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Getting In the
Holiday Spirit
The Art
of Wreath
Making
Fruitcake:
Breaking
the Stigma
Catch the
Holiday Train
Celebrating
100 Years of
Growing
WINTER
‘15
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The English Garden
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December’s snow will soon be falling and one by one, towns all
over the area will start twinkling in the dark. Little lights in windows,
on lamp posts and wrapped around tree branches can turn even the
dreariest of communities into magical holiday wonderlands.
There are also a multitude of tree lightings, carol sing-a-longs and
Santa huts. And how about those cleverly wrapped parking meters?
While some communities just put red plastic bags over the meters,
others take pride in the packaging, turning the metal coin machines
into temporary pieces of art.
Of course, attention-grabbing decorations mean an increased risk of
theft or vandalism, but some town officials can’t help but run with the
holiday spirit.
For some places, it’s been that way for a long time. Writer Tricia Kline
touched base with some folks who have inside information on Main
Street holiday decorations.
We know a lot of time, hard work and money is invested to light up a
downtown. And a month’s worth of free parking is a pretty sweet gift.
To town leaders and participating businesses, we take this opportunity
to say thank you for your efforts.
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Now for something else seasonably tasteful ...
Writer Cindy O. Herman knows one word that seems to cause most
people to “turn up our noses like "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas."
“What’s with us?” she asks. “Be honest: Why do we hate fruitcake?”
Could it be its multicolored marbled, bumpy appearance? How
about its gnarly reputation? Probably not its taste, because most
people who don’t like it never tried it.
What does it take to sparkle up a town or give fruitcake a fair shake?
Answers to these and more, inside.
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WINTER
features»
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Cover story: The English
Garden: Small-Town
Charm, Big-City Style
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Fruitcake: Breaking
the Stigma
16
getting in the
holiday spirit
22
Pennsylvania College
of Technology Joins
in for 20 of 100 years
at the Pa Farm show
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"you Won a Lot of
stuff!": How One
Woman Got Hooked
on the PA Farm Show
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For the Love of
Liverpool: One Man's
Collecting Has Led To
Many New Connections
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When Family Becomes
Part of the decor
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Catch the holiday Train
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The art of Wreath
making
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departments»
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Pa Books
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shopping spree: Gifts and
Goodies From Local Businesses
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sprecken sie: Sumt'n Wrong
Here, Hain't Though?
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cover story
The English Garden
Small-Town Charm,
Big-City Style
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hat simple yet profound
philosophy has guided
two generations and 43
years of business at The
english garden.
The English Garden, since its beginning
in 1972, has always been a family run
business. John and Debbie Rejmer
began the business (initially called The
Village Sampler) right from their home
in Riverside, and later moved it to the
historic Train Station and Susquehanna
House Hotel, where they also raised their
family.
“This store has always been a part of
my life," says Abbey Kremser, the current
owner (and daughter of John and Debbie)
who bought the business from her mother
in 2003, “…my goal is to be different than
any other store ... providing big-city style
with small-town friendliness and service.”
And Abbey has done just that. The
English Garden boasts such well known
brands as Alex and Ani, Vera Bradley,
Brighton, Chamilia, and Crabtree &
Evelyn.
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“I am always trying to find ‘the next big
thing’” offers Abbey. “With the help of my
staff we are constantly paying attention
to magazines, social media and customer
requests.”
Buying trips to New York and Atlanta
make The English Garden the place to
find unique gifts, home décor, fashion
accessories, and clothing. Don’t let the
upscale brands intimidate you, The English
Garden prides itself on its warm, relaxing
and friendly atmosphere — a quaint smalltown feel.
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“I know people have a lot of choices
when it comes to shopping — we aren’t just
competing against malls and chain stores
anymore. If people only shop online and
in big box stores, the mom and pop stores
that make a town a town will be a thing of
the past ... it challenges us to offer more.”
The English Garden offers such unique
services as courtesy gift wrapping,
customer birthday coupons (and birthday
parties including a wrapped gift and
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personalized shopping and customer relationships.
“Our goal is to greet you warmly from the moment you enter,
help you have an enjoyable shopping experience while you are
here, and make you look forward to coming again soon!” Abbey
smiles, “We are thankful for our customers and want them to
feel appreciated.”
Abbey and husband Ken both grew up in Riverside and are
deeply rooted in the area.
“We love our community,” says Abbey "and we are happy to
give back to this community. At the end of the day, we’re simply
a family serving families.”
The English Garden is proud to participate in local charitable
events. Just last month, a “Stand Up To Cancer” event raised
money to provide gift baskets for local women battling cancer.
“We strive to listen to our customers and what they are
passionate about — simply supporting the community and the
people who support us.”
“As we enter this Christmas season, I am incredibly grateful,”
says Abbey. “When we moved from the train station to the
current store in 2012, my husband and I prayed that God would
allow our work to be about more than simply making a living
but rather become a place where we can make a difference and
live out our faith”.
In fact, The English Garden donates a minimum of 1 percent
of its yearly sales to Samaritan’s Purse, an international
Christian relief organization.
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destination this Holiday season! They are open Tuesday and
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Fruitcake:
Breaking the Stigma
Cindy o. herman
S
ome people just don’t
like candied fruits and
nuts, and that’s OK. These
people probably won’t
like fruitcake. Perfectly
understandable.
But the rest of us, sitting here turning
up our noses like "The Grinch Who Stole
Christmas" … what’s with us? Be honest:
Why do we hate fruitcake?
“Fruitcake’s gotten a bad rap, and
because of that, people don’t try it. They
just automatically think it’s disgusting,”
said Shawn Ocker, who is among a rare
group of people who like — and admit to
liking — fruitcake.
Her daughter, Kala Nelson, was more
like the rest of us.
“When I think of fruitcake, I think
of the brick,” Kala said, referring to an
affectionate term used to describe the
traditional holiday treat. (OK, maybe not
so affectionate.) But after spending an
afternoon whipping up a fruitcake in her
mother’s sunny, Mifflinburg kitchen, Kala
changed her tune. A bit.
“Now, of course, I’m going to try it,
because I helped make it,” she said as the
aroma of baking fruitcake filled the air.
“And the batter was good.” Looking at her
mother, she clinched the deal. “And I trust
you.”
This is a really
good fruitcake
recipe. It might
break the stigma.
Alas, is that what it takes — a
personal connection — to get people
to give the lowly fruitcake a fair shake?
Unfortunately, it may be.
“I don’t remember eating fruitcake
until my aunt made this recipe,” Shawn
admitted. “Maybe what made me eat this
fruitcake is because I helped my aunt
make it. Like Kala helped me. I liked the
batter, too.”
(That batter, by the way. Mmmm.
Sweet and creamy, it tastes like
a rich, yellow cake batter.)
The original recipe,
which Shawn’s aunt
picked up about 50
years ago from an
acquaintance,
called for 10
eggs and eight
We’re all about tradition
at Christmas.
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hours of baking — “and so they were kind
of dry,” Shawn said with a smile. She’s
tweaked the recipe, which, oddly enough,
does not use rum or whiskey, and has
been making it with her mother ever
since.
“I like the tradition of making it with my
mother. And now my daughter,” Shawn
said. “I love Christmas.”
“We’re all about tradition at Christmas,”
Kala agreed, mentioning that she and
Shawn usually bake at least eight different
kinds of cookies for the holidays — and
perhaps now, Kala will also join in on the
fruitcake baking.
“This is a really good fruitcake recipe,”
Kala said. “It might break the stigma.”
Kala, suggesting ways of improving
fruitcake’s appeal:
“I would eat it with
whipped cream. Make it
moist. Maybe more people
would be open to it.”
Shawn, frowning slightly:
“But for my
fruitcake, don’t ruin
the experience.”
Kala, chuckling:
“No additives
needed.”
Shawn, when asked if she would
try someone else’s fruitcake:
“Yes, because I’m openminded … And secretly
I’d be thinking it doesn’t
look as good as mine!”
