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SEISMIC SHARI

By Alison Fromme Photos by Elizabeth Young

THE BIRCH-OIL MAN GARY TYSON’S SPRING BIRDS KEN MEYER’S SPRING FLOWERS

MAY 20121

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Tour the new 24,872 sq. ft. office building, meet our providers and enter to win door prizes.

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The Last Great Place

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Seismic Shari

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Saturday in the Park

By Mike Capuzzo

Thanks to you, Dear Reader, Mountain Home is the “Best Niche Publication” in Pennsylvania again.

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By Alison Fromme Shari Griswold, Houston geophysicist, maps Tioga County’s depths for hidden gas treasure.

Doings ‘Round the Mountain

Blossburg remembers coal, CMOG recalls the Great Flood of ’72, and her friends celebrate Dotty Webber.

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Looking Back

By Joyce M. Tice

By Gary Tyson Hill Creek’s glorious bird walks offer splendid shots of nature’s feathered glory.

Joyce travels back to 1897 in Wellsboro and Mansfield, and a famous local murder.

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Craving Crawfish

By Derek Witucki

Photos by Elizabeth Young Louisiana boiled crawfish are a taste of home for Pennsylvania gas workers.

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Birch, Still

By Dave Milano

Dave distills the memories of Llewellyn Butler, Birch-Oil Man. (To read about a new birch still see also p. 43).

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The Better World

By John & Lynne Diamond-Nigh

Strangers at a restaurant spark golden memories of heroes and angels.

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Shop Around the Corner:

The MotherDaughter Gallery

By Cindy Davis Meixel With Lin and Jesse Gardner, West End Gallery in Corning is a mom-anddaughter shop.

Oops and Etc: The photos with last month’s Yogomaga column were taken by Michelle Lawrence.

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Still Stilling After All These Years

By Gayle Morrow

Gayle inspects a new, working birch still at the Lumbermen’s Museum in Potter County. (See also p. 35 for the memories of the Birch-Oil Man).

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Puff the Magic Chocolate

By Becca Ostrom

Le Chocolat, Bernie and Bonnie Katz’s sweet Williamsport shop, started with a puff.

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My Favorite Things

By Michael Capuzzo

Italian Night at Lamb’s Creek is a two-for-one offer you can’t refuse.

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Finger Lakes Wine Review

By Holly Howell

Spring is glorious in the lakes, a fine Riesling to celebrate!

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

Mother Earth

By Gayle Morrow

Our columnist taps into the life-force of spring.

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A May Opening

Photographer Ken Meyer raises the curtain on spring.

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Suzan K. Richar visits Galeton’s lovely Berger Lake in springtime, reprising her winter photograph of February 2012.

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t’s the season of strange and wild things, old cycles reverse, new shoots find the sun, the world gets giddy. Winter wears green, spring snows, and in the Mountain Home offices we drink champagne every Friday afternoon. And why not, I say, raising a toast to you, Dear Reader? It’s 5 o’clock somewhere. Here’s to you, retired Dresser Rand manager-turned-fisherman Fred Metarko, and to you, slightly crazed classical artist Tucker Worthington. Here’s to you, Wellsboro director and actor Thomas Putnam, and you, Finger Lakes sommelier Holly Howell. Why, here’s writer, mother, wife, marketing executive, and former Disney World Snow White Associate Publisher Dawn Bilder, Canton elementary school teacher Sarah Bull, Cowanesque Valley former farm girl Amanda Doan Butler, Wellsboro photographer and Mansfield University biology professor emeritus Ken Meyer, elementary school art teacher Sarah Wagaman, and Donald Gilliland, the fifth-generation Potter Countian and brilliant investigative reporter who studied medieval lit at Cornell. Drink up, all. Mostly here’s to you, Dear Reader, for you’ve broken the rules, confused all the categories, once again.

You see, no sooner had we hired two recent Mansfield University grads last month—Managing Editor Derek Witucki and Graphic Designer and Photo Editor Liz Young—than our fortune took a remarkable turn. This May issue of Mountain Home is seventy-six pages, the biggest magazine we’ve published in six years, with Derek writing his first story for us, about a 3,000-pound load of Louisiana crawfish that travelled 1,300 miles, and Liz taking some wonderful photos of steaming crawfish and geophysicist “Seismic Shari”—the cover photos, artfully paired by cover designer Tucker Worthington. The June issue, to be produced in our roomy new offices at 25 Main Street, second floor, Wellsboro, promises to be an even bigger magazine, still “Free as the Wind.”

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AY The Great Flood of ‘72 Corning Recalls Anges’s Wrath Twenty years ago this June, the flood spawned by Hurricane Agnes changed the course of Twin Tiers rivers and history.

The Chemung River rose fifteen feet and devastated the Corning Museum of Glass, which marks the epic event (eighteen dead, more than 6,000 homeless, $230 million in property damage) and the community’s heroic comeback with a new exhibit.

The Flood of ’72: Community, Collections, and Conservation at Corning Museum of Glass will be on display from May 24, 2012 to January 3, 2014.

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Blossburg Coal Festival Dance Around the May Coal You probably live here now, and thus are reading this, because coal was discovered in Blossburg in 1792. You can honor our shared history at Blossburg’s 20th annual state coal festival. The Pennsylvania hamlet does it up right – parade, concerts, car show, carnival, fireworks, 5K race, raffle, kiddie coal king and queen – May 23-26 on 45acre Island Park, and a $3 ticket buys all four days. Call 570-404-2456, or visit www. blossburgcoalfestival.org.

Celebrating Dotty Webber A Slate Run Toast to a Pioneer’s Life If you’ve ever hiked the Pennsylvania Alleghenies, chances are legendary local woodsman and forester Bob Webber (our Mountain Home January 2007 cover story) hand-axed the trail. Ever since Bob lost his wife Dotty this winter, he and his many friends have planned a joyous Saturday, May 19 celebration of her remarkable 89 years at the Black Walnut Bottom state access point on the Slate Run, a mile south of Slate Run Tackle Shop and Wolfe’s General Store. It’s a day of hot dogs and

Photo by Brad Wilson

good memories, free to anyone who loves the woods, the hills, and the Webbers. Call the general store for details, 570753-8551.

Growers Markets Bloom Fresh Gatherings in Our Towns The greening of northern Pennsylvania continues this spring as the popular Mansfield, Troy, and Wellsboro growers and farmers markets re-open with local farm-fresh produce, organic, hand-grown-andmade, and many other things.

See the “Farmers Markets” category below for details.

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4 Simply Sinatra – If you can’t get enough of ol’ blue eyes, acclaimed touring faux Frankie Steve Lippia, backed by a regional orchestra, may be just the ticket. He’s done Vegas, he’s done Atlantic City and New York City jazz clubs, and at 7:30 p.m. May 4 he does Williamsport.

(The Community Arts Center, 220 West Fourth St., Williamsport, PA; 570 326-2424, www.caclive.com).

12 Chris Lavancher – Mansfield, PA native Lavancher, now of North Reading, MA, returns home to release his first CD, Roadside Attractions, at a show in Cherry Flats at Bruce and Debbie Smith’s barn.

Hard-knocks storytelling folk and blues “of love and loss, of dreams and schemes” on his own-built guitar. Email chris@chrislavanchermusic.com fmi.

12 Endless Mountain Music Auction – The third annual Auction with a Beat! is a fund-raiser for the Endless Mountain Musical Festival, wherein for $30 music lovers enjoy wine, dine on a catered feast by Timeless Destination restaurant, and bid on more than 75 things, such as glider rides, getaways, spa fantasies, the Maestro’s conducting baton, and more. It’s 5 p.m. Saturday May 12 at the Deane Center Black Box Theater. Tickets available at endlessmountain. net or 570-787-7800. (The Deane Center for the Performing Arts, 104 Main St., Wellsboro, PA).

GALLERIES 1-27 Two Woman Show: Jeanine Rounds and Nancy Perkins – Two award-winning Bradford County artists—Jeanine Rounds of Athens and Nancy Perkins of Rome – will exhibit together in Wellsboro. Rounds paints in realism and fantasy from her extensive travels in the American

Southwest; Perkins captures animals – bass, deer, butterfly – in her oils. A reception at the museum, hosted by the Wednesday Morning Musicales, will be from 2-4 p.m. May 12, with an artist talk at 3 p.m. (Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center, 134 Main St., Wellsboro, PA; (570)724-1917, open daily 2-5 p.m., see www.gmeinerartscenter.com.

3 Music in the Galleries: The Tumbleweeds – Cowboy songs and ballads with the Lanahan family, 6:30-7:30 p.m. (refreshments at 5:30). Reservations required at 607-974-2333 or andrukatk@rockwellmuseum. org. Members FREE/Not-yet-members $10.

(Rockwell Museum of Western Art, 111 Cedar St., Corning, NY; www.rockwellmuseum.org).

May 4-June 1 Recent work by Tom Gardner – “Around and About,” new paintings by Gardner, including his evocative landscapes of upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania, opens with a 5-7:30 p.m. May 4 reception. Free and open to the public. (West End Gallery, 12 W. Market St., Corning, NY).

THE THEATRE 1-2 Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks wasn’t satisfied with one monster smash; in the giant footsteps of his hilarious film on young Dr. Fronkensteen, he co-wrote the music and lyrics for Young Frankenstein, the musical, a 2008 Broadway hit now on tour. Showtimes 7:30 p.m. May 1 and May 2 at the Clemens Center. For tickets, call 607-7348191, 800-724-0159, or order online at www. clemenscenter.com (The Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira, NY).

8-9 Beauty and The Beast – A tale as old as time and new as the Great White Way, the Broadway national touring family musical of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast comes to Williamsport for two nights of lavish sets, costumes, and famous numbers such as “Be

Our Guest.” Shows 7:30 p.m. May 8-9. See www. beautyandthebeastontour.com (The Community Arts Center, 220 West Fourth St., Williamsport, PA; 570 326-2424, www.caclive.com).

