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By Michael Capuzzo Photos by Liz Young

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The Last Great Place

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By Mike Capuzzo

Moonshine Over Seneca

By Michael Capuzzo Blending North and South, the McKenzie boys bring whiskey to the Finger Lakes wine country.

A light-filled August includes the Endless Mountain Music Festival and a crazy puppy.

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Doings ‘Round the Mountain

By Jen Reed-Evans

The 2012 Hickory Fest Ramble at Stony Fork Campground colors the summer bluegrass.

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The Lunker

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It’s a Free-for-All

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Home & Garden

By Fred Metarko

A lovely summer day on the water isn’t enough for Fred; he chats with a mermaid.

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Shale Country

By Cindy Davis Meixel Go Americana—and international—at the Little League World Series. It’s free, it’s fabulous. Read all about it in our new Billtown section.

A Michelangelo of the Marcellus, Rachel Sager’s rock mosaics grace the Gallery at Penn College in Williamsport this month.

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Outdoor Adventure 101

By Cindy Davis Meixel

Our writer finds her own adventure on the water with the new president of Corning Community College.

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By Jen Reed-Evans Alex Martinec of Big Flats designed the best-remodeled house in America. Says who?

1.2 million Internet voters.

Arts and Leisure

By Adam Mahonske

Mahonske of Blossburg, a classical pianist who performs at the Endless Mountain Music Festival, names seven moments not to miss at this month’s concerts.

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Finger Lakes

By Michael Fitzgerald

A Watkins Glen wanderer finds an exciting revival in charming Montour Falls (pop. 1,750) and its spirited new businesses.

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Editors & Publishers Teresa Banik Capuzzo Michael Capuzzo Associate Publishers George Bochetto, Esq. Dawn Bilder

Food & Drink

By Cornelius O’Donnell

Our epicurean food writer explores garlic and its festivals, near and far.

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The Tasty Twin Tiers

By Becca Ostrom

“Divine intervention” brought Cindy and Rob Pflug to God’s Country and the Brick House Deli & Café in Galeton, and our hungry writer is glad it did.

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Mother Earth

By Gayle Morrow

Canning, freezing, pickling, root cellaring, etc. are matters of making hay for when the sun doesn’t shine.

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Shop Around the Corner

By Megan Wetzel

The Purrfect Treasures Shoppe in Wellsboro supports the Animal Care Sanctuary.

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Back of the Mountain

By Julie Sherwood

This shot captures the clouds floating lazily on the calm waters of Hills Creek on a beautiful afternoon.

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The Last Great Place

The View From My Desk

By Michael Capuzzo

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y wife Teresa, the real management brain at Mountain Home, entered my office that afternoon to discuss urgent magazine business—the Beagle wouldn’t eat. Pushing 112 in human years, Cosmo often leaves a few kibbles for later. She put the old boy’s small steel dish on my desk for me to guard until he got hungry, then she left. I moved the tattered, 2,000-page American Literature anthology to protect it further from thievery. Our main concern was the cattle dog, Yogi. He jumps five feet straight up. This is the kind of advanced analytics we do every day at Beagle Media.

Then along came trouble, a long nose with eyes following the scent of food, A.K.A. Rooster Red Crazy Legs. Her formal name is Rue, a Beagle mix puppy with freaky long legs from an unsupervised country romance. Think preteen pogo the clown on stilts. The puppy adopted by our staff members Liz Young and Dan Reed wandered down the hall to investigate this latest management decision. Somehow the cattle dog, who halts the puppy’s every movement like a war-zone border guard, missed her nose-first amble to daylight.

You can see the result. You can see what a calm, clearsighted executive decision-maker a Beagle puppy is (you can also just make out the metal rim of Cosmo’s dish on my desk).

In this, Rue and I are of one mind: the view from our desk these dog days of August is pretty tasty, pretty promising.

It’s time once again for magic in the hills. It’s time for the annual summer season of the Endless Mountain Music Festival, a sixty-two-piece international orchestra assembled by maestro Stephen Gunzenhauser of Wellsboro (his summer See Great Place on page 12

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Doings ’round the Mountain August

Grand Canyon’s Grand Music Ramble Over the Mountains

Toe-tapping, feel-good music waits at Stony Fork Campground, nestled near the PA Grand Canyon. The 12th annual 2012 Hickory Fest Ramble is gearing up for another exciting year of great bluegrass and acoustic music. The gorgeous wooded setting is only over-shadowed by the brilliant music. Children dance barefoot as parents and friends pull out camp chairs and blankets—indulging in a jammed pack day of musical delights.

Make a new family tradition and camp on the premises or choose to simply come and have a great day. This year’s talented performers include: The Rowan Cunningham Band, Mountain Therapy, Caroline Aiken, Danny Shipe, Van Wagner, Grass Stained Genes, Cherry Flats Ridge Pickers, and more! Tickets are available for advance purchase for $25 - $30 at the gate. Children under 12 are admitted free. Camping is $10 per person and there are plenty of wooded sites with clean facilities and hot water for showers. Make musical memories on August 18—gates open at noon and performances run through 1 a.m.

(Hickory Fest Productions, Contact: Sue, P.O. Box 111, Wellsboro, PA 16901; 570 439-1549; www.hickoryfest.com; Stony Fork Campground, 658 Stony Fork Creek Rd., Wellsboro, PA 16901; 570 724-3096; info@stonyforkcamp.com).

By Jen Reed-Evans It Isn’t Just Fair—It’s Great!

Country, Family Fun

Animals kick up hay, corndogs sizzle in fryers, derby cars collide, and rides light up the night sky at the 46th Annual Tioga County Fair.

There is something for everyone at the Whitneyville Fair Grounds.

Enjoy a mug of root beer or share an icy lemonade while you explore the livestock and tractors. Get that pitching arm ready and blast away pins to win your sweetheart a prize. Enjoy music by recording artist Connie Smith, Patsy Cline tribute Penny Eckman, local favorites Grass Stained Genes, and more. Change gears and check out a tractor pull, demolition derby, Rawhide Rodeo, or 4x4 and semi truck pull. The list of summer fun is endless! Daily passes are just $6 (including carnival rides) and week passes are $30—additional cost for track events. Enjoy yourself Sunday, August 5 from 3 p.m. – 11 p.m. and Monday, August 6 – Saturday, August 11 from 10 a.m. – 11 p.m.. (located ½ mile off Rt. 6 – midway between Wellsboro and Mansfield in Whitneyville, PA; 570 724-3196; http://tiogacountyfair.com).

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Beware of Falling Trees and Flying Axes

The buzz of saws and the smell of fresh-cut pine fill the air in Cherry Springs State Park. Top lumberjacks from around the country gather in Galeton to show off their skills. The 61st Annual Woodsmen’s Show pairs traditional American livelihood with show-stopping entertainment. Events like cross cut saw, springboard, axe throwing, and tree felling are sure to amaze. Cheer on the professionals during competitions or try your hand at being a lumberjack for a day and enter the amateur competition. Art at the Woodsmen’s Show? Watch as chainsaw masters seem to effortlessly carve beautiful statues of wood. There will be live music and plenty of great food. Vendors will have a plethora of wood products, maple sugar, and historic books. Admission is $6-8 for adults and $4 for children 6-12.

Weekend passes are $17 for adults and $8 for children. The buzzing good time begins Friday, August 3 – Sunday, August 5­—gates open at 9 a.m. daily. (Cherry Springs State Park, Rt. 44, Galeton, PA; http:// woodsmenshow.com).

Move Over Lance Armstrong Tour de Tioga

Okay, so you may not have the ability of Armstrong and it may not be France, but Bike Tioga’s 10th year in Owego, NY promises great trails with inspiring scenery. Cyclists of all skill levels are encouraged to get out, fill up their water bottles, and strap on their helmets. Bike Tioga is not a race, it is a fun weekend full of bicycling. This is a great way for the whole family to get some great summer exercise. The family friendly event offers 7 different rides that range from 25-100 miles. All routes are clearly marked and riders are given maps. When your pedaling adventure comes to an end, enjoy lots of food and free massages. All rides leave as a group from Hickories Park Pavilion #5 at designated times and return by 4 p.m. Registration fee is $15 for one day or $20 for both—add $5 to your fee and receive a 10th year anniversary t-shirt. Get ready to move on Saturday, August 4 and Sunday, August 5. (Hickories Park, Pavilion #5, Owego, NY; 607 687-7440; www.biketioga.com).

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What Do Bagels and a Block Party Have in Common?

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hey are joining forces to help fight cancer! Shut down the street, blast the music, get the family-fun events rolling—The Block Party, sponsored by the Keystone Kops Relay for Life Team, will be held in front of the Native Bagel in Wellsboro. Sue Cummings, owner of The Native Bagel, is hoping for a huge turn-out that could lead to more donations to fight the disease that touches everyone.

She is excited about all of the events that are already in place and is hoping to finalize even more vendors and games. Kevin Thomas from KC101 will be there to DJ. Brownie sundaes and fruit smoothies will delight everyone’s taste buds. Stitches the Clown is sure to have the kids, well— in stitches! A 50/50 raffle and a silent auction are a sure bet in raising money for the Relay. Not only is Sue spreading the word, she is getting involved. The Native Bagel will donate all money made during the festivities to the cause as well.

So whether you are craving a signature sandwich like the Wynken, Blynken & Nod, a scrumptious bagel, or those tantalizingly addicting bagel chips, come by and pick up some great food. And because the proceeds go to such a worthy cause, the food is sure to taste even better! Join in the community Block Party on Saturday, August 18 starting at 4 p.m. in front of The Native Bagel located at One Central Avenue, Wellsboro, PA.

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MUSIC 9 Jackson Browne with Special Guest Sara Watkins – Join Jackson Browne on his Acoustic 2012 tour and enjoy classics such as “These Days,” “The Pretender,” “Take It Easy,” and “Somebody’s Baby.” The inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame will blow the audience away with his voice and guitar. Browne’s special guest, Sara Watkins, from progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek, will give you goose bumps with her sweet, sultry voice and talented fiddle playing. Don’t miss the show on Thursday, August 9 at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $45 – $70. (Community Arts Center, 220 W. 4th St., Williamsport, PA; www.caclive. com/index.php/music/jacksonbrowne).

24 Spencer and the T-Bones – Groove your way down to the Community Theatre League and enjoy the season’s most anticipated event.

Spencer and the T-Bones is a 9-piece group featuring vocals, 3 trombones, baritone sax, keyboards, bass, and drums. Enjoy the night’s performances filled with classic rock, funk, soul, and current hits. Tickets are already selling fast!

The show is Friday, August 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Online tickets are 2 for $25, 1 adult for $15, and 1 student for $8. (The Community Theatre, 100 W. 3rd St., Williamsport, PA; 570-327-1777; www.ctlshows.com).

GALLERIES/MUSEUMS 1 Little Gather: Glenn Colton – Music through the Decades – The Corning Museum of Glass presents Glenn Colton and a 50-Year Musical Journey. Remember your glory days of 1950’s rock-and-roll and travel through time as the event concludes with modern, popular music.

Each decade will obviously be showcased through music, but the show also uses musical props, humor, and surprises. Continue traveling and see how many fun shapes you can find in class from recent decades. The show is Wednesday, August 1 from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. (One Museum Way, Corning, NY; 607-937-5371; www.cmog.org ).

1-26 Terra Incognita – Mosaic Explorations – An ancient art form is reinvented when five mosaic artists push the boundaries of the medium of mosaic. The Gallery at Penn College presents Terra Incognita. Tiny pieces of specifically placed glass create gorgeous pieces of art that incorporate anthropology, archeology, art history, astronomy, cartography, earth sciences, history, literature, social studies, and women’s studies. The featured artists are JeanAnn Dabb, Karen Kettering Dimit, Cynthia Fisher, Yulia Hanansen, and Rachel Sager Lynch. The exhibit will be on display August 1-26 with an artists reception and gallery talk Thursday, July 12 from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. ( The Gallery at Penn College, One College Ave., Williamsport, PA; 570-3202445; www.pct.edu/gallery).

1-31 Touching Base with Nature – Science and baseball play on the same team at the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum. “Touching Base with Nature: A Look at the Sport from Inside Out and Beyond” is an exhibit that features geology and astronomy and how they affect baseball and softball. Among items included will be rocks and minerals—the raw materials used to build stadiums and fields, as well as an exhibit that demonstrates what a baseball hit on earth would look like if hit on another planet. Be sure to check out all of the other great baseball exhibits while you’re there.

Admission is $5 for adults 14 and over, $3 for seniors 62 and over, and $1.50 for children 5-13.

(525 Rt. 15, South Williamsport, PA; 570-3263607; www.littleleague.org).

1-31 Recent Works by C G Myers – West End Gallery will be highlighting paintings by C G

Myers in their studio this month. Myers’ works combine rich, earthy hues to create beautiful landscape scenes. Sturdy, whimsical trees contrast the bold skies in the background of several of the gorgeous works from the collection. There will be a reception Friday, July 20 from 5 – 7:30 p.m.

(12 West Market St., Corning, NY; 607-9362011; info@westendgallery.net).

4 Motorcycle Day at The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum – Get your motor running—head out on the highway… The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum will host the Curtiss Classic Motorcycle Event featuring motorcycles, running antique engines, motorcycle and food vendors, and tours of the museum. There will be a special rate of $6 for anyone arriving by motorcycle. During the entire month of August, the museum will host an exhibit of antique and classic motorcycle display.

(8419 State Rt. 54, Hammondsport, NY; 607 -569-2160; www.glennhcurtissmuseum.org).

8 Little Gather: Michele Costa/Theatre Figuren – ‘Ferdinand’ - Remember that adorable bull that looked ferocious, but just wanted to mosey around smelling flowers rather than fight?

Michele Costa brings the loveable Ferdinand back to our hearts at The Corning Museum of Glass. She combines puppetry, mime, and an original music score to create an all-ages show.

The show is on Wednesday, August 8 from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. (One Museum Way, Corning, NY; 607-937-5371; www.cmog.org).