White Fruit Cake
1 lb. (4 sticks) butter
2 cups sugar
10 eggs
½ cup Karo (white syrup)
½ tsp. baking soda dissolved in Karo syrup
4 cups flour, divided
1 tsp. vanilla
4 lbs. cherry-pineapple mixed candied fruit
2 lbs. pecans (shelled, whole)
Perhaps the time has come. Take a crack at
Shawn’s amazingly simple and flavorful recipe
in your own kitchen. Fill your home with the
scent of golden cake, candied fruit and warm
pecans. Stop treating fruitcake like the Grinch of
Christmas baking. Pull up a chair, brew a cup of
holiday tea and give the fruitcake a chance. »
heat oven to 275°
1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. add eggs, one at a time, and beat.
3. dissolve baking soda in Karo syrup.
4. add flour and syrup — less 1 cup flour — to egg batter.
5. Beat until thoroughly combined.
6. add vanilla to batter.
7. in large bowl, stir fruit and pecans
with the reserved 1 cup flour.
8. Pour batter over floured fruit and pecans.
9. mix well. (it’s easier to do this with
your hands instead of a spoon.)
Line small loaf pans, 6 x 3 ½ x 2, with parchment
paper (four loaf pans should do it). Pour mixture into
pans, about ¾ full. Bake at 275° for 2 hours or until
top is browned and parchment separates from sides
of pan. remove from pan the following day. (The
fruitcake will be moister if allowed to marinate a bit.)
Wrap in plastic wrap, then foil, and refrigerate. enjoy!
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Left: “Now, of course, I’m going to try it, because I helped make it,” says Kala Nelson, right, filling bread pans with batter after helping her mother,
Shawn Ocker, make fruitcake. Right: “I have found, the longer it sits, the more moist it gets,” says Shawn Ocker of the White Fruitcake she makes
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Getting in the
Holiday Spirit
TRICIA KLINE
Amanda august
Don Casteline, of Sunbury, lifts Jonathan
Fisher, 8 of Northumberland, as Christian
Cianflone lifts his brother Mason
Cianflone, 7 of Northumberland, to put
ornaments on a christmas tree in King
Street in Northumberland in 2012. The
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F
rom the ever-improving
lighted holiday icons
hung on the street lights,
to the santa houses and
increasingly popular tree
lighting ceremonies in parks
and main squares, it’s clear
that community traditions
are here to stay.
Some already have a rich history that is
growing ever richer.
Selinsgrove in Snyder County is known
for its White Christmas tradition that
began in 1972, and was revived about 15
years ago.
“It’s more important now than it ever
was,” said Mary Bannon, Main Street
manager.
Mifflinburg is a Union County
borough especially known for its popular
Christkindl Market, now in its 27th year.
In Sunbury, the Lite-Fest Committee,
in existence for more than half a century,
continues to oversee the efforts to keep
the city in the Christmas spirit.
Free Holiday Parking
Lewisburg: Starts thanksgiving day
milton: thanksgiving to Jan. 1
northumberland: dec. 1-31
Sunbury: day after thanksgiving
through Jan. 1
And in the borough of Lewisburg, don’t
expect the decorations to change too
much from year to year.
“I try to keep in vogue with what
Lewisburg represents — nothing gold
or shiny and too loud,” said Chuck
Chatham, head of holiday decorating
in the borough. “It’s a little bit more of
a natural Victorian feel. It’s very much a
little white-light town.”
NEW IDEAS/GROWING
INVOLVEMENT
Cherie Ross, director of the Mifflinburg
Heritage and Revitalization Association,
said downtown businesses have
participated in a storefront decorating
competition for the past five years, adding
Sunbury Social Club
to the town’s festive feel.
“Every year, more get involved,” she said.
According to Northumberland Borough
Mayor Len Zboray, the community has
come together to do more than it ever
has before, particularly in the town’s King
Street Park area.
“Many people come to our park to see
the decorations and are delighted at what
they see,” he said. “It puts people into the
spirit of the holidays.”
Not to mention, those doing the actual
decorating, particularly of the 31 freshcut Christmas pines that are placed in the
park each year, “enjoy the comradery of
making their trees come to life,” he said.
Chuck Beck, manager of Milton for the
past 40 years, said this borough also does
more now than it used to, and credits that
to increasing community involvement.
A variety of churches now get together
to display a nativity and carol in the
central business district, and a big
celebration is coordinated each year
around the Lincoln Park gazebo.
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Selinsgrove High School senior Maggie
Lemons, 17, helps decorate the Selinsgrove
downtown in 2012.
many in the Selinsgrove community get
together to decorate, Bannon said.
Meeting in the Commons, or the town
square, the volunteers are paired off
and then sent on their way with a bin
of adornments labeled for a specific
location.
“All of the businesses are decorated with
wreaths, garlands and bows when the day
is over,” Bannon said
of glistening snow and ice can bring a
magical aura to our downtowns, but
the harsh reality of the cold and violent
weather means damages and associated
costs for maintenance and repairs.
In Lewisburg, borough parking meters
at one time were wrapped to look like
gifts — boxes decorated by local school
CHANGES
A number of municipalities — including children.
Unfortunately, many became the
Milton, Lewisburg, Watsontown and
casualties
of theft.
Northumberland — have switched to
That’s
why,
according to Chatham, the
HOMEMADE
LED lights that while are expensive
current
decorations
are all “out of reach.”
While many decorations that liven up
upfront, provide brighter lights and
Mifflinburg
Borough
Manager Margaret
municipal main streets during the holiday energy savings over time.
Metzger
said
in
the
past
they used to
season are purchased, a few towns have
Last year, the blue and white banners
put
white
lights
in
the
street
trees along
had the privilege of dedicated volunteers
hung throughout the main corridor
Chestnut
Street
—
the
borough’s
main
taking the time and effort to create some
of Selinsgrove were replaced with
thoroughfare
—
until
the
trees
became
customized ones.
the traditional red ones, and lighted
too large, and the project just too big to
The late Clyde Kistner made the
snowflakes around the street lights were
tackle.
gingerbread men and Christmas tree
added.
And now, with a recent street-widening
decorations that have covered the parking
New globe lights installed in Milton
project,
the large trees were replaced
meters each year for the last three decades as part of a streetscape project this year,
with
much
smaller ones — too small to
in Northumberland Borough.
Beck said, will be adorned with wreaths.
decorate,
at
least for for awhile.
“We now have volunteers working to
But while some changes made each year
replace some that have been damaged
are for the purpose of keeping things
VOLUNTEERS, FUNDING
through the years,” said Mayor Zboray.
fresh, other changes have been made out
ALWAYS NEEDED
Volunteers from various businesses,
of necessity.
schools, churches and other organizations
Decorations during the winter months
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trim the trees with LED lights, and stars,
balls and snowflakes.
Many of those, too, are homemade,
some with edible bird seed, nuts and fruit.
Volunteers also made many of the
decorations you see in Selinsgrove.
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As we enjoy walking or riding through
the lighted and festive fairways of our
local towns, few of us will stop to think
about the man hours and cost such
undertakings require each year.
Some towns have bigger budgets than
others, some operate solely on grants or
donations, but the bottom line is this:
Holiday decorating is neither cheap or
easy.
Chatham is a business owner in
Lewisburg and a retired florist and is the
main man who oversees decorating the
borough’s downtown each year.
“My biggest passion in the world is
Christmas,” he readily admits.
Fully volunteer, he works with a budget
of about $1,400 a year, provided through
the Lewisburg Downtown Partnership, to
upkeep the 4-foot-wide wreaths on top of
the street lights, and the lighting strung
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That amount of money goes quickly
when you multiply an item needed for a
wreath — such as a set of lights, bells or
ribbon — by 91.
Chatham works hard to be both as
frugal and as creative as he can be; he
held back on some things he wanted to
do last year because he knew this year
maintenance was a priority.
“This year is a major revamp,” he said,
“because electrical components (on the
wreaths) have been used to their max.”
Lights on a large tree in Hufnagle Park
in Lewisburg remain year-round.
To decorate that tree, Chatham said,
“is such a job of a magnitude that it’s just
unbelievable.”
Approximately four years ago, a sizeable
donation paid for the replacement of the
lights to new LED ones, and hanging
them required the rental of expensive
and heavy equipment. Two sections of
sidewalk were casualties under their
weight.
It’s hard work,
but it’s fun. It's a
labor of love.
Snyder County seat, it does its part in
encouraging the Christmas spirit with
some old, familiar favorites.
