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Port Chester resident recognized as Mount Rushmore’s chief carver A family’s dedication led to the honor 50 years after the sculptor’s death

Revisit lesser-known Christmas traditions Where I’m From A poem by Chris Haggerty

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COVER PHOTO: Port Chester’s Maria Torres introduces her son Rudy to Santa for the first time. With a jolly chuckle, Charlie Sacco greeted the many children who showed up to the annual Santa in the Park at Lyon Park on Dec. 10, 2015. This year’s event takes place on Wednesday, Dec. 7.

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Port Chester resident recognized as Mount Rushmore’s chief carver

By Casey Watts

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he only classically trained stone carver in the tradition of Michelangelo who worked on Mount Rushmore wasn’t officially named the South Dakota monument’s chief carver until almost 50 years after his death.

Luigi Del Bianco was a mystery to his grandson Lou, who only knew his grandfather for five or six years before he died.

Lou remembers that he was the only grandson who was his grandfather’s namesake and his grandad used to tell him: “I am Luigi, you are Luigi.”

The Port Chester resident’s curiosity about Luigi began when he was in second grade and discovered a pamphlet on Mount Rushmore National Park that advertised a fundraiser to help complete the carving of the heads and bodies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln into the mountain. Inside the document, the second

grader found his grandfather’s name listed as the chief carver. He recalled running over to his mother and she told him that Luigi did indeed work on

three or four days with every trip, researching,” Lou said. He went about four times to view the Borglum Papers and other documents in the Library of Congress and the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and his uncle took six trips. But it was all necessary to get the evidence they needed to convince the National Park Service to honor Luigi separately as chief carver of the monument instead of only on the general plaque that lists all of its builders.

Unfortunately, Caesar passed away in 2009 and wasn’t able to see his work pay off.

“By the time my uncle passed away, I created a website to make these papers public,” Lou said. “People can download the actual documents and see them for themselves.”

“Mount Rushmore historians never saw these papers before – they couldn’t have been very happy with me,” he joked. “Because here I am going in Continued

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the sculpture. With that bit of knowledge, Lou was captivated and vowed to find out more.

His journey took Lou and his late uncle Caesar Del Bianco to the Library of Congress. As Lou recalled, Caesar “was like a monk in a monastery with the research” and spent three or four days poring over documents about Mount Rushmore and their common relative.

“He must have spent eight hours,

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Luigi Del Bianco works on George Washington’s forehead, creating a shallow row of holes called honeycombing, which is used during the beginning of the carving process.

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Luigi Del Bianco poses with designer Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum’s studio models of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. It was Del Bianco’s job to figure out the best way to translate the models into the 60-foot sculptures they are today.

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Standing with her nephew Lou Del Bianco, Gloria Del Bianco touches her father’s plaque at its unveiling in Port Chester on June 21, 2014.The memorial plaque is located in a small park across from 68 North Regent St. where Elizabeth Street meets Webster Place. The same plaque will be placed on the grounds of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota to honor Chief Carver Luigi Del Bianco sometime next year.

Jananne Abel|Westmore News and saying ‘if you want to know more about the monument you’re in charge of, you should go to Washington.’”

Lou believes he and Caesar were ignored at first, but after 25 years of work between the pair, it couldn’t be swept under the rug.

Luigi Del Bianco: From Italy to Mount Rushmore The papers told Luigi’s history: from his documentation to praise from his boss Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, the monument’s designer. When he was 11, the Italian sculptor studied in Austria under a skilled stone carver. After two

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years of apprenticing in Vienna, Luigi moved on to Venice. After a few years, Luigi heard from his cousins in Barre, Vt., that skilled carvers were needed, so the 17-year-old boarded the La Touraine out of Naples with his sights set on America, according to Lou’s website.

However, his time in America was short-lived; he returned to Italy in 1913 to fight in the Italian Army during World War I. After the war, he went back to Vermont in 1920 for a year before settling in Port Chester and meeting his wife Nicoletta Cardarelli.

The construction of Mount Rushmore began in 1927 and Luigi was

brought on board in 1933 after Borglum fired his previous chief carver. His job was to refine details on the statue’s faces, such as creating Abraham Lincoln’s eyes and fixing a crack in Thomas Jefferson’s lips. He was paid $1.50 an hour and was the only man in his paygrade. He was the senior driller until Borglum designated him as chief carver at the end of July, 1935.