10 Damn Yankees – Wellsboro’s charming Arcadia Theater is known for first-run movies, but also, since 2002, has produced live theatrical shows featuring high school and college students. In the classic Damn Yankees, middle-aged baseball nut Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil for a chance to lead his favorite team, the hapless Washington Senators, to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. Showtimes 7:30 p.m. Thus. Fri. Sat. May 10-12, u is 7:30 p.m. May 10, $12 for adults, $8 for students. (Arcadia Theatre, 50 Main St., Wellsboro, PA; 570 724 9371; www.arcadiawellsboro.com).

COMMUNITY EVENTS 15 Mark Twain in Wellsboro – Actor Dave Ehlert of Branson, MO, brings his one-man show, “Mark Twain 100 Years Later,” to Wellsboro 6:30-8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 15. (The Green Free Library main room, 134 Main St., Wellsboro, PA. Registration is encouraged, call 570-724-4876).

19 The Mutt Strut – The 2nd annual Mutt Strut is a people-and-pooch pledge walk and fund raiser for the Animal Care Sanctuary from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

May 19 in East Smithfield, PA (353 Sanctuary Hill Lane). There’ll be food, music, grooming classes, agility and training demos, discounted ($50) DNA testing for mystery breeds. Contact Rachel Higham at 570-596-2200 or rhigham@animalcaresanctuary. org.

26 A Classic Wellsboro Saturday – Folks like to wander up and down the gas-lit Main Street of the classic small town in the spring, and sometimes things happen, like the “Classic Car Cruise-In” that may catapult your thoughts back to the 1950s, or the

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DoIngs, cont. sidewalk sales that mark Mary Wells Day, honoring the town founder from 1830. On Saturday, May 26, both these pleasant things will happen on the same day with charmingly little fanfare, the cars from noon to 3 p.m.

27 Fly In Breakfast – There’s something inspiring about watching small airplanes soar in the skies above Grand Canyon Airport while sinking happily lower to the Earth with second and third helpings of pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, coffee, and juice.

All are welcome to the popular Tioga County airport fund-raiser 8 a.m.-noon Sunday May 27.

Call 570-724-3746 fmi. (The airport is six miles west of downtown Wellsboro, PA, at 1899 feet; 4143.67402N / 077-23.79068W estimated).

FESTIVALS May 4-5 Potter-Tioga Maple Festival – Fortysix years old and still sweet, the maple fest at the Coudersport, PA, Courthouse Square tempts sweet tooths with dozens of delectable treats, sugar shack demonstrations, a Maple Quilt Raffle, Maple Sweetheart crowning and parade, live music, duck race, pet parade, kiddie carnival, classic cars, historic walking tour, book sale. See www.visitpottercounty. com.

11-20 Lilac Festival – A good place to take mom and also international visitors is Rochester’s largest lilac celebration in North America featuring Highland Park’s world’s largest lilac collection (1,200 bushes) and ten days of free headliners—bluesman Johnny Winter, Red Baraat, The Wailers (as in Bob Marley), Melissa Manchester, Lou Gramm (as in Foreigner), Steel Magnolia and more. See www.lilacfestival.com 24-27 Corning GlassFest – The 3rd annual GlassFest celebration of glass and the fine arts is a prismatic Corning, NY, extravaganza of live music (The Makepeace Brothers, Virgil Cain, DSB), Hot Glass Show in Centerway Square, Finger Lakes Wine & Craft Beer Tasting with 30 regional producers, a Flame-Off (like Iron Chef for glassmakers, using torches), a 2300 degrees free music-art-drinks-food event at the Corning Museum of Glass, a fast 8K run, slow fine arts show, smokin’ hot BBQ and band at the Radisson, open doors at local museums and galleries, Light up the Night (glass sculpture and neon at Riverfront Park), and more. Sponsored by the Gaffer District and Chemung Canal Trust Co.;

see www.glassfest.org.

May 31-June 3 Ithaca Festival – Four days, more than 30,000 people, countless performers, artists (actually, 1,000 local artists), community groups, food purveyors, green businesses, official fest artist Meghan Wood. For more on Ithaca’s summer arts and music big do, see www.ithacafestival.org.

WINERIES 4-6 Cayuga Lake Wine & Herb Festival – If you missed it in April, Cayuga Lake Wine Trail’s Wine & Herb Festival returns in May to close out the year’s most popular event. You’ll receive a commemorative token gift, a souvenir wineglass, plus a potted herb plant from Dickman Farms, a plant carrier, and recipe cards from each of the lake’s sixteen wineries on Saturday and Sunday (only four wineries are participating Friday). For tickets and more information, including available packages, call the wine trail office (800-684-5217), and see www. cayugawinetrail.com 5-6 Keuka Lake Wine Trail in Bloom – A weekend $35 ticket—$50 per couple – buys you wine tastings, herb-inspired foods at each of the lake’s eight wineries, including Heron Hill and Dr. Frank’s Vinifera Wine Cellars, plus one flower and one herb, each in a four-inch pot ready to plant in spring gardens. If you’re still counting at day’s end, it’s a tangible take-home of sixteen herb and flower plants and lots of mouth feel. Tickets can be had at the wine trail office (800-440-4898), www. keukawinetrail.com, and at Wegmans.

6 Vertical Riesling Tasting – While Riesling leaves us happily horizontal, the vertical tasting at Fulkerson Winery on Seneca Lake is an ambitious toast to May, Reisling Month in the Finger Lakes, including Rieslings from the wine library, a talk about the importance of the grape in the Finger Lakes, and more. It’s $5 per person, reservations required, call (607) 243-7883. (Fulkerson Winery, 5576 Route 14, Dundee, NY, see www.fulkersonwinery.com) 20 Canandaigua Spring Wine Garden Party – From noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, loll under the Spring Garden Tents at lovely Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua, NY. For $40 a person—$75 a couple – one receives a picnic lunch, a six-pack of annuals, wine tastings from seven vineyards on the Canandaigua Wine Trail, including Heron Hill

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

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

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and Hazlitt, wine seminars from the wine makers, live music, food and craft vendor sampling. Lawn blanket suggested. Tickets available at Wegmans or www.canandaiguawinetrail.com. For more information, call Cathy at 585-223-4210 ext 121.

OUTDOORS 5, 12, 19, 26 Saturday Morning Bird Walks – The Tiadaghton Audubon Society leads its popular bird walks every Saturday morning in May at Hills Creek State Park. The walks start at 8 a.m. and last about two hours. Meet at the office. The walks are free, and everyone is invited. Wear subdued clothing, sturdy shoes, and binoculars, if you have them. Bald Eagles are often observed, as well as Ospreys that frequent Hills Creek Lake. (Hills Creek State Park, 111 Spillway Rd., Wellsboro, PA; contact the Audubon Society at 724-4246 or www.tiaudubon.org).

19 & 20 Upper Pine Creek Trout Tournament – Win cash, prizes, and bragging rights fishing the lovely Pine Creek. Participants will be stationed along a 13-mile stretch from Galeton to the Ansonia Bridge from 6 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday. Headquarters is the PA Grand Canyon Snowmobile clubhouse on Route 6. For more, see www.pagrandcanyonsnowmobileclub.com, call 570-724-2888, or email johnm@chilitech.com.

FARMERS MARKETS 4 Mansfield Growers Market – The 2012 season starts May 4, same successful hours as last year – 3-6 p.m.

Fridays at the St. James Church, Rt. 6, Mansfield, PA. Live music, kids activities, hot-cart suppers, and a cornucopia of local fruit, vegetable, meat, eggs, flowers, seedlings, fresh herbs, maple products, honey, dairy, baked things, preserves, and local crafts.

5 Troy Farmers Market – Saturdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Farm Museum, Rts. 6 & 14, Troy, PA. 10 Wellsboro Grower’s Market – Some of the best local produce, meat, flowers, crafts, and baked goods find their way to the growing Grower’s Market, 3-6 p.m.

Thursdays starting May 10 at the First Presbyterian Church, 130 Main St., Wellsboro, PA. Email wellsborogrowersmarket@gmail.com fmi.

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23rd Annual

June 10, 2012

Lycoming County Fairgrounds East Lycoming Street, Hughesville, PA Noon–10:00 pm • Rain or Shine • Gates open at 11:00

The Uptown Music Collective Young Blood Blues Band Roy G. Blues Matt Hill & The Deep Fryed Two Fiona Boyes & Band Free Parking Great Food J.P. Soars and the Red Hots Arts & Crafts Johnny Winter Bernard Allison Group

ACOUSTIC TENT FEATURING Grammy Award winner Steve Mitchell's Circle of Drums, BBA Audition Concert Solo/Duo winner Sean Farley and International Blues Challenge solo/duo winner Fiona Boyes

Free bus service from downtown Williamsport Festival & hotel/ticket packages available.

Info: 570-584-4480 or

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2011 Blues Organization KBA Award Recipient

Tickets: $20 Advance, $25 Gate By mail (with SASE by 6/1): BBA Tickets, PO Box 2, Hughesville, PA 17737

www.vacationpa.com www.visitpa.com Supported in part by the Lycoming County Visitors Bureau & PA Council on the Arts

Meanwhile, we were putting away the champagne glasses when we got the astonishing news in late April that Mountain Home had just won thirteen more Keystone Press Awards for journalism excellence from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, once again outperforming large, corporate-owned Philadelphia weeklies. That’s forty-five Keystones in six years; most significantly, for the second straight year, Mountain Home was named the Best Niche Publication in Pennsylvania.

Join me in a sip, and let’s reflect on that. Second best niche publication went to The Jewish Exponent, a celebrated weekly newspaper published in Philadelphia since 1887 to report “the interests of the

Jewish people,” now owned by the Jewish Federation of Philadelphia and reaching a national audience with more than fifty staff members.

