian Earle sAlEs rEPrEsEntAtivE Christopher Banik bEAglE Cosmo AssistAnt

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Shop Around the Corner

By Michael Capuzzo A Wellsboro treasure, The Fifth Season, moves to the Deane Center, but who is behind the store front that’s become so successful?

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Back of the Mountain

“Mist in the Hollow,” featuring the photography of Barb Rathbun.

Mountain Home is published monthly by Beagle Media LLC, 25 Main St., 2nd Floor, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, 16901.

Copyright 2010 Beagle Media LLC. All rights reserved.

Acknowledgements: Images by Thomas Tolkien, pg. 30; “Project_Manager” (Flickr), pg. 26; and “Dougtone” (Flickr), pg. 41 are used under Creative Commons licenses.

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The Last Great Place

The Best of Times

By Michael Capuzzo

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he best of times, like the worst, are never the result of intention; they seem to descend like a benediction, a chance reflection of our star-bedazzled night sky.

My wife and I never planned, for instance, that Mountain Home’s move into large new editorial and advertising offices on Main Street in Wellsboro this month—into the landmark building at 25 Main across from the Wellsboro Diner—would coincide with spring’s rebirth. Nor did we foresee, through the fog obscuring the chessboard of life, that the new season would deliver to the magazine Elizabeth Young, a talented new Design and Photography Editor, and Derek Witucki, a talented new Managing Editor, on the same day. Nor could Liz and Derek, who had never met until they stood but one mortarboard apart in the Newcomers Derek and Liz. December 2011 graduation ceremony at Mansfield University (she with a graphic arts degree; he with a journalism degree) have divined these events.

Yet our two great new additions to Beagle Media had much to do with the quality of the April magazine you have in your hands.

First things first. Thanks to you, our loyal readers and advertisers, our community-based writers, artists and photographers, and our 170-plus distributors who send Mountain Home out into the world “Free as the Wind,” the magazine has grown like topsy since December 2005. That’s when Teresa and I founded Beagle Media—named for Cosmo, our now fifteenyear-old but no less noisy example of the breed—and began to publish the regional monthly magazine of the Twin Tiers.

Numbers tell the story—zero to 100,000 readers; the largest print publication in the Twin Tiers; thirty-three prestigious state awards for best writing, photography, design; with our local talent routinely outperforming Philadelphia and Pittsburgh journalists; honors as the “Best Niche Publication” in Pennsylvania, any size. But numbers, as you know, have nothing to do with it. Just about every region in the United States has a successful monthly magazine, but none are as true to their place as this one because of you. You are the heart and soul of Mountain Home; we are privileged to try to reflect your story each month.

Since the beginning, we’ve published the magazine from the small house by Kelsey Creek on Water Street in Wellsboro.

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The Finger Lakes Beckon Ladies & gents, raise your Riesling glass The readers of Budget Travel magazine picked the Finger Lakes as “the most beautiful wine region in the world,” over France’s Loire Valley, Italy’s Piedmont, and California’s Napa Valley.

Starting April Fool’s Day, the lovely thawed lakes unfurl and beckon oenophiles and travelers to a new season of wine-andcheese weekends and other indulgences only fools can resist. See the spring bottleneck of wine events, p. 9-10.

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Opening Glen Weekend Ladies, Start Your Engines Ladies and gents, start your engines! Experience the twists and turns of Watkins Glen International from the driver’s seat of your own vehicle during Opening Weekend at The Glen, April 21 and 22. Take your car for three paced laps for $25, proceeds benefiting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and NASCAR Foundation.

Track Time Photos will sell shots of your drive, and fans may snap pictures in Gatorade Victory Lane. Gates open both days 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., laps begin at 10 a.m. (Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Route 16, Watkins Glen, NY; for more information call 866-461-RACE, or visit www. theglen.com).

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Watkins Glen Toasts Mrs. Rothschild We’re about to hit an iceberg of 100th anniversary Titanic stories, but Watkins Glen, NY boasts a genuine survivor in the late Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild, whose good fortune will be celebrated in a grand two-day fete of films, feasts, family memories, collectible wines, and an authentic Titanic Dinner at the 4-Diamond Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel on April 14, 100 years to the day. See our stories, pp. 37 and 50.

The Green Grand Prix Gentlemen, Pump Your Biofuels Once, racecar drivers tried to go fast and win; now they go slow, conserve fuel, and give educational talks. Wake me

when it’s over! Yet the 2012 Toyota Green Grand Prix at Watkins Glen International should be fascinating with its Star Wars bar-scene assemblage of gasoline, biodiesel, hydrogen, propane, compressed natural gas, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and full electric vehicles.

Root for the fuel-economy winner in the two-stage Doris Bovee Memorial Road Rally Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, named for the late, beloved local environmentalist.

Saturday’s Electrathon race features high school teams in single-seat electric, 1hp vehicles. It’s all free and part of Opening Weekend at The Glen.

To enter a rally, visit www. greengrandprix.com; also see www.nyelectrathon.com.

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THE THEATRE

20-28 How I Became a Pirate - Young Jeremy Jacob (played by Hunter Brion in this Hamilton-Gibson production) is digging in the sand at North Beach when he is greeted by Captain Beard, and begins his education as a pirate. The for-all-ages show, featuring an adult cast and one boy, is one of the first at Wellsboro’s new Deane Center. Shows April 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 at 7:30 p.m., and April 22 at 2:30 p.m. (The Deane Center for the Performing Arts, 104 Main St., Wellsboro, PA, 570724-6220. See www.deanecenter.com).

OUTDOORS 28 Earth Day at Mill Cove - Fly fishing, muzzle loading, bug collecting, archery, natural food growing, canoeing, kayaking, bird watching, flora hikes and bb-gun shooting. Earth Day, the secular Easter, promises to be loads of fun at the 250-acre Mill Cove Environmental Area north of Mansfield, PA. Cosponsored by Mansfield University, with an alphabetsoup of agency presentations. It’s a free family event Saturday, April 28, 9 a.m.-4p.m. For more information, email: earthday_millcove@mounties. mansfield.edu. Also see www.millcovearea.com.

Saturday Morning Bird Walks - The Tiadaghton Audubon Society will again lead its popular bird walks every Saturday morning in April and May at Hills Creek State Park. The walks will start at 8 a.m. and last about two hours. Meet at the office. The walks are free, and everyone is invited. Wear subdued clothing, sturdy shoes, and binoculars, if you have them. As the spring migration starts to grow, April brings a variety of waterfowl, including hooded mergansers, ruddy ducks, buffleheads, ring-necked ducks, horned grebes, pied-bill grebes, etc. Common loons and bald eagles are almost guaranteed. (Hills Creek State Park, 111 Spillway Rd., Wellsboro, PA; contact the Audubon Society at 724-4246 or www.tiaudubon.org).

GALLERIES 1-29 Dennis Will & Lucille Driskell at the Gmeiner - Internationally renowned Wellsboro abstract artists and sculptors Lucille Driskell and Dennis Will exhibit together April 1-29 at the Gmeiner in Wellsboro, the small museum with bigger plans under new director Anna Wales.

(Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center, 134 Main St., Wellsboro, PA; (570)724-1917. See www. gmeinerartscenter.com. See also www.denniswill. net, www.luciledriskellfineart.com. Open daily 2-5 p.m., admission free).

YARD SALES 28 Blossburg Community Yard Sale - Blossburg’s community-wide yard sale will take place April 28, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. There will be no map this year, so look for signs to see who is participating. See www. blossburg.org, the Web site of Blossburg V.I.B.E. 14 Brown Bag Series: Tyler Wetherbee - Tyler Wetherbee, Mansfield University pianist, will present a varied musical program in Wellsboro, the latest in the Gmeiner museum’s “Brown Bag” series of free lunch-hour concerts, lectures and readings.

All presentations are held in the gallery beginning at 12:10 PM. Bring lunch, beverage provided.

(Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center, 134 Main St., Wellsboro, PA; (570)724-1917. Also open daily 2-5 p.m., admission free).

MUSIC 14-15 Major Choral Work Concert - Mansfield

University’s renowned Music Department presents the annual, much-anticipated Major Choral Work Concert, led by acclaimed music professor and choral director Peggy Dettwiler. Dettwiler’s Festival Chorus, Concert Choir, and vocal chamber groups will perform Mozart’s Requiem & Adler’s Ecumenical Mass at 8 p.m. Saturday April 14 and Sunday April 15. (Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA, Steadman Auditorium. For more information, contact Suzy Achey at 570-662-4710 or sachey@mansfield.edu).

14 The Texas Tenors - More than 100 million people from around the world saw The Texas Tenors become the #1 vocal group in the history of America’s Got Talent, blending classical music, cowboy charm, patriotism, and humor. Their world tour, with stops in Houston, Las Vegas, and the Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas (world’s largest cruise ship) comes to Williamsport for a 7:30 p.m. show Saturday April 14. (Community Arts Center, 220 West Fourth St., Williamsport, PA; (570) 326-2424 or (800) 4329382. See www.caclive.com).

15 Acrobats of Hebei China - The Chinese Acrobats of Hebei combine Chinese traditions, incredible acrobatics, stunning costumes, Chinese props, and a beautiful soundtrack. Ages 19 to 25 and trained from childhood in acrobatics, they are “marvels of what the human mind and body can accomplish.”

The Wellsboro Community Concert Association performance is at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 15 in Wellsboro. (Wellsboro High School Auditorium, 225 Nichols St., Wellsboro, PA. Email president@ wellsborocca.org or call 570-724-4939 for more information. Also see www.wellsborocca.org, and www.acrobatsofhebeichina.com).

18 Merle Haggard - Country music legend Merle Haggard brings his musical poetry of the common man to the Community Arts Center in Williamsport on Wednesday April 18 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 (balcony), $50 (loge and orchestra), and $60 (front orchestra, sterling, and pit). (Community Arts Center, 220 West Fourth St., Williamsport, PA; (570) 326-2424 or (800) 432-9382. See www. caclive.com).

21 John Pizzarelli Quartet with Jessica Molaskey - John Pizzarelli, the world-renowned jazz guitarist and singer, has opened for Frank Sinatra, and has introduced a new generation to Nat King Cole and to the Latin rhythms of bossa nova. His newest CD, Rockin’ in Rhythm, celebrates the genius of Duke Ellington. Called “madly creative” by the Los Angeles Times and “the genial genius of the guitar” by the Toronto Star, Pizzarelli performs with his wife, singer/ actress Jessica Molaskey, in Corning, NY on Saturday April 21, 7:30 p.m. “The Pizzarelli-Molaskey duo are as good as it gets in any entertainment medium,” says the New York Times. (Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium, One Museum Way, Corning, NY; 866463-6264, www.corningcivicmusic.com. See also www.johnpizzarelli.com).

26-27 Mansfield University Jazz Festival - The exciting MU Jazz Festival marks its 30th anniversary with a really big show: back-to-back big-time, Grammy-Award winning groups. The vocal ensemble New York Voices will be featured in the Thursday, April 26 evening concert, and The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra—considered by many to be the best big band in the world—performs Friday, April 27. Both concerts will be held in Steadman Theatre on the MU campus and will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available at the door; MU students free with current ID. Seating is limited, so reserve tickets early by going to: music.mansfield.edu, Upcoming Events.

