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In the summer of 1950 in Corning, New York, fourteen-year-old Kathryn Johnston cut her hair under the cap and played first base for Kings Dairy, a local Little League team.

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The Longest Shot

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For sixty years, Williamsport photojournalist Putsee Vannucci shot the Little League World Series with a camera.

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The spiffed-up World of Little League museum in Williamsport boasts a rare Babe Ruth uniform and other treasures, just in time for Billtown’s 67th World Series.

By Cindy Davis Meixel

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I’m in a line up of four cars waiting to turn left, across traffic, on Route 15 South in South Williamsport, destined for the World of Little League museum in the shadow of Lamade Stadium, where the 67th Annual Little League Baseball World Series games will be broadcast worldwide from August 15 through the 25. Already, three northbound cars have steered quickly into the parking lot and their contents have spilled out onto the asphalt on this hot summer day and are bounding toward the front door of the baseball mecca like thirsty, focused baseball players sliding into home.

I count them: four, two, five plus a stroller…and a straggler, bobbing across the parking lot in a royal blue baseball cap. Every one of them is smiling.

Once inside the sparkling new spaces of the World of Little League: Peter J. McGovern Museum, their enthusiasm only increases. The young visitors stand awe struck before a Babe Ruth uniform displayed grandly in a gorgeous glass case. The million-dollar artifact—a plain gray wool jersey with the number “3” stitched

in red on the back that The Babe wore on a 1934 barnstorming tour of eighteen games in Japan—arrived by armored truck with a police escort in early June, on loan from an anonymous donor. It was set in place like a crown jewel shortly before the museum reopened following a nine month-long, $4.3 million renovation.

“The reaction to the Babe Ruth uniform has been great,” said Lance Van Auken, Little League vice president and executive director of the museum.

“People don’t expect to see something like that at a museum in Williamsport. It’s such an iconic item from baseball history and from international relations, too.

Visitors are amazed when they see it.”

While Route 15 throngs with thousands of fans bound for the famous games at Lamade Stadium, next door Van Auken is eager to show off the glittering new museum to some of the world’s most passionate baseball fans, the little league lovers who make the pilgrimage to Williamsport each summer.

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As I toured the dramatic new exhibits, the young visitors gaped at a Ruthian autographed baseball displayed with the uniform. It’s the ball The Babe hit 500 feet in Williamsport during a barnstorming tour shortly after the Yankees won the 1923 World Series.

Elsewhere were precious pieces of the baseball pastime—the first Little League whistle, a bat carved from the last wedge of wood chopped by Cy Young. Some more curious objects are a piece of the Berlin Wall, a NASA spacesuit, a box of Mrs. Paul’s fish sticks. All tell a unique tale in the vast, sparkling story of Little League as do the recorded voices and visuals of the individuals who made an impact—from the visionary man who hit upon the idea of a young boys’ league seventy-five summers ago to the trailblazing girls who broke gender barriers and fought for their place on the field.

The World of Little League museum

Cindy Davis Meixel

Visiting from Florida, a young baseball player, left, and his softballplaying sister, right, explore the interactive Global Connections Touch Table in the newly renovated World of Little League Museum.

is not just a spectators’ sport. The newly re-envisioned museum is a multi-faceted, interactive, multimedia experience extending far beyond the borders of a baseball diamond. It’s not just a baseball museum. It’s not a kid’s museum, though children adore it. It aims to enchant lovers of history, technology, and story—especially the story of how a dusty ball field in rural Pennsylvania became an international crossroads bridging nations and cultures like a little Olympics.

Five years after Babe Ruth wore the gray wool on display, the first Little League game was played in Williamsport, organized by city resident Carl E. Stotz.

He conceived the idea the summer before and set about experimenting with informal games and identifying local business sponsors before fielding three teams—Jumbo Pretzel, Lycoming Dairy, and Lundy Lumber. The first official Little League game was played on June 6, 1939, with the Little League Baseball World Series premiering eight years later, in the summer of 1947.

Stotz’s first whistle and first base are on display in the “Heritage” section of the World of Little League, which is laid out in six galleries identified as “innings.” Gazing into See Old Ball Game on page 14

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n the summer of 1950 in Corning, New York, Kathryn Johnston’s younger brother was going to try out for Little League baseball and she wanted to try out, too. She thought she was a better player than him, but he told her she couldn’t play because she was a girl and it was a game for boys, ages nine to twelve. Then her mother saw an ad in The Corning Leader for another team across town where nobody knew her, and agreed to cut her daughter’s hair.

The rest is gender history. Johnston dressed in her brother’s clothes, tucked her new short hair up in a baseball cap, and went to try out for the Kings Dairy team. She signed in as “Tubby Johnston.” (Tubby was a character from her favorite Little Lulu comics.) The coach was impressed with the abilities of the small kid and assigned Johnston to first base. A few days into the season, she confessed, but the coach thought her skills were more important than her gender and, with no written rules other than age requirements, permitted her to stay on. She was featured in The Corning Leader and townspeople came to see her play—some out of delight, others out of distain. The following year, Little League instituted a “no girls” rule that some called the “Tubby Rule.”

