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Spring 2009
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By Wayne Laepple
David Fulmer writes and
re-writes his way to success
H
e’s always been a
storyteller, ever
since his childhood
in Northumberland, but
David Fulmer took the long
way around to a career as a
novelist.
Fulmer’s latest novel, “Lost
River,” published by Harcourt
in December 2008, was
eagerly awaited by fans of his
Creole detective, Valentin St.
Cyr. The fourth in a series,
“Lost River” chronicles St.
Cyr’s continuing escapades
in New Orleans’ fabled
Storyville neighborhood in
the early 20th century.
Even as a kid, Fulmer
remembered, he was
interested in telling and
writing stories, and several
of his teachers at Shikellamy
High School, including
Randall Stephens, Margaret
Padgett and Emma Pensyl,
encouraged him.
In fact, he dedicated “Lost
River” to Mr. Stephens.
“They encouraged me,
recognized my talent. ...
They were supportive and
encouraging,” he said.
For a kid who wasn’t an
athlete, such endorsements
from teachers bolstered his
ego. While still in school,
he worked in the sports
department of The Daily
Item in Sunbury and for the
old Union County Journal in
Lewisburg, honing his writing
skills.
After graduating from
Shikellamy High School in
1968, he went off to college,
but, he said, he didn’t mesh
10 I N S I D E Pennsylvania March 2009
All six of David Fulmer’s novel’s have earned critical acclaim, along with nominations to a number of “Best of”
lists and for numerous national and international book
prizes. Most recently, “The Blue Door” was chosen
as a “2008 Best of the Shelf” by Atlanta Magazine. In
November, Payot & Rivages released “Courir apres le
diable,” the French translation of “Chasing the Devil’s
Tail,” Fulmer’s first novel. French translations of Fulmer’s “Jass” and “Rampart Street” will follow this year
and in 2010 respectively.
well with the college scene.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army,
where he learned photography
and served in Heidelberg,
Germany.
He finally finished his
education in 1979 at Georgia
State University and settled in
PHOTO BY
SANSANEE
SERMPRUNGSUK
Atlanta, where he’s been ever
since. Living with him is his
daughter, Italia.
“I did freelance writing for
magazines and media for the
motor sports industry, while
also writing on the creative
side,” he said.
Pennsylvanians who are making it big
His articles and short
stories appeared in a wide
variety of publications,
including Backstage, Blues
Access, City Life, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution,
Creative Loafing (no
kidding), Business Atlanta
and Advertising Age.
In addition to his writing,
he teaches writing at an arts
high school in Atlanta and
a fiction class at Margaret
Mitchell House.
“I get up early in the
morning to write,” said
Fulmer. “I write every day,
anywhere from an hour or
two to five or six, depending
on how it goes. I like it in
the winter, when it’s dark.
Sometimes I have three
or three and half hours in
before sunrise.”
He likes to write using a
PC, he said, since it allows
him to revise and rewrite
so easily, to move things
around. He’s under contract
to produce one mystery a
year, and he spends a lot of
his time editing.
“My novels aren’t written
so much as rewritten,” he
said. “I’m usually rewriting
one while I’m writing
another.”
Fulmer isn’t a mystery
buff, in spite of the content
of his novels.
“The who-done-it part
is the hardest part for me,”
said Fulmer. “I start with a
body, and the readers are
going with me on the search.
I don’t know where it’s going.
I put the characters into the
settings and then things start
to happen.”
Fulmer’s mysteries,
whether set in New Orleans,
Memphis or Philadelphia, all
feature music.
“I’m enthralled by
American music,” he said.
The Valentin St. Cyr
mysteries include a backdrop
of jazz music and historical
characters who played large
roles in the birth of jazz.
In fact, he said, setting the
stories in New Orleans was
a conscious decision since
the Crescent City was the
birthplace of jazz.
Though he’s lived in
Atlanta for years, he still
stays in touch with folks in
central Pennsylvania.
“My parents, Thurston
and Flora Fulmer, still live in
Northumberland, and I still
visit with people I grew up
with,” he said. “They read
my books.”
For more information
about Fulmer and his books,
visit www.davidfulmer.com.
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Pennsylvania 11
The Culinary Quartet
Members of The Culinary Quartet are four friends
who share a love for food. Three are homegrown
in Central Pennsylvania and, for the fourth, Central Pennsylvania has grown into home. All have
traveled extensively and sampled many cuisines,
both domestic and international. Some experiences
have been good and some, not so good. Through
their collective experiences of 40-plus years, including jobs within the food-service industry, they
have formed definite opinions about what people
are looking for in an eating establishment, particularly those off the beaten path.
Common
Grounds
Cafe
PHOTOS BY ELIZABETH ROHDE
O
ur assignment sent us in search of
common grounds — something not
too difficult to find when you’ve
been friends for as long as we have, but
a little more challenging when it is the
Common Grounds Cafe in Middleburg.
Located on one of the lesser-traveled streets
of the town, Common Grounds could be
a little difficult to find on your first visit,
but we are sure that after you have found it
once, the route will become a well-traveled
one. Armed with reliable directions from
one of the locals, we headed east on Route
522, turned north on Shuman Street and
followed Cafe Lane to our destination.
Sitting next to Grace Covenant church,
Common Grounds is housed in a portion
of a building owned by the church and has
been open for business since July 2007.
Proprietor Heidi Potter was not a coffee
lover when she decided to open Common
Grounds. What drew her into coffee
shop ownership was the atmosphere and
camaraderie she found in other coffee
shops. She wanted to open an establishment
where the people of Middleburg could
experience that same spirit of community
and caring. If you arrive there, as we did,
during the lunchtime rush, it is easy to see
she has succeeded.
When looking for a word to describe the
Common Grounds Cafe, “warmth” comes
to mind. Everything in this cozy little
eatery, from the employees, to the decor, to
the friendly patrons, exudes warmth. The
walls are painted various shades of earth
tones complimented by a unique galvanized
wainscoting. There is a counter running
the length of one wall that provides a great
workspace for clientele who choose to take
advantage of the free WIFI Internet access.
Tables that provide seating for 30+ are
sprinkled across the floor, and a comfy
couch occupies a quiet corner, offering a
perfect spot for friends to catch up. A deli
case, which holds many of the homemade
treats the cafe has to offer, separates the
work area from the dining area, and
other shelves throughout the shop
are filled with items for sale, such
as homemade muffin mixes
and bags of whole coffee
beans.
As mentioned earlier,
Heidi was not a
coffee lover when she
decided to open the
Common Grounds
Cafe, but she has
since found that she
MIDDLEBURG
The 2000 census lists the
population of Middleburg
at 1,382. Middleburg is
the county-seat located in
central Synder County at the
intersection of Routes 522
and 104.
The town was originally
named Swinesfordtown after
John Albright Swineford
(1728-1810). Around 1825,
it received its present name
because of its location on
Middle Creek.
Since the surrounding area
is predominately agricultural,
you will find the Middleburg
Livestock Auction very busy
every Tuesday.
Middleburg is best known
as being home to the famous
Middleswarth Chips. If you
haven’t tasted them, we
strongly recommend giving
them a try.
does enjoy coffee. What she has discovered is
that the quality of the coffee you brew depends
on many factors, one being the freshness of the
beans. Really good coffee comes from beans
that are roasted just before brewing. Common
Grounds has its beans locally roasted so it can
provide customers with the freshest coffee
possible.
The cafe offers such a wide variety of drinks
that it has an entire menu devoted just to
them. Regular coffee, lattes, cappuccinos and
smoothies — the choices are endless. Since we
are coffee connoisseurs ourselves, we decided
to sample a few of the specialty coffees and
found they truly were fresh and delicious.
However, coffee is not the only thing
Common Grounds has to offer. It has a
delicious breakfast and lunch menu. The
cafe’s full breakfast menu is served until 10:30
a.m. Monday through Saturday and features
everything from eggs to pancakes, French
toast and wraps. All muffins and pastries are
homemade, and all the items sound unique
and delicious (especially the stuffed French
toast — yum!). Since we had chosen to visit
during the lunch hour, we vowed to return
someday soon to sample the breakfast goodies.
There are myriad choices on the lunch
menu. The homemade soups, sandwiches and
salads are prepared fresh each day, and you
can order a full-sized portion or combine a
half a sandwich with soup or a salad. Each
sandwich is prepared with your choice of a
variety of breads or wraps, on a pretzel roll
made by D&L Pretzels in Mifflinburg or as a
Common Grounds Cafe
Where: 57 Cafe Lane, Suite 10, Middleburg
(570) 837-2233
Hours: 6:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday; 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday
Price range: Very reasonable
pannini. The staff was very accommodating as
we made our choices.
We tried the homemade taco soup, which
arrived fresh and delicious in a colorful
pottery mug. The grilled veggie pannini
with peppers, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms,
provolone cheese and Common Grounds’
signature garlic dressing was excellent. The
fresh cranberry pecan salad was also served
with homemade dressing and proved to be
another delicious choice. Our substantial
lunches left us with no room to sample any
of the delectable desserts, which include
sticky buns, cheesecake and Turkey Hill and
Rakestraws hand-dipped ice cream.
Common Grounds offers catering for small
events and local delivery for schools and
businesses in the Middleburg area.
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Ashland statue pays tribute to mothers everywhere
The holiest thing alive
Story and photo by Paula Cochran
F
orced to leave the area to find
employment more than a century
ago, young men from Ashland,
a small town in Schuylkill County
in southeast Pennsylvania, created a
tradition of reuniting each year over
Labor Day weekend. They would
spend the weekend with family and
revisiting their youth by dropping in at
their old school.
Around 1900, the tradition evolved
into a formal group, “The Ashland
Boys Association,” or ABA.
In the early 1900s the group
numbered in the thousands. Each
Labor Day eve, the men would take
the train from Philadelphia and
return home. The tradition of the men
returning and parading down Main
Street toward home evolved into a
real parade that continues to this day.
Locally, the day is known as “ABA
Day” and the parade is known as the
Ashland Mummers Parade.
On Labor Day in 1937, during
the annual ABA homecoming, a
committee suggested the creation of a
memorial to Ashland mothers. It was
decided that the memorial would be
a statue of the figure in the painting
“Whistler’s Mother,” by famous
artist James McNeil Whistler. With
the support of the Women’s Club of
Ashland, and approval of The Works
Progress Administration, the plans
moved forward.
A crowd of 2,500 people attended
the 1938 dedication of the memorial
on Labor Day. An inscription at the
site reads, “This is a reproduction in
bronze of Whistler’s famous painting.
It honors all mothers, past and present,
Mothers Day is May 10
and is the only one of its kind in the
country. Erected by the Ashland Boys
Association and dedicated on Sept. 4,
1938.”
The memorial features stone walls
and stairs, a granite base and a 1,260pound, 8-foot statue. An inscription
on the statue’s base quotes a section
of Coleridge’s famous poem “The
Mother” and reads “A mother is the
Holiest thing alive.”
Though the ABA is no longer active,
its work and traditions are still evident
in the annual parade, held on the
Saturday before Memorial Day, and
the everlasting memorial atop a hill
at the intersection of Chestnut and
Market streets, Ashland.
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SPRECKEN SIE PENNSYLVANIAISH?
SPRAGGING
can save your life
Y
ou don’t question
the words you
learn as a child;
you respond to them. So,
when I was a kid flying
down a steep hill with
a bunch of friends on a
sled in my coal cracker
hometown of Shamokin,
Northumberland County,
and a car or a dog or a
tree suddenly appeared
before us, someone would
shout, “Sprag!”
Every kid on that sled
then thrust their feet
out into the snow and
spragged for all they were
worth. And if we were
lucky, we got the sled
stopped in time.
