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Mystery Solved...

Mansfield Officially Lays Claim to Bringing the First Night Game to Light

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By Brendan O’Meara

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 23RD

6:00pm – NP-Mansfield High School Girls JV Soccer 6:00pm – Mansfield Sister Cities Banquet 7:30pm – NP-Mansfield High School Girls Varsity Soccer 8:00pm – Square Dancing in Smythe Park

SATURDAY, SEPT. 24TH

11:00am – Parade 11:30am – Smythe Park opens for a full day of games, contests, shopping, local food, high school sports and entertainment. ** Community members and organizations are encouraged to register for a booth now!

Dusk 1890s First Night Football Re-enactment Fireworks The Fabulous 1890s Festival, held the last weekend in September, is a celebration of the last and most colorful decade of the 19th century and commemorates Mansfield’s role in America’s history.

The very first night football game in the U.S. was held in 1892 – the year that electricity arrived in Mansfield.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Mansfield’s 1890s celebration and Saturday’s festivities kick off with a one-hour parade packed with 19th century costumes, horses, magnificent carriages, antique tractors, classic vehicles and marching bands.

Throughout the day on Smythe Park visitors can enjoy games, contests, shopping, local food, and entertainment. The featured attraction is the 1890s Museum tent filled with artifacts, photos and displays of life in 19th century America, plus demonstrations of bygone crafts.

At dusk, student athletes from Mansfield University re-create football of the 1890s and the night game that started a national tradition. It’s rugged, fast paced, and often humorous.

Following the re-enactment, a spectacular fireworks display will light up September’s evening sky for a magnificent conclusion to the day.

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By Brendan O’Meara Mystery solved...Mansfield officially lays claim to bringing the first night game to light. (Chester Bailey, left, holds the replica football and light bulb.)

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Mystery Solved...Mansfield Officially Lays Claim to Bringing the First Night Game to Light

By Brendan O’Meara

Courtesy Joyce Tice

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early four years ago, during Super Bowl XLVII, the Baltimore Ravens led the San Francisco 49ers by a score of 28-6.

The teams had just emerged from the locker rooms after a punishingly long halftime and began the third quarter. After one minute and thirty-one seconds, all seemed right. Baltimore’s Jacoby Jones returned the opening kickoff one hundred and eight yards to pad the Ravens’ lead. They looked poised to win a second Super Bowl and send their star linebacker, Ray Lewis, off into the bayou with a celebration fit for a retiring king.

Then, one second later, the lights went out.

The auxiliary power hummed to life, but it wasn’t enough to resume the game. That would take another thirty-four minutes, thirty-four minutes to wait as football lost its lights.

We take it for granted, football and lights.

Plugging in—or installing what must be a most impressive circuit breaker—led to bigger stages and grander theater, bigger dollars and higher drama.

And rarely does the birth of something die so quickly. Usually it limps along in some primitive form, dragging its knuckles until it can finally walk upright and marvel at the opposableness of its hairy thumbs.

But that was sort of the case with night football in Mansfield, Smythe Park, in late September 1892, on a field littered in cow shit.

The lights came on and, just as quickly, went out.

It’s not enough to know that it happened. Sometimes, in the case of night football in the sleepy town of Mansfield, how and, more importantly (with a careful arrangement of letters) who becomes the greater mystery.

Night football was going to happen. It’s not Monday Afternoon Football. Friday Night Lights would just be…Friday?

Imagine back to your youth. A good many of you likely played a sport when you were little. I know I did. I was lucky, though I didn’t know it at the time. I played competitive baseball and soccer, but ninety percent of those games and practices took place under the boring, photonic beams of our nearest star during solstice hours.

On that rare night, I’m thinking back to 1992, I was twelve years old with a wad of grape Bazooka Joe bubble gum the size of a golf ball in my mouth, and our game was—wait for it—under the lights. The magic and majesty of it all. All those bulbs, all those unassuming moths flying right up to death row where opportunistic bats picked them out of the sky, it created an elevated stage for all of us.

I can tell you how it felt, but you already know. We were faster. We were better. We were stars, dammit. That same year, 1992, in a town some 400 miles away in Mansfield, PA, Steve McCloskey, sports information director at Mansfield University, was hard at work recreating a similar sense of wonder.

He had broached the idea to his boss, Dennis Miller, of a celebration See Football on page 8 7

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for the first night football game on its 100th anniversary. Miller thought it over, returned to McCloskey and said, “I sold it to the AP. Now make it happen.”

• My u n d e r s t a n d i n g , a n d t h e understanding of many, of that first night football game went like this: The Great Mansfield Fair was coming to town.