15 Little Gather: Nels Cremean/In Jest – Science Circus – Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, The Corning Museum of Glass present Nels and his special guest. They use their circus skills to make math and science fun! You will be amazed and amused as you learn about forces, energy, and motion. The big top event is on Wednesday, August 15 from 11 a.m.

– 12 p.m. (One Museum Way, Corning, NY 22 Little Gather: Jim Byrnes – Magic Show – Abracadabra! The Corning Museum of Glass is pulling Jim Byrnes out of its hat. Byrnes’ show is full of magic and comedy—a sure bet to entertain the entire family. After enjoying the show, there’s a lot more “magic” for you to discover in the galleries. The show is Wednesday, August 22 from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. (One Museum Way, Corning, NY; 607-937-5371; www.cmog.org).

22 Music, Margaritas and Sunsets On the Terrace – John Manfredi Band – Don’t ride off into the sunset just yet; relax at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art with a margarita and the awesome sounds of the John Manfredi Band.

Manfredi has been hailed as the most technically advanced guitarist on the local music scene.

Combine his talent with Colin Gordon on saxophone and Jim Rosati Jr. on percussion and their unique blend of blues and jazz are sure to please. Members are free and not-yet-members are $10. Reservations required. The evening event is Wednesday, August 22 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. (111 Cedar St., Corning, NY; 607-9375386; info@rockwellmuseum.org).

THE THEATRE 2,4,5 33 Variations – Hamilton Gibson presents 33 Variations, a riveting drama/mystery exploring one woman’s search for truth. Her search takes her on a path through Beethoven’s great obsession. The show will hit Deane Center’s stage on August 2, 4, 5. (29 Water St., Wellsboro, PA; 570-724-2079; www.hamiltongibson.org).

10-12 Schoolhouse Rock Live, Jr. – “Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?” Go on nostalgic journey and introduce your children and grandchildren to the magic that makes up Schoolhouse Rock. Williamsport’s Community Theatre League brings the Emmy Awardwinning Saturday morning educational cartoon series to the stage. This energetic and educational

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You Won’t Catch This Willow Weeping

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musical will hit the stage Friday, August 10 and 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, August 12 at 2 p.m. Online tickets are 4 for $25 or 1 for $8.

(The Community Theatre, 100 West Third St., Williamsport, PA 17701; 570-327-1777; www. ctlshows.com).

COMMUNITY EVENTS 8-11 52nd Annual Pageant of Steam – Take a trip back in time and marvel at the antique tractors, steam engines, farm equipment and more. The New York Steam Engine Association will host a weekend full of parades, demonstrations, tractor pulls, great food, and awesome family fun.

Choose to camp for the entire Pageant of Steam or come for a day. Step back in time Wednesday, August 8 – Saturday, August 11 from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. Adults are $6 and children under 12 are free.

(N.Y.S.E.A., 3349 Gehan Rd., Canandaigua, NY; 315-677-3876; www.pageantofsteam.org).

26-27 Muncy Historical Society’s Antique Show & Sale – Can’t get enough of American Pickers and Antiques Roadshow? Enjoy perusing the various items on display and pick up a few for your collection. All of the vendors have a diverse range of quality antique and collectibles that are juried to verify age and authenticity. This event is Saturday, August 26 from 12 – 6 p.m. and Sunday, August 27 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (Muncy Historical Society, 40 N. Main St., Muncy, PA; 570-546-5917; www.muncyhistoricalsociety. com).

FAIRS/FESTIVALS 3-5 Schuyler Country Italian American Festival – Benvenuto! The 33 annual Italian American Festival will be held on the southern shore of beautiful Seneca Lake. Italian people are known for their love of family, food, and friends and the same love is guaranteed to be felt throughout the festivals’ activities. Each day will include

about 40 craft and 20 food vendors. There will be amusement rides for kids and the young at heart, as well as casino games, bingo, and plenty of entertainment. Catch the parade on Saturday, join the bocce tournament, or enjoy Shylock Foxx rocking the stage before the explosive fireworks display. Parking is only $5 for the entire day. This exciting weekend begins Friday, August 3 and runs until Sunday, August 5.

(Clute Park, Rt. 414, Watkins Glen, NY; www. watkinsglenitalianfestival.com.).

r e v o c s i D Autumn at its Best!

orning Incorporated has done it again! Odds are that you use glass produced from the innovators in Corning, New York. Whether it is a mug that you faithfully drink your morning brew from or the impressive screen on your highdefinition plasma, Corning glass is bound to be a part of your day.

The newest technology that Corning has introduced is Willow Glass™. This glass is a thin, flexible glass that has the strength to be stretched around surfaces. Essentially, it is going to be on the faces of ultra-modern, slim displays and smart devices.

“Great,” one may think, “another new technology to make the prices of everything go up?” Nope. Because of Willow Glass™’s durability and flexibility, it can be heated to 500˚ C. This enables the thin glass to bend and to be produced continuously on a roll-to-roll process—think how newspapers are printed­—thus making the production extremely cost effective.

Corning Inc. never ceases to amaze with their innovative technologies.

What will they think of next?

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PA HERITAGE FESTIVAL

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All proceeds from this event benefit the Bradford County Heritage Association and community projects of the Troy Rotary Club Funded in part by the Bradford County Room Tax Fund and the Endless Mountains Visitors Bureau

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WINERIES 4 Jack Ass Day at Swedish Hill Winery – Don’t be one—celebrate one! Swedish Hill Winery is celebrating one of their most beloved family members—Doobie, their donkey (who is literally a jack ass!). There will be plenty of live music, BBQ foods, and some fun games. The always pleasing tasting room will also be having a huge sale. The bash will be Saturday, August 4 from 12 – 5 p.m. (4565 Rt. 414 Romulus, NY; Lindsay Case @ 607-403-0029; www.SwedishHill.com).

9-12 Billsboro Winery Plein Air Painting Festival – Wine and art go hand-in-hand at the Billsboro Winery’s Plein Air Festival. The event’s 5th anniversary will be comprised of a competition between 25 artists whose subject matter incorporates the Finger Lakes region, live jazz music, and elegant hors d’oeuvres by Simply Red Catering. Artists’ entries will be auctioned off and tickets and art sales will benefit The Smith Center for the Arts. The artsy weekend will take place Friday, August 10 from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m., Saturday, August 11 from 7 a.m. – 8:30 p.m., and Sunday, August 12 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

(4760 West Lake Rd., Geneva, NY; 315-7899538; www.billsborowinery.com).

18 Annual Pig Roast and Wine Festival – Fill up on mouthwatering roasted pig and wash it down with tantalizing Bastress Mountain wine at the winery’s blast of an afternoon. Eat lots, check out their selection of more than 35 wines and bring a few home, and enjoy the live music.

This afternoon fun is on Saturday, August 18 from 12 – 5 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door – they include the pig roast and live entertainment. (Bastress Mountain Winery, 5451 Rt. 654, Williamsport, PA; 570-745-2332;

www.bastressmountainwinery.com).

OUTDOORS/SPORTS 4 Susquehanna Valley Derby Vixens – Get amped as the Vixens lace up their roller skates and prepare for their roller derby battle! The Susquehanna Valley Derby Vixens will go headto-head against the Dutchland Derby Rollers Orange Crush. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door, and children 10 and under are free. The exciting bout is on Saturday, August 4 at 6 p.m.—doors open at 5:30 p.m. (YMCA Pickelner Arena, 320 Elmira St., Williamsport, PA; www.svderbyvixens.com).

9-12 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series – Gentlemen, start your engines! NASCAR’s biggest names are coming to the Glen. The four-day weekend will be packed full of action. There are a variety of viewing options to suit every fan’s needs—all grandstands have large-screen television views and the McDonald’s Family grandstand offers non-smoking, alcohol free options. Come for one race or opt to camp throughout the infield and have a four-day race extravaganza! General admission starts at $65 or grandstand seat for $90 and kids 18 and under start at $20 for fourday admission. Races are Saturday August 11 at 2 p.m., 6 p.m. and Sunday, August 12 at Noon.

(2790 County Rt. 16, Watkins Glen, NY; www. theglen.com).

FARMERS MARKETS 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Corning Farmers Market – Riverfront Centennial Park is buzzing with liveliness when the local vendors line up with their items. The setting alone beckons a picnic and outing with the kids. Local produce, baked goods, and handmade crafts from the Finger Lakes region are available every Thursday from

9 a.m. – 3 p.m. until October. (Riverfront Centennial Park, Corning, NY; http://www. gafferdistrict.com/events_farmersmarket.php).

3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Mansfield Growers Market – Support local growers, farmers, and artisans at the Mansfield Growers Market. Visitors will find an array of local fruits and vegetables, plants, cheese, eggs, and meat as well as a variety of specialties from artisans. Check out the local, free music, and browse, shop, and enjoy the afternoon. The market meets every Friday from 3 – 6 p.m. through September. (St. James Church, 30 E. Wellsboro St., Mansfield, PA; 570-4044666; mansfieldgrowersmarket.wordpress.com).

3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Ithaca’s Congo Square Market – This is not your average farmers market. The Congo Square Market invites everyone to enjoy the free expression of Southside culture. There is food, music, culture, and more! “Congo Square” is actually a place in New Orleans that was sacred ground first used by Houma Native Americans and later by slaves as a place to enjoy freedom.

Ithaca’s Congo Market brings that community spirit and joyfulness back to life. Come out every Friday through September 4 from 4 – 8 p.m.

(Southside Community Center, Ithaca, NY; www.ifingerlakes.com/ithaca_congo_square_ maket.html).

4, 11, 18, 25 Potter County Farmers Market – Incorporate fresh, local produce to your diet.

Pick up a variety of fruits and vegetables at the Potter County Farmers Market in Galeton. The market is open every Saturday from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. until November. (Courthouse Square, Main St., Rt. 6, Coudersport, PA; 814-274-7496).

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Moonshine Over Seneca

Brothers of the grain: Master distiller Thomas McKenzie, left, and distillery president Brian McKenzie.

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Blending North & South, the McKenzies boys bring whiskey to wine country Story by Michael Capuzzo Photos by Elizabeth Young

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homas Earl McKenzie of Alabama was a blue-eyed, red-haired Appalachian moonshiner descended from 150 years of midnight mashers and whiskey outlaws.

Like many a man with a notion boiling in his blood, he was obsessed with a craftsman’s Quixotic quest to make good whiskey in a pot still the old-fashioned backwoods way, without compromise or corporate watering down—yet without running from revenuers, either. Gruff, passionate, direct, with piney-woods stillmen and hooch hiders in his line but no benefactors, what chance did he have?

Brian McKenzie of New York was a quiet, blue-eyed, red-haired Elmira banker who, unlike many of his classmates in economics at Cornell University, enjoyed tossing back strong brown whiskey quite a bit more than gently sipping an elegant white wine over Cayuga Lake. Beneath his polished Ivy League exterior, young McKenzie was driven by an underground passion to make whiskey from a big-bellied still steaming with local grains grown right here in the hills of his Yankee fathers, not somewhere in yonder Kentucky or Tennessee. And he wanted to sell it right here under their rarified, Riesling-rich, sauvignon-suffused noses in Finger Lakes wine country.

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The tasting room at Finger Lakes Distilling boasts long views of Seneca Lake.

But even in 21st Century New York, moonshining—even selling a bottle of gin or whiskey to the public—could put a man in jail. As the straight-arrow son of the president of Elmira Savings and Loan, what chance did he have?

The unlikely dream of the McKenzie boys—no relation except as brothers of the grain—spawned a cultural landmark in the Finger Lakes: the first standalone distillery in the lakes region, and a nationally acclaimed one at that. Six miles north of Watkins Glen in the village of Burdett (pop. 357) on the east side of Seneca Lake, the white classic distillery and storage buildings of the Finger Lakes Distilling company are picturesque adornments to the wine region, perched on a gentle hillside amid four acres of wine grapes distilled into liqueurs.

The distillery that crowns the hill is white-stucco with black trim and a pagoda roof, evoking the Scottish distilleries of the 19th Century, when pagoda chimney roofs drew off peat from the stills. The towering German copper stillNew rises from ground Agnes’s fury: pot Corning, York, underthe water.

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floor into the light-filled tasting room on the second floor with its grand views of Seneca Lake. Right next door is Damiani Wine Cellars, and beyond more than thirty wineries along the Seneca Lake Wine Trail.

The distillery building is an architectural gem that “stands like a sleek white liner among the 100-yearold vineyards,” said a writer for The New York Times who drove to the Finger Lakes to see what all the buzz was about.

To see whether it was true that some of America’s finest oldtime southern whiskeys and bourbons and London gin are being crafted by a sly drawlin’ Alabaman in Finger Lakes wine country.

The McKenzie boys on Seneca Lake are national stars of one of the hottest trends in the $19-billion American liquor industry: the rise of the small, craft distillery. Following the wave of microbreweries that swept the country with craft beers, and the rising tide of authentic and natural foods and methods, a couple hundred small-batch distilleries have sprung up across the United States in the past decade. (With

its unique lake climates ideal for grains as well as grapes, the Finger Lakes boasts other micro-distilleries, such as the Hidden Marsh Distillery, part of the Montezuma Winery in Seneca Falls, and the Battistella spirit line, including gin distilled from chardonnay, produced

by Ithaca’s Six Mile Creek Vineyard. But the Finger Lakes Distilling is the first stand-alone operation).

The work of the smooth northern McKenzie, the finance guy, owner, and promoter, and the gruff southern McKenzie, the master distiller, has garnered wide praise since it opened only three summers ago.

The Timesman seemed nearly in awe. “They have an astonishing 18 products, from fruit brandies and liqueurs to aged whiskies and musky grappa made from local grapes like gewürztraminer, Muscat and Catawba,” he wrote. “Their Seneca Drums is one of the best new London dry-style gins, but their double-distilled bourbon and rye are where Mr. McKenzie’s Southern pedigree shows up. The peppery rye is from fields one can see across the

lake and aged in casks that held local fortified wine.”