To sprag is to brake,
with as much haste as
possible, by slamming
your feet against the
ground and wearing the
tread off your shoes. We
did a lot of spragging
on our sleds, but it also
came in handy on our
bikes, especially when
the brakes didn’t work so
well.
And I seem to
remember that it was
the back-up system in
event of (the frequent)
mechanical problems
with the soap box racers
that my brother and his
friends built.
With those little
speeders, the braking
system usually consisted
of a two-by-two stick
of lumber nailed near
the back tires. When
you rammed the stick
against a tire, in theory,
the friction would slow
and eventually stop the
spinning of the wheel.
In theory.
But steep hills and
By Cindy O. Herman
speeding race cars have a
way of toying with theory,
so it was good to have
Plan B as close as the
soles of your sneakers.
“Sprag! Sprag!” they’d
shout to each other when
a brake broke off and
went flying uselessly
through the air.
Sprag worked for
me for 13 years, until
my family moved to
Mifflinburg, Union
County, and I made the
amazing discovery that
it’s not a well-known
word. People give you
the same blank look
when they hear it as they
do when you talk about
jaggers or the hosey.
It’s hard for me to
believe, because it’s such
a fitting description, but
those prickly, round burrs
that most people call
burdock are not often
called jaggers by anyone
outside of … where?
Coal towns? Shamokin?
My old neighborhood?
I don’t even know how
far-reaching these terms
are. I only know that
the people in my world
back then hated jaggers
as much as people today
hate burdock, especially
when it gets matted into
your thick, fluffy mittens
or the dog’s fur. What a
mess.
But many of the
men in my community
could leave behind little
frustrations like jaggers
by heading to the hosey
for a nice, cold beer. Just
about every fire station
had a bar. I’m not sure if
hosey referred to the bar
itself or the fire house in
general, but it was always
a popular place.
Spragging, jaggers,
hosey. ... Who would have
thought these words were
not to be found in the
King’s English? And if
these simple words are
unknown outside of my
hometown, what other
invented ones have I
unknowingly been using?
You have to watch how
you talk when you grow
up inside Pennsylvania.
Not everyone has as rich
a vocabulary as we do.
CINDY O. HERMAN LIVES IN
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Are you a
Coal
Cracker?
SPRAG — to wear
out your shoe leather
by braking, quickly and
forcefully, with your feet
JAGGERS — those
nasty, prickly round burrs
that stick to socks, mittens and kittens, commonly known as burdock
HOSEY — a fire station
(where there are lots of
hoses) that also houses a
bar (which helps pay for
all the hoses)
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EAT LOCAL
PHOTO BY GEORGE JONES
Not just a weed
S
pring in the Central Susquehanna
Valley is beautiful to behold.
With our rolling hills and
abundant farmland, it is hard not to
marvel at nature’s bounty.
The beautiful, chartreuse green
color of the grasses and leaves that
seem sometimes to appear overnight
are a sure sign that there will be spring
vegetables growing in our gardens and
at local farms.
The promise of abundance brings
us out in the cold to turn the earth,
plant our seeds and head to our local
farmers market to see the first of the
area’s fresh produce.
If you don’t have time to have
your own garden but still want to get
involved with the growing of local
vegetables, think about joining a CSA.
Community Supported Agriculture
is a term used to describe a farm that
sells shares of its crops to anyone
interested in getting involved. Many
CSAs will give you different options
for joining. You may choose to work on
the farm or not, which will determine
the amount you will pay for your share.
In return for investing in the farm,
you will receive weekly shares of the
produce the farm grows.
When you head to the farmers
market this spring, you will find an
assortment of delicious and fresh
produce. You will be greeted by
asparagus, dandelion greens, radishes,
spinach, various lettuces and snow
peas, along with various other coldweather-loving vegetables.
The average distance a food item
travels is 2,500 miles. Eating locally is
By Emma Renninger
not only good for the environment by
reducing the amount of energy used to
transport the product, it also connects
us with our environment.
Dandelion
Perhaps the most old-fashioned and
forgotten spring green is the dandelion.
Our forefathers relied on the cleansing
qualities of the green as a natural
detoxifier after a long winter of heavy
foods. Dandelion is a diuretic and a
tonic, making it good for liver and
kidney cleansing.
It is also a nutritional powerhouse,
containing high quantities of calcium,
fiber, vitamin C, iron, vitamin A
and protein, as well as many other
minerals. It has a very short growing
season and must be picked when the
greens are young and tender.
After the dandelion begins to flower,
the leaves become very bitter and
unpalatable. When choosing greens,
look for small, compact plants with no
flower buds, and remember, the larger
the leaves, the more bitterness the
greens will have.
Liver and Kidney
Detoxification Mixture
(Source: www.botanical.com)
1 ounce broom tops (available in herb
shops and online)
½ ounce juniper berries
½ ounce dandelion root
1½ pint water
Boil ingredients for 10 minutes,
then strain and add a small quantity
of cayenne. Dose: 1 tablespoonful,
three times a day. This is not meant
to take the place of a doctor’s advice.
Consult your physician before using.
Dandelion Saute with
Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing
2 pounds dandelion greens, cleaned
and chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon onion, chopped
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon agave nectar or honey
¼ teaspoon each oregano, basil and
thyme
½ teaspoon each salt and pepper
Saute garlic and onion in oil in large
sauté pan over medium heat. Add
vinegar, agave or honey, spices, and
salt and pepper. Stir in dandelion and
remove from heat. Makes a great side
dish for any meal, or could be served
over pasta or rice as a main dish.
Serves 4 as a side dish or 2 as a
main course.
Spinach
Another nutritionally powerful and
delicious spring green is spinach. It is
widely available throughout the spring
months and can be found locally until
the weather becomes too hot for the
plant to thrive.
Spinach is a dark, leafy green that is
known as a power food for the amount
of calcium, iron, folate and vitamin A
found in a serving.
Add it to casseroles, omelets, dips,
soups or salads for a nutritional and
flavor boost that can’t be beat.
Dandelion is just one of spring’s unique flavors
Artichoke Spinach Dip
2 cups mayonnaise
2 cups grated Parmesan
cheese
½ cup onion, diced
14-ounce can artichokes,
minced
4 cups fresh spinach, diced
and wilted or 1 cup frozen
spinach, thawed
2 tablespoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon black pepper
8 ounce cream cheese
Place all ingredients in a
large bowl and mix by hand
to break up cream cheese
or beat together with the
paddle attachment of an
electric mixer. Serve warm
with vegetables and bread.
Can also be baked in a
bread bowl.
Serves 8 as an appetizer.
Snow Peas and
Sugar Snap Peas
Both of these tasty spring
vegetables are eaten pod
and all. The pods of snow
peas are flat and crisp and
the pods of sugar snap peas
are plump and sweet. These
peas have large amounts of
vitamin A, vitamin C, iron,
and potassium and are low
in sodium.
When purchasing, look
for bright green pods that
are crisp and not wilted.
They are great in salads,
as a vegetable side, in stir
fries and anything else your
imagination can dream up.
Tarragon Shrimp
and Snow Peas
1 cup brown rice, cooked
24 medium shrimp, peeled
and deveined
15-ounce can water
chestnuts, drained
and sliced, or 1½ cups
Jerusalem artichokes,
sliced
1 pound snow peas, rinsed
½ cup scallions, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoon fresh ginger
root, minced
2 tablespoon sesame oil
¾ cup tarragon caper
dressing
Saute the shrimp in a
large saute pan or wok with
the oil until they turn just
barely pink. Add the water
chestnuts or Jerusalem
artichokes, snow peas,
scallions, garlic and ginger.
Continue to saute for 1
minute, stirring frequently.
Remove from heat and stir
in dressing. Serve over rice.
Serves 4.
Tarragon Caper Dressing
4 tablespoon capers
2 tablespoon fresh
tarragon, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 scallions, minced
½ cup parsley, minced
1½ cup mayonnaise
¾ cup plain yogurt or
sour cream
3 tablespoon lemon juice
Salt, pepper and cayenne
to taste.
Mix all ingredients in a
large bowl.
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Chef Paul presents
Spring comfort foods
with holiday twists
Story and photos by Cindy O. Herman
Crispy phyllo cups
with sorbet, fresh
berries and fruit
sour cream sauce
Y
ou might be
surprised to know
that when Chef
Paul cooks at home, he
has to wash dishes as he
goes — less space and less
tools mean you can’t keep
reaching for new bowls
and spatulas and tossing
the used ones in the dish
tub. But one thing remains
constant: planning.
“One of the things
you have to do whether
working professionally or
for pleasure is to plan,” said
Chef Paul. And so, when
hosting a dinner party in
his home, part of his prized
counter space was reserved
for bowls of measured
spices, beaten eggs, butter,
pre-washed greens and
wine — everything he’d
be needing as he prepared
simmered glazed corned
beef, smothered crawfish
etoufee, haddock franchese
and crispy phyllo cups.
“These are definitely
dishes that I would make
for my family,” Chef Paul
said of the traditional,
seasonal comfort foods. But
he did take some liberties,
tweaking the time-honored
St. Patrick’s Day corned
beef and cabbage dish to
make it easier to prepare,
and tastier to devour.
One of the issues people
have with corned beef
is the amount of time it
takes to tend to it on the
stove, a dilemma Chef Paul
remedied by simmering,
covering the pan tightly, in
the oven, “so you can walk
away from it.”
Another issue: corned
beef tends to be salty and
tough. Solution: Adding
water to cover the beef
allows moist heat to draw
the salt out and make the
beef tender, Chef Paul
explained. He served his
with a tray of flavorful,
roasted vegetables.
“But I still boil vegetables
(cabbage, carrots and
onions) in the corned beef
because it adds flavor to the meat. And it reminds people of the
way Grandma used to make it,” he said with a smile.
“With comfort food today, people want it to be like Grandma
had, but they don’t want it to be all fatty and tough,” he said.
When he lifted the meat out of the roasting pot, pieces of fat
slid off of it. And it tasted delicious.
As for the crawfish stew, “It’s a really rich dish,” Chef Paul
said, “but it’s also a harbinger of, ‘OK, we’re going to give up
something for Lent.’” And at half the price of shrimp, it’s a
pretty good deal, he added.
When making the roux for
the stew, Chef Paul browned
Chef Paul E. Mach is
flour in heated oil, stirring
a certified hospitality
carefully. It’s like toasting
educator and assistant
bread, he explained: when it
professor at Pennsylvania
browns it has a nice flavor,
College of Technology’s
but you don’t want it to burn.
School of Hospitality, WilHe also tossed in a little bit
liamsport, which features
of crawfish while simmering
Le Jeune Chef, a teachthe vegetables for the stew,
ing/learning, gourmet
“to release all the flavor and
restaurant. He was also
sweeten it.”
the co-host — along with
With Mardi Gras mustgrilled-cheese-loving Tom
haves like crawfish, peppers,
Speicher — of the awardcelery and onions, “This dish
winning TV show, “You’re
is very New Orleans, without
the Chef,” which ran from
having to look hard for the
1996 to 2005. “You’re the
ingredients.”
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A blend of colors and
WVIA (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)
textures, the stew looks like a
Saturdays at 11:30 a.m.
bowl of hearty health, and the
and 2 p.m.
flavors just explode in your
mouth.
Perhaps the easiest of the
three dishes is the pan-fried haddock: dip the fish in seasoned
flour, then egg. Brown both sides in hot oil and finish in the
oven with a zesty lemon butter sauce. Chef Paul squeezed
the lemon right over the simmering butter, drizzling the juice
through a strainer to catch seeds and pulp. A simple sauce that
adds a nice zip to a Lenten meal.
Finish it off with the crispy phyllo cups with fruit and sorbet.
A delectable mixture of crispy, creamy, tangy and sweet, this
is the perfect dessert to serve to friends who have given up
chocolate for Lent.