Thomas Edison’s newly merged company, General Electric, wanted to light up the world. GE wanted to showcase the light bulb. It put a generator on a train.

That train arrived in Mansfield. Some industrious player on Mansfield’s football team ran up to GE officials and asked, “Can we play a game under the lights?” To which the GE official said, “Sure, whatever, kid.”

The player grabbed his team, found an opponent at the snap of a finger, and the game was on.

Wow. I was wrong. Real wrong.

• This much we do know: It was not spontaneous at all. It was not a sandlot game played among friends. It was long orchestrated, and if you really think about it and rub a couple of neurons together, that makes perfect sense. Of course it had to be planned. GE wasn’t going to conjure up an entire light fixture in a few hours.

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Mansfield wasn’t just going to court a worthy football team in the time it takes to send a modern-day text message.

Archives of the Mansfield Advertiser turn up clues. Newspapers of this style are cramped margin-to-margin with tiny newsprint and fascinating news of the day.

For instance one such paragraph read, “The archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria is a proficient amateur railroad man. He knows how to run a locomotive and to make up a train of cars.” (Then you think: the man has exactly twenty-two years left to live before the world gets thrown into Armageddon.)

Close to that may be a small one-panel cartoon of two men paddling a canoe with the man in the stern holding strong while the man in the bow tumbles overboard into the river. Inscribed below is a poem titled “Paddle Your Own Canoe”: Voyagers on life’s sea,/To yourself be true,/And whatever your lot may be,/Paddle your own canoe.

Someone was in fact adhering to this sea-faring ethos. The Advertiser reads, “Normal school foot ball [sic] enthusiasts are endeavoring to arrange a game to be played by electric light with the eleven from Wyoming seminary, near Scranton.”

That appeared three full weeks before the big game. This game was premeditated, night-football-in-the-first-degree.

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Steve McCloskey sits at a round, wooden table at Mansfield University, a few floors up in the communications office. The stairs creak. The elevators make him uneasy. McCloskey wears a polo shirt, shorts too as the day is that-kind-of-midsummer-hot, a ball cap. He looks like a ten-handicapper cooling down for lunch in the clubhouse as he makes the turn for the back nine.

Before him are papers and certificates of authenticity proclaiming that Mansfield was the site in the equation of night plus football.

“No one knew, so you could say it,” says McCloskey about claiming night football as their Patient Zero. “We had more established facts and it matriculated to the point where we’d get newspaper clippings where someone would say [their place] is the birthplace of night football and we’d respond with a document.”

When these other folks lay down their claim and received the gentle tap on the shoulder from MU, the reply, according to McCloskey, goes something like this, “They’d say, ‘Oh, the first night football… west of the Mississippi.’ There’s still magic to the first no matter what it is. We had the legitimate first.”

But that wasn’t always the case. I mean, yes, they’re always the first, but how do you prove you’re the first? How do you do so in such a way that you’re not like the people “west of the Mississippi?”

That’s where the importance of a man like Chester Bailey comes in. Bailey passed away at one hundred and three in 2015, but not before he flicked the lights on Karl Van Norman Field in September 2013, a fitting honor for the man who was pivotal in letting the world know where night football began.

Some forty years ago, Bailey wrote to Jim Campbell, librarian and researcher for Pro Football’s Hall of Fame, and mailed Campbell documentation about the fair of 1892, football and lights. On February 14, 1973, Campbell replied: As a former resident of Selinsgrove, it was nice to hear from a fellow Central Pennsylvanian…not to mention receiving the fine clipping reprints.

Coincidentally, we received also yesterday a medal from Westville, Illinois claiming the first night football in the U.S.A. in 1928.

I’d say they are a little behind the times in Westville. As authentic documentation,

we’ve filed your clips in our “Football’s Firsts” file…thank you.

We appreciate your offer of further information, but feel that since there is now a college football Hall of Fame, and we’re strictly pro, the proper place for such information is there. Address: 17 E. 80th St., N.Y., N.Y. Along with the letter came a certificate, signed by director Dick Gallagher, saying, “This is to certify that the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, has with pleasure and appreciate accepted the gift of Clippings Documenting first U.S. night football game played at Mansfield, Pa., September 29, 1892.”

Five days after receiving this letter from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Bailey dashed off another letter, this one to The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame in New York City. In a month’s time, March 22, 1973, Stuart D. Ludlum, assistant secretary, replied: Thank you very much for your letter of February 19th covering football at Mansfield.

Thanks too, for the copies of clippings.