More than twenty years later, with national media attention focused on young Maria Pepe’s 1972 lawsuit that forced Little League to revise its boys-only rule in 1974, Johnston, now Kathryn Masser, wrote a letter to Little League headquarters, advising them that she, not Pepe, was the first girl to play Little League baseball. She had The Corning Leader clippings to back up her claim. Still, it took twenty-seven more years for Masser to be acknowledged.

She was featured in a 2001 book, Play Ball! The Story of Little League, by Lance and Robin Van Auken.

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Baseball World Series. She threw out first pitches in Yankee Stadium and the Oakland A’s Stadium. Masser even made it into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, as she was included in an exhibit, “Diamond Dreams: Women in Baseball.” Disney contracted to tell her story in a movie.

But in 2011, when Masser admitted she had been fourteen years old, too old to play in Little League, not twelve as she’d maintained all those years, the book projects halted. Disney had shelved its project a few years earlier. Sports Illustrated published an article on Masser’s saga in June of 2011, titled “She Had a Secret.”

Masser is still proud of her accomplishment, and so are many others. She is still featured in the Cooperstown museum and she is also part of the new World of Little League museum. From her home in Yuba City, California, the now seventy-seven-yearold Masser said she was delighted to tour the newly renovated World of Little League museum and to see her part in it.

“The museum is so amazing!” she said. “I could’ve stayed there for hours!”

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the first glass case of Stotz memorabilia, I see the reflection of a thirteen-year-old Stotz from an enlarged 1920s photograph featuring him with a team of pinstriped players decorating the opposing museum wall.

Van Auken says the glass reflection was not deliberate; it appears to be yet another element of the divine design, containing planned and unplanned surprises.

Following the nod to Stotz, the mementoes of young girls are next—Maria Pepe of Hoboken, New Jersey, whose legal case resulted in the inclusion of girls in 1974, and Kathryn “Tubby” Johnston of Corning, New York, the first girl to unofficially play in the American Little League. (See the accompanying sidebar on Tubby).

All throughout the museum, women are recognized for their big contributions to Little League, including influential baseball and softball players; the first female volunteer, Grayce Stotz, wife of Carl; and the first female appointed as chairman of the Little League International Board of Directors, Dr. Davie Jane Gilmour, president of Pennsylvania College of Technology, in Williamsport. Now at the helm, Gilmour’s recent, groundbreaking appointment has received considerable national press.

Van Auken says the notable amount of female focus in the museum “is very intentional” and reflects the contributions made by girls and women throughout Little League’s history.

“For many years, girls were excluded and ignored, so we wanted to make sure the museum is an inclusive display,” he said, noting that half of museum visitors are female.

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Other barrier-breaking accounts are highlighted in tributes to the Little League Challenger Division for special needs children and a special exhibit honoring the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Stars from Charleston, South Carolina. At the time, the African-American team was unable to advance into tournament play because the sixty-one other allwhite leagues in their state refused to play them. Still, Little League hosted the team at that year’s World Series, permitting them to stay in dorms with the competing teams and forging a bond that has continued into present day. In 2002, Cannon team members, who at that point were in their fifties, were invited to the World Series to accept a 1955 South Carolina State Champions banner on center field. Three team members returned this summer for the opening of the new museum.

Of all the museum’s multimedia, the component that guests gravitate to most is the “Global Connections Touch Table,” an interactive element that engages visitors with trivia games, world-wide team information, and an opportunity to send messages to those teams.

During my visit to the museum, I randomly selected a team in Belgium and sent them a greeting while a young visitor standing next to me gleefully messaged his home team in Virginia.

For many families, their children are eager to run off some steam in the museum’s activities section. The fourth “inning,” titled “In the Game,” features interactive simulations including a timed home plate-to-first base running exhibit, a catcher’s station, and a shortstop fielding section.

The museum concludes with Little League’s Hall of Excellence and “Taking it Home” exhibits. Here, guests view evidence of the league mantra: “We don’t make big league players, we make big league people.”

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His name was Putsee Vannucci, and throughout August his legendary photographs of the Little League World Series will be exhibited in The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Madigan Library. When the sixteen competing teams arrive for the 67th World Series, they’ll be led through the exhibit before the August 14 Grand Slam Parade through downtown Williamsport that launches twelve days of Little League mania.

Vannucci photographed every Little League Baseball World Series for sixty years—from the first in 1947 to his last in 2007, just two months before he died. The exhibit, titled “In the Field of Play: The Little League Baseball World Series Through the Lens of Putsee Vannucci,” features over 100 photographs culled from more than 12,000 in the archives of Little League International. Also displayed is some of Vannucci’s original equipment, including his 1940s-era Graphic View camera, and archive footage of exciting moments in Little League history. Playing on the gallery’s big-screen television are scenes from the 1948, 1952, 1963, 1971, and 1982 Little League World Series.

