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My Kind of Town: Portrait of the Artist as a Small-Town Man

By Maxwell Black and Warren Goodrich For famed California and New York artist Warren Goodrich, a small Pennsylvania town was paradise. His love letter to the town is on page 20.

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By Patricia Brown Davis Pianos are “Busting Out All Over� at Summer Fringe.

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By Cindy Davis Meixel Lady Bonnie and Charlie sing the Blues Festival for 25 years.

36 Days of Wine and Noses

By Maxwell Black and Michael Capuzzo In Geneva, wine makers and aficionados share their passion.

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Cover by Tucker Worthington; Cover art by Warren Goodrich.

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Mountain laurel: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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The Little Man (facing page) by Warren Goodrich courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle

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Michael Capuzzo Nicole Jesionowski of the Wellsboro Chamber of Commerce models the crown that artist Warren Goodrich (right) designed for the Laurel Queen.

MY KIND OF TOWN Famed California and New York artist Warren Goodrich designed jewelry for Jackie O and created the iconic Little Man cartoon, but his tiara for the Laurel Queen, crowned in his beloved Wellsboro each June, was closest to his heart.

Mountain Home writer Maxwell Black profiles the artist. We’ve also reprinted Goodrich’s own love letter to Wellsboro (see page 20) that accompanies his whimsical map of the town’s place in the universe. (Presented on the cover with additional whimsy by the magazine’s artist Tucker Worthington).

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hen I was little, growing up in the small town of Wellsboro, I had nightmares with alarming frequency. After particularly bad dreams, I would often climb, trembling and sweaty, into my parents’ bed for comfort and safety. Lying with my head on my mother’s stomach, I would look up at the wall beside their bed and study the watercolor hanging there.

The painting was of a beach at twilight. It was impressionistic, as though the beach were obscured by fog, but I could make out two small figures near the waves, one clad in white, and the other in red with a small blue dot just above her head which I always thought was a bucket hat. As I got older, I wondered who painted the landscape that stood sentinel over my sleeping parents. But it was only recently, during my last springtime at home before leaving for college in the fall, that I discovered the painter who watched over my childhood dreams and nightmares. He was the late Warren Goodrich, a noted California-born artist who had already achieved fame as a newspaper artist and jewelry designer when he discovered Wellsboro late in life and “decided to stay,” said The Wellsboro Gazette, “when he became enchanted with the storybook quality of the town.”

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Goodrich, fifty-nine when he arrived in town in 1972, had invented the iconic newspaper cartoon figure The Little Man for the San Francisco Chronicle and designed the seminal Jackie Onassis belt for Cartier in New York City. After designing jewelry for the former First Lady, who reigned as American royalty, he turned his talents to the small-town queens of Wellsboro. Enchanted by Wellsboro’s Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival, he designed a crown for the Laurel Queen, the winner of the statewide beauty contest for high school girls.

This year’s festival, in its 73rd year, runs from June 14 to 22 in Wellsboro, culminating in the coronation of the queen, with her glittering crown. They don’t use Warren’s crown anymore; his classic gold laurel-and-fur creation, fit for Ovid or Dante, proved too heavy after a few years. But you can still see Warren’s remarkable tiara, complete with matching cape, displayed in the window of Dunham’s Department Store on Main Street, another Wellsboro institution. Just across the street, the festival-goer may stop to rest on a bench dedicated to Goodrich, a final homage to his thirty years of contributions to the town.

After twenty years in Manhattan, Goodrich was overwhelmed by the small-town charm of Wellsboro (pop.

3,000), and looked for real estate the first day in town. It was like coming home. Born in 1913 in Willows, California (pop. 6,000), Warren set out as a young man for UCLA Berkeley, carousing around with the legendary Californian John Steinbeck, whose literature won both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Soon after, Warren enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts to more acutely hone his already blossoming artistic bent. Upon graduating, he worked in an art supply store before joining the San Francisco Chronicle in 1935, where he first began to make his mark.

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Though many cartoonists and newspaper artists are celebrated in their own time and place, very few demonstrate the staying power of Warren’s comics. He is the progenitor of the syndicated comic strip Animal Crackers, which continues to be printed daily, as well as The Little Man, inarguably his most famous creation.

Idly doodling a behatted man in a series of poses of ascending enthusiasm, drawn in response to a request from his editor, he changed the face of movie reviews. From that moment on, Warren’s creation has been used as a more neutral, and clearer, visual cue than stars in the Chronicle—and has inspired countless imitators around the country. “The only rating system that makes any sense,” said the late, great film critic Roger Ebert, “is The Little Man of the San Francisco Chronicle, who is seen (1) jumping out of his seat and applauding wildly; (2) sitting up

happily and applauding; (3) sitting attentively; (4) asleep in his seat; or (5) gone from his seat…The blessing of The Little Man system is that it offers a true middle position, like three on a five-star scale.”

Warren, though, was only getting started. He headed east to New York City, where he spent time at a jeweler’s table in the Diamond District, learning metalcraft with a cadre of Dutch smiths.