I remember seeing an indoor professional football game in Philadelphia in the early 1920s, but I had no idea that a night game under lights was played back in the 1890’s.

That’s a fascinating bit of football history.

We appreciate your interest and will welcome any further material you may come across.

These were the seeds planted so that in due time the world would know who lit up night football.

• You can envision photographs of prime suspects, newspaper articles linked by pushpins and colored string. Three people topped McCloskey’s list. We needed to solve this cold case once and for all.

These three were the likely culprits, the ones responsible for the orchestration of the first night football game. One was John L. Cummings, the liaison between the Edison Electric Company and a Philadelphia company that had the Thomson-Houston dynamo (which would merge, at the behest of J.P. Morgan, to make General Electric), a generator weighing 4,300 pounds inside of which were miles of copper wiring.

Twenty lamps of 2000 candle power and five 64-candle incandescent lights were the headliner of the fair. More trains were scheduled to bring people in from nearby towns to see electricity, not football.

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Cummings might have been the guy to flick the switch. He might also have been the showman, the step-right-up-and-witness-thefuture-right-before-your-very-eyes guy.

Or maybe it was Professor S. E. Sprole, Mansfield’s football manager at the time.

Could it have been he who tapped Cummings on the shoulder at one point and asked if maybe the football team could play under the electric light?

Or was it John McGuire, the team captain, who thought up the plan? McGuire played on the inaugural team in 1891, the team that played Wellsboro High School at the same fair only in the morning. Mansfield won, for those interested.

As buzz grew that the ThomsonHouston dynamo was making the rounds of the county fairs, maybe it was McGuire, who played the fair the year before, who wanted to promote his football team when the big draw—the electric light—promised a crowd of unprecedented numbers.

There’s something else too. Not quite a smoking gun, but something that connects McGuire, in theory, to the opponent of this night football game.

McGuire wasn’t going to waste this historic event on the town twelve miles down the road. McGuire, if it was he, had his eyes on the day’s leviathan.

• Gail Smallwood, associate director of communications at Wyoming Seminary College Prep School, sent me a lot of material on the Sem football team. Sem was, in modern-day parlance, a big deal back then.

Its football team was one of the best in the nation at that time, so when it came to courting an opponent to play the first night football game, someone reached out to the Sem. Wyoming Seminary fielded its first team in 1884, fifteen years after Rutgers University and Princeton University played the first intercollegiate football game. A year later, Sem branched out to start competing against other prep schools as well as colleges.

After a few seasons, Sem started incorporating more of a regimen for its players: regular practices, training programs, and eating at its own training table in the dining hall.

They declined cake and disallowed the use of tobacco.

Dr. Levi Sprague, the schools fourth president, went on what, today, we would call recruiting trips to the nearby mines looking See Football on page 12

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for the strongest boys of the lot to play football. We hear of football saving certain young men from the slums.

Football, even in the 1880s, plucked men from the mines.

By 1891, a year prior to its inclusion in the night football game, Sem had defeated scrub and junior varsity teams from Bucknell, Princeton, Lehigh, and Lafayette. The editor of the Opinator, the school newspaper, wrote, “Our boys have fairly proven themselves superior to all known school teams outside the college.”

Mansfield Normal School fielded its first team in 1891 and had won three of its four games, but it wasn’t in the same class as Sem. It made sense to reach out to the premier school in the area to play a night game.

And what makes John McGuire so intriguing was this: He was from WilkesBarre, a city two miles from Wyoming Seminary. McGuire likely went to Sem games growing up and saw this team’s rise to regional/national prominence.

They must have been his backyard heroes. He probably knew people who knew people on the team. No amount of research has turned up any familial connection between McGuire and any Sem players, but there needn’t be that bridge. The mere fact that he was from that area, that he likely grew up watching that team dominate, then went to the State Normal School and joined its nascent football program, it makes perfect sense that he would harpoon the day’s big fish.

“I do know McGuire was the captain and I do know he was from Wilkes-Barre,” Steve McCloskey tells me. “He had to be the catalyst to getting them. To get Sem here, you would think there would have to be a reason to come this far.”

The lights.

McGuire played on the 1891 team at the fair against Wellsboro. A year later, Mansfield doesn’t schedule Wellsboro again because, “You weren’t going to waste the game under the lights with Wellsboro,” I say. “ That was the thing,” says McCloskey. “When you say that, that really is, we could have played anybody under that situation. That’s what makes

Equipment evolution: This football is a replica (given to Mansfield University of Pennsylvania by General Electric in 1992 for the game’s one hundredth anniversary) of the original ball used in the 1892 game.