The holidays and holy days of spring are more than a bridge
between the blahs of winter and the liveliness of summer; they
are events in their own right. Take time to enjoy them with
the foods that have comforted us for generations — with a few
updated tweaks.
Springtime recipes
Simmered Glazed
mixture over the meat.
Corned Beef
Bake for 10 minutes until
Yield: 6 dinner portions
the sugar makes a crisp
Ingredients:
coating on the beef.
4 pounds corned beef
Allow the beef to cool
round, cut into 2 pieces
slightly. Slice and serve as
1 onion, cut into quarter
needed.
pieces
1 celery bottom, cut into 4
Haddock Franchese
large pieces, washed
1 small head of cabbage,
Ingredients:
core removed, cut into 6
1 pound haddock fillet,
pieces
boneless, skinless, cut
1 large carrot, peeled and
into 4 pieces
cut into thick slices
1 cup all-purpose flour
Enough water to cover the
1 teaspoon salt
meat
½ teaspoon ground pepper
¼ cup Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon dried parsley
¼ cup orange juice
3 large eggs, beaten well
concentrate
¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ pound whole butter,
Place the beef,
cold, cut into small cubes
vegetables and water into
1 lemon, squeezed, dea deep baking dish. Cover
seeded
tightly. Bake at 325 for
Pre-heat the oven to 375.
about 4 hours or until a
Sift the flour, salt and
fork inserted into the beef
pepper together. Coat
pulls out easily, without
the fillets thoroughly in
resistance. Remove the
seasoned flour. Whisk the
beef from the pan and save parsley and eggs together.
the vegetables. Discard the Dip the haddock into the
cooking liquid.
egg mixture and coat on all
Raise the oven
sides.
temperature to 450. Mix
Heat a large saute pan
the mustard, orange juice
over medium-high heat.
concentrate and brown
Add the oil and swirl the
sugar together completely.
pan until the oil ripples.
Place the beef on a baking
tray and pour the orange
[CONT. ON PAGE 22]
Tips from Chef Paul
 Don’t have a non-stick pan at home? No big deal,
says Chef Paul. All you have to do is preheat the pan.
Foods won’t stick if it’s hot enough before adding the oil.
 When a recipe calls for water, always add it in stages
to see if it’s all needed. It’s easier to add more than to
find ways to absorb extra.
 Not sure if the rice is done? Press one grain with your
finger against a hard surface. If there are no hard pieces
left, “It’s done. Game over. No argument.”
 And finally, Chef Paul remarked that he’d had most
of his cookware — various name brands — for many
years. “There’s something to be said for buying better,
professional-quality cookware if you’re serious about
doing cooking and baking at home,” he said.
Paul’s wife, Michelle, is only too
happy to let her husband handle
the cooking and baking when
planning a dinner party in their
home, but she’s also a good sport
about cleaning up afterward.
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[CONT. FROM PAGE 21]
Add the fish and cook for about 2 minutes
on each side, until the fish is golden brown
on both sides (the fish will be raw in the
center). Place the fish on an oven pan.
Melt butter in pan over medium-high heat,
swirling the pan until the butter melts and
starts to froth and brown. Add the lemon
and swirl it into the butter. Pour the butter
sauce over the fish.
Put the fish into the oven and cook for
about 5 minutes, or until the fish is almost
done (press gently and look for the fish to
flake through the coating).
Remove the cooked fish from the oven,
place onto serving plates and pour the
butter sauce from the pan over the fish.
Smothered
Crawfish Etouffee
Ingredients:
2 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
¼ teaspoon ground white pepper
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
3 sprigs thyme, stripped, rough chopped
½ cup salad oil
¼ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup Spanish onions, rough chopped
½ cup celery, rough chopped
½ cup green pepper, rough chopped
½ cup button mushrooms, rough chopped
1½ cup water or seafood stock
1 cup white wine
½ cup tomatoes, chopped
1 pound crawfish tails, peeled
½ cup green onions, sliced thin
Combine seasonings in a small bowl and
reserve.
In a heavy-bottomed saucepot over
medium-high heat, combine the oil and
flour, stirring constantly until the flour is
lightly browned. Add the vegetables and
the spice blend and cook over medium heat
until the vegetables are soft.
Add the water, wine, tomatoes, crawfish
and green onions. Stir until the mixture is
smooth and simmering,
Reduce heat to low, cover the pan and
cook for about 10 minutes, stirring once to
avoid sticking in the bottom of the pan.
Serve with plain boiled rice.
Crispy Phyllo Cups with Sorbet, Fresh
Berries and Fruit Sour Cream Sauce
Yield: 8 dessert portions
Ingredients:
1 box phyllo dough sheets, thawed
½ cup olive oil
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup sour cream
½ cup fruit preserves
½ pint fresh raspberries
1 pint fresh blackberries
1 pint fruit sorbet
Place one sheet of phyllo on a flat work
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Billtown Blues Festival
A full day of rockin’ blues music
By Wayne Laepple
A
dd together a sunny Sunday in
June, a great outdoor venue,
seven musical acts and a
couple thousand people. What you get
is the Billtown Blues Festival.
The 2009 Billtown Blues Festival
is the 20th annual, so the formula
obviously works and works well. It
will be held at the Lycoming County
Fairgrounds in Hughesville on June
14, with the music starting at noon and
continuing until 10 p.m., rain or shine.
For details, visit www.billtownblues.
org or call (570) 584-4480.
Billtown has earned a reputation
amongst East Coast blues music
enthusiasts as one of the best one-day
festivals, bringing a broad spectrum of
blues styles to the stage while offering
spectators a chance to meet the
performers up close and personal.
The 2009 event marks 20 years
of great music, and over the years,
such blues legends as Nappy Brown,
Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Bob
Margolin, Levon Helm and Willie
“Big Eyes” Smith have performed
on the stage. The stage has also been
graced by such up-and-comers as Tab
Benoit, Diunna Greenleaf, Deanna
Bogart, E.G. Kight and Gary Davis.
The festival was started two decades
ago when a small group of blues music
enthusiasts staged the first festival in
a farm field along the Susquehanna
River near Williamsport, from which
the festival took its name. “Billtown”
is a nickname for Williamsport. In
the early years, the festival brought
together local and regional acts,
and during those early years, it was
sometimes necessary to pass the hat to
even pay the acts for gas.
The festival’s reputation as a familyfriendly day of high-quality music grew,
and with it, attendance grew, and that
developed the ability to attract sponsors
to bring national acts to the stage.
Opening the show, as has become
the custom, will be the winner of
the 2009 Billtown Blues Challenge.
Previous winners have included the
Ann Kerstetter Band, Nate Myers and
the Aces, the Blind Chitlin Kahunas
and the Burgess-Mitchell-Seal Trio,
among a long list of regional favorites.
The 2009 Billtown Blues Festival
lineup includes Shawn Carney, winner
of the 2007 International Blues
Challenge in Memphis and the annual
Albert King Award, and West Coast
blues mandolin player Rich Delgrosso,
along with Gary Allegretto on
harmonica. The Campbell Brothers will
be on the stage with their band for a set
of Gospel-tinged blues, and sax man
Greg Piccolo and Heavy Juice, along
with a horn section, are also on the
bill. “Steady Rollin’ ” Bob Margolin,
long-time guitarist with the legendary
Muddy Waters Band, will join Diunna
Greenleaf as the headline act.
In honor of the festival’s 20th
anniversary, the final act will be a
historical demonstration of a variety
of blues styles performed by members
of Williamsport’s Uptown Music
Collective.
“We’ve always taken pride in the
diversity and variety of the blues
music we’ve presented over the past
decades,” Bonnie Tallman, one
of the organizers, said of the final
act. “It fulfills our dedication to
educating listeners to the variety of
styles of blues music.”
A popular recent addition to the
festival is the acoustic tent, in which
musicians perform and talk with the
audience in a much more intimate
setting than the huge open venue. A
favorite feature in the tent was Andy
Barnhart’s kids’ harmonica workshop.
He gave out harmonicas to the
youngsters and guided them in playing
simple blues tunes.
While Barnhart bent close to listen
to each of his students, exhorting
them to “breathe out, breathe in,”
Mitch Ivanoff, of Harrisburg, kept the
beat on a resonator guitar. Barnhart
made up a song he calls “Ice Cream
Blues,” and everyone joined in to
play the simple song. Andy sang and
played, Mitch played along and the
kids tootled on their harmonicas while
their parents clapped along.
“Take your harmonica home and
practice,” Barnhart told the kids at the
end of the song.
“Practice a little every day until you
get tired, then do something else,”
advised Ivanoff.
Later in the day, Paul Sgroi, the 14year-old guitar phenomenon who won
the solo segment of the 2008 Billtown
Blues Challenge, sat in the tent and
played and sang the old favorite “Hot
Tamales,” following it with his own
composition “Going Downtown.”
Standing just outside the tent,
veteran bluesmen Bob Margolin
and Big Joe Mahre joined the crowd
standing five or six people deep
listening in awe to the young man’s
licks.
An hour later, Margolin and Sgroi
sat together in the tent, trading licks.
“He’s an old soul,” declared Margolin.
“He’s the future of the blues.”
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SIX GENERATIONS
OF MAKING MUSIC
Martin Guitar Co. celebrates 175 years in business
By Bevin Theodore
S
ince 1833, the family-owned
Martin Guitar Co. has provided
some of the highest-quality
instruments to aficionados around the
globe. After celebrating 175 years in
business in 2008, C.F. Martin IV, the
sixth-generation at the helm, shared
why he followed in his father’s footsteps,
where the company is headed and how
he spends his precious free time.
When Martin was growing up, he
never considered entering the family
business. His parents went through an
acrimonious divorce when he was 3, and
because he only saw his father for about
one week each summer, he was not
immersed in the guitar-making culture.
But when he was a teenager, he began
doing odd jobs in the factory, and the
seed was planted.
“Then I began to realize that this is
something very special,” he said.
Still, he went to UCLA to study
economics. While in California, he
worked in a guitar repair shop, where he
realized that despite his family heritage,
he knew very little about the business.
At 19, he called his mother and told her
he was quitting college and moving to
Nazareth.
Martin joined the company full time
in 1978 after graduating from Boston
University with a degree in business
administration. He moved quickly
through the operation until being
appointed chairman of the board and
chief executive officer in 1986. He
claims he never honed his skills in any
one area, so he has a strong appreciation
for people who build the instruments
every day.
“Every day I’m still in awe of the
people who work for me, who build
these guitars, because they’re the best at
what they do,” he said.
And though Martin leads a major
guitar company, he does not consider
himself a musician.
“I don’t play in public,” he said. “I
took some lessons when I was young. I
never practiced. ... So I leave that to the
experts.”
Way back when
The Martin Guitar Co. was born
when Christian Frederick Martin Sr.
came to New York from Germany in
1833. The founder, born in 1796, was
from a family of cabinet makers and
found that jealousy between the Cabinet
Makers Guild and the Violin Makers
Guild made it an uphill battle for him
to open his own guitar shop in his
hometown of Markneukirchen.
In the late 1830s, he moved the
company to Pennsylvania. The factory,
now based in Nazareth, was last
relocated and expanded in 1964.
The first guitars built by C.F.
Martin Sr. were smaller, more-delicate
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The C.F. Martin & Co. building in April 1912.
instruments that were mainly played
at home. The introduction of metal
— rather than gut — strings at the turn
of the last century gave the instruments
a louder sound, allowing them to be
played in concert halls, Martin said.
In 1850, C.F. Martin Sr. developed
the internal X brace, and it’s been the
industry standard ever since. There are
now various types of X braces, including
the basic model that allows the top of the
guitar to vibrate while keeping it stable.