Borough Administrator Virginia Zeiber
said the 25 wreaths and 35 lanterns that
are lighted and placed on utility poles
each year by the maintenance crew are
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In Milton, all of the decorations
least the last two decades.
are purchased through voluntary
But Christmas decorations costing
contributions to the town’s Christmas
thousands of dollars are just not in the
decorating committee, which also pays
small borough’s budget, so they make the
for the associated additional electric costs. best of what they have.
Middleburg may be a small borough
Last year, Zeiber said a group of
of only 1,380 residents, but as the
volunteers “did extensive rehabilitation
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of the decorations,” which included rewiring, painting and
installing new bulbs.
This year, there’s talk of possibly hanging some lighted live
wreaths.
Sunbury’s Lite-Fest Committee has been in the process of
replacing the city’s decorations over the past three years.
"Each year, we continually try to improve,” said committee
chair Kathaleen Persing, who serves alongside fellow leader
Terry Specht.
That’s on top of what the annual maintenance volunteers
do to keep everything looking as fresh as possible, including
replacing weathered bows and wreaths, and painting the steps
to the Santa house in Cameron Park.
Street-side decorations now include garland, candy canes
and lighted displays along the riverfront, as well as all along
Market Street up to 12th.
The committee receives $2,500 from Sunbury Revitalization
Inc. each year toward Christmas decoration needs.
And while they are grateful for it, they also recognize that
additional fundraising must be done to pay for all that’s
needed. They receive much-needed contributions from
businesses, as well as the Kiwanis and Sunbury Rotary clubs,
and the city workers and fire departments who help to hang
the decorations.
These crews are often the unsung heroes who take several
dedicated days for the work.
“It’s hard work, but it’s fun,” Persing said, calling it “a labor
of love.”
“I think everyone should volunteer and give back to the
community,” she said, adding that Christmas decorating is a
wonderful way to welcome visitors into the community.
“They want to come to a place that is happy and inviting,
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cooking with chef paul
Pennsylvania College
of Technology joins
in for 20 of 100 years
at the PA Farm Show
Cindy o. herman
We use as many vegetables as
possible in our recipes,
says Chef Paul Mach as he and student Katelynn Watson show off the BBQ Vegetable Hush Puppies with
a Marinated Vegetable Slaw they just demonstrated onstage at last year’s Pennsylvania Farm Show.
P
erhaps as much as preparing
food, a chef enjoys feeding
people. One of the most
appreciative groups of good
cuisine can be found yearly at
the Pennsylvania Farm Show, in
Harrisburg, which celebrates its
100th birthday in 2016.
“A lot of what I like about the farm show is what
you see right here,” Chef Paul said at last year’s
event, indicating people standing in line for
free samples of the BBQ Vegetable Hush
Puppies and Marinated Vegetable
Slaw he and his students had
just demonstrated making
(on Vegetable Day). “I like
talking to the people. They
come up and ask you about
the recipes,” Chef Paul
grinned. “And just the
general goodwill. You
know, even though we
leave tired, we leave
with a happy feeling.”
Leave tired? Well,
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yes, working 11- to 12-hour days and
serving about 1,500 portions of food on
each of those days will do that to you.
Behind the on-stage demonstration
kitchen, the Pennsylvania College of
Technology students and instructors
sliced and diced, blended and broiled,
and coaxed raw ingredients into
mouthwatering culinary delights.
One student stood at a gleaming
table quartering a crateful of red, ripe
tomatoes. When asked how many she had
to slice, she replied with a smile, “until
they’re gone.”
But there’s also fun in the work,
especially when it’s work you love. As
two students dropped spoonsful of hush
puppy batter into sizzling grease, one
said, “I love how they just drop down, and
then they just …” She fanned her fingers
to show the gentle reappearance of the
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all things Pennsylvania, as shown by
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the PA Preferred state branding logo
identifies products that are grown,
produced, or processed in the
Keystone State.
“We focus on helping Pennsylvania
businesses,” said Lela Reichart,
bureau director of market
development for the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture. From
“farm to fork,” the logo helps
consumers choose products
that support in-state farms and
businesses.
“We invest in our communities. It
keeps the money in Pennsylvania,”
Reichart said. “If each Pennsylvanian
spent $10 a week on local products,
it will equate to $2.9 billion being
reinvested in the commonwealth.”
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from Lancaster. “Where else can you see
all the Pennsylvania product and (also)
the biggest sweet potato? It is great.”
Chef Paul used Nora’s Spice Rub
Classic Barbecue from Maser’s stand
in his hush puppy recipe, along with
other Pennsylvania ingredients too
numerous to mention. With a selection of
Pennsylvania ingredients at his fingertips,
crispy fritters bobbing to the surface.
and his own sense of fun in preparing
“I know!” the other agreed. “It’s the most food, Chef Paul let loose.
magically beautiful thing.”
“Radicchio slaw? Why not?” he asked
For a chef, cooking at the Pennsylvania
with a grin while his students served
Farm Show — with an entire room
bowls of colorful, shredded vegetable
devoted to ingredients, produce, and
slaw, “Throw some zucchini in it? Why
spices — must be a little magical too.
not? Carrots? Why not? Use the things
“This is my 20th year here,” Chef Paul
that are good for us.”
said last year as he strolled through
As visitors sampled the hush puppies
aisles packed with visitors examining
and vegetable slaw then
Pennsylvania products from cheese and
paused to thank Chef
honey to jerky, jelly, fudge and wine.
Paul as they continued on
“Weis is the sponsor here this year. They
through the Farm Show, he
bring as much local product as they can
beamed.
get.”
“This is who we are,”
In all of the school’s Farm Show recipes Chef Paul said. “These are
they too try to use as many Pennsylvania- hardworking people in the
made products as possible, right down to Northeast (Pennsylvania).
the spices.
Hardworking and
“I’ve been coming since I was a kid,” said hungry.”
Christina Maser, chatting with Chef Paul
at her booth, Christina Maser Pantry,
I've been coming
since I was a kid.
100th Pennsylvania Farm Show Facts
•This year’s Pennsylvania Farm Show, the 100th, runs
from January 9 through 16.
•300 commercial exhibits, nearly 6,000 animals, 10,000
competitive exhibits
•Theme: “100th Pennsylvania Farm Show: Our
Commonwealth’s Blue Ribbon Experience”
•Logo: a blue ribbon
•Began as a three-day exhibition in 1917, giving farmers
around the state a chance to gather and discuss mutual
concerns
•Admission is free and parking is $10.
•Order “Hold Your Horses!” a 176-page book recording
the rich history of the nation’s largest indoor agricultural
exposition, for $25 at pafarmshowbook.com.
Visitors to Pennsylvania College of Technology School
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with a Marinated Vegetable Slaw, here shown with a
bottle of Pennsylvania-made wine.
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processed in the Keystone State.
As Pennsylvania College
of Technology’s School of
Hospitality students prepare
thousands of portions of food in
the Pennsylvania Farm Show’s
backstage kitchen, they constantly
ask Chef Paul to check on the
taste, sight or texture of their work.
Chef Paul Mach and his students from Pennsylvania College of Technology make and serve about 1,500 portions of food each day at the
Pennsylvania Farm Show. Here, he and student Katelynn Watson demonstrate recipes on Vegetable Day.
Shredded radicchio, Carrots and
zucchini wait to be blended into a
vegetable slaw.
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"You won a
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How one woman got hooked
on the PA Farm Show
Cindy o. herman
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“That was just beginner’s luck,” she said.
“And it made it fun.”
County fairs across the state encourage
first-place winners to compete at the
Pennsylvania Farm Show, which Rhoads
has been doing ever since, loving every
hardworking minute of it. She enters
spaghetti sauce, apple butter and apple
sauce. Beans, sweet potatoes and pickled
zucchini. Dried corn, dried mushrooms
People can ask, but look at the glow
and dried apples, or snitz. All kinds of
on Rhoads’ face, and they’ll see … she’s
jellies and jams, goats milk soap, wine,
having a ball.
and gourds she dries and decorates.
“It’s part of my culture,” she said,
“I usually win something,” she said,
explaining that as a kid she helped her
adding
with a shrug, “There was, like, one
mother can produce, and today Rhoads
or
two
years
that I got skunked.”
and her husband, Stephen, live in the
She’s
learned
to pay attention to the
same house she grew up in. “These are
details
judges
scrutinize.