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McGuire’s background and where he came from such a natural link.”

And the “anybody” of the day? That was Wyoming Seminary.

McCloskey notes that Sem was a nationally recognized team, so why else would it travel ninety miles west to an unproven program that it should categorically stomp into the ground? “For them to come here,” says McCloskey, “was so abnormal. There had to be a reason and there had to be an established [schedule].

‘We’re playing under the lights if you want to come and play.’”

We sit back and nod our heads.

Having gathered these facts, these few things we know are true, these little data points, it seems logical to connect those dots from Cummings to McGuire to Wyoming Seminary.

With excitement no doubt brewing, the Advertiser posted a schedule of “When the Sports Will Take Place.” On the morning of the Big Day, “The judges will begin their work at 9 a.m. Concert by the Mansfield band at 2. At high noon three grand balloon ascensions and parachute drops by two men and one woman, followed at 1:30 by opening of the base ball tournament—Arnot vs. Cherry Flats.”

In the evening, “Foot-ball contest by electric light in front of grandstand beginning at 7:45, Kingston vs. Mansfield S.N.S, followed by a grand display of fireworks by the Consolidated Fire Works Company of Rochester, N.Y. at 10 o’clock.”

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a giant rock from one of the nearby quarries donated by the Jones family to commemorate the date of the first night football game. A nearby street sign pays homage to Chester Bailey. You feel the heat of the day coming at you from above and below, that radiant summer air that bakes you from all angles.

McCloskey points out where the grandstands would have been. We walk out into the middle of the field and plant ourselves where the light post might have been for the football game. We look back up the hill to where the school is. He tells me to imagine the area devoid of trees because there were few back then, not like it is now. He gestures to where the train tracks ran, so we also picture where the Thomson-Houston dynamo must have been situated, certainly not far from the tracks given its massive weight. I ask him how he imagines that day and the time leading up to the fair.

“What I see is incredible excitement and again it wasn’t because of football. It was because the electric light was coming.

People had heard of it, but nobody had ever seen it, so think about how incredible that was. They were adding extra excursion trains, an estimated 18,000 were at the game.

“I don’t know what the weather was, but I can imagine in my mind it was typical evenings in September here. Warm during the day, cool at night, causes fog in the morning and fog at night.”

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on’t you love the smells of summer? Sheets fresh off the line, a bouquet of dill or cilantro straight from the garden, newly mown hay, cool rain on hot pavement, Pine Creek on a hot August night, a berry patch on a sweltering afternoon. In the middle of the dry spell we were having I was noticing a different odor that seemed atypical of the fecundity associated with the season. It took me a while to identify it, but what it turned out to be was the giant ferns in our fern garden withering and dying prematurely. They don’t smell like this in the fall when their natural growing/dying cycle isn’t so influenced by an extreme lack of water.

The natural world is replete with a smorgasbord of smells, many of them unique to the seasons. When was the last time you stepped outside and really took a good whiff of what’s out there?

As summer wanes we can take in the last of the garden fragrances as we’re canning and freezing the season’s bounty. I don’t know what makes leaves on the ground in the fall smell the way they do, but that, and the smell of them burning, has to be the most familiar fragrance of autumn. Big patches of goldenrod and wild asters also have a luscious and distinctive fall aroma.

As early winter creeps in, you might notice the air itself has a different smell, especially after the first hard frost. Then comes

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the forecast for a snowstorm and, yes, you can really smell snow in the air, just like you can smell a summer rainstorm in the offing.

Sometimes it is a dampness telling you the flakes will be wet and heavy, or a kind of thinness that lets you know the snow will be dry.

One of my favorite outdoor smells comes on that first day in the spring when you can finally smell the earth again. There may still be a good deal of white stuff hanging around, but even then the intoxicating promise of life wafts up from those damp, bare patches of ground.

Try imagining yourself as that happy dog we’ve all seen as we’re driving down the road—your head is out the open window, your ears are flying in the breeze (well, if your ears are small and close to your head they’re not, but, still …), images are flashing by so fast your eyes can hardly take them in, and your nose, ah, yes, your nose. It is in olfactory overload. Go ahead. Throw out your dryer sheets and ditch the Febreeze, open the windows, turn off the AC, and go have a smell!

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e were on a driving tour on Route 6, following the GPS to Grovedale Winery in Wyalusing, when we spotted the first barn painting. It looked like a Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign, but it was square, not round. A few turns later, and there was another one, another square painted pattern, this time decorating a store.

