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From His Home on Armenia Mountain to the Edges of the Earth, Bob Foulkrod Tracks Trophies

By Don Knaus The GlassBarge Docks in Watkins Glen Tommy Takes to the Air in Ithaca The Otto Bookstore Starts a New Chapter in Williamsport

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12 Generations of Generosity

The Greatest Living Hunter

By Janet Miles Gyekis

Wellsboro Art Club celebrates seven decades of community creativity.

By Don Knaus From his home on Armenia Mountain to the edges of the Earth, Bob Foulkrod tracks trophies.

14 Saving Williamsport’s Soul

By Linda Roller

With new owners, the Otto Bookstore begins its next chapter.

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20 Wings and Wheels

6 When Tommy Comes Flying Home Again

By Mike Cutillo

America’s coolest small town hosts a weekend of flying and driving history.

22 Notes on the Ninetieth

By Peter Joffre Nye Ithaca Aviation Heritage celebrates the centennial flight of ‘Tommy,’ a Thomas-Morse airplane made in Ithaca.

By Karey Solomon

Corning-Painted Post Civic Music Association celebrates a milestone.

34 Back of the Mountain Amber waves of grain.

16 The Odyssey Ends in Watkins Glen Cover photo: Bob poses with trophy Red stag, courtesy Bob Foulkrod; cover design by Tucker Worthington; this page from top: courtesy Bob Foulkrod; middle: Pilot Ken Cassens shares details of the lead-in with Don Funke, president of Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation, courtesy Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation; bottom: courtesy Corning Museum of Glass.

By Janet McCue Glass in The Glen celebrates centennials with GlassBarge and a party.

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Living Hunter ­From His Home on Armenia Mountain to the Edges of the Earth, Bob Foulkrod Tracks Trophies

By Don Knaus

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ou’re an outdoor person. You hunt. You fish. You hike or camp. And you dream.

You imagine an African safari, a guided Alaskan hunt, a record book bear. And you dream.

You’ve read the magazines—Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, Petersen’s Hunting, Pennsylvania Game News, New York Outdoor News. And you dream.

You’ve heard about, maybe even read about, Teddy Roosevelt’s African safari, or his hunt for a grizzly bear. You remember those Hemingway stories— The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. And you dream. You recall Robert Rouark’s Horn of the Hunter, the tops in outdoor writing. And, still, you dream.

And wonder. Can those things be done by the average Joe? Well, in the late 1960s, a kid from Troy High School had those same dreams.

He always believed that one day he would be Hemingway, or some version thereof. Guess what?

That kid is Bob Foulkrod and he is a world-famous hunter. Getting there took drive, determination, and a large dose of belief in the possibility of making a dream come true, but Bob Foulkrod is living his dream, the outdoorsman’s dream.

In the early 1970s, when Bob was barely out of high school, he opened a deer camp on Armenia Mountain on land that snuggled up to the Tioga State Forest. It was a modest start. He lived in a small cottage and bedded the hunters on army surplus cots above his garage. They ate downstairs.

His mom prepared the meals and saved money by buying food on sale.

“Three week deer camp, buy three turkeys on sale, and so on,” he recalls. He worked nights while he tended his hunters. His competitive prowess in archery shoots led to his beginning an archery camp. To this day, he holds the professional

archery finger release record score, a score he shot in New England. (Most bow hunters now use a trigger release and a compound bow. The finger release is done with fingers rather than a trigger release—much more difficult to maintain accuracy. Think Robin Hood with a bare bow. It ain’t easy.) He shot the first 440 target score at a shoot in New England and, while competing, he held several state and national archery titles.

Bob’s tournament success with bow and arrow led him to the establishment of an outfitter business. His first venture was a bear camp in Ontario, which he operated for several years. He then became the U.S. marketing manager for a caribou camp on the Delay River in Quebec.

With some degree of pride he notes, “We had the first archery-only caribou operation. We allowed no rifles in camp.” He moved to his own caribou camp on the Leaf River above the 57th parallel. It was true wilderness north of the timber line.

“What a grand experience,” Bob says. “This was land that was totally untouched. Wolves came up to us like they were German shepherds because they’d never seen a human. We were catching world-class brook trout in the seven- to eight- pound range. We were told that no Atlantic salmon were in the Leaf, but on my very first cast I caught a huge salmon. The Inuit natives were shocked; I just smiled.”

Asked how he survived financially, he says, “I was lucky. I had a set schedule. I’d leave the first of May to run the bear camp. July and August, I ran the bow school back home. Then, I’d leave the middle of August for the caribou camp and stay until the last week of September; then back home for four weeks of deer camp on Armenia Mountain. In November and December, I was a See Hunter on page 8 7

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guest on television shows with all the big sporting names. January, February, and March I did sport show seminars— the SHOT Show [organized by the National Shooting Sports Foundation], the NRA Great American Outdoors Show in Harrisburg, several Reed exposition shows, National Wild Turkey Federation conventions, SCI [Safari Club International], and others. Then I came home to guide hunters for spring gobbler.” Bob gives a wry grin and asks, “Sound kinda busy? It was. It was too much. I began to weed out. I had become too busy with TV and writing.