Third best niche publication was The Philadelphia Business Journal, one of forty-one big-city weekly business journals owned

by American City Business Journals, which is owned by Advance Publications, the 46th largest private company in the United States (S.I. Newhouse’s twenty-five newspapers including the Newark Star-Ledger, Conde Naste magazines including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker).

Let’s be clear about this.

Beagle Media, named for our fifteen-year-old frustrated rabbit hunter Cosmo, is owned by me and my wife

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Teresa Banik Capuzzo and Philadelphia lawyer George Bochetto. We’re putting out the magazine for 100,000 readers from the fifteen-bytwelve foot parlor in our house, a small Victorian by a creek in Wellsboro, pop. 3,000, the county seat of Appalachian Tioga County. (Note the photo of Associate Publisher Dawn Bilder running another story by Cosmo in the parlor on page 6). We can’t forget the seven-by-nine foot laundry room, where the ad director’s old Apple computer has temporarily dashed my wife’s hope for a washer-dryer, or the small kitchen counter where we meet over breakfast and lunch, and sometimes 4 a.m. snacks. Our full-time editorial staff has never exceeded two.

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The Greeks, even the poets, mastered the art of directness, so I’ll try: the smart money at Advance Publications, et. al., believes you don’t have time or inclination to read.

It’s Hollywood corny, but they trust marketing studies and not the heart, which alone is true. They think you have no attention span, and just want the simplest facts to make political and economic decisions and to buy more stuff, so small are your desires. They practice the unspoken but fierce religion of modernism, which despite decades of scientific evidence insists that there’s nothing much inside you besides what you’re told, thus you are easily duped by the latest marketing craze, there’s nothing spiritual or noble in you, no God in

the sky or even the brain, no stories, no myths, no spark of the divine muses of old that moved Shakespeare or even Spielberg—or if they exist such things are dark and jumbled and best forgotten as the worst part of you. None of this is true, of course, it’s their fantasy and an ugly one to boot, but they’re sticking to it. The modern “objective” journalist is the priest of this religion, posing as a scientist studying us folks as if he were a whale biologist writing a thesis on a pod. Who can be surprised by his cynicism, his brittle sense of isolation, when he is trained to hear and transmit everything about the whales but the most natural, most beautiful and powerful thing of all, their magnificent song?

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SEISMIC SHARI

Shari Griswold, Houston geophysicist, maps Tioga County's depths for hidden gas treasure

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By Alison Fromme Photos by Elizabeth Young

ust outside Wellsboro, red and green cables snake their way through a field and disappear into the ground, where unseen wires penetrate twenty feet down to reach a couple pounds of dynamite. At the other end of the cables, a man crouches over a fifty-pound backpack full of electronics. He radios his team a few miles away and prepares to detonate the explosives.

The man is known as a shooter, and although he’s the one who pushes the button, a woman behind the scenes calls all the shots.

Her name is Shari Griswold, a Houston-based geophysicist at Shell Exploration & Production who’s orchestrating the massive, multimillion-dollar seismic survey, untangling the mystery of what lies beneath the surface in Tioga County. Her network of dynamite, detonators, receivers, helicopters, drills, and a couple hundred workers collects valuable, secret data. Data that whispers where sweet spots of natural gas hide—and hints at the best ways to get that gas out.

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Project manager Shari shares a light moment with Dean Webster of CGGVeritas, the company that performs the seismic survey.

Shari heads out into the landscape in an F-250 truck, wearing an orange vest over a denim jacket and a hardhat over shoulder-length brown hair. She is the only woman in sight. Her easy smile and soft voice—with a barely-there Southern accent—might make you forget that she’s got the power here. And she is not just the only woman at this field site. She is the only woman supervising Shell seismic operations in all of North and South America.

As project manager, Shari oversees and coordinates a crew of men from Shell, CGGVeritas, Long Consulting,

and Gliko Aviation. They hail from Texas, Montana, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.

Some have worked on seismic crews for more than thirty years. Others just left jobs like teaching to work in the gas industry. Young fresh-faced guys work alongside grizzled veterans. Some monitor quality control, some pilot B-212 helicopters, some record data, some work with landowners. When Shari hops out of the truck at a field site, she surveys the entire survey crew.

“The job is a natural fit,” she says, shrugging off the fact that she is the only woman around, although a few women

Workers attach yellow bags with receivers to the helicopter cable; the widely scattered receivers record the sound waves, generated by explosions that map the shale.

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do work for CGGVeritas, the heli-drilling operation, and other subcontractors.

“The position itself comes with a certain amount of authority,” she says. “I’ve experienced nothing but professionalism and camaraderie,” she adds, but she does joke about the state of some port-a-johns, which weren’t standard at job sites when she first started.

This particular detonation site was prepared weeks ago. A 40,000-pound track drill lumbered over the land, bored the hole, placed the explosives, led the wires to the surface, filled the hole with gravel, and then moved on to the next site along a path cut by a mulcher in a wooded patch. Without an orange flag marking the spot, a bystander would never know that dynamite charges lurked below the surface.

This dynamite, this hole—just the diameter of a soda can—is one of thousands of shots set off over the course of Shell’s 140-square-mile North Wellsboro survey and 160-square-mile Sabinsville survey. This spot is relatively easy to get to, a few hundred feet off a country road. Other sites aren’t so accessible. In remote spots, a helicopter drops a drill and compressor from a long line to bore a hole. Then it is flown to another location. Dynamite is buried in the depths of forests, on hillsides, amidst thickets of willows. Almost no corner of the landscape is left unmonitored or unknown.

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Shari, with Brian George (left) of Long Consulting and Paul Costers of Shell Quality Control, studies a map for testing areas that won’t disturb wild turkeys—or turkey hunters.

the first part of her career. Or the Alabama flatlands. Or the Wyoming plains. For twenty-seven years Shari has been working on seismic surveys with Shell, all over the country.

It’s a far cry from the subjects Shari once studied back in school, when she was a music major at a community college in California. But as a kid her dad—a chief geophysicist at a naval base—showed her weather balloons and sparked her curiosity. That curiosity resurfaced when she realized music was not a practical career choice. And so her analytical mind won over her love of music. She transferred to Cal State Bakersfield, and a field trip to Death Valley sealed the deal.

“I thought, ‘Wow! Four-billion-year-old rock formations right in front of me!’” says Shari, who interned at Getty Oil. She earned her bachelor’s degree in geologic sciences with an emphasis in geophysics.

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But don’t ask her to ID rocks. She hated the memorization.

“We don’t care what it’s made of,” Shari says, laughing about geophysicists.

“We just want to know how fast sound goes through it.” And that is at the crux of figuring out what’s beneath our feet.

Once the dynamite explodes, sound waves will ricochet through the land in all directions, reaching 13,000 feet underground, through the Marcellus and Utica Shales, through layers of shale, siltstone, sandstone, formed and transformed over millennia. Each underground formation slows and reflects the waves of sound energy differently.

Some of the sound waves will bounce back to the receivers that Shari’s team has scattered throughout the region.

What is down there? Gas, of course, but how much, and where precisely?

The United States Geologic Survey

estimates that the whole Marcellus Shale holds eighty-four trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas, not counting natural gas liquids. Underneath, in the even-deeper Utica Shale—more than two miles below the surface—who knows?

In Tioga County, lots and lots of computer power will connect the dots between the sound wave vibrations, the receivers, and actual rock cuttings from wells already drilled. Questions will be answered. But, of course, those answers are closely guarded, proprietary information. Secrets will be kept.

So what’s in it for landowners?

The Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research outlines the longterm pros and cons of seismic testing for residents, who usually receive about $5 per acre in compensation if they sign on. If you’re hoping for a gas well, they

Clockwise, from above: In the “dog house,” multiple computers crunch numbers from receivers in the field; a noisy generator recharges 120 batteries that power the receivers; the batteries are ready to load for the seismic helicopter ride.

say, and a company finds major faulting under your property, the value of your lease could plummet. If a company tests your land and then returns for future leasing, conditions there are probably favorable and you might be able to negotiate better lease terms. Companies might be looking for waste injection well sites, in addition to pockets of gas.

“We want to make the best decisions about where to put wells and how to drill,” Shari says. It’s all about “fewer, smarter wells” in the sweet spots. The more accurate the locations, the fewer well pads needed, the more productive wells per well pad, according to Shari.

CGGVeritas, the company that executes the survey, can tell clients like Shell where the gas is, how the rock will fracture, and whether the fractures will remain open.

The analysis can pinpoint faults. It can predict gas well production over time.

“And that’s a million dollar question,” says Shari. No one at Shell wants to drill a dud. “You want to be able to say ‘Yes! It’s not a dry well!’” she explains, with fists raised in victory.

Of course, none of this precise

knowledge can be gained without the survey. And the survey requires getting the dynamite and the receivers out there in the first place, with permission from landowners to walk properties, place receivers, and detonate blasts. None of it is easy.

Sh a r i’s a p p r o a c h i s c a re f u l , methodical, precise, calm. She checks in on field sites. She meets with team members. She answers phone calls and e-mails. She speaks with residents at town hall meetings. She laughs with a colleague, and then reminds him to wear his safety gloves.

When Shari takes off her hardhat after visiting a site, she puts on a bright red cap. “Warm Up Reining Champion,” reads the embroidery. She took up horseback riding just a few years ago, after a knee injury cramped her enjoyment of the outdoors. The competition is all about routine. Spins, turns, sliding stops.

It’s not a race against time. Judges critique accuracy. Shari rides her horse, Steppin’ Sanjo, carefully, methodically, precisely, calmly.

To orchestrate everything on the job,

Shari and her team study multicolored planning maps. Neat North-South dotted lines show rows of receivers. Blue, green, and red patches illustrate which landowners have granted permission for seismic testing.

But the reality on the ground is much more complex. The dotted lines much more crooked.