Vannucci fell in love with photography, snapping his first pictures as a seventh-grader in Williamsport. By 1940, he was a local newspaper photojournalist beginning his career as the principal chronicler of major events in the Susquehanna Valley. His photographs appeared in Life magazine and major newspapers, and received several Associated Press awards. He and a brother were founders and owners of Vannucci Foto Services in Williamsport from 1946 to 1990.

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but an extensive look is also given to those who acquired leadership skills while playing Little League and grew into quality citizens, sharing their talents and being of service to their communities, country, and the world. There are also tributes to former Little Leaguers who lost their lives in 9/11 or recent combat.

While there, I met two sets of local grandparents touring with visiting grandchildren from Tennessee and Wisconsin, as well as young families on summer vacations—the Wongs from California, the Schneiters from Florida, and the Kolbs from Virginia. The out-of-towners were en route to or from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York; Gettysburg and Washington D.C. sightseeing; a Baltimore Orioles game; and a white-water rafting trip. All had intentionally set aside time to visit the Little League complex.

Van Auken says many visitors wind up at the museum by chance because of its central location. (The museum See Old Ball Game on page 22

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The first display case at the newly renovated museum shows Little League’s first home plate and first whistle, and Stotz’s reflection.

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is at 525 Route 15 Highway, South Williamsport, PA; for hours and more, the web site is http://www.littleleague. org/learn/museum).

“We see a lot of people headed to or from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and Niagara Falls, using Route 15, or a lot heading west on Interstate 80 from New Jersey or New York to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio,” he explained. “They might not be consciously thinking about stopping, but when they connect Williamsport with the Little League Baseball World Series, they just drop in.”

In August, when all roads lead to Williamsport.

Another classic image captured by the “Eye of the Little League World Series,” Putsee Vannucci, the 1953 World Series offers a close play on the bases between Front Royal, Virginia, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Virginia emerged victorious 3-2.

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rank E. Buttles was born in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, in November 1844. In 1866, she was one of the first fifteen graduates of the Mansfield State Normal School. Yes, I did say “she.” Frank was as much a nickname for Frances in the nineteenth century as it was for Francis. Fellow local historian, Steve Orner of Mansfield, has been researching her life and has uncovered some interesting accomplishments.

Somewhere along the line Frank changed her surname to Buttolph, believing it to be an earlier version of Buttles. That is the name she used in 1913 when a letter from her was published in the MSNS Quarterly Journal. This was key to linking the periods of her early and later life.

At that time Frank was living in New York City and had just donated her massive menu collection to the Astor Library which is now the New York Public Library. It is still there recorded as the Buttolph Collection.

She had spent years amassing a collection of 26,000 menus. Her intention in donating them to the library was to preserve that history for the future. That’s us. She had compiled this collection, not by travelling the country and the world eating in restaurants, but by correspondence. She wrote letters, and people sent her menus—restaurant menus, banquet menus, reunion menus, church supper menus, anything that listed what people were offered to eat. She did,

Photo of Frank Buttles 1866 MSNS graduation

however, regularly visit the restaurant s of New York City and became friends with some of the operators.

Since her time, the New York Public Library collection has grown to 45,000 menus from 1840 to the present. It is the largest such collection in the world, and a local woman from Tioga County started it over a century ago. The New York Public Library is in the process of having the menus digitally scanned and transcribed for online presentation and storage. Transcription allows search engines to access the verbal content, so that people can hunt down specific information which could not be searched from images. See more at http://menus.nypl.org/.

What’s the value of a menu collection anyway, some will ask? One of the first things a person will notice is the changes in price from the menu’s time to our own. That, however, is a function of changing monetary value and can easily be understood with a Consumer Price Index analysis. It’s interesting but not the most important information we can find. The primary importance of prices on the menu is to help us narrow down the time of a menu. Very few menus have dates, and whether a cup of coffee costs a penny or five dollars tells us a little about the time the menu was produced.

Banquet menus do not list prices, but often include a date. Many of the menus from the more elegant hotels also do not include prices. Apparently if you can afford to be there, you don’t care what it costs. Menus give us a record of the foods that people ate at a particular time and place, and they document where and when and who was in the food business. They are part of our historical record.

Following the example Frank

Cover of 1942 Mary Wells Room menu

set, we are starting a menu collection at The History Center on Main Street in Mansfield. So far we have almost a dozen. Well, it’s a start. Among those are two 1942 menus from the Mary Wells Room at the local Penn Wells Hotel in Wellsboro. They are dated because they printed new menus daily and encouraged people to take them as souvenirs. The menu is much simpler and less varied than we would expect now. One of the surprises to me is that on this and on a 1950s-era room service menu from another area, one could order any kind of hard liquor, but no wine. The popularity of wine is apparently a newer preference. At the Mary Wells Room you could order a martini for twenty cents. Admittedly, our own collection is too small so far to yield valid comparisons.