The style of instrument Martin Guitar
makes has changed, but its reputation
remains strong. Martin enjoys getting
involved in the design of new guitars,
but he knows he must always balance
change with respect for tradition.
“If we do something too weird, it
actually annoys people,” he said.
The Martin Dreadnought, once
considered odd because it was larger
compared to other guitars of its time,
is now the most copied because it is
considered to have the best shape in the
world, Martin said.
C.F. Martin Sr. set out to build a
perfect guitar that would be durable and
have a beautiful tone. The instruments
were considered near-perfect at the
time.
“And that’s what we have
maintained,” Martin said. “We don’t
make more guitars than anyone else. We
make more consistently good guitars
The sixth C.F.
Martin shows off
one of his company’s finished
products.
Locally, you can find Martin
Guitars at Schoolhouse Music,
in Danville, and at K&S Music, in
Paxinos and South Williamsport.
The Martin Guitar Co. museum showcases
decades of top-quality guitars and mandolins.
The public can get an up-close look at how a guitar
is made by touring the factory in Nazareth.
than anyone else on Earth.”
Martin believes he cannot just rest on the company’s strong
history, but must continue to improve. “What I like to say to
my colleagues is: ‘We make a great guitar today,’ ” he said.
“ ‘We need to make a better one tomorrow.’ ”
The sixth-generation Martin has watched the business grow
beyond his expectations, and what he enjoys most is sharing
the company’s success.
“I’m pushed by the fact that I get to be the boss of a business that makes the best product in the world, and I’m pulled
by the fact that it’s an unbelievable obligation,” he said.
When he took over, the company was struggling.
“One year, our plan was to lose less money than we did the
year before,” he said.
One thing many people don’t realize about Martin Guitar,
he said, is that it is a business.
“For us to have 175 years worth of history, we have to run it
like a business,” he said. “People like to think it’s this altruistic pursuit of the Martin family, ... but it’s a business. That’s
why we’re still in business. We reinvested most of the profits.”
Hope for a seventh generation
When he gets a break from the duties of running a company
with such a long-standing reputation, he spends it with his
family. He and his wife, Diane Repyneck, a district judge who
serves on the company’s board, have a young daughter, Claire
Frances Martin.
He wants to teach Claire about the business, and she sometimes accompanies him to work, where they watch instruments being made. His hope is that his daughter will someday
at least be chair of the board to ensure the company stays true
to its history. But he planned ahead in naming her, hoping
that she will be the seventh — and first female — C.F. Martin
to lead the company.
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350 steps to perfection
By Bevin Theodore
From start to finish, legendary Martin guitars take years to build
E
ric Clapton, Jimmy Buffet,
Johnny Cash and John Mayer
may have vastly different
musical styles, but they all have one
thing in common: They have rocked out
on Martin Guitars. The name Martin
is synonymous with guitar for many
musicians, and the family-run business,
now in its sixth generation, works hard
to ensure it stays that way.
The guitars typically cost a few
thousand dollars but can be much more
for high-end custom models made from
rare woods.
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The public can get an up-close look
at how a guitar is made by touring the
factory in Nazareth. Ben Locicero, who
has worked as a tour guide for the past
two years, explained that it takes more
than 350 steps to build a guitar, and
each work of art is comprised of about
150 parts. Locicero, who worked in the
factory for 28 years, is familiar with
the process, which results in 200 to 300
guitars being made each day.
Guitars have traditionally been
constructed of tone woods such as Koa,
ebony, rosewood and mahogany. But as
these materials become more expensive,
the company has begun experimenting
with alternative materials.
C.F. Martin IV said the company
needs to convince dealers that
alternative materials, such as tempered
hardwoods, treated wood or aluminum,
can also make great guitars. Highpressure laminates are one option and
allow for imprinting of graphic images
on the guitar. The “X” model guitar,
developed about 15 years ago, uses
laminate, although some of the models
still have real wood tops. These guitars,
which are less labor-intensive, cost
between $300 and $1,500, as opposed
to the famous solid-wood models,
which start at $1,200 and can exceed
$100,000.
Between 1834 and 1839, when Martin’s
clientele consisted mainly of immigrant
musicians, prices ranged from $12 to
$110, and the company sold 33 to 46
guitars a year. In the early- to mid1970s, an influx of inexpensive Japanese
guitars, coupled with the popularity
of disco and synthesizers, lowered the
demand for Martin guitars. But the
company sold its 1 millionth guitar
in 2004 and now sells about 80,000
instruments a year.
C.F. Martin IV
encourages guitar
enthusiasts to visit the
company’s museum and
tour the factory at 510
Sycamore St., Nazareth,
to learn more about
Martin Guitar Co.
Guided factory tours
are free, last about one
hour and are conducted
The company, which has 850
employees, operates in Nazareth. It has
a factory in Mexico, where strings, the
backpacker guitar and some “X” models
are made.
Building a legendary guitar
Martin describes the guitar-building
process as “making wine in reverse.”
Wood is kiln-dried and kept in a climatecontrolled room for up to two years
before parts are made, and the assembly,
which takes about three months, begins.
Guitar tops are generally made of
spruce, which arrives at the factory in
large rough planks. Two pieces of wood,
which are mirror images, are joined to
create the tops and backs.
The side rim of the all-wood guitar
also is made in two pieces and bent on
a press that heats to 300 degrees and
forms the rim in about eight minutes.
Some woods, such as maple, must be
moistened first so they don’t crack. A
limited amount of hand-bending is still
done today to keep the art alive.
Once the side pieces are bent and
cooled, they are glued to make the rim.
Blocks are placed inside the guitar
for stabilization, and the neck is later
attached to one. A flexible ribbon
of wood is glued inside the rim then
held with clothespins until it dries and
provides a gluing surface to attach the
top and the back of the guitar.
The rim is mounted into a metal
collar so it can be sanded by a machine
that takes less than five minutes to sand
the rim. The instrument remains in the
frame while the top and back are glued,
and the entire piece is then placed in a
press for about 25 minutes.
The inside of the top of the guitar
must be braced for strength since the
strings, once tuned, will put 180 pounds
between 11 a.m. and
2:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
Group tours, for which
there is a nominal fee,
are scheduled between
8 and 10:30 a.m.
Monday through Friday.
The Martin Guitar
Museum and Visitors
Center is open 8 a.m. to
5 p.m., Monday through
Friday.
The Guitarmakers
Connection (Old Factory
at 10 W. North St. in
Nazareth) is open 9
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of pressure on the instrument.
Scalloped bracing, where
some of the wood is removed,
weakens the top so it vibrates
at a lower frequency and
provides more bass. Braces
that are not scalloped give the
guitar a brighter tone.
Machines expedite the
process of building a guitar,
but some steps still involve
hands-on work. Fingerboards
are first fretted by hand, then
finished on a press before
they are attached. Neck fitting
— chiseling and filing until it
fits perfectly in the body — is
also done by hand and must
be re-checked after the final
sanding. The neck tightens
itself but is still glued in place.
The body of the guitar is
sanded in a booth, where it is
mounted on a vacuum stand so
it can be rotated. Once sanded,
the instrument is stained and
filled so there are no pores.
The binding is scraped clean,
being careful not to touch or
scratch the wood.
A process called friezing,
which involves cutting a
channel around the edge of
the guitar, allows decorative
binding to be glued in.
Embellishments are often
added around the sound
hole, as well, where
channels are inlaid with
wood, pearl or other
material to give the
instrument a distinct
flair. The pearl used is
taken from the Abalone
pearl shell, which is
found in the Pacific.
After sanding, the guitar
is given up to seven coats
of lacquer. Robotic buffers
then shine the lacquer before
someone steps in to do final
hand-buffing.
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fully assembled, someone on
the line plays it to test the
sound. It is placed in a case
and stored in a warehouse for
eight days, then played again
before shipping.
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August in Texas, put your
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purchased, Martin said. The
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U.S. Post Office Building, Renovo: Even though U.S. Treasury art program officials discouraged political sentiments
in New Deal murals, Harold Lehman empathized with laborers by including union buttons on workers’ caps in “Locomotive Repair Operation” (1943).
By Jerri Brouse
Art during the Depression
Roosevelt commissioned murals at post offices to raise morale
I
n 1933, the administration of newly
elected President Franklin D.
Roosevelt was searching for a way
to bring inspiration to Americans in
the wake of the Great Depression. That
inspiration was found in an unlikely
place — on the walls of local post offices
across the state.
“Americans were down on their luck,”
said Dr. Curt Miner, Pennsylvania State
Museum Senior Curator of Popular
Culture. “When Roosevelt was elected to
office, he found himself with a nation in
crisis. So he and his administration were
fishing around for ideas about how to
solve the problems of unemployment and
the economic downturn.”
One of those ideas came from
a friend, who urged Roosevelt to
consider all Americans — including
the artists — when developing projects
to boost the economy and the spirits
of Pennsylvanians. Roosevelt liked the
idea and, in turn, commissioned pieces
for 88 post offices (an additional six
were placed in other federal buildings),
instructing artists to use “simple
and vital” scenes that would reflect
something intrinsically important about
the Pennsylvania community in which
they were to be installed.
“Post offices were chosen because
the goal was to make the art accessible
to ordinary people,” said Miner. “The
post office was then considered the most
If you go
What: “A Common Canvas:
Pennsylvania’s New Deal Post Office Murals” exhibit
Where: Pennsylvania State Museum, 300 North St., Harrisburg
And: Free guided tours are given
on the second Saturday of each
month through May 17 starting at 1
and 2 p.m. and are on a first-come,
first-served basis. Group tours are
also available and may be arranged
by calling (717) 772-6997.
For more information, visit
www.statemuseumpa.org.
public of public buildings.”
Now, 75 years later, the State Museum
of Pennsylvania has brought together
these same artworks for the first time in
a special exhibition called “A Common
Canvas: Pennsylvania’s New Deal Post
Office Murals.” The exhibit includes
photographs, color studies, archival
images and original artwork associated
with some of the artworks commissioned
for Pennsylvania post offices between
1933 and 1942.
Independent scholar David Lembeck
began researching and documenting
Pennsylvania’s New Deal post office
art in 1995. He then teamed up with
architectural photographer Michael
Mutmansky to document these works
of art in their original locations. The
artwork featured in this exhibition
is based on Mutmansky’s original
photographs, as well as artifacts, original
works of art and archival documents
culled from private and public collections
around the country. Lembeck curates
this exhibition with Miner.
The exhibit, on display through May
17, is drawing a lot of reflection and
comparison by those who have come to
view it, said Miner.
“It’s always wonderful for us, as the
state’s official history agency, when we
run across a project like this,” he said.
“This is an opportunity to reflect upon
the way the federal government in the
1930s tried to achieve the aims of the
New Deal, which was relief and recovery.
This exhibit focuses on art and the way
art played a role in that recovery.”
The exhibit, which features about half
of the 88 works, has become unexpectedly
relevant as a result of the circumstances
the United States is experiencing
— specifically, the economic meltdown,
explained Miner.
Visitors to the museum can expect to
see full scale works of art that include
sculptures, artifacts and large photo
reproductions of many of the murals, and
biographies of the towns and artists.
INSIDE I N S I D E
out
Pennsylvania
March 2009 Volume 3, Issue 1
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never
grows old.”
— Franz Kafka
PUBLISHER Gary Grossman, [email protected]
E
EDITOR Joanne Arbogast, [email protected]
ver have an unforgettable beautiful-person
moment? A stranger passes by, your eyes
meet, he/she smiles and you smile back. And
just like that, the moment is over, but as you go along
your way, you remember: “Wow, that was one beautiful face.”
Thinking back on the exchange, maybe it wasn’t
so much an impressive face but rather the smile that
made you instantly respond in kind. Or the way you
locked eyes.