At a staging site, a man sits at a couple of computer monitors inside a semi tractor trailer and coordinates the travels of two B-212 helicopters. At the back of the trailer, a noisy generator recharges 120 batteries that will power receivers in the field.

Outside the makeshift office, an approaching helicopter dominates the air. Big yellow bags of receivers—receivers full of precious data coming in from the field—dangle from a 150-foot cable.

The pilot carefully lowers the bags to the ground, and then hovers as men unload them. After dropping the gear, the chopper lands on the pad and refuels.

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At a safe distance marked off by a pole, the dynamite “shooter” presses a button, triggering the boom that jolts the land and sends the mapping sound waves 13,000 feet underground.

the pilot ready to drop bags one by one across the landscape with the push of a button.

Men on the ground will meet the bags and place receivers, walking through underbrush and maneuvering around houses, unpermitted land, septic tanks, water wells, and town sidewalks. The crew trudges up and down hills, through brambles, and over snakes.

At every turn, Shari says she’s thinking about the safety of employees, concerned about slips, trips, and falls, truck accidents, helicopter crashes, and more. Her crew can’t even walk without safety training.

Guys learn how to move over tricky terrain, snow and ice, leaves and mud, thanks to another company, Global Mountain Solutions. She’s also working to get the aviation crew FAA approval to perform rescue operations. Just in case.

“Every employee has the right—the obligation—to shut down operations if they consider them unsafe,” Shari says, echoing the corporate Shell safety ethos.

Recently, high winds and fear of tree falls shut down operations in a state forest.

And so seismic crews comb the landscape, placing receivers that look a bit like big alien spiders. In each receiver, a central computer compartment stores the data, black cables connect to thick metal probes that stick a few inches in the ground. With each dynamite blast, the probes vibrate, the computer records.

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perhaps without the professionalism that Shell emphasizes, according to Shari.

If an issue crops up, she says it’s likely a miscommunication that needs to be ironed out. She tries to put herself in landowners’ shoes. She has thirty acres in Colorado—but no mineral rights— in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, near a region ripe with energy development. She asks herself what she would do if a company wanted to survey her land. What would the benefit be to her?

Shari says it’s unfortunate that hydrocarbons—any fossil fuels—can’t be extracted without drilling. “But we need them,” she says. “When I look at historical photos of coal mining and bare hillsides that have now been restored, it gives me confidence that when these wells are finished we can reclaim them to the point that you wouldn’t know they were there.”

Back in the field, just a few moments have passed since the shooter first contacted the recording shack. He waits for his green light to detonate the blast.

The explosion will show up miles away on a computer screen in the shack, where the vibrations become a black and white image, like inscrutable static, like tea leaves to be read by a fortune teller.

The shooter hears a “standby” command on his radio and waits until his team back at the computers is ready.

Just then, a man and woman ride up to the detonation site on a four-wheeler.

“Sorry folks! Didn’t mean to interrupt!” shouts the man, who is apparently a local resident. Smiling and curious, he asks if there’s going to be a heli drop nearby.

“Just going to cut through the woods here,” he says as he drives down a path.

Seconds later, the radio crackles again.

The shooter says the obligatory “Fire in the Hole” warning, pushes a button and detonates the blast. A powerful, brief boom jolts the ground, the crew, and Shari herself. Waves ripple through the landscape, the community, and beyond.

downloaded, then crunched, processed, and churned by a team back in Houston into a visual image of what is down there. An image of what is down there, hundreds of feet under farmers planting fields, our kids playing ball, our neighbors hunting in game lands.

This spring, Shari and her team try to avoid turkey hunters. They ground helicopters on key hunting days. They ask landowners about their hunting plans. “The last thing a hunter needs—sitting in one place for an hour with his turkey call—is a helicopter flying overhead,” Shari says.

Shari stresses the group’s efforts to minimize disruptions to landowners.

They established no fly zones over deer farms. Her team swapped metal stakes for wooden ones to protect cows. They remove and replace sensors around farmers’ plowing schedules. They avoid using track drills on soggy ground.

Even so, some residents see seismic testing as disruptive. Unfair. A gateway to more drilling. Trespassing and blasting near water wells top the list of seismic testing complaints logged with the PA Department of Environmental Protection.

Since 2010, about ten such complaints were logged with the agency’s North Central office. A handful of $100 fines were issued against Geokinetics, Dawson Seismic, and an unnamed company (the Science writer Alison Fromme is a freelancer DEP’s information is incomplete).

It is tough to work in an area where whose writing has been featured in Mountain other companies have come before, Home since 2011. Living in Ithaca, she blogs about food at ithacafoodweb.com

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Looking Back

Homicidal History

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By Joyce M. Tice

he story of Effie Copley of Hill’s Creek and Mansfield is as sad a story now as when her brief life was ended by murder back in 1897.

Country girl Effie wanted to improve her life and make something of it. In 1891, at the age of sixteen, she enrolled in a nursing course at Mansfield State Normal School, the same school that evolved into the present Mansfield University. She also worked at one of the hotels in Mansfield.

Walter Goodwin of Charleston was a farm boy with an alert eye for the ladies, any and all of them. He was confident and charismatic, and his seduction of Effie Copley led to a pregnancy and forced marriage in 1896. Walter’s mother acted as midwife at the birthing. Effie remembered she had heard the baby cry, but never saw it. Walter’s mother claimed that the infant was so severely deformed they did not want Effie to see it. Effie never believed it.

Not long after, Effie was given fifty dollars and told that her relationship with the family was over. She returned to Mansfield, and in May 1897 she had Walter arrested for abandonment.

After release from jail on $300 bond, a prince’s ransom in 1897, Goodwin visited Effie where she worked, the Beach home on Sullivan Street in Mansfield. His intent was to have her drop charges against him. During his hour-long meeting with her, his present friend, fourteen-year-old Gertrude Taylor of Gaines, held the reins of his horse and wagon.

The next night Walter and Gertrude returned to Mansfield. Walter disguised himself with a handkerchief around his neck and his hat pulled low over his eyes. He left Gertrude with the horse and she dozed off in

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the wagon, awakening to the sound of pistol shots. Walter returned and they drove to Wellsboro where they rode around the square for a while to make themselves visible.

When Mr. Palmer of Sullivan Township came into town on Saturday morning he discovered the body of a woman lying on the bank on Sullivan Street, four bullets in her head, and blood running all down the bank.

Effie was still breathing, but barely.

She died at the Cottage Hospital in Blossburg shortly after. It did not take the expertise of the FBI team of Criminal Minds or the Law and Order detectives to finger Walter Godwin.

From jail Walter wrote to Gertrude telling her what her story should be.

He entrusted the letter to a jail officer for delivery. That failing for obvious reasons, he accused Gertrude of the murder and she was arrested and jailed.

The trial was dramatic, and Walter was sentenced to death by hanging.

Gertrude went back to Gaines where she was a popular guest at parties.

In June 1898, Walter was hanged in Wellsboro. In his final speech he continued to blame Miss Taylor for the actual shooting. When the black bag was placed over his head, his final words to the sheriff were, “Goodbye, Dick.” After the hanging, Walter’s brothers took the body away in a horsedrawn wagon.

Some think that for a scoundrel like Walter Goodwin maybe one hanging is not enough. I hear rumors he might be hanged again in Mansfield in September, but we all know how unreliable rumors are.

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She can be reached at lookingback@ mountainhomemag.com.

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O U T d O OR S American Goldfinch

Saturday in the Park Hills Creek’s Glorious Bird Walks Photos and Story By Gary Tyson

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very spring for the past five years, the Tiadaghton Audubon Society has led bird walks sponsored by DCNR at Hills Creek State Park. Bird lovers and birders of all levels come to watch the spring migration as it progresses through April and May. As soon as the ice melts off the lake— usually around the first of April—the large waterfowl start to arrive. These are usually Canada geese, but there are often large flocks of tundra swans as well.

Snow geese are more frequently seen flying over on their non-stop trip from the Chesapeake Bay to Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in New York, but occasionally a few will stop by briefly in Tioga County’s various lakes.

Bald eagles also appear shortly after the ice disappears. Then later in April large numbers of ducks and grebes visit the lake—buffleheads, ruddy ducks, ring-necked ducks, American widgeons, lesser scaup, all three species of mergansers, horned grebes, pied-billed grebes, and occasionally red-necked grebes. Common loons show up at this time too, and bird-walk participants are often treated to their hauntingly beautiful call. Walk leaders always have at least one high-powered spotting scope with them during this part of the season so everyone can get a closer look at whatever birds are out on the lake.

The ospreys also return near the end of April.

By the first of May, with the exception of wood ducks, common mergansers, mallards and Canada geese, most of the waterfowl have continued on north, but then the so-called perching birds start to arrive in numbers. Favor-

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ites include Baltimore orioles, scarlet tanagers, eastern towhees, indigo buntings, hermit and wood thrushes (also with beautiful, melodic songs) and the many warbler species. Another favorite, eastern bluebirds—many of which have actually spent the winter with us—usually have built nests in the nest boxes and laid eggs by this time. This makes them an easy find for our enthusiastic birdwatchers, who carefully check out the several nest boxes near the park’s amphitheater and visitor center. The bluebirds always select at least one; the others are often occupied by house wrens and tree swallows, and sometimes red squirrels, who are not quite so welcome because of their destructive

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Craving Crawfish

Gas Workers Import a Ton of Louisiana Boil By derek Witucki Photos by Elizabeth Young

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eth Citron is the owner and operator of Crawdaddy’s On Site Catering based out of Lafayette, Louisiana. With the slogan, “No job too big or too far,” Seth found himself traveling 1,300 miles for three “boils” in Athens and Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.

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event at lunch yesterday for another oil and gas company in Athens, Pennsylvania, before we came over here for a night boil. This will be our third boil in thirty hours,” Seth said. “I slept good last night. I’m going to sleep even better tonight.”

Crawfish, crayfish, crawdads, or by any other name they are called, are crustaceans native to fresh water streams and ponds across the world.