I let go of the bear camp and sold the caribou camp. I wanted to end the deer camp, but I had clients who had come for twenty years, guys who had seen me through the lean years. I was able to cut the deer camp to one week.

After twenty years of the bow school, I let it go. Besides, I started to have shoulder problems. I couldn’t draw the

bow string, and I had to switch to rifles.

“Browning Arms, along with the SCI, allowed me set up my Obsession Quest,” he continues. “The SCI has a North American Fifty-Five, a list of big game animals that they keep records on, like the bison, the polar bear, grizzly bear, brown bear, black bear, Kodiak bear, Dall sheep, mountain sheep, pronghorn, seven species of deer, etc.

I came up with the name Obsession Quest to help market my show.

“At the same time, I started as the first professional for Bass Pro Shops with Walter Parrot, a renowned turkey hunter. [Sporting companies like Bass, Cabela’s, Remington, Leupold, etc. pay well-known hunters, outdoor writers, etc. to use that professional’s name, i.e. “Bob Foulkrod always gears up or hunts with Bass Pro.” Being the first says something about just how highly he was regarded.] Working on the North American quest, I convinced SCI to allow me to add the Africa

Seven to my quest list. That led me to Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe in search of a lion, caped buffalo crocodile, hippo, leopard, etc.

The quest took me five years. I spent 275 to 300 days per year away on hunts.

At home, I was spending every day filing for hunting permits and setting up hunts. That quest opened the doors for the Winchester Legends TV show. So I was busy again.”

Asked how his wife put up with his time away, he grins. “Sheila? She’s pretty independent herself. She’s a doctor with a practice.” That, however, does not preclude her from appreciating her husband’s presence. She perched on his lap a couple of times during Bob’s conversation with a visitor, and was clearly glad he was home.

Bob reflects that his Obsession Quest allowed him to put life in perspective. “One day, I was flying to the Yukon for a moose hunt. I had two small plane jumps and two major

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I didn’t move for fifteen minutes. Then and there, I realized that there are some things you can’t control. That was the last time I ran through an airport. It gave me a new perspective.

“That’s why I like sheep hunting—the perspective,” he continues. “It’s like a microcosm of life. You’re at altitude.

The breathing’s hard. The sheep you spot may be a mile away and you have to climb three miles to get within range. It gets dark and you bivouac on a rock. In the morning you ache. You don’t want to put those boots on because you know it will hurt. You don’t want to leave the tent because you know it’s cold and windy outside. But you do, and that’s what life’s about. Prepare the best you can. Control what you can. Don’t sweat what you can’t control, keep pushing, don’t ever give up and quit.”

Bob has hunted on seven continents and in numerous countries, including Russia, New Zealand, Australia, and Argentina. He’s hunted in every Canadian province. He is several years beyond eligibility for Social Security but he looks like he’s a forty-year-old in the prime of life.

“I stay in shape,” he acknowledges. “When I have a hunt coming up, I start out walking a four-mile course over, up, and down rolling terrain. Then I start adding weights until I can cover the course carrying fifty pounds without sweating.

I’ve been called the most prepared hunter in the industry. I try to make sure there are no surprises. If I get a tent to use on the hunt, I practice putting it up over and over. When that bush plane drops you off in the middle of near-Arctic conditions in the rain, and it’s getting dark, you don’t have time to read directions. When that animal charges, you better have practiced quick reloads.”

He points down the hill and continues, “I’ve got a target down there that activates after the first shot. I was going to hunt with a large caliber single shot rifle. I set that target up to race towards me at fifty miles an hour. The first time I tried it—by the time I reloaded and aimed, the target hit the end of my barrel. I thought to myself, ‘I better practice reloading faster.’ Eventually, with practice, I was able to reload and shoot twice.”

Bob’s online presence includes photos of his worldwide hunts as well as streaming videos. People, mostly fans of his television show, Bob Foulkrod Hunting Adventures, occasionally copy photos and post them elsewhere. A photo of his trophy African lion reached some non-hunters.

Over 1.5 million people saw it, and not all of the resulting comments were positive. Bob contacted one woman who had been critical, and relates that she was willing to listen and understand the hunters’ conservation efforts.

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The legend: Bob Foulkrod leans on the plaque in his honor at Bass Pro Shops.

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that the African lion will still be here fifty years from now. For my hunting friends—we tracked this lion down and he charged me at ten yards. I was lucky to stop him.” Of his interaction with the disapproving lady, he says, “She was willing to listen—willing to learn.

Common sense conservation turned her completely around.”

Bob went on to discuss the political situation in Zimbabwe, where he hunted for lion. Robert Mugabe, an African Nationalist, ruled Zimbabwe for thirty-seven years as prime minister and then president. He was noted for saying, “The only white man you can trust is a dead white man. We must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man!” Eventually, he 10

encouraged the violent seizure of whiteowned land and the white farmers were driven out. The natives suffered through years of famine and drastic economic decline. In addition to the lion meat, Bob gave the meat of every animal he harvested to the villagers.