Phone (570) 662-4710 for information.

27 Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes Concertmaster Augusto Diemecke’s chamber string ensemble will echo the themes of the Chemung Valley History Museum’s April exhibit, “Made in Chemung,” emphasizing the history and importance of the region’s manufacturing base. The concert

designed to “bring history to life” is at the museum, 7:30 p.m. Friday April 27. (Chemung Valley History Museum, 415 East Water St., Elmira, NY; 607-9362873. See www.chemungvalleymuseum.org) FOOD & WINE 1 Seneca Lake Riesling Passport - The Finger Lakes boasts some of the world’s finest reislings, and starting April 1 you can enjoy them on an extended tour.

Armed with your little Reisling passport booklet, which costs $18, one may imbibe a free flight of wines at each of the participating wineries, many of which may include a sample of Riesling. Provided you visit a predetermined number of wineries by the end of June, you’ll be entered in a prize drawing for the “Ultimate Cruisin’ Weekend!” The passport is valid April 1 through July 31. (For more information, contact the Seneca Lake Wine Trail, NY at 607.535.8080 or 877.536.2717; also see www.senecalakewine.com).

1 Keuka Lake Wine Trail Passport - Your passport to a free standard tasting at every participating Keuka Lake winery costs $10 per person, and includes discounts and coupons from wineries and partner businesses. Passports are valid from April 1 2012 through March 31, 2013. With groups of 8 or more, tasting fees may apply. For more information, contact the Keuka Lake Wine Trail, Penn Yan, NY at 800440-4898 or online at www.keukawinetrail.com.

1 Viva Italia on the Keuka Lake Wine Trail - Eat (Italian!) and drink your way along the Keuka Lake Wine Trail. The lake’s vineyards prepare a great variety of specialties from different regions of Italy to pair with superb, food-friendly wines produced from Keuka Lake vineyards. Tickets are $25 for the weekend, but Sunday April 1 is the most popular day ($19 for Sunday-only tickets).

Tickets can be ordered by calling the Keuka Lake Wine Trail office, Penn Yan, NY at 800-440-4898, online at www.keukawinetrail.com, or stopping by Wegmans Food Market.

4 Culinary Class: Spring Seasoning - As owner of a successful culinary consulting business, Chef Blake Swihart of Chester Springs, PA has helped major American food companies, such as McCormick and Campbells, develop new ideas. In Corning on Saturday April 4th, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., he offers a class about spice. Learn to buy and store spices like the pros do, then taste, taste, and taste again in this class that celebrates the big role of tiny ingredients. Fee: Members, $42; non-Members, $50. (171 Cedar Arts Center, 155 Cedar St., Corning, NY. For more information, call 607936-4647, email info@171cedararts.org, or see www.171cedararts.org).

13-14 Golden Nose Competition - In the sixth running of the Golden Nose, this year in Canandaigua, NY, beginning and veteran oenophiles will learn wine judging techniques from Finger Lakes winemakers, then award medals during a professionally-run competition, culminating in crowning a “Finger Lakes Riesling Champion.” The Golden Nose weekend begins Friday, April 13 with a 6 p.m. meet-and-greet kitchen social, then features a full day of events Saturday, including the judging and celebration. (New York Wine & Culinary Center, 800 South Main St., Canandaigua, NY. For ticket and information on overnight accommodations and packages, see www.nywcc.com or call (585) 394-7070).

27-29 Spring Wine & Cheese on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail - Take the popular self-guided tour around Seneca Lake from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. all three days, visiting more than 30 wineries ringing the lake for sips and nibbles (the event is sponsored by McCadam Cheese and Cabot Cheese). On Friday the 27th, you start by picking up your gift item and recipe 9

HOME TERRITORY Welcome to Mountain Home We’re grateful that you’ve already welcomed us onto your porch and into the living room.

Thanks to you, Mountain Home, the Twin Tiers lifestyle magazine, has 100,000 readers from the Finger Lakes to the Susquehanna River. Locally owned and based at creek-side offices in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania—population 3,245—we tell local stories by gifted local writers, artists, and photographers (see our awards on page 6). You can get a subscription, but most folks pick us up, “Free as the Wind,” at one of 279 distribution points, represented on this original map by artist Tucker Worthington. Please support our advertisers and distributors— on our Web site, we’ve published a complete list by town of the businesses, from Wegman’s to wineries to the corner store, where you’ll find Mountain Home. Call us at 570-724-3838 to chat, tell a story, or advertise. Meanwhile, happy reading!

Teresa & Mike Capuzzo, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania

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book at your assigned starting winery and receive your first sampling of a new wine release or perhaps a barrel wine sample. Regular tickets purchased in advance are $30 per person. (For more information, contact the Seneca Lake Wine Trail in the Finger Lakes, 607-535-8080 or 877-536-2717; also see www.senecalakewine.com).

27-29 Cayuga Lake Wine & Herb Festival - Build your garden this spring by attending the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail’s Wine & Herb Festival and planting herbs and edible flowers to your hearts content. To make the 20th year of the wine trail’s most popular event, you’ll receive a commemorative token gift, a souvenir wineglass, plus a potted herb plant, a plant carrier, and recipe cards. Visit Six Mile Creek, Long Point, King Ferry, or Montezuma wineries only on Friday afternoon to start your weekend out right. On Saturday and Sunday you can visit all sixteen wineries and on Saturday only you can visit King Ferry and Long Point wineries as early as 9 a.m. (For tickets and more information, including available packages, call the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail office at 1-800-6845217, and visit www.cayugawinetrail.com).

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From My Shelf Books and Gifts). The phone number is the same—570-724-3838—as is the open invitation to call or stop by and visit with me, Teresa, Dawn, Brian, Chris, and our new designer and editor.

Some of you already know Derek as the former editor-in-chief of The Flashlight, Mansfield University’s weekly student newspaper, as well as of Crossroads Magazine, the university’s annual student magazine.

A writer and broadcast major as well as computer whiz, he filmed a number of episodes of Dennis Miller’s MU broadcast show, Conversations. (Including, I’ve since learned, the show where Dennis quizzed me about my book, The Murder Room).

Liz, a graduate of the university’s excellent new graphic arts program, helped pay her way through college as a Walmart associate in the Mansfield store in Sporting Goods.

She is a gifted artist and photographer, and was a star intern with CBS Radio News in Baltimore, where she designed print and online ads, managed social networking sites, and produced multimedia content for four major Web sites. As you meet the two of them through these pages and on www.mountainhomemag.com—through their writing, editing, design, photography, film, drawing, and Web wizardry—I think you’ll see, with apologies to Mark Twain, that journalism’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. Especially in the lovely region of lakes, stream-fed valleys, and mountains we call home.

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Fisherman turned waterdog Pete Ryan dives in to protect and monitor local streams and rivers

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he fog has just lifted when Pete Ryan lowers his 5’10” frame down a grassy bank and into the upper reaches of the Allegheny River on a recent spring morning. The forty-degree water hugs his waist, but the chill barely registers through his thick waders. He raises his fly rod and whips the fluorescent yellow line through the air. A gentle slip-zip, punctuated by the sound of the clicking fly reel.

Pete leans forward, eyes narrowed, intent on spotting a rising trout. The leader line grazes the water, then drifts downstream, as Pete mends the line, keeping it afloat. If you didn’t know any better, you might think he’s got no cares in the world.

But just over the hills, upstream and out of sight, a threat looms. A drill pad. Risser A 2-H and Dunn A 1-H: two hydrofracturing wells. And with news of industry spills and accidents peppering the papers across Pennsylvania, that’s no comfort to this trout fisherman.

Pete’s been fishing this stretch for more than thirty years. Before he lived at the property, he’d park downtown and fish his way upstream. One day, the owner offered him a beer and suggested he buy the house.

“I know you’ll take care of it,” the guy said.

A few years later, Pete, his wife, and their kids settled into the brown ranch house between Route 49 and the river, in Coudersport, in God’s Country.

For Pete, catching a fish starts long before he reaches the water. In his dimly-lit basement, past the Christmas decorations and the pool table and across from an old TV, he has spent countless hours sitting at a desk littered with chenille, thread, and marabou. He’ll secure a hook in a small black fly tying vice, start wrapping thread, then artfully add details to mimic the fishes’ favorite seasonal insect meals, as he watches basketball games. He’s even mass-produced one of his own design, a fuzzy brown job with wiggly rubber legs dubbed “The Instigator,” for fundraising events.

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By alison Fromme

Photos by Curt Weinhold Choosing the right fly on a particular day is an art and a science. Which bugs will the trout bite today? Caddisflies, mayflies, stoneflies, midges, or others, depending on the time, place, weather, season, and probably even the alignment of the stars, for God’s sake? And, which life stage? Larvae or adults?

Nymphs, duns, spinners? A fly fisherman might pull a bug off his buddy’s neck to see what the trout are dining on.

The coldblooded trout, for their part, sit and wait for insects to land on the water.

They “sip and dip” to feed on the insect of the hour. On today’s brief foray into the river, nothing bites. Pete’s just practicing. The Fish and Boat guys haven’t dropped off the five or so buckets of brown trout and rainbow trout to stock the river. The season opener is still a couple weeks away, when as many as 800,000 Pennsylvania fishermen and women don their yellow licenses and step into the stream. When he does land a catch, it’s a gotcha moment. “I tied the fly that tricked the fish,” says Pete, who always releases his catch. And always has a fly rod strung and ready to go.

Just upstream in this special section of the Allegheny headwaters, the trout are not just any trout, not stocked from a government bucket. Brook trout, the only native trout in Pennsylvania, thrive here— hatching, growing, reproducing naturally— in cold, clean water.

Cold, clean water.

Cold, clean water gurgles through the riffles and stalls in the eddies just a few hundred feet out Pete’s back door. This cold, clean water originates in the highest reaches of God’s Country, just over the hills, just a few miles upstream. Right near that drilling rig.

Will the river always run clean with an industrial site so close? What’s a sixty-threeyear-old fly fisherman like Pete Ryan to do? A man who takes care of his house, his backyard, “his” river?

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Since August 2010, a new routine has crept into Pete’s fly fishing time. Now, a couple times a month, he’ll put on his waders, but leave his fly rod and vest behind. He’ll drive his GMC Yukon truck upstream, step into the Allegheny River, dip in a handheld battery-powered grey gadget, and record its readout numbers in a tattered composition notebook. Total dissolved solids, conductivity, check. Air temp, water temp, check. He’ll measure the stream depth with a calibrated wooden pole, and its width with a heavy string. He’ll fill a small bottle with water and stick in a special strip of paper to measure the pH. Then he’ll get back into his car and drive to another spot. A spot where he’d rather be fishing.