Too much or too
the same trees I picked fruit on as a kid.
little
head
space.
Separation
of fruit and
These are the same grapevines I’m making
sugar.
Proper
appearance.
wine on that I picked as a kid. It means
“They’ll set up all the jars, and they’ll
something to me.”
know
the duds right away,” she said.
Rhoads stumbled into a First-Place
Rhoads’
colorful collection of Farm
Rosette award at the Bloomsburg Fair in
Show
ribbons
reflects a chance to nurture
2001 (for zucchini bread) after a girlfriend
and
bond
with
her family.
urged her to enter. She didn’t even go to
“Some
people,
you can tell they laid each
the fair to see how she had done, but her
bean
in
by
hand,
”
she said. “Mine is more
friend called, saying, “You won! You won
utilitarian.
I
use
it.
” And even though
a lot of stuff!”
she
was
“tortured”
by having to help her
Surprised and tickled, Rhoads was
mother
as
a
kid,
one
of the things she
hooked.
now loves about canning is the bonding
time, whether cracking hickory shells
with her sister’s boyfriend or slaving over
sauerkraut — her favorite and most timeconsuming preserve — with Stephen.
“I like to say it’s a binding meal,” she said
of the sauerkraut. “My husband and I do
it together. You have to shred it, check
it, nurture it and then six weeks later, jar
it. Every time you eat it, you think about
how you made it.”
eople ask Jennifer
Rhoads why she goes
to the trouble not only of
preserving her own fruits,
vegetables and jellies, but
also of entering them in the
Pennsylvania Farm Show.
That was just
beginner’s luck,
and it made it fun.
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Rhoads has had her share of canning
calamities. She once blew up a jug of
elderberry wine.
“It needed a primary fermenter, which
I didn’t do,” she said, shaking her head.
“I corked it too hard, and the wine was
working, and it just exploded the glass.
The whole house stank.”
She leaned the value of “less is more”
when she ignored instructions to add one
or two whole cloves to a quart of spiced
peaches. She added 10 because “they
taste so good,” and their strong flavor and
numbing quality overtook the peaches.
“Like, when you ate them, you couldn’t
feel your nose,” she said with a laugh.
“They were very pungent. They were very
clovey. But I never did that again.”
Rhoads loves the blending of art and
science to create something beautiful and
useful. And she loves the competition,
often benchmarking herself against fellow
competitors like Jeff Snyder, of Gratz.
“If I get a blue ribbon in something he
If I get a blue
ribbon in
something he
doesn’t, I’m
like, ‘Yeah!’”
Pennsylvania Farm Show:
Celebrating 100 Years of Growing
Merry Christmas!
Browsers Welcome
one hundred years of tractors and combines. cows
and chickens. Quilts and cakes. eggs, string beans,
wine and honey — all this and more will be celebrated
at the 2016 pennsylvania Farm Show … an anniversary
event not to be missed.
theme days, which focus on different aspects of
agriculture and pennsylvania life, will be:
•Monday — ag education & career
•Tuesday — thank a Farmer
•Wednesday — public officials and Fairs’
day (public officials day is typically
held on thursday of Farm Show week
but will be on Wednesday in 2016.)
•Thursday — Veterans and active
military Service day
•Friday — Farmland preservation day
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appropriately, new events will be highlighted this year.
1. “We will host our first u.S. army – u.S. navy
cook-off on the culinary connection stage,” said
Brandi Hunter-davenport, press secretary for the pa
department of agriculture, office of communications.
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2. Keeping with the Farm Show’s educational aims,
visitors this year will see an educational component
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the farm to the table, Hunter-davenport said.
3. History walls throughout the complex will showcase
where the industry has been within the last century,
where it is today and plans for the future.
4. Finally, recognizing the importance of Farm Show
visitors, staff are collecting visitors’ stories to share.
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doesn’t, I’m like, ‘Yeah!’” she said, adding
that she’d love to beat him in the dried
corn entry. “He kicks me on that every
year.”
Rhoads takes pride in the Pennsylvania
heritage displayed at the Farm Show.
“If you have a Pennsylvania driver’s
license, you should definitely go,” she said.
“Anyone raised in Pennsylvania should
go.”
She marveled at a Rotary Exchange
student her family hosted who had never
seen a live cow before visiting the Farm
Show. She learned gourd decorating from
a fellow competitor, and is more than
willing to teach others how to preserve
foods. And she encourages crafters of all
stripes to enter their work at the Farm
Show.
“I truly believe in my heart of hearts,”
she said, “that, anybody that does
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Top: Jennifer Rhoads has been winning ribbons at the Pennsylvania
Farm Show ever since her zucchini bread won a First-Place Rosette at
the 2001 Bloomsburg Fair.
Left: Jennifer Rhoads was introduced to the art of decorating dried
gourds by a fellow Farm Show competitor. Now she grows a variety of
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Liverpool antiques and other Perry
County items for close to 50 years. A
room located in the basement of his
Liverpool home is dedicated to his
collections, which include documents
from the 1700s and 1800s, several photo
albums full of postcards and collections of
milk bottles, tinware, ferry tokens, signs,
shot guns and many other items.
Strawser was born in Duncannon,
but his family later moved to New
Cumberland. At age 16, his father, also
Ben Strawser, bought a small farm in
Liverpool. The younger Strawser fell in
love with the area, but it was two years
later that he considered the hobby of
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A friend sold me a postcard (from
Liverpool), which sparked my interest.
Now I have more than 1,200 Perry
County postcards, and about 700 of them
are from Liverpool.”
Strawser spent $2 on the postcard that
featured a commercial hotel in Liverpool.
It was not long until Strawser began
frequenting sales on his own. He became
especially interested in documents such
as land purchases and deeds. Yellowed
original documents are framed and
hanging throughout Strawser’s
history room. Others are
tucked under a glass table,
visible through the tabletop.
Liverpool, he said, was a
“boom town” in the early
1800s.
“It was because of the
canal,” he said, that ran from
Sunbury to points south.
Liverpool was a popular
stopping spot.
A placemat from the 1800s
hangs on Strawser’s wall
and lists dozens of local
businesses that benefited
from the visitors.
A Liverpool historic
website, www.liverpool.
pa.net, states, “The ‘Main
Line Canal’ was finished in
1829. It began at Duncan’s
Island (Duncannon) and
paralleled the Susquehanna
River north through New
Buffalo, Girty’s Notch,
Montgomery’s Ferry,
Mount Patrick, Liverpool,
Selinsgrove and on to
Northumberland, a total
distance of 39 miles.”
The website also noted
that the constructors
of the canal settled in
Liverpool and were mainly
Irish and Chinese. The
Chinese settled their own
community known as
A document from the
Liverpool Greens Rifle Co.
dated 1844. This document
was given to Strawser by the
late Ed Deckard.
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It was just a little
shop. Only about
20-feet by 30-feet.
Oriental, which today has a Liverpool
address, but is still known by the name.
Some of those land purchases and deeds
are in Strawser’s possession. Liverpool
was started by John Staily in 1808, and
Strawser has one document dating back
to 1792 of a purchase of 60 acres of land
by Staily. A descendent of Staily’s, Thomas
Albert or T.A. Stailey, (an “e” is added to
the last name) was the owner of a tinware
business. Strawser has several of those
original pieces made in the late 1800s and
early 1900s.
“It was just a little shop,” Strawser said,
“Only about 20-feet by 30-feet,” but the
tin is valuable today, Strawser said.
Strawser has a newspaper article about
the late Dilley Stailey, one of the last
Staileys to work in the shop more than 30
years ago.
Strawser said he was recently in search
of a document from Jan. 8, 1830. The
document was signed by the sheriff at
the time honoring a Judge Shuler, likely
related to John Shuler, a gun maker who
hailed from Liverpool. The document
is now his, and it’s extra special because
Strawser’s own birth date is Jan. 8.
Strawser said he spent more than
$2,800 on an original Shuler gun. “They
are very hard to get anymore,” Strawser
commented, “and they’re very expensive.
You can spend anywhere from $2,000 to
$10,000 for one.”
After decades of attending sales
throughout the area, Strawser has made
connections with people who keep him
posted about historic items.