There are photos of him passing out rice to children—forty-pound bags.

Perhaps the biggest treat for the kids was the gift of hundreds of soccer balls.

“I bought every soccer ball that Bass Pro had,” he says, softly. “Then I had to deflate them to be able to get them on the plane. Once in the village, I had to show the kids how to inflate them. While they worked with the air pump, I passed out the rice. After every kill, I went back to the kids with meat.”

Bob is a kind, gentle, and unassuming man. Getting him to talk about his exploits in the wilds—the trophy animals, the record fish—getting him to list his honors is like trying to pry open the clamped snout of a twelve-foot gator. Pressed, he smiles and quietly admits, “If you can get a permit or a tag for it, I’ve hunted it, successfully, maybe two or three times.”

He is a bit more forthcoming about his grandchildren’s exploits when a visitor comments on a long, wide wooden beam covered with “smallish” deer racks (small in comparison to Bob’s as his hunting mementoes are all true trophies.)

“They’re deer my grandkids took,” he says “with me and with a bow, of course,” adds proud grandpa.

On several television personality websites and on SCI, Bob is characterized as America’s greatest living hunter.

The only smile of satisfaction he shows is when talking about other outdoor legends he has met—men such as Grits Gresham, Leonard Lee Rue, Chuck Yeager, and Clair Connelly of Outdoor Life.

“When they point me out to others, I’ve overheard several of them say, ‘He’s the real deal.’ That means a lot,” he acknowledges. It takes an Internet search to learn that he has been inducted into the National Bowhunter Hall of Fame, the International Bowhunter Hall of Fame, and has earned the Ishi Achievement Award of Outstanding Achievement in Bowhunting. He has been inducted into the Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame. Bob has been honored with the Red Head Excellence in the Outdoors achievement award.

SCI has added more honors to the list of Foulkrod accolades.

He is a man who is comfortable in his own skin, at peace with where he came from and with where he’s been. He still lives just a few miles from Troy, on Armenia Mountain. He still jokes with his high school classmates, now, like himself, seasoned seniors. A pair of high school buddies chuckle, “You know, he always said he was going to just hunt and fish and think about getting a job when he got old. By God, he’s done it.”

Bob laughs in mock denial. “Lies! It’s all lies! They tell stories. Don’t believe a thing those guys tell you about me.” Then he makes himself comfortable at the desk in the Armenia Township building, where he has put on his township supervisor hat and is waiting on a bid for a truck the township needs. Bob Foulkrod is a world-famous hunter and television star who has met all the legends of his peer group, who has become a legend himself. But to lifelong friends and neighbors, he’s still just Bob, the kid from Troy who followed his dreams.

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Painting it foward: Jane Wetherbee poses with her Chair-ity auction donation, sold to raise money for the Wellsboro Art Club’s college art scholarships.

Generations of Generosity

Wellsboro Art Club Celebrates Seven Decades of Community Creativity

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By Janet Miles Gyekis

magine that the year is 1948. Gas is twenty-six cents a gallon, bread is fourteen cents a loaf, and milk is eightysix cents a gallon. Homes had no televisions, computers, or cell phones. This is the year that the Wellsboro Art Club held its first meeting—it was “by invitation to persons interested in having an ART group.” They were initially a small group of dedicated painters who met in each other’s homes.

Mrs. Arla Nicolaison of Denmark, who was residing in Wellsboro at the time, was the first president.

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pleasure of companionship but various benefits result from participation: the feeling of relaxation that painting gives; a feeling of exhilaration and pride when someone else ‘recognizes’ the subject matter,” she wrote.

“Then there is always a friendly feeling among the ones working together. Each one recognizes the achievement of the others in the group.”

After years of meeting in a variety of locations, the club found a home. In September of 1968, Mr. Arthur Gmeiner, businessman, teacher, and painter, originally from East Point, near Liberty, presented the Gmeiner Art Center (known today as the Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center) to Wellsboro and the citizens of Tioga County.

It was, he said, “to be a permanent home for the Art Club, and other nonprofit organizations—cultural, educational, civic and fine arts.” When he was eighty-five, he endowed his namesake art center so there would be a place to store and display his own artwork. WAC artists have since continuously met at the Gmeiner on Thursday mornings.

Over the years, local artists and crafters met and exhibited their work separately, but the WAC has become a sort of umbrella under which all artists have found a place to create. Regional artists have stepped up as instructors and helpers, including Mansfield University professors John Roy, Tucker Worthington, and Dale Witherow, sculptress Lucille Driscoll, potter Mary Cogbill, bonsai artist Akiko Hewitt, bird carver Arnie Hayden, landscape colorist Peg Thomas, fused glass artist Kathleen Schnell, political cartoonist Warren Goodrich, and his wife, Dora, who was a president of the club. Steven Bowers and his wife, Rita, taught art in the public schools to children who came from the same East Point/Liberty community that Arthur Gmeiner called home. Wanda Short, Jane Wetherbee, and Suzan Richar are members who have organized regional children’s art projects. The club has also promoted art with second and third graders at Galeton Elementary with Art With a Heart art camps.