What happens when you take a group of crafty people and give them every structure in town as a canvas? “Quilted Corners of Wyalusing” is the result, a self-guided driving tour of historic barns and businesses adorned with quilt patterns painted on 8’ x 8’ wooden blocks.

The idea began in Ohio, with one devoted daughter hanging a quilt on her barn to honor her mother, a longtime quilter. When Sugar Run resident Peggy DeMartino saw the concept in Country Home magazine she knew it would be a great fit for Wyalusing.

The Wyalusing Chamber saw her presentation on the program and became an enthusiastic partner. Now, fifteen years later, nearly 100 patterns augment the natural beauty of the countryside.

The route of brightly colored images gives a kind of logic to meandering through the area. It also serves as a great excuse to stop at regular intervals for food, shopping and events as genuine as the folks who wave to you on your ride.

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Time your visit to a fun fall happening. The Wyalusing Valley Wine Fest is September 10 from noon to five, rain or shine, on the grounds of the Wyalusing Valley Museum (www.wyalusingwinefestival.com) and is the perfect excuse to pull off the road and sample local wines. Grovedale, by the way, sells a red wine called Marquette, which is a pinot noir hybrid that is comfy in this cold climate. (It’s the vintner’s favorite, and lays claim to being the first 100 percent locally grown dry red wine in Northeastern Pennsylvania.)

Or bring your inner artist to the Old Barn Rug Hooking Guild Hook-In on September 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Tuscarora Wayne Community Room on Main Street in Wyalusing (Call [570] 869-2630 for more information). Members of the guild will be hanging their creations and rug-hooking vendors will be on hand. Great gift idea!

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s a professionally trained fashion illustrator living in a small New York apartment for twelve years, Joanne Landis, in her free time, scaled her paintings accordingly, on traditionalsized canvases. But during an artist in residence stint at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts she was given a studio that had once been a horse barn. It would prove to be her eureka moment.

“I unrolled an entire roll of canvas (over twenty feet of material),” she recalls, “and just worked for a month.”

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She hasn’t looked back.

Captured on huge canvasses, her vivid images, peopled primarily with strong and vibrant women, tell a story, often from mythology. And this season at the Williamsport Community Arts Center (CAC), patrons of the performing arts can experience a rush of Landis’s work in house, as she is the CAC artist in residence for the 2016-2017 season. There are many artist in residence programs in theaters across the nation, but, generally, a visual artist would

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Joanne’s journey to rural Pennsylvania is as unique as her art. Her home studio in Troxelville, Snyder County, is, she says, “an amazing accident.” She was still living on the Lower East Side of New York City when her sister and brother-inlaw decided to look for a house in rural Pennsylvania to retire.

They ended up buying a house in the tiny town, and Joanne visited them there. It did not suit them, and they eventually relocated to North Carolina, but Joanne found a place to put down roots. It seemed a little crazy for a professional artist to move from a neighborhood of vibrant artists in New York City to the country—so crazy that Joanne didn’t sleep for three months as she was in the process of moving to Troxelville. But it was just the vision and space that Joanne needed. She found a farmhouse, with a barn to create a large studio, so necessary for the work she was now creating. In looking at a timeline of her work, even the casual observer can see the transition from the grayer color scheme in the New York years to the more vibrant colors of her paintings today.

She has done many exhibitions nationwide and sells in galleries as far away as San Francisco. But it was at an exhibition at a café when Williamsport first charmed Joanne, and she began exhibiting at galleries in town as the art scene there grew.

She now has a studio in Williamsport’s Pajama Factory, where many of her larger pieces are mounted in the halls. At the new installation at the Community Arts Center, her large canvases, and some of her recent smaller canvases, grace the lobby and mezzanine. In her Williamsport studio, she explains that what is on her canvas at the beginning can change or even disappear, as the story emerges and the figures begin to tell their tale. She generally works on a couple of paintings at one time. As she slows down on one work, the creative energy is transferred to the other. Physically powerful, her canvases are filled with deep emotion, with action and life.

And this season, to great acclaim, they play the Community Arts Center.

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He wasn’t Middle Eastern. He wasn’t a restaurateur. But why couldn’t they recreate authentic, high quality ethnic food? “We realized that if we could learn the recipes and learn the restaurant business, which is the other part of it,” he says wryly, “that we could do it. So my wife and I started working up a concept for a brand and for a menu and for the whole program. We just wanted to make it simple.”

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Oh, and this is to celebrate your anniversary.