Start your own collection, or better yet, when you eat out, ask for a menu and mail it in or drop it off for our collection at The History Center on Main Street, 83 N. Main Street, Mansfield, Pennsylvania, 16933.

This, too, is following Frank’s example. Ask for the help of your friends and acquaintances. Read more about Frank in Steve Orner’s articles at http://frankbuttolph.wordpress.com/.

Joyce M. Tice is the creator of the TriCounties Genealogy and History Web site (www.joycetice.com/jmtindex.htm) and the new History Center.

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A young Women in the Wilds participant practices her archery skills.

Where the Wild Women Are

By Linda Roller Photos by Nicole Harris

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ucked away in the Endless Mountains, there is a little jewel of a State Park that hosts the largest group of “Wild Women” on the East Coast.

“Women in the Wilds” is one day where over 250 women of all ages gather to canoe and kayak; to learn to shoot a compound bow, rifle, or handgun; to identify birds and plants; to throw an ancient atlatl, make cheese, or raise chickens.

“The comment I hear most frequently is ‘I don’t think I’m 26

wild enough for this,’” says event coordinator and Mt. Pisgah’s State Park Naturalist Nicole Harris. “I assure them that they are.” The event is for women aged fourteen and up, and women of all ages are there. It’s this mad mix of multigenerational women that makes the event so special. Many women say that this is the best time they’ve had in the outdoors in years, and it’s no wonder. “Women in the Wilds” is a collection of the best classes a summer camp could offer and the

camper gets four of the six classes she considers the most fun. With twenty seminars to choose from, ninety minutes for every class, and small class size, everyone gets a chance to really participate and get involved.

What makes this event even more unusual is that it is organized by an all volunteer committee of thirty women from the Friends of Mt. Pisgah. They, along with other members of the Friends and the seven maintenance workers of the park, do all the planning,

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site selection, and work needed to arrange for expert instructors offering high quality courses.

This dedication creates an event where all the money raised actually stays at the State Park.

Perhaps the quote on the Friends’ membership pamphlet says it best: “Pennsylvania’s State Parks need your help. It’s your land, so lend a hand.”

This kind of commitment and ability to both serve the public and to provide for the park is a hallmark of the Friends of Mt. Pisgah.

The organization was founded in 2010 in the midst of a state financial crisis that threatened to close the park. The group’s first task was to save the park, but instead of simply raising money, this group created and expanded events that increased park use, educated people on conservation and traditional farming methods, and raised money for more services here. The park was created in the late 1960s from several farms, with the twin missions of promoting the farming heritage of this area and wildlife conservation.

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activities at these events are free.

According to Carl Young, board president of Friends of Mt. Pisgah, and Bill Bower, nature writer and board member, events here are tied to both farming and conservation, in keeping with the park missions.

The Friends of Mt. Pisgah State Park is also a chapter of the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation. Both Young and Bower stressed that the Friends work with the park, filling needs identified by park staff and cannot be met by current state funding.

Since 2010, the Friends of Mt. Pisgah have provided the park a new playground, upgraded the electrical service in the hilltop area, bought kayaks and paddles

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for the lake area, a teepee, a new sound system, and many small projects. One of the projects near and dear to Nicole Harris’ heart is the “greening of the park.” That means that supplies and products used at Mt. Pisgah educational events are either reusable or compostable. The park strives to leave as small an ecological footprint on the land as possible.

The “Women in the Wilds” program is on August 3 this year, but the registration has been full for weeks. If you’re interested in participating in 2014, please call 570-297-2734 or send your name to mtpisgahsp@pa.gov. You can also “like” Friends of Mt. Pisgah on Facebook for up-to-the-minute

Another participant practices her shot with a rifle.

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information on events. While you’re waiting to “get wild” next year, there’s apple butter to be made and pumpkins to carve, homemade ice cream to churn, maple taffy to pour on snow. There’ll be a square dance, astronomy nights, and a youth activity day.

There’s swimming at the pool, one of only four free pools in Pennsylvania, or boating on the seventy-fiveacre lake. Walk through the Nature Center gardens, or go see the garden to table project. And if that’s not enough, Bill Bower wants to build an icehouse and harvest ice from the lake. There’s almost as much to do here as there would be on the family farm, all fun and educational.

Mountain Home contributor Linda Roller is a book seller, appraiser, and writer in Avis, Pennsylvania.

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The garden may be seen by appointment only; The C Lyon himself will be your guide. Lyon’s 650 pieces of outdoor abstract painted steel sculptures are planted in seemingly

random fashion along winding paths in a forty-acre forest.