According to the website dedicated to Luigi, in 1966 the carver told the Herald Statesman, a Yonkers-based daily newspaper, that he “could only see from this far what I was doing, but the eye of Lincoln had to look just right Continued

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from many miles distant” and that he knew “every line and ridge, each small bump and all the details of [Lincoln’s] head so well.”

Luigi eventually left the project due to harassment, the details of which were not contained in the documentation Lou and Caesar found. After funding for finishing Mount Rushmore ran out in 1941, the chief carver went home to 108 South Regent St. and opened a stone cutting shop where he carved approximately 500 tombstones out of marble, according to the website. Many of those headstones are in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Rye Brook. He also set many other works, including the statuary at Corpus Christi Church on South

Regent Street, the Our Lady of Fatima statue at Holy Rosary School on Central Avenue and the Spanish American War Memorial in Summerfield Park, according to a 1991 article by Yvette Kahn in Village Views.

He passed away in 1969.

Getting the recognition he deserves However, Luigi was never recognized for his work on Mount Rushmore.

His name appeared on a plaque at the site with those of about 400 other workers, and there were pictures of him shaping the stone, but the words “chief carver” never appeared.

Luigi Del Bianco, the chief carver on Mount Rushmore, shapes Abraham Lincoln’s eyes.

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“History doesn’t always tell you the whole story,” Lou said. “Sometimes you have to find it.”

Luigi’s recognition truly began in his hometown in 2014 when the community came together and raised $17,000 to have a memorial plaque made in his honor. Some of the contributors included the Port Chester Council for the Arts, Mayor Neil Pagano and the Port Chester Board of Trustees, Village Attorney Tony Cerreto and the Department of Public Works.

The 30”x24” bronze relief sculpture was crafted by Carmel’s Michael Keropian and can be found in a small park across from 68 North Regent St. where Elizabeth Street meets Webster Place. The base was created by Lou Larizza and Nick Gonzalez of Lazz Development, Jerry LaBella of LaBella Electric did the security light installation, Ron Luiso of Byram Mason, Stone, Building and Landscape Supply donated the bluestone and the landscaping around the monument was done and continues to be maintained

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In 2016, the National Park Service announced on its Facebook page that it recognized Luigi Del Bianco as Mount Rushmore’s chief carver. There will be a ceremony sometime next year at the site for the Del Bianco family and a plaque, almost identical to the one in Port Chester, will be placed for all tourists to see. The only difference will be the wording to make it less about the fact that he was a Port Chester resident and more about his work.

Lou just finished a first draft of a book where he is telling the story of his grandfather from his family’s perspective. He also performs a one-man show about his grandfather called “In the Shadow of the Mountain.”

“Don’t ever be afraid to question what you hear – sometimes you have to find the truth somewhere else,” Lou said. “That’s what happened to my grandfather.”

“That’s all we really wanted – to get my grandfather the credit he deserved, no more, no less,” he said.

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People who hang mistletoe in doorways may be surprised to learn that this tradition dates back to the ancient Druids. The Druids believed mistletoe possessed mystical powers that brought good luck to the household and warded off evil spirits.

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the winter solstice to help people envision the spring to come. Christians often look at evergreen trees as a sign of everlasting life and their relationship with God. While many Christmas traditions continue to be an integral part of annual celebrations, there are some customs that have fallen out of favor. Although these traditions may no longer be widely practiced, anyone can revive them and make them part of their holiday celebration.

Wassailing is a custom that has ancient origins and is not as popular today as it once was. Wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon phrase waes hael, which means, good health. Wassail is a drink made of mulled ale, spices and other ingredients. To go wassailing meant to travel door-to-door singing and offering a drink from a wassail bowl in exchange for gifts.

Wassailing has been mentioned in certain Christmas carols, including “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”

Largely an English tradition, wassailing was brought to America by British settlers.

Jan. 17, the old Twelfth Night, is the traditional date for wassailing. Although wassailing has largely fallen by the wayside, increased interest in ales and craft brewing may help revitalize this Christmas tradition, which can inspire community spirit.