McKenzie Bourbon Whiskey, the distillery’s flagship, made from a mash of local heirloom corn, aged in small barrels, and finished in local Chardonnay casks, was named one of “America’s Best New Whiskeys”

by Details magazine. McKenzie Rye Whiskey, made from New York State grain and finished in sherry barrels from local wineries, wowed JeanGeorges Vongerichten, one of the world’s most famous chefs. JeanGeorges has made it the staple of the classic Manhattan cocktails (rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters) served in his eight acclaimed New York City restaurants, including JeanGeorges. The southern McKenzie—the wry master distiller from Monroeville, Alabama—seems to make headlines with whatever he puts in the pot still.

He makes a real peach brandy, like farmers did in the 18th and 19th Centuries with their surplus fruit after harvest, using real peaches, not the fake aromatic peach flavor of DeKuyper’s Peachtree Schnapps.

It was featured in The Washington Post under the headline, “All abuzz

over fuzz,” when McKenzie was one of seven artisan distillers in October 2010 chosen by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States to distill peach brandy according to George Washington’s Mount Vernon recipe.

Though the aged amber whiskeys are closest to his heart, McKenzie makes gin because it was part of his job, not because he really wanted to.

But the man is so talented, it didn’t matter. Ever ambitious and tinkering, he infused his gin with a local farmer’s cucumbers, a bow to Hendricks, a premium Scottish gin famously made with cucumbers. “Then I found out Hendricks doesn’t use real cucumbers,” he said. But the local produce and care made a difference. McKenzie’s Seneca Drums Gin won the first-ever Best New York Spirit award at the New York Wine & Food Classic competition in Watkins Glen in 2010, beating out spirits from every corner of the state.

And a tasting report in The New York Post named it among the ten “Best Value” gins in the United States.

True to his moonshining roots, McKenzie also makes white lightning, honoring those lovable American outlaws: the bootleggers who made

Mash note: cooked corn is turned from starch to sugar enroute to the pot still.

Buying it: What, Where, Rye

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hen Tony Sachs, a spirits and cocktails writer for The Huffington Post, came up with a list of seven bourbons “to delight dad this father’s day,” McKenzie Bourbon Whiskey made the list with legends like Booker’s Bourbon and Wild Turkey Rare Breed. “McKenzie doesn’t have the pedigree,” he wrote. “And it’s hard, if not impossible, to find outside of New York State, where it’s made. But dammitall, it’s made with love, care and expertise by guys who are passionate about what they do…an excellent everyday bourbon…McKenzie is the one to buy…if you can find it.”

Here’s how to buy Finger Lakes Distillings’ craft liquors, currently distributed only in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Illinois: 1. Visit the distillery at 4676 New York State Route 414, Burdett, NY, open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, and buy them. 2. Visit the Web site www.fingerlakesdistilling.com, and go to the list of several hundred New York State liquor stores, restaurants, and bars that carry them, including more than ninety in Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes. 3. In Pennsylvania, go to www.finewineandgoodspirits.com, the Web site of the state liquor control board, and order bottles online for special order to your local “state store.” UPS will normally deliver on the next business day. The tasting room overlooking Seneca Lake is the pleasantest option.

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Brian McKenzie. rye and fixin’s

The Perfect Manhattan

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e’re talking drink fresh, drink local.

In the tasting room in Burdett, New York, Finger Lakes Distilling president Brian McKenzie served your humble Mountain Home correspondents what he called the perfect Manhattan—the classic cocktail made with smallbatch New York ingredients.

His own acclaimed McKenzie Rye Whiskey, of course. Then came the wonderful Italian vermouth, the only foreigner. And the final touch, a dash of bitters, with a surprise—not the usual Angostura bitters from Trinidad and Tobago, but Fee Brothers Old Fashion CQ Bitters from Rochester, New York.

It was delicious. Little did we know then that Eric Asimov, Chief Wine Critic of The New York Times—and nephew of the famed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov—was served the same Manhattan with the same ingredients at the ABC Kitchen, a fine New York City restaurant that emphasizes local and organic, and is owned by the world-renowned chef, Jean-Georges.

Asimov was over the moon. The cocktail was “absolutely delicious,” he wrote. He praised Bernard Sun, beverage manager of Jeans-Georges restaurants, for choosing the remarkable ingredients that can “give a cocktail a beautiful lift…a sense of delicious purity.”

A note on the recipe: Angostura bitters will do, Asimov says, if you can’t get the superior Rochester ones. (Available at www.feebrothers.com).

The ABC Kitchen served brandied cherries in the cocktail instead of the “loathsome” maraschinos.

Here we must add that we didn’t have cherries or an ice shaking with ours, and did not complain.

ABC Kitchen Rye Whiskey Manhattan Yield 1 cocktail Time 5 minutes Ingredients 1 1/2 ounces McKenzie rye whiskey 3/4 ounce Carpano Antica vermouth 2 dashes Fee Brothers Old Fashion bitters 1 teaspoon brandied cherry juice 3 brandied cherries, for garnish Method Combine ingredients in a glass shaker with ice. Stir for 30 seconds and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with cherries.

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their whiskey white and fast from corn mash, gulping it down or bottling it up just like it came out of the still, no aging, no oak barrels, no mellowing into complex vanilla airs and cinnamon notes.

The stillman’s ancestors came to the American south from Scotland in the 1860s, and every other generation on both sides of the family had a homemade pot still cooking the white dog. “We had to make it,” he says with a grin, “’cause we couldn’t afford to buy it.”

McKenzie’s white dog these days is legal, and it goes under the label Glen Thunder, named for the Watkins Glen racetrack (a fitting appellation, as NASCAR grew out of bootleggers racing away from revenuers in the mountainous south). It’s a classic American corn whiskey, “reminiscent of pulling back the husk from an ear of sweet summer corn.”

He also cooks up White Pike Whiskey, a spirited blend of locally grown corn, spelt, and malted wheat “distilled with precision and aged in eighteen minutes.”

McKenzie’s Glen Thunder even got a favorable nod in Time magazine, when a critic who expected it to be “uniformly vile” sipped Glen Thunder along with Buffalo Trace’s White Dog and said they were “not unpleasing…obviously, a lot of care went into them.”

Hiring the master stillman Thomas Earl McKenzie was a “masterstroke,” the Times opined. The McKenzie boys first met—when white lightning struck, one might say—in 2007 at a craft-distilling convention in the whiskey Mecca of Louisville, Kentucky.

Brian, an Elmira native, was scouting for opportunities to start a business in southern New York, and had always been fascinated by distilleries. For years, he had worked distillery tours into his vacations: Glenlivet and Edradour in Scotland; Buffalo Trace, Jim Beam, all the Kentucky bourbon distillers; even a rum distiller in Australia.

But distillery hopping had been a mere hobby, like touring baseball parks, during the years when he graduated from Cornell and worked at an economic consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Then he and his wife, his high school

sweetheart and an Ithaca College graduate, returned home so he could work for Elmira Savings and Loan, where his father William McKenzie was the longtime president and CEO. But when the bank was bought out, by 2007 Brian and his father had left, and Brian was dreaming new things. Intrigued by the exciting growth of the Finger Lakes wine industry, he wanted to be part of it. But frankly, “I’ve always been more of a whiskey guy than a wine guy.” He imagined that a local very fine craft distillery would tap into an established connoisseur tourism base.

What he needed above all, he realized, after touring micro-distilleries in New England, was “a quality product,” and for that he needed major-league talent.

The two men first clinked glasses at a convention cocktail party—glasses that held rum crafted by the stout, drawling Alabama stillman in the dusty T-shirt, jeans, and overalls. The New Yorker was clean-cut in comparison, but otherwise the men looked like town-and-country images of each other: virtually the same height, 5-7, nearly the same age, with facial, hair, and eye coloring worthy of a clan.

The men bonded instantly over a shared passion for oldtime whiskey. A tragedy had befallen American whiskey in the 1970s, in Thomas’s telling. Baby boomers spurned not only their parents’ traditional values, but their brown liquors and whiskey cocktails, musty emblems of the 1950s. Yuppies were wine drinkers, and when it came to the hard stuff, preferred tasteless white spirits like vodka.

Whiskey manufacturers responded to the market collapse by cutting corners.

The classic southern standard of aging whiskey in the barrel at 100 proof before adding water was abandoned; factory distillers barreled the hooch at 110 proof to produce a concentrate that yielded more whiskey per barrel. The result was a bland whiskey of diluted vanilla taste; the rich, distinctive, earthly caramel and molasses flavors of the grand old tradition were gone.

Thomas McKenzie described this fall from grace as if the blessed wine

of the sacrament had been replaced by Mountain Dew. He longed to bring back the old way. Brian felt an instant connection to the stillman. But the fine quality of Thomas’s rum was the glue.

“It’s pretty tasty,” Brian said, in his lowkey business way, pitching his distillery vision. “That’s a pretty good idea,” Thomas said, in his down-home drawl.

It was that simple.

The first step was to lobby to make themselves legal. Stills once thrived in New York and Pennsylvania in early America, but after Prohibition, regulations took the business out of reach of all but huge distilleries (including a license that cost $60,000 or more). The craft-distillery trend started some twenty years ago on the West Coast, and lately more states, including New York with its Farm Distillery Law of 2007, have been clearing away tired laws to let in the little guy.

Once they had the go-ahead to open and sell their product to the public, the McKenzie boys took delight and personal

care in building the distillery, with local and green their guiding lights. The soaring tasting room, with its spectacular views of Seneca Lake, is floored with reclaimed lumber, oak siding from a Kentucky tobacco barn. (The Kentucky lineage being like a lucky rabbit’s foot for the new distillery). The fifteen-foot-long chandelier suspended over the tasting room is a white, radiant, canoe, an homage to the Finger Lakes.

The giant, 4,000-pound, 300-gallon cooper pot still and rectification column was made by Holstein in Markdorf, Germany, 3,997 miles distant, but it’s fed with corn, rye, and other grain that comes from just up the street, just across the lake and over the hills, much of it organic.

The distillery recycles process water, uses process heat to heat water for the building, and shares spent grains from production with local farms as animal feed.

A personal note: The tasting room displays a Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe, and a swath of Clan McKenzie’s blue-green plaid, as both men claim

Scots’ blood.

The distillers have worked hard to make their operation another bauble on the necklace of wineries around Seneca Lake. The distillery is an associate member of the Seneca Lake Wine Trail. Among the hordes of tourists who descend on Finger Lakes wine country, more than 30,000 have trailed through the distillery’s tasting room, as many as 800 on a single Saturday.

Visitors soon find out it’s a family affair.

Brian’s mom works the tasting counter, his dad is a partner, and his uncle runs the bottling operation.

The McKenzie boys are proud of their work. Brian expresses it with a banker’s quiet confidence, a hint of the Scot’s reserve. Thomas Earl isn’t so quiet. “They said we couldn’t do an oldfashioned southern-style whiskey in the north, and we proved ’em full of bunk,” he boasts with an easy confidence.

But a visitor asking him to describe the flavor of McKenzie Rye Whiskey was met with a scowl. “See what ya’ll think.

“I ain’t feeling too poetic today.”

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Heart of the Mountain

Beauty and Music Elevate a Small Town

By Patricia Brown Davis

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“If you are only worried about not making a mistake, you will communicate nothing, you will have missed the point of making music, which is to make people feel something.” —Yoyo Ma

ellsboro, a town of 3,200, is an enigma to many—puzzling visitors for years. I know, because their most often asked question to me is: “How can a town of your size have all this music? There’re not that many of you!” I sometimes flippantly answer, “Maybe we’re just so far from civilization, it forced us to manufacture our own entertainment.”

Logic, of course, takes me to our local history. Over a hundred years ago some enterprising Victorian ladies formed these organizations: Wednesday Morning Musicales, Wellsboro Community Concert Series, and a writing group—all of which continue to thrive today. They knew they needed something to enrich their lives and those of their families, friends, and neighbors.

And looking at old town photos— even before these ladies—we see a town band on the court house steps, a bandstand on our Green, and dancers performing on a stage. There were even the famed traveling summer Chautauqua meetings captured in photographs.

For years, we’ve had an ongoing men’s chorus, a women’s chorus, many school and church choirs. Our local community’s Hamilton-Gibson Productions not only has at least twelve theatrical productions a year, but four choruses for youth—boys, girls, mixed, and a younger choir—with parents willing to subsidize their membership.

Today, many musical groups, including our school’s band, a town band, a large swing band, a Dixieland band, a brass quintet, a couple of bluegrass bands, a rock band or two, some terrific bagpipers, and folk groups all perform. And fortunately we’ve the benefit of the music department from nearby Mansfield University, their professors and families, and their exhilarating concerts. Between Mansfield University and HamiltonGibson, we’ve summer music and drama

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camps for youth. Hamilton-Gibson starts each new season with at least two musical stage productions strictly by our youth, for the public. And we’re full of annual musical events, including classical, jazz, bluegrass, and folk.

Our local movie theatre, the Arcadia, also presents live stage productions.

Years ago we had the Bache Auditorium—something mimicking a classic New York City theater. The aged building was finally demolished, but not before I’d seen my first traveling Broadway production, Brigadoon.

Others also remembered the Bache.

With the help of a local couple and those who know the importance of the arts in attracting and keeping our residents, the Deane Center for the Performing Arts just opened this spring. A multi-million dollar project which will house the various performing arts in our county, it already has a Warehouse Theatre, a new black box theater, and many rooms for various groups.

A new question now arises: “How can you afford this? Towns larger than you can’t!” I say, “Commitment, Joy, and Pride!” How could we NOT afford that?

Quality of life appears to be high on our list. Fortunately we’ve some very creative and committed people working on questions of finances and sustainability.

Wellsboroans work diligently to build family community, often a generational affair. It’s easy to “sell music” when you’ve the support of parents, grandparents, and organizations—and that is what Wellsboro has. For a century, organizations and individuals have sponsored scholarships and awards to youth who excel in the field. I was one of those, and it formed my career, as well as many others, in a field of music. And stepping-up-to-the plate is a continuous affair.