The Rockwell Museum in Corning did something very much like that when they asked artists (and brothers) Steven and William Ladd to guest curate the 40th Anniversary Rockwell Museum Art Exhibit, on view from September 30 until mid-January. Only known to the Corning region through their work displayed at the Corning Museum of Glass, the Ladds were especially thrilled with the invitation and the chance to dig through the Rockwell’s 5,000-piece archive and create a special exhibit for its fortieth anniversary.

Deciding what gets displayed in a museum, and how, is a process light-years beyond just filling empty wall space. The curator at the Rockwell is Kirsty Harper Buchanan, and her goal is to draw visitors into “a visual dialogue” with the pieces she selects.

For instance, placing this painting near that sculpture gives them both deeper meaning. Using the natural light on this wall enhances an object here, while protecting a less durable piece from the same light over there. If done well, museum curating creates a more dynamic exhibit that engages a visitor in a meaningful experience.

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Across the museum industry, most places get to exhibit 3 to 5 percent of their collection at any given time. Through Kirsty’s efforts to use space more efficiently, 12 percent of the Rockwell collection is available for visitors to enjoy.

To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of The Rockwell Museum, founded in 1976 by local business owners Bob and Hertha Rockwell to house their vast personal collection, a special exhibit was certainly in order. In 2014, a name consolidation, from The Rockwell Museum of Western Art to simply The Rockwell Museum, followed a new mission statement, which was to place their core collections into the larger context of American art. The following year The Rockwell was honored with the designation Smithson Affiliate, one of some 200 in the country, and the only one in Upstate New York.

Within the context of this new philosophy—that their artwork is not just about the American West, but actually tells the story of the American Experience—the Rockwell looked for artists who would help them articulate that experience by regrouping parts of the collection.

“One of the best way to see your collection through fresh eyes is to have guest curators,” Kirsty said. “Even just the choice of the pieces they want says much about the artist.”

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Show me state of mind: Each piece featured in the exhibit tells a story that the Ladds can relate to growing up in Missouri. A forty-piece tale of their American experiences.

Rockwell, had never stepped foot in it, in fact. They are tactile artists, using beads, fabric, and other objects to create their pieces, and the brothers have a strong sense of artistic inclusion that appealed to the Rockwell.

The pieces the Ladd brothers have selected depict themes like childhood, travel, ceremony, and war. And, taken in their intended groupings, the pieces tell stories to those whose eyes can hear them.

“It was a huge honor to be asked to guest curate for the Rockwell,” said William. “We have always enjoyed our time in Corning. Such a great energy. And we felt it again in the Rockwell.”

Deciding what pieces of the Rockwell collection to include in the exhibit consisted of going to the warehouse and pulling things out of their storage.

“Kirsty was terrific,” William said.

“We spent hours dragging pieces out, pairing them with other things, going back for more. We would just see something and she would get it into play for us to consider.”

The Rockwell staff was equally as complimentary about the artists.

“Steven and William, because they work with objects in their art, see things in a unique way. They had the idea to use some of our antique rifles as artwork themselves, not just as historical weapons,” Kirsty said.

Steven and William immediately

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And the Brothers Ladd certainly fit well with the Rockwell mission to take the intimidation factor out of great artwork.

Though well respected in the art world, there isn’t anything elitist or stuffy about Steven and William. They laugh constantly and conversations are sprinkled with jokes and familial teasing. The brothers, who work out of a New York City studio, approach art with great passion, primarily for its ability to draw people together.

“We have three core values that rule our lives: spend your life doing what you love, be focused and disciplined, and collaborate. Getting to work with the Rockwell has been a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with a great museum,” William said.

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hat are your memories of Jell-O, the trademarked gelatin dessert/salad? (Folks actually argue about whether the product is a dessert or a salad.) I’ve asked that question a lot lately, and the answers are all over the place. Most remember their mommies dumping the drained can of Del Monte fruit cocktail into the Jell-O in a mold and then unmolding and slicing when firm. That was the challenge for many—unmolding without a mishap. Dunked into too warm a bowl of water—or for too long—and drip, drip, drip. In my house chaos could ensue over who was to get the maraschino cherry piece.

Well this drip has happy memories of the dish, especially the freshly whipped cream that accompanied it and the (most often) sliced bananas that went into it. So it’s not surprising that ever since I heard about the Jell-O Gallery Museum, and it being just up the road in LeRoy, New York (five minutes from New York State 34

Thruway exit 47), I’ve wanted to visit it. I finally got the chance when my local Senior Citizens group sponsored a bus tour to the gelatin grail.