Gifting with fruitcake is another tradition that has been much maligned and does not enjoy the same popularity it once did.

Fruitcake is made with chopped candied fruit, nuts and spices and is occasionally soaked in spirits. Fruitcakes have been enjoyed all over the world, but Americans may never have embraced the Christmas fruitcake tradition as much as those from other countries. However, with the right recipe and an open mind, it may be possible to resurrect the fruitcake tradition once again.

Mummers plays are another British tradition that arrived in North America with settlers but has largely fallen by the wayside. Mummers plays involved miming folk dramas, and the plays were commonplace around the holiday season.

Celebrants may want to research such dramas and include them in this year’s festivities to liven up celebrations even more.

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Yoni Rabino and Noah Braunstein stand in front of their distillery for Neversink Spirits at 33 New Broad St. The two Mamaroneck residents were more than happy to be able to follow their passion of crafting fruit brandy in Port Chester.

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Bottling the spirit of New York Local brewery pays homage to NY and Europe with apple brandy

By Casey Watts Two local brewery owners prefer to fly under the radar, which is why their Port Chester base doesn’t even have a sign above the door.

Noah Braunstein, 32, and Yoni Rabino, 31, of Neversink Spirits at 33 New Broad St. grew up with fond childhood memories of apple picking in nearby orchards. Add in the love for

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traditional European fruit brandy and eau de vie (clear, colorless fruit brandy translated to “water of life”) combined with two backgrounds in science from McGill and Wesleyan universities, and Neversink Spirits was born. The pair got into distilled spirits about six or seven years ago and visited distilleries around New York to figure out how to

set up their own.

They had the idea and quickly formed partnerships called “The Food Cycle” with Camps Road Farm and Kent Falls Brewery, both in Kent, Conn., but they needed a permanent space to make it happen. Two years ago, Braunstein and Rabino found the New Broad Street site. They cast out a net that covered the Hudson Valley all the way down to New York City. But they found the perfect spot in a building just north of their hometown of Mamaroneck in the village where the Continued

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friends have fond memories of sampling the many restaurants.

Now, all of the 3,000 square feet of space in their distillery is filled with tanks, 5- to 53-gallon barrels, a small lab, an office and other equipment.

“As the micro distillery movement was beginning to take shape, we were really kind of inspired by the concept of doing some of these traditional European fruit brandy styles with a New York twist, using New York grown fruit and tasting the difference in how growing, climate and soil will affect the flavors,” Rabino said. “We’re highlighting the spirit of New York and paying Neversink’s aged apple brandy is stored in barrels for a year. During this time, the once clear brandy soaks in the brown colors from the wood and the harsher homage to the European tradition.”

They knew one fruit that could do flavors soften. Neversink has 5- to 53-gallon barrels it uses to store its alcohol.

Casey Watts|Westmore News both: apples. The red fruit is one of New York’s biggest agricultural prod- fermenting the fruit by adding yeast, put the liquid through the process twice to get a pure mixture. The last step is to ucts and the 31-year-old thinks the state which turns the sugars into alcohol.

The next step is to distill the cider. add water to bring their product to 80 grows the best apples in the world.

“If we’re working with fruit, we Distilling is the process of heating up the proof, which is 40 percent alcohol, and then they bottle it. wanted to work with the local It takes about 2-3 months fruit that is done the best,” before their clear, unaged he said. “It was a no brainer apple brandy is ready to be for us to work with apples.” bottled, but it could take lonRight now, Neversink ger depending on the brew, Spirits offers five products: Rabino explained. an unaged clear apple branIf the mixture needs to be dy, an apple-based gin, and aged, they store it in a bartheir seasonal products of rel for a year. After a year in pear brandy, aged apple branthe container, the once clear dy and bourbon, which is a brandy is brown and some of new offering. Their seasonal the harsher flavors have meldrinks are released in the fall lowed. and are in limited stock. Due The whole process is as to the increased amount of sustainable as the pair can production, fall harvest, and currently make it. the spirit of gift-giving, the “Sustainability is someholidays are one of the busithing that’s important to us est times for Braunstein and and something that we’re Rabino. always trying to strive for,” Their orchard, which was Rabino said. “There’s always planted in 2013, neighbors room for improvement. We’re Camps Road Farm and grows working on ways to kind of 18 apple varieties, including improve the sustainability in NY 35 (Bonkers), Goldrush and Ellis Bitter. Not all of The two friends put in about 12-13 hours a day to make our processes.”

