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Maverick and his buddies are in East Smithfield, awaiting your call at the Animal Care Sanctuary

By Brendan O’Meara

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Take Me Home

By Brendan O’Meara Maverick and friends await your call in Wellsboro and East Smithfield at the Animal Care Sanctuary, a revolutionary shelter.

6 Time to Sperr

By Roger Neumann Eight years after Trooper A.J. Sperr’s death, a community honors his memory.

17 The Jury Is In

By Linda Roller The annual Eagles Mere Arts & Crafts Festival returns for its 44th Year.

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Cover by Tucker Worthington; Cover photo by Elizabeth Young.

(This page from top): by Elizabeth Young; Courtesy of the Sperr Memorial Park Committee; by Terry Wild; and by Olivia Hall.

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Take Me Home Maverick (left) and friends are in East Smithfield and Wellsboro, at the Animal Care Sanctuary

By Brendan O’Meara

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he Animal Care Sanctuary—with its headquarters in East Smithfield and a branch in Wellsboro, one of the largest and most successful no-kill shelters in the United States—had its start with a woman who saw a problem and sought to solve it.

In Lesley Sinclair’s mind, there was criminal neglect taking place in her town of Toms River, New Jersey, and she found it most troubling.

People visited their summer homes on the shores of New Jersey and they brought their children and they brought their pets. The problem was that when these families left they found their pets to be excess baggage and they discarded them as if they were broken toys.

Sinclair, then an interior designer working in New York City, swept up these abandoned strays and took them as her own. By doing so she gave voice to the voiceless and power to the powerless. “I am these animals’ last great hope,” she said.

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Take Me Home continued from page 7

She quickly outgrew the twenty-five acres she had in Toms River, finding that the developers of McMansions sprouting up weren’t keen to her droves of barking dogs taking bites out of the property value. The great disciplinary hand of the zoning board swept her away. She soon found a tract of land in north central Pennsylvania in East Smithfield, which would become Sanctuary Hill. She made thirty-eight trips there from Toms River with two yellow school buses. “The most horrible days of my life,” she said. “I prayed.”

Sinclair shared her house with fifty cats hopping up and down from bookcases and chairs, bureaus, and tables. Ten dogs meandered among the felines. There were 100 more cats in cages in the other half of her house and another 400 outside in the barn. In another building she housed 225 dogs that leapt at the fences of their cages and barked as loudly as they had barked in Toms River.

She wrote letters to donors, handwritten letters, asking for money to help pay for food and care. She wished she could hire a veterinarian for treatment but also to spay and neuter these animals to stop the problem at its source. She also needed help.

Sinclair advertised in the same way one may write looking for a mate, “It is a joyous yet lonely life. I am alone when everyone else is with their family. He/ she must be mature, have sown their wild oats, and be prepared to settle down to a lifetime’s work of caring about the animals…not looking for a wife or a husband—just the love of animals.”

This was in 1987. Sinclair died in 1998. Sanctuary Hill became something Sinclair only dreamed of.

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Animal Care Sanctuary adoption coordinator Erin Johnson (left) and Executive DirectorJoan SmithReese give voice to the voiceless.

won’t be a dog’s last walk unless he’s adopted. The Animal Care Sanctuary won’t euthanize a single animal due to overpopulation. Some tenants are there for life.

To give you an idea of the volume that Joan Smith-Reese, executive director of ACS since 2009, and her staff deal with, ACS admitted 571 animals in 2013 and adopted out 553.

Thirty-six animals were fostered. ACS’s vet clinic performed 3,859 spay/neuter surgeries and made 2,452 appointments at its clinic. People who need to spay or neuter an animal can bring their pet in and have the surgery performed by a qualified veterinarian for a small fraction of the price of a private practice.

Of those numbers above, Wellsboro admitted 231 animals and adopted out 226. Wellsboro’s animal shelter, now an outpost of ACS, was once run by the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Smith-Reese had just taken the job as executive director of ACS and was spreading the word about their mission.

East Smithfield is remote and the ACS was thought of as some cult up in the mountains, not a sanctuary for adoptable animals. Smith-Reese received a phone call from the Pennsylvania SPCA, which ran the Wellsboro shelter, saying it planned on closing, “Would you take the animals?”