It’s all part of a citizen science effort sweeping the state, and the routine is now borne out by hundreds of volunteers. In 2009, Tioga County Planner Jim Weaver, Ron Comstock of the Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group, and Tioga County Watershed Specialist Erica Tomlinson started training volunteer “waterdogs” Using a small device to sample water quality, Pete Ryan gathers data that can be used by fellow conservationists to monitor the water quality and pollutant levels in streams and rivers across Pennsylvania. The efforts will help protect not just local habitats and fisheries, but also those of the other five states that comprise the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

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in Susquehanna, Bradford, and Tioga counties how to monitor waterways near drilling sites. The volunteers are intended to supplement inspections by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which many say can’t keep up with the workload as drilling explodes in the region. Initially, the waterdogs were criticized by some in the gas industry, even being dubbed “environmental vigilantes” by The Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association.

Pete’s friends and fellow members of the Potter County Trout Unlimited chapter, Bob Volkmar and Ted Bear, went to one of the waterdog trainings in Tioga County. The idea made sense. They urged the State Council of Trout Unlimited to get involved. Volkmar, Duchesne University professor of environmental management, and Bear, a retired biochemist, brought scientific expertise to the issue. Soon, Trout Unlimited had officially formed the Coldwater Conservation Corps, sponsoring its own almost-monthly trainings and equipment and “putting boots on the ground to ensure that gas drilling does not impact special watersheds.”

“Nobody’s on the water more than we a r e ,” s a y s Vo l k m a r, who credits local county commissioners with suppor ting the monitoring effort. In two county surveys, residents ranked water quality as the number one concern

related to gas drilling. “Water quality is a matter of local pride. People understand how clean water is connected to our quality of life,” Volkmar says.

Today, hundreds of fishermen are following the strict sampling protocol that Pete Ryan does in his backyard, along with other members of his Trout Unlimited chapter. Protocol that was developed by Dickinson College’s Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM), an environmental organization that’s provided technical assistance to volunteer stream monitors in Pennsylvania since 1986. Data is uploaded online. Samples are sent to Dickinson for chemical analysis on barium and strontium levels and quality control double-checking. Other groups and agencies have followed suit with citizen monitoring efforts.

“We didn’t want to do all this and not have it be good science,” Pete says.

What’s the reason to worry? “With any kind of energy development, accidents happen,” says Pete, who joined the Air Force as a young man before attending dental school and opening his own practice. “As stewards of the earth, we owe it to our kids and grandkids not to leave it worse for them.”

Last October, Katy Dunlap, Eastern Water Project Director for Trout Unlimited, traveled to the Capital to tell the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power just what’s worrisome.

Intense construction of well pads down a well during drilling likely traveled and access roads scrapes vegetation off the horizontally through rock layers after a land. Heavy rainwater sluices down bare heavy rain, only to be discovered as a soapy mountainsides, bringing muddy turbulence discharge at a mountainside spring.

Dunlap continued. Each gas well requires to trout habitat. Fish’s gills clog with sediment and the fish turn belly-up. Without millions of gallons of water for fracking. And sunlight streaming through clear water, trout can’t always compete for that water. The trout can’t see a mayfly alight on the surface. timing and location of withdrawals matters.

Erratic water flow starves eggs of life-giving Horton Run, a tributary of the East Fork of oxygen. When mud settles to the bottom, Sinnamahoning Creek and an “exceptional fry can’t emerge from eggs. Dunlap cited at value” trout stream, virtually dried up after least fifteen different problems for fish, from drilling-related water withdrawals. Fish were left high, dry, and dead in the streambed stress to death.

These aren’t “what if ” scenarios. of Cross Creek and Sugarcamp Creek in Construction of the El Paso Pipeline left Washington County.

Dunlap continued. Volumes of open ditches vulnerable to erosion and flooded the federally-designated Wild and wastewater are salty and polluted. One Scenic River Pine Creek with sediment. truck hauler allegedly dumped millions of One estimate claims that by 2030, as many gallons of the brine into holes, mine shafts, as 90,000 acres of forest will be cleared for and waterways, killing who knows what drilling development, exposing land to more wildlife. Dunlap continued. And continued. potential erosion problems.

And continued.

Blowouts, spills, and leaks threaten trout streams, too. In LeRoy Township, 30,000 gallons of salty flowback water spilled into a tributary of Towanda Creek, “Thank goodness we haven’t found any just sixteen miles from its junction with the problems—here,” Pete says. Nothing unusual Susquenhanna River. In Pine Creek, near has turned up in his river, even though the 11_MountainHome:Layout 8:19 AMupstream Page 1neighboring wells have logged five Waterville, a surfactant 1that12/7/11 was pumped

violations total since 2009 (now resolved), including “failure to minimize accelerated erosion” and “pit and tanks not constructed with sufficient capacity to contain pollutional substances.”

“Our intent isn’t to catch people doing wrong,” says Pete, who’s been monitoring since August 2010. “We’re trying to get a baseline to know what’s going on.”

Pete would alert the DEP if, say, the measurement of everything suspended in water, known as total dissolved solids, jumped from seventy-eight parts per million to 500. “If I find something that is suspicious, I will call the proper authorities and have them take samples. The problem of ‘chain of command’ for samples by private ‘untrained’ individuals would unlikely hold up in court, so I would prefer to let the governmental agencies do their job. If I came upon an emergency or a large fish kill, I would take samples where appropriate and also call the agencies in to do their job.”

He hasn’t had to do any of that yet.

“I’m not blanketly opposed to drilling,” Pete says. But he’s also no stranger to protecting

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his backyard from outsiders.

After his father-in-law taught him to fish and he moved to Potter County, Pete became a charter member and president of the God’s Country Trout Unlimited chapter, a post he still holds today. In the early 1980s, he and the chapter brought up concerns about the National Fuel and Gas pipeline slated for the region and made such a stink that the industry reps gave him a helicopter tour of the project and asked what it would take to let them finish the project in peace. Pete and his friends joked about putting a price tag on it and retiring on millions. But his real answer? “They needed to do it right.”

Later in the mid-1980s, he recognized that the biggest threat to local streams was gravel roads and the grit and grime washing down them into trout habitat.

Others shrugged it off—it had always been that way—but Pete said, “Well, it doesn’t have to 16

be this way.” So he testified in Harrisburg, worked with Penn State professor Ed Bellis to create a map of threatened hot spots, and helped Trout Unlimited successfully lobby for a portion of the gas tax to fund dirt and gravel road improvements. Along the way, he was threatened by an armed man on his porch while exploring the back roads.

Living in a land still reeling from past coal, timber, and oil and gas development, the goodness of people can still triumph. “They’re doing the best they can,” Pete says of the drillers. He’s glad to see friends and longtime residents become site managers because they know the lay of the land and care enough to protect it.

R e c e n t l y, h e t o l d a n industry group after a prodrilling presentation, “I moved here not because of the economic opportunity. I moved here because I want to live in Potter County.” Are we turning the Pennsylvania Wilds into Saudi

Arabia, he wonders.

Later, Pete says, “As far as I can tell, Pennsylvania is receiving the gas industry with open arms.” At the peak of production at the neighboring wells, he counted 200 trucks thunder by his otherwise idyllic house on a single Sunday afternoon.

Pete walks his three flat acres daily, strolling past the apple trees, avoiding piles of bear scat, down to a tree dead from beaver activity. He knows the river like

the waitresses at the local dinerfeed store-garden center know him and his family. He knows if the water’s high or low, warm or cold, even without high tech gadgets like the grey LeMott PockeTester Tracer. He’s always patrolled his piece of God’s Country, but now a greater sense of urgency grips him.

At a geologic marvel here in Potter County, known as the Triple Divide, water sheds down the landscape in three disparate directions, contributing either to the Ohio River basin and the Mississippi, the Susquehanna

River basin and the Chesapeake, or the Genesee River basin and the Great Lakes. The flat-topped, tight-knit hills here have an ancient history and a fluid connection to a vast region. Once a plateau pushed up by the slow but powerful forces of the earth, the land is now cut with steep valleys, eroded naturally by ribbony streams of water that flow down. Eight hundred miles of trout streams in God’s Country alone. Eight hundred miles of cold, clean water. And when thick fog descends, it’s like a shroud from the heavens that leaves nothing to guide you but your own inner compass.

Pollution here could be acute, flashy, and localized. Or persistent pollution could wash into large water bodies and big population centers. Water withdrawals might erase a tiny tributary or affect whole sections of watersheds.

Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe. Nobody knows. Back at the house, where a family portrait graces the fireplace mantle and a crisp American flag hangs at the front door, Pete gets a pail of fish food and tosses a few pellets into the spring-fed pond in his front yard.

A spotted green-yellow trout rises to the surface, head tilted, mouth agape. It disappears.

A huge truck rumbles by. A load of sand, water, chemicals? Then, quiet.

“I’m not a hunter, I’m not a hiker, I was never a hippy. When I moved here, I felt a responsibility to take care of the things I love.

Pristine things,” Pete says. “That’s why I live here, to fish”—a yelp erupts from the willow thicket on the other side of the river—“and listen to the turkeys gobble.”

But this is just one man’s backyard, right? Just one stream? A few fish that swim by the gas drilling thoroughfare?

“Everybody lives downstream,” Pete says.

Science writer Alison Fromme is a freelancer whose writing has been featured in Mountain Home since 2011. Living in Ithaca, she blogs about food at ithacasfoodweb.com.

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Heart of the Mountain

The Perfect Retort

By Patricia Brown Davis

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t was pouring rain, but I was in a good mood as I drove down my street. On my way to a memoir writing workshop, I was thinking how the spring rain was going to wash away all of the winter’s dirt. It was then I noticed my low fuel light was lit it was straight to the nearest gas station.

But the pump I selected wasn’t working. Now I was running back and forth to their building in the rain. The half hour spent curling my hair—wasted—as my hair wilted and frizzed in the moisture.

My mood began to sour. After the workshop, I was to go out for lunch and now I looked a mess.

The owner couldn’t believe the pump wasn’t working, as the last customer had just used it. He went to investigate—perhaps he thought I was technically challenged.

I felt gratified and smug when it didn’t work for him, either. But, he refused to be upset or stressed. He just seemed amazed and baffled and continued grinning. I wasn’t happy he wasn’t fueling my funk and refused his unspoken invitation for a change in attitude.

As I paid for my gas, the owner made the corny statement, “I guess the day is only good for canoeing.” So, I mumbled, with an equally tired, “...or ducks.” Sheeze!

Not even an apology!

Glad to be leaving the gas station, and half-way to the car, out popped a retort to his canoeing remark, “Only if you have someone to bale water!” Just as quickly, another thought came—“Esprit d’escalier!”

I whispered, “Esprit d’escalier.” Then, I laughed. Esprit d’escalier! My mood swung one-eighty!

I loved the way the words rolled around my tongue—es-pree de-scahl-yay—much easier to say than to do! A friend had recently sent an e-mail with these words and the French literal translation, “wit” plus “stairs.” I was amused to find the French call it “the staircase wit,” indicating that you finally think of that perfect retort, but on your way out. Esprit d’escalier! How

often I’m reminded of my own “out-ofsync” mind—funny little afterthoughts always too late to fling out. No credit for those little hind-sighted after-wits.