While individually, teachers stress perfection in attaining technique, it’s really a love of music and the feeling of joy in

performance which carries us. We perform music to connect with each other— to make something more immense and beautiful then we’d accomplish alone.

And we’re lucky to have volunteers with all types of talents and expertise willing to be a part of this. Some are transplants, moving here for work or retirement, bringing fresh and creative ideas with them.

For years I’ve watched exhilarated visitors “discover” residents singing in the lobby or the lounge of the hotel. Visitors, thinking it something special, were shocked to find it was our normal functioning. They joyfully joined in on our sing-alongs. Some arrange their in-town schedules around our normal musical get-togethers.

When asked how they came to Wellsboro in the first place, a range of answers sound like this: “my parents brought me here in the summer,” “the beauty of the town,” and “hunting, fishing, and/or sports.” When asked why they return, the first answer is always, “the people,” followed by “the beauty of the town and the environment.” This begs the question: “Does beauty of place elevate people to surround themselves with even more beauty?”

So does “beauty beget beauty?” Surely it does, like “friendliness begets friendliness” and “music begets music!” Case in point: the latest addition to our musical smorgasbord, The Endless Mountain Music Festival. Apparently, talented professional and amateur musicians enjoy escaping their summer habitats to experience the beauty of the area, friendliness of the people, and music of each other, by coming together to perform. And where would they ever find a more supportive audience then my hometown?

It’s a win-win situation!

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

O U t d o Or s Twisted Spokes—And Camaraderie

Photos (2) by Gregg Rinkus

By Gregg Rinkus

(Above and right) Prized for its trails, the Tioga State Forest is a favorite haunt for The Twisted Spokes gang.

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s I peddled my mountain bike at a frenetic pace up the last pitch on the road to the top of the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon’s west rim, my leg muscles screamed, dripping sweat stung my eyes, and my lungs felt ready to burst.

As I reached the summit, I clicked my bike computer to “Trip MPH.” I had bested my Darling Run to Colton Point time trial personal record (PR) by a whopping two miles per hour! Move over, Lance Armstrong. I felt ready for the Tour de France. My delusion, however, would be very short-lived.

After turning right onto Deadman Hollow Road, about half a mile farther along I stopped to watch a group of off-road mountain bikers come barreling out of the woods and onto the gravel road.

They reminded me of football players emerging from a rainsoaked, natural grass gridiron.

Their faces were streaked with dirt, their clothing was splattered by mud and algae-green slime, and their bicycles were caked with weeds and mud. One rider had a steady stream of blood running down his leg from knee to ankle.

Compared to the trials of these two-wheeled gladiators, my new PR seemed mighty tame.

Despite their differences, they all had one thing in common: broad smiles across their faces! They were absolutely loving their evening ride.

I had finally come face-to-face with the gang I had been hearing about, the Twisted Spokes Bicycle Club of Tioga County.

According to founding member Mark Newruck, the club is far less

formal than its name suggests. He characterized members as a loosely knit group of biking enthusiasts who enjoy riding together and sharing a few beers and some laughs afterwards. But, as I spent time with Mark and his biking buddies, I discovered that their shared passions and friendships run much deeper.

Tioga County is a bicycling mecca. First off, it has two car-free biking trails. Pine Creek Rail Trail is an internationally acclaimed sixty-two-mile crushed limestone trail that begins at Wellsboro Junction and winds its way south along Pine Creek all the way to Jersey Shore. A shorter, four-mile paved trail is the Tioga-Hammond Lakes Hike & Bike Trail that begins in Mansfield and follows the Tioga River north to Lambs Creek Recreation Area.

See Twisted Spokes on page 24

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Dr. Victor Becker takes a wet Twisted Spokes ride.

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While Twisted Spokes bikers use these from time to time, their true delights lie in the interconnecting back roads and trails of Tioga and Tidaghton State Forests. The

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Forests’ combined 375,500 acres offer almost unlimited on- and offroad bicycling opportunities, suggests Newruck. Even after decades of riding here, he is always amazed

that they continue to discover new and challenging roads and trails.

Combine these with thousands of miles of gravel and hardtop roads throughout the region and it would take, as Newruck mused, “several lifetimes to ride them all.�

Beyond the miles, the trails and back roads of Tioga and northern Lycoming County offer some of the most scenic country in the state, if not the entire nation. Stunning vistas; diverse wildlife sightings; and mile after mile of forests, farms, and quaint hamlets provide one picture postcard scene after the other.

With nearly infinite places to ride, and a finite time to do it, members of the Twisted Spokes bike club try to convene every Tuesday evening to ride mountain bikes and on Sundays to ride road bikes.

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Upcoming rides are posted on their homepage (www.twistedspokes.org) in terms of meeting place and time. They welcome anyone who is interested in joining them and try to accommodate the physical needs and abilities of new riders.

Core members have biked together for years and know each other’s strengths, weaknesses, and desires.

On one evening ride with them in the Asaph Run area, I had neither the right equipment nor the proficiency to join them on their deep-woods trails. No problem. I took off on State Forest roads, meeting them at an intersecting trail at the halfway point, and again back at our vehicles near dusk. Later, engaging biking talk around the table of a local restaurant and pub culminated a perfect evening together.

They all agree that it’s this type of camaraderie that makes their outings—and their relationships— so special. Naturally, enduring friendships have developed over the years. They bike together, hike together, canoe and kayak together, ski together, share personal and professional matters, and take outdoor adventure trips together all over the country.

Because their relationships have been forged on the front lines of shared outdoor experience— many quite physical in nature—their mutual trust and respect run true and deep. Yet, their bonds are not so tight that they did not welcome me, practically a total stranger, and accept me as an equal.

“After all,” as one of them pointed out, “sharing our passion is what Twisted Spokes is all about.”

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

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uring the hot August “dog days of summer” on the water, fishing can get pretty slow, especially if you are out there alone. With just a slight breeze and flat water what is there to do but cast out your lure, climb into the passenger’s seat, lean back, close your eyes, relax, and soak up the warmth of the sun?

After drifting off for a while, you hear a splash and feel a slight thump at the side of the boat. Glancing over, you see two dainty hands break through the water’s surface and caress the rim of the boat. With hardly a ripple on the water, a beautiful female face appears. She rests her arms on the boat and positions her chin on them. Long blond hair frames a friendly smile as her tresses flow down over her shoulders. Looking up at you with her deep blue eyes, she says, “Hi, there.”

You can’t believe your eyes: you are out in the middle of the lake and this beautiful female appears. “Where did you come from?” you ask. “Oh, I swim all over the lake; the deep areas like this I enjoy the best,” she replies as she splashes alongside the boat. “Do you want to come aboard and rest for a while?” you offer. “Oh, no,” she says as she swims effortlessly, “The water is nice, and I love it.”

Continuing with the conversation, she divulges a lot of information valuable to a fisherman. Like where the lunkers hang out at different times of the year and why they won’t take many of the offerings

presented to them. “The personal water crafts,” she says, “are like a swarm of bees as they run around in circles on the lake.

The riders fall off and then they climb back on to do it all over again. Catch and release is a good practice, but a lot of bass are getting sore lips from the multiple hook-ups. The little kids are fun to watch as they try to catch their first fish. And a lot of fishermen have accidents and screw up repeatedly. They would make good stories for someone to write about.”

An energetic dive splashes water on your face and you awake from dreamland. Looking around there is no lovely mermaid in sight and you are not out in the middle of the lake. There is just a crusty ole beaver who slaps the water again with his tail, as he and the young ones disappear under water. The boat bumps into his hut of sticks and you jump up to move to deeper water.

Reeling in the lure, it looks like long blond hair is tangled on the hooks, but on closer inspection you realize it is just someone’s discarded monofilament.

There have been scores of pictures, stories, movies, and discussions about mermaids associated with fishing. This is just one more. By now you may have realized this story is about you—your dream, not mine.

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L i f e Outdoor Adventure 101 Story & Photos by Cindy Davis Meixel

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t’d been raining through the night and the morning’s forecast was calling for scattered thunderstorms.

I was scheduled to pick up the president of Corning Community College (CCC) at 9 a.m. and take her kayaking. My sleep was restless.

I’d never met Dr. Katherine “Kate” Douglas before, but had heard reports that she was personable, positive, and energized. I was hoping the admirable adjectives held true and the weather report didn’t.

The idea of interviewing Douglas via kayak was an idea hatched last fall with a family friend, Sam McInroy, a retired CCC math professor. According to McInroy, Douglas had “done some kayaking” and “enjoyed the outdoors.”

She took the college’s helm in July 2011 and I’d thought that, one year later,

after she’d had a chance to “get her feet wet,” it’d be an ideal time for a sit-down chat—while gliding across water.

When I entered the CCC president’s suite, an administrative assistant greeted me and we conversed about the questionable weather.

Douglas bounded out of her office to welcome me. Yes, she literally leaped—an exclamation point pushing aside all of my question marks. She scoffed at the nervous chatter over weather by reciting a mantra from her past: “There’s no such thing as bad weather—just inappropriate clothing!”

With the highway before us and kayaks above, we headed off to Sanford Lake, near Bath, a place neither of us had ventured to before, but one that seemed an ideal spot for easy paddling and artful reflecting.

What I learned in the ensuing hours was that this is a woman who has spent her life gathering lessons from outdoor adventures and using them to empower personal and professional lives—a dynamic composite for engaged, optimal living.

See Outdoor 101 on page 38

(Top) Dr. Katherine Douglas, president of Corning Community College, prepares to explore Sanford Lake, near Bath. (Above) Water lilies enhance the lake’s beauty.

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The fourth of five daughters, Douglas embraced the outdoors in her youth as a way of carving out quality time with her father, George Procak. Their adventures usually found them near water, often on Indian Field Pond, a lake in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Douglas learned sailing and other life lessons from her father, a former WWII B-17 pilot, POW, and Purple Heart recipient, who was a commercial artist in Manhattan. Lessons in courage and creativity ran deep.

As a teenager, Douglas worked as a lifeguard and water safety instructor at a Fresh Air Fund Camp and observed the difference nature and outdoor recreation made in the lives of innercity kids.

“I saw, in the time they spent there, even the ones who’d become gang members became kids again, running around, enjoying themselves,” she said.

When the time came for her to declare a college major, she and her mother, Patricia, a high school

guidance counselor, agreed that leisure studies and outdoor education, with a minor in sociology, was an appropriate path.

Fresh from graduation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Douglas founded a regional, grantfunded program for at-risk youth and was soon sought to teach outdoor leadership at Greenfield Community College, near the Berkshires, where she would serve for the bulk of her academic career as a faculty member and, later, in administration.

There, she oversaw the first national accreditation for a community college outdoor leadership program.

The initial reason for her move into administration was simply to advocate more effectively for new recreational equipment—specifically boats and a climbing wall. She got them, but also attained an appreciation for working with faculty in the same way she had worked with students.

“I began to realize as one person I could impact more people,” Douglas explained. “By working with faculty,

Douglas savors a rare outing away from the president’s office.

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I could impact more students. I began to see that my ripples could go out further the higher up I went in the organization.

Aside from her academic efforts, she served as a trainer and consultant for companies offering organizational development and team-building adventures for corporate clients. Although the work was exciting with international travel and high-caliber clientele like Royal Dutch Shell and BMW, Douglas discovered that her true devotion resided on a college campus.

“The corporate work taught me what I really wanted to do was to stay with a group of students over a longer span of time, to provide them with skills to empower them throughout the course of their lifetimes,” she said.

In the time I spent with her, it felt as though I was enrolled in my own outdoor adventure course. Because I had done too much talking and not enough turning, I got us a bit lost. We were forced to hunt and peck our way through Birdseye Hollow State Forest, steering to our destination by the directions and kindnesses of strangers.

Just as we were unloading the kayaks, an intense downpour greeted us. Douglas simply shrugged her shoulders, bundled up, and was prepared to soldier on. But, after a brief wait in our vehicle, the storm passed and the most beautiful blue sky emerged.

Finally on the water, we floated through a carpet of water lilies in the natural cathedral that is Sanford Lake.

As is common in quiet, open spaces, we reviewed hopes, loves, and losses.

Douglas spoke glowingly of her husband of forty years, Paul, a Vietnam vet and expert golfer, and their two grown sons devoting their lives to education. She shared the sorrow of losing her father and two of her sisters, all in recent years, yet the joy of having her mother living nearby.

She also reflected on her first year at Corning—the delicate balancing act of town and gown, the congeniality of the community, and the dedication of her employees.

Douglas expressed admiration for CCC’s inspiring students and her excitement for campus developments—a new residence hall, international distance learning, a butterfly habitat—large and small enhancements, far-reaching and close to home, high-tech and organic.

In the course of our conversations, I also learned she had recently presented a leadership talk titled, “Lessons Learned from the Backcountry Taken to the Board Room.”

It had been a day drenched with inspiration. I realized the outdoor classroom regularly overflows with empowering possibilities and, on this day, I had stretched my ability to worry less and flow more.

A native of Wellsboro, Cindy Davis Meixel is a writer and photographer who resides near Williamsport.

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By Cindy Davis Meixel

Opening ceremonies at the Little League Baseball World Series are filled with pageantry and pride, color and character.

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Admission is free. Yes, that’s right: free. Admission to all Little League Baseball World Series games has always been free and continues to be free.

And, to top it off, visitors to the Little League Baseball mecca in South Williamsport are served a large slice of Americana—also for free. Here, simple pleasures can be found—like sliding down a large hill on makeshift cardboard box sleds and trading Little League pins with fellow collectors.

In addition to a heaping helping of Americana, a trek to the Little League Baseball World Series is a feast sprinkled with international flavor. Spectators wind their way

through myriad lands the likes of Mexico, Japan, the Netherlands, and Uganda via international visitors joyful to be visiting the United States and to be a part of the storied Little League tradition. This year, in fact, Uganda’s players will become the first African team to take the field in League history.

Simply the sight of Little League’s Howard J. Lamade Stadium has been known to make grown men cry.