Of course, it doesn’t just happen between strangers, but also between friends, children and parents,
and all sorts of people. And beauty only goes so far.
People who are beautiful inside and out are the most
beautiful of all.
Hopefully you’ve experienced it over and over
again — those beautiful moments looking at beautiful people.
Makes you feel good all over, doesn’t it?
So we decided to share those good feelings by
introducing you to some beautiful local people. We
didn’t choose them; you did. We asked our readers
for nominations, and boy, did they respond. Check
them out, inside.
We’re doing it again next year, and we’re starting
to accept nominations now. To nominate someone
who lives in Union, Snyder, Northumberland or
Montour County for our Most Beautiful People 2010
issue, send a photo, name, e-mail, address and phone
number to: Editor/Inside Pennsylvania magazine,
200 Market St.,
Sunbury, PA 17801, or e-mail to jarbogast@InsidePa
Magazine.com. Put “Most Beautiful” on the envelope or in the subject field.
Those nominated must be 18 years of age or older.
Nominations will be accepted until Dec. 1, 2009.
Only 15 people will be selected to appear in the
magazine. Others will be featured on our Web site
(www.InsidePaMagazine.com).
EXECUTIVE EDITOR Leonard M. Ingrassia,
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Westbrook, Jerri Brouse, Emma Renninger, Kathleen Arcuri, Jeffrey Allen
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Jackie Latsha
Jackie Latsha, 28, described her family as a comedy
act. But big laughs kept the even bigger brood close
— Latsha is number six of seven children. Most still
live in the area, and weekends are devoted to her
own children. A busy hearing instrument specialist,
Latsha now laughs at the flat tires and bad hotels
during vacations taken with her folks as a youngster
and enjoys making time to travel with her 3-year-old
daughter and 8-year-old son. The mother of two is so
family-oriented that, last summer, she packed up her
husband and kids and headed out west for a 30-hour
drive to Montana. Latsha, a lifelong Northumberland
resident, also described her sister Jill as her best
friend, saying, “Growing up, she was one of my
protectors. Now we’re both adults, and I trust her with
everything.”
By Susan Misur
PHOTOS BY ROBERT INGLIS, MATTHEW HARRIS AND ELIZABETH ROHDE
T
here’s a lot of beauty in Central Pennsylvania.
In this issue, we turned our attention to some
of the beautiful people — beautiful inside and
out — who live in this gorgeous region.
You nominated them, and we turned our cameras
on them.
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The Valley’s most
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Joanna Shively
Sunbury resident Joanna Shively
spends weeks at a time in Hershey,
Pa., but she’s not visiting for the
city’s famed chocolate. Shivley
travels every three months to
Hershey Medical Center so her
son Micah, just short of 2 years
old, can receive treatment for
hydrocephalus—a condition that
causes water to pool on the brain
and requires shunts be surgically
implanted to drain the fluids.
Her husband, Matt, joins them
on weekends after he’s finished
teaching at Shikellamy High School.
“We’re just grateful he’s a fixable
kid because, there are so many
at the hospital who aren’t,” said
Mrs. Shively, who confronts her
son’s challenges with an optimistic
attitude. In the last 20 months,
Micah’s had 12 brain surgeries. “Our
doctor said his New Years resolution
is to not operate on my kid,” Shively
said with a chuckle. The former
art teacher likes to paint with her
3-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, and
also works for Mary Kay cosmetics
company.
Denise Haddon
If Denise Haddon didn’t love her job in the Valley so
much, she might have taken off for Hollywood long ago.
“I secretly wish I could be a singer in a rock band,” the
Selinsgrove resident admitted with a laugh. But since college,
Haddon’s passion has been working with disabled patients as
a behavioral therapist — a job, she said, that “makes me feel
like I have a purpose.” Interning for a home therapy program
before she graduated, Haddon met an autistic boy who inspired
her to make a career out of helping others. While teaching the
youngster about problem solving, coping with daily tasks and
social skills, “it was magical how I could see him grow just
from us working one on one,” she said. A 37-year-old mother
of three, Haddon also volunteers on numerous committees at
Evangelical Community Hospital, in Lewisburg, and Geisinger
Medical Center, in Danville.
Cheryl and
Norm Zellers
They say opposites attract, and for
Cheryl and Norm Zellers, it’s a fact. The
couple met as teenagers and has now
been married for 34 years. But Cheryl,
52, said they’re “as different as night
and day.” “I like the cold weather, she
likes the warm weather,” Norm, 55, said.
He loves to hunt moose, bears, geese,
raccoons and deer on trips with the guys
to Colorado and Newfoundland. She has
no interest in hunting, but enjoys a girls’
night playing cards or going out with her
daughter. One thing the Sunbury couple
enjoys together is attending annual
family reunions in Ocean City, N.J. “My
whole family — my parents, siblings,
nieces and nephews — take a trip to the
beach every year. My parents started
the tradition when I was in elementary
school,” Cheryl said.
Lilian Quay
Lilian Quay, 55, could probably compete to be the
next apron-wearing, dining-room diva on a TV cooking
show. But for now, she’s satisfied sharing her latest
dishes with friends, family and the elderly residents
she visits at Riverwoods Senior Living Community, in
Lewisburg. “I like to cook stir fry and spring rolls and
bread and cake, and I make my own recipes sometimes,”
Quay said. “I love cooking, especially sometimes just to
share it.” The Lewisburg resident cooks for a priest for a
local church, while also working as a hostess at Damon’s
Grill, in Lewisburg, and at Riverwoods as a recreation
assistant. A native of the Philippines, Quay came to
America in 1976. She lends her voice in a choir at a local
church when she’s not singing for Riverwoods’ seniors.
“It feels good to give and see people happy,” she said.
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Carolyn Dreese
When Pfc. Justin Dreese
was killed in action in Iraq
more than two years ago, his
stepmom, Carolyn Dreese,
wanted a way to honor his
sacrifice and help soldiers
who were still fighting.
Since then, Dreese and her
coworkers at Careerlink,
in Selinsgrove, have sent
boxes of donations every
Christmas to the troops.
“Most of Justin’s group is
probably home now, but
they are still young men and
women over there serving,”
the Freeburg resident
said. “We collect food and
Christmas cards they can
send to their families.” She
recently became involved
with the Junior Achievement
organization mentoring
teenaged girls and enjoys
hearing stories from her
105-year-old grandmother
when helping the centenarian
grocery shop or make meals.
Cindy Mull
and Bambi
Stenglein
When strangers mistake
Cindy Mull, 48, and her
daughter Bambi Stenglein,
29, for sisters, Mull has
no problem playing along.
“You’re right, we are!”
she’ll exclaim, much to her
daughter’s chagrin. “Her
eyes just bug out, and she
says, ‘We are not. That’s
my mother!’ ” Mull said
with a laugh.
The Selinsgrove duo
has been told they have
the same eyes and smiles
since Stenglein graduated
from college in the 1990s,
leading strangers to
inquire if they’re siblings.
And it’s no surprise
Mull and Stenglein are
mistaken for sisters as
often as twice a month
— they’re commonly
found together shopping,
playing with Stenglein’s
3-year-old son, or helping
Mull’s parents, who are in
their 80s.
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Rebecca Tress
Doris Holliday-Dorsa
Spending the night locked in a
church with a bunch of teenagers
might seem intimidating to
most people, but it’s a challenge
Rebecca “Becki” Tress, of
Milton, gladly accepts. As a
youth group leader at Christ
Weslyan Church in Milton, Tress
coordinates “lock-in” sleepovers
at the church as bonding
experiences. She also plans trips
to Chicago, Wednesday evening
meetings and outings to music
festivals for the 150 kids in the
organization. She hopes to inspire
the youngsters, but learns from
them, too. “I do feel like I relate
to them even though I’m 29. I act
as much like a kid as I can, and
we have a lot of fun together,” she
said. The Philadelphia native is a
customer service representative
in Montgomery who also sings
at church and in weddings as a
hobby.
According to Doris Holliday-Dorsa,
67, you can’t be beautiful on the outside
without being beautiful on the inside.
That’s exactly what she tells every
model she’s worked with since opening
her own modeling agency in 1985 and
strutting down the runway herself,
starting when she was in high school.
Her face was also once plastered on
billboards running down the east
coast, and she acted in commercials
and modeled for a designer of the
Miss America Pageant. These days,
Holliday-Dorsa focuses her attention on
helping models at her agency, Holliday
Modeling Agency. The best part of
her job, she said, is “when I can walk
into the grocery store and pick up a
magazine, open it up, and say, ‘Oh my
goodness, there’s one of my models.’
That’s my reward.” She is also a
volunteer at Riverwoods Senior Living
Community, in Lewisburg, and is a past
president of the Modeling Association
of America International, Inc.
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Kristi and Doug Kase
Alan Ard
Around the neighborhood, Kristi and Doug Kase’s humble abode may very well
be known as the “home of the 10-cent tomato.” Because when these two elementary
school teachers aren’t educating Valley students over the summer, they play the role
of community farmers, growing a garden of veggies and selling them to fellow Paxinos
residents. “We put a little stand out and sell the vegetables real cheap. We try to help
people out because it’s tough times, and we don’t want the food to go to waste. In the
past two years, we’ve made enough to plant the garden the next year,” Doug, 34, said.
Both grew up near Shamokin, fell into the same group of friends and played in the school
band before attending different colleges. Dating “seemed like the next logical step”
once they graduated and reconnected. Ten years later, Doug and Kristi, 33, are married
and awaiting the arrival of their first child in April while also collecting antiques and
learning local lore about their house as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
John Denver’s “Thank
God I’m a Country Boy”
ditty could have been written
about Alan Ard. The owner
of Ard’s Farm Market, in
Lewisburg, Ard has lived on
the same farm for all of his
42 years and “could run the
place by myself when I was
12 years old. I was baling hay,
running equipment, tending
to the young stock, milkin’
cows.” He opened the farm
market in 1991 as a market
and deli, expanding it to a
restaurant and challenging
visitors to maize mazes
years later. The Lewisburg
resident runs the business
with the help of his parents,
wife and five children, and
allows nonprofit groups to
fundraise at special events
on the property. In the
little spare time he spends
away from the farm, Ard
hunts, attends tractor pulls
and helps friends on other
farms. “I was never a standaround-and-watch person; I
just jumped in and did what
needed to be done,” he said.
Nina Bowersox
When Nina Bowersox tried out for “America’s Next Top
Model,” she didn’t make the cut, but she did get chosen for the
next best thing: announcing the TV show in a commercial. “I
said, ‘Hi, this is Nina and you’re watching “America’s Next
Top Model.” My kids didn’t even want to go to sleep the first
night they saw it because the commercial kept playing,” the
Mifflinburg resident explained. A model with Holliday Modeling
Agency, in Selinsgrove, since 1997, Bowersox stays busy raising
her four children, working as a secretary for the agency and
auditioning for acting and modeling gigs. Bowersox has also won
awards from the Modeling Association of America International
for her work. “It gets my kids really excited,” she said. “They
motivate me to keep going.”
Lisa Rhoads
Lisa Rhoads can be considered a Jack (or rather, Jill) of
all trades: The Selinsgrove mom of three is an entrepreneur,
hair stylist, kindergarten volunteer, school basketball team
fundraiser, and cupid to the lovelorn. Rhoads has been known
to set up clients of her Shamokin Dam business, Head to Toe
Salon. “If I have clients who are both alone and seem similar, I
try to introduce them to each other. I’ve gotten people dating,”
she said. And she might deserve to be prom queen after all of
the up-dos she’s created for her daughters and their friends
before school dances. “It can be 10 to 12 girls on a prom day,”
Rhoads, 46, exclaimed. With one daughter in college, another
in high school, a son in kindergarten and her business attached
to her home, Rhoads knows how to stay busy. But she also
enjoys life’s simple pleasures. “I love sitting around the fire pit
in the backyard with my family,” she said.