The Louisiana variety grow to be several times larger than the crawfish found in Pennsylvanian and New York

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Crawfish are often served with potatoes and corn on the cob, but mushrooms, onion, garlic, and other ingredients (like sausage and even hotdogs) can be thrown in the mix to taste. The extras absorb the seasonings, in this case a home blend specially made by Crawdaddy’s On Site Catering. Alongside the main dish, a dipping sauce made from mayonnaise, ketchup, and a few seasonings complements the crawfish and can help tone down the sometimes spicy Cajun seasonings

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used in the boil.

Kris, a Louisianan from Acadia Parish who is working in Pennsylvania, says that the difference between crawfish from place to place is what is added into the seasonings and the mix. “Corn and potatoes, that’s a staple,” Kris said. “Some people add garlic, some people put in onions which they half. The onions will open right up [bloom] and you can eat them right there; it’s delicious. Mushrooms will soak up the seasonings, so those will be a little spicy.”

Able to turn out 140 pounds of cooked crawfish every ten minutes, Crawdaddy’s served up about 950 pounds of rice-pond-raised crawfish in a single evening—enough to feed 125 people.

Safety Management Systems (SMS) hosted two of the boils to show their appreciation to their partners working in the area. SMS is based out of Lafayette, where they came to

Owner Seth Citron piles ‘em high.

know Crawdaddy’s through their catering service. “There are a lot of oil and gas guys around here doing drilling, safety work, service work all over this area,” Seth said.

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The hardest thing to do in getting the crawfish up here is shelf life, taking care of them because they are somewhat fragile. You’ve got to keep them in a stagnant state, but you’ve got to keep them alive. So, we didn’t want to have too much time from getting them out of the ponds and to the boil.”

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Between hungry glances at the not-yet-ready-to-serve crawfish, Louisianan and SMS employee Gerald explains, “Usually if you want to have a good time, it’s buy them live, then that way the family and everyone’s friends get together, drink a little beer, boil the crawfish.”

Feeling culture shock? Not Gerald: “I have friends who come over to our state, who say ‘I want to see an alligator.’ A lot of people think we have alligators in our back yard. [Louisiana] is not as bad as it looks on TV. [But for me,] it’s good to see different parts of the country that I don’t normally see, and plus [Pennsylvania] is a such a historic place.”

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t was late summer, 1924. Ford Motor Company was counting its manufactured automobiles in the millions, Calvin Coolidge was preparing a campaign for the presidency, Little Orphan Annie had just debuted in the New York Daily News, and in a tiny house down in the bottom of the Pine Creek Gorge, Llewellyn Butler was born into a lumberman’s life, in the little logging village of Tiadaghton, Pennsylvania.

Llewellyn’s father, Orville, was working then for Callahan Brothers Sawmill, a very modest operation targeting small-diameter trees—the only ones left after the big logging

companies had scraped the hills and valleys nearly bare, then packed up and moved on. “Dad made two-byfours,” Llewellyn says. It didn’t last long. By the time Llewellyn was a year old the family had moved out of Tiadaghton to the relative high ground of nearby Draper, where Orville continued to work for the Callahan Brothers, mostly running their new, portable saw mill, cutting whatever could bring a fair price, and sometimes doing whatever work was available on the brothers’ farmsteads.

It was the life of a Pennsylvania logger and lumberman—continual hardscrabble efforts to scratch a living from the forest, interrupted here and there by the seemingly oblique machinations of government and big industry. The pattern would persist for Orville’s entire life, and later for Llewellyn’s as well. They would work in the forest when they could, take jobs in the coal mines or the factories when they had to, or, as in Llewellyn’s case, disappear for a few years to fight a war.

But the forest was what they always knew best, and it was always home. If

there was a way to make a living in the woods, they figured out how to do it. And that is how Orville Butler, his brother Clayton, and son Llewellyn, came to find uncommon livelihoods in the common Pennsylvania hardwood betula lenta, the Black Birch. For three decades, from 1942 to 1972, using homemade stills plunked deep in the woods, the Butlers extracted jug after jug of birch oil from the spicy trees, selling the golden hot medicinal fluid to essential-oil dealers in New York City, who then resold it to manufacturers for everything from flavorings to anti-inflammatory liniments for sore muscles and joints.

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Pennsylvania in those days.

Distillers would search out a spot with a good water source and plenty of high-quality birch trees nearby (often land owned by the State, which collected fifty cents each time a still was filled with birch). Two hundred cubic feet of birch, seventy-five cubic feet of firewood, and forty-eight hours of distilling would produce four to eight pounds of pure birch oil.

Running two stills seven days a week, and with oil going for $12.00 a pound, it was good business, and it sustained the Butlers for decades, until scientists discovered how to make the essential ingredient in the essential oil—methyl salicylate—by esterifying salicylic acid with methanol. “The market for birch oil just went away,” says Llewellyn, “and that

was that.” The Butlers shut down their stills in 1973 and turned to selling logs to the pulpwood plants, for paper towels and toilet paper.

The Butler’s last still sits now behind Llewellyn’s home in Morris, Pennsylvania, its parts gradually decomposing, its firebox converted to a root cellar, full of Llewellyn’s potatoes. And while it looks like the days of birch oil distilling are probably gone for good, a clever, energetic young person might just be able to get the old still up and running again. And if so, there happens to be an old birch-oil man in Morris who would be willing to move his potatoes, and help figure out again how to make a living from the forest...

Dave Milano is a frequent contributor to Mountain Home

Llewellyn at the still today; his father Orville and uncle Clayton

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ometimes all you want to do is sit with an old friend across mugs of Belgian ale and grit your brain on the darkest conundrums of life.

At other times, all you want is unalloyed joy. A wordless tide of well-being. No precepts, no morals, no thinking, just bliss.

We had hardly been seated and served our drinks when, streaming toward us, came a line of statuesque young men, walking with that pride of gait given only to Texans and athletes. “Either,” I said to Lynne, “this is the Cambridge debating club, or the Italian national soccer team, or Greek gods in training.

Apollo-ettes.”

Now I’m rarely gobsmacked, but this came close, this dazzling stream of Michelangelesque beauty.

Quickly, the twenty or so young men were seated near us. No unruliness; nothing of the sort. Instead, our neighbors in their casual blazers sat like choir boys. A mellow méringue of chit-chat and joshing floated over their tables. To ensure good conduct, an older, lion-maned man strolled among them, keeping a shrewd, affectionate eye.

One of the waitresses, losing her sequence of orders, called out, “Llasagna for Lewis!.” Well, that’s all it took. Almost at once, at a table near us, in rough musical unison began “lew . . .” At an adjacent table, two notes up, “loooooou” and so on up the scale in remarkable harmony.

All were singing, laughing. “Lynne,” I said, “I know what these guys

are. They’re a Welsh miner’s choir some fairy godmother turned into a hockey team.”

In a trice, my own traveling days came back to me as the goalkeeper on what was, one fine year, an unbeatable high school soccer team, and I thought to myself with an A. E. Housman sort of nostalgia, ah, good lads, enjoy this golden mirthful camaraderie. It won’t come round many more times in life.

And neither do the unexpected moments of joy that arise out of the pure randomness of everyday life. Though they remain with us longer—etched into our memories of times and places—moments like these are a rare treat. “. . . lllooooo. . . WISS.” Lynne looked at me with gimlet curiosity, “Sweetheart, you have tears in your eyes.” Perhaps I did. It was exactly the hallelujah I needed.

As we left the restaurant, a fierce wind was springing up, so strong it took us both to crank open the door against it, provoking another reminiscence. When Lynne grew up on Long Island, the wind was often stronger even than this. “I loved it,” Lynne said, her own nostalgic gleam in her eye. “I would dash out into the yard, throw back my head and twirl in the wind like a whirling dervish.”

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t was my memories and Sam’s wantto.”

That’s Grant “Skip” Cavanaugh’s in-a-nutshell description of how he and Sam Cooke built a new, working, birch oil still at the Lumbermen’s Museum in Potter County. On a sunny morning in mid-March the still had its first fire and, to the delight of its creators and a couple of visitors, it wasn’t too long before the redolence of birch oil (think wintergreen) was wafting through the air.

“It’s just like the old ones,” said Llewellyn Butler, one of just a few birch still gurus left in the area. “That’s what Skip wanted. It’s just like his dad’s.”

Cavanaugh, a Stokesdale resident, explained that his father, also named Grant, built and ran birch stills in Tioga County in the years before and after World War II. The younger Grant was his dad’s best helper.

“His last still was in Scotch Pine Hollow (near Asaph),” said Cavanaugh.

“I was around these things all the time.”

Cooke, who lives near Mansfield, is recently retired from the Bureau of Forestry, and serves as a member of the museum’s board of directors. He explained that there was some funding available to

him through the Bureau, and that there were people (including himself and Cavanaugh) who were interested in the oldfashioned art of birch oil steam distillation. The museum was receptive to the idea of making a working still on the premises and so, with “the will and the means,” the project got underway.

The new old still is called a cord still as it holds, you guessed it, a cord of birch wood, plus the required bundles of birch branches. This one is on stilts, though in the old days that was not the case, and made from hemlock planks in the same “groove and spline” method used for shipbuilding. It sports copper piping (any metal birch oil comes in contact with has to be copper as other metals will leach into the oil), a stone fire pit, a copper pan, and a glass decanter into which the finished product drips. That is only after a gentle, forty-eight-hour cook, a couple of trips through copper coils, and some serious condensation.

“You could make whisky,” mused Butler, watching the steam roll out of the still. “It’s all the same process—steam

distillation. It’s all about history. It was something farmers could do in the winter (to make money).”

The plan, at this juncture, is to connect with a niche market, sell the oil, and put some money back into the Lumbermen’s Museum. The benefits of birch oil are many, and though commercial users have long since made the switch to a synthetic product, there is, as is often the case, just something a little more genuine about the real deal.