In addition to using local their apples come from the their products for Neversink Spirits. Yoni Rabino adjusts orchard – some are current- the temperature of the tank while Noah Braunstein checks agriculture whenever possible, they also recapture and ly supplied from New York on the consistency.

Casey Watts|Westmore News reuse any hot water. In the farms.

After their apples are picked, they mixture to extract alcohol. Alcohol has a future, the 31-year-old said he’d like to are pressed into a cider before they lower boiling temperature, so the distill- look into more renewable, sustainable come to the distillery in Port Chester. ery captures the alcoholic steam in an- energy sources, especially if they were Braunstein and Rabino then begin other container. Rabino and Braunstein able to further expand their business.

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Expansion is something the pair knows well. At first, they started off as a self-distributing business that grew into the 50-plus cases per month production they do now. In a good month, Rabino estimated they can ship out 100 cases with 12 bottles per case and there are only two full-time people and one part-time person working on the product. The two Mamaroneck residents put in 12- to 13-hour days and often only get one or two days off in a month, but they love what they do. Rabino described it as a labor of love. But they are looking into the idea of getting extra help.

“It’s a lot of work,” Rabino said.

“We’re hoping to expand our staff next year.”

In addition to expanding their staff, the distillery owners are interested in opening a tasting or retail shop, but that won’t be for a couple of years.

Expanding was originally a part of their plan, but it was tabled as the pair began to focus on increasing their production. Now that it is legal in Port

Neversink Spirits offers five products, two of which are pictured here. The apple gin and clear unaged apple brandy in these larger bottles cost about $50.

Neversink’s other products are seasonal and include aged apple brandy, bourbon and pear brandy.

Casey Watts|Westmore News Chester for breweries to open a retail store, Rabino said they would like to figure out how to make that a reality for the two friends in the coming years.

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dustrial. The village’s new legislation generally allows “taking retail to light industrial, not vice versa,” said Howie Ravikoff, vice president of M. Ravikoff Associates, which owns the building.

Neversink Spirits products can be found all over New York, including Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Westchester, Long Island and more.

Their prices range from $30-$55.

In Port Chester, Tarry Wine at 175 North Main St. and VarMax Liquor Pantry at 16 Putnam Ave. sell their spirits. No stores or restaurants in Rye Brook currently stock Neversink Spirits.

33 New Broad Street The two-story, 48,000square-foot light industrial building at 33 New Broad St., also called a flex space, is home to many other companies besides Neversink Spirits. They include: Beldotti Bakeries, also known as Good Bread Bakery, offers a full line of bakery goods such as cakes, pies, pastries, and more. This location is a bread factory and is not open to the public.

Yoni Grayson De Vere Staging is all about property renovation, residential staging, design consultation and more. Their location on New Broad Street is their private warehouse showroom. It is open Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by private appointment.

Hard Crack is a bakery that makes toffee cookies in mocha, chocolate chip and original toffee flavors. Their cookies are sold at Whole Foods in Port Chester.

Maypro Industries manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals.

Other companies in the building include Josam Foods LLC, York Fabrics LLC and Acacia.

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Customizing, which occupied the entire building for at least a decade.

When the Ravikoffs bought 33 New Broad, Service Customizing was on the first floor and the second floor was vacant, Howie said. “Then we did what we do best—improve the property.”

The Ravikoffs overhauled the entire upper level. “We gutted it and reconfigured it as flex space,” he said. “We have light industrial and warehousing. It was configured for multiple tenancies.”

There are multiple tenants and industries—offices, showrooms, warehouses, bakeries and the distillery.

Tenants have come and gone over the years— “welcome to real estate in Port Chester—but now we have a very stable building,” Howie said.