Of course, ACS would take the animals. It wasn’t part of the plan, but the fate of the animals had she not absorbed them trumped any ideas of “plans.” A few months later the See Take Me Home on page 11

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Pennsylvania SPCA called again saying it planned on selling the property of the Wellsboro shelter. It couldn’t. Written into the deed was a condition that the land be used for the care of animals. The ACS rented it from the PSPCA for one dollar a year and bought the property for one dollar in the third year. It was never in the plans to have an outpost in Wellsboro, Smith-Reese said, but that was how it happened.

“When we went in it was in poor shape,” Smith-Reese said. “They had pulled the plug on the refrigerator with $50,000 worth of rabies vaccines. I thought my vet was going to cry.”

The Wellsboro shelter has the capacity for thirty cats and nine dogs.

It can take in what it can until it reaches capacity. The two facilities work in concert.

“If the animal control or dog law people bring a dog and we can take it, we do, and it will stay there,” Smith-

Reese said. “If there’s an overflow, we’ll take it [in East Smithfield]. We have a transport once a week back and forth because our vets are over there and here so they can treat the animals.”

Wellsboro’s shelter needed a lot of work. “It was dirty, it needed an overhaul,” Smith-Reese said, “and the people in Wellsboro were really angry because all these years they sent money to Philadelphia for their SPCA. When they saw the condition of the place and that it closed, we gave that a lot of thought.”

So she spoke with the newspaper and spread the word to the community that when the shelter re-opened it would be community based. People arrived in droves, sixty to seventy people, to trim leaves, mow the grass, paint. It still has many needs, but it has become a worthy satellite to the space station in East Smithfield.

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Erin Johnson is ACS’s adoption

coordinator. She spends much of her time screening people to ensure that if one of her cats or dogs goes out, it has little to no chance of coming back. No hard feelings, but an adopted animal incapable of reproducing is a beautiful sight, another success story.

“I just had someone in here who wanted to surrender their eleven-yearold, very sick Jack Russell,” Johnson said.

“Oh, my, God,” Smith-Reese said.

“Did you strangle them?”

“Verbally, yes.”

“It’s amazing. People will say, ‘I’ve had this dog for fourteen years and we’re moving to Florida and we want to surrender it.’ I’m not kidding.

“This one woman’s going to Hawaii and said, ‘I need to know what my options are.’ I said, ‘Your option is to bring the dog with you.’”

Voice to the voiceless, power to the powerless.

See Take Me Home on page 14

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Such is the maddening part of working at ACS. People often dump animals off because they’ve grown inconvenient, a commoditized toy they outgrew and want to toss aside. On the other hand, sometimes animals come to them because a woman was killed in a car accident and left behind a dog, or a grandmother passed away leaving her two cats uncared for. Perhaps the surviving family rents their home, and the landlord doesn’t allow animals.

“Literally, you can’t have a guinea pig around here,” Johnson said. “If they rent, that’s the first phone call I make.

Three non-family references. It’s hit or miss.”

Johnson started over three years ago and has adopted out roughly 700 dogs and 500 cats. She tries to keep the dog kennel to forty-eight dogs, fifty tops.

When she arrived there were over eighty dogs. “We sense a shift in the vibe of the kennel when it’s over fifty,” Johnson said. “The animals aren’t getting out as much. Playtime in the yard is cut in half. You feel it when you walk in.

Even though we can house double, that doesn’t mean we should.”

The cats number in the 450 range.

They live in communal cages in the cattery. They run free in the cattery when staff cleans the communals. “We live to clean,” Smith-Reese said.

A group of donors helped build the “catio” (pronounced like patio). It’s a screened-in porch with different shelves, levels, and toys for the cats to have an outdoor experience. Trish Steves, who has worked at ACS for seventeen years, said, “We wanted a safe place for them.

Our cats usually don’t go outside. Some didn’t get to experience fresh air so we got this built. It’s nice to see some of them that haven’t experienced it to lay out in the sunshine. They can watch a bird for the first time or a bug.”

The vets and behaviorists screen all the animals to profile them accordingly.

Potential adopters will know if a dog is housetrained or good with other dogs, cats, and children.