“I remember this one guy—a burly guy from Texas, in his fifties,” relayed Tom Speicher, a Williamsport-based broadcast journalist who will cover this year’s series for his fifteenth consecutive year. “He didn’t have a kid in the series; he had just always wanted to come, so

he drove from Texas. I interviewed him overlooking Lamade Stadium, and he just stood there, crying, because he was finally here.

“It’s very emotional for some people,” added Speicher, who performs his popular “Man in the Crowd” duties for WRAK Radio, the Williamsport station that has covered the Little League Baseball World Series since its beginnings.

“I’ve seen many families who’ve driven across the country to get here,” Speicher said. “Most have no connection to a player or a team.

It’s their family vacation. And, when they arrive, you’d think they’d found Disney World!”

Why are people so drawn to this place, tucked in rural north central Pennsylvania?

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A coach from Japan joyfully greets the crowd during last year’s Grand Slam Parade.

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“I think it’s because of what the series represents—innocence, fair play. It really is a field of dreams,” Speicher cited. “Many people have watched the series for years on TV and, to get here, it’s like ‘the quest’ to finally be here. And, it’s true what people say about it being so much better to be here watching it in person. It’s an amazing event.”

For many families, the annual August event is a multi-year, multi-generational outing. Some attend as fans, while others come to be volunteers, serving as ushers or in other goodwill capacities.

It is also common for residents of the Northeast region, who have a cultural connection to a competing international country, to attend games for the sole purpose of cheering on that country’s team.

Typically, these people have no personal connection to the team, but the national allegiance is enough of a draw. In some cases, Speicher notes, these fans have even hosted picnics for their “home” team or cooked for the players.

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Grand Slam Parade in Williamsport, on Wednesday, August 15. Serving as a welcome to the sixteen competing teams, the event features downtown festivities starting at 4 p.m. and a parade at 6 p.m. Floats filled with the young baseball players, coaches, umpires, and special guests make their way along the West Fourth Street parade route, cheered on by eager spectators.

The popular spectacle also spotlights bands and special marching units.

The following day, the sixty-sixth annual Little League Baseball World Series swings into full gear and runs for eleven days in two stadiums on the grounds of Little League International’s complex, located along Route 15 in South Williamsport. The showcase for the top eleven- and twelve-year-old teams in the world culminates with the championship game on Sunday, August 25.

When not catching a game, many fans visit the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum, which details the history of the sport in collections of memorabilia and hands-on exhibits. The museum also features batting and pitching cages, a timed running track, a theater, and a Hall of Excellence.

Here, there is a fee: $1.50 for children (ages five through thirteen), $5 for adults, and $3 for senior citizens (sixty-two and over). Children, ages four and younger, are admitted free of charge. Group rates are available.

The museum is scheduled to close on September 4 for major renovations. A grand opening is planned for June 6, 2013, the seventy-fifth anniversary date of the first Little League game played in 1939.

So, despite a few small fees (including food concessions), a trek to the Little League Baseball World Series is a bargain…and a home run with bases loaded.

A native of Wellsboro, Cindy Davis Meixel is a writer and photographer who resides near Williamsport.

(Top photo) Families fill the streets of downtown Williamsport for the popular Grand Slam Parade which welcomes the sixteen competing teams. (Above) Getting the party started, Little League’s mascot, Dugout, leads a team in some spirited dancing prior to play. The Little League Baseball World Series features a wonderful balance of serious play and sensational fun.

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By Adam Mahonske Photos by Heather Mee

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he Endless MountainMusic Festival is many things to many people. Mountain Home asked local classical pianist Adam Mahonske, an audience member since the first concerts in 2006, and a festival performer since 2008, to tell us the festival moments to which he is most looking forward. These are his seven top picks:

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Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto, with pianist Santiago Rodriguez, will be the central work presented at the Corning Museum of

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Glass Auditorium (pictured above) on Thursday, August 9. This concerto is one of the most demanding in the literature for pianists. For the audience, the work is filled with the greatest possible late-romantic period passion and sweeping dramatic excitement, and remains one of the most beloved concertos some 100 years after its creation. Cuban-American pianist Santiago Rodriguez has specialized in Rachmaninov’s music for many years, and is returning to the Festival following his triumphant performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto last

Pictures at an exhibition: The Arnot Art Museum, venue for the August 2 concert.

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year. The Museum’s auditorium is a technical tour de force, with a complex computer-controlled network of microphones and speakers that allow the hall to have the acoustical properties of many of the world’s great concert halls. We are able to have the sound of New York’s Carnegie Hall or Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw right here in the Twin Tiers.

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Chamber music always plays an important role in the Festival’s concerts each summer, and a diverse program will be presented at Blossburg’s Victoria Theater on Monday, July 30. Mansfield University faculty members, soprano Alissa Rose and pianist Nancy Boston, will perform romantic period art songs by three prominent female composers of the age: Amy Beach, Alma Mahler, and Cary JacobsBond. Selected art songs by Czech composer Antonin Dvořák round out this portion of the concert. After intermission, pianist and Blossburg native (and yours truly) Adam Mahonske, violinist Dimitry Gerikh, and cellist Gita Ladd, both members of the Festival Orchestra, perform Dvořák’s delightful and engaging Dumky Piano Trio.

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Violinist Robert Bokor and pianist Marija Bokor (above, last year at the Arnot Art Museum) are in recital at the Tioga County Courthouse on Wednesday August 1. International performers have always been an important part of the Festival. This father-daughter team from Switzerland made quite an impression at last year’s Festival, and are returning to present a highly varied recital for violin/piano and solo piano, including works by Chopin, Schubert, Bartók, Ravel, Prokofiev, and Gershwin.

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 7:30 pm JAZZ RECITAL Black Box Theatre, Deane Center for the Performing Arts, Wellsboro, PA Shelton Berg, jazz piano, presents “The Nearness of You”

Delight in tonight’s performance from Grammy Award winner Shelton Berg, affectionately known as Shelly. Feel the electric grooves and jazzy tones emanate from the piano!

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16 Concerts in 16 Days!

2012 Festival Schedule Saturday, July 28, 2012, 7:30 pm GALA OPENING NIGHT with FESTIVAL STRING ORCHESTRA Wellsboro High School Auditorium, Wellsboro, PA

Opening Night celebrates a meeting of Renaissance, blending the remarkable quality of strings and the Baroque with the full throated sound of trumpets and oboes. The evening concludes with Bach’s Suite No. 3.

Sunday, July 29, 2012, 3:00 pm FESTIVAL STRING ORCHESTRA Steadman Theatre, Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA Featuring Robert Bokor, violin

Feel the passion from the “Tango King” in Astor Piazolla’s The Four Season of Buenos Aires, featuring Robert Bokor on violin. This afternoon’s performance includes the lyric beauty of Grieg presented by the String Orchestra.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 7:30 pm VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL Tioga County Courthouse, Wellsboro, PA Robert Bokor, violin and Marija Bokor, piano

World-renowned violinist Robert Bokor, from Saint Gallen, Switzerland, performs with his daughter, Marija Bokor, a rising star in the European piano world.

Thursday, August 2, 2012, 7:30 pm BRASS QUINTET AND PERCUSSION Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY Featuring Endless Mountain Brass

Tonight’s concert presents an entertaining and diverse evening of music: from the Baroque to the Beatles. This program includes Mouret’s famous Rondeau, Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons and music from the Pirates of the Caribbean.

Friday, August 3, 2012, 7:30 pm FESTIVAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Wellsboro High School Auditorium, Wellsboro, PA Featuring Charles Rex, violin and Frederick Zlotkin, cello

Join us for a moving presentation including Gustav Mahler’s beautiful Adagietto for strings and harp from his Symphony No. 5. Then experience the New York City energy of David Chesky’s Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra.

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Monday, July 30. 2012. 7:30 pm CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Victoria Theatre, Blossburg, PA Featuring Nancy Boston, piano, Adam Mahonske, piano

Bringing to life the music of female composers from the Romantic period, Nancy Boston and vocalist Alissa Rose present songs of love. Adam Mahonske takes the stage with Gita Ladd, cello, and Dmitri Gerikh, violin, performing Dvorak’s famous trio, “Dumky.”

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Saturday, August 4, 2012, 7:30 pm FESTIVAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Steadman Theatre, Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA Featuring Robert Bokor, violin

Beginning with the Overture to Handel’s Water Music, the night’s performance moves into Max Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy,” inspired by folk melodies, the Celtic fiddle and harp, and a hint of bagpipes, featuring worldrenowned violinist Robert Bokor.

Sunday, August 5, 2012, 3:00 pm CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Black Box Theatre, Deane Center for the Performing Arts, Wellsboro, PA Bram Wijnands presents “House Rent Party”

Raise the roof with an event made famous in Harlem during the 1920s! Feel the dynamic rhythms of blues and jazz as pianist Bram Wijnands, Kansas City’s “ambassador of swing,” thrills his audience.

Monday, August 6, 2012, 7:30 pm CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Rialto Theatre, Canton, PA

Savor the sounds of American composers in a special evening of winds, brass, and piano. The program illuminates musical stylings ranging from Eric Ewazen to Jennifer Higdon and features Elizabeth Landon, flute.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 7:30 pm CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Troy High School Auditorium, Troy, PA Festival Woodwind Quintet

The EMMF Woodwind Quintet presents a program of music from both North and South America this year, in a light concert that has become a summer tradition!

Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 7:30 pm CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Tioga County Courthouse, Wellsboro, PA Charles Rex, violin, Peter Kenote, viola, & Frederick Zlotkin, cello

Three of New York City’s leading musicians come together to present a concert of technical brilliance. Charles Rex, violin, and Peter Kenote, viola, of the New York Philharmonic, and Frederick Zlotkin solo cellist of the New York City Ballet will showcase works of Beethoven, Hindemith, and Erno Dohnanyi.

Thursday, August 9, 2012, 7:30 pm FESTIVAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium, Corning, NY Featuring Santiago Rodriguez, piano

Beginning with Mozart’s Overture from The Abductions from the Seraglio, the performance will move to Dvorak’s enticing piece, Serenade for Winds.

For the finale, Santiago Rodriguez performs Rachmaninoff ’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Friday, August 10, 2012, 7:30 pm CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Wellsboro High School Auditorium, Wellsboro, PA Festival Thank You Concert

Endless Mountain Music Festival orchestra members and interns perform chamber music as a special thank you to our wonderful audience and patrons.

Saturday, August 11, 2012, 3:00 pm FESTIVAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Steadman Theatre, Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA Featuring Santiago Rodriguez, piano

Join us for an exciting evening starting with Mozart and flowing into Gustav Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite. The second half features Santiago Rodriguez, piano, in Rachmaninoff ’s legendary Piano Concerto No. 3.

Sunday, August 12, 2012, 3:00 pm FESTIVAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Wellsboro High School Auditorium, Wellsboro, PA Featuring Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet

The 2012 Season Grand Finale holds surprises for the audience. Introducing the US premiere of Serbian composer Ante Grgin’s Concertino for Clarinet, reminiscent of Benny Goodman, then concluding with Dvorak’s brilliant Symphony No. 6.

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Mansfield University’s Steadman Auditorium hosts the Festival Orchestra on Saturday, August 4, with featured violin soloist Robert Bokor performing Max Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy.” Robert Bokor (right, last year in Mansfield) is a frequent guest artist at major concert halls in Europe, Israel, Asia, South, Central and North America, and was appointed Chief Conductor of the Arpeggione Kammerorchester of Austria in 2011. The Fantasy, which never fails to delight audiences, is based on Scottish folk melodies, and features a prominent use of harp in the orchestration. After intermission, the orchestra performs the vivid 2nd symphony of Sibelius.

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Throughout its seven-year history, the Festival has earned a reputation for programming diverse forms of music in addition to its classical music core. This year, the Festival features two stellar jazz piano recitals in the Black Box Theater at Wellsboro’s new Deane Center for the Performing Arts. On Tuesday, July 31, pianist Shelton (Shelly) Berg presents “The Nearness of You” with a program to be announced from the stage. As a performer, composer, arranger, and educator, Berg has worked with some of the world’s great artists in jazz and popular music, and is considered one of the finest mainstream jazz players today. Pianist Bram Wijands (pictured below) has become a much-loved regular at the Festival and returns this year on Sunday, August 5 at 3 p.m. The program “House Rent Party” will be announced from the stage, and emulates events made famous in 1920’s Harlem.

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The Festival’s final concert on Sunday, August 12 at 3 p.m. will be held at the Wellsboro High School Auditorium. Artistic Director Stephen Gunzenhauser (pictured below) has a special affection for the symphonies of Antonin Dvořák, and his 6th Symphony is the central work of this concert and brings this year’s Festival to an exciting conclusion. Rounding out the program are Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite, and the U.S. premiere of Serbian composer Ante Grgin’s Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra, featuring the Festival’s dynamic principal clarinetist Doris Hall-Gulati.

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Last year at Wellsboro High School: interns performing in the “Just for You” thank-you concert.

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Mansfield University’s Rebecca Dodson-Webster will give her fascinating pre-concert lectures one hour before the Festival Orchestra concerts in Wellsboro and Mansfield. She discusses the historical periods, the lives of the composers, and the circumstances surrounding the creation of the repertoire. Anecdotes range from the dramatic to the humorous, and the lives of these great, but all too human composers, come to life. These lectures are an important and informative adjunct to the Festival’s stellar orchestral performances, and are not to be missed.

Except as noted above, all concerts are at 7:30 pm.

Mountain Home contributing writer Adam Mahonske, a Blossburg native, is a professor and doctor of musical art in Baltimore.

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Falling for Montour Falls

By Michael J. Fitzgerald Photos by Elizabeth Young

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esidents of Montour Falls, New York, were mourning the demise of the landmark Henderson’s Pharmacy on West Main Street when it closed last year, sure it was a death knell to business as usual in this small Finger Lakes town.

But the drugstore had barely closed when the Village Bakery started renovations with plans to open before the end of this summer. And already another pharmacy has opened just a block away.