“Dad had customers, one with arthritic knees,” Cavanaugh recalled. “After a year (of using birch oil liniment) he walked in with no crutches. Whether he just believed it worked, or it did—it did.”

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That’s why Mountain Home exists, simply as a place on the back of the mountain where we can all share our stories, our natural and beautiful story, our sometimes tragic and always human song. There never has been and never will be more powerful content.

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• Black light show, Adam Kopp 8 p.m.

FRIDAY May 25 • Royalty Pageant, sponsored by C & N Bank - 6:00 p .m.

• Michelle Clark 2 shows 7pm SATURDAY May 26 • Gates open at 8:00 a.m.

• 5k race • Horseshoe Tournament & Other Entertainment • Antique snowmobile show • Car Show registration on Island Park starting at 9:30 a.m. Awards at 3:30 p.m.

• 6th Annual Coal Run - Registration at Bear A Main Street at 9:30 a.m.

• Parade - 11:00 a.m.

• Midway opens at Noon.

• Denny Huber - 12:30 p.m. & 1:30 p.m.

• Karate Demonstration - 1:00 p.m.

• Erie Canal Cloggers – 2:00 p.m. & 4:00 p.m.

• Patrick Cole & Band - 6:00 p.m. and 7: 45 • Raffle Drawing - 7:30 p.m.

• AREA’S LARGEST FIREWORKS DISPLAY -Starting at dusk

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All visitors must purchase a $3.00 pin that is good for all four days of the festival and all events held at the Coal Festival inBlossburg. Pinsare available to be purchased in advance at First Citizens National Bank Blossburg, Bloss Hardware, Blossburg Borough office, and Momma’s Restaurant.

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www.matthewsmotorcompany.com Matthews Motor Company is a family owned and operated full service car dealership. We have an on-site NAPA Service Center and a AAA Approved Body Shop. We also have the largest Car Rental Fleet in Tioga County. County.

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world there is no higher story that binds us all. You’re a revolution in the making, a glimmering outline in words and image of the universal human spirit, the stuff the best stories are made of, and Teresa and I bow low and lift our glasses high to you.

Here’s to you once again, Matt Connor of Lock Haven, our former managing editor who died in February at age forty-six. A gifted author and storyteller who won four Keystone awards for his writing in Mountain Home, he posthumously shared a fifth prize, a First Place for Headline Writing. Matt wrote the headline himself, “Well Ahead of His Time,” on the last major story he wrote for us before he became too sick, his fine cover story on 1950s Clinton County Marcellus Shale wildcatter Dorcie Calhoun.

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Fabulous Fun Toys • Beautiful Baby Clothing Dancewear • Great Gifts for Kids of All Ages

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Keystone Press Awards First Place, Best Niche Publication in Pennsylvania, 2012, Mountain Home staff.

Second Place, Column, Thomas Putnam, “A Nurse: Night;” “Lost in Space,” “Listen Up!” Honorable Mention, Column, Holly Howell, “Wines Worth Toasting;” “Rat Meets Red,” “A Season of Remembrance.”

First Place, Sports Story, Dawn Bilder, “Hit and Miss Hanna.”

Honorable Mention, Sports Story, Sarah Bull, “The Road All Runners Come.”

First Place, Sports/Outdoor Column, Fred Metarko, “Divine Intervention?”, “Plying the Waters,” “Fishy Looking.”

Second Place, Feature Story, Donald Gilliland, “The Long Road Home.”

Second Place, Personality Profile, Michael Capuzzo, “David vs.

Goliath.”

First Place, Feature Photo, Ken Meyer, “Now and Then.”

Second Place, Feature Photo, Sarah Wagaman, “Town in a Tuba.”

Honorable Mention, Front Page Design, Tucker Worthington, “Not So Fast, Romeo!”; “Back to the Future; “One Hell of a Life.”

Honorable Mention, Page Design, Amanda Doan Butler, “Fall in Love.”

First Place, Headline Writing, Mountain Home Staff, “Well Ahead of His Time;” “Webster Defines Natural;” “Dam Pine Creek!!!”

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he journey began twenty-two years ago with a New York City trade show. Bernie Katz had his own business and went to these trade shows often to find new ways to appeal to his customers. His wife Bonnie would join him to see what was new in the industry. During one fateful trade show, Bonnie found the one thing that would lead her to a life of fulfillment.

She watched a man create stuffed balloon creations. For two days she admired his work and ultimately knew this was what she wanted to do.

Shortly after, Bernie purchased the equipment (and he says she has yet to pay her back!) to help her begin her small business at the Selinsgrove Mall.

After being there for a short while, she moved her business, B.K. Puff & Stuff, to the Lycoming Mall. Bonnie’s business grew and so did her dreams. She

knew that she needed to relocate her business to respond to its increase in business. Bonnie recalled being warned by others, “People said that I would struggle. I thought people would know my business, but I was defined by the ‘mall.’” Worries aside, Bonnie made the transition from the mall to downtown Third Street in Williamsport.

The balloon business began to struggle, so Bonnie and Bernie began to add to their inventory. “More and more requests came in for chocolate,” Bonnie commented, “so I found equipment to begin doing hand packaged chocolate. It was a dying style in our fast-paced society.” Bonnie slowly let go of the balloon industry and made her way to Pine Street. With the move When it comes to chocolate, Bernie and she made another big change to her Bonnie are young at heart. They take their business, B. K. Puff & Stuff was re- business in stride while sharing the sweets. named Le Chocolat.

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Bonnie and Bernie Katz are best friends who share the common goal of bringing a smile to every customer who comes through their door. The atmosphere they have created will leave anyone who dreams of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory feeling they have entered his secret stash. The chocolate case lines half of the wall with imported chocolates. The flavors range from the traditional bon bon to the unique flavors of sea salt truffles, amaretto, strawberry cheesecake, and Bonnie’s favorite—at least for the moment—buttercream.

The store is filled with unique gifts and hand-crafted creations: jewelry, hand-made glass work, and gag gifts which are Bernie’s specialty. Bonnie is the sweetheart of the shop. She will engage you with conversation and make sure you get all the chocolate you could possibly handle. Bernie is the jokester. He is always willing to tell, hear, or be the joke in any conversation. These two individuals will change the way you purchase your sweet treats!

“I love the people, love my product, and love that there is always something new,” Bonnie said as she waited on customers. “There is always something new in chocolate, whether it is how it is presented, molded, or what health kick is tagged along with 52

it. Didn’t you know that dark chocolate is really good for you? Eat more then!” Bonnie is willing to give anyone the encouragement they need to indulge in something as delicious as chocolate.

Being around for twenty-two years means you see a cycle of patrons who come through. “Parents who I used to see bring in their children every week years ago, now are bringing in their grandchildren as well as their grown children! You know you are doing something right if you get to see generations grow with your business.”

Bonnie and Bernie know the costs of being a business owner and the time and sacrifice that must go into being a successful one. “I don’t always like what my customers like. I have some chocolates that come in and I try and think that I purchased a dud, but low and behold! I am making a special order for that chocolate because I sold out of it so quickly! A good entrepreneur knows that you have to love what you do, but more importantly love your customer. When you keep your priorities like that, you aren’t going to be afraid of change and if anything, you are going to jump on the opportunity.”

As Bonnie hands chocolate to a customer she jokes and says, “I started out working for Bernie when he owned his own business. I wanted to get away from his business, but here he is! We have a tendency to follow one another, I guess we can’t seem to get enough of each other!” This store offers more than delicious chocolate, it offers the community the chance to be a kid again, to eagerly wait your turn and choose your own box of chocolates and to see that a love story can begin and grow with a box of chocolates.

Mountain Home contributing writer Becca Ostrom is a barista at Night and Day Coffee Café in Mansfield.

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My Favorite Things

An Offer You Can’t Refuse

By Michael Capuzzo

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t was a Tuesday night, Italian Night at Lamb’s Creek Food & Spirits in Mansfield, and I was confused.

It was fifteen dollars for two entrees, two salads, and an appetizer. “Fifteen dollars apiece?” I asked the waitress.

“No. Fifteen dollars for two.”

“Wow,” I said, or something like it.

The good news got only better as the entrees arrived—a hearty bowl of penne Bolognese for Teresa, and a sumptuous Spaghetti alla Carbonara for me, both dishes served with a hunk of garlic bread.

The small salads were just adequate, yet seemed something-to-write-home-about because of the

discount. One appetizer to share comes with the deal, but the fried calamari was ample for two, and in fact some of the plumpest, juiciest calamari either of us have tasted.

The special includes choices of three entrees, usually two pasta dishes and a personal pizza eight inches across, and three appetizers: Bruschetta, mozzarella sticks, or the calamari. A $6 glass of red wine—a Beringer Stone Cellars Cabernet Savignon— floats to the table on Italian Night for $3.50 a glass, and as a wag once said, you’d be a fool not to.

Lambs Creek Food & Spirits, 200 Gateway Dr., Mansfield, PA. For information or reservations, call (570) 662-3222 or visit www.lambscreek.com.

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

PEnnSYLvAniA Bradford County Canton KELLEY’S CREEK SIDE RESTAURANT Kelley’s offers $4 breakfast and $6 lunch specials every day, and they are open for dinner Wed-Sun. They specialize in home-style cooking like their prime rib and serve homemade desserts like chocolate peanut butter pie and muffins. (570) 6734545, 1026 Springbrook Dr, www. urbanspoon.com

Lycoming County Trout Run

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

Monday - Sunday 11am -10pm 132 Tioga Street Wellsboro, PA 16901 570-724-4450

Draper’s Super Bee Apiaries, Inc. Honey...How sweet it is!

We produce and sell high quality, natural honey products and much more.

Come take a tour of our facility! Reservations are recommended for large groups.

Call for details.

Monday-Friday 8a.m. - 5p.m.

Saturday 8a.m. - 1p.m.