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wanted to let you know
how much I enjoyed
Wayne Laepple’s article
on the train museum (Winter 2008). I think he really
caught the spirit of what
all the volunteers involved
in the project have tried to
accomplish. The attendance
at the museum the first two
weekends was great, and, of
course, everyone was hoping for an equally successful
final two weeks.
Sharon Craig,
The Improved Milton
Experience, Milton, Pa.
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friend has sent me
your magazine, and
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and fun to read. Thanks for a
great regional publication!
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Central Oak Heights’
100th Anniversary
July 31 - August 2, 2009
Celebrating our mutual heritage, but embracing the future...
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Highlights of the celebration will be tours of COH, a courtship and marriage
exhibit at the Slifer House Museum, and old-fashioned activities.
Saturday, August 1
Fashion show & tea at Slifer House Museum followed by a concert by the
Commonwealth Brass Quintet
Sunday, August 2
Church service in COH Tabernacle, concert by Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, &
a Vespers service by the Reverend John Lee
Visit our websites for a complete schedule:
centraloakheights.org & albrightcare.org/slifer-house
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or call 1-800-525-7320.
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Ann and Lauren Madison
Like Laverne and Shirley, Lucy and Ethel or Betty Rubble
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friends. They’re also mother and daughter, but “we really
enjoy being together, whether traveling, skiing, golfing. Or
we don’t have to do anything at all,” Ann, 55, said. Family
tradition and evenings preparing dinner in the kitchen
— the “heartbeat” of her home — have bonded the duo
over the years, she added. Lauren, who is 24 and in graduate
school, looks forward to coming home to make meals with
mom. “Lauren was home last weekend, and we cooked
every night and had a great time together; we put music on,
and it becomes like a celebration,” Ann shared. Lauren is
studying at Shippensburg University, and Ann volunteers at
Lewisburg’s Evangelical Community Hospital, the United
Way and Susquehanna University.
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Emmy Gearhart
Don’t let her snow-white hair,
glasses or age fool you: Emmy
Gearhart, 78, is more active than
some people half her age. The
Lewisburg resident recently flew
to Florida to see one daughter, to
Colorado to see another and then
to Haiti for a mission trip with
a local church group. And she’s
planning another trip to help at
an Indian reservation in Arizona.
“I had told my husband before
he died that if anyone asked me
to go some place, I was going to
go,” she said. When she visited
Haiti last summer, Gearhart
helped repair and paint a school’s
picnic benches and handed out
packages of rice and beans to
the needy. And she’s not slowing
down anytime soon. “I’m gonna
keep going,” she said. “I’m just
thankful to be able to do it.”
Dave Stamm
It’s a family affair for
Dave Stamm’s seven-member
band, Lucky Afternoon. The
bass-playing Valley rock
‘n’ roller performs in the
group with his dad, Dave,
the lead vocalist who also
plays bass and fiddle. And
Stamm’s mom, Sue, has even
been known to join Lucky
Afternoon on stage to sing
or play kazoo when the band
performs at area reunions,
Moose and Elk clubs,
wedding receptions or VFWs.
Stamm also plays the trumpet
and flute and currently
studies music at Bloomsburg
University. “My dad gave
me the idea to start playing,
because I’ve grown up around
music my whole life,” the
24-year-old Shamokin Dam
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T
o the untrained eye, it
just looked like a bunch
of crows flying around a
remote Snyder County field.
To Mike Dupuy, it was a sign.
“Crows are boisterous, so you
have to learn their language,” he
said. If they are cawing a lot, and
loudly, it usually means something
is wrong. “They are really good
monitors of predators like hawks,
owls, snakes, foxes and even
humans.”
A close bond
In this case, he was hoping the
crows’ activity might lead him to
his missing goshawk, Hanna, who
had escaped from her house days
earlier.
Dupuy, of rural Middleburg, is
a master falconer, and has found
himself in this position more than
once. His beloved hawks and
falcons are his hunting weapons.
“It’s like using your shotgun,
or rifle, but with this art, you are
dealing with a creature that can
fly.”
And unlike other weapons,
these birds have minds of their
own, and must be both trained
and trusted. Dupuy said it’s a lot
like dating — letting them go,
and trusting they will come back
to you. He sends a bird out to fly
free, and then whistles to call it
back. Through positive reinforcement, he trains the birds, and they
learn to work and bond closely
together.
“When you lose a hawk, it is
close to a parent losing a child,”
Dupuy said.
His birds have been shot, hit
by cars, killed by wild hawks and
have disappeared.
“When you come home with
the ‘gun,’ it’s a good day,” he said.
While on what he calls “many
wild goose chases,” to find Hanna,
Dupuy was inspired to write an
article on prevention — what to
do before you lose a hawk — and
not to give up hope if you do. He
has heard several stories of falconers who found their hawks after
months of searching. The hawk
may be alive or dead, he said.
“You have to have hope eternal.”
And physical stamina. “You
have to have dogged persistence,
walking through woods, falling
into creeks ...”
By Tricia Pursell
PHOTOS BY MATTHEW HARRIS
On a wing and a prayer
Falconry takes patience, trust and ‘hope eternal’
■
“A red-tailed hawk is
excellent for hunting rabbits
and squirrels. We train this
type of hawk to follow from a
tree. A goshawk is great for
rabbits, ducks and pheasant;
this type of hawk generally
hunts from the fist. Falcons
are generally good for ducks
and other birds — they
generally hunt by staying in
the air above the falconer.”
— Mike Dupuy, falconer
■
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He always keeps in mind that his birds are still wild
animals — predators.
“You also have to be willing to be footed by a bird,” he
said, “and know how to remove the talons.”
Dupuy wears a falconry glove when handling the birds, and
when he climbs trees to find nests, he treats everything with
care.
“What I do is pretty active. It’s not for the timid.”
Surrounding Dupuy’s rural Middleburg residence are 1,000
acres of land where he can hunt with his birds. He said he enjoys the beauty of the area and likes the privacy. “I like having
my little ‘My Side of the Mountain,’ a place I can retreat to.”
When he hunts, it is never some big show; it’s usually just
him and his dog, Nilla. “It’s a private and very personal thing”
— not just watching nature, but actually being a part of it.
In the beginning
Dupuy discovered his passion early in life.
When he was 8, his parents divorced and he moved with his
mother to the Bronx where he watched the “pheasants by the
Harlem River.” When he was 13, he read the book that would
forever change his life: “My Side of the Mountain” by Jean
Craighead George. It’s the story of a young boy who ran away
from his home in New York City to the Catskills Mountains,
where he lived off the land and raised a pet, a peregrine
falcon named Frightful.
The idea of this man/bird-of-prey relationship interested
him incredibly. “I read the book like 13 times,” he said.
Now, as a master falconer, he makes presentations all over
the world and encourages everyone to read about
“whatever they are passionate about.” And contact the author.
That’s what he did. Later in life, he met George, and they
became good friends.
Dupuy began living on his own when he was 16,
working up from a supermarket job to furthering his education at
Georgetown University, then
succeeding at a job with a Fortune 500
company. But while
wearing the white,
button-down shirts that
distinguished him as a
successful businessman, Dupuy felt
unsettled. “I was searching for a
change in my life,” he said. “For
a while, I thought it was politics.
And then, falconry just started
taking over.”
His customers
include a Kennedy
This is a passion that
has
allowed him to combine
all of
his interests into one
career.
“It’s not something I
do sometimes,” he said.
“This is my life every
day. It is work, leisure,
creativity and politics all in
one.”
Dupuy is a representative of the
North
American Falconers Association and recently
traveled to South Africa, where 21 nations were rep-
resented. He is also working on a documentary about his
falconry expeditions. His birds have appeared in National
Geographic magazine and the Washington Post.
In 1999, he began his own hawk food company, Mike Dupuy Hawk Food, and currently has more than 500 customers,
including zoos. He ships the food to all states except Hawaii
and Alaska. One of his customers is falconer Bobby Kennedy,
son of Robert Kennedy.
“We process nearly a million day-old roosters a year,”
he said. “We also raise Coturnix quail and mice. We have
producers we contract to raise quail, mice and rats for us as
well.” He also has a walk-in freezer, several smaller freezers
on-site, and an east and west-coast warehouse that holds food
for customers who buy in bulk.
A public speaker, he brings humor to his presentations
— which is often needed to help people understand the
idiosyncrasies involved in falconry, such as tossing a live quail
in the air, with a string attached, in order to draw a hawk back
to him.
“You gotta go with the flow. This is what you do, for
someone who’s really got this bug, this addiction of falconry.”
The response to his presentations has been very positive.
There’s always a group of people hanging out to ask more
questions.
This is his life — a lot of it in the limelight. But when it gets
right down to it, he’s an ordinary guy. “I worry about my kids,
help them with their homework, shovel the driveway.”
For more information
www.mikedupuyfalconry.com
[email protected]
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The water lily is a
favorite aquatic
plant used in
backyard ponds.
W
ith spring comes the annual
backyard cleanup, and other
than planting flowers and
doing a little landscaping, what else
can be done to beautify lawns?
Create a backyard pond!
For homeowners contemplating
the installment of a backyard pond,
Richard Hess, of Danville, shares
his expertise as a 20-year grower of
water plants. “You can make a pond
any size, “ he said. However, he does
recommend that an in-ground pond
be no smaller than 3-by-4 feet with a
minimum depth of 18 inches to keep
fish healthy year round.
There are many variables when
planning a backyard pond.
“The pre-formed pond is the most
economical,” notes Hess. “And you
can dig the hole yourself, but before
digging, be sure to contact the proper
authorities for permitting and to avoid
cutting wires or gas lines,” he advises.
That toll free phone number is (800)
242-1776.
Once the sizing of the pond is
established, then consideration can be
given to the possibility of adding fish.
“Rule of thumb is that goldfish need
5 gallons of water for every inch of
fish,” he said. “Koi is the most popular
pond fish, but they need twice as much
water as goldfish because of their
growth,” he cautioned.
Homeowners who have their own
well water can usually hose it directly
into the backyard pond. However,
Story and photos by Connie Mertz
townsfolk need to check with their
water authority for the presence of
chemicals. “Chlorine will dissipate in
five days without being treated,” Hess
commented. “But chloramine does
need chemical treatments.”
Along with adding fish to a
backyard pond, aquatic plants are
essential for their survival. Fish need
plants to provide shelter, shade,
oxygen and a place to hide from
natural predators. Plants also help
keep pond water cooler and healthier.
“It is recommended that 60 percent
of the water surface be covered with
plants,” Hess emphasizes. There is a
wide variety of water plants available
for purchase to satisfy the individual
tastes of every homeowner.
Backyard ponds, as beautiful as
they are, do require considerable
maintenance year round. From
cleaning filters to aquatic plant care,
all are a part of keeping your creation
in tip-top condition.
“You either spend the time or you
spend the money to have someone else
do it,” Hess said.
Though it’s not necessary, the
addition of shrubbery, plants or
flowers around the perimeter of the
pond enhances its beauty.
“It’s like putting a frame around
a picture,” Hess explained. “It’s a
personal thing, but it just adds that
extra touch.”
Turning on the waterworks
Lack yard space or have a limited budget?
You can still enjoy a miniature pond by using a 5-gallon container or a bushel basket
that contains a liner for the pond. Placed atop
a deck, it resembles an aquarium, but on a
larger scale. “All you need do is add a few
water plants and a goldfish,” Richard Hess
explained. However, water still needs to be
circulated to provide essential oxygen for fish.