The origin of the word for this phenomenon comes from French encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot’s description in his Paradoxe sur le Comédien. One of his characters had made a remark to another as he was leaving a reception area, which in that particular type of architecture was always elevated a floor above the entrance area, and up a set of steps. The character leaving had just reached the bottom of the stairs when he thought of a great comeback.

This also brought up my memory of the name of the highly acclaimed formal dining room, L’Escalier, at The Breakers in Palm Beach, where my daughter and I dined a few years ago. It is posh and the dining unequaled. There were a number of stairways surrounding the area that led up to the dining area and were represented in their logo. But when checking on the word origin of it, I discovered that the naming was a metaphor for their elevated French cuisine... and their spirit of always looking to elevate their food to new levels of art.

I jumped into my car, looking into my rear-view mirror and surveyed my drenched look. It definitely was not the “like water off a duck’s back” look. I grinned at myself and repeated, “Esprit d’escalier!” My good mood was back and elevated. Spring was here! I started the car and drove up Main Street, thinking, “Now I know what I will write today!” epilogue: I thought I had the ‘elevated wit’ on the day’s event, but I was mistaken. The next morning Nature had its own Esprit d’escalier in the only way Nature does and in its own timing. I awoke to a world of white with a full morning of gentle snow falling.

Patricia Brown Davis is a professional musician and memoirist seeking stories about the Wellsboro glass factory. Contact her at patd@ mountainhomemag.com.

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O U T d O OR S To Pick a Peeper

An essay on traditional hand fishing

R. L. Johnson

Spring peepers are small chorus frogs, no more than an inch and a half long. They are one of the first species to “call in” the start of spring and are well known for their unique sounds.

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PHoTo BY MATT REiNBoLD

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ith the stealth of a great blue heron, my son Daniel stood statue-still in shin-deep water. Born with a high energy level, typically he’s as frisky as a red squirrel at a freshly-filled bird feeder. But there he was standing motionless, surrounded by the seemingly lifeless water of a vernal pool.

In a few minutes, a high-pitched trill sounded close by. Soon it was answered by another and another and yet another until individual squeaks, peeps, chirps, and croaks became indistinct as they all blended together.

Deliberately, Daniel bent even closer, eyes peering intensely into the fen. Ever so slowly his head swiveled left and back to the right. Then, quick as a rattlesnake strike, he plunged his hand into the water.

As he withdrew it, I saw a tiny brown frog wriggling atop his right hand, its toothpickthin legs entrapped between tightly clenched fingers. Holding his prize aloft, he

By Gregg Rinkus

exclaimed, “I’ve got him!”—our first spring peeper of the year.

Peeper pickin’ is an annual event for us. It’s a venerable rite of passage from winter to spring, like making maple syrup or the opening day of trout season. With little fanfare, spring peepers (Hyla crucifer) typically appear between mid-February and early April. Of course, we do not see them first, we hear them. The first utterance of peepers is undeniable proof that spring has finally arrived.

Peeper pickin’ is catch-and-release at its best; it is a little bit art, a little bit science, and a whole lot of fun. You do it for pure enjoyment and to get back in touch with the rhythm of nature. It’s a simple pursuit that allows us to return to our fundamental selves.

While our culture encourages bigger, better, and faster, peeper pickin’ flies in the face of conventionality. It requires simplicity, patience, concentration, discipline, and rubber boots. Rubber boots? Just like rubber boots does in this otherwise consecution of terms, likewise peeper pickin’ deviates from expected order—a slow dance to the beat of a different drummer. So be it. Pity those who are so caught up in the expected mainstream that they fear to stray into the down-to-earth pleasures of peeper pickin’.

If mild, springtime breezes are blowing in the right direction, you can hear peeper chorus a half-mile or more away. And yet, you may be surrounded by dozens of these mites and never lay eyes on one. They’re barely an inch long and can be nearly invisible when they lie motionless, half submerged amidst swamp grass and algae.

Like a skilled ventriloquist, they seem to be able to throw their voices to avoid detection. He’s over there—no, he’s right here; now he’s behind me. I don’t know where he is. How exasperating. Oh what fun!

Peeper pickin’ sounds simple. However, before you take your kids or a scout troop out, you may want to practice first. It’s not a pretty sight to lose your cool in front of youngsters when, surrounded by singing spring peepers, you’re unable to catch a single one. Don’t use a fine mesh net either; that’s cheating. You must catch them by hand or not at all. Do not get flustered if you don’t do so well. Simply ask a seven-year old for help.

Mountain Home contributor and nature writer, Gregg Rinkus, hails from Franklin, PA and is Regional Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Manager for Penn E & R in Wellsboro.

He wrote “Trapping Time” for our March issue.

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ome time back, I was in the barber shop. While waiting for my turn in the chair, I viewed the pinups on the wall: a collection of fishing and hunting photos with other miscellaneous items. One was of a nice bass, but the angler’s head was not in the picture. I asked Jim Patterson, the barber, “Who caught the nice fish?”

“Why that’s Kathy, Ray Plumley’s wife,” he said. “Let me tell you a story about that.

“They have a spot on Sydenham Lake in Canada. It’s a small place, just big enough to go for a week or so to relax and enjoy some good fishing.

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Kathy likes to fish and is quite good at it,” Jim said as he snipped away at a customer’s hair. “Fishing from the back of the boat, at times, she outfishes him.”

“Ray told me about a day when he wasn’t doing well,” he continued, “but Kathy was hauling them in. She was having fun and it was frustrating Ray. He watched the action in the back of the boat for a while and finally said, “Do you realize who’s in charge and running this boat? I don’t recall you being able to walk on water, and it’s a long way back to camp.”

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Jim and I agreed that we should find some sure-fire lures for Kathy. Get them to her without Ray knowing.

Then she could put a real hurt’n’ on him during their next trip.

In the meantime, Linda and I were shopping at Weis when Ray and Kathy came down the aisle. “Ray,” I asked, “have you been fishing in Canada lately?”

“No we haven’t been there in a while,” he replied. So I told him Jim’s barbershop tale. Kathy just smiled and kept silent as she continued to load the cart.

“Oh, you can’t believe a story like that; especially if you hear it from Jim,” he said defensively.

“But, Ray,” I said, “you know that what’s told in the barbershop is the truth. Everything is discussed there in depth: debates on health, politics, weather, hunting, fishing, world affairs. The barber is right up

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there with the doctor, the lawyer, and the politician in disseminating factual information. I have to believe Jim. Why, he can even tell you where to get a bobcat.”

Back at the barbershop, I told Jim about Ray’s response.

“But we have proof. He wanted to show off the nice fish without showing that Kathy caught it,” Jim said. “We have a picture of a headless fisherman hanging right there on the wall. We have to help out Kathy.”

We‘ll keep watching the wall in the barbershop. Kathy is destined to catch some lunkers during the next trip, and Ray will definitely have to supply the photos.

So Kathy, hold those lunkers high and smile. We’ll handle Ray. The Lunker is a member of the Tioga County Bass Anglers ( w w w. t i o g a c o u n t y b a s s a n g l e r s . com). Contact him at lunker@ mountainhomemag.com.

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To get training as a volunteer waterdog from TU chapters across Pennsylvania, or schedule a presentation for your local chapter, contact David Sewak, TU's Pennsylvania Marcellus Field Organizer, at dsewak@tu.org or (814) 535-5030.

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SHALE COUNTRY

The Distractions of Natural Gas

By Lilace Mellin Guignard

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ypos can be revealing. A couple days ago a friend and I—she also happens to be my priest—were putting the finishing touches on a grant application, for which the funds will be used to renovate a church building to include a separate rental apartment. One of our points is that affordable housing is desperately needed here because of how the influx of gas workers has caused rents to soar and availability to plummet.

We were frantically typing away at different sections (any of you who have written grant apps have guessed that it was due the next day), and later when I put the pieces together and was proofing I noticed she’d written “the distraction of natural gas,” instead of “extraction.” I laughed. Then I stopped to think.

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The monster now had a name. I don’t mean to be melodramatic or cute, but naming things is important for reasons other than conquering or claiming. Terry Tempest Williams, a Mormon nature writer, once said that if we didn’t know the names of trees then they’d all just be “trees” and we’d never realize when some species— elms, for instance—were disappearing. She was talking to a bunch of us artsy writers, some who claimed natural history or the science side of things was a hindrance or unnecessary to our task.

I’ve also learned from psychology and counselors I’ve known that naming the thing I fear and making it clearer to see does not make it more powerful, rather it gives me the ability to isolate it, take aim, and gain whatever level of control or power is possible under the circumstances.

I had been lumping the psychological effects of natural gas under one label—anxiety. I assumed my stress was all from my worries over what will happen.

Yet even when I’m not actively worrying, I am less present in what I am doing and where I am than before Marcellus Shale reared its ominous head. And then I forget things, lose things, miss appointments, and speed by the turn I take every day going home. So I run late, snap at my family, growl at the dogs. Bad mama.

The other day my husband Jimmy and I were in the car heading to his first appointment with an orthopedist since his bike wreck a little more than a week earlier. He was found by strangers, blacked out in the middle of the dirt road he rides home, and couldn’t remember anything about what happened. I felt sure he’d been avoiding a gas truck barreling down the road (it was just past the turnoff for a well pad), or maybe a deer. Hours later in the ER, having been diagnosed with a concussion (duh), broken collarbone, and maybe some broken ribs (turns out three), his memory suddenly returned. “I hit a hole,” he said, his eyes widening as he watched the scene in his head. “Wasn’t paying attention, just hurrying downhill, didn’t have my hands wrapped around the grips. They bounced off and underneath the handlebars. I don’t remember anything after that. Damn rookie mistake.”

My first response was to tease him that he couldn’t get a blog post out of that. It’d have been much better if he’d had a hit and run from a residual waste truck.

But in the car he said to me, “No wonder I had a bike crash this semester. I’ve been so distracted.” We’d been talking about how busy we are, how we hate to rush and it feels like that’s all we’re doing. Sure there’re issues at work that contribute, but on top of all the normal aspects of the world that’s too much with us, there’re the dozens of emails, warnings, and queries concerning the natural gas boom here. Which to read? Which to act on immediately?

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Which are overreactions by others?

A friend called us one morning to say he had information from a watershed meeting about something the PA DEP was considering that could result in brine being spread on roadways. Could we help get the word out? That day? The open comment period (that was never advertised) was almost over. Jimmy’s last blog post touched on the pressure that comes with committing to stay informed and vigilant. The monster doesn’t take a day off; nevertheless we cannot be fulltime defenders, tossing aside the daily tasks of life (although the dishes can wait a day or two if necessary) for an indefinite amount of time. Say the decade or more that our area is due to be under siege. And it’s these daily tasks that are as important as what we might consider our more “serious pursuits,” according to nature writer, activist, and Buddhist philosopher Gary Snyder.

So I want to pause and do what

my priest and friend advised in a Thanksgiving service years ago when I happened to have post-partum blues.

She asked us all to take our anxieties and turn them into statements of thanks. It made me realize that I can choose what to focus on. Like that monster—the distraction of natural gas—which I can turn toward and away from, not giving all my moments to it. The practice of gratitude also energizes me much more than stewing over what I can do nothing about in that moment, ultimately making me a better defender of this place.