Some are mounted on stumps, some are placed in small clearings, others are attached to trees, or hanging from tree limbs. You’ve never seen anything like it.

“I don’t believe in art for art’s sake,” Lyon states. There is motive and emotion behind his sculptural creations. A series of his pieces pay homage to individuals in American history, many of them military, “ordinary people who did See Lyon in the Garden on page 39

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while he secretly memorized the names of 256 of his fellow prisoners. He later was able to testify about camp conditions at the Paris Peace Talks.

Lyon categorizes some of his art as “Nuclearism,” expressing life under the threat of nuclear holocaust, a concern dating back to his time building bomb shelters in the military. Other “isms” encountered in The C Lyon Sculpture Garden include “Stumperism,” the utilization of stumps as pedestals for the pieces, and “Bottlelism,” sculptures incorporating glass bottles, which in some cultures are believed to ward off evil spirits.

Particularly intriguing is “Arborism,” the placing of sculptures in trees—these are some of Lyon’s most lyrical pieces, creating a sort of Midsummer Night’s Dream atmosphere.

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Just one of The C Lyon’s many sculptures honoring veterans.

Other “isms” include “Bambooism,” sculptures created with strips and stalks of the bamboo he grows on the property, and, more recently, “Gafferism,” combining blown glass with steel. In 2010, Lyon began studying glass blowing in Corning and he has taken a number of specialized courses in succeeding years.

He is currently experimenting with yet another material, probably never before used in sculpture: duct tape! (Could this develop into “Ductism?”)

At one point during the tour, Lyon customarily gathers visitors into a clearing he calls Poets’ Park.

Here, almost magically, he extracts a guitar from the branches of a tree and sings “The Ballad of JFK.” President Kennedy is another of his heros, and Lyon has published twelve editions of The Ballad of John Fitzgterald See Lyon in the Garden on page 42

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Kennedy and Other Poems. Indeed, the prolific sculptor is also a poet and songwriter—he’s written some 500 folk songs, although none have been published yet, he admits.

And Lyon painstakingly makes his own guitars, even soaking the wood in saltwater as Stradovarius did in his violin-making. He has studied lutherie, the art of making stringed musical instruments, at several prestigious schools.

The ultimate do-it-yourself-er, Lyon also built his own house, which is located at the Sculpture Garden site. Lyon took courses in framing, plumbing, wiring, and other necessary skills so that he only needed to farm out the foundation work. Conventional enough on the inside, the home boasts a facade painted in distinctive Lyon-esque fashion with offbeat colors and patterned trim.

An Elmira native, Lyon graduated from high school in 1956 and joined the Air Force a year later. After military service, he graduated from Corning Community College and Mansfield University. He married and began his teaching career at Watkins Glen Middle School. He earned a master’s degree from Elmira College in 1971.

Lyon is a true world traveler, and has visited many sculpture gardens in this and other countries. He started his own sculpture garden in 1984. His current goal is to complete 700 sculptures, which will make his the largest sculpture

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All three of Lyon’s children—Cassandra, Roxanne and Neil—have served in the United States Navy. Neil, along with his wife and young son, will be joining Lyon in Horseheads later this year. Perhaps Neil will come to share his father’s passion for outdoor sculpture.

You can meet the extraordinary The C Lyon at his Web site, www.theclyon.com, where he gives a video introduction to the Sculpture Garden. Also at the site are a sampling of the sculptures, a number of articles, which have been written about The C Lyon and the Sculpture Garden, and a detailed chronology. Then you can call him and make an appointment—a tour will take one and a half to two unforgettable hours.

Journalist and novelist Martha Horton is an occasional contributor to Mountain Home and lives in Elmira, New York.

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la k e s Cows hoping to go home with the prized blue ribbon.

Fair Thee Well

By Martha Horton

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teuben County, New York, has many claims to fame: the city of Corning, consistently named one of America’s best small towns for the arts and the home of the world-renowned Corning Museum of Glass; Hammondsport, tied as Budget Travel magazine’s Coolest Small Town in America, and arguable the birthplace of American aviation; Keuka Lake, with its wealth of award-winning wineries; and the Steuben County Fair—the oldest continual running

county fair in the United States.

Mark your calendar now: the 2013 edition of The Steuben County Fair runs from Tuesday, August 12 through Sunday, August 18, at the fairgrounds in Bath. If you’ve attended a county fair before, you’ll love the familiar sounds and sights and scents, and perhaps relive the excitement of your first fair. If you haven’t, this is the one to visit for the quintessential county fair experience.

The Fair will include many

traditional events demonstrating the agricultural heritage of the county, with a variety of exhibits and judged showings of beef, poultry, swine, goats, sheep, and rabbits. Home gardeners will have their moment to bloom in the dahlia, rose, and gladiolus shows.

Riders will show their stuff in the 4-H Horse Show, featuring English and Western classes, from 9 am to 4 p.m. on Friday.