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Clockwise from top left: The pond at Sperr Memorial Park; parents Jean and Andy Sperr (right) with Carley and Jan Crooker at the Carley Crooker Tree memorial in the park; a family snapshot of A.J.

Time to Sperr

Eight Years after Trooper A.J. Sperr’s Death, a Community Honors His Memory

By Roger Neumann

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t least once a month, Red Cross volunteers Jean and Andrew L. “Andy” Sperr deliver containers of blood from Rochester to six hospitals, finishing at Arnot-Ogden Medical Center in Elmira. Then the couple makes one more stop before returning home.

Taking Exit 50 off Route I-86 onto Kahler Road, they pull into a peaceful park that is a special place, to them and many others: Sperr Memorial Park in Big Flats.

This is where the youngest of their eleven children, New York State Police Trooper Andrew J. Sperr, was killed in a shootout with two bank robbers on March 1, 2006, a shootout that led to the criminals’ capture. A.J., as he was called, was thirty-three years old and had been a trooper for ten years.

On their visits, the Sperrs typically walk the half-mile trail that encircles a pond; sit on a wooden bench, several of which carry brass markers in memory of other troopers and local officers who have

died in the line of duty since A.J.’s death; and stand silently before a memorial at the spot where their son was killed. The memorial bears a likeness of A.J. and a summary of his life, etched into stone.

“Knowing that that’s the exact spot, where his monument is, you remember a lot of things having to do with A.J.,” his mother said recently. “It brings back so many memories. Part of his death is being in sorrow, but it’s also having great memories of him. And I try to think of all the good things that happened to him.

“It’s almost rewarding to sit there and think about what his life was about and what his death is about. It’s a good and a bad experience.”

A welcoming sign that was erected in 2009 also tells something about A.J.’s life—what it was and what it might have been. It contains symbols that represent things he loved: two horses, for the horses that roamed on the eighty-two acres of land he owned; a farm scene with a tractor, for the tractor that he drove as a twelve-

year-old working on a neighbor’s farm, and the one that he had only recently purchased; a turkey, a buck, and a fish, representing the hunting and fishing he loved to do with his dad and his brother Bill; ducks on a wooden box, for the duck boxes A.J. loved to build (Andy has placed some of his own duck boxes at the park); a trooper with K-9 Sperr, a police dog named after A.J.; and A.J. with a child, because he loved children.

The park was created in memory of A.J. by people who knew and loved him or simply knew of him. It opened the year he was killed.

“It was A.J.’s sergeant in Horseheads who soon after told me they were planning to dedicate the park on Labor Day, which was less than six months later,” said Andy.

“And I thought to myself, ‘You’ve got to be kidding, Trooper. It’s never going to happen.’”

But happen it did. And the park has been growing and improving every year since, thanks to a band of dedicated See Time to Sperr on page 18

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volunteers and generous individual and corporate donors.

Some of the volunteers’ names can be seen on markers indicating flower beds and other areas of the park that they maintain.

Follow the trail and you’ll see those markers and also the remains of the Carley Crooker Tree. The Crookers owned land in the Town of Corning where A.J. Sperr and a friend used to hunt. When it came time to trim some old sugar maple trees, the young hunters spent parts of several days in the field. They cut down part of one tree that had been struck by lightning, just in front of the Crooker home. But Sperr was killed before they could finish the job, and the tree trunk remained. After A.J. died, Jan and Carley Crooker placed a plaque on the tree “in loving memory” of their friend. Later, after they moved, what was left of the tree was taken to the park, where it now rests.

Much of the funding for improvements and maintenance comes from proceeds from the annual Time to Sperr foot races. The sixth annual event—including 10K, 5K, and 3K runs and an 800-meter fun run for children—is scheduled for Saturday, August 23, with a 9 a.m. shotgun start at the park monument. (Register in advance at www.sperrmemorialpark. org or at the park that morning from 7:00 to 8:30 a.m.)

Race organizer Susan Derick of Big Flats said nearly 700 runners took part last year, and the event drew an estimated 1,300 people to the park. The Sperrs are among those who attend the event. Now in their 80s, they live in the Rochester suburb of Greece, where A.J. and his four brothers and six sisters grew up. On their visits to the park, the parents often stop visitors and ask how often they come to the park and what they like to do there: walk the path or fish in the pond or picnic in the pavilion or let their children use the playground?