“People pick stuff up for me. People
bring stuff here, and I buy it whether I
want it or not — just for the simple fact
A long time ago I
knew Ed had some
documents and
I offered to buy
them from him.
But he said no.
He said he would
will them to me.
that I want them to buy more. One guy
just brought me a Stailey cookie cutter.
Those are hard to find,” he said.
There is one person to whom he is very
grateful.
The late Charles “Ed” Deckard verbally
willed items to Strawser. Deckard went to
a nursing home in Selinsgrove and asked
his son, David Deckard of Selinsgrove,
to be sure Strawser received certain
documents and items.
“A long time ago I knew Ed had some
documents and I offered to buy them
from him. But he said no. He said he
would will them to me,” Strawser said.
Following Deckard’s death, his word was
honored when Deckard’s son David ran
into Strawser in a Liverpool restaurant.
“He said to me that day, ‘You’re just the
guy I wanted to see. Before dad died, he
told me to give all of this stuff to Ben
Strawser.’”
Several documents and a pistol owned
by the Stailey family were given to
Strawser. Strawser’s wife, Bonnie, is a
descendent of the Stailey family, and
Deckard wanted to be sure the Strawsers
received that item.
Strawser is grateful to anyone who has
Liverpool memorabilia and is willing to
sell to him.
That first postcard now sits in a special
space inside one of his many albums.
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hen Tom and martha
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challenge in the form of a
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with flowery wallpaper.
“We didn’t know what to do with it,”
Martha said.
Until they saw a piece in a home
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A photo spread two pages wide of an
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of silhouettes.
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The simple yet elegant craftsmanship
was new to them — even after all the
years of running their well-known family
business, T-Ross Brothers Construction
Inc., and Martha’s experience in real
estate.
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home,” Martha said.
The unconventional idea attracted them,
but they didn’t know where to start.
After all, they asked themselves, “Where
would you go to find someone to do that
around here?”
Putting the thought behind them, that
same year the Rosses made their regular
trip to Springfield, Mass., to attend The
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On their way home, going a different
route than usual, they decided to stop
at a large craft fair, where interestingly
enough, they met a silhouette artist, Carol
Lebeaux.
The same photo from the magazine they
had seen was hanging in her tent.
***
Lebeaux instructed the Rosses to go
home, snap a photo of the right profile of
each member of the family, and then send
them to her.
She would use those photos to create
their silhouettes.
So that Thanksgiving, when the entire
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their pictures taken.
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Lebeaux, who sent the silhouettes to the
Rosses as she finished them.
Martha had each of them framed.
In all, Lebeaux created 25 separate
silhouette portraits, some of individuals,
some of couples, some with a grouping of
family members in each.
Some are head and shoulders, others
full-body silhouettes.
The portraits include Tom and Martha,
their three children and their spouses,
grandchildren, great-grandchildren,
Martha’s parents, and even three family
dogs.
Since then, the Rosses have added
silhouettes of new additions to the family.
Each of them is dressed in Victorian
costumes.
“The idea seemed to appeal to me and to
them,” Lebeaux said. “They liked the idea
of the family portraits having an antique
appearance — so much more charming
than T-shirts and jeans.”
The background of each silhouette are
also Lebeaux’s originals — silk screen
printed by hand in her studio showing
The word “silhouette” comes from
Etienne de Silhouette, who was the
French minister of finance in 1759.
According to the Online Etymology
Dictionary, a silhouette is “usually so
called because it was an inexpensive
way of making a likeness of
someone, a derisive reference to
Silhouette’s petty economics to
finance the Seven Years’ War, which
were unpopular among the nobility.
But other theories are that it refers
to his brief tenure in office, or the
story that he decorated his chateau
with such portraits.”
“Silhouette portraits were so
called simply because they came
into fashion in the year in which
Silhouette was minister.”
interior rooms and items from that
historical period.
Lebeaux has perfected the craft over
the last 30 years following a career in oil
paintings and doing portraits of children
and pets.
She is one of only a handful of
professional silhouette artists in the
country who she said are all in “constant
The idea seemed
to appeal to me
and to them.
demand.”
Especially in New England, where
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few connections to their ancestors is in
their silhouette portraits passed down
through the generations.
“In European countries, mostly
England, France and America, in early
times before photography, everyone had
their silhouette done,” Lebeaux said.
“Wealthy people had oil paintings done,
but the average person couldn’t afford
that. So silhouettes were the only method
of depicting the family.”
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Even after the Civil War era, when photography gained
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It remains popular today.
In an age of digital photography, people can, and do, take
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Yet, Lebeaux said, “Very few seem to please them as much as
a silhouette.”
“You can really capture their personality.”
The Rosses value their family.
And though they’ve preserved that treasure in family photos
over the years, they find it difficult to get everyone together to
keep getting an updated one.
But the silhouettes, as Martha says, “don’t get any older.”
And each one is clearly distinguishable.
She knows who’s who just by looking at their profiles.
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Catch the
Holiday Train
Jerri Brouse
An overview of the Milton Model Train
display, which shows what the town of
Milton looked like in the 1950s.
S
ometimes all it takes
would inspire many others
to create something
to do the same.
wonderful is one kind
Walker had a long-running love
of model railroading and upon his
gesture — one generous
retirement in 2007, he decided to hand
thought on the part of an
over his collection of buildings and trains
individual who wants to
to create the Milton Model Train Museum
give something back. It was (MMTM) — a place where others who
shared his passion could visit and take
a simple desire to share his
love of model trains with the a virtual trip in a time machine, back
to the Milton of the 1950s. Through the
community where he grew work of several volunteer organizations,
up that led the late Rev. Dr.
the collection (a 20 x 60 O-gauge layout)
was eventually set up on the third floor
A. Robert Walker to make
such a gesture himself. Little of the Moose building in downtown
Milton. There, visitors can come see tiny
did he know his kind gesture houses as well as replicas of businesses
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that once dotted the downtown streets.
Dozens of trains line the tracks which are
surrounded by model cars, tiny, handpainted people, trees, lights and more.
And while the floor display is a sight to
behold — reaching the span of the entire
room — it does not reflect everything the
museum has to offer. So, the museum has
slowly expanded into other rooms on the
third floor, where model train enthusiasts
can get an up-close look of various
trains and railroad-related items and
memorabilia in display cases, hanging on
the walls and on shelves.
Barry Mabus, MMTM president, said
that while display cases at the museum
show off many of the items that have
This street scene depicts what downtown Milton
looked like in the 1950s. Many of the items, including
the buildings, cars and props, were donated to the
Milton Model Train Museum.
been given to the museum — either on
loan or permanently — there are many
more trains, tracks, transformers, houses,
trees and other decorative items stored
throughout the building because there
simply isn’t enough room to set it all up.
“We have totes filled with items,” said
Mabus.
Mabus said the organization’s volunteers
do their best to display as much as
possible, even if it means lining model
trains up on small shelves high on the
wall — some even above doorways.
Some of the donations that can
currently be viewed include an American
Flyer set, donated by Harold Mohl Jr.; an
Old Ives train from 1916, donated by Jane
Owens and a 1940s Santa Fe Duel Diesel
and an ACF O-gauge Tank and Hopper
We have paintings
and puzzles and
photographs
people have
donated.
Car, donated by Tom Powell.
“We try to stick with O-gauge trains,”
explained Mabus. “But we do have some
HO-gauge and we do have a few N-gauge,
which are really very small.”
Upon entering the first room on the
third floor, where the primary display
is located, visitors can see a hand-built
English dining car donated by Nigel Roth
of Raubs Mills, Pa. Roth built the Maid
of Kent with scrap metal. Lift the lid and
inside are handmade people, tables and
chairs that show precisely the scene one
would have found on a dining car during
that time period.
The walls in both the front room and
the main room where the Model Train
platform is set up are covered with
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donations, too, explains Mary Jane Crist,
MMTM historian.
“We have paintings and puzzles and
photographs people have donated,” she
said. “And of course there is the largest
donation, which is the glass etching
donated by a local church as part of a
community project.”
Additional railroad memorabilia can be
found on the second floor of the building.
Though the trains, transformers, houses,
kits, people and tracks are important,
there’s one donation that sits heads and
shoulders above the rest, and that is the
donation of countless hours given by
volunteers who help run the museum.