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Only slightly farm-related—but a lot of goofy fun—are the turkey calling contest, the watermelon eating and aforementioned stomach ache-inducing pie eating contests, and the 4-H Livestock Costume Contest (who knew a pig could look so dashing in a pirate suit and eye-patch?).

New this year at the fairgrounds, says Nick Pelham, the Fair Manager, is the Classic Car Museum. The thirty-six-by-ninety-six-foot building will be open to display a collection of vintage cars, farm equipment, and automotive ephemera, such as antique gas pumps and license plates.

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Demolition Derby with daring drivers bent on destruction—and praying for survival. There will be a second installment of the Derby on Friday evening and a finale on Sunday afternoon at 4.

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piglets are specially trained and enjoy competing, say the owners. Multi-talented Silvia combines ventriloquism, comedy, song, and entertaining illusions in her Magic Trunk Show, and glamorous, pink-haired clown Ditsy-The Living Doll rolls through the fairgrounds in her mini convertible with stops for fabulous face-painting, balloon sculptures, and glitter tattoos.

Of course, you can’t ride the Whip, watch the races, and win teddy bears in the game tents without some caloric fortification. Fortunately, food vendors will keep fair-goers well fueled with salt potatoes, sausages, sandwiches, and smoothies. And where but at a county fair can you load up on such decadent delights as funnel cakes, corndogs, and cotton Steuben County Fair continued on page 50

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Finger Lakes Wine Review

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By Holly Howell

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ost wine regions evolve around a specific grape or blend of grapes that best grow in that particular region, and best translate the unique flavor of the land itself. Sometimes, this can take centuries to zone in on. As they say, practice makes perfect.

For example, in certain regions of Europe, over many centuries, they have discovered that the local climate can bring the best or the worst out of any particular grape.

After lots of experimentation, the region of Chianti, Italy, chose the red Sangiovese to be their hero. In Burgundy, France, the white grape reigns supreme in Chardonnay, while the red Pinot Noir is the only grape that perfectly showcases the differences in the myriad of vineyards there. In Rioja, Spain, there is no question that the red Tempranillo grape will be their rock for centuries to come.

In the New World, California has fallen in love with Cabernet Sauvignon, and Argentina worships the mighty Malbec. Of course, Australia is king among Shiraz lovers, and southerly New Zealand has staked its claim to Sauvignon Blanc.

As I toured through the Finger Lakes last week, I realized that we are still a land of great diversity.

And why not? We are a very young region in the grand scheme of things, and our history has dictated quite a smorgasbord of flavors, with many different grapes being grown and ultimately showing their best stuff.

There are actually three different species of grapes being grown here.

The only ones that are indigenous are the Native American grapes, or Vitis Labrusca (no relation to Lambrusco which is an Italian wine). The Labrusca grapes have been here for quite some time.

They are extremely hardy and can withstand cold winters. You may recognize some of them. For whites, you’ll find Niagara, Diamond, and Delaware. The reds include Concord and Catawba. The wines display good acidity and lots of fruity flavors that are sometimes referred to as “foxy.”

Years ago, New York State was known for its Lake Niagara and Pink Catawba in good size jugs. And they are still popular to this day.

Then came the French/American Hybrids. The grape varieties were a cross between the local grapes and the distinguished European vines (which up until then were unable to grow well in Upstate New York).

They were developed in France to help combat the deadly plague of phylloxera that was ravishing the vineyards of Europe. Sadly, the pest came from America. This little pest attacked the vines from the rootstock, but our domestic vines were resistant, thus the idea of crossing our hardy stock with the more fragile vinifera. It worked.

And a whole new breed of vines was born. You will still find them growing superbly in the Finger Lakes. For whites, look for Seyval Blanc, Vidal Blanc, Vignoles, Cayuga White, and Traminette. The reds appear as Baco Noir, CeChaunac, Chambourcin, Chancellor, and Marechol Foch.

These wines combine American

hardiness with more refined French flavor. They are amazingly delicious and totally food friendly.

Finally, thanks to much effort and perseverance by a handful of wine growers, the European Vitis Vinifera wines have now taken a stronghold here in the land of the lakes. In the past fifty years, we have managed to catch up on centuries of wine savvy, and are now producing some of the world’s most elegant vinifera. They include Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer, and Riesling for whites. And the reds are the well-known Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir, and Lemberger (also known as Blaufrankisch).

With so many grapes to choose from, which grape is taking center stage? Well, although we have lots more time to figure it out, there is no question that Riesling is our rock star. In hot years, it is divine. In cold years, it is beautiful. This grape has taken to New York like white on rice. And we are being recognized worldwide for a style that has become distinctly Finger Lakes.

Another stand out is Dry Rosé wine, being made from a variety of red grapes and produced in a dry Provence style. Quite a change from the sweeter Pink Catawba wines. But that is the beauty of our region. There just seems to be a wine for everyone!