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800-233-4273 or 570-537-2381

Tioga County Blossburg MOMMA’S Momma’s offers a full menu and specializes in homestyle cooking. They have daily specials and the area’s best baby back ribs on Saturdays. Steak night is on Thursdays. They also cater to rigs.

(570) 638-0270, 102 Granger St.

Liberty BLOCKHOUSE CAFÉ Blockhouse Café is open for breakfast and lunch and on Friday nights, serving homemade and home-style meals, including desserts. it’s a unique café with good food, great company, and a place where you always get your money’s worth. (570) 324-2041, 31 Willow St. THE LANDING STRIP FAMILY RESTAURANT The Landing Strip offers home cooked foods, daily specials, homemade desserts, a clean, friendly atmosphere, on or off premises catering, and has a banquet or large party area. Easy on/off Route 15. (570) 324-2436, Routes 15 & 414 junction.

Mansfield

BITTNER’S GENERAL STORE Hot and cold 18” subs, specialties are italian and cheese steak. Pizzas, homemade salads, pastas, and hot foods. Fresh meats, cold cuts, and our own lean ground hamburger.

Camping supplies and propane.

(570) 998-8500, located at the junction of Rt. 14 and Rt. 15 in Trout Run, PA, bittnersinc@aol. com.

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

FRY BROS. TURKEY RANCH Original turkey dinners & complete menu. Established business since 1886. Restaurant and convenience store. At the top of Steam valley Mountain, elevation 1,704 ft. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, & dinner.

Gifts and souvenirs. 27 Rt. 184 Hwy, (570) 998-9400.

LAMBS CREEK FOOD & SPIRITS Lambs Creek offers sophisticated, down-home cooking seven days a week. Every Tuesday there’s an italian night speciai. Beautiful terrace overlooks gorgeous mountains. (570) 662-3222, 200 Gateway Dr, Mansfield, PA 16933, www.lambscreek.com

STEAM VALLEY RESTAURANT Steam valley offers good home cooking and daily specials. it’s open 7 days of the week. Gas, diesel, and convenience store coming soon!

(570) 998-2559, 169 Rt. 14 Hwy, P.O. Box 157, Junction Route 14 & 15.

PAPA V’S PIZZERIA & RESTAURANT Papa v’s offers a wide variety of hand tossed new York Style thin-crust pizza, a multitude of hot and cold sandwiches, fresh ½ pound Angus burgers, and delicious homemade italian dishes for lunch and dinner. 12 N. Main St, (570) 662-2651, www.papavpizzeria. com.

Williamsport WEGMAN’S Wegman’s Market Café features freshly-made foods ranging from quick grabs like pizza, subs, and Asian classics to comfort-food favorites, salads, and sandwiches.

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

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

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

Mansfield Fast Food MCDONALDS (570) 662-7077, 120 n Main St. WENDY’S (570) 662-7511, 1580 S Main St. KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN (570) 662-2558, 1320 S Main St.

of fine steaks, seafood, pasta, gourmet sandwiches, fresh burgers, desserts. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and Sunday brunch. (570) 724-2111, 62 Main St, www. pennwells.com.

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

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

SUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (570) 724-1424, 63 Main St, www.acornmarkets.com.

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THE STEAK HOUSE The Steak House has been serving the finest steaks and seafood since 1957.

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

BABB’S CREEK INN & PUB Babb’s Creek inn & Pub specializes in Seafood and Prime Rib, which is available every night, except Tuesdays when the restaurant is closed. Reservations are appreciated for parties of 8 or more. Located at the intersection of Rtes. 287 & 414, (570) 3536881, www.babbscreekinnandpub.com.

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

Wellsboro

TIOGA CENTRAL RAILROAD All aboard Tioga Central Railroad! Take a scenic ride while enjoying dinner on Saturday night or Sunday brunch.

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

TACO BELL (570) 662-2558, 1320 S Main St. ARBY’S (570) 662-7626, 1672 S Main St.

CAFÉ 1905 Classic coffee house located in Dunham’s Department Store. Proudly serving Starbucks® coffee, espresso, Frappuccino®, Tazo® tea plus delicious freshly baked pastries, homemade soups, artisan sandwiches and ice cream. Free wi-fi. (570) 724-1905, Inside Dunham’s Department Store, 45 Main St. DUMPLING HOUSE CHINESE RESTAURANT Dumpling House specializes in Hunan, Cantonese, and Szechuan Cuisine. it’s family owned and operated and located on beautiful Main Street in Wellsboro. You may dine in or carry out. (570) 724-4220, 31 Main St. DUNKIN’ DONUTS America Runs on Dunkin’. 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. (570) 724-4556, 7 Main St. THE FROG HUT The Frog Hut serves favorites like Texas hots, fried chicken, and Philly cheese steaks. They offer homemade soups and salads, and for dessert, try their soft serve ice cream, italian ice, sundaes, and other ice cream treats.

(570) 724-4450, 132 Tioga St. HARLAND’S FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT Open seven days a week at 5 a.m., serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner all day until 9 p.m., including the largest Black Angus burgers in town, full salad bar, and all homemade desserts. Housebatter-dipped haddock fish fry every Friday. Full service on-site catering available. (570) 724-3311, 17 Pearl St. MARY WELLS ROOM AND PENN WELLS LOUNGE Located in historic Penn Wells Hotel, full service restaurant and lounge feature an extensive menu

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

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

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

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

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

(570) 724-2090, 3 Main St. WELLSBORO DINER Wellsboro Diner, a famous Wellsboro landmark, serves sumptuous home cooked meals, fresh baked pies, cookies and cakes, and the very best prime rib on Saturday nights. They offer more than ample portions to all hungry guests. (570) 724-3992, 19 Main St, Wellsboro, PA 16901 WEST END MARKET CAFÉ “Globally inspired, locally sourced.” A place of nourishment and respite, celebrating local food & creativity.

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

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

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

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

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ACORN #11 FEATURING SUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (607) 359-2603, 121 Front St, www. acornmarkets.com.

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

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

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

RICO’S PIZZA Rico’s Pizza offers nY Style hand-tossed pizzas with a variety of toppings.

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

Dessert, beer, and wine are also available. (607) 622-6033, 371 W Morris St, www.ricospizza. com.

Germaina GERMANIA HOTEL The best burgers around.

Wings, pizza, steaks, and seafood. Thursday Rib night. Friday Broiled or Fried Haddock. Salad bar Thurs, Fri, Sat. Serving food 7 days a week, 12pm to12am. Legal beverages, rooms available, find us on Facebook “Germaniahotel Germania.” (814) 435-8851, Rt. 44 (Seven Miles South of Galeton).

Gold GOLD GENERAL STORE Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Pizza and subs.

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

Yorkholo

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

19 N. Main St. Mansfield, PA

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Corning THE GAFFER GRILLE AND TAP ROOM The Gaffer Grille and Tap Room offers fine dining, atmosphere, food, drinks, and friends! We serve lunches, dinners, meetings, or small parties up to 30 individuals. visit us on Historic Market Street in Corning’s Gaffer District. (607) 962-4649, 58 W Market Street, www.gaffergrilleandtaproom.com.

HOLMES PLATE RESTAURANT Holmes Plate offers Rustic Semi-Al Fresco casual dining, specializing in the area’s largest selection of craft & micro-brewery beers. We prepare every dish fresh to order with the highest quality ingredients.

(607) 377-5500, 54 West Market St, www. holmesplate.com.

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RADISSON HOTEL CORNING Grill 1-2-5 serves creative regional specialties: small plates, grilled sandwiches, and tender filet mignon. The Steuben Bar offers appetizers, light meals, your favorite beverages, and is known for the best martini in the city! 125 Denison Parkway East, (607) 9625000, www.radisson.com/corningny.

TONY R’S Tony R’s is the first upscale steak and seafood restaurant in Corning, new York’s Gaffer District. They serve the finest cuisine in the area and also offer a tremendous selection of the finest wines that you will not want to miss.

(607) 937-9277, 2-6 East Market Street, www. tonyrssteakandseafood.com.

RICO’S PIZZA Rico’s Pizza offers nY Style hand-tossed pizzas with a variety of toppings.

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

Dessert, beer, and wine are also available.

(607) 962-2300, 92 W Market Street, www. ricospizza.com.

Wayland ACORN #16 FEATURING SUBWAY “Eat Fresh.” (585) 728-3840, 2341 Rt. 63, www. acornmarkets.com.

Chemung County Horseheads RICO’S PIZZA Rico’s Pizza offers nY Style handtossed pizzas with a variety of toppings. The full menu includes appetizers, salads, subs, calzones, stromboli’s, and pizza by the slice. Dessert, beer, and wine are also available. (607) 796-2200, 2162 Grand Central Ave, www.ricospizza.com.

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

Watkins Glen CAPTAIN BILL’S Discover the beauty of Seneca Lake. Dine afloat aboard the Seneca Legacy or on the waterfront at Seneca Harbor Station.

Saturday night dinner cruises sail from 6-9 p.m.

Open 7 days. (607) 535-4541, 1 N Franklin St, www.senecaharborstation.com.

then stop into our West Market Street location for the perfect pizza, calzones, sandwiches, & more!

92 W. Market St. Corning, NY

www.ricospizza.com 371 W. Morris St. Bath, NY

2162 Grand Central Ave. Horseheads, NY

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

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

Largest Black Angus Burgers in town!

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

All Homemade Desserts

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

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Finger Lakes Wine Review

A Riesling to Celebrate!

By Holly Howell

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

Along the Seneca Lake Wine Trail, you will truly find a wine to suit every taste.

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t’s a glorious time of year.

The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and there’s a comforting buzz of lawnmowers in the neighborhood. Spring has officially sprung. And that means it is also time to celebrate one of my favorite refreshments.