“We have people who give their time to
help set things up, to put together the kit
houses and buildings and paint them for
the display, as well as people who run the
trains when the museum is open,” Mabus
said.
The MMTM will once again be open
from 1-5 p.m. every weekend beginning
Saturday, Nov. 28 and Sunday, Nov.
29, and each Saturday and Sunday in
December. The Christmas Season Open
House will be held from 6-9 p.m. Nov.
27. Admission is free, but donations are
accepted. For more information, visit
www.miltonmodeltrainmuseum.org or
check out their Facebook page.
Holiday Train Displays
The 25th Annual Will Huffman Toy
Train Expo
This year the Huffman Toy Train Expo
is partnering with the Thomas T. Taber
Museum, the original site of the expo
for its first 15 years. The museum’s
Community Room will feature an
exhibit of model trains and railroad
artifacts. The Shempp Toy Train
Collection will be open for viewing as
well.
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 21; noon
to 4 p.m. Nov. 22
Where: Thomas T. Taber Museum, 858
W. Fourth St., Williamsport
Adults $2, children under 12 free
For more information: (570) 326-3326,
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The club has built and operates The
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Where: Second floor of the American
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As many as 30 trains running at a time
including — Z gauge, N gauge, S gauge,
O gauge and G gauge trains.
Without donations, the Milton Model Train Museum might never have existed. This replica of the
U.S. Post Office was made and donated by the man who started it all — the late Rev. Dr. A. Robert
Walker.
The clubhouse is now located at the
Silvermoon Flea Market, Route 15,
Lewisburg, and is open every Sunday
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will also be a
display Dec. 5-7 at the Susquehanna
Valley Mall, Hummels Wharf, and Dec.
17-19 at the Greater Susquehanna River
Valley Visitors Center, Lewisburg.
For more information: www.looseties.
com; email [email protected] or
call president Jeffrey Johnstonbaugh at
(570) 473-7973.
Keystone Model Railroad Society Toy
Train Exhibit
When: 12:30-4:30 p.m. Saturdays and
Sundays only, Nov. 28 through Dec. 20
Where: Fort Hunter Mansion and Park,
Centennial Barn, 5300 N. Front St.,
Harrisburg
HO gauge trains displayed by The
Keystone Model Railroad Historical
Society on a layout representing
communities in Central Pennsylvania.
Admission: Free
More information: http://forthunter.org,
(717) 599-5751
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The
Art of
Wreath
Making
Tabitha Goodling
On her back porch last year, Alma Martin
clamps greens to her wreath base.
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M
aking a wreath is
a process of being
particular. Alma Martin of
Sunbury has been making
wreaths in her back porch
area for nearly five years.
Martin suggests Frazier firs and a wire
wreath base.
“You might get a lot of waste (out of the
firs) but you’ll want nice tips,” she said.
She gets eight wreaths per tree.
She noted it is a process in which the
wreath maker needs to be particular
about the greenery, how it is placed and
how it is kept when it is finished.
Martin typically starts by cutting much
of her firs and putting them aside to
decorate later. It’s difficult to tell how long
it takes to make one, she said, because she
works within different set periods of time.
The most challenging aspect is keeping
the box wood fresh.
“It’s all very time-consuming, but I really
like it,” she said.
The first step is to gather what can be
held in one’s hand. Tighten pieces of the
fir with small pieces of florist wire onto
the wreath ring by twisting.
Martin, however, uses a wreath machine
that clamps the greenery to the wreath.
“Put large ones in the back and short
ones in the front,” Martin said of the firs.
The back of the needles should be facing
the back.
It’s all very timeconsuming, but
I really like it.
Continue the pattern until the wreath
is full.
Martin spends a few days making the
wreaths’ bodies and a few days decorating
them.
She gathers holly and clips sprigs along
the wreath. Using a hot glue gun, she
then adds other berries and pines — for
the traditional look. Other decorative
pieces include Christmas bulbs, bows,
fake berries and any other Christmas tree
decoration.
Martin has been known to hot glue
items such as peacock feathers onto
wreaths.
Materials for a wreath are not overly
expensive, she said. Most flat-wire frames
for wreaths can be purchased at any local
craft store, as well as the florist wire to
connect the firs. If there are trees in one’s
backyard, it’s all the better.
“Now, that wouldn’t be quality to
sell,” she said of backyard pines, but it
would do for one’s own display. Martin
purchases her greenery from out of state.
“I’m always shopping for ribbon,” she
said, which is also inexpensive.
Martin is particular about how she
handles her finished product.
“I never pile wreaths on top of one
another,” she said, for fear the one on the
bottom might flatten.
Most wreaths should not be kept
outdoors for weeks on end. It is better to
have them under a porch roof and out of
most of the weather, she said.
One of Alma Martin’s wreaths.
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Sumt’n wrong here,
hain’t though?
G
articles, so when we lost a mitten or a game piece or
sumt’n else, we were taught to ask him for help: Good
St. Ant’ny, look around. Something’s lost and must be
found.
Say it three times and keep looking,
and you’ll almost always find that
striped mitten or missing Mouse Trap
marble, whether you enunciate Saint
Anthony’s name or not.
Where the word hain’t came from is
anybody’s guess, but as kids we were
taught not to say it even though we
heard it from the people all around
The uneducated in anthracite-speak might peer more closely at us. I remember dissolving into
the picture to seek out the praise-worthy pitcher, but — haha — giggles after cleverly chanting,
the joke’s on them, as any coal region native knows the pitcher
“Hain’t ain’t in the dictionary,”
in question is the picture itself.
knowing full well that ain’t was just
Pitchers are, of course, sometimes the subject of paintings,
as bad grammatically. Aren’t children
in which case an innocent comment like “Ooh, that’s a pretty
delightful?
pitcher” could confuse the best of us, and maybe even lead to
Sumt’n about the ant’racite region dislikes
some impromptu slapstick. (“Which pitcher?” “That pitcher.”
the “th” sound. Thus, “da, dem, dose” instead of
“The whole pitcher or the little pitcher?” “There’s only one
“the, them, those.” Funny in their own right — “Dose
pitcher there.” “Yeah, so which do you like?” “The pitcher!”)
icicles are huge!” — but even funnier in common expressions.
When my family moved out of the coal region to the
“If dat icicle falls on someone, it’ll knock their breath out and
Pennsylvania Dutch area of Union and Snyder counties, I was
they’ll need mout-ta-mout resuscitation.”
surprised to learn that, not only were there fewer references to
Happily, we seldom hear of icicles causing any harm. Usually
pretty pitchers, there were also almost no pleas to Saint Ant’ny.
they just hang from the rooftops glistening in frozen wonder,
St. Anthony of Padua is known as the patron saint of lost
pretty as a pitcher.
rowing up in the anthracite coal
region of Pennsylvania, you were
assured of hearing everyday words and
expressions tinged with a colorful mix of
ethnic influences. For example, something
like a beautiful painting of a family gathered
around a glowing Christmas tree might
receive a sincere compliment that sounds
like this: “That pitcher is really sumt’n, hain’t
though?”
Can you speak “Pennsylvaniaish?"
» pitcher — picture
» Saint Ant’ny — Saint Anthony
» sumt’n — something
» ant’racite — anthracite
» hain’t though, hain’t not — isn’t that so?
» mout-ta-mout — mouth-to-mouth
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what's happening around the valley
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november
November 26
107TH RUN FOR THE DIAMONDS
10:30 a.m.
market Street, downtown Berwick
one of the oldest races in the
country; 9-mile course hasn’t
changed since 1908. Hosted by the
Berwick marathon association
(570) 759-1300, email diamondrun@
verizon.net, www.runfordiamonds.com
November 28-29
NORTH POLE EXPRESS
downtown Bloomsburg
a family tradition going back 20 years.
enjoy a special train ride through the
local winter wonderland, complete
with hot chocolate, music, and a
visit from special holiday guests.
tickets: $10
www.visitbloomsburg.
com, (570) 784-2522
November 28-December 20
November 27
FESTIVAL OF TREES
MILTON TRAIN MUSEUM
CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE
12:30 - 4:30 p.m.
tavern House, Fort Hunter mansion
and park, 5300 n. Front St., Harrisburg
christmas trees decorated by local
garden clubs of the Harrisburg
area civic garden center, using
handmade ornaments. trees available
for raffle; ornaments for sale.