After studying jewelry making at the Fashion Institute of Technology, he applied to work at Cartier, the worldrenowned jeweler whose flagship store is in New York. He was granted an audience with the president of Cartier, who thought that while Warren had talent, it just wasn’t up to par for Cartier.

As Warren left, though, the president caught a glimpse of a small trashcan that Warren had fashioned out of silver.

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Elegant and understated, the belt made by Warren caused a stir when it was worn by former First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

throughout his life—the president of Cartier immediately ordered a gross of the little trashcans to be delivered in a week. “I didn’t even know what a gross was,” admitted Warren to close friend Larry Biddison. After working day and night, he finally finished all 144 of les petites poubelles and started his career with the celebrated jewelers.

His stint at Cartier also gave Warren a national stage, as he created jewelry belts for the president’s wife and established a Jackie O-style belt that became popular during the ‘70s.

As an accessory that oozes Cape Cod nonchalance and a carefully crafted, devil-may-care sartorial style, his belt is still an essential part of the prep handbook.

Weary of the frantic pace of New York, Warren searched for a place that would not only be small enough for him to concentrate on the arts, his comics, and his writing, but also a place of true See My Kind of Town on page 16

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beauty. He was looking, essentially, for a town that would take him back to his roots, a town that could capture the small town magic of the idyllic Willows. In lieu of searching out west, though, he decided that he’d rather look for a place reasonably close to New York but not another Manhattan suburb.

In Wellsboro, it was love at first sight (see the accompanying story by Warren himself, “My Kind of Town”). As was Warren’s wont, he got involved immediately.

As a part of the Presbyterian Church, Audubon Society, and Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, he quickly became one of the founders of modern Wellsboro along with his close friend, the eponymous Arthur Gmeiner. Arthur, also a transplant, and a millionaire from Denver, came to Wellsboro at nearly the same time as Warren, and the two men became fast friends. Gmeiner also loved to paint, and although his talents didn’t necessarily match his enthusiasm, he was driven to create the Gmeiner center, where he and others in town could display their art, including that of his good friend Warren.

Warren also played the trombone, and seeing that there was not yet a town band, he created one. He lobbied for, See My Kind of Town on page 18

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and was instrumental in creating, the band shell that used to stand next to the Robinson House, the town’s historical museum. He served as vice president of the historical society. He drew a charming map of Wellsboro, with an accompanying love letter to the town closest to his heart. The map still hangs proudly on walls around town, including at the Chamber of Commerce. Even the sign for the Town Band Concerts, that many will automatically recognize, was graced by illustrations from Warren, with his classic, everyman whimsy.

Because of Warren’s attachment to Wellsboro, he felt that it was important to give a sense of majesty and wonder to the Laurel Queens who would mesmerize the children of the town and fill their dreams for years to come. So, using the skills learned at Cartier, he made a golden crown in the shape of laurel. By using the mountain laurel as his template, Warren sculpted a coronet that combined regality and local flavor, a crown that could only be worn by the royalty of the Endless Mountains.

Warren Goodrich died in Wellsboro in January 2002 at the age of eighty-eight, in the nursing home where he was provided his own art studio, allowing him to practice his passion to the end. He was accorded a fawning obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle, and a similar one in the Los Altos Town Crier, which he co-founded, as well as The Wellsboro Gazette, where he was a beloved columnist for many years. His autobiography, An Artist’s Life: You Never Know What You’ll Be Remembered For, refers to the 1942 doodling of The Little Man that was his most widely recognized achievement.

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Wellsboro, Pennsylvania ...My Kind of Town

By Warren Goodrich

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t’s easy to wax poetic about the town close to your heart. And it can be as boring as talking about your grandchildren.

Let me explain, up front, that this printed piece is a personal statement—a kind of private manifesto, not authorized by the Chamber of Commerce, commissioned by the 20

tourism people or anyone else. If others choose to use it, fine. If not, I’ll send it to my friends and relatives.

I came to Wellsboro fifteen years ago. I read about the town in a book, Where to Retire on a Small Income, by Norman Ford (Harian Publications).

Only three places in Pennsylvania were listed: Brookville, New Hope, and

Wellsboro.

The author’s rhapsodic prose about Wellsboro piqued my curiosity. “…an undiscovered Shangri-La…unspoiled retirement paradise…magnificent mountains with dense pine forests and tumbling trout steams which come right to your front door.”

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The year before my arrival hurricane Agnes dumped tons of water on the area. Tumbling trout streams and a lot more came knocking at the door, but not in Wellsboro. Three small dams held, and the town was spared in the midst of wide devastation.

I first saw Wellsboro on a cool, grey Friday in November. The town looked good even then. Saturday morning I walked down Main Street looking for breakfast. A man approached head on and said, “Good morning!”

Another man appeared. “Top of the morning to you sir,” he said. “It’s a glorious day.”

Twenty years in Manhattan had taught me to be cautious, suspicious, and anonymous. There only con men and dingalings went about saying “Good morning.”

I casually but firmly grasped my hip pocket and forged ahead, looking neither to the right nor the left. Main Street is not that long. I quickly ran out of downtown.

The attack never came.

That morning I found a house. The stream didn’t tumble all that much, there were no trout in it, and it was at the back door. I bought the house anyway.