“This town is really bouncing back,” Chef William Cornelius of the Harvest Cafe says. “Fast.”

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its more famous neighbor a few miles north on NY Route 14, Watkins Glen.

Once a village people often discovered by serendipity, Montour Falls has blossomed in the last few years with new businesses, a theater, upscale loft-style apartments, and even the beginnings of a village nightlife.

Turn down West Main Street and it’s like viewing an historic postcard with the flowing Shequagua Falls (pictured above) flowing water into the creek in front of a village park. When visitors come up the street from the highway for the first time, the falls can be startling. In the wetter seasons it is as if they are pouring water right into the downtown.

In the mid-1800s, Montour Falls was the seat of government for Schuyler County, though at that time the town was called Havana, becoming Montour Falls in 1890. It was a hub of activity with canal-based commerce, later handled by the railroad. It’s the home of the Schuyler County Historical Society where local experts can bring visitors up to speed on county history in fascinating detail.

And all of that rich history is highlighted for visitors as part of a concerted community-wide effort to put the town back on the map. And it’s working. It is apparent the historic town has blossomed again.

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Six years ago Valerie and Jeff Snider moved to Montour Falls from California, opening the Harvest Café on Main Street. At that time, the small downtown strip had as many vacant storefronts as businesses really making it. The Snider’s vision was to create not just a café, but a community.

Their motto for their enterprise since day one has been: “Where Community Happens.”

Bit by bit they transformed a lunch-counter into what is now a restaurant/community hub by day and a nightclub several nights per week featuring musicians, poets, artists, and writers—even some karaoke.

It’s not the Algonquin Roundtable, but it’s getting there.

The Sniders had the good fortune

—and perhaps foresight—this year to hire Chef Cornelius to head up their food services. Originally from Lakewood, Ohio (and now a Watkins Glen resident), the former television chef personality was working on product development with Brick Village Gourmet in Mayville, New York, and had just launched his own line of gourmet food products under the label “Chef William Creations.”

“Montour Falls is like a big extended family,” he said. “The town is so friendly to small businesses and visiting people, it’s amazing.”

Just up the street from the Harvest Café is an equally friendly and community-minded spot—the renovated Montour House, built in 1840 and once operated as a hotel.

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The Old Havana Theatre resides upstairs in the village hall. They stage melodramas from June through Labor Day.

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(Above left) The Montour Coffee House and Wine Bar on Main Street is a 2010 award-winning New York State Restoration space; (Above right) Memorial Library, originally built in1864 as a bank, was converted in 1904 to a library; (Left) Residents and campers alike enjoy the cooling waters of Eagle Cliff falls at Havana Glen Campground.

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The three-story brick building houses loft apartments, a variety of professional offices, and the Montour Coffee House and Wine Bar, a salon that also acts as a visitors’ center for Montour Falls, featuring work by local artists.

“We get a very interesting group of visitors and tourists through here,” Maggie Martin, artist and owner of the coffee house and wine bar says. “I tell visitors, just walk up and down Main Street and around the ‘T.’ There’s plenty to see and do.”

The “T” is the strip of West Main Street and its intersection with Genesee Street at the falls. Early mornings in July and August, Kate Chesebrough offers yoga classes in the shadow of the waterfalls, drawing locals and tourists to the quiet setting.

“People say that in just an hour and half, it’s like the waterfalls help recharge them,” Chesebrough says.

A half-block from the waterfall is the Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, a playhouse that puts on live shows all summer in the tradition and manner of old-style theater shows.

The year’s offerings include The Mesmerist and The Maiden and The Inventor’s Daughter…or The Villain Made a Grab for the Lab. Like the Montour House, the theatre had fallen into disuse but last year was rescued by a community effort.

“It fills up for shows now all the time,” Martin says.

Another gem that draws people is the stately public library right next door, an historic building itself, where the full story of Montour Falls’ transformation from a Seneca Indian village in the 1700s to a modern city is laid out.

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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church was built in 1853, just a block away from the falls in the middle of the town.

Montour Falls is also home to a 180-boat marina and campground with ninety spaces and a long waiting list.

But campers also head to nearby Havana Glen in great numbers during the season, as do hikers on the Catherine Valley Trail, a trail that stretches from Seneca Lake almost to the village of Horseheads along the edge of trout-filled Catherine Creek.

The chances of people whizzing past Montour Falls should drop by the end of summer when a project to create a dazzling entryway and central median entrance to downtown will be completed.

“The median will have large trees and we have a big welcoming sign that will point people into town,’’ Martin says.

“And once Shequagua Falls catches their eye? Well, they will want to stay and visit.”

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Michael J. Fitzgerald is a former California newspaper editor and writer. He lives in Watkins Glen, New York.

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Finger Lakes Wine Review

Our Critic’s Seneca: A Connoisseur’s Guide

By Holly Howell

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hen traveling the Finger Lakes, it makes sense to focus on one lake at a time. Each lake offers so much to do that you could virtually spend days on one individual lake before moving on to the next.

The longest of the Finger Lakes is Seneca, measuring in at thirty-eight miles from northern tip (Geneva) to southern tip (Watkins Glen). Named for the Seneca tribe of American Native Indians, this lake is also the deepest lake (up to 830 feet in spots), making it a great spot for deep-dwelling lake trout. Seneca Lake has appropriately been named the “lake trout capital of the world,” and hosts the National Lake Trout Derby.

Being a Finger Lake, Seneca was born like the others—from glaciers that carved their way through the region about two million years ago. This left a mineral-laden soil composed of limestone and slate that makes for exceptional vineyard sites. In addition to this, the proximity of the lake provides grapevines with a built-in temperature control. The air stays warmer into the fall, which gives the grapes more ripening time, and the air retains the coolness into the spring, which prevents the buds from breaking too early.

If you like winery touring, Seneca Lake is like Disneyland. Home to over fifty wineries along its eastern and western shores, this place has something for everyone. The Rieslings are stellar, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a winery that does not highlight our favorite grape. Award winners include Fox Run, Hermann Weimer, Anthony Road, Red Tail Ridge, Fulkerson, Lakewood and Glenora on the west, and Lafayette Reneau, Hazlitt, Standing Stone, Silver Thread, Atwater, and Lamoreaux Landing on the east.

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But there are also pockets of outstanding reds, especially on the east where the sun sets a bit later. Zugibe, Shalestone, Red Newt, and Damiani are all proving that Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc are no slackers in a cool climate. For information on the wineries, please visit www.senecalakewine. com to plan your visit.

But wine is not the only quaff available along the route. You can get a feel for the spirits of the lake at Finger Lakes Distilling (see cover story on page 14), a craft distillery that opened in 2007. The star of their line-up is the “Seneca Drums Gin,” which makes one of the most refreshing gin and tonics I’ve ever had. Last time I stopped in, I also came home with some Gewürztraminer Grappa and Cherry Liqueur.

From there, you can easily hop onto the “Ale Trail,” as it intersects with Seneca in five sudsy locations: War Horse Brewing (at Three Brothers Winery), Wagner Brewery (at Wagner Vineyards), Two Goats Brewing (in Hector), Rooster Fish Brewing (in Watkins Glen), and Miles Craft Beer (at Miles Winery). Beer is the perfect palate cleanser between wine sips.

A little cheese goes great with wine, too, so don’t miss the tasty artisanal cheddars from Schtayburne Farm, Muranda Cheese Company, and Sunset View Creamery. Softer goat cheeses are the specialty of Lively Run Dairy, and European style Goudas are what Finger Lakes Farmstead Cheese does best. You can stop in at any of them, but call ahead to check visiting hours (www.flcheesetrail.com).

The restaurants along the lake often focus on locally grown foods, making your choice of meal stops as varied as your choice of wineries. Favorites—most of them points on the Seneca Lake Cuisine

Trail—include Dano’s Heuriger (a bistro that will transport you to Austria’s Danube), Red Newt Bistro (the hub of The Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty), Suzanne’s Seasonal Cuisine (where your produce comes fresh from her garden), Stone Cat Café (just follow the smell of slow-cooked pork), and Ports Café (which offers delicious casual dining complete with a full lake view).

Belhurst Castle is another “must-see” of Seneca Lake. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is a spectacular inn and restaurant just south of Geneva. They even have their own winery, and a lovely tasting room on-site. This place has an illustrious past and plenty of centuryold stories to tell. And—if you are lucky— you may even glimpse a ghost or two.

For those of you who love to shop for hidden treasures, you can spend hours at the Skyland Farm Art Craft Gallery and Café on Route 414 in Hector. This Art Barn is loaded with the work of over 300 local artists. You know you are somewhere special when you walk upstairs via the spiral staircase that winds itself around a live two-story oak tree that is growing right in the middle of the shop! And while you are there, be sure to try the creamy homemade gelato that they offer in the Garden Room.

These are only a few highlights of the magnificent Seneca. My advice is to book a quaint bed and breakfast (check out www. stayfingerlakes.com) and stay a few days to get it all in. I just may see you there!

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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Ode on a (Stinking) Rose

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ver been to a Garlic Festival?

I’m tempted to say “follow your nose,” because starting about now, such homage-to-garlic events are scattered all over, several within reach of you Mountain Home readers. If you appreciate the zip garlic can give to your cooking, I’d recommend a trip. Why? You’ll meet the garlic growers and fellow lovers of what has been called (unfairly, I reckon) “The Stinking Rose.”

That’s not a very flattering name for a vegetable that’s even been mentioned in the Bible and the Talmud.

Folks who farm garlic are quick to tell you how to buy and use it. There’s even a Garlic Seed Foundation in Rose, New York. Poke around the Internet and you’ll find information about this “informal organization of growers and eaters of Allium sativum dedicated to its consumption and production.”

You’ll find that there are many varieties of garlic and learn several cooking

Pyro chef flame ups on Gourmet Alley at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

methods that tame its assertive flavor.

Many garlic festivals feature cooking demonstrations, and some incorporate cooking contests where “garlic heads” can present judges with their favorite garlic concoctions.

Garlic Lore You might have heard the buzz about garlic’s supposedly miraculous healthaffirming benefits. It’s been touted as anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, and even as an aid in the prevention of, and the treatment for, the common cold. And it prevents scurvy. The jury is still out on garlic’s ability to regulate blood sugar levels. More clinical trials are needed, according to one source.

Still, was I imagining it, or did I actually hear a doctor say: “Take two garlic cloves and call me in the morning”?

Central European folk believe garlic is a powerful ward against demons, werewolves, and vampires. Over there it was hung about the neck, and fes-

Photo by Bill Strange

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By Cornelius O’Donnell

tooned around windows and doorways. I’m tempted to say, “don’t knock it.” There, I did.

The Granddaddy (or Mommie) of Them All Many moons ago I was working in San Francisco at several Emporiums (literally—that’s the name of the department store chain). As a treat, a good friend took me to a relatively new Arts and Craftish restaurant in Berkley that was earning rave reviews for its food and dedication to using the absolutely freshest products of local growers. The now-well-known Chez Panisse was led by Alice Waters. She would contract with a network of suppliers of produce, meats, fish, etc. to be sure of getting the absolutely best products.

This is now a feature of almost any serious chef ’s mantra, but in the ’70s and ’80s this was a revolutionary concept. It spawned the term “California

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Cuisine” or “locavore,” meaning the use of ingredients found within fifty or so miles of the kitchen. Back then Chef Alice had fun offering a totally garlic menu to coincide with the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, south of San Jose.

I was enchanted with the entire evening, the heady aromas and the intense tastes, and we madly passed around plates of this great garlic-laden food. My food buddies and I did draw the line at ordering the dessert that, as I remember, was a garlic-flavored custard or ice cream. Enough already!

Gilroy, California, “Garlic Capital of the World” Who can challenge this title when you consider the sheer numbers involved in this Festival that began in 1979?

This year’s blowout was held, as usual, the last full weekend of July.

Last year about 110,000 attended the two-day event; 4,000 area volunteers made the Festival possible; and, yes, they elect a Garlic Festival Queen. A friend of many years remembers going to the second festival and hearing a candidate for Queen in her “why-youshould-elect-me” speech end with this ringing line: “…most importantly, I smell like garlic.” And I got a kick out of the description of the annual highpoint, The Great Garlic Cook-off. Its sponsor? Tums Freshers.

None of our area’s festivals can approach the scope of Gilroy’s. (You probably can have too much of a good thing.) Here are some of our greater area’s more intimate local festivals, including a historically well-attended one that happens just after this issue of Mountain Home hits the stands: The 20th Annual Glorious Garlic Festival, Fox Run Vineyards August 4 and 5

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Photo courtesy of Fox Run Vineyards

Fox Run is located a bit south of Geneva and northeast of Penn Yan on Route 14. The pungent aromas start at 11:00 and run until 5:00, as organizers promise at least four cooking demonstrations by local chefs during the day, plus music from 12:00 to 2:00 and 3:00 to 5:00. Expect to see thirty-odd venders, ranging from garlic growers to purveyors of garlic-themed merchandise. I’ve been before and found it a delicious experience. For more info, go to the Fox Run Web site.

The 14th Annual Keystone State Hot & Stinky Garlic and Herb Festival August 25 and 26, at Drums Drums isn’t along the Mohawk, but over in the Hazelton, Pennsylvania area, near the intersection of U.S. 80 and 81. Hosted by the Zanolini Nursery & Garden Shop, the fun starts Saturday at 11:00 and runs to 8:00, the highlight being a Hot Pepper Eating Contest. On Sunday the action begins at 11:00 with a Chili Cook Off (judging at 3:00) and a noon Garlic Eating Contest. The music starts at 2:00, probably to mask the moans of the garlic-eating contestants.

Both days you’ll meet local area garlic farmers and crafters and enjoy good eats: roasted corn with garlic butter and also baked garlic potatoes—all done by the local K of C. How can you resist? Go to the nursery’s Web site for more information.