Free.
(717) 599-5751, http://forthunter.org
6-9 p.m.
milton model train museum,
139 S. Front St., milton
Huge 20-foot x 60-foot o-gauge
layout of milton in the 1950s-’60s
featuring many operating trains and
interactive action scenes. display also
open: november 28 and every Saturday
and Sunday in december, 1-5 p.m.
Free
www.miltonmodeltrainmuseum.org
November 27-30, December
4-6 and December 12
TREEFEST
Fridays 5-9 p.m.; Saturdays 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m.; Sundays noon to 5 p.m.
the caldwell consistory, main
and market streets, Bloomsburg
a winter wonderland of more
than 140 live decorated christmas
trees which are then donated to
area families in need; benefits
Bloomsburg theatre ensemble.
tickets: adults $6; age
12 and under free
(570) 784-8181, www.treefest.org
November 27-December 27
“A CHRISTMAS STORY”
alvina Krause theater, 226
center St., Bloomsburg
an american classic
comes to the stage.
annual food preview is november 27
with admission as many non-perishable
food items you can bring, for donation
to the Bloomsburg Food cupboard.
no reservations; line forms at 12:30
p.m. with doors open at 1:30 p.m.
other performances:
admission: $13-$26
For tickets/show times/
more information: www.
bte.org, (570) 784-8181
November 29, December
5-6, 12-13, 19-20
SANTA TROLLEY
10:30 a.m. and 12:15, 1:30, 3 p.m.
Steamtown nHS Holiday express
10-mile train Ride with Santa;
bring along your wish list.
For reservations and to confirm
the holiday trolley schedule:
www.nps.gov/stea, www.ectma.
org or call (570) 963-6590
december
December 1-18
12TH ANNUAL TREE FEST
6 p.m.
Rudy gelnett memorial Library,
1 n. High St., Selinsgrove
Friends of the Rudy gelnett memorial
Library 12th annual tree Fest of
children’s Books at the gelnett
Library in Selinsgrove during regular
library hours. display of trees and
wreaths decorated to the themes
of children’s books. the goal of
tree Fest is to promote childhood
literacy while raising funds for
the Snyder county Libraries’ 2016
Summer Reading program.
Free admission. Vote for your
favorite tree/wreath.
opening reception: december
1 (Late Shopper’s night)
friendsgelnettlibrary.
org, (570) 898-5450
CHRISTMAS AT FORT HUNTER
tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. tuesday through
Saturday; noon to 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, closed mondays
Fort Hunter mansion and park,
5300 n. Front St., Harrisburg
civic club of the garden club of
Harrisburg decorates the mansion
with fresh and natural greens, dried
and fresh flowers and fruits. tours
highlight holiday trimmings and
customs of christmases long ago.
admission charged.
(717) 599-5751, http://forthunter.org
Wellsboro’s 32nd annual festival with
craft and food vendors, strolling
musicians, thespians and an early
Victorian market. Bring a candle and
join the peace Walk from packer
park at 5 p.m., which travels up
main Street to the green for the
annual community christmas tree
lighting and carol sing at 5:30 p.m.
(570) 724-1926; www.wellsboropa.com
December 8
CHRISTMAS CANDLELIGHT
SERVICE
9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday through
Saturday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday
pa Farm Show complex, 2300
n. cameron St., Harrisburg
christmas decorations, arts, crafts,
clothing and jewelry. also food,
musical and dance groups perform.
tickets: $8 per person, $6 senior
citizens, group tickets. available
at Weis markets locations.
(610) 565-0313; www.pachristmasshow.
com, email [email protected]
7:30 p.m.
Weber chapel, Susquehanna
university, Selinsgrove
candle lighting and carols, traditional
readings, songs and prayers in
celebration of the season. S.u.’s
president L. Jay Lemons will read the
prologue to John’s gospel. music
provided by the Festival chorus, the
university choir, university chorale,
and chamber Singers. also the
Handbell choir, Brass Quintet and
director of chapel music and associate
professor of music marcos Krieger.
admission: a non-perishable food
item for donation to Selinsgrove
Kitchen cupboard at St. paul ucc.
(570) 374-0101, www.
susquedu. click on “events.”
December 3
December 10-12
LEWISBURG HOLIDAY
TREE LIGHTING
27TH ANNUAL
CHRISTKINDL MARKET
December 2-6
PENNSYLVANIA CHRISTMAS
AND GIFT SHOW
7 p.m.
Hufnagle park, downtown Lewisburg.
carols, a dramatic reading of “’twas
the night Before christmas,” and the
lighting of the huge tree in the park.
(570) 523-1743, www.lewisburgpa.com
December 5
LEWISBURG VICTORIAN
HOLIDAY PARADE
1 p.m.
market Street, downtown Lewisburg
music, horse-drawn carriages and
mr. and mrs. claus. Followed by
a free children’s holiday movie at
the campus theatre at 2 p.m.
Sponsored by the packwood
House museum. to donate to or
participate in the parade, call the
museum at (570) 524-0323.
(570) 523-1743, www.lewisburgpa.com,
www.packwoodhousemuseum.com
December 5
DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
main Street, Wellsboro
calendar
December 1-23
2015 theme: the Bremen
town musicians.
4:30-9 p.m. thursday, 10 a.m.- 9 p.m.
Friday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday
market Street, mifflinburg
oldest authentic christkindl market in
the u.S., inspired by the 700-year-old
traditional german christkindl or christ
child market. includes festive outdoor
huts with unique and handmade
christkindle treats, traditional german
foods and american favorites, hot
gluhwein, decorations, parades, elf
School, music, children’s lantern
parade, carriage rides, St. nicholas.
Free; donations welcome
(888) 666-0877; www.
mifflinburgchristkindlmarket.
com; www.oldchristkindl.com
December 12
9TH ANNUAL SKIP
HUNSINGER MEMORIAL
CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR
noon
community arts center, 220
W. Fourth St.,Williamsport
music, movie (disneynature’s
monkey Kingdom), gifts and Santa.
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Free but tickets needed; tickets
available november 28 10 a.m. to
noon or until they are gone.
(570) 326-2424, www.caclive.com
contact pawling-Young,
(570) 568-2183
December 12
BUFFALO VALLEY SINGERS
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
December 13
CHRISTMAS CANDLELIGHT
SERVICE AT WARRIOR
RUN CHURCH
7-8 p.m.
Held at the historic Warrior
Run church, Susquehanna
trail near Watsontown
old fashioned, non-denominational
service features a colonial era service
and hymn sing by candlelight.
antique pump organ will be played.
Bring blanket and flashlight as
there is no heat or electricity in
the church. mulled cider and
cookies served after the service.
(570) 538-1756, wwwfreelandfarm.org
St. John’s united church of christ,
1050 Buffalo Road, Lewisburg
connie pawling-Young is director;
accompanist is tim Latsha.
3 p.m.
admission $5 for adults,
age 12 and under free.
contact pawling-Young,
(570) 568-2183
December 19
SANTA AT THE CAMPUS THEATRE
Visit Santa and his elves;
free holiday movie
BUFFALO VALLEY SINGERS
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
january'16
St. John’s united church of christ,
1050 Buffalo Road, Lewisburg
connie pawling-Young is director;
accompanist is tim Latsha.
7:30 p.m.
admission $5 for adults,
age 12 and under free.
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February 6-7, 2016
ANNUAL HEART OF
LEWISBURG ICE FESTIVAL
1-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.
to 7 p.m. Saturday
always held the first weekend of
February. ice carving; chocolate
Festival tour; Frosty 5K; polar Bear
plunge; chocolate Festival Ball;
snowball throw, ice fishing, outdoor
birdfeeder making, snow golf.
January 9-16, 2016
100TH ANNUAL PENNSYLVANIA
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Almost Like an IMAX Theatre
JeFFrey B. rOTh
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hen the new Lynn
science Center,
which includes the detwiler
Planetarium, opened for
the fall semester, students,
faculty and members of
the greater Williamsport
community discovered the
universe at their fingertips.
The new 26,000-square-foot, three-level
facility features interactive educational
experiences in the sciences and other
disciplines. The educational outreach
afforded by the new planetarium centers
on a partnership with Lycoming County’s
K-12 schools, according to Elizabeth
Greenaway, director of marketing and
public relations.