May 1st starts a month-long festival in the Finger Lakes called “May is Riesling Month.” This annual promotion offers visitors countless invitations and opportunities to taste the most award-winning wines of our region. The unique soil make-up and geographical layout of central New York has provided the Riesling grape with ideal conditions in which to make excellent cool climate wine.

In the past few years, we have been blessed with some superb vintages, and our Riesling wines continue to garner big scores from national wine magazines, big praise from world renowned wine critics, and big medals at the top wine competitions.

So, it is only natural that we throw Riesling a big party!

Riesling is a grape that originated in Germany, and makes just about every type of wine you can imagine.

From bone dry to dessert sweet, it is one of those few wines that comes in a style to please every wine drinker. It is all about when you pick the grape, and how much sugar is in the juice when it is fermented. But no matter how sweet it gets, Riesling always has that electric backbone of acidity that keeps it in balance, consistently making it a wonderful choice to pair with a wide variety of foods.

During the month of May, you will find lots of great activities surrounding Riesling. Participating wineries are easy to find, as they will be flying the signature Riesling flag.

Some wineries have complimentary Riesling tastings, discounts on Riesling bottles, or free shipping on Riesling cases. Others have incorporated Riesling into special food tastings, like pairings with some of the local artisanal cheeses.

Many of the regions hotels, inns, and B&Bs have excellent getaway packages in May for Riesling lovers.

The wine country restaurants are jumping on the bandwagon, too, and you’ll find great deals on Riesling wines by the glass and special wine flights, along with specially themed Riesling dinners.

Ve r t i c a l t a s t i n g s p o p u p everywhere. A “vertical” is when you try the same wine from the same winery, but from several different vintages. For example, you may taste Dry Rieslings from 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009 sideby-side so you can taste how Riesling wines age. A fascinating experience, and often the winemaker will join you.

Don’t miss out on the fun. Check out www.fingerlakeswinecountry. com/RieslingRocks.aspx and keep updated on all the action. I will see you there!

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

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The Life Force of Spring

By Gayle Morrow

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o you’ve got your yard cleaned up (let’s hope you saved some dandelions), your peas and onions are sprouting, your windows are sparkling, and you’ve scrubbed away the winter’s accumulation of crud.

But, have you done any spring cleaning on you?

“In Chinese medicine, spring is related to the liver and the gallbladder,” said Linda Spencer, LOM (Licensed in Oriental Medicine, a new licensing in Pennsylvania). “The focus is on strengthening, and part of that is cleaning.”

Spencer is a Wellsboro-based acupuncturist, a provider of Chinese medicine, and an herbalist. She explains that in Chinese medicine the liver is associated with the blood and that an unimpeded flow of blood is important for the flow of chi, or life force. She suggests thinking of your blood vessels as a tube. When the tube is full, the blood and chi flow well; when it’s not, the flow tends to be in fits and starts. The liver in the springtime helps the body create new cells and provides blood and chi for new birth. She said a “powerful type of energy is needing to be exuded” for this work, and the liver helps with that in the body.

“We want a smooth flow of chi,” she said, adding that while “the liver

might not be dysfunctional as an organ,” its role in helping the chi move can still be compromised. So, what can we do to help our bodies help us? It’s interesting, isn’t it, that nature provides what we need when we need it?

“We’d use dandelion, or fresh rhubarb,” Spencer continues. “We might use a little forsythia as it helps to clean and clears out toxins in the blood. The honeysuckle flower helps to cleanse, and chrysanthemum flowers are good for the liver and eyes.

“Now is also the time to move.

Yoga, tai chi, and walking are good for the whole body and the liver. It helps the chi move smoothly and easily.”

As we see in the world around us, spring is the time of rebirth, new growth, out with the old and in with the new. Making that same connection on a personal level seems appropriate. As Spencer says, we can be “looking at nature and making that same association with the body.”

It sounds as though Granny was right—a good spring tonic and a walk in the woods may be just what we all need.

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BEAUTIFUL 5 BR FARMHOUSE on 88 acres with 6 picture perfect out buildings in excellent condition. Large stone fireplace in Great Room, 1st floor BR and bath w/laundry, beautifully landscaped grounds. Borders State Forest, some fencing—excellent horse property or commercial possibilities; some timber value; OGM, negotiable.

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WOW right on the Pine Creek. Here is one that has it all. This property really is a must see. 3 bedroom home with a large 2 car garage and tons of amenities.

Central air, alarm system, beautiful deck over the lower level, large 2 car detached garage and, oh yes, did we mention that you’re right on the creek?

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Spacious ranch home on large lot. Three large bedrooms with two full baths. Attached 2-car oversized garage. Home features a large deck in the rear of the home and a spacious front porch. Home also features an extra large living room and spacious kitchen and dining area.

MLS# 122175 $192,900

Pride of ownership in this property. Documented as one of the oldest homes in Mansfield. This home has been maintained in excellent condition and is a must see. Acreage and square footage taken from courthouse records.

MLS# 122298 $189,900

Location, location, location. This completely remodeled home is just a short walk to downtown and only a couple of blocks from the high school. Large back yard.

The entire inside has been remodeled and the outside has a fresh new paint job. Very affordable, and would be a great starter home.

MLS# 122337 $129,900

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

Cameron County, PA We are offering 3 parcels with state forest frontage AND frontage along Cowley Run near the Sizerville State Park. 4 acres - $49,900, 6 acres - $59,000, and 7 acres - $59,900. Owner financing available to qualified buyers.

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The Fine Art of a Mother-Daughter Bond Story and Photos by Cindy Davis Meixel

M

arket Street in Corning can be an enchanting place for anyone, especially a child. As the daughter of business owners, Jesse Gardner spent many magical moments growing up on Market Street, tucked in amongst an extended family of merchants, blanketed by familiar faces, conversations and kindnesses.

Jesse fondly recalls the scent of pizza flowing from the store next door where she would visit, nearly daily, eager to receive a fresh, gooey slice, served with a smile across the counter. There was also the hardware store that promised hours of amusement in simply gazing at its shelves layered with crafts and curiosities. Lou, the mailman, offered 70

another reassuring routine each morning, delivering warm greetings.

And there was the distinct sound of the doorbell in her parents’ art and framing shop, announcing the arrival of another customer, or artists hauling in their latest creations.

Activity whirled around her, stirring into her days along with snack time, infinite rainbows of markers, and inviting stacks of papers—childhood pleasures all mixed together in some sweet, imaginative, messy masterpiece only a youthful mind can create.

Jesse, the youngest of three Gardner children, was born two years after her parents, Lin and Tom, opened their first business, Corning Art & Frame, in 1977. In 1988, the

Gardners added West End Gallery to their enterprises and, three years later, sold the initial framing business. Lin is owner and director of West End Gallery; Tom is an artist. While the marriage did not survive, a partnership did; Tom is one of approximately seventy regional artists represented by the gallery—a modern, two-story space exhibiting original, representational art in various mediums including oils, acrylics, pen and ink, watercolors, pastels, graphite, wood, bronze, glass, and metal.

When a twenty-something-Jesse decided to move West, she grabbed one of her father’s paintings off the wall of the Gallery and packed it in her U-Haul. Her degree earned at Corning Community College and her soulmate, John, by her side, she was ready to explore what the world had to offer. They landed in Colorado and carved a successful living in corporate America, yet Corning kept calling her home.

“I couldn’t deny that I felt something was missing,” Jesse acknowledged. “I realized that this is where my heart was—with family and the Gallery. My heart was here before my body was. My body couldn’t catch up fast enough.”

Now fully home, with husband John by her side, Jesse has been given the title of assistant director. “She’s my retirement plan,” Lin joked.

Yet, this retirement plan is actually serious business. Jesse’s return is freeing up Lin’s time for a bit of play.

On Mondays, in particular, Lin now escapes work and paints instead. Her endeavors in oils are a delightful new exploration for this woman who has encircled her work life for thirty-five years with the creations of others.

“I love that you can just get lost in it,” Lin said. “There are no deadlines, like with work. It’s nice to play and get lost in time.”

Being her mother’s “retirement plan” is an honor to Jesse. “I take

it as the utmost compliment. It’s humbling,” Jesse offered. “It makes me happy that this natural shift in roles will allow her to focus more intently on her new-found freedom. She can take the well-deserved time for herself that See West End on page 64

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she has earned. She has worked hard all her life. She has poured everything into this business—her heart and soul.

I often hear how proud mothers are of their daughters, but I must say I couldn’t be more proud of my mother as a business woman and a mentor, but more importantly, as a friend and a mother.”

Lin also poured her strong work ethic into her daughter. Some of this certainly occurred naturally while Jesse was growing up in and around the family businesses, being a witness to all of the interactions and effort, but other lessons were direct.

When Jesse was fourteen, she wanted an original oil painting, titled “Misty Morning,” by Martin A. Poole, an artist represented by the Gallery since the year Jesse was born. She was required to purchase it on her own.

“Mom let me pay it off on a payment plan with my allowance,” Jesse recalled, thinking fondly of the hard-earned lesson. “I think it made me appreciate it that much more. It was my first original painting and, every year since then, I’ve purchased one of Marty’s paintings.”

Jesse looks forward to more lessons by her mother’s side in the coming years. The young businesswoman is intent on seeing West End Gallery grow even further with traditional street sales as well as with the entrepreneurial outlet offered via the Internet.

“I plan to see this business to its sixtieth anniversary—at least,” she said.

In this magical Market Street shop, adorned on its exterior with a melting clock created by her father, Jesse is aware of the preciousness of time. And, like ingenious clockwork, in sweet synchronization, a daughter returns to the nest and a mother finds her own wings.

Cindy Davis Meixel, a native of Wellsboro, is a writer, photographer, kayaker, and yogarian residing in Williamsport.

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Into the Looking Glass Photo by Suzan K. Richar, artist and photographer, Wellsboro, PA This photo was taken from Germania St., looking across Berger Lake at Galeton’s landmark bandhouse in John J. Collins Memorial Park. The winter version of this photo was featured in our February issue.

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