A One-Day Autumn Excursion I’ve chosen to write about the gallery because it occurred to me that to visit LeRoy would be ideal for both leaf-peepers and dessert lovers. It’s an easy one-day trip from almost everywhere in our region. And I’ll throw in a suggested stop for lunch at a uniquely charming restaurant just down the street from the gallery. Turns out the Jell-O Gallery Museum is housed in a stone building that was a former town school. It is administered by the LeRoy Historical Society and is linked to an antique house across the back garden and accessible by the—wait for it—Jell-O Brick Road, each brick inscribed with the names of donors to the museum.

But Wait, There’s More The Gallery itself is packed into just a few rooms and is easily seen in an hour or two depending on your interest in advertising memorabilia, early packaging, the extensive collection of molds, and the shop jam-packed with tee and sweat shirts, books, kitchen hang-ups, and lots more. There’s even some signage left over from exhibitions at fairs and such, particularly an early 90s exposition at Rochester’s Strong Museum. Our guide directed us about and as our group gawked and walked there were plenty of murmurs along the lines of “oh, we had that,” or “I remember those.” The Gallery is open seven days a week, April through December, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. (Sundays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m).

As an old ad guy I was delighted by all of it, and I simply had to learn more. So, more about our trip later, but first, more about the product and its route from Main Street in paternalistic LeRoy in 1897 to the shelves of your favorite market today.

My research took me to the computer where I ordered at least a half-dozen Jell-O recipe books. Had I only known it, I needed only one to tell me all I will ever need to know about the company.

This is a 2001 book Jell-O: A Biography, The History and Mystery of “America’s Most Famous Dessert,” written by Carolyn Wyman, the author of another favorite kitsch book that I happen to have in my collection: Spam: A Biography. (How’d I miss the Jell-O book?)

Writer’s, but Never Reader’s, Cramp I must have a dozen pages of notes I jotted when reading the book, but I’ll try to make sense out of them. The first point that Ms. Wyman makes is that the product was ahead of its time, in that it is a convenience food: bowl, contents of the package already flavored and sweetened, boiling water, stir, chill, eat. No recipes needed. Simple.

Even a responsible under-teen could do it, and early ads and boxes (1904) featured the Jell-O girl, who looked about nine.

Evidently boiling water wasn’t considered a hazard back then.

Rose O’Neil’s Kewpie dolls entered the promotional scene in the early 20th century. I know someone who still collects these adorable little dolls.

I was shocked to learn (at the Gallery and from the book) that none other than Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish—the leading illustrators of the day—provided artwork in the 1920s for the recipe booklets that were packed in each box. If you have one of these in a drawer, get it out and cash in. They are worth real money today.

All in Flavor say Jell-O Knox, also an Upstate New York (Johnstown) product, may have had the first gelatin—think of all those hooves!—but it, being unflavored, had to be added to other ingredients—to make a mousse, for instance. Jell-O came sugared and flavored (and later in a diet version called D-Zerta.)

Jell-O originally came in pretty standard flavors: strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lemon. (Only the citrus versions have natural flavor even today. The rest are clearly marked “artificial flavor.”)

Later, lots more flavors were added, discarded, reintroduced—oh, the complexity of it all—although I’d love to have tried the coffee, See Jell-o on page 36

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was Dennis the Menace and the Berenstein Bears. Kate Smith was retained as spokesperson for the new instant puddings in the ’50s. I rest my case.

A well-produced cookbook, Joys of Jell-O, hit the stores in 1961. (It was revised in ’71.) A crushing blow, however, hit LeRoy, also in 1961, when the manufacture of Jell-O was moved to Dover, Delaware, along with other General Foods and then Kraft brands such as Cool-Whip (a shiver went down my back as I wrote this), Shake & Bake, Minute Rice, Kool-Aid (Jell-O minus the hooves), Tang, and others, all of which have yet to grace my kitchen shelves. Sorry. These products were now under Philip Morris, who, because of the Surgeon General, was diversifying. And I am in the minority, as the company boasts that 75 percent of homes will have at least one box of Jell-O on hand.

Jigglers, Shots, Wrestlers, and Cosby Memorable molds: Inside, the museum boasts many memorabilia pieces that depict the different tools, processes, and advertising of Jell-O’s many eras.

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chocolate, and blueberry, but cherry and lime came and mostly stayed. A cola flavor fizzled after its introduction in 1942. Peach, apricot, and blackberry came and went.

As far as ownership of the trademark is concerned, that, too, is complicated. The original inventor sold the procedure to a LeRoy neighbor for $450 in the 1890s.

The new owner created a company called Genesee Pure Food Company and was also selling a product called Grain-O, “a pure food drink.” Back then coffee’s caffeine was thought to be harmful. (Read today’s headlines: it’s now thought to be beneficial, just as I thought!) You might remember Postum, its competitor.