It didn’t take very long to learn that those men meant it when they said, “Good morning!”

Not All Roads Lead To Wellsboro… but enough of them do to get you there Once there it may seem remote, but it’s a matter of perspective. To a New Yorker, it’s the outback. Yet to a Wellsboro native New York is another world. Some Wellsboroans have never been to New York—they may keep it that way.

The big cities are about 250 miles from Wellsboro, a nice distance which works both ways. You don’t run into

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New York or Washington or Cleveland for the afternoon. When you go, you go for a reason. Then, too, Wellsboro is not a commuter town.

Those who discover Wellsboro, as well as some of the old timers, treat it like a favorite restaurant. They try to keep it to themselves for fear it will be spoiled or overrun.

That hasn’t happened, but now and again there will be small flurries of conversations between the Flatlanders (those from away) and the Ridge Runners (third or fourth generation natives). It’s all in good humor and only rarely does the debate become physical.

Flatlander or Ridge Runner, Wellsboro appeals to a special, discriminating segment of people. That may sound orgulous and provincial, but it’s true.

Wellsboro isn’t for everybody, thank goodness. Wouldn’t it be sad if it were.

On the other hand it may be just what you’re looking for.

A Most Unusual Small Town…okay, what’s so different about Wellsboro?

There are gas lights on the boulevards, but is that enough to set it apart?

There’s a lovely village square across from the courthouse, and that’s not uncommon.

Hundreds of towns have concert series, art centers, a summer band and many special-interest groups such as Audubon, historical societies, men’s and women’s choruses, square dancers, bowlers. And most towns, like Wellsboro, have volunteers doing good things for churches, hospitals, scouts, libraries and older people.

Wellsboro has the Laurel Festival, the 10K Run, Red Garter Revue, A Dickens of a Christmas, but other communities do, too. They just give theirs a different name.

Then there’s politics, if that’s your

interest. Wellsboro is the county seat— and there’s the borough council and the school board and the fire department.

Perhaps you’d like to learn some new skills—go back to college? Or are you the outdoor type? Do you like to hunt, fish, swim, ski? No? Well, you can just sit and look at the pretty country.

It’s all here, yet you might find the same things in other towns—which brings us back to the original question.

What’s so different about Wellsboro?

I wish there was a precise answer.

Wellsboro has a quality difficult to pin down—elusive, yet real. The nearest I can come to it is that it’s Special People.

People who become your friends quietly and without fanfare.

When you are here for awhile you become part of a kind of family. You’re accepted, protected, cared for. If you stumble, someone helps. When you take a job that’s too big, people lend a hand. Sometimes you never know where the help comes from.

I said this was a personal statement.

These things have happened to me. You won’t know if I’m telling it straight unless you try it yourself.

(Frankly I hope there isn’t too big a response to this. Wellsboro can handle a few of you, but let’s not let it get out of hand.)

The Other Grand Canyon It’s a canyon, to be sure— imposing, impressive, glorious, awe inspiring. To call it the Grand Canyon in competition with that one in the west may be presumptuous.

But Grand Canyon it is thanks to an enthusiastic press agent named Larry Woodin. Larry needed tourists to fill his movie house. He dreamed up the Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival and didn’t hesitate to borrow the Grand Canyon’s name. He would have called the Penn Wells Hotel the WaldorfSee Wellsboro, Pennsylvania on page 56

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Mountain Laurel

The good, the bad, and the ugly

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ot much is prettier than Penn’s Woods in mid-June, when the mountain laurel is at concert pitch. With colors ranging from bunny-tail white to seashell pink, Kalmia latifolia has earned, with eye appeal alone, its designation as our state flower.

Seriously. That’s about all it has going for it.

Laurel—aka spoonwood (so named because the native peoples used it to make spoons), calico-bush, sheep laurel, and lambkill—is a member of the Ericaceae family. Its relatives include huckleberries, blueberries, azaleas, cranberries, and rhododendron. It is native to the eastern United States, with a range extending from Maine to Florida, and lives as far west as Indiana and Louisiana. It prefers acidic soil—something in the 4.5 to 5.5 pH range—and, at least around here, can grow as tall as six or eight feet. It makes thickets so dense you can barely push your way through without a lot of bloodshed; in other areas the bushes have coyly spaced themselves nicely so you can walk about and properly appreciate the blooms.

Mountain laurel’s gnarly, knobby branches are not particularly useful as a building material, though some clever carpenters have found them to be just the thing for crafting handrails. You could also probably make some sort of interesting wall hook or rack, as the plant has a lot of sharp, pointy aspects to it. Nothing eats laurel. It is, in fact, poisonous to horses, goats, cattle, deer, monkeys, and us.

I’ve been trying for a while to coax a pasture out of an area that until recently was about 75 percent laurel. I can tell you that, along with those aforementioned sharp, pointy exterior parts, laurel has a tough, determined root structure that weaves itself underground like macramé and makes it very difficult to extract the plant from the earth. You cut the main stem as close as you can to the ground and then yank and curse and yank some more.