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S
ince retiring from teaching in the
Selinsgrove School District, Ellen Mack
has more time to spend doing what
she loves — gardening. And when her son
decided to marry, it was in her garden that
she found a great opportunity to save money
and relax.
“I volunteered to take care of the wedding
flowers,” said Mack, 60, of Selinsgrove. “I
enjoy being out in the nature, and this was a
way I could help with the wedding.”
With her son’s September 2008 wedding
having a country theme, Mack chose antique
mason jars, which she found for relatively
cheap at antique stores, to serve as vases
for her fresh-cut floral centerpieces. Using
cuttings from flowers she planted in the
spring, Mack filled 25 antique mason
jars with marigolds, zinnias, hydrangea,
sneezeweed, sunflowers, catmint, shrubs,
sage and summer sweet.
To keep the flowers fresh until the wedding,
Mack added a preservative to the water and
kept them in a cool place.
Mack used tulle and grapevine swags
covered with dried flowers to decorate the
reception tent poles.
Her sister, Sandra Deppen, believes Mack
is “nature creative,” because it’s in her blood.
“Our maternal grandparents (Marlin and
Josephine Young, who lived in Selinsgrove)
made laurel rope,” said Deppen. “The men
would gather laurel in the mountains, bring
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rope as Christmas decorations. The streets
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How to grow your own fresh tomatoes
What you need
 Tomato seeds
 Jiffy peat pellets
 Potting mix and perlite
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argaret Foust,
of Danville, is a
gardener, and she
revels in starting her own
tomato plants from seeds.
Her beautiful plants are
grown without the use of
artificial lighting, and they
are never spindly.
She shares her secrets in
a step-by-step procedure,
and claims anyone can have
the same results of luscious,
green, healthy tomato plants
that require staking even
before they are transplanted
to the garden.
Margaret starts planting
Burpee tomato seeds at
the end of February. “I do
save my own tomato seeds
from last year’s tomatoes,
but the newly purchased
seeds germinate better,” she
admitted. “If they are held
over from the previous year,
the seeds should be kept in a
cool, dark place.”
She uses Jiffy peat pellets,
which are flat disks that
expand when moistened.
She plants each seed and
then places the pellets inside
closed plastic containers. “I
recycle plastic containers
that once held salads or
baked goods from the
grocery store,” she said. “It’s
important the containers
... close tightly to trap
in moisture and heat to
encourage germination.”
Containers are then placed
in front of a sunny bright
window. The seedlings remain
here for seven to 15 days or
until they reach the height
of the container. They are
then taken out of the plastic
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container to allow continuous
growth. Daily monitoring is
necessary to be sure the plants
are kept moist.
“At the sign of the first
developing leaves, it’s time for
the first transplant,” she says
from 20 years of experience.
She uses a mixture of five
parts potting soil mix, such
as Miracle-Gro, and one part
of Schultz perlite, which can
be found at most gardening
centers. Before transplanting,
she peels off the outside
membrane of the peat pot.
“This gives the roots a better
chance of expanding,” she
says. “You don’t have to worry
about burying the tomato
plants too deep either.”
The process of
transplanting continues to
a larger pot as the roots
expand.
During this stage, she keeps
a keen eye on the outside
temperature. “Any day it
reaches 50 degrees, I set the
tomato plants outdoors in a
high cardboard box to protect
them from wind damage.” She
is cautious, however. “The first
time, I only allow them to be
exposed for 15 minutes, and
then I bring the tomato plants
inside.” The time outdoors
increases as long as the spring
temperatures continue. This
exposes the plants to indirect
sunlight naturally.
“I continue doing this until
I can keep them out for three
to four hours a day.” By the
time of the second transplant,
the tomato plants may need
stakes for wind protection
and support as they continue
to grow. By the time early
May arrives, the plants are
put outdoors, with larger
stakes tied closely to the
plants with cloth.
Once there is no longer a
threat of frost, it’s finally time
to plant them in the vegetable
garden. Soon, the first
delectable red and juicy ripe
tomato is ready to be enjoyed.
Tender loving care reaps
the benefits!
Pennsylvania 53
FICTION
ILLUSTRATION BY
ASHLEY TROUP
TechnoStorm
By Sheryl Hosler
Calling all writers of fiction
Fic·tion (fik-shen): Based on the imagination
and not necessarily on fact; an invented story
Put your imagination to work. We’re seeking
short stories (not diary entries, not memoirs, but
fiction) from local writers for consideration in Inside
Pennsylvania magazine, which publishes four times
a year.
Looking ahead, we’re seeking a story for the fall
issue. Stories must include some sort of reference
to the autumn season as well as to Central
Pennsylvania. And here’s the kicker: The story must
include the words “inside Pennsylvania” (together!)
somewhere between the beginning and the end.
Stories may include a photograph or piece of
colorful artwork.
Your original, never-before-published stories
should be no more than 750 words and include a title.
The deadline for submission is June 15. The best story
among those entered will be published in the fall
issue of Inside Pennsylvania magazine. The winner will
be notified by telephone or e-mail on June 17.
One entry per person please.
Send your entry, along with your name, address
and phone number to:
Editor, Inside Pennsylvania
200 Market St.
Sunbury, PA 17801
or e-mail to [email protected]
“A
nd that was the Cyber
Bugs with their new hit
‘Thumbdrive,’ the No.
1 hit for the month of March,” the
metallic voice on my brain-implant
radio announced. “And now the
weather for Happy Valley. …”
“106.9,” I said, changing the
station impatiently with my verbal
command. Who cares about the
weather? Who cares about anything
outside? Everything I need is within
my four windowless, shiny, silver
dorm walls.
Soothing, pounding rock music
surged into my brain directly from
my radio microchip, and I redirected
my attention to my facial computer
mask. In those three wasted seconds
I’d received six e-mails, 18 instant
messages and 24 Facebook posts,
not to mention 12 text messages,
three voice mails, eight pictures and
one calendar update reminding me
my favorite TV show would be on in
one minute.
I switched on the TV and flipped
up one side of my digital multimedia mask. I called Jodi back,
and began IM-ing Ralf and Jodi
and replying to Catie’s e-mail. My
mind buzzed euphorically with the
barrage of electronic stimuli. I was
in my element.
Everything was going just
fine, like normal, until the lights
flickered. I hardly noticed, until
the TV flickered, too, and then the
feed to my digital mask. This was
enough to grab my attention, and I
was annoyed. More than annoyed;
my brain flickered, too, because
of the interruption in the flow of
digital signals. Everything flickered
again, fitfully, and then, suddenly,
everything went out.
Dark. Dark and quiet. Both
states I am quite unused to. I was
confused, disoriented. My brain
had no stimulation. I couldn’t see
anything, couldn’t hear anything. I
was lost. Alone.
Unconnected.
“What the ... ?” My voice sounded
hollow and foreign in the darkness.
I unplugged myself roughly from my
various media devices and stumbled
blindly for the door. The hall was
just as dark as my room, and I
fumbled toward the stairwell and
down the stairs. At the bottom of
the stairs, my searching hands found
the cold metal crash bar on a door,
and I weakly pushed it open.
A gust of cold, moist air hit
my face. I gasped, not being
used to fresh air. I stepped out
into what seemed like empty
space and was surprised to feel
raindrops pelting against my
cheeks, cold and sharp. The
feeling was so strange, so new,
but not entirely unpleasant.
It was fascinating, the way
they pattered all over my
skin, never hitting quite the
same place twice. I noticed
the wind, too, whipping my
hair against my neck, my skirt
against my legs and driving
the rain into my eyes. A
giant flash of light stretched
across the sky, a jagged slice
of lightning cutting its way
through the dark clouds above.
A second later, the sky seemed
to be torn apart as a positively
deafening burst of thunder
crashed overhead, shaking me
and the ground I stood on.
Strange as it was, I liked the
thunderstorm. The speed of
the wind, the power of the rain,
the quick flashes of lightning,
and the rumbling and crashing
of the thunder sent thrills of
energy surging through me.
No, I didn’t like the storm; I
loved it. I felt at one with the
storm, with the power, fury
and driving force of nature on
this dark spring night.
As I stood, shaking,
absorbing strength from
the absolute power of the
storm, our communion was
suddenly, rudely interrupted.
My cell phone, still in my
pocket, began to vibrate. I
pulled it out, wiping raindrops
off the screen. It was a text
from Ralf, asking me where
I was and if I was OK. But
the storm had taken me,
possessed me, folded me into
the waiting arms of its windy
embrace, and I dimly realized
I needed nothing else.
My phone slipped from my
hand into a puddle as I strode
away into the darkness, into
the rain, to meet and live the
storm.
■ Sheryl Hosler, of
Lewisburg, is a freshman at
Pennsylvania State University
majoring in English.
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DATES TO REMEMBER
Through March 29
Susquehanna Heartland
Wine Trail Event
(814) 466-6373
$18 each or $30 for two
www.pawinetrail.com
March 17 to April 9
“Nick Johnson:
Transcendence”
The Gallery at Penn
College, third floor of
Madigan Library
Pennsylvania College of
Technology, Williamsport
Opening reception
4:30-6:30 p.m. March 26
Artist will offer Gallery Talk
at 5:30 p.m.
Free
(570) 320-2445
www.pct.edu/gallery
March 21
Evangelical Community
Hospital’s 6th Annual
Woman’s Day Out
Country Cupboard,
Lewisburg
(570) 522-2693
www.evanhopsital.com
March 21, April 18, May 23
Contra Dance
Heiter Community Center,
Lewisburg
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Adults: $8; students: $4
(570) 524-2104
http://dances.org/PA/CCD
March 28-30
Central PA Builders Assoc.
Home Show
Bryce Jordan Center,
University Park
www.centralpabuilders.com
March 28-29
Shaver’s Creek Maple
Harvest Festival
Shaver’s Creek
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
(814) 863-2000 or (814) 6673424; www.outreach.psu.
edu/shaverscreek/indexmaple-harvest-festival.html
April 3-5
2008 Junior Baroque Music
Festival
University Baptist &
Brethren Church, State
College
(814) 231-8224
www.juniorbaroque.org
April 4
12th Annual Big Brother/
Big Sister Spring Fling
Rummage Sale
Snider Agricultural Arena,
Penn State University,
University Park
April 5
Best of Baroque Concert
University Baptist and
Brethren Church,
State College
3 p.m.
www.juniorbaroque.org
April 10–12
Hyner Hang Gliding Club
Easter Fly-In
Hyner View State Park,
Hyner
www.hynerclub.com
April 18
Hyner View Trail Challenge
Western Clinton
Sportsmen’s Association,
Hyner
Race starts at 8:30 am. Bag
pick-up/registration Friday
evening from 5-9 p.m. Race
day 6:30-8 am.
Cost: $50
(814) 321-8281
www.hikerun.com
Dance Workshop with
members of Bucknell Dance
Company
Donald Heiter Community
Center, Lewisburg; 3 p.m.
Free
(570) 524-4774
www.golara.org
April 18-19, April 25-26
The Tropical Rainforest:
Nature’s Hothouse
Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland,
Allenwood
(570) 538-1869
www.reptiland.com
April 19-20
Battery B Weekend
PA Military Museum,
Boalsburg
1-4 p.m.
April 21-24
“Miguel Tio: Artist in
Residence”
The Gallery at Penn
Madigan Library
Free
(570) 320-2445
www.pct.edu/gallery
April 25 – May 9
Lewisburg Arts Festival &
Lewisburg Live
Market Street, Lewisburg
(570) 524-LAC1
www.lewisburgartscouncil.
com
April 25
10th Annual Woman’s
Health 5K (Part of the River
Towns Race Series) and 2
Mile Kids Walk
Lewisburg Elementary
School, Lewisburg
Race starts 8:30 a.m.;
registration 7 a.m.; Kids
Walk 9:15 a.m.