Lilace and Jimmy chronicle their life on their little slice of Marcellus Shale between Mansfield and Wellsboro on their blog, Greetings from Pipeline Road 7 at http://pipelineroad7.wordpress. com. Jimmy is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at Mansfield University, and Lilace is an instructor in the University’s Outdoor Recreation Leadership Program, a poet, and a general manager of the Mansfield Growers Market.

My List of Thanks

• For the strangers who found my husband before he was run over, and called an ambulance and then me.

• For early morning layers of pink through aspen branches beyond my kitchen window.

• For the farmers and food-crafters in the area who help me put healthy, humanely raised food on my table and plates.

• For the dirty plates in my sink, and the fact that I have more clean ones in the cabinet.

• For our friend who hates public speaking but went to several township meetings to educate officials on the dangers of using waste brine on the roadways.

• For my husband who wanted down time and got it.

• For my children who visibly grew up as they took care of Daddy.

• For the remaining places for the deer (and us) to wander.

• For the smell of my daughter’s hair.

• For my son’s infectious laugh.

• For the Saturday morning art program my kids love (during which I write).

• For the small town I live in, and the people who jump to our side when the youknow-what hits the fan (or my husband hits the dirt).

• For all the moments. They are exquisite.

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pril 1st. 6:00 a.m.: I can see from my second story window that there are no parking spaces left on South Main Street.

It’s dark this morning. And cold.

The sun won’t be up for another hour.

A heavy sound of feet can be heard clumping up the steps. There’s a squeak of the wooden door, and then people, lots of people, start straggling in. About twenty in all.

Some talk. Others are quiet. Some wear pajama bottoms and slippers, others have their work clothes slung over their shoulders on hangers. More than a few have bed head, and I can see the imprint of their pillows still on their faces.

I can tell by their looks that every single one of them is questioning their sanity. They have all come here from the warmth of their beds, at this ungodly hour, to practice yoga.

For some, this is their first time; for others, yoga is not new, but this is.

This is Day One of Main Street Yoga’s 5th annual “30 Days for $30” Yoga Challenge.

For the next month, sixty people from Mansfield, Wellsboro, and parts beyond have ponied up $30 (a dollar a day) in the hopes that stretching, breathing, sweating, laughing, and balancing on one foot will make them happier.

The bargain hunters signed up because, are you kidding? A dollar a day? Who could resist that when the

classes here are usually $10 a class? The couch potatoes signed up to kick start their fitness programs and get back into shape after six months of sloth. The oncea-week yoga people want to see what new magic might happen if they up the ante from once a week to every day.

When I first opened this studio eight years ago, nobody came. I mean, not nobody, but practically nobody. Certainly not enough paying customers to make the rent. I used to go home at night thinking, “Wow. It only cost me fifty dollars to teach yoga today.”

But eventually things picked up. Yoga itself started to hit the mainstream media with startling regularity, and the health benefits of the practice were being widely touted in medical journals.

That helped my business a lot.

Then there was word-of-mouth.

People who thought there might be a conflict with their religious beliefs found that there wasn’t; and people who thought they had to be limber to do it, found they didn’t.

These people told their friends, and then more people started coming and I started to make the rent. (With

startling regularity.) And now here I am, standing at my window at 6 a.m. with a sold-out Challenge of sixty people signed up to do yoga every day for a month.

My job, as I see it, is to get them addicted. I am really no different from your average playground pusher: give the stuff away for (practically) free, get them hooked, then make them pay.

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But unlike your typical pusher, I don’t lie. When they ask me if there will be side effects, I tell them the truth.

“You might feel a little uncomfortable at first, especially if you’re really tight,” I say, “but if you keep taking it, you’ll eventually feel a lot better.”

“Will I lose weight?” (Everybody asks this one.)

“Maybe,” I say. “Depends on the dose. But start easy. That’s the best way.”

“How will I know it’s working?”

“Oh, you’ll know,” I say. “First your posture will improve, then you’ll start sleeping better, then you’ll stop flipping out on your kids…”

“Wait. My kids will know I’m on this stuff?”

“Oh, yeah. They’ll be the first ones to notice. Then your boss will begin to suspect, then your spouse, and then your friends. Everyone is going to notice a weird new calmness about you, a new kind of chill attitude towards things.

You’re gonna get … happier.”

“Whoa,” they say. “Just a little stretching and some deep breathing are going to do all that?”

“Yep,” I say.

And that’s how I hook them.

It’s now Day 15. My morning class has just ended.

Everyone is smiling and soft. They look Miriam Cummings (right) mirrors the master, Kathleen Thompson. kind of drunk.

“Yep, they’re almost hooked,” I Some are putting their work clothes think. “Look at them all: alert, present, on, headed to the office; others are going and calmly entering their day. Twenty home to get the kids on the bus. They people behind the wheels of twenty cars, all look so happy, so centered, so serene. driving under the influence of yoga.”

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ou approach a group of three persons to introduce a friend. In the group are a fifty-year-old nun who happens to be your sister, the woman CEO of a multi-national corporation, fortyfive, and an eighty-three-year-old male retiree. In what sequence do you introduce them?

In a democracy, grades— hierarchies—are always a bit ticklish.

We believe, do we not, that we are all equal before God, before the law, before each other? In the instance above, should the sequence not begin with the person, well, closest to you?

The great psychoanalyst Erich Fromm divides the ways we come to feel self-worth and enjoy social status: either we do so because of what we possess—fame, wealth, or things— or by who we are. The latter, Fromm believes, is superior.

A while ago we dined with a very wealthy man. He growled into the parking lot in his marigold-yellow Porsche, grabbed a seat beside the host, and made sure, by the end of the meal, that no one was in any doubt about his wealth, his self-made bravado, his contempt for anyone poorer than himself. One oration centered on a new kitchen he had just installed. Into the millions. Do you cook, someone asked? Me, cook? You kidding? Well, do you have a chef? No, I always eat out. Is your kitchen ever used? Well, no. Why did you build it? It impresses people (long past time to find the bar).

Traditionally, ministers and academics stand at the other end of this spectrum. Too poor to buy their cheese at the imported cheese counter, they make do with the grocery-brand cheddar. They live with, and by, that cheap commodity—books. Most have spent their lives cultivating the

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Recently we entertained sixty or so college students in our home. We were taken aback, frankly, by how many, their BMWs at the curb, conversed only distractedly, dibbling their cellphones. Conversely, a young woman from Uzbekistan chatted with polite, engrossing, inquisitive vivacity. A pleasure to talk with. Where did she learn that art? That scope of interest and marvel beyond herself? Our parents and our schools should know.

Democracy takes a great deal from class-bound old nobility. It also takes a great deal from that alternative culture of acute privation, monasticism.

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ARTS & LEISURE Toast to a Titanic Survivor

By Michael Capuzzo

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ealthy and renowned in Watkins Glenn, New York, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rothschild happily boarded the Titanic on the evening of April 10, 1912 in Cherbourg, France. Cherbourg was the new ship’s first stop out of Southampton, England, but the world’s largest cruise liner could not fit in the port. The Rothschilds and 262 other passengers had to be ferried aboard, a process that took several hours before the ship made for Queensland, Ireland, then the next day, turned toward New York and the wide Atlantic.

Clothing manufacturer Martin was no John Jacob Astor IV or Benjamin Guggenheim—two of the millionaires on board that day—though he was the scion of a famous family that had financed the Napoleonic Wars, and his niece would gain fame in the 1920s as the writer Dorothy Parker. But among the 2,200 passengers and crew, he had the distinction of being one of only ten first-class passengers, including Astor, allowed to bring aboard a dog. Of the twelve dogs escorted on ship, one was a very little dog, a Pomeranian, who meant as much as life itself to Mrs. Rothschild.

Four days into the historic voyage, the Rothschilds sat down to a splendid, eight-course feast featuring Canapes a l’Amiral, Roast Sirloin of Beef Forestiere, Chicken Lyonnais, Poached Salmon with Mousseline Sauce, and Chocolate Painted Eclairs.

It was their last meal together, the last first class meal aboard the Titanic before she struck an iceberg some 375 miles south of Newfoundland,

and quickly sank into the frigid night ocean.

Martin was one of 1,517 people who died. Thanks to the Edwardian ethic of “women and children first,” Elizabeth, fifty-four, was one of 710 survivors.

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next morning, crew members of the rescue ship Carpathia refused to take the dog, but Mrs. Rothschild declared she would not be hoisted onto the rescue ship until Pomeranian was secured safely in her lap. Mrs. Rothschild prevailed, and her dog was one of only three canine survivors of the Titanic, with a Pekinese and another Pomeranian.

She returned to Watkins Glen, where she lived thirty-one more years, and is remembered as a charming woman, generous to the less fortunate, chauffeured around town in a black Packard, often wearing black to mourn her husband.

One hundred years later, Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild’s tragic and heroic role in history will be remembered in Watkins Glen with a grand 100th anniversary Titanic Festival on April 14 and 15. Local Titanic aficionados have planned a Titanic Film Festival at the Glen Theater, a self-

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The Titanic Festival Committee hired graphic artist Nick Phoenix to create six wine labels—one for each day the ship sailed. The dramatic black labels are affixed to collector’s wines bottled by six Seneca Lake wineries for the festival—Lakewood Vineyards, J.R. Dill Winery, Glenora Wine Cellars, Atwater Estate Vineyards, Wagner Vineyards, and Zugibe Vineyards. The bottles will be available for purchase in April, at each individual winery.

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All proceeds will benefit the Schuyler County Historical Society. (For more information, email titanicfestival@yahoo. com).

A driving force behind the festival is amateur Titanic historian John A. Pulos, the former owner of Chef ’s Diner in Montour Falls. Pulos became obsessed with the Titanic and the shipwreck’s local survivor after watching James Cameron’s movie Titanic in 1997.

In 2007, he sold his restaurant, where he had presented ten annual Titanic dinners, and became a Finger Lakes winery tasting room associate. He paired a full suite of Glenora wines with the Titanic meal, from the first-course 2003 BRUT, Methode Champenoise to the eighth-course Glenora Port to accompany the éclairs.

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One Woman’s Vengeance

By Jelaina Jones

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o one ever wants to experience what Nora Hawks had to go through. In a matter of minutes her dream of living life on the western frontier literally went up in smoke when Butch Wheeler's gang rode in, killed her husband, and left her for dead.

Unfortunately for Butch and his gang, Nora survived, and now she's out for carnage, blood, and vengeance. Enlisting the help of retired bounty hunter Peter Clawson, a grizzled gunslinger whose knowledge of the lawless west rivals even that of "the man with no name," Nora sets out to seek her revenge. But first, she has to learn how to shoot, and shoot to kill.

Dennis Miller, Mansfield University's Public Relations Director, has created a character in Nora Hawks who would put Wonder Woman to shame. Nora's unwavering determination to master the ways of the western wilds and sheer strength of will make her the perfect western heroine.

Miller not only brings to life the rough and ready spirit of the old west, but revels in it. In a land without rules or fences, his unique storytelling seamlessly weaves a tale that would leave Zane Grey envious.