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).

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The complete line up of events, grandstand seating, ticket information, directions, and a printable map of the fairgrounds are available at steubencountyfair. org.

Journalist and novelist Martha Horton is an occasional contributor to Mountain Home and lives in Elmira, New York.

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By Cornelius O'Donnell

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ost all of us have an elderly relative or friend who is considered “the best cook in town.” Don’t wait. Make it a project to interview the cook, collect the recipes and tips, along with anecdotes about family and friends sharing a meal. I have several recipes I treasure in a simple plastic-sleeved file, such as my mother’s snicker doodle cookies, rice pudding, sauerbraten, smothered pork chops,

and lots more, all written in her own beautiful (Palmer Method) hand. Surely these are sweet and savory memories!

I was reminded of all of this just a month or so ago when a thick envelope arrived from a friend in San Francisco.

She and others had made sure our dear friend and fellow food writer Shirley Sarvis was comfortable in her final year, and even made sure she got to favorite restaurants almost to the end of her life.

These same friends were disposing of Shirley’s effects and just couldn’t bear to lose the recipes that meant the most to her. They took a selection of Shirley’s favorites and had them printed and grouped in an elegantly designed folder, on thick, creamy stock. Each recipe was printed on an individual card.

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in the 1980s and 1990s at the elegant Stanford Court hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco. Who better to coordinate the wines (and food) than the author of the 1973 book American Wines and Wine Cooking? Incidentally, this volume has a fine chapter on the Finger Lakes wines and wineries that were then upgrading their product and are now producing world-class wines that Shirley admired. I know, as on trips out west I brought her a selected bottle— or two!

She also wrote classic cookbooks, including Trader Vic’s Bartender’s Guide, Woman’s Day’s Home Cooking Around the World—loaded with great ideas—and her marvelous Simply Stews (my copy is well thumbed). But the collection assembled by her friends contained her favorite food that she served to guests in her home. With permission from her estate, I am pleased to present three of Shirley’s favorites.

I hope you’ll make these and that you’ll raise a glass of wine to the lovely woman who inspired them.

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y wine expertise is limited—merlot gives me a migraine, and at one point in my life I could chug a bottle of Boone’s Farm in sixty seconds (my parents were not impressed). So when I learned recently that someone I knew was a pourer at a Finger Lakes winery, I thought it was time to upgrade my skills.

At his day job with Miracle Ear in Wellsboro, Tarrence Lackran helps people have a better hearing experience. On occasional weekends at the award-winning Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard in Dundee, he helps people have a better wine experience.

“I’m a hearing instrument specialist, so naturally I’m pouring wine,” he says, laughing. “I enjoy people. I want to make everyone’s tasting special.”

Tarrence has been pouring at Wiemer’s for about six months.

He started out as a customer with a desire to learn, so when Oskar Bynke, one of the owners, invited him to learn pouring, he was happy to say yes.

“This has always been my favorite winery in the Finger Lakes,” Tarrence says. “They’re so meticulous with the harvesting, and that’s why the wines are so good.

Oskar really takes an interest in all the customers.”

He does and he did, welcoming me personally when I arrived (more about Oskar and his viticultural wisdom in a moment). Tarrence was already pouring for several visitors, including a lady with a charming accent who was speaking knowledgeably about balances

and percentages, the nose, and her preference for tasting yeast in the sparklings. Tarrence agreed with her about the strawberry, blackberry, and juniper berry at the finish of one of the selections; the tasting concluded with a Cuvee Brut that drew smiles all around.

Then Tarrence and Oskar gave me a quick tour around the winery, including a soils lesson that included a new and very detailed soil profile map. I confess it had not occurred to me that the same type of grape, say a Chardonnay, grown in different soils on the same lake (in this case, Seneca), will yield very different wines. Location on the lake plays a role as well—some Wiemer vineyards are more sheltered than others and that makes a difference in how the grapes “set up.”

How are things setting up for the 2013 season? Everything is late this year, Oskar said, but he did note that the vines had gone dormant properly as the result of a cooler winter. He said 2012 was a good year—there was an early spring, a dry summer, and timely rain.

“Sometimes you can correlate yield with quality, and 2012 was both,” said Oskar.

We won’t know for sure until harvest if 2013 will have that optimum mix. In the interim, I have my eye and my palate on a lovely Select Late Harvest Riesling from 2010.

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Gayle Morrow, former editor of The Wellsboro Gazette, cooks locally, and organically, at the West End Market Café. Gayle recently won a Keystone State Press Award for her columns.

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The entrance to the Windmill Farm & Craft Market

Quilting at Windmills

By Angela Cannon-Crothers

T

he marketplace is every bit as fascinating as the natural world, and seeds get planted there in the same haphazard fashion. So when Bill and Ruth Gunderman, along with daughter Pat and then-son-in-law Ron Nissen, took a family trip to Ephrata, Pennsylvania, to visit a large farm market in 1978, why should anyone be surprised at what eventually grew in Yates County, New York?