The WAC sponsors a scholarship, funded by their biannual Chair-ity Auction, for local high school graduates who are interested in studying art in college. Members let their creativity—and their paint—flow onto chairs that are then sold to the highest bidder. The scholarship is named for longtime member Jane Wetherbee, who was a beloved art teacher at Liberty Elementary School.

The club’s annual show and sale at the Gmeiner is September 26 through October 5, with a reception September 30 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The club’s motto is “You Only Live Once.” They don’t want that once to be without art.

Janet Miles Gyekis is an actively retired teacher. She has worked, traveled, and gone kayaking in many countries where she has enjoyed painting watercolor journals.

Archives researcher Christine Heiny contributed to this story.

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With New Owners, the Otto Bookstore Begins Its Next Chapter

By Linda Roller

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eil Gaiman said it best in American Gods: “A town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not fooling a soul.” By that measure, Williamsport is an old soul—with the oldest independent bookstore in continuous operation in the U.S., founded in 1841.

But in 2016, that was no sure thing. Betsy Rider, the face and voice of the Otto Bookstore for over fifty years, was selling the store that had been in her family since 1928, the store where generations of Riders had served this community. It seemed unthinkable that Betsy would not be there, and rumors abounded that the store would not be sold and would have to close. In fact, the end of the Otto Bookstore seemed certain—if you read the articles, or heard the talk in the streets of Williamsport. “We had to fight the perception that we were closing,” says Kathryn Nassberg, one of the new owners. But it wasn’t until May of 2017 that the announcement

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of the sale was made public, with Kathryn and husband Isak Sidenbladh taking over one of the treasures of Williamsport.

It was only right that the new owners had significant connections to Williamsport. Kathryn grew up in the town, and in the Otto Bookstore, and, as she traveled, she continued to order books for herself and her family from the store. Isak, her husband, hails originally from Sweden, but has deep roots in book publishing, and was a familiar face in the bookstore during visits to Kathryn’s family.

“We bought [the bookstore] because we thought we were in a good position,” Kathryn says. “We were the right people, and this was the right time for us.” The community responded in kind.

Kathryn notes that one of the major surprises after taking over the store was the relief and gratitude that many people expressed to the new owners, and pleasure in the continuation of the store.

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One thing that the new owners didn’t want to change at all is the store’s heart, which is the staff that is renowned for customer service.

“The staff is fantastic—every review of the Otto Bookstore is centered on the amazing customer service,” says Kathryn. Alissa Dubois, Nancy McCarty, and Tom Rider (Betsy Rider’s youngest son) are the kind of people who know books, who read books, and who know their customers. And the store is the place to go for recommendations, for a quick chat about the latest great book you just read, or to see friendly people who care.

Kathryn and Isak completed the core of the store’s staff with long time friends from Canada—Dolly and Andrew Brum. Dolly’s family hails from New England, and Andrew was involved in his family’s milk processing plant. Andrew’s family, like the Riders, sold a family business. But, unlike the Otto Bookstore sale, the sale of Andrew’s family’s business meant that Andrew no longer had a job. They were in New England on a family vacation, unsure of the next step, when Kathryn and Isak called with a proposition: How about managing a bookstore in Williamsport?

So Dolly and Andrew moved to Williamsport to complete the team. It was Andrew’s years of experience working in a family business that is making this team so perfect for the store. He admits “it’s been a bridge year,” as he works between the staff and the new owners, and adds “I learned early on [in my life] that you’re never ‘off the clock.’ Even when you’re not working, you’re representing that family and the business.” Andrew brings a strong small business background and is detail oriented, and so meshes well with the staff. Even the area where the Brums lived in Canada was very similar to Williamsport, with small cities, and lots of rural areas.

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When Tommy Comes Flying Home Again Ithaca Aviation Heritage Celebrates the Centennial Flight of ‘Tommy,’ a Thomas-Morse Airplane Made in Ithaca

By Peter Joffre Nye The Past is never dead. It isn’t even past.” ~William Faulkner

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century ago Ithaca ruled as one of the U.S. military’s largest aircraft suppliers, producing the bi-wing Thomas-Morse Scout aeroplane, fondly called Tommy, in America’s effort to train pilots going to war against Germany “to save democracy.”

The Thomas-Morse Airplane Company factory built 600 Tommy Scouts in buildings still standing in Ithaca. The city had 17,000 residents, and the company employed 1,100 people. Tommys were loaded onto railcars and hauled to Army and Navy bases. The Tommy is a single seater for pilots who had learned flight basics and graduated to practice stateside for aerial dogfights.

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aviation a century ago,” notes Michael S. Hall, director of the Ithaca-Tompkins Regional Airport.

One Tommy Scout that left for duty 100 years ago has been brought home from California and restored to airworthy condition. It will take to the sky again in a historic event free and open to the public on Saturday, September 29, at the IthacaTompkins Regional Airport.

Tommy Scouts began taking to the sky in June 1917 after America joined France and England in their third year of WWI. Aircraft were constructed of wood, wire, and rag—a wooden structure and propeller, wire bracing struts, and a cotton skin over the fuselage and wings, explains Donald Funke, president of the Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation.

“They were pretty small airplanes,” he

says. “About twenty feet long, a wingspan of 26.5 feet.” The Tommy could fly ninety-five miles per hour, labeled as high speed.

On November 11, 1918, war that had raged for four years finally ended. Ithaca’s plant shut down production of the trainer as soon as the armistice was announced, leaving the Thomas-Morse Airplane Company holding excess inventory.

All Tommy aircraft were remaindered as government surplus—400 dollars apiece.

By the end of the century, bi-wing planes had been lost in the disappearing blues like high-wheel bicycles, player pianos, and electric trolleys.

One day in 2003, Don Funke, a passionate pilot, was discussing history with friends, and the topic of ThomasMorse airplanes came up. “We had aviators who didn’t know about the planes made

in Ithaca,” says Don. “Nobody knew how many Tommys were around.” He and his crew didn’t know much about the Tommys, but they agreed that one should be in Ithaca. “That inspired our dream to have a Tommy fly again here.”

They formed a board of directors. “We found out there were about a dozen still around in the United States,” he says. “Half were in museums. The other half were privately owned. We didn’t have the money to buy them or anything to trade. We were naïve in capital letters, but we were passionate.”

They pursued leads in New England, Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio, and the state of Washington—to no avail.

A board member visited relatives in San Diego and investigated a Tommy that had been hanging on display in the San Diego Air & Space Museum but had been recently removed. The plane’s owner, Dr. William H. Thibault, a medical doctor, maintained a busy medical practice. It took a while for Don to reach him.

More time passed trying to convince him that his Tommy needed to come home to Ithaca.

“Then something happened that I call divine intervention,” Don recalls. Each June the city hosts an arts festival. “We had a kiosk, which showed a story board to get the community involved in our project. Our kiosk presented a story board headed ‘Tommy Come Home.’ A board member and his wife staffed the kiosk when a girl about four or five with her grandmother pointed at the story board. The girl read the words aloud. Her grandmother responded by saying that they had a Tommy. It turned out to be Dr. Thibault’s wife, visiting their son and granddaughter, living in Ithaca.”

The connection led to the Tommy arriving in Ithaca in May 2010. Years of painstaking restoration followed. Fortunately, the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, a four-hour drive away in Rhinebeck, New York, had the same model Tommy Scout. Don and colleagues spent two years commuting there, calipers in hand, to craft new wings and an oak propeller. At the Aerodrome, Don met Ken Cassens, a specialist in piloting vintage aircraft.

“The Tommy has an eighty-horsepower Le RhÔne engine,” explains Ken Cassens. “The rotary engines from WWI era used up a lot of castor oil. Most of it is contained within the engine cowling, but oil sprays all over the airplane—the wings, the fuselage, the tail. That’s one of the reasons pilots wore a scarf—to wipe oil off their goggles.”

On September 29, Ken is scheduled to fly Tommy from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., 100 years after it rolled out of Ithaca. The flight will fulfill the dream of many volunteers and supporters who donated cash, goods, services, and countless hours to restoring the Tommy to flying condition. An alternate fly date is Sunday, September 30.

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Courtesy Wyalusing Valley Museum Merlot memoirs: the Wyalusing Valley Wine Festival continues preserving and sharing the history of the Wyalusing Creek Valley.

Wyalusing Valley Wine Festival

Fourteenth Annual Event Uncorks a Good Time With a Dozen Local Wineries

By Lisa Howeler

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estled in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania, in the southernmost part of Bradford County, is the tiny town of Wyalusing, founded in 1887, and host to an annual celebration featuring wine from local and regional wineries, delicious food, music, and vendors. The town is one steeped deep in local history, having been established as a settlement long before it’s official incorporation when Native Americans established the village of M’chwihilusing, meaning “home of the honorable warrior.” The village name was later changed to the more easily pronounced Wyalusing, though it can still prove to be a tongue twister for some.

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It could be said history, or, perhaps, honoring history, is what created the Wyalusing Valley Wine Festival. Now being added to the fall itinerary of many local wine connoisseurs and sommeliers, this year’s event is Saturday, September 15, from noon to 5 p.m. at 80 Fifth Street.

Morgan Clinton, curator of the Wyalusing Valley Museum and wine festival planning committee member, explains that the festival began in 2004 as the brainchild of Gene Anne Woodruff and Mary Skillings as a way to raise funds for the Wyalusing Valley Museum. The museum, which recently moved to downtown Wyalusing,

preserves and shares the history of the region surrounding the Wyalusing Creek Valley.

In the decade plus since that first event, when attendance was just 245, the Wyalusing Wine Festival now welcomes between 1,000 and 1,500 people annually to this rural, cozy spot overlooking the hills surrounding the Wyalusing Valley. The first location for the festival was prone to flooding, making the move to a field behind the Tuscarora Wayne Insurance Agency last year a much needed and welcome change, according to Cain Chamberlin, a member of the festival planning committee.

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Aquatic aeronautics: Seaplanes and classic automobiles highlight the Wings and Wheels event in Hammondsport, including Glenn H. Curtiss Aviation Museum board of trustees member Cam Dunlap’s own seaplane (left).

Wings And Wheels

America’s Coolest Small Town Hosts a Weekend of Flying and Driving History

By Mike Cutillo

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f you are a fan of water aviation, spectacular seaplanes in particular, the Wings and Wheels in Hammondsport event might be for you. If you are a fan of classic, vintage, shiny automobiles, Wings and Wheels might be for you.

If you are a fan of the lovely Steuben County village of Hammondsport—638 residents strong according to 2016 figures and “The Coolest Small Town in America” according to readers of Budget Travel— Wings and Wheels might be for you.

If you are a fan of the Glenn H. Curtiss Aviation Museum, built to honor the famous aviation pioneer, inventor, speed merchant, and Hammondsport’s favorite son, Wings and Wheels might be for you.

In short, if you are looking for a familyfriendly, fun event with lots of things to see

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and do, history to experience, and great food to eat on a late summer weekend in the picturesque Finger Lakes region, Wings and Wheels might be for you.

Check that: it is for you.

Wings and Wheels combines all of those things—and more—and is a major fundraiser for the Glenn Curtiss Museum.

Evolving from an event known as the Seaplane Homecoming, it happens this year on September 15 and 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.

Cam Dunlap was involved with the homecoming event, and when the two men who ran it for a number of years decided to step down, and no one else came forward to replace them, Cam looked in the mirror to find their successor as committee chairman.

“The Seaplane Homecoming was

pretty much on the chopping block as far as the museum was concerned because there was no one to run it, and I said, ‘Gee, I can’t just stand by and see this thing get relegated to the trash can of history,’” says Cam, a member of the museum’s board of trustees and owner of a seaplane on Keuka Lake since 2008. “So, I jumped in and picked it back up. We started out pretty small and then got things moving along over the course of a few years.”

Moving along—no pun intended for an event that focuses on any number of things that move—is exactly what Wings and Wheels has done, especially with the addition of the car portion of the event.

While the seaplanes are clustered at Depot Park on the shores of Keuka Lake, the cars— everything from American muscle cars like

Mustangs to Porsches, Ferraris, street rods, and custom-builts—are lined up on downtown streets. Participants can enter their cars in three classes: American Classic, American Exotic, and Foreign Exotic; awards will be given daily in each class, including a Kids’ Choice Award, voted on by the youngsters attending.

“We used to do seaplanes on Saturday and cars on Sunday,” Cam continues, “but, in 2016, the committee, the board members, the marketing committee said, ‘Hey, why don’t we make a weekend of it and combine the two?’ so it became seaplanes on Saturday and Sunday and cars on Saturday and Sunday.”

As for those seaplanes, the primary stars of the event, Cam says he expects anywhere from ten to fifteen, more if the weather is good. The two major types will be represented—floatplanes, which are basically standard planes with the wheeled landing gear replaced with floats mounted on struts under the plane, and flying boats that have boat-like hulls on the bottom of the fuselage on which the planes land in the water.

Curtiss himself was instrumental in designing those types of hulls. “Glenn Curtiss is known as the father of naval aviation and effectively made water flying a practical reality right here on Keuka Lake in Hammondsport,” Cam says. “He was an absolute pioneer in aircraft engines and power flight.”

Those attending—and last year that was about 5,000—can meet the pilots, watch seaplane flying demonstrations, and even take a ride in one. There is no entrance fee, and just a nominal fee to go up in a seaplane for a half hour or so trip with Finger Lakes Seaplanes for that birds-eye view of Keuka’s pristine waters.

“They’ll be coming and going from Depot Park, and we encourage folks who are interested in water flying to experience it firsthand,” says Cam, noting that the rides are among the most popular activities of the weekend. “Oh yeah, my gosh, last year they went out full every trip, starting Friday afternoon until after the event was over on Sunday.”

Wings and Wheels also includes takeoff, landing, and fireboat demonstrations, food “bomb” dropping contests, and a “Seaplane Salute to Glenn Curtiss,” which is a seaplane parade around Keuka Lake with a loop over the Curtiss gravesite in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. Activities for the kids include face painting and model aircraft building. There is a banquet Saturday night—fifty bucks will get you a great meal at the Pleasant Valley Inn that includes beer, wine, and a silent auction. Food vendors and Hammondsport’s restaurants and shops will be open and celebrating what has developed into a true community festival.

“We reached out to a lot of people in the community, and a lot of them were excited about it and really stepped up,” says Cam. “Now it’s a large community of folks who are all local and who care deeply about the museum helping to make it all possible.”

Sounds like something Glenn Curtiss himself—pioneer, inventor, risk-taker—would be proud of.

Open year-round, the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum is home to a priceless collection of items related to early aviation, motorcycles, and local history, and celebrates the life and accomplishments of Glenn Curtiss. For more information go to wingsandwheelshammondsport.com, curtissmuseum.org, or call (607) 569-2160.

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(7) Courtesy Corning-Painted post Civic Music Association Urban legends: Artists return with encore presentations during the ninetieth season of the Corning-Painted Post Civic Music Association.

Notes on the Ninetieth

Corning-Painted Post Civic Music Association Celebrates a Milestone

By Karey Solomon

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hen you stay current with the world and move gracefully with the times, a ninetieth birthday is something to truly celebrate. Which is why the Corning-Painted Post Civic Music Association, Corning Civic Music for short, is marking their ninetieth season with encore presentations by some of the most popular performers to grace their stage.

Back in 1928, audiences took a lot on faith. A group of music lovers, many of them housewives married to Corning executives, went door to door soliciting subscriptions to enable them to offer performance contracts to traveling classical musicians.

Affiliating with the Chicago-based Civic Music Society, they hosted performers that agency sent, often based on travel schedules to larger cities in the northeast. “Can you imagine?” board members ask now. “They went to their friends and neighbors and said ‘trust me, we don’t know who’s coming, or what they’re playing, but we know it’s going 22

to be good.’”

So they did. And it was. The first year, 116 charter subscribers funded a threeconcert season. Admission was limited to those who bought season tickets. An early coupon book from those days bears the message, “The number and variety of artists and attractions presented during the season depends on your work.” They took it seriously. Getting enough subscriptions was a challenge requiring the enthusiasm of thirty to forty board members, plus additional volunteers with energy to persuade friends and neighbors to embrace the plan. They were convincing, and it happened. “Back in the ‘20s, ‘30s, and ‘40s, to get enough money to pay someone to come to our little valley and have fabulous music…” Kate Gerwig, a board member, marvels.

An area native who attended concerts with her parents, it was, she says, “kind of cool, being a kid, getting dressed up,” and

going to hear some music. Then, when she was about eight, one concert made a huge impression. There were dancers from South America in bright, flowing costumes and music she recalled from a record her parents had played. “I was completely engaged,” she says, recalling her awestruck realization when she made the connection between live performers and the recording.

Changes over the years include the disbanding of the original booking agency—the group now works directly with agents—to an increase from three to six performances annually—two are classical, two jazz, plus two others, often highlighting an emerging artist at the beginning of a rise, like Joshua Bell and Diana Krall. The number of board members has decreased, and the organization no longer maintains a campaign headquarters but has become a virtual grassroots effort.

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The Odyssey Ends in Watkins Glen

Glass in The Glen Celebrates Centennials With GlassBarge And a Party

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y mid-September, the Corning GlassBarge will have travelled over 500 miles in its journey from Brooklyn to Watkins Glen. Four months is not the equivalent of the Greek hero’s tenyear ordeal but, the crew of the GlassBarge has had many adventures on this one-ofa-kind passage. Like Odysseus and his men, they’ve weathered high winds, whitecapped waves, and sweltering temperatures (we don’t know about Sirens or Cyclops).

The thirty-by-eighty foot barge has gone through the narrow passages of locks and made dozens of stops along its route. At each port, thousands of spectators turned out to learn from the crew of educators,

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historians, and gaffers about the art of glassmaking and the history of tugboats, canals, and industry.

One hundred fifty years ago when the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company brought its tugboats and barges loaded with equipment to Corning from the Atlantic coast, the Erie Canal, and its auxiliary system of canals, allowed for the entire odyssey to be done on water. Today, the last leg of the trip—from Watkins Glen to Corning—will be on dry land. The conclusion will be a splendid homecoming celebration incorporated into Corning’s Harvest Festival on September 22.

But, before that milestone, another

celebration is brewing. Watkins Glen is the final stop on the GlassBarge’s watery voyage, and the village at the southern tip of Seneca Lake is organizing a party—a big one—for the third weekend of September. “The community decided to plan a celebration that surpassed all other stops on the tour,” declares Tim O’Hearn, Schuyler County’s administrator and chair of the GlassBarge local planning committee. Cities, towns, villages, hamlets, and ports along the route of the GlassBarge have cheered, toasted, enjoyed barbeque and bands, shared stories of working tugboats, and stood in awe as the Lois McClure, a replica of an 1862 class sailing canal boat, unfurled its sails. All of

Mark Twain Country that—and more—is in the works for Glass in the Glen and The Market. The Watkins Glen stop will be a weekend-long community celebration. Glass at the Glen will feature glass artisans showcasing their talents, antique boating enthusiasts explaining their craft, and children and adults learning from the experts. Hot glass demonstrations onboard the GlassBarge will take place all weekend (seating is limited and reservations are recommended—make those at cmog.org/glassmaking/demos/hot-glass-demos/glassbarge). The Market, at Seneca Harbor Park, 3rd Street, and Lafayette Park, will host an array of local vendors and artisans. Visitors will see the Finger Lakes anew through the eyes of its local artists, taste the bounty by sampling delicious produce from area farmers, and be entertained by local talent while strolling through downtown or stopping for lunch. In the evening, revelers can enjoy world-class bands, and fireworks will soar over Seneca Lake on both Friday and Saturday nights.

Donna the Buffalo will play Friday evening, September 14, at the Seneca Harbor Park. The band has a huge local following, has released ten albums, and is frequently the host band for the GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance in Trumansburg, now in its twenty-seventh year. In the weeks prior to Glass at the Glen, they performed at the Levon Helm Studio in Woodstock, Long Island Blues and Roots Festival, and Hickory Fest in Wellsboro.

All Music Guide characterizes the music of Donna the Buffalo as the sounds of twenty-first century Americana, “a little bit of this and that from anywhere wrapped up into a poignant, jamming dance reel, a place where the past and history meet easily in the immediate now and everybody feels like dancing.”

Saturday’s musical entertainment features the Destination and will be just as enticing. Partiers may find themselves dancing their way to the Saturday night fireworks after listening to this nine-piece band. The Destination features a range of musical genres from rock to Latin. Enjoy Patsy Cline? Maybe the vocalist, Karen Lonsky, will sing one of her tunes for you. Want to dance to the percussive sounds of Led Zeppelin, the rhythm of Aretha Franklin, the blues of Stevie Wonder? The Destination has it all.

To close the Glass at the Glen festival, the organizers have lined up the Sim Redmond Band for Sunday afternoon. This local band with worldwide recognition has travelled the globe, including eight tours in Japan. The SRB blends roots, rock, and Afro-Caribbean sounds into inspiring melodies that could bring on that mellow feeling—just the sensation a person might need on a Sunday afternoon on the shores of Seneca Lake.

Glass in the Glen and The Market is the perfect combination to celebrate the GlassBarge’s last port of call. Tim O’Hearn sees it as “an opportunity to partner with the Corning Museum of Glass to commemorate their anniversary while welcoming thousands of visitors to our community. From music to fireworks and great food to historical educational opportunities, this festival will have it all.”

The weekend gets underway September 14 at 10 a.m. with a glass ribbon cutting on the GlassBarge. There are demonstrations all three days on the GlassBarge. Music starts Friday evening at 6 p.m. with Donna the Buffalo; the Destination plays Saturday night, beginning at 6 p.m.; the Sim Redmond Band plays Sunday starting at 2 p.m. The Market opens at noon all three days. For more information about the weekend go to watkinsglenchamber. com or cmog.org.

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the event was going to get off the ground it would need more volunteers, Morgan recalls. The local Lions/Lionesses were approached to join forces in the festival’s inception, and since then the event has expanded enough to help raise funds for that organization as well. The Wyalusing Lions Club (formerly Wyalusing Lions and Wyalusing Lionesses) provides donations to over a dozen local and national service organizations as well as providing support for local victims of fire and catastrophic illness.

The first festival showcased just five wineries. This year there are twelve, each offering tastings and helping to cultivate an interest in the area and what it has to offer visitors and residents alike, notes Cain.

“People really look forward to it each year,” he says.

Included with the wine tastings are vendors offering a variety of food samples, music, and crafts. The local favorite Wyalusing Swing Choir and the band Infinity will return this year. There is seating available in the various tents, and a wine check service is available for those buying three or more bottles so they don’t need to carry their purchases around while they enjoy the festival.

Visitors to the festival are encouraged to “make a weekend of it,” say Morgan and Cain. Some of the region’s attractions include the Wyalusing Rocks overlook, the Marie Antoinette overlook, the French Azilum historical village, and local downtowns. For festival-goers who are also running enthusiasts, the North Branch Triathalon takes place the morning of the wine festival. The triathlon includes a 3.6 mile run, a 4.5 mile kayak/canoe paddle, and a 15.3 mile bike ride.

Over the years the festival has entertained visitors from more than a dozen counties in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.

“We have even had visitors from Scotland,” Morgan says.

Organizers see the festival as a way to highlight Pennsylvania wineries, especially those from the northeastern part of the state.

“We hope the wineries attending can use the festival to develop their customer base and introduce their regulars to new varieties they are producing,” Morgan adds. “Wyalusing is a beautiful place, and we think the festival provides a good excuse for a weekend trip to the area. Being located right off of Route 6 makes the festival easy to get to. The Wyalusing Valley Wine Festival is a great opportunity to try some Pennsylvania wines, dance to some fabulous music, and enjoy the beauty of September along the Susquehanna River.”

Wineries represented this year include Antler Ridge Winery Inc., Benigna’s Creek Vineyard, Capra Collina Winery, Deep Roots Hard Cider, Grovedale Winery, Hidden Creek Vineyard & Winery, Juniata Valley Winery, Nimble Hill Winery, Pickering Winery, Sand Castle Winery, Kulpmont Winery, and Staggering Unicorn.

New this year is a system on the festival website that will make purchasing tickets online easier. To learn more see wyalusingwinefestival.com. For information about the North Branch Triathalon, visit wyalusingnorthbranchtriathlon.com.

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