$20: 5K; $2: Kids Walk
(570) 713-4189;
[email protected];
www.raceforwomenshealth.
com
Blue White Football Game
2 p.m.
Beaver Stadium, State
College
www.gopsusports.com
April 30 to May 7
“Graphic Design Student
Portfolio Exhibit”
The Gallery at Penn
Madigan Library
Free
(570) 320-2445
www.pct.edu/gallery
May 2
Central PA Orchid Show
Snider Agricultural Arena
Penn State University,
University Park
May 3
Family Celebration
Dale/Engle/Walker House,
Lewisburg
(570) 524-8666
www.linnconservancy.org
May 9
Jr. Olympic Skills
competition (ages 8 to 13)
Lewisburg Area
Recreation Park
10 a.m.-noon; Free
(570) 524-4774
www.golara.org
May 11
13th Annual On The Fly PA
Flyfisher’s Tournament
Benefits programs of the
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• Medication Assistance
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21 Conversation
starter
1 Pop ingredient,
22
Be behind
once
26
Charged particle
5 Press down
27
Bistro
9 Idyllic places
28
Small hill
14 Newspaper
30
Nursery item
page
31
Fork feature
15 Hodgepodge
32
Cobblestone
16 Corporate
33
Mark for life
symbols
34
Fabled racer
17 Stack
35
Units of work
18 Clappers
37
__ cracker
19 Mosque officials
40
Idiot box
20 Acid rain cause
41
A Kennedy
23 Gush
42
Warms
up
24 Romulus or
Down
47
Least
refi
ned
Remus
1 Small woods
48
Hermano
de mi
25 Ingenious
2 Kind of den
mama
29 Puts up
3 Yo-Yo Ma’s
50 Evening do
33 That girl
instrument
52 Ushered
36 They’re temporary
4 Experts
54 Jeweler’s glass
38 Buffalo’s lake
5 Bean curd
55 Show respect,
39 One’s impact on
6 Winglike
in a way
global warming
7 Obey
56
Beasts of burden
43 Jason’s ship
8 Put forward
57
Ship’s company
44 Church officer
9 Magical drink
58
Shrek, for one
45 “Wanna ___?”
10 Tyrannize
59
Hand in Honduras
46 Vacation spot
11 “Yikes!”
60
Bothers
49 Puts on cargo
12 Seward Peninsula 61 Eye affliction
51 Empty a boat
city
62 Checkup sounds
53 Bohemian dance
13 Leaky tire sound
Across
57 Global warming
cause
62 Bicker
63 Go quickly
64 Streets in
Strasbourg
65 Bergamot and
perilla, e.g.
66 Like a pocket
protector, perhaps
67 Fencer’s item
68 Nice!
69 Close race
decider
70 Slippery ones
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[ANSWERS ON PAGE 61]
Pennsylvania 57
DATES TO REMEMBER
Youth Service Bureau.
On the waters of Spruce
Creek on the Harpster
Family Farm
For directions, regulations,
call (814) 237-5731
www.ccysb.com/onthefly/
contact.html
May 14 to June 30
“Penn College Proud:
Employee Showcase”
The Gallery at Penn
Madigan Library
Free
(570) 320-2445
www.pct.edu/gallery
May 16
Hershey Track and Field
Games (for ages 9-14)
Pawling Sports Complex,
Lewisburg
10 a.m.-noon; Free
(570) 524-4774
www.golara.org
May 30-31
Durty Dabbers Dual Sport
Motorcycle Ride
Castanea Fire Hall Picnic
Grounds, Lock Haven
(570) 748-9456 or
(570) 726-3343
www.durtydabbers.com
May 31
35th Annual Nittany
Antique Machinery
Association Spring Show
Penns Cave, Centre Hall
June 4-6
PA Special Olympics
Penn State University
Campus, University Park
June 5-7
Battle of Chamber’s Ridge
VFW Fairgrounds and
Mifflinburg Buggy
Museum, Mifflinburg
(570) 966-1355
June 6
Strawberry Festival
Muncy Historical Society,
Muncy
2-6 p.m.
Bellefonte’s Big Spring
Festival
Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte
Bellefonte Children’s Fair
Curtin and Armor streets,
Bellefonte
May 16-17
Mifflinburg Buggy Days
Mifflinburg
(570) 966-1355
www.buggymuseum.org
June 13
Lemont Village Strawberry
Festival
On the Village Green in
Lemont
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March 26-April 17
Landscape & Garden
Showcase
Susquehanna Valley Mall,
Selinsgrove
(570) 374-8222
April 22
Evangelical Community
Hospital Mammathon &
Women’s Health Fair
Susquehanna Valley Mall,
Selinsgrove
(570) 374-8222
April 23-26
“The Man Who Came to
Dinner”
Degenstein Center
Theater, Susquehanna
University, Selinsgrove
(570) 372-ARTS
www.susqu.edu
April 27
WQSU-FM’s 11th Annual
Bluegrass Festival; 2 p.m.
Weber Chapel Auditorium,
Susquehanna University,
Selinsgrove
Age 5 and older: $10
(570) 372-4030
www.wqsu.com
May 1-2
Susquehanna Valley Chorale Pops Concert — A
Night at the Movies
Weber Chapel Auditorium,
Susquehanna University,
Selinsgrove
570.524.200 9
I N S I D E Pennsylvania December 2008
7:30 p.m.
(570) 523-1041
www.svcmusic.org
May 6
18th Annual Truman H.
Purdy Memorial Golf
Tournament
Susquehanna Valley
Country Club, Selinsgrove
(570) 286-5636
www.gsvymca.org
May 15-17
Middlecreek Valley Antique
Assoc. Antique Show
Show Grounds,
Selinsgrove
(570) 837-1237
June 6-7
Hunters Valley Winery
Open House and Craft Fair
Hunters Valley Winery,
Liverpool
11 a.m.-5 p.m.
(717) 444-7211
www.huntersvalleywines.
com
June 15
Golf Classic
Susquehanna Valley
Country Club, Selinsgrove
11:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
Members: $125; future
members: $150
(570) 743-4100;
[email protected]
www.gsvcc.org
DATES TO REMEMBER
966-4992
SALES, SERVICE & RENTALS
Through March 27
Spring Art Show —
Auction Artists Exhibition
Northumberland County
Career & Arts Center Fine
Art Gallery, Shamokin
Free
(570) 648-5801
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“Go Green”
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for booth information.
March 21
Monster Truck Show
Pennsylvania Farm Show
Complex, Harrisburg
(480) 905-5353
[email protected]
http://monstertrucklive.
com
March 21-22
Eastern National Gun,
Knife & Military Collectible
Complex, Harrisburg
(570) 679-2250
[email protected]
www.maacpsse.com
Susquehanna Valley
Chorale Spring Concert
— “Mass in B minor” by J.
S. Bach (1685-1750)
Zion Lutheran Church,
Sunbury; 3 p.m.
(570) 523-1041
www.svcmusic.org
March 22
Motorcycle Swap Meet &
Bike Show
Complex
(315) 472-7931
www.syracusesuperswap.
com
March 26-28
Keystone National Truck
and Tractor Pull
Complex, Harrisburg keystonenationals@
yahoo.com
March 27
PA Holstein Association
Spring Show
Complex, Harrisburg
(814) 234-0364
www.paholsteins.com
April 3-May 15
North Mountain Art
League Membership
Exhibit
Reception: April 3, 6:30-8
p.m.
Free
(570) 648-5801
April 9
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles
of Harrisburg
[CONT. ON PAGE 60 ]
Pennsylvania 59
12
SPRING 2009
FOOD
12 The Culinary Quartet
Dining out at the Common Grounds Cafe
20
18 Eat local
Dandelion is just one of
spring’s unique flavors
23
20 Chef Paul Mach
Spring comfort foods with holiday twists
GET OUT
14 The holiest thing alive
Ashland statue honors mothers everywhere
24
INSIDE
CONTENTS
46
23 Billtown Blues Festival
A full day of rockin’ blues music
COVER STORY
30 Most Beautiful People
Inside Pennsylvania Magazine
brings you a new annual feature
30
8 Barn inside out
Hempstead Stables — A suite of barns
THIS ISSUE
24 Six generations of music
Martin Guitar celebrates
175 years in business
INSIDE EVERY ISSUE
9 Either/or?
Phillies’ and Pirates’
managers go head-to-head
50
28 Art during the Depression
Roosevelt commissioned murals
at post offices to raise morale
10 From Here to There
David Fulmer writes and
rewrites his way to sucess
16 Sprecken sie Pennsylvaniaish?
Spragging can save your life
46 On a wing and a prayer
Falconry takes patience, trust and hope
54 Write on
‘TechnoStorm’ by Sheryl Hosler
50 For your home
Take your spring improvements outside
56 Dates to remember
Calendars
SPRING GIVEAWAY
17 Two chances to win at Country Cupboard
Two packages containing dinner buffets for four, a
$50 gift basket and a $100 shopping spree up for grabs
57 Crossword puzzle
How much do you know about going green?
63 Pennsylvania plants
Solomon’s Seal: A sign of spring
COVER: LISA RHOADES, OF SHAMOKIN DAM
PHOTO BY MATTHEW HARRIS
DATES TO REMEMBER
Ned Smith Center for
Nature and Art, Millersburg
7 p.m.
Free to Ned Smith Center
members and children, $3
otherwise
(717) 692-3699
www.nedsmithcenter.org
April 10
Harrisburg Kennel Club
Dog Show
Complex, Harrisburg
(717) 528-7247;
[email protected]
www.hkc.org
April 17-19
A Visit With Henry David
Thoreau
Gamut Classic Theatre,
Harrisburg
Friday and Saturday at 7:30
p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
(717) 692-3699
April 18
YMCA Healthy Kids Day
YMCA, Sunbury
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Free
(570) 286-5636
www.gsvymca.org
April 18
Journey to a Hidden
African American Cemetery
Centennial Barn, Fort
Hunter Park
2-4 p.m.; Free
(717) 599-5188, ext. 2116
April 18-19
Parelli Natural
Horsemanship
Complex, Harrisburg
(800) 642-3335
www.parelli.com
April 24-25
Eastern National Antique
Show and Sale
Complex, Harrisburg
(610) 437-5534
[email protected]
www.easternationalshows.
com
April 24
Annual Red Cross Art &
Wine Fund-raiser
Spyglass Ridge Winery,
Sunbury
6 p.m.
(570) 286-9911
www.spyglassridgewinery.
com
April 25
Bullride Mania
Complex, Harrisburg
(717) 334-7724
[email protected]
www.bullridemania.com
Wetlands Festival
Wildwood Park, Harrisburg
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
(717) 221-0292
www.wildwoodlake.org
May 2
Sunbury Fireman’s Carnival
Cameron Park, Sunbury
9 a.m.-9 p.m.
May 3
Rachel Denlinger, violinist
The Riegle Deck at Ned
Smith Center for Nature
and Art, Millersburg
3 p.m.
(717) 692-3699
Garden Faire
Fort Hunter Park,
Harrisburg; Free
(717) 599-5188, ext. 2116
May 8-10
Northeast Regional High
School Rodeo
Complex, Harrisburg
(717) 443-1625
www.phsrarodeo.org
May 9
Northumberland/Point
Township History Day
King Street Park,
Northumberland
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
(570) 473-3414; office@nor
thumberlandborough.com
www.northumberland
borough.com
Eastern Spadefoot Toad 5K
Run, 2 Mile Walk or Kids
Hop
Milton Industrial Park
Belford Addition
9 a.m.
May 15-17
Fire Expo/Lancaster
County Fireman’s Assoc.
Complex, Harrisburg
(717) 464-3291
[email protected]
Keystone Open Shoot
Valley Gun Club/PSSA
Grounds, Elysburg
10 a