Early on, a woman who has been dubbed Giggling Granny left a pair of huge eyeglasses at the monument, with a letter that has since been given to the Sperrs. The letter explained that Trooper Sperr had stopped the woman in her car one day as she drove with a friend. She was wearing the big glasses.

“He asked what they were doing, and she said, ‘I think he probably thought we were drinking, but we said, no, we’re not drinking,’” said Jean Sperr, who has since met Giggling Granny. “And they thought he was just a great guy. This happened shortly before he was killed, and she just had a great memory of how he treated her and her friend and wished them a good day and sent them on their way, and they all had a good laugh about it.”

That gave her some comfort, Jean Sperr said.

“It’s a wonderful experience,” she said, “hearing how A.J. touched so many lives.”

Mountain Home contributor Roger Neumann is a retired Elmira Star-Gazette editor and reporter.

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id you ever read Harold Robbins’ The Carpetbaggers? I devoured it at a tender age; one of the scenes that has stuck with me over the years involved a particularly loathsome character who got his comeuppance on an anthill.

Eeww. Pardon the vernacular, but ants tend to creep me out. They especially do when they’re in the house.

I do all the things you’re supposed to do to discourage them—keep the kitchen counters clean, keep the food put away, keep the compost bucket emptied— but they seem to have the idea that a foray inside is some kind of obligatory pilgrimage. I even find them upstairs!

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Ants are related to bees and wasps and are found just about everywhere in the world. Antarctica and some large islands like Greenland have no indigenous species of ants, but throughout the rest of the planet they may make up as much as 15-25 percent of terrestrial animal biomass.

That’s a lot of ants. Entomologists have identified about 12,000 different species; there may be as many as 22,000. Ants live in colonies, and those colonies can be underground, under your porch, in trees, in mounds, really just about anywhere. If you’re taking a walk in the woods or fields and see big rocks or rotten logs that have

been turned over, it’s likely a bear was walking there, too, and looking for ants to eat.

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Of course ants are a critical component of the ecosystem (which, IMO, does not include the inside of my house); a new study seems to indicate that their value may also extend to carbon sequestration. I don’t completely understand the science of it all, but because ants are “powerful biological agents of mineral decay” (zeenews.india.com), their action on calcium and magnesium-bearing silicates can assist in the gradual reduction of atmospheric CO2.

For an eye-popping look at ants, google The New York Times story on crazy ants. You will be creeped out.

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By 2010, both Joe and his son Jay looked to be less active in the town that they owned. And, in the tradition of Eagles Mere, which has always been owned by individuals, they sold the village green to the Eagles Mere Conservancy, which is dedicated to preserving the natural beauty of the village and lake. They also sold some of the shops to the Eagles Mere Historic Village, Inc. The general store area now houses the museum, and both the Conservancy and Eagles Mere Historic Village protect the special

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flavor of the village from commercial development.

Richard Deasy, a board member of Eagles Mere Historic Village, has been involved in the Eagles Mere Arts and Crafts festival for a long time. He notes that the tradition of quality is what makes this show so vibrant in an age where so many shows are closing. “It’s a beautiful location, and the summer community in Eagles Mere is interested in fine work and are willing to buy.”

The village is increasingly conscious of the quality of the craftsmanship, and looks to augment it with professional entertainment, combined with both traditional food booths from the village and new offerings to tempt visitors.

There is also a diverse mix of artists working in clay, fiber, photography, glass, leather, metal, wood, basket making, and painting.

“The community works so hard to make [the festival] succeed,” says Mary

Kay Donnelly, who, having exhibited at the Eagles Mere show for forty-three years, feels a strong connection to the event. “It’s the only local show I do.”

As an award-winning jewelry designer, Mary Kay has work in forty-five galleries and usually exhibits at national shows in large cities. Using precious metals and gemstones, she fabricates by hand in her Bear Creek, Pennsylvania, workshop.