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Jelaina Jones is a Mansfield University student studying journalism. She is an avid reader and the editor of the weekly MU student newspaper.

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Cooking with a Catch

By Cornelius O’Donnell

Fishy fishy in the brook, Papa catch ’em on a hook.

Mama cooks ’em in a pan, Nealie eats ’em like a man.

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ow many times did I hear that little rhyme when I was a kid?

I was the first born in the family, so the first name of the last line became, in turn, Robbie, Artie, and Nancy. If memory serves, that last line became “Nanny eats ’em cause she can.”

There were two things that puzzled me in that poem. My dad never fished in his life, and, in our house, my Mama’s only brush with cooking fish was her TunaNoodle Wiggle. Her achievement was to use buttered bread crumbs mixed with finely chopped almonds or walnuts on top, never crushed potato chips. I thought it was “gourmet.”

We got our fish on Fridays from a fishfry place on the Pine Hills end of Madison Avenue in Albany. Dad usually doubleparked the car and I was the runner, sent into the smidge-y depths to haul out the halibut, hoping Pops would forget to ask me for the change.

It was years before I knew how wonderful fish could be as close to “right out of the brook” as possible.

‘Tis The season How many times have I heard the line “keep it simple, stupid” and the easiest way to cook trout—and maybe the most delicious—is to dredge those toothsome fillets (try six (ten-oz.) trout, gutted with heads left on) in 1/2 cup flour seasoned with salt and pepper, and then sauté them in 8 oz. of melted butter mixed with 1/4 cup of corn or vegetable oil. This retards 42

any burning. Cook over medium-high for about four-six minutes, depending on thickness, on each side until they are golden brown. Baste with the butter mixture a few times to retain moisture. Remove fish to a warm platter and sprinkle the top with a little lemon zest and a spritz of lemon juice.

For the final (French-inspired) touch, some chefs put butter in a fresh pan and heat it until it is nut brown. This goes over the cooked fish. But it doesn’t “go over” in my house.

Chopped parsley or chives or both are sprinkled over the fish, maybe some rinsed capers. Serve with more lemon cut in wedges. The French call this method “meuniere,” and they cook sole in this same manner. I can still see a chef friend doing this production over a campfire in a big cast-iron skillet.

Here is something fancier, but not much, and easy to do when you are home on the range, so to speak.

Brook TrouT FilleTs Poached in WhiTe Wine I adapted this idea from my go-to authority—Julia Child. Try this method if you have skinless and boneless fillets. A serving would be about a six to eight-oz.

portion. For six fillets, score the side where the skin was, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Smear a shallow oven-safe skillet with 2 tablespoons butter and scatter a tablespoon of minced shallot (or chopped green onion) over the surface. Place the fillets in the pan, scored-side down and overlapping a bit. Strew another tablespoon of shallots/green onion over the fish and pour 2/3 cup of dry vermouth (or white wine) and 1/3 cup of water or even chicken or vegetable broth over all.

Preheat the oven to 350F. Cover the pan contents with cut-to-fit buttered parchment (or waxed) paper (butter side down) and bring to a simmer on the stove top. Then transfer the pan to the preheated oven. In 7 or 8 minutes the fish will be done. Test. It should be lightly springy to the touch and milky-white.

Julia drains the cooking juices into a saucepan and boils the liquid down until it is almost a syrup, and then whisks in a few drops of lemon juice and perhaps 2 tablespoons of butter. Voila, a sauce! Spoon this over the fish and top with chopped chives and/or parsley. I also add a little lemon zest (a Microplane is a great helper.)

The zest adds color and flavor.

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My Favorite Things

Veggie Heaven

By Becca Ostrom

Yorkholo Brewing Co. & Restaurant Handcrafted Ales paired with dishes made up of local ingredients

19 N. Main St. Mansfield, PA

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didn’t want to go that fateful night. I wanted to stay home and finish laundry and read—I’m not kidding, those are both treats. But I gave in and made the one-block trek to meet some friends at Yorkholo, a craft-brewed beer heaven. Little did I know that I was there on one of the best of nights, the night that will forever change my vision of pizza.

Vegetarian pizza was one of the specials of the day, and when the masterpiece arrived in front of me I was immediately taken aback: a pizza that resembles the salads that I try to eat daily! But this pie was so much more… fresh mushrooms, sprouts, roasted chick peas, spinach, homemade pizza sauce—ßa pie that had more to offer than the plain cheese pie I usually order. The crust is thick with just the right amount of crunch. You would need a firm crust to hold the mound of vegetables.

After my first bite all conversation ended. I was wrapped in the flavors and freshness of this delicacy. No canned vegetables on this pizza, no soggy cheese to worry about.

This pizza is magic.

Night and Day Coffee Café barista Becca Ostrom is a first-time contributor to Mountain Home.

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PENNSYLvANiA Bradford County Canton KELLEY’s CREEK sIDE REsTAURAnT Kelley’s offers $4 breakfast and $6 lunch specials every day, and they are open for dinner Wed-Sun. They specialize in homestyle cooking like their prime rib and serve homemade desserts like chocolate peanut butter pie and muffins. (570) 673-4545, 1026 springbrook Dr, www.urbanspoon.com

Lycoming County Trout Run BITTnER’s GEnERAL sToRE Hot and cold 18” subs, specialties are italian and cheese steak. Pizzas, homemade salads, pastas, and hot foods. Fresh meats, cold cuts, and our own lean ground hamburger. Camping supplies and propane. (570) 998-8500, located at the junction of Rt. 14 and Rt. 15 in Trout Run, PA, bittnersinc@aol.com.

FRY BRos. TURKEY RAnCh original turkey dinners & complete menu. Established business since 1886. Restaurant and convenience store.

At the top of Steam valley Mountain, elevation 1,704 ft. open daily for breakfast, lunch, & dinner. Gifts and souvenirs. 27 Rt. 184 hwy, (570) 998-9400. sTEAM VALLEY REsTAURAnT Steam valley offers good home cooking and daily specials. it’s open 7 days of the week. Gas, diesel, and convenience store coming soon! (570) 9982559, 169 Rt. 14 hwy, P.o. Box 157, Junction Route 14 & 15.

Williamsport WEGMAn’s Wegman’s Market Café features freshly-made foods ranging from quick grabs like pizza, subs, and Asian classics to comfortfood favorites, salads, and sandwiches. Come try our family-friendly foods at budget-friendly prices. 201 William st, (570) 320-8778, wegmans.com.

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Mother Earth

The Sounds of Spring

By Gayle Morrow

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hat says “spring” to you?

For me it’s when the red-winged blackbirds come back. Seeing that flash of red-on-black, hearing that distinctive tootle-eeee—it means winter is done, regardless of the weather. Around here, blackbirds typically make their first appearance close to the Ides of March; I heard them this year on February 28, the earliest I can remember them returning. I don’t know why they were so ahead of schedule or what that portends.

Maybe they got as tired of waiting for winter as I did and said the hell with it—let’s say spring is here.

Spring holds such promise, doesn’t it? With all its amazing snippets of sound, spring is like the overture to the symphony that follows, with melodies and movements that bloom and come to fruition as the seasons progress.

Early on, before the blackbirds and robins, when the owls’ hoohoohoo– hoo is the only music late on a still winter afternoon, you might catch the tap, tap, tap of a spile going into a sugar maple. Then there’s the gurgle and gush of sap running into the evaporator, the hiss of steam rolling off the almost-syrup, the satisfying, almost solid-sounding splash the first of the finished Grade-A amber makes when it hits the bucket. By the time syrup season is over, the peepers are out, the mornings are satiated with songbirds, and the earth seems as though it might burst 46

with the joy of the pending warmth and fecundity.

Sometimes after dark I like to go outside and just listen. Like tonight, I went out to shut the chickens in and I heard, way off, the coyotes. Other times, the foxes bark their weird, hacking-up-a-hairball kind of bark, but that’s

more often in the middle of the night. I can hear the creek at the bottom of the pasture—it’s been open most of the winter and recent rain has it close to concert pitch.

But I like it, too, when the silence is palpable. There hasn’t been much of that around where I live, not for quite a few months. But work on the gas wells near our home has reached the stage, I guess, that doesn’t call for quite so much activity. Tonight there’s no diesel drone, not too much truck traffic, no jet-engine sound of a well flaring.

I can’t tell you how precious the silence is.

Gayle Morrow, former editor of The Wellsboro Gazette, cooks locally, and organically, at the West End Market Café.

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Tioga County Blossburg MoMMA’s Momma’s offers a full menu and specializes in homestyle cooking. They have daily specials and the area’s best baby back ribs on Saturdays. Steak Night is on Thursdays.

They also cater to rigs. (570) 638-0270, 102 Granger st.

Liberty BLoCKhoUsE CAFÉ Blockhouse Café is open for breakfast and lunch and on Friday nights, serving homemade and home-style meals, including desserts. it’s a unique café with good food, great company, and a place where you always get your money’s worth.

(570) 324-2041, 31 Willow st.

ThE LAnDInG sTRIP FAMILY REsTAURAnT The Landing Strip offers home cooked foods, daily specials, homemade desserts, a clean, friendly atmosphere, on or off premises catering, and has a banquet or large party area. Easy on/ off Route 15.. (570) 324-2436, Routes 15 & 414 junction.

Mansfield EDDIE’s REsTAURAnT Eddie’s offers home-style cooking with homemade daily specials. Their specialties include hot roast beef sandwiches and chicken & biscuits, both served with real mashed potatoes. They have homemade pies and serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (570) 662-2972, 2103 s. Main st.

LAMBs CREEK FooD & sPIRITs Lambs Creek offers sophisticated, down-home cooking seven days a week. Every Tuesday there’s an italian Night speciai. Beautiful terrace overlooks gorgeous mountains. (570) 662-3222, 200 Gateway Dr, Mansfield, PA 16933, www. lambscreek.com PAPA V’s PIZZERIA & REsTAURAnT Papa v’s offers a wide variety of hand tossed New York Style thin-crust pizza, a multitude of hot and cold sandwiches, fresh ½ pound Angus burgers, and delicious homemade italian dishes for lunch and dinner. 12 n. Main st, (570) 6622651, www.papavpizzeria.com.

WREn’s nEsT Wren’s Nest has live music every Wed. night from 6-9. Specialties include crab cakes, steaks, and pastas. They make homemade desserts including lemon meringue ice cream pie and crème brule (sampler). (570) 662-1093, 102 West Wellsboro st, www. wrensnestpa.com.

YoRKhoLo BREWInG Co. offers a selection of dishes made up of local ingredients paired with Yorkholo’s own fresh brewed beer, including “Pine Creek” Raspberry Wheat, “Summer Love” Summer Ale, “Mountaineer” i.P.A, “Bungy” Blonde Ale, and 2 rotating selections. (570) 662-0241, 19 n Main st, www.yorkholobrewing.com.

Mansfield Fast Food MCDonALDs (570) 662-7077, 120 N Main St.

WEnDY’s (570) 662-7511, 1580 S Main St. KEnTUCKY FRIED ChICKEn (570) 662-2558, 1320 S Main St. TACo BELL (570) 662-2558, 1320 S Main St.