A Brilliant Marketing Plan Sales of the new-fangled product were slow in the beginning. Credit an unnamed marketing genius who concocted a unique plan. A fleet of nattily dressed salesmen in equally natty rigs (and by 1908 in cars) fanned out on specified city streets. Armed

with Jell-O recipe booklets, they’d slip a copy under the householder’s door. Then they’d alert the local grocers that demand for the product was imminent. Whatever wasn’t sold could be handed out to employees.

(We’re told that about fifty collections of Jell-O recipes have been published to date.)

By 1915 there were women demonstrators at fairs, church socials, etc. and then over the years there were the celebrity “product pitchers.” In the ’30s, Jell-O— now part of General Foods—sponsored the highly rated radio show The Jack Benny Program. Don Wilson, the announcer, would intone “There’s always room for Jell-O.” Benny, wife Mary Livingstone, and Co. decamped for Chesterfields by the ’40s, but then along came Kate Smith and even New Yorker cartoonist Helen Hokinson’s clubwomen to sing the product’s praises.

And so did doyenne Ethel Barrymore. And I still remember Henry Aldrich doing the same, admittedly in his wobbly voice that matched the wobbly product. After that it

Probably the less said about these topics the better. This is a family magazine.

But Jigglers were created as snack foods for kids who come home from school or playground hungry. As the ads said, it’s “the Jell-O you hold in your hand” (preferably one that’s been washed). “Shots” simply replaced water with alcohol. And Cosby, only the third spokesman for the brand, was on hand for about twenty-seven years.

Before I close—with a recipe for goodness sake—I have to admire the research and scholarship that Ms. Wyman pursued in writing this book. There are lists of slogans the company has used over the years, a scorecard on flavors old and new, as well as a long list of Jell-O metaphors or similes. Let me end with just a few that you might have heard in board rooms, committee meetings, political speeches, and your nearest barroom: Like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall; Like eating Jell-O with chopsticks; Jell-O for Brains; As exciting as watching Jell-O set; Knees reduced to quivering Jell-O; there are countless others.

I hope that none of these apply to the reading of these pages.

P.S. No wonder I celebrate LeRoy. I discovered it’s where the string-less string bean was developed. Who else would tell you these things?

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1 c. boiling water 1 (3 oz.) package lime flavored Jell-O gelatin ¾ c. sugar Pinch of salt 1 c. cold water 1 c. whipping cream ¾ tsp. peppermint extract* Dark chocolate shavings Stir boiling water into gelatin, sugar, and salt in a large heat-resistant bowl at least three minutes until completely dissolved. Stir in cold water. Refrigerate until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes.

Beat whipping cream and peppermint extract with electric mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gently stir into chilled gelatin until well blended.

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Garnish with chocolate shavings, if desired. Serves 6. *I don’t normally keep peppermint extract on hand, so I’m using the same amount of green crème de menthe.

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Wyoming’s Opinator wrote, “The ground was in bad condition and poorly lighted, and was laid out on a baseball diamond and a race course. An electric light pole was placed in the centre of the field, and the ground was full of holes and covered with pebbles and butternuts.”

The pretension rising off the Opinator’s pages provides you with all you need to know about Sem’s place in the sporting world at the time. “Mansfield failed to gain through their usual rushes through the center, and tried the end but did not gain…

The game was slow and tedious. Wyoming’s playing was quick and snappy and her interference fine. Wyoming made her gains around the ends aided by good interference. The Mansfield team was very heavy, averaging about 175 lbs. She played a close rushing game, but after a few good rushes was effectually blocked.”

You get a sense this person was a total weenie and writing this kind of prose protected him from the late-19th-century version of the most atomic of wedgies.

The game ended in a 0-0 tie after one half of play because “it was considered dangerous to play in such a feeble light and on such rough ground.”

This writer was clearly unimpressed by the electric light, his allegiance to Sem football so unbending in the face of such world-changing technology, he called such an invention, and the spectacle therein, “feeble.”

He did say the team had a “jolly good time.” So there’s that.

There were fireworks.

And as the fireworks rained down, the fair-goers could look up and see the light bulbs firing off photons traveling to them at cosmic speed, carried to them on the same electromagnetic bandwidth as the light from Beetlejuice, Antares, and Polaris, but it was man-made, at arm’s length, before them illuminating the path to the new world.

Maybe there was something akin to awe as people boarded the trains, or climbed back into their horse-drawn carriages for the ride home, visions of football dancing in their heads.

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