Pocono Garlic Festival, Shawnee Mountain Ski Area September 1 and 2 I’m told that folks count on driving to Shawnee-on-Delaware each Labor Day weekend to take in this garlic festival. This year is their eighteenth and follows the pattern of most festivals: a mix of garlic growers, crafts, lectures, and

I first tasted this remarkable dish at a reception thrown to honor the great gourmand, cookbook author, and bon vivant James Beard. He loved it: Bagna Cauda

This Mediterranean classic is a dip to be served warm (its name means “warm bath”) surrounded by blanched (very important) broccoli or cauliflower florets, asparagus spears, lightly steamed green beans, sugar snaps, celery, or carrot or jicama sticks.

If you have a metal fondue pan, it and Canned Heat will work well for serving. If not, just reheat the mixture once or twice during your party.

8 to 10 anchovy fillets Milk ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil ½ stick (4 Tablespoons) unsalted butter 6 cloves garlic, very thinly sliced Freshly ground black pepper

Soak anchovies for 30 minutes in a little milk to remove excess salt. Remove from milk and pat them dry. Coarsely chop them.

In a small saucepan, heat the olive oil and butter over medium heat. Add the garlic and prepared anchovies. Cook for about 5 minutes over gentle heat, stirring from time to time until the garlic is fragrant but not browned and the anchovies have melted into a sauce. Add pepper to taste.

Serve warm with fondue (or regular) forks or chop sticks, surrounded by an array of vegetables. Have a stack of napkins handy.

Serves about 6 and is easily doubled for a crowd. ~C.O.

music. In short, there’s non-stop entertainment. It takes three stages to hold all these activities. For instance, there’ll be some Bluegrass: doesn’t that sound perfect for such an event? Plus there are lots of activities for kids—a feature of most such festivals.

I have to tell you that the Web site Pocono Garlic Festival (www.poconogarlic.com) is fantastic. It has many videos on growing garlic, discusses the medicinal benefits of garlic, and has links to recipe videos—a real treasure trove of tips. Garlic lovers will L-OV-E this. Don’t miss the mini-documentary on a Texas garlic farmer called “The Garlic Man.” Bob Anderson ships a wide variety of garlic to customers all over the world (yes, there are many varieties—white, red, and pink—known by various names) for propagation and

that, a contest that pits the culinary prowess of “Three Cities, Three Mayors, and Three Chefs,” the latter chosen by each mayor to represent each city. As the press release puts it, “The garlic will be flying as they sauté it out.” A panel of celebrity judges will choose the winner.

And I imagine the judges will quickly slink out of town to avoid the irate followers of the losers who might just pelt them with roasted cloves. At 4:00 a wine and beer tasting will help sooth frazzled nerves—and need I mention the live music all afternoon?

More About Garlic While there might not be a Garlic Festival in your town, local Farmers Markets are a good source of freshly dug garlic and a chance to chat with the growers. Look for the tightness of wrappers or skin, no mold or mildew, and heaviness and firmness. Avoid garlic exhibiting green sprouts. Store the garlic head in a ventilated container at room temperature. If your garlic develops green sprouts before you get to use it all, cut the garlic clove in half and dig out the green with the tip of a knife.

Garlic presses? I don’t like them. I prefer to cut off the hard base of each clove, smack the clove with the side of a heavy knife, remove the skin, then continue to smash the clove, smearing it with the knife on your cutting board (adding a few grains of salt helps) until it is a sort of puree. Alternatively, run the peeled clove over the wonderful Microplane. A puree will magically form on the underside. An article in the New York Times insisted that you should crush or chop the garlic fifteen minutes before you cook with it, thus triggering “an enzyme reaction that boosts the healthy components in garlic.”

My phobias are showing: I shun garlic powder and (heavens) garlic salt.

And I don’t like the taste of chopped garlic preserved in a jar. Preservatives!!

If you are thinking of preserving your garlic cloves in oil—to flavor the oil or preserve the cloves—I have a word of advice: don’t. Unless you add some acid to the mix—citrus juice, wine, or

Photo courtesy of Fox Run Vineyards

the preparation of recipes.

8th Annual Cuba, New York Garlic Festival September 15 and 16 When I hear “Cuba, New York,” I think “cheese,” but area boosters have added garlic to the business mix (and you can buy Yancy’s Roasted Garlic Cheddar cheese). The promoters of this garlic festival promise a “stinking good time.” Go and check out the Garlic King and Queen, plus lots of courtiers dressed in garlic-themed costumes.

(Don’t miss this “Kodak Moment.”)

They also promise a garlic cook-off contest. Learn more by going to the Cuba Chamber of Commerce Internet site for info on submitting your main dish recipe for judging. If yours is one of the selected entries, prepare to bring enough samples to serve twenty-five small portions. There is no entry fee or age limit. For non-cooks but big eaters, try your luck at the garlic hotdog eating contest. Burp.

“Eat, Drink, and Stink” The 2012 Easton PA Garlic Fest, October 6 and 7 There are two contests involved in this event. One is for artists and designers, amateur or professional, who submit a design for a poster promoting the Fest. (This will be used for the 2013 event.) The details are on the Web site.

The second contest invites cooks to enter their favorite garlic-infused dip. For some reason, they call it the “Dracula Dip,” but isn’t garlic supposed to ward off Mr. Fangs? Again, check the site.

The Garlic Fest will be at Easton’s Center Square on Saturday and will move to Riverside Park on Sunday.

There are maps on the Web site, and the Sunday program sounds especially interesting. From noon to 2:00, the first 200 people will help choose the winner of a Dangerous Desserts (garlic as an ingredient) competition. Yup, you get to sample the creative products of the best area bakers and be on hand for the crowning of the Best Stinkin’ Baker.

In the Amphitheatre at 1:00 is an Iron-Chef-like cook-off followed by a cooking demonstration, and following

vinegar—you risk developing botulism even when the vessel is refrigerated.

And another thing, though it pains me to break this news to you, elephant garlic isn’t a true garlic at all, but a wild leek. It’s “garlic lite”—tasty, but not as pungent as the real megillah. I hope you’re not as crushed as the garlic clove I put in my Vichyssoise earlier this week using organic leeks.

Final Thought Personally, I can’t imagine life without garlic. And I echo the sentiments I read in a comment on one of the Web sites I consulted. It was posted by one “A.C.” from Upstate New York, and I quote: “Taking garlic out of my kitchen would be like taking the sun out of my sky.”

I just had a rather garlic-laden lunch, so before I turn this treatise in to the M.H. editorial offices, I’d better take some immediate action and find a few parsley leaves or fennel seeds to chew. Phew!

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

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The Tasty Twin Tiers

The Brick House Deli & Café

By Becca Ostrom

Jesse Jones

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ood food is relatively easy to come by, but great food in a warm and welcoming environment is a bit more elusive. If you get the chance to drive west on Route 6, make sure you make it all the way out to Galeton, Pennsylvania, to one of those rare places that makes you want to stay all day and visit with every person that comes through the door: the Brick House Deli & Café.

The Brick House (4 W. Main Street; 814-435-2444) had its start in 2004, and was lovingly taken over in 2007 by owners Cindy and Rob Pflug, who came to God’s Country by “divine intervention.” Rob and Cindy had worked in corporate America for many years, but after some twists and turns in life they decided they would

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rather be doing something they could be passionate about with their best friend—that being one another.

This is not your normal eatery; when the economy is on the downturn, their prices stay constant and the portions, using the freshest and best product they can find, seem to get bigger.

Deli meats are cut fresh for each sandwich, which are put together by one of the many family members you will find working alongside Mom and Dad. In need of a little Phillie flavor? Get one of their cold subs, assembled on a roll that Philadelphians would be proud of.

Have Rob sit and talk to you about how he was given the Original Texas Hot recipe and about those that have come in to put that recipe to the test.

I suggest the same sandwich that

Rachel Ray recommended in her magazine, Every Day with Rachel Ray, a recommendation that shone the national spotlight on this slice of paradise in May, and started a buzz picked up by local papers. Under the heading “Grab a Bite,” Ray highlighted the Brick House’s Mesquite Honey Roasted Turkey, a freshly made panini with layers of turkey, lettuce, tomato, sweet honey mustard, and Swiss cheese. Now this may sound like your normal sandwich, but I swear they put in a secret ingredient. I opted for a heaping side of sweet potato fries. Being a food connoisseur in my own respect, I tend to be picky with fried foods, but these were the best sweet potato fries I have ever tasted. They were perfectly prepared, and the flavor was neither greasy nor

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(Facing Page) The Brick House Deli & Café presides over Route 6 in Galeton.

(Above) The Pflug’s “little slice of heaven” was built in 1895.

(Right) The nationally famous turkey panini—with sweet potato fries.

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overwhelmingly sweet. If you are more in the mood for a snack than a meal try the Brick House’s homemade baked goods, a yummy list which include scones, cinnamon rolls, and cookies.

Rob and Cindy have adapted to a different lifestyle, and have become a significant part of the community.

They have learned the history of this beautiful area and are educators to locals and travelers alike. One of the things that makes this eatery special is their desire to build a legacy, turning a forgotten place into one where anyone would want to overstay their welcome. They show their family and community bent in little ways, like remembering your name or giving every child that comes through the door a free cookie.

Divine intervention indeed, and perfectly at home in God’s Country.

Local food aficionado Becca Ostrom is a regular contributor to Mountain Home.

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Restaurants

Enjoy the region’s comprehensive restaurant listings. From our Finger Lakes wineries to Williamsport’s good eats to the fertile Pennsylvania heartland in between, we’re famous for our regional specialties and love to eat. For listing information please email Dawn Bilder at dawnb@ mountainhomemag.com or call (570) 724-3838. Bon appetit!

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 home-style 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

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Texas Hots Burgers Cheesesteaks Smoked BBQ Sandwiches Area’s Best Fried Chicken Soft & Hard Ice Cream Italian Ice And MORE!

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570.724.1333 Open: Mon-thur 11 to 11 Fri-Sat 11 to 12 Sun 12 to 10

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) 998-2559, 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 comfort-food favorites, salads, and sandwiches.

Come try our family-friendly foods at budget-friendly prices. 201 William St, (570) 320-8778, wegmans.com.

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.

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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 “Bungy” Blonde Ale, “Pine Creek” Raspberry Wit, “Mountaineer” Pale Ale, “Summer of Love” Summer Ale, “Grand Canyon” Vanilla Porter & “Coal Miner’s” Black I.P.A. are the beers we have on tap 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. ARBY’S (570) 662-7626, 1672 S Main St.

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) 3536881, 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) 7244220, 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. Housebatter-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.

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) 7247532, 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.

Spices, Fresh Ground Peanut Buuer, Snacks, Candies, Gluten Free Items, Organics Items, Coffees, All of Your Baking Needs and So Much More!

7686 Route 6, Troy PA Phone: 570-297-1015

Open: Mon.- Frid. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sat. 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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Monday-Friday: 9AM - 8PM Saturday: 9AM - 7PM

7 Charleston RD Wellsboro, PA www.terryshoagies.com Fax: 570-723-8732

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.

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Westfield ACORN #10 FEATURING SUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (814) 367-2610, 465 E Main St, www. acornmarkets.com.

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Galeton ACORN #25 FEATURING SUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (814) 435-6626, 3 West St, www.acornmarkets.com.

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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. BRICKHOUSE CAFE & DELI Features homemade soups, salads and baked goods daily, premium hot and cold sandwichs and breakfast all day. Dine in or take-out. Located on historic Rt. 6 at the light, Monday-Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday 9am-4pm. 4 W. Main Street (Rt 6), Galeton, PA ((814)- 435-2444

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 handtossed 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) 962-4649, 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 68

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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 handtossed 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.

570-724-3311 Open 7 Days a Week 17 Pearl St., Wellsboro, PA 16901 Full Service On Site Catering Available

To advertise in the food section call 570-724-3838

Largest Black Angus Burgers in town!

Full Salad Bar 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

All Homemade Desserts

Open at 5 a.m., we serve Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner all day until 9 p.m.!

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Mother Earth

Putting Up

By Gayle Morrow

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f you’re feeding livestock in January, it’s quite satisfying to have a barn full of hay in August. Presumably you like to eat in January, too, and while there is a lot to be said for eating fresh and local only, finding it year ’round in this neck of the woods would be a full-time job (although that could change relatively quickly with a few more winters like this past one). So, consider “putting up” some garden abundance for yourself now in anticipation of those days when the living things are hunkered down and there’s nothing close to green outside except an aging Christmas wreath flopping on the front door.

To determine what food preservation technique—canning, freezing, drying, lacto-fermentation, root cellaring, pickling—will suit you, think about how you cook, when you cook, and what sorts of things your family likes (perhaps, too, what sorts of things you’d like them to like). Corn that’s been frozen really does taste different from corn that’s been canned, and maybe the folks you’re feeding have strong feelings about one over the other. In my own kitchen, I’ve never been able to can a decent batch of spaghetti sauce, so it makes more sense for me to can or freeze just the tomatoes and make the sauce later. A 70

dehydrator works well for season-end garden stragglers. Let it do the work on those smaller amounts of produce while you’re at work, and you’ll have an interesting mix of dried veggies to throw in soups, quiches, or sauces.

Consider the foods which are readily available to you, their cost, and how much time you have to devote to the preservation process. Freezing is generally less time-consuming than canning, but you have to take into account your space constraints. Do you have room for a freezer, and do you have a Plan B for when the power goes out? Do you have appropriate storage for fifty quarts of tomatoes, cases of empty canning jars, and a canner? Do you have a place to make a root cellar?

If you’re new to food preservation, pick the brains of the people who are already doing it. The Ball Blue Book is one of the canning/freezing bibles, but there are many others out there.

As with any skill you’re trying to perfect, it’s good to follow the rules at first; when you figure out what you’re doing then you can tweak your processes a bit to suit your own taste and situation.

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

Ho m e & G a rd e n Bright Ideas Win the Gold

Photos by Elizabeth Young

By Jen Reed-Evans

Alex Martinec stands on the award-winning, remodeled deck he designed to give this Keuka lake house (top) a sweeping outdoor living space.