The longest-term tenant is Good Bread Bakery, which has been there since the Ravikoffs bought the structure. “They were the first tenant to sign up after we gutted and reconfigured the upper level,” Howie said. “They were a small bakery on Greenwich Avenue that had outgrown their space, and we custom built their commercial bakery Rabino adjusts the steam levels on the distiller.

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“When we bought the building in “tenants [like Neversink Spirits] are 1999, my father picked up Premier outgrowing their space.”

Howie said his father, Marvin, who Microwave and decided to call it The grew the family’s real estate business Premier Building,” Howie Ravikoff said. “It sort of goes along with his per- along with his mother, is still president of the company and “captain of the sonality.”

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The Por By Casey considera t Chester pol Watts ice after the bly over the station has cha renovationbuilding receivpast three monged nth ed a mu .

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The firs By Casey dum wa t step to creatin Watts s the Por completed on Tueg a new bond ref t (BAC) Chester Bond sday, Nov. 22 erenvot Ad the Board ed to send the visory Commwhen ir present, of Education recommenda ittee Briefs, tion to . Out of 20 voted page 16 roll call the vote can for the recomme 23 people You ndation be found Now the r . The BA You Village C ove might in the sidebar. r to the r , mean the Board of Educabe turning their You Paper r New , vowed to ir job is done. tion, but that doework s Ma adv ny $ 00 ocate for of the me sn’t tion pla the n mb bring 100and a few of the ir proposed con ers strucBoard of people or mo m claimed they $ could Port Ch re to Education 00 ester “The approv the polls if the Tam arack Ro High School board’s pressure is surely ed it.

Tel: 91 mi sho ad and 4-939-68 renegotiat ulders. For me going to rest a new ght be receiv 64 on Fax: 91 gym adj ing my e the wh 4-939-68 acent to a new additio ole deal,” self, I would likethe the gym Tom Co would 77 the cur rbi Tom to Editor@w a sha men are rent on n above the par concerned red similar Ceruzzi said. that his concep be too great. Hy estmoren e. king lot fee wh t would man of lings. Bo abo ich has ews.com the on /Westmo more tha ut the cost of th and Board of Educa cover about predicted school COUR reNew the 80 per n wo This pro tion TESY OF dou bon uld cut s @west JOE FUL 2015 and d went to the bled since the ject, school the cost ’s charge to the cent of Ed plan is not set morenew LER ucation in of in sto fail BA las pol hal the ed. t C ls f. work at www.w Th crowding s in Port Ch puts it up for ne until the Bo the high estmoren at the hig at bond only add December wo Secretary Ste ard a est vot tac er res ew a h e. kle phe Hig floating uld be school wh sed ove 38 Bro s.com s space n Sim h School ad Stree would rec on Tam addition built “It’s imp needs at the ele ile this plan als r- whether or presumptuous mons though Port Ch t ara above the t it bet to try and eive o not menta ester, NY ck Road. said. “O ortant we hel par ter It 10573p our stu ry schools. just looking at the bond will ne of the Locally 4197 pass, esp predict the sec student foot traf would give the king lot fact tha dents,” Co the potent owned things “We t building and and I thin you never just that hit me wa rbia menda were tasked wit ial price tag. ecially would ond floor. In this fic by creating since 196 operated a loop on tion to h ask two-sto be 4 meet the putting down a what the k [the board] ove for the min s the of the ry classroom about 17-18 Here’s imum needs, recom y nee nee new roo concept, there rreached what ms, inc “We cam d.” on exactly Hyman’s pro ” Simmons ds, not 80 per - room and s, science labs, 10573 luding cent gym said in a a e Events.. ’s inside ban com pos in bon vot and d ed put reference roo d and ers wo plan. er alm Arts & En ............ to on would be add lab. A compet m, a choir .... to think,” it bothers me ost doubled the up there n’t pass it unt “You don’t kno ed College itio Classifiedtertainment ...1 .5 what peo he Avenue adjacent to the n sized 6-1 ple are last or somethto pass. This isn il there’s som w the be ren “We hav continued. and old going Governm s ................18 7 ova eth wanted,” e given the needs to ing frivolous, ’t something for ing be on the ted into new the current gym gym m locker roo Nearby ent Meetings -19 this is som happen.” would fun we same flo reached he concluded exactly what .....5 Events ms tha ething tha or igh .

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