As a result of the partnership,
programs designed for the professional
development for teachers also provide
students with curriculum-aligned and
extracurricular educational enrichment
programs using visual, audio and
interactive mean, Greenaway said.
The college has not yet planned a formal
grand opening for the facility. Greenaway
said a schedule of special events at the
planetarium will be announced to the
public, in the future.
The new John G. Detwiler planetarium,
named for the 11th president of the
college, features a 35-foot-wide dome,
which can be used for the study of
astronomy-related fields. It can also
be used to provide presentations in
geology and other scientific disciplines,
Greenaway said. From a community
standpoint, the new planetarium can
be used to educate area public school
students and other groups on a range of
scientific topics.
In addition, the planetarium benefits
Lycoming College students and allows for
programming opportunities for local civic
groups, clubs and organizations.
The new planetarium will allow the
college to increase the number of
community members who visit the
facility.
“It’s almost like an IMAX theater,” said
Jeffrey Bennett, vice president for finance
and administration and the CFO and
treasurer of the four-year residential
liberal arts and sciences college. “It’s
a flexible piece of technology. The
equipment was provided by Sptiz Inc.,
Chadds Ford. It’s amazing.”
Art class participants can sit in
comfortable reclining chairs and view
the roof of the Sistine Chapel, in detail.
An American history class can watch
a Civil War battle. Anything that can
be projected upon the dome can be
presented in vivid visual and audio detail,
Main: The new Lynn Science Center.
Inset: Joyce and Peter Lynn, center front, cut the ribbon
to their namesake building as (from left) Barbara Buedel,
professor of modern language studies and faculty chair;
Stanley Sloter, chairman of the board of trustees; Lycoming
President Kent Trachte; and Philip Sprunger, provost and
dean of the college, look on.
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Inside the new Lynn Science Center.
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Bennett said. The facility is designed to
accommodate about 75-80 people.
“We did have a small (mechanical)
planetarium on the lower level of the
academic center,” Bennett said. “It had
a very small stage and was used for
teaching astronomy. Lycoming is very
strong in STEM, (science, technology,
engineering and mathematics).”
Spitz Inc., which was established by
Armand Spitz 70 years ago, is one of the
leading suppliers of planetariums and
other spherical projection technology,
said Scott Huggins, director of marketing
and product development. In 1946,
Spitz, who was “obsessed with making
planetariums popular, constructed
affordable, mechanical, optical,
planetarium devices for public and
private institutions."
Worldwide, Spitz has installed more
than 2,000 projection domes
“Spitz is the largest supplier of
planetariums and domes in the country,”
Huggins said. “Spitz projection domes
have been sold to Universal Studios,
Disney, Volkswagen, Zeiss and Griffith
Observatory and others.”
Above and below: Typical images that can be projected on the dome.
Starry, starry night
Huggins said the planetarium system
uses the Starry Night software system. It
provides realistic horizons as seen from
Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Egypt
and other photo-realistic scenes from
around the world.
Views of horizons from the surface
of other planets such as Mars are
recreated from detailed photographs,
Huggins said. All of the nearly 2,000
exoplanets discovered by astronomers are
represented as three-dimensional bodies
in relation to their size, location and orbit,
in addition to artist renderings of various
exoplanet surfaces, such as recently
discovered Gliese 832c.
Gliese 832c, a super-Earth located
about 16 light years from the Earth,
circles a red-dwarf star, Gliese 832, in
the constellation Grus. It is about 5.4
times larger than Earth. It is believed to
lie within a habitable zone that is warm
enough to allow liquid water on its
surface.
Starry Night, Huggins said, also
includes a “Go/Landing” feature that
allows operators to select any of Earth’s
planetary neighbors or exoplanets and
land anywhere on the surface. The image
includes a realistic horizon and day or
night skies. Deep sky objects include
galaxy clusters, nebulas, constellations,
pulsars, black holes and color images of
galactic dust.
“The computer-based system renders
any planet as a three-dimensional object
allowing a view from the surface of our
planets or views from outside of our
galaxy,” Huggins said. “The systems
allows operators to render anything
upon the dome they want to render. The
Layered Earth software includes highresolution images of surface topography,
satellite surface images and hundreds
of educational texture maps that show
surface terrain such as mountains and
valleys.”
The facility, constructed at the northern
end of the Heim Biology and Chemistry
building, greatly expands the amount
of space, said Bennett. The new facility,
combined with the existing Heim Biology
and Chemistry, provides a total of 90,000
square feet dedicated to the study of the
sciences.
“I’ve been hands-on in the development
of the building,” said Bennett, who has
taken point for the construction project
and is in charge of the buildings.
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“The new facility brings the astronomy,
physics, geology departments from the
academic center to the Lynn Science
Center.”
Expanding into space
Built in 1989-90, the Heim Science
building was not large enough to
accommodate all of the sciences at the
college, which has a student population
of about 1,300, Bennett explained. The
addition provides five new classrooms,
two large laboratories for introductory
science courses, computer laboratory,
advanced research laboratories for
students and faculty, offices for faculty
and student study areas.
Construction of the Lynn Science
Center, which is named for alumni
Peter and Joyce Lynn, started with
groundbreaking in June of 2014. Peter
Lynn, recent past chairman of the
Lycoming College board of directors, and
Joyce Lynn made a significant donation
for the $8.1 million project, Bennett said.
The First Community Foundation
Partnership of Pennsylvania provided a
$300,000 grant through the WilliamsportLycoming Impact Fund. For the
remainder of the funds the college
obtained a bond issue, Bennett said.
“We’ve had an increase in the number
of astrophysics majors on campus,” said
Christopher Kulp, professor of physics,
who specializes in nonlinear dynamics
and chaos theory applied to economic
systems. “Every aspect of what I do
as a faculty member will be positively
impacted by the new facility. It enhances
the reputation of the college.”
The new laboratories will allow more
student-faculty collaboration on research
projects, Kulp said. The planetarium will
serve as a way to attract the community to
a place where people can come in to learn
about astronomy.
“There has been a significant increase
in the number of science students
here,” Kulp said. “The number of
physics students has been growing
and we’re seeing more growth in the
interdisciplinary sciences — a lot of
students are interested in the material
sciences.”
Enjoy star-gazing?
There are a number of planetariums, observatories and amateur astronomy organizations in Central Pennsylvania. They include:
• Astronomy Society of Harrisburg: “The society runs weekly (Sunday evening), public observing sessions June-August and once a
month September through November,” said Weiman Kissinger, publicity officer. The Astronomical Society of Harrisburg, PA., Inc.
(ASH) was formed in 1955. “We are one of the largest astronomy organizations in the state. In 1966, the society bought land to
construct our Edward L Naylor Astronomical Center, which opened up in 1967,” Kissinger said. “The society’s members share a wide
variety of interests in astronomy including basic astronomical observation, astrophotography, telescope making, radio astronomy,
comet hunting, meteorics, planetary sciences, CCD imagery, Earth orbiting satellite observations, and many other topics. Some
members have decades of experience, and some are just starting out. Some members have fine equipment of their own, and some
don’t own a telescope.” More information: www.astrohbg.org.
• Central Pennsylvania Observers (CPO): Amateur astronomy organization based in State College. Monthly meetings, open to the
public, are held the first Thursday of the month at the South Hills Business School. More information: www.cpoclub.org.
• Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society: One of the oldest continuously-operating amateur astronomy groups in the country.
Headquarters located at the South Mountain viewing site in Salisbury Township, East Rock Road, Allentown. It operates a planetarium
with a Spitz A3P projector and features a 21-foot dome, an astronomy-related store, a library and three observatories. More
information: www.lvaas.org.
• Penn State Wilkes-Barre Friedman Observatory: The Friedman Observatory at Penn State at Wilkes-Barre holds public observing
nights 8-10 p.m. Fridays (when it’s clear). The observatory features a 16-inch Meade Schmidt Cassegrain LX 200 telescope. More
information, www.wb.psu.edu/Information/observatory.htm.
• Bucknell University Observatory, Lewisburg: Open house events throughout the year. More information: www.eg.bucknell.edu/
physics/astronomy/observatory.
For a list of astronomical events in the area this year, visit www.seasky.org/astronomy.
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