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erched along Keuka Lake’s shores is a home that stands out from the crowd. When designer Alex Martinec—a third generation member of Bright Ideas by Martinec, located in Big Flats, New York— grabbed the reigns of the home’s remodel, people started talking. Lots of people, actually. The buzz began on Houzz.com, a popular home design and decorating Web site that features hundreds of thousands of remodeling project ideas. Web site visitors can save inspirational project images to their personal idea books directly on the site

or via an iPhone/iPad app. More than 1.2 million registered Houzz members chose Martinec’s design, and he won the “Best Of Remodeling” 2012 award by Houzz.

Gazing at the flowing deck, it is no surprise that the modern, red cedar design brought home the gold.

Although man-made, the new outdoor living space melts organically into the natural beauty that is Keuka. The lower portion of the deck, once brick, is now a serene blue that echoes the sky and its reflection on the water. Boats passing by can appreciate the slanted See Bright Ideas on page 72 71

Going for the gold: before and after Alex Martinec’s award-winning re-make. (Below) The deck’s angular movement shines through after dark.

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poles that create an optical illusion of movement—again paying homage to the never-ceasing laps of the lake.

The partially-enclosed stairs that lead to the deck offer a glimpse of the hidden gutter system, but only if you know where to look. There is absolutely no lack of detail in the design. Inset lights in the ceiling illuminate the sitting area and even more tiny lights placed in the flooring let guests know where the thick glass meets the edge of the deck. Sliding panels made of the same red cedar as the rest of the deck

have an elegant Asian feel and can be easily manipulated to provide a private or a more open setting.

Obviously such a grand design is deserving of Houzz’s honor, but what is not so obvious is the winning designer himself—Alex Martinec.

This is Martinec’s first major remodel design and he started working on it in 2010 at the tender age of twenty-three.

After being given full creative license from the homeowners, Martinec began working meticulously for months to create the elaborate plans that would

later come to life before him.

Asked how he felt about receiving the remodel award, Alex paused.

“Amazed,” he said humbly. “I knew it was a good design,” he continued, “I guess I haven’t grasped the scale of winning an award like that.”

Although this was Martinec’s first large-scale project, he is not new to the design scene. Bright Ideas by Martinec was founded by Alex’s grandfather, and then his father, too, joined the team.

Always exposed to the family business, Alex has been drawing and creating

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things since he was a child. But he did not jump into what would end up being his ‘calling.’ As a boy, Alex dreamed of being an FBI agent or maybe even drawing comics and working for Marvel. At college he tried psychology and even toyed with the idea of physical therapy, because he felt a need to help people. Eventually he could no longer fight the innateness of design that ran in his veins.

Though Martinec has no formal schooling in architecture or design, he does hold professional designations attained through the National Home Builders Association.

He is a certified aging in place specialist with accessibility and a certified green building professional. Combining his certifications, life experiences, and prodigy-like ability has placed Martinec in a category all his own.

Martinec is inspired by famous architect/designer Frank Lloyd Wright and believes in Wright’s ideologies when it comes to innate abilities. “You can go to school for things,” notes Martinec, “but it doesn’t mean that you can necessarily do something well.”

Martinec continues to explain why “doing things well” is not something that he does alone, rather it is something the entire Bright Ideas team does collectively. He feels that they stand out in a sea of remodelers and designers because of the way his family runs their business. He insists that because they do not bid out work—which essentially means asking outside contractors to determine an amount of money they

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(Above) The beautiful shades of blue play delicately off the gentle, warm hues of the deck, as well as the funiture that was provided by Pure Design in Corning. (Left) Nightfall reveals the stratigically placed light fixures which highlight the dynamic angles of the deck.

are willing to accept to do a job—they have projects on other properties. There are a an edge on the competition. Traditionally, lot of contractors out there, and Martinec once bids are placed the lowest one is wants his clients to not only be satisfied, usually accepted. Bright Ideas by Martinec but have an outcome that exceeds their does not use this system because they feel expectations. He wants to eliminate the the quality they ensure would be lacking. need for his clients to ever look elsewhere.

Instead, they employ their own carpenters, After exploring the gorgeous Houzz’s something that sets them apart from other Best Remodel, it is easy to see why their design firms. clients stay put. Architecture lovers flock “We are involved in every step of the to see Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater process. We want to be sure that clients in southwestern Pennsylvania. Who understand that we are all about quality,” knows? People may soon be traveling to says Martinec. see Alex Martinec’s designs. The chic, Their clients must be convinced, award-winning Frank- Lloyd-Wrightbecause 80 percent of Bright Ideas’ work meets-Beverly-Hills modern deck is only is from repeat clients. The owners of Alex the beginning.

Martinec’s award-winning design house are repeat customers, having trusted Jen Reed-Evans is the writer of the ‘Doings’ Bright Ideas by Martinec with remodel and ‘Chatter’ sections of Mountain Home.

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2 STORY HOME- LARGE WORKSHOP W/ OFFICE – 4 brdm home on 22+/- ac & lg building w/room for trucks/garage & office space! Attractive home offers awesome views & floor plan, hardwood floors,& efficient heating system.Land features a pond, stream, some timber value,& 4000 sqft building. EZ to NY & Wellsboro.OGM’s negotiable!$379,000 #122066

22.54 AC-WOW THE VIEWS...BETWEEN TROY AND MANSFIELD – Over the meadows & beyond! Meticulously maintained Lindel cedar log multi-level home. Raised basement for add’l living space. Elegant & rustic w/open flr plan.

A/C, Harmon coal stove, lg.new garage, new well & spring, 22.54 ac open & wooded land. Corner property with long frontage. $360,000 #119956

CAMP BORDERING STATE LAND-4.41AC – Make this camp your own getaway or full time residence! 4.41 ac bordering state land in wooded setting offers 2 bdrms. with room for a 3rd. Cozy and delightful this home comes furnished. Easy drive down to Rt. 6 in Gaines Twp. Must see cabin! and nice wooded lot. #121855 $129,000

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PRIVATE LOGHOME RETREAT – Attractive log home features a 2 sided stone fireplace with wood insert. Cherry steps to the second floor loft which offers 2 bdrms & bathroom. Spacious great rm offers cathedral ceilings & slate floors. Home boasts beautiful master suite. All this on 32 private acs!EZ to Wellsboro.$435,000.#121313

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2 LOTS TOTALING 6.98 ACRES offered as a package – one driveway into parcels. Permit for septic and building permit for seasonal dwelling up to 1,952 sqft will transfer to buyer.

Electrical available, ideal location to build a camp or vacation home – close to public lake.

Build on one lot, resell the other; or purchase as an investment. OGM’s are not owned by seller.

MTH 122614 $34,900

EXTRAORDINARY, WELL PLANNED 5 BR HOME w/quality craftsmanship, designed w/room for expansion in the 2800 sqft basement. Features concrete patio, walks & drive, stone fireplace, granite kitchen counter tops w/cherry cabinets and two 30” double convection wall ovens, Brazilian cherry flooring, granite tile in foyer - on 1.5 acres.

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INTERESTING GABLES AND ELEVATIONS detail this fine Wellsboro home located 2.5 miles from downtown on 6.23 acres.

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BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED 4 BR seasonal or full time residence w/(3) 1st floor BR’s, newer kitchen and 2 baths, insulated Anderson windows/door, cathedral ceiling - completely remodeled in 2006. Front and rear decks to enjoy wildlife, miles of 4-wheel and snowmobile trails available, access to hunting land.

MTH 121864 $139,900

PRIVATE LOCATION FOR THIS HOME on 10 wooded acres bordering State Forest Land. Hunt your own property or walk to State Lands. Energy efficient home w/heat pump for heat, central air and a whole house generator fueled by propane; 2 car attached garage, deck for outdoor relaxation.

MTH 121951 $249,500

SIMPLE, MODEST EXTERIOR w/quality interior details, large formal dining room, kitchen w/breakfast nook, cozy living room w/wood fireplace and a large family room addition with back yard views. 3 BRs, 2 baths, partly finished basement living space.

Country setting on paved road a mere 2 miles from downtown Wellsboro.

MTH 122017 $234,900

DRILLED WELL, ELECTRIC AT ROAD and privy for this 24.07 acre mixed open and wooded parcel. Currently has a nice pavilion and 30 x 26 shed; land on both sides of the road. Not yet leased, 50% of OGM’s are offered at listing price, or buy 100% at $159,900.

MTH 122685 $124,900

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MTHDLM 121986 $259,900

BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED 3 BR Victorian style farm house within minutes of Coudersport, with cozy eat-in kitchen, covered front and side porches, large heated garage and shop, small stream meanders through property, nicely landscaped.

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WOW right on the Pine Creek. Here is one that has it all. This property really is a must see. 3 bedroom home with a large 2 car garage and tons of amenities. Central air, alarm system, beautiful deck over the lower level, large 2 car detached garage and, oh yes, did we mention that you’re right on the creek?

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Very nice salt box style post and beam home in quiet subdivision. 3 bedroom with a 3rd floor area that could easily be a fourth bedroom. Enjoy the fireplace in the living room or retreat to the large deck on the rear of the home. Lots of trees in the yard provide a peaceful setting.

MLS#122757 $229,000

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.

This home must be seen to be appreciated. Completely remodeled around 2000. New windows and doors, skylights, siding, roof, custom kitchen with ceramic tile floors and much more. French doors to the deck and a stone fireplace in the family room. Country living yet close to town and amenities.

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MLS#122726 $184,000

Very well maintained home. Large rooms and lots of hardwood floors. Nice front porch and maintenance free exterior. Family room with gas fireplace and a den in basement. Walk to downtown.

MLS#122755 $154,900

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MarketPlace Shop Around the Corner

A Gift Shop Groomed for Pets Story and Photos By Megan Wetzel

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s you go down Route 6 out of Wellsboro you’ll see the mysterious white farmhouse with green shutters on the left across from Weis Markets. In the vast green yard of the house is the sign for Purrfect Treasures Shoppe, a sign that gives only a small hint of what awaits. Inside two of the former farmhouse living rooms, you’ll feel as though you’ve gone back in time.

All manner of trinkets, antiques, dolls, jewelry, silver, miniature birdhouses, and M.J. Hummel’s figurines crowd the tea tables, dressers, a dry sink, even a five-piece bedroom set.

You’ll most likely be greeted by a friendly meow or a furry canine romping all about—like the little black mutt adopted from the next-door kennels of the Animal Care Sanctuary. Don’t worry, the animals aren’t the ones look-

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ing after the shop.

It’s an animal-loving human, a lady more like it, by the name of Marquene (Markie) Kane, the volunteer executive director of the shop. Puppy love: The Purrfect Markie displays Treasures Shoppe is a perfect treasure. the gift shop of the Animal Care Sanctuary, the non-profit, no-kill shelter that replaced the Pennsylvania SPCA on the sixty-four-acre property in September, 2011. The shelter houses nine dogs and eighteen cats until they find homes. The shelter relies on private donations to keep going, and the gift shop is an important part of the shelter’s fund-raising.

Don’t let the sign fool you; it is a shop for humans, not pets. “We would like to change the name in the near future,” Markie says. “We just feel like the name of the shop is a little confusing for customers and they don’t know that we are even there.”

Joan Reese-Smith, the executive director of ACS, whose larger shelter is

what I wanted to do,” she says. “Now Antique row: that I am the director for Purrfect Treaa dry sink glistens sures, I like knowing that selling items with silver. will bring up funding for the animals.”

As soon you walk into the shop, you can feel Markie’s dedication toward the animals, and can tell that this shop is really for them. “Donations are a big part for us to be able to keep the shop open,” she says. “The more items we get the better for the animals.” The gift located in East Smithfield, tapped Mar- shop is always looking for gently used kie to open the Wellsboro area shop on household items, including furniture, Black Friday, November, 2011. Markie antiques, and jewelry. (The shop doesn’t said that she has been an animal lover accept stuffed animals, clothing, or since she was a child, and now owns a shoes). The shop started with consignyellow lab and a Cavalier King Charles ments, but now, “One hundred percent Spaniel with her husband Walt (Bud) of the profits go to the animals’ needs,” Kane. Retired after twenty years as an Markie says. Items range from a $1 cosadministrator in the Laurel Health Sys- tume necklace to a five-piece bedroom tem and Soldiers & Sailors Memorial set for $5,000.

Before Christmas, when the shop Hospital, Markie filled out a volunteer first opened, business was steady for application for the Animal Care Sanctuary. “When I saw in the newspaper that Purrfect Treasures, but after the holivolunteers were needed at the Animal days, business was scarce. Wendy ReCare Sanctuary, I knew that that was ber, the shelter’s community liaison for

Wellsboro, came up with the idea of a groom room for pets.

It’s scheduled to open the first week of August, offering dog baths, grooming, nails, blow-outs, and more (baths range from $14 to $60, depending on the size and hair length of the dog).

Wendy, who manages the groom room, says it’ll also offer special treatments, such as natural oatmeal spa, de-skunking, de-shedding, and degreasing. Cats are also welcome for nail trimming or nail covers. All of the equipment in the groom room is state-of-the-art. Patsy Williamee, a reSee Groomed on page 88

Bubble bubble: treat Fido to a spa bath at Purrfect Treasures.

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A new doggy do: it’s a must for your pet in the groom room.

Groomed continued from page 87

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tired groomer, donated tubs, stairs, shampoos, conditioners, and other equipment, and is training the staff in the groom room on all of the different techniques. The farmhouse kitchen will become a waiting room for the animals.

The staff in the groom room will do everything they can to make sure your pet is comfortable, Wendy says. “We don’t believe muzzles should be used for a temperamental dog, so instead we use a body harness and leash to control them better.”

The Animal Care Sanctuary, 11765 Route 6 in Wellsboro, is open for adoptions Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Wednesday, Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Purr-fect Treasures Shoppe is open for shopping and donations Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call (570) 724- 3687, or see www.animalcaresanctuary.org.

Megan Wetzel is a high school senior from Liberty High School. Her interests in writing and journalism led her to Mountain Home, where she was an intern this summer.

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