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Morris BABB’s CREEK Inn & PUB Babb’s Creek inn & Pub specializes in Seafood and Prime Rib, which is available every night, except Tuesdays when the restaurant is closed. Reservations are appreciated for parties of 8 or more. Located at the intersection of Rtes. 287 & 414, (570) 353-6881, www.babbscreekinnandpub.com.

Wellsboro CAFÉ 1905 Classic coffee house located in Dunham’s Department Store. Proudly serving Starbucks® coffee, espresso, Frappuccino®, Tazo® tea plus delicious freshly baked pastries, homemade soups, artisan sandwiches and ice cream. Free wi-fi. (570) 724-1905, Inside Dunham’s Department store, 45 Main st.

DUMPLInG hoUsE ChInEsE REsTAURAnT Dumpling House specializes in Hunan, Cantonese, and Szechuan Cuisine. it’s family owned and operated and located on beautiful Main Street in Wellsboro. You may dine in or carry out. (570) 724-4220, 31 Main st.

DUnKIn’ DonUTs America Runs on Dunkin’. 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. (570) 724-4556, 7 Main st.

ThE FRoG hUT The Frog Hut serves favorites like Texas hots, fried chicken, and Philly cheese steaks. They offer homemade soups and salads, and for dessert, try their soft serve ice cream, italian ice, sundaes, and other ice cream treats. (570) 724-4450, 132 Tioga st. hARLAnD’s FAMILY sTYLE REsTAURAnT open seven days a week at 5 a.m., serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner all day until 9 p.m., including the largest Black Angus burgers in town, full salad bar, and all homemade desserts.

House-batter-dipped haddock fish fry every Friday. Full service on-site catering available.

(570) 724-3311, 17 Pearl st.

MARY WELLs RooM AnD PEnn WELLs LoUnGE Located in historic Penn Wells Hotel, full service restaurant and lounge feature an extensive menu of fine steaks, seafood, pasta, gourmet sandwiches, fresh burgers, desserts.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and Sunday brunch.

(570) 724-2111, 62 Main st, www.pennwells. com.

ThE nATIVE BAGEL The Native Bagel offers bagels made fresh daily, gourmet coffee, deli sandwiches, soups and salads, and homemade desserts. Bagels are mixed, kneaded, rolled, boiled, and baked onsite. All soups, breads, and baked items are “made from scratch.” 1 Central Ave, (570) 724-0900, www.nativebagel.com.

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sauTeed Brook TrouT WiTh sour cream sauce

I think that for fish, the less fussing you do the better. You want to bring out the subtle flavor of the catch. This recipe is about as fancy as it gets in my kitchen.

Make the sauce ahead and refrigerate but remove it a half hour before you are ready to serve.

Sour Cream Sauce: 3/4 cup lower fat sour cream (not non-fat) 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley 3 tablespoons finely chopped green onion white and tender green Variations: Substitute chopped fresh dill or perhaps chopped fennel fronds for some of the parsley; try adding 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard or 2 teaspoons of Dijon mustard or to taste; a few rinsed and chopped capers are a good addition.

Create!

The Trout: 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons cornmeal 1 teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt 1 teaspoon paprika (preferably mild or hot and imported) 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper 6 (10-oz.) trout, cleaned but with heads left, fins snipped 2 eggs, lightly beaten 3 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 tablespoons vegetable oil Chopped chives or additional chopped parsley Lemon wedges Mix all the sauce ingredients together and set aside in the refrigerator.

Combine the flour, cornmeal, salt, paprika and pepper. Dip the fish into this mixture shaking off the excess, then into the eggs, then into the flour mixture again. Refrigerate the coated fish for about 45 minutes.

Heat the oil in a 12-inch skillet and add the butter to melt along with the oil.

When the foam subsides, add the fish and cook at medium-high for about 4 to 6 minutes; turn the fish carefully and cook an additional 4 minutes until browned and crisp on both sides. Check at the thickest part of the fillets with the tip of your knife or your finger. If it offers no resistance the fish is done. It is important not to overcook the fish. Remove the fish letting the excess oil drain off.

Serve immediately, topped with the sauce (or pass sauce separately). In any case top the sauce with the chives and/or parsley and decorate the plates with lemon wedges. This serves 6.

Now the plan is to cultivate a friendship with several fisher-people who are sharers—and hope.

Chef, teacher, and author Cornelius O’Donnell lives in Elmira, New York.

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PAG-o-MAR Pag-o-Mar offers subs, salads, and deli sandwiches at the head of the Wellsboro Junction Rail Trail, across from the Tioga Central tour train station. They also offer soft custard and Hershey’s hard ice cream. And there’s a farmer’s market in season. (570) 724-3333, 222 Butler Rd. (just past junction of Rts. 6 & 287). sUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (570) 724-1424, 63 Main St, www.acornmarkets.com.

ThE sTEAK hoUsE The Steak House has been serving the finest steaks and seafood since 1957.

Whether you want a black angus hamburger or a cold water lobster tail, there’s something for the whole family in a true Wellsboro atmosphere. 29 Main st, (570) 724-9092, www.thesteakhouse. com.

TERRY’s hoAGIEs Terry’s Hoagies makes the best hoagies in town. They specialize in both hot and cold hoagies, and bake their bread and potato, macaroni, and pasta salads fresh daily. Hoagie trays and meat & cheese platters available. (570) 724-7532, 7 Charleston st, www.terryshoagies. com.

TIoGA CEnTRAL RAILRoAD All aboard Tioga Central Railroad! Take a scenic ride while enjoying dinner on Saturday night or Sunday brunch.

Wine and beer available. See website for menu selection. (570) 724-0990, 11 Muck Rd, www. tiogacentral.com.

TonY’s ITALIAn CUIsInE Come to Tony’s for homemade cooking and family recipes, fresh dough and homemade bread made daily, pasta dishes, and special pizzas like steak pizza, Sicilian pizza, and their 3-cheese pizza. it’s family-owned and run, and they offer lunch and dinner specials.

(570) 724-2090, 3 Main st.

WELLsBoRo DInER Wellsboro Diner, a famous Wellsboro landmark, serves sumptuous home cooked meals, fresh baked pies, cookies and cakes, and the very best prime rib on Saturday nights. They offer more than ample portions to all hungry guests. (570) 724-3992, 19 Main st, Wellsboro, PA 16901 WEsT EnD MARKET CAFÉ “Globally inspired, locally sourced.” A place of nourishment and respite, celebrating local food & creativity.

We feature fresh, locally sourced ingredients whenever possible & Fair Trade coffee products.

Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m. To 3 p.m. Saturday 8 a.m. To 3 p.m. (570) 605-0370, 152 Main st, www.westendmarketcafe.wordpress.com.

Wellsboro Fast Food MCDonALDs (570) 724-2151, 9 Charleston St.

Westfield ACoRn #10 FEATURInG sUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (814) 367-2610, 465 E Main St, www. acornmarkets.com.

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Finger Lakes Wine Review

Down with the Sip

By Holly Howell

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urrounding the sapphire waters of Seneca Lake, our 32 wineries invite you to experience a destination rich in history, beauty, and the production of world-class wines. Located in the heart of New York’s Finger Lakes Region, our climate supports not only the growth of hardy native grapes and premium hybrids, but also more delicate varieties, such as Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir.

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hey say that the world’s largest wine cellar resides on the ocean floor. Many of the ships that have traveled throughout the past 3,000 years were likely carrying some wine or spirits on board. And any vessels that were lost at sea took their precious cargo with them. Since wines prefer to be stored in the dark at cold temperatures, I’d say there is probably one heck of a collection awaiting discovery at the dismal depths.

T h i s m o n t h i s t h e 1 0 0 th anniversary of the sinking of the great ship Titanic. There are many events scheduled to commemorate this occasion, and to honor the many that lost their lives that fateful night.

Culinary historians have always been fascinated with the menus that were offered aboard the elegant White Star Line. On the evening of April 14, 1912, the first class meal consisted of eleven courses, each paired with a different wine. Any bottles that weren’t popped that night are now resting at the bottom of the sea, and may still be holding up quite well.

Let’s start with Champagne, which is what any true first class passenger would prefer at the start of the meal. A bottle of Heidsieck Dry Monopole (1898 or 1900 vintages) would have cost you a whopping $3.12 in the Titanic main dining room. Today, you can pick up a current vintage for about $40. Other offerings included Mumm’s G.H. Extra Dry Vintage 1900 ($3.00) which now sells for $38, and Ruinart Vin Brut ($2.75) which is now available for $65. Since Champagne is quite food-friendly, I can imagine

drinking these selections from the beginning of the meal right to the end!

The course of Poached Salmon with Mousseline Sauce and Cucumber was aptly paired with a German Riesling from the Rheingau (which was referred to as German “Hock” back then). It was $1.25 per bottle, and had the perfect crispness to bring out the fresh flavors of the salmon.

Filet Mignon Lili and Chicken Lyonnaise were served together with a Vegetable Marrow Farcie. Chateau Rauzan-Ségla ($1.25 a bottle), a classy blend of Cabernet and Merlot from the Bordeaux region of France, was the choice for this rich pairing.

The Red Burgundy wine came from Volnay, a hilltop village located in the Côte de Beaune, France. It also sold for an acceptable $1.25 a bottle and was highly recommended with both the Lamb with Mint Sauce and the Roasted Squab on Wilted Cress.

And for dessert, nothing but the best. Sauternes was the sweet wine of the rich and famous. It still is. But on the Titanic, a $1.00 bottle could get you through three tastes each of Foie Gras, Peaches Chartreuse, and Chocolate Painted Eclairs. Today, Sauternes can cost up to hundreds of dollars a bottle ($1,000 for a full bottle of Chateau d’Yquem!), so this reinforces what I have said all along.

No matter what, it is never good to skip dessert.

Holly is a Certified Specialist of Wine (by the Society of Wine Educators) and a Certified Sommelier (by the Master Court of Sommeliers in England); email her at wineanddine @mountainhomemag.com.

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Potter County Galeton ACoRn #25 FEATURInG sUBWAY “Eat Fresh.”

(814) 435-6626, 3 West St, www.acornmarkets.com.

TUToRs REsTAURAnT Tutors Restaurant offers delicious home-cooked meals 7 days a week. Breakfast on Sat and Sun. Tues˜italian.

Wed˜Seafood. Thur˜Wings. Fri˜Fish Fry. Sun˜Brunch Buffet. (814) 435-3550, 75 Germania st.

Germaina GERMAnIA hoTEL The best burgers around.

Wings, pizza, steaks, and seafood. Thursday Rib Night. Friday Broiled or Fried Haddock.

Salad bar Thurs, Fri, Sat. Serving food 7 days a week, 12pm to12am. Legal beverages, rooms available, find us on Facebook “Germaniahotel Germania.” (814) 435-8851, Rt. 44 (seven Miles south of Galeton).

Gold GoLD GEnERAL sToRE Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Pizza and subs.

Baked goods. Grocery items. (814) 848-9773, 2760 state Rt. 49W.