Bill couldn’t let go of the vision of that place, and spent much of the next decade germinating the idea, talking with friends and neighbors. Finally, in 1986, the Gundermans called a meeting

for anyone interested in participating in a local farm market. Some eighty enthusiastic Mennonite and “English” community members showed up, and the dream of a local market blossomed.

The plan did have some challenges— institutions shrugged at the concept and the market committees couldn’t find financial backing anywhere.

Undeterred, a twenty-six acre parcel of land between Penn Yan and Dundee was located, and, with the help of many of the Mennonite builders and numerous dedicated others, the Windmill Farm & Craft Market opened in late June of 1987 with 100 vendors

By the first Saturday of July of that year—July 4th— so many people were heading to the Windmill Market that traffic was backed up for five miles.

Over the next fifteen years, several grants have allowed the Windmill to create more buildings and thus offer more vendors, develop sidewalks and walkways, and provide plenty of free parking. Bill Gunderman passed away in 2001 and is remembered as “The Father of the Windmill.” Ruth, Pat, and Ron Nissen—as well as many other founders—have continued to be actively involved.

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Just a taste of the fresh produce straight from the farm available at the market.

A sample of the several varieties of beautiful flowers that you can take home.

Rows of chrome and shiny paint jobs at the Spring & Fall car shows.

The Windmill Farm & Craft Market 3900 State Route 14A Penn Yan, New York (315) 536-3032

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“People come out of the city for a piece of the country here,” says Lauren Welch, manager at the Windmill Farm & Craft Market, “and they find not just a versatile craft market, delicious food, and fresh produce, but a friendly atmosphere as well.” With both indoor craft and food booth buildings, and covered, open air market streets, The Windmill, located outside of Penn Yan, New York, is one of those rare places that is more than an eightmonth-long seasonal market or even a tourist destination: The Windmill is a tradition now on its 26th year.

Welch, who’s been manager now for the past seven years, is continually amazed by the popularity of The Windmill and the some 200 vendors who make it such a unique experience.

He credits its great success with an ideal location, the Mennonite and community cooperation that has been its foundation, and the juried market standards that ensure its diversity and quality. Great loyalty follows longstanding vendors like Cotton Club, Oh Fudge!, and The Quilt Room, begun by one Windmill founder, Susie Stoltzfus, who still makes the occasional appearance at the market (her daughter Naomi and son-in-law Glenn Lap now run The Quilt Room).

With products ranging from Finger Lakes wines to flowers, paintings, hand crafted jewelry, and rustic furniture, “There’s something for everybody,” says Welch, “from early summer, through the harvest season, fall foliage, and right on up until the second Saturday in December. We have free hot dogs and hot cocoa for shoppers after Thanksgiving and even photos with Santa near the Christmas holiday.”

The reputation of the Windmill attracts visitors from Canada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, all over New York State, and in the nearby Finger Lakes region as well. Those coming a distance can stay overnight at a nearby bed and

breakfast or hotel in either Penn Yan or Watkins Glen to get an early start on the Saturday market which opens at 8:00 a.m. and runs until 4:30 p.m.

Most people make a whole day of it, have breakfast or lunch at the Valhalla Restaurant or another eatery in the Market, enjoy visiting all the many shops, spend time sitting at the picnic tables in the small pine forest, take a horse and buggy ride, and just enjoy a day out. The Windmill also offers special shows, music, and the Custom and Classic Car Show on October 12.

New vendors to the Market this year include a Ukrainian bakery full of mouth-watering pastries, takehome frozen pierogies stuffed with everything from pulled pork to cheese and spinach, and artisan cheeses.

Visitors might want to bring a cooler as the produce is fresh and local and the market even carries fresh, locally grown meats, honey, and maple syrup products. Families who’ve been coming for years can still get their favorite Auntie Ann’s Soft Pretzels and Ken’s Kettle Corn while perusing the goods of longstanding crafters alongside new product vendors year to year. The eclectic mix of shops, from African motifs to Amish baked goods, is diverse, but for shops and kitchens that have been coming back for decades, the Market is like family.

The Windmill is truly steeped in family tradition, one that allows wellbehaved dogs on a leash, has plenty of wheelchair access and wheelchairs available, and is open to tour buses.

And although the Windmill can attract several thousand visitors on any given Saturday, rain or shine, from the last weekend in April through the second Saturday in December, the country charm and open air always has room for a few more friendly folks like you.

Angela Cannon-Crothers is a freelance writer and outdoor educator living in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

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On a beautiful day in June at Ives Run State Park in Tioga, Pennsylvania, photographer and kayaker Wade Spencer snapped this shot of a perfect day on the lake. “Kayaking,” says Wade, “is the best way to relax and unwind after work.”

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