You have to work at it for a bit, but you are finally, triumphantly, rewarded with a stump of plant appended to a twisted string of fibrous root two or three feet long, this after you’ve been pulling with all your might, and have had our delightful state flower suddenly free itself from its hidden attachments. Wham! You’re on the ground, nearly impaled by the nearby laurel punji sticks remaining from a previous removal effort, but—ha!—another one bites the dust! This same kind of fun can be had trying to clear a horse or mountain bike trail in a laurel-infested area.

You cannot, of course, go out into the state forest or onto someone else’s property and steal or whack down Kalmia latifolia, but, contrary to popular opinion, there are no legal restrictions on the cultivation or demolition of mountain laurel.

I’m really glad about the latter.

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

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o you remember “June is Busting Out All Over” from the Broadway musical Carousel? That rip-roaring tune that just makes you want to dance? The Susquehanna Trail Road Rally steers Tioga County into June, with the

Laurel Festival following in its wake.

We barely have time to catch our breath before Wellsboro offers up a week of the arts in its Summer Fringe—a week to celebrate music, dance, theater, art, writing, poetry, comedy, storytelling, and photography. As an arts lover and

piano player, it makes my blood run and my breathing heavy!

Imagine: you come to town with the idea of a little shopping, and, as you park your car, you hear music— not recorded, but live. You glance up the sidewalk and see a brightly colored See “Bustin’ Out All Over” on page 29

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piano, with a sign saying, “Play Me! I’m Yours!” Someone’s on the bench playing a tune. Surprised, you stop to listen— an instantaneous symbiotic relationship—performer and audience. You walk on the other side of the street and there’s another piano. In fact the town will be “busting out all over” with them.

You have just walked into the Summer Fringe.

You pick up a schedule and discover there are planned activities and performances all week from morning to evening in various venues, open to the public. Some are geared to kids and teens, others to adults. The week starts off with a bang on Sunday, June 22, at 4 p.m., with a Hamilton-Gibson cast and crew reunion for anyone who has ever been involved with the group, be it performer, stage hand, musician, or volunteer. Even seniors will get into action on Tuesday, June 24, at 2 p.m. at the Warehouse Theatre, with the Senior Reader’s Theater of “Acting Out!” If you play the piano, you can do what I’m going to do: simply sit down and play a tune. Bring a friend and play a duet—even “Chopsticks”! Haul any budding pianists with you and give them a turn. Sadie Green Sales music man David Driskell is tuning the many donated pianos from the community—some of which have great stories to tell.

My goal is to play them all. You should, too, or at least check them all out. Local artists will have painted them for Summer Fringe, and you may even know some of them.

Check for their signatures and enjoy a smorgasbord of sound.

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crop up, but it’s a bet it’ll be one of the arts, and maybe something new and on the fringe. Speaking of “the fringe,” I understand “Raymond, The Amish Comic” from Lancaster is being headlined for adults only.

Summer Fringe had its inception two years ago, as Hamilton-Gibson Productions stuck its toes in the water with a number of activities for young people, adults, and seniors scheduled during the day, with performances held in the evenings. The great response prompted a repeat performance. Herb Johnson, “busting out all over” with new ideas and additions to the schedule, is chairing this year’s event.

I plan on attending these intriguing activities and evening performances, and running a writing workshop for young girls Monday through Friday.

I’ll probably find it difficult to wait ’til the end of the week for the Dueling Pianos concert, an evening where a number of pianists and I will sit down to play—solo and with each other—all styles of music, some extemporaneously.

Wonder who the others will be?

Most indoor activities are “pay what you can,” with the proceeds going to the Summer Fringe expenses. There will be a Summer Fringe button for you to purchase for five dollars that will let you into most of the activities and concerts. They are also looking for those individuals or groups who might want to organize something in the arts for that week. Check the Hamilton-Gibson Web site (www.hamiltongibson.org) for details. If you need a venue, contact Hamilton-Gibson at (570) 724-2079.

Join in the festivities and fun while supporting the arts. You might even find an old piano player willing to play a request.

She’s warming up her fingers already!

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

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The Art of War

Does Sun Tzu mention woodchucks?

By Maggie Barnes

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h, look at the deer!”

Watching the animals from our hillside home is one of the best things about our rural relocation. In the beginning, it was so novel to us that all activity would stop while we watched in silent appreciation. I must have taken 500 pictures of deer that first year.

I loved having close-up views of those sweet triangle faces and the bobby-socks-and-Mary-Janes coloring of their legs and hooves. Some of the novelty has worn off, but we still enjoy our privileged “insider’s view” of nature.

There are days when I feel like an interloper, like a territory invader, which I guess is true. We have a consistent group of deer that enjoy our reclaimed field. We spend many nights on the deck with our dinner companions below, munching grass and turning an occasional unconcerned eye to our perch. There are turkey, raccoons, and a beautiful red fox who, on his rare visits, treats us to a hunting exhibition.

All of which sounds idyllic, I know. But living in a rural area can really interfere with the demands of

modern-day life. Heading out to work one morning, with me in the lead and my husband behind, we encountered a large doe, defiantly standing in the path of both vehicles. I beeped the horn, I edged the car forward, but she simply glared at me. I was at a loss to understand her. A glance in the rearview mirror showed my husband, rocking his arms as though holding an infant. All became clear: she had a fawn nearby and did not like the look of us.