NEW YoRK steuben County Addison ACoRn #11 FEATURInG sUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (607) 359-2603, 121 Front St, www. acornmarkets.com.

Bath RICo’s PIZZA Rico’s Pizza offers NY Style hand-tossed pizzas with a variety of toppings.

The full menu includes appetizers, salads, subs, calzones, stromboli’s, and pizza by the slice. Dessert, beer, and wine are also available. (607) 622-6033, 371 W Morris st, www.ricospizza.com.

Corning ThE GAFFER GRILLE AnD TAP RooM The Gaffer Grille and Tap Room offers fine dining, atmosphere, food, drinks, and friends! We serve lunches, dinners, meetings, or small parties up to 30 individuals. visit us on Historic Market Street in Corning’s Gaffer District.

(607) 329-9950, 58 W Market Street, www. gaffergrilleandtaproom.com. hoLMEs PLATE REsTAURAnT Holmes Plate offers Rustic Semi-Al Fresco casual dining, specializing in the area’s largest selection of craft & micro-brewery beers. We prepare every dish fresh to order with the highest quality ingredients. (607) 377-5500, 54 West Market st, www.holmesplate.com.

RADIsson hoTEL CoRnInG Grill 1-2-5

serves creative regional specialties: small plates, grilled sandwiches, and tender filet mignon. The Steuben Bar offers appetizers, light meals, your favorite beverages, and is known for the best martini in the city! 125 Denison Parkway East, (607) 962-5000, www.radisson.com/corningny.

TonY R’s Tony R’s is the first upscale steak and seafood restaurant in Corning, New York’s Gaffer District. They serve the finest cuisine in the area and also offer a tremendous selection of the finest wines that you will not want to miss. (607) 937-9277, 2-6 East Market street, www.tonyrssteakandseafood.com.

RICo’s PIZZA Rico’s Pizza offers NY Style hand-tossed pizzas with a variety of toppings.

The full menu includes appetizers, salads, subs, calzones, stromboli’s, and pizza by the slice. Dessert, beer, and wine are also available. (607) 962-2300, 92 W Market street, www.ricospizza.com.

Wayland ACoRn #16 FEATURInG sUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (585) 728-3840, 2341 Rt. 63, www. acornmarkets.com.

Chemung County Horseheads RICo’s PIZZA Rico’s Pizza offers NY Style hand-tossed pizzas with a variety of toppings.

The full menu includes appetizers, salads, subs, calzones, stromboli’s, and pizza by the slice.

Dessert, beer, and wine are also available.

(607) 796-2200, 2162 Grand Central Ave, www.ricospizza.com.

Finger Lakes Hammondsport MALonEY’s PUB Maloney’s Pub offers live music year round. Come show your talent or view other local talent at their open mics on Thursdays, or lounge around and play pool at their pool table. They also have pub merchandise available. (607) 569-2264, 57 Pulteney st, www.maloneyspub.com.

Watkins Glen CAPTAIn BILL’s Discover the beauty of Seneca Lake. Dine afloat aboard the Seneca Legacy or on the waterfront at Seneca Harbor Station. Saturday night dinner cruises sail from 6-9 p.m. open 7 days. (607) 535-4541, 1 n Franklin st, www.senecaharborstation.com.

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edith Volpe Preserves the ancient ukrainian Craft of Pysanka Story and Photos by Clint Decker

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es, spring is here, that season of April showers, family reunions, and the Easter bunny.

For Edith Volpe, master Pysanka artist, it means the designing of Easter eggs.

Edith, a gifted Tioga County woman, is a wonder of creative energy.

She paints, she stitches, she sews. She makes penny rugs and penny cushions.

She volunteers at the food pantry on the outskirts of Mansfield. And she spends as much time as she can with Ed, her husband of sixty-two years.

But her passion during the Easter season is the fine art of the Pysanka, also known as the Ukranian Easter

egg. Throughout her fifty years of designing, Edith has enjoyed sharing her talent with her family, friends, and anyone interested in Pysankas, asking nothing in return except delight.

She was inspired to pick up the hobby after watching a video about Pysanka while she was living in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

“I just liked it right away,” she said with a gleaming smile. “It just attracted me.”

Edith’s passion and knowledge were evident as she explained her art, and practiced it. Watching her work was like watching poetry in motion, or rhythmic ripples on water.

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The technique of crafting the eggs is as intricate as the designs look. The process of making Pysanka has changed over the centuries—it is an ancient Ukrainian art later adapted to Christianity—but the essence remains the same. “Pysaty” means “to write,” as the designs are written with beeswax, not painted on. Edith uses a lathe, wax, dye, a heat source to melt the wax, and “a lot of measuring.”

Once the egg is placed on the lathe, it becomes easy to rotate, thus making it easy to pencil in patterns and continue on to melting the wax over the tracings to segregate the colors of the dyes. When the wax has dried over the etchings, Edith dyes the egg. She repeats any previous step as often as needed—every Easter, of course.

First-time Mountain Home contributor Clint Decker is a senior at Mansfield University.

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This beautiful home sits at the base of the mountains.

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40 acres in Ward Township, Tioga County. The land has frontage along a township road and is only a short walk to State Forest land. Electricity is available and the property has been perc approved for construction. The land is gently rolling and offers many potential building sites for a house or cabin. $139,000.

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Fifth Season, Second Act Rachel Tews Moves Uptown

By Michael Capuzzo

O

nce upon a forgotten Wellsboro, the Main Street corner facing the Town Green boasted a silent movie house called Dreamland, a grand Victorian horseand-carriage hotel, a famous writer who took the Indian pen name Nessmuk and edited a long-gone newspaper, The Wellsboro Agitator. In our time came The Lamplighter Inn, Davis Furniture, a Christian bookstore. But the Lamplighter burned in 1980, the furniture store closed, the missionaries took the Word of God elsewhere. For years the corner of Main and Central was dark, like a missing tooth in the smile of the town’s lively, gas-lit Main Street.

Then on the quiet evening of March 10, the lights came back on.

With little fanfare, the new Fifth Season home decor store suddenly lit the gloomy end of Main Street with almost fifty feet of tall, gleaming, department store-style windows. Brilliant white light spilled onto the sidewalk, illuminating displays of elegant women’s fashions, furniture, boutique bric-a-bracs—

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and the surprised and often delighted faces of passersby. “It’s like Fifth Avenue,” a few folks were heard to say.

The new home décor store occupies all the sidewalk retail space of the new Deane Center for the Performing Arts, the multi-million-dollar facility that also opened in March with small, black-box theater performances that herald big expectations for an even larger theater and Main Street renewal. For now, The Fifth Season is the brightest face of a new era.

“Several people have put it in a lovely way,” said Rachel Tews, owner of The Fifth Season. “They said they’re so happy to see lights at this end of Main Street again.”

Tews, thirty-nine, spent three-and-a-half months moving The Fifth Season from its original prominent location at 25 Main Street, at the busier, more commercial end of Main, into the new and significantly larger Deane Center spaces at 100 Main Street. The move involved not only boxing up and transporting thousands of items—from forty-eight-cent

caramels to $2,200 large, lit hutches—but a costly renovation, with six carpenters, of the old furniture-store spaces.

While the new store had a “soft opening” on March 10, Tews is billing April (and a stolen bit of March) as the “Grand Opening Month.” It starts with an invitationonly “Private Grand Opening Night” on Friday, March 30 from 4-8 p.m., featuring a ribbon cutting, champagne toast, a signature cocktail concocted just for the event, and hors d’oeuvres served by Timeless Destination. The store’s first 300 “Seasoned Customers”—from among the select 500 from as far as New Jersey, Philadelphia, Texas, and Florida who spend more than $250 a year—will receive a gift pack filled with $75 to $100 worth of sample products, such as scarves, candles, and luxury bath products.

Then during the public grand opening on the weekend of Saturday March 31 and Sunday April 1, Tews is offering refreshments, raffles (for two $500 shopping sprees), more sample product gift bags (in the $25 value range), and a live broadcast with Kevin Thomas of KC101. Other promotions will continue for the rest of April, such as 20 percent off boutique clothing and decorative glassware in week two, and free sunglasses with a $25 purchase in week three.

A native of State College, Pennsylvania, Rachel began her unlikely journey to Wellsboro at Penn State, where she graduated in 1996. After five years in Manhattan doing

events and meeting planning for pharmaceutical companies, she moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, a difficult time when she married and divorced.

By 2004, restless for a new direction, Rachel visited her younger sister Jolie Wetzler in Wellsboro. Jolie and her husband Keefer had moved to Wellsboro three years earlier, and Rachel enjoyed her visits to the small town. She was especially inspired by Susan Clickner’s Endless Journey home decor store at 77 Main Street.

That morning in 2004 she and Jolie walked into Main Street Antiques at 25 Main Street, and learned from owners Karen and Wayne Zohner that the store was for sale, along with a furniture business and a farm.

“I don’t need a farm, let’s start there,” Tews said. A while later, returning to Jolie’s house, Rachel and Jolie told Keefer: “We bought a business.”

“What are you talking about?” he asked. What the sisters had bought was the antique store and its painted reproduction furniture business.

Later, Rachel bought out Jolie and closed the painted furniture end of the business, focusing on the home décor store she called “The Fifth Season.” The name had a symbolic meaning to her, expressing “those times in life everyone has when you’re changing, reinventing.” Rachel’s personal Fifth Season was only beginning. In the fall of See Fifth Season on page 64

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2005, she put her house on Walnut Street in Wellsboro up for sale, and in walked a prospective buyer named David Tews. Tews, owner of Indigo Wireless in Wellsboro, was looking for a new house after the death of his wife, Liz. He and Liz had together run another business in town, The Blue Thistle, an elegant women’s clothing store, which had replaced Endless Journey at 77 Main. Tews didn’t buy the house, instead moving to a farmhouse in Mansfield. But he started dropping in at The Fifth Season to buy furniture for the farmhouse—and to visit with Rachel. “We were meant to be,” Rachel recalls. They began dating in 2006, and within a year they were married. Sophia, four, was born the next year; then came Chloe a year ago.

Dave and Rachel closed The Blue Thistle in 2009, but carried many of its popular clothing lines to the Fifth Season at 25 Main. Those lines, such as the Wind River and Two Star Dog labels, made the move to the new Fifth Season.

Rachel started dreaming of the new store as early as 2007 after seeing a traditional, classic-styled California furniture line in black wood at a Chicago design show. That striking line of furniture that now displays the store’s wares, set against white classical moldings, arches, and wainscoting, brick, and brilliant white light, sparked her vision. A vision part Pottery Barn, part Endless Journey, part Williams Sonoma, part Wellsboro and Tioga County, all Rachel.

“I knew I loved wainscoting, dental molding, exposed brick. David said you should look at the Deane Center. I walked in and it was a big hole to the sky, three rooms gutted out, wood floors, and exposed brick. That was all it took.”

Shop: the Fifth season Owner: rachel tews Phone: 570-724-6910 Address: 100 Main st., Wellsboro Hours: Mon.-thurs. 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Fri.-sat. 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Web: www.thefifthseason.biz

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