But the Eagles Mere show is one where the customers make the difference. “It’s the personal connections at this show,” she says. Here an artist meets a loyal clientele, often visiting Eagles Mere from a metropolitan area. You know the people who visit over the years, watch their kids grow up and then visit you as adults with their own kids. “On Saturday, everyone from the village comes to see us and lines up in the booth to look at the new designs,” says Mary Kay. And on Sunday, many people come up for the day to see this exceptional show that they’ve heard about.

Then, “after the show, they discover the town,” says Peggy Martin, owner of Eagles Mere Bookstore, who calls the Arts and Crafts Festival weekend “just wonderful. It brings people here that might not be coming to the mountain.”

According to Peggy, it’s one of their best weekends, not only for the sales, but for meeting new customers and nurturing the businesses in the village.

Those new people return home with fond memories of a place where the hustle of modern life is muted, and where artists roam the streets. A town of Victorian confection and a fierce passion for quality, polished to a high gloss. A gem of a town with a lake on top of the mountain—the town that time forgot.

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

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Pilgrims’ Progress There’s Something about a Tight Community...Actually, There Are Several Things

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hould we try it?”

Bob and I were standing in front of a restaurant whose threshold we had never crossed, and I was having another one of my “stranger in a strange land” moments.

Changing communities brings a specific set of challenges. If you have lived in an area for many years, you take for granted that you know who has the best price on gas, who’s open

late which nights, and where you can get pizza you would cheerfully kill for.

You know the roads that resemble Mt. Ranier when it snows and the routes of the school buses that are impossible to pass. Those without “local knowledge” have to rely on an odd combination of referral, luck, and the time-honored kindness of strangers. As a resident of “the Valley,” a nebulous sort of location not found on a map, there are

some hard and fast rules about traffic patterns and shopping habits that can really tank a tightly planned agenda if broken.

For instance, the concept of the three-way stop at a four-way intersection. The first week I was working in Sayre I nearly got creamed multiple times at corners where I would have bet the contents of my wallet that I had the right of way. I See Pilgrims’ Progress on page 33

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can still hear the conversation in my head: “Okay, I’m stopped. The person directly across from me is stopped.

Here comes a car on my left. Naturally he is going to stop. So, forward I go and…scrreeech! honnnk! Hey! Why does he look so aggravated? He’s the one who blew through the intersection!” I left a wake of confused and angry drivers waving at me (not using all the fingers God gave them, by the way) as I drove off, equally perturbed.

Finally I caught on to these tripod points. The first time I waved a hesitant newbie through a three-way trap I felt very wise, like I had untangled their Christmas lights for them. Life is a series of small triumphs, people, take them where you find them!

One of the things that impressed us on our preliminary visit to the region was the number of small, independent businesses. “Mom and Pop” are still major players in the Valley economy and we loved the idea of supporting more than just corporations. Those of us still getting forwarded mail, however, are uneducated on things like the holiday shopping schedules of all our neighbors. Our first December 31st, we thought that a couple of nice steaks would be the way to ring in the New Year. Moments later, I found myself in a tiny parking lot that was hosting a traffic jam. No one could move, but there was absolutely no stress or angst visible.

In fact, people were chatting from car to car, mufflers filling the air with mist and windshield wipers slapping out happy tunes. Those who had managed to park were standing in the lanes exchanging holiday wishes with those inching past them. The meat counter was almost impenetrable, allowing me to develop an appreciation for the ballet-like movements of the staff as they doled out roasts, whole turkeys, and big smiles. Lesson learned.

Now I go three days before the holiday and entered another hash mark in my book of local know-how.

When you are trying to find the eating spots that really click with you, it’s like opening an unlabeled can and dining on the contents. You have no way to know that, while the house dressing is good enough to take intravenously, the marinara could be classified as a hazardous material. Or never go there any later than 6 p.m. because the noise level from the bar forces you to yell at the waitress like she just hacked your 401k and bought an alpaca farm.

So, when a coworker recommended a great place for Italian food, we were grateful for the tip. Arriving at the address we found an ancient building, apparently dropped into the midst of an industrial campus by a sadistic tornado. There was an odor in the air that made me think that every junior high school boy in America See Pilgrims’ Progress on page 40

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The story goes that the ice cream sundae was born in Ithaca.

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ce cream holds a special place in many an Ithacan’s heart. After all, the Finger Lakes town claims to be the birthplace of an American culinary staple: the ice cream sundae.

As the story goes, in 1892 Chester C. Platt of the Platt & Colt Pharmacy in downtown Ithaca served a new concoction—vanilla ice cream with cherry syrup and a candied cherry—to the Reverend John M. Scott, who had stopped in for a treat after services. It was deemed delicious and worthy of its own name, the Cherry Sunday.

No matter what counterclaims other small towns across the country may bring to being the true originators of the sundae, it is obvious that Ithacans continue to love their ice cream: every summer, local favorites Purity Ice Cream and Cornell Dairy Bar are hotspots for the frozen treat.

Purity Ice Cream

With its distinctive red-and-white awning and a red counter, which has been mentioned in several books set in Ithaca, Purity Ice Cream has built a loyal following since it opened in 1936.

Owners Bruce and Heather Lane should know. After all, they used to come here regularly on dates before buying the shop from the founding family in 1998.

Since then, they have refocused the business from wholesaling to scooping and expanded its offerings to include homemade baked goods such as pies, muffins, and brownies, “things that match our classic goodness,” as Heather puts it. By that she means using real berries and making crusts from scratch—and processing only locally sourced milk and heavy cream from See You Scream, I Scream on page 36 35

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Byrne Dairy in the ice cream.

Rick and Robin Beck from Lisle, who were relaxing in some of the outdoor chairs to savor their scoops on a recent sweltering day, appreciate these choices. “I think the ice cream is fantastic,” Robin said. “I like how rich it is—you could almost use a fork.”

They selected their favorites— French Vanilla and Almond Joyous— from among thirty-eight Purity flavors, which are offered alongside several sorbets and vegan soy options. Among the bestsellers are Bulldog Crunch (praline flavored ice cream with caramel swirl and chocolate-covered pecan candy), Chocolate Raspberry Truffle (with tiny Gertrude Hawk truffles), and Mint Chip. “We melt our chocolate and infuse it into the ice cream while it’s being made, so we get chips that aren’t hard or chunky,” Heather explains.

In addition to classic scoops and sundaes, try the sammies, Purity’s ice

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cream cookie sandwiches, among them peanut butter chocolate chip cookies filled with Goose Trax ice cream (vanilla with a peanut butter fudge swirl and peanut butter cups) or ginger doodles stacked with black raspberry ice cream.

Purity is open year-round and, thanks to ongoing renovations, will soon boast a dining room seating seventy-two and a party area. But some things, Heather is quick to assure, will always stay the same, including the red counter and the menu boards from the 1980s.

“People are so passionate in this town about Purity, they send me letters,” she said. “It’s their place to celebrate the first and last day of school, a place to come after dinner…Yes, I think the ice cream is a big pull, but it’s also the community, the connection.”

Cornell Dairy Bar

Up the hill, right on the Cornell University campus, there is no mistaking Stocking Hall, home to the Cornell

Dairy Bar. One entrance to the newly renovated Food Science building is fittingly marked with a giant sculpture of a milk bottle, and a tall, shiny glass front along Tower Road puts its dairy processing plant on prominent display.

Inside, the modern scoop shop and café—reopened last year after a threeyear hiatus and now under the auspices of Cornell Dining—is a tribute to milk products that don’t get much more local than this. Its twelve ice cream flavors, as well as yogurt, pudding, and Big Red Cheddar, are all made with milk from Cornell Dairy Farm’s 900 cows and processed in the Cornell Dairy, which serve as training facilities for students in agriculture and life sciences and veterinary medicine. (The dairy products are also served in Cornell Dining facilities across campus.)

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pecans and chocolate flakes) or a special developed for the Cornell class of ’54, Big Red Reunion Revel (white chocolate base with a tart cherry swirl and chocolate).

Other chunky flavors, such as Bavarian Raspberry Fudge or Calamity Chocolate, are studded generously with large, fudgy bits of chocolate.

Located just a short walk away from many classrooms, the Dairy Bar is predictably popular among students. In fact, ordering ice cream here is Number 12 of the Cornell Daily Sun’s “161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do.” But townies and visitors follow suit just as eagerly. Kate Richardson of Eugene, Oregon, for example, rated her first-ever spoonful of Cornell ice cream highly: “It’s really good, very creamy, and nice and sweet in a good way,” she said of Cornelia’s Dark Secret (natural vanilla ice cream with chocolate flakes).

For something different, try an ice cream cupcake, and as you leave, grab a pint or two of pre-packaged ice cream as a culinary souvenir of Cornell.

Purity Ice Cream Company, Inc. 700 Cascadilla Street Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-1545 Check www.purityicecream.com for scoop locations outside of Ithaca.

Cornell Dairy Bar Stocking Hall, Cornell University Tower Road (between Wing and Judd Falls roads) Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-7660 www.living.sas.cornell.edu/dine/ wheretoeat/cafescoffeehouses/ cornelldairybar.cfm

Olivia M. Hall is a freelance writer and anthropologist based in Ithaca, NY. Her stories and photography have appeared in such publications as Vegetarian Times and Edible Finger Lakes.

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“Sometimes these places have the best food,” Bob offered with forced cheerfulness while I searched for evidence of a recent health department visit. I called the person who gave us the address and she responded with the comfortable laugh of a local.

“Trust me, and get in there!” Three years later, it is still a favorite place of ours with wonderful food and a warm atmosphere.

Our epitome of dining newness happened on a Friday evening when I spotted a place that bragged about their proficiency with chicken wings.

I am a native of Buffalo, New York, place of origin for that hallowed substance that really should be its own food group. The restaurant had a lot of people inside, always a good sign, but as we stepped through the door, the entire room went silent.

I don’t mean that a couple of folks glanced our way and continued eating. I mean everything stopped and all eyes set upon us like James Dean had just strolled into a girls' prep school. I pulled up short and felt my husband collide with my back.

For a moment, nothing happened. I had a frozen smile on my face and a growing sensation that “fight” should be told to shut up and “flight” should be handed the car keys.

Suddenly, the blonde-haired lady behind the bar sang out, “Okay, people! It’s just someone we don’t know. Go back to what you’re doing.”

They did and we crept forward.

She seated us with a gracious smile, brought our beverages, and then got down to business. “So, what brings you to the Valley?”

We told her that I had taken a job here and Bob was coming to join me in a couple of months. She brightened and turned to him. “Well, honey, don’t you worry about her. She’ll be fine. If she wants to come have a drink, a lady can sit at the bar by herself with no trouble.” My husband smiled his thanks and said, “Well, it’s good to know she won’t get hit on.”

Our hostess frowned a bit and replied, “Oh, she’ll get hit on, but they will be real sweet about it!”

Off she went in search of menus, and Bob and I locked eyes in mutual wonder. “ Pl a y o u r c a rd s r i g h t a n d someday,” I said, “we’ll sail through the correct side of a three-way stop, remember not to order the marinara, and stare at people in the doorway.

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Mountain Home contributor Maggie Barnes works in health care marketing and is a resident of Waverly, New York.

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A few yards from this trailer is another where the interns work. They come from all over the country and range from animal science majors to pre-vet.

ACS also hosts different types of programs for school children of all ages. The youngest of the young get to learn how to handle animals properly.

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Mountain Home contributor Brendan O’Meara, of Saratoga, NY, is the author of Six Weeks in Saratoga: How Three- Year-Old Filly Rachel Alexandra Beat the Boys and Became Horse of the Year.

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To make an appointment, call (570) 724-1010.

H E A LT H C E N T E R S Healthcare for Life

NEW CANCER CENTER OPENING SOON IN WELLSBORO. • Expert medical oncologists and a dedicated nurse practitioner • State-of-the-art facility with highly rated quality care • Medical oncology and chemotherapy services open four days per week • Comprehensive cancer care including support services to treat the whole patient • Opening late summer/early fall 2014 Designed with patients in mind, the center is a modern facility with calm, healing colors and furnishings, convenient parking and a healing garden. Beyond the physical features of the facility, the quality cancer care offered in Wellsboro will match that of Susquehanna Health’s Cancer Center in Williamsport.

Patient amenities include nutritional counseling, physical therapy, support groups, social workers, survivorship care planning, financial counseling and more.

Cancer Center at Soldiers + Sailors Memorial Hospital

SusquehannaHealth.org/Cancer