As a parent myself, I looked at her with new empathy. She met my gaze calmly, as if to say, “I am protecting my own.”

We came to a compromise. I yielded the road to her. Compromise has a different definition out here.

Sometimes the standoff is less subtle. Flying off the hill one day, already late, I encountered a veritable traffic jam of deer and turkey in the intersection. It looked like the opening session of a Rotary conference. Feeling outnumbered, I leaned out the window and yelled, “I do not have time to star in a Disney movie today—move it!” Other times, we have to slow our vehicle as we follow a buck in rut See The Art of War on page 32 31

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trotting down the center of the road, nose to the pavement, reminding us that autumn is when a young male’s fancy turns to love.

My own significantly better half, Bob, is normally a gentle soul with respect for all of God’s creatures. Which is why I was surprised by the evil glint in his eye the day he said, “We have a woodchuck. A big one. He’s got to go.”

Bob had noticed the newly dug holes, a couple near the steps, a large one at the foundation. While I had no understanding what such dirt moving indicated, Bob was immediately on the alert. “He is shopping for a winter home.

Well, he better start walking to Miami, because it isn’t going to be with us!”

Thus began “The Woodchuck War.” Luckily—or maybe not—our son was visiting from Texas and brought a concurring opinion with his dad that violence against the creature was warranted. I left the house with great trepidation that morning, fearing that I would return to a property resembling a missile test site, pockmarked with holes. But the guys had a more surgical strike planned. They had found two ends of a tunnel and were plotting something akin to chasing down a runner between second and third base.

About halfway through my day, I received a photo via text from our daughter-in-law. Actually, it was a sequence of two photos, one showing our son inserting a billowing smoke bomb in one end of the tunnel. The second depicted my husband, stationed on the lower deck, shotgun at the ready, intently watching the other end of the tunnel. A heartbeat later came the terse message from Sarah, “You might want to head home a little early.”

Did you know that, if you really have to, you can U-turn on the Interstate?

I am relieved to report that all involved in the great woodchuck caper survived, including the woodland creature, which I assume either watched with great amusement from a safe distance or owns a surplus WWII gas mask. I returned to faint clouds of pink still lingering over the field, the shotgun returned to storage, and two amateur exterminators assessing the flaws in their plan over a couple of beers.

Whatever had happened, I had to smile a week or so later when I spotted a roly-poly figure lumbering down the hill. Though I am sure I imagined it, I would swear he forced himself awkwardly to a standing position, looked right at me, and winked.

I neglected to tell my husband. Compromise has a different definition out here, you know.

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

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For the Love of the Blues

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By Cindy Davis Meixel

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wenty-five years ago, six blues lovers gathered at Franco’s Lounge in downtown Williamsport, and each slapped fifty dollars on the table to help fund a small blues festival along the Susquehanna River.

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where we could make believe it was the Mississippi Delta, only it was the Susquehanna Delta,” explained Bonnie Tallman, one of the original organizers.

Interest in the musical genre had been stirring in Billtown, thanks to a few passionate blues fans including a radio disc jockey, a record store employee, a sprinkling of blues musicians, and the Franco’s Lounge family, who regularly

booked touring blues bands who were eyeing a spot to tuck in between the big cities.

Tallman, a Tioga County native who now lives in Muncy, is often credited with being the first to suggest the blues festival, but she is too modest to take credit and only points to the efforts of others and the blues-building influences.

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“A lot was going on…and it just gelled,” she said.

From that first gathering of about 100 people on June 24, 1990, to the present-day Billtown Blues Festival now attracting upwards of 3,000 fans to the Lycoming County Fairgrounds in Hughesville, the twenty-five-year-old event has been pulled off annually with a format imitating the blues—a predictable structure filled with a liberal dose of spontaneity and emotion.

And, somewhere along the way, Tallman and one of the other original six visionaries—Charlie Lockard—composed their own love story.

Music Unites Tallman grew up in Covington, the daughter of a country musician—the now-late Clement Mitchell. From an early age, she recalls her father dressing up in a suit every Friday and Saturday night to go off to work at square and round dances. Adept at many instruments, Mitchell mainly coaxed tunes from the accordion. At the age of eight, Tallman began taking piano lessons from the organ player in her dad’s band.

Lockard, a Luzerne County kid, played trombone in his school band and was often glued to a white transistor radio, listening to an AM radio station out of Nashville, playing what was then called “race music.” Although the signal was fuzzy, the Shavertown boy was clearly inspired by the blues DJs he heard; he began dreaming of being on the radio, spinning the blues.

Lockard’s and Tallman’s paths crossed in Williamsport in the early ’80s. By then, he was an insurance salesman and she was working in pharmaceutical marketing.

“We were just really good friends for a long time,” Tallman said. “It was always the music that was pulling us together.”

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, they performed in Tallman’s father’s band, The San Antones, with Tallman on piano and Lockard on the upright bass.

When she learned of Lockard’s DJ dreams, the marketer in Tallman figured out a way to make it happen. Lockard’s “Goodtime Charlie” first hit the airwaves in January 1990 and has been heard on a total of six area radio stations in the past twenty-five years. Sometimes, he was joined by Tallman as “Mojo Mary.” Goodtime Charlie’s blues still float across the Susquehanna Valley every Sunday on Williamsport’s WZXR and Susquehanna University’s WQSU. In the mid-’90s, Tallman also began pursuing her own musical dream and shifted from her medical career to creating an artist management company. The duo formed BC Productions to embrace both of their entrepreneurial entertainment efforts. Tallman represented well-known artists like Greg Piccolo, Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, and Saffire singer Ann Rabson’s solo career, before retiring

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Festival Flows Kight, a blues songstress from Georgia, is among the performers at this year’s Billtown Blues Festival, set to play Sunday, June 8, from noon to 10 p.m. Other artists scheduled are Brandon Santini from Memphis, The Kelly Richey Band from Cincinnati, Mississippi’s Shawn Holt (son of the blues legend Morris Holt, aka Magic Slim) and the Teardrops, and Chicago-based Lil’Ed and the Blues Imperials.

Local performers rounding out the bill will be The Nate Myers Band, K.G.+3, John “JT Blues” Thompson, Sean Farley, Adam Tarin, and Steve Mitchell with his popular “Circle of Drums.”

Of the original six festival planners, Tallman and Lockard are the only two left dedicated to serving on the tenmember committee running the Billtown Blues Association Inc., the non-profit organization formed after the success of the first festival.

The association received Best Blues Organization honors at the 2011 Keeping the Blues Alive Awards, conducted by the Blues Foundation in Memphis.

“We aren’t an organization looking to have a big festival,” Tallman said, when asked about the association’s goals and vision. “We want to keep it manageable. We really put quality at the top of the list. We want our patrons to feel they’re coming to a quality event with quality music.”

She says the association approaches the blues “from an artistic perspective,” along with an immense amount of respect for the origins of the art form.

“It goes way back to African and European influences, but in the U.S., it happened because of slavery. African American people who were working as slaves would try to find ways to get through the day, ways to uplift their spirits,” Tallman offered.

“I’m so intrigued by the birth of blues—how it came to be and the influence it’s had on music worldwide.”

The music continues to uplift and unite.

The Billtown Blues Festival has developed into a reunion destination for fans and families from around the country.

“People reunion there,” Tallman said. “They come, meet, share, forget the political and economic cares, and let music do what music is intended to do—unite people through its power. The biggest thrill for us is to watch other people get moved by the music.

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Oenophiles at last year’s Finger Lakes Wine Symposium in Geneva.

Days of Wine and Noses

In Geneva, wine makers and aficionados share their passion

By Maxwell Black and Michael Capuzzo

J

oshua Greene, editor, publisher, and acclaimed wine critic of Wine & Spirits magazine, the industry bible with headquarters in New York City, had never given much thought to the more than one hundred wineries surrounding Keuka, Seneca, Cayuga, and Canandaigua lakes in upstate New York.

“I was oblivious to Finger Lakes wines,” he said. But his first exposure, a Riesling from the award-winning Dr. Konstantin Frank vineyards in Hammondsport, pleasantly surprised him with a complexity that showed “this wine can really age.” Many discriminating sips later, Greene now can’t say enough good things about the

Finger Lakes, which he considers one of the world’s great wine-producing regions, the cold-climate equivalent of California’s Sonoma County.

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at home or with friends is Finger Lakes Riesling, particularly from Wiemer and Ravines,” he says, and he has consistently rated Finger Lakes wine as some of the best cool-climate wine he has come across.

“Seneca Lake is really deep,” he says, “[so] you get temperature consistency right along the shore, you have these really beautiful places to grow grapes on either side.”

The wine critic will have a chance to share his enthusiasm with an appreciative audience at the Wine Symposium of the Finger Lakes on June 13 and 14 in Geneva. Greene is the scheduled keynote speaker at the second annual celebration of the region’s grape-growers and winemakers organized by Geneva Growth and the Finger Lakes Wine Alliance, with support from the New York Wine and Culinary Center, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the City of Geneva.

For $150, wine enthusiasts can enjoy two days of seminars and wine tastings with international wine and food experts, “taste cool-climate wines from around the world, try wine and food pairings, and learn why wineries in New York’s Finger Lakes have gained international respect.” The event was sold out last year.

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Greene is glad to be back.

“I’m excited to be visiting the Finger Lakes again,” he said.

“With so much emphasis on eating and drinking local, New Yorkers are blessed to have one of the world’s great terroirs in our backyard—not only for wine, but for exceptional food as well. The Wine Symposium is a moment to consider Finger Lakes Riesling, pinot noir, and cabernet franc in the context of cool-climate wines from around the world.”

Greene’s career was foretold when, as a boy of thirteen traveling with his family in the northern province of Galicia in Spain, he took his first sip of wine, with lunch. He fell into wine tasting nearly by accident. After graduating from Princeton University, “I came out of college with a plan to write fiction,” he says, “and supported myself by waiting tables and serving wine as a ‘sommelier.’ That was my title at the Wheatleigh Hotel in Lenox, Massachusetts, when the Simons had just bought the property and I was the only server who knew how to use a waiter’s knife.”

Following that, he moved back to Princeton and was approached to manage a magazine called Winestate’s Wine & Spirits Buying Guide. He accepted, and immediately

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shortened the name to just Wine & Spirits, trademarked it, and started to build a base market around New York.

Soon, the publisher moved back to Australia, and Joshua finally bought the magazine in 1989.

At the start, though, he didn’t write for the magazine, focusing more on organizing wine tasting events and panels. It wasn’t long, however, before he grew intrigued by blind tasting, seeing those initial visceral reactions to a wine as “immensely valuable,” and “[spending] a lot of time trying to describe those reactions and those patterns.” Shortly after, he became not only the publisher and editor of Wine & Spirits, but also its prime wine critic.

Greene now touts the Finger Lakes’ unique combination of soil and climate that gives the region its own advantages over wines from hotter climates.

“Tasting the wines up [in the Finger Lakes] is a true consistent terroir which is not what you see in most New World wines,” he says. “This is an area that has consistent soils: there’s potential for distinctive terroir expressions.”

He believes the Finger Lakes winemakers are moving in the right direction. “It’s definitely expanding,” he says, and is slowly but surely gaining a foothold in the psyche of the American imbiber. But Greene takes umbrage at those who would say that the Finger Lakes are “the Napa Valley of the east.” While Napa Valley has become a playground of the rich, he says that the Finger Lakes are more like the Sonoma of the east, because “there are lots of great food producers” and “old world values of agriculture” that come with great food and great wine having a unity of origin.

As Riesling is the Finger Lakes’ signature varietal, the symposium will start on Friday with a Grand Tasting of gold medal winners from the Finger Lakes AVA (American Viticultural Area) Riesling Challenge from 4-7 p.m. at the new Visitor’s Center on Geneva’s lakefront. Following this will be Dan

Eaton, the Rochester chef and host of YNN network’s Cooking at Home show, with cooking demonstrations that utilize the crisp minerality of local wines paired with hors d’oeuvres to whet the appetite of onlookers, as they sample wines with glasses provided by famed German Glasmacher Riedel.

Afterwards, there will be a welcome speech from Master of Ceremonies Michael Warren Thomas, the noted Finger Lakes lifestyle radio host, and an awards ceremony for the winners of the Riesling Challenge.

On Saturday, moving to Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ Scandling Center, the festivities will continue at a comfortable 9:30 a.m., with a seminar delineating the principles of food and wine pairing, specifically with coolclimate wines from around the world.

Soon after will be a seminar by New York Sommelier Thomas Pastuszak, L.A. wine writer Dan Berger, and Ron Giesbrecht, professor at Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute and former Henry of Pelham winemaker. These various speakers will talk about white, red, and sparkling wines in cool climates, especially as regards the Finger Lakes and their place in the national pantheon.

The symposium will finish with a luncheon and keynote speech by Greene. The keynoter is looking forward to eating as well as drinking in the Finger Lakes. “The food is fantastic…What’s cool about the Finger Lakes is that they do have their own culture, that will evolve into distinct wine and food cultures.”

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arold Lloyd once starred in a film called Safety Last!

You might remember stills of hapless Harold hanging from the face of a Big Ben-type clock many stories above the street. But it is “Safety First” for food companies these days.

I blame the frenzy over the Tylenol incident. So packaging—including food packaging—became tamperproof. So many are “people-proof,” at least to this otherwise happy cook.

Herewith are a few of my pet peeves.

A Serial Nuisance Cereal boxes are almost impossible

for me to get right. I try to carefully open the tab on the flap which, after sprinkling some of the contents into a bowl, one is instructed to slide into the slot (that has to be pried open). It rips, and when I try to roll down the waxed paper that contains the flakes, the little pillows, the “O’s,” or the bran buds (I am at that age) the resultant bulge won’t let me maneuver the tab into the slot. I gasp at the gaps.

And as for getting nimbly to the contents, gently opening that waxed paper at the top seam is impossible. I am not Edward Scissorhands. Look, I’m still half-asleep and so I end up

attacking the inner wrap with whatever sharp instrument is handy. With the bag now in shreds how can you keep the cereal remaining in the box reasonably airtight? Can’t be done.

I’m addicted to certain brands of jam/jelly that have an outer screw cap and an inner metal lid. How to pry that off using a “church key” without bending the lid so it can be re-closed is a challenge. And all that sticky goop on your fingers often coincides with the phone ringing.

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force them or simply don’t want to reaccept the wad of plastic to close.

Patience? Phooey.

I Get No Thrill with Blueberry Spill I love to treat myself to blueberries and raspberries. Know all those little plastic coffins that fruit comes in? My scheme to get these blasted things open is to press the little box into my chest with one hand so I can force the lid open with my other hand. Too hard a press and those little blue or red cannonballs fly through the air. I try to salvage what I can (pricey, aren’t they?) and rinse them well. However, there’s an aged oriental rug in the kitchen that successfully conceals the little devils.

Squish, squash.

I also often have a shower of what I call oat confetti when prying off the snug lids that top the round container.

I swear I can hear the Quaker guy chortling at my ineptitude. As for pasta, I often turn to thin spaghetti and,

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counting carbs, I only need very little.

I open one end of the box and try to shake out a small amount. I end up with a “pick-up-sticks” scene on the stove with a few shorter pieces bouncing onto the electric element under the boiling water and igniting. This really burns me up.

Then we have those boxes of cream cheese. Once I get the box open I’m faced with gently opening the seams so the rectangle of cheese comes out unscathed. Heaven forbid the cheese is anything but well chilled, otherwise it adheres to the foil. I’m usually in a scramble to get the cheese into a nice white china dish that snugly holds the cheese and the drips from the salsa I spoon on it (and then top with crab or sometimes finely-chopped cooked shrimp or toasted sesame seeds). One of the best and easiest hors d’oeuvres I know.

I am inordinately fond of Triscuits— always have been. I was excited to see a box of new small triangular Triscuits on an end-cap at my market as I was whizzing off to the checkout. I grabbed a box. It would be perfect as a one-bite base for the marvelous Camembert cheese from the Hudson Valley’s Old Chatham Sheepherding farm. Guests were arriving as I carefully opened the box of triangles. I reeled at the smell of cinnamon and sugar. In my haste I hadn’t scrutinized the package. I mean cinnamon and Triscuits? Heresy.

Happily, I had a box of Wheat Thins on the shelf.

Press Here—Ha! “Press here and lift” are fighting words. Evidently my “presser finger” is aging badly. (I reckon companies probably employ eighteen-year-old weight lifters to test their packaging.)

I use an ice pick on that thing. I’m instructed to tear off the package tops of cheese or chips. Hurrah, they are “resealable.” The zip starts out okay but comes off the track halfway through the action and I have to get out the

shears. Tragically, my nails aren’t long enough to nudge the package open.

Likewise, if the packaged cheese slices are refrigerator-cold, I’m stymied when trying to separate single slices from the pack. And forget all but the ziphandled plastic Baggies, and my cries of indignation when I can’t get the male and female parts to form a color not found in nature.

And how about those little tins of anchovies? I’ve tangled with these babies—and lost too many times. The little ring pops off way before the entire lid, and I am within inches of severing an artery trying to avoid the half-open top of the blasted thing to fish out what fish I need. I am now buying anchovies in little jars. (Hint: if you are making tuna salad—and I could go on about the tuna cans, but I won’t—fish out one or two anchovies and mash them into the tuna mix for a fantastic flavor boost.)

Finally there is yogurt, the darling ingredient in dressings, soups, and the like. I like to have a container for lunch, and it’s all Greek to me these days. One brand I like has a devilish tab that you pull off to reveal the contents. Pull, yank, twist—I try them all only to have the lid stay firmly in place. Sure I am developing arthritis, but…

And then there is frozen yogurt, specifically the Ben & Jerry's raspberry or blueberry swirl flavors. The latter has a thin vein of crushed graham crackers through it. (How they manage to stay crisp through it all is a mystery.) I am usually so anxious to taste this treat that I forget the almost invisible clear plastic sealing tape that encircles the lid’s rim.

I hang in there and—safety last?—hack away with a sharp knife.

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“It is remarkable to say ‘the 25th annual Billtown Blues Festival!’ Twenty-five years isn’t a long time in the big picture, but for a small, grassroots organization, it is a huge timeframe,” she continued. “We feel the festival has done a tremendous service to the blues as an art form and to the community in general.”

The festival has endured for twenty-five consecutive years due to a combination of a well-organized, businessminded focus, and a fervent devotion to the art form.

Tallman’s skills in pharmaceutical marketing and artist management have played well in all of the behind-the-scenes nuances. The event has even weathered eleven straight years of rain, along with numerous other unexpected challenges and surprises—all of which the organizers and festival-goers seem to take with ease and humor.

Among the more memorable challenges was the year when the now late, legendary Koko Taylor was scheduled to headline the festival, but was hospitalized two days before the event. Tallman scrambled for a replacement and, thanks to her artist management connections, was able to land Johnny “Clyde” Copeland who was playing in New York the night before the festival.

“He was a prominent blues artist, so even though it was quite an undertaking to get him here at the last minute, it was so worthwhile because it turned out to be his last show.

He passed away two months later,” she said.

Another highlight that comes to Tallman’s mind is the time when musician David Johansen, best known for being a band member of the New York Dolls, stopped performing mid-song to comment on the beauty of the natural surroundings.

“He was standing on stage, looking out at the scenery and he said, ‘I’ve got to stop. I’m so overwhelmed by what I’m seeing, looking at these mountains, barns, and blue sky.

I can’t think of anywhere else in the world I’d want to be at this time.’ That was a really special moment,” she recalled.

Attempting to distill the spirit and longevity of the festival, Tallman said, simply, “It’s magical.”

With an adoration that continues to flow, she added, “Blues is like water. There’s water in a tomato, but when you’re eating a tomato, you think it’s a tomato, but water is in everything that’s living and the blues is in all other music.”

Billtown Blues Festival tickets are $30 at the gate, with children under sixteen admitted free with a parent. The festival strives to be a family-friendly event, with various rules established to ensure safety. More festival information is available at www.billtownblues.org.

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

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