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Attn: Residents in Little Falls, Herkimer, Schuyler, Warren, Stark, Danube ELECT
DANIEL J. ENEA FOR CORONER
November 5, 2024
Independent Line Candidate
Paid for by the Committee to elect Daniel Enea
VOLUME 4: NUMBER 10
OCTOBER 2024
An amazing company, right under our noses
“There are so many experiences that I had If you had told me on Long Island that there was a company really changed my life. It in Dolgeville that opened up my eyes and manufactured everything broadened my horizons.” from hospital curtains to flak jackets, escape Brenda was interested in systems for oil rigs, and art and studied interior much more, I would have architectural design. “I no clue who they were. was a stay-at-home mom And that’s exactly what for most of the initial I thought as I listened to years of my married life.” Skip and Brenda Gehring speak about their The company originally company, called Gehring made lace and curtains, Tricot, Corp., at a recent and its sales and event in the Village. headquarters were on Long Island. “Most of our Brenda grew up in St. customers for what we Johnsville, went to school were making at the time here, and met Skip were in New York City. through a mutual friend. That’s what the business “He knew my family and was in 1946,” Skip stated. knew Skip’s and kind of introduced us. As they “My grandfather started say, the rest is history.” this with his brother early on. Then, he started She then moved to Long Gehring textiles, going off Island, where Skip was on his own,” he said. at 21. “I was raised here but grew up down there,” In 1956, his grandfather purchased Helmont Mills she said. By Dave Warner
Photo by Dave Warner - Skip and Brenda Gehring, owners of Gehring Tricot, Corp. in Dolgeville.
in St. Johnsville, and then in 1964, he purchased the building in Dolgeville as a dye house. Skip is the third generation of management for the company, and all five of their children work there. “We’re on the fourth generation, and they all work in different areas, and none of them report directly to me,” Skip mentioned. His father passed away in
2001, and the company now has four times as many employees as it had back then. “We’ve grown the company through purchases and just our own internal growth.” Skip spent six years in the Navy, and a year in Germany working for a company that makes the textile machines that they are using today in St. Johnsville. His father wanted him to have that experience to transition
Special art show planned at Main Street Mercantile for October 12th
By Dave Warner
Kali Kat Schafer is spearheading an Art Show on October 12, 2024, from 6 to 9 pm at Main Street Mercantile in Little Falls centered
Schafer is originally from Oregon but has lived in New York State for the past twenty years and around survivors of alliance to showcase has lived in Little Falls domestic abuse, sexual the cause and support for the last ten years. “I’ve always been a assault, and childhood anyone who shows creative type with my abuse. The YWCA up that night, seeking nose in a book, and I’m will be there with an an outlet for a harmful very passionate about informational booth as situation they might be in. animals as well.” a show of support and That love for animals has allowed her to become a professional dog groomer. She’s also a writer and photographer and has had shows at Main Street Mercantile herself.
Photo by Dave Warner - Kali Kat Schafer is organizing an art show at Main Street Mercantile in Little Falls, on October 12, 2024 from 6-9 pm.
the company from laces and curtains to the highly technical things that they do today. “When the free trade agreements hit in the mid90s, there were thirteen other mills up here that were doing what we did, and they’re all gone. We’re the only one left. There were 1.2 million textile workers then, and it fell to 286,000.” Please See NOSES Page 3
One of her subjects for the camera has been the sculpture in old cemeteries. “I’ve traveled a lot to photograph rural and garden cemeteries in this country. They’re teeming with life because they’re a sanctuary for trees and animals. They’re not going to get bulldozed over next month for a new apartment complex.”
She felt that some of the epitaphs she’d seen on stones had spoken to her, and she found out that in the late 1800s, there was a whole school Her interest in of people called ‘the photography came about graveyard poets.’ “These because she had been an were people you’d hire avid hiker but came down to write your epitaph. I with lyme disease. “I was thought that was really looking for a way to feel interesting. Also the way really immersed in nature that the epitaphs reflected but not necessarily push society at the time was my body the way I had really interesting as well.” in the past,” she stated. “When you’re looking Schafer said that she was through the lens, that’s hooked on photography all you see.” Please See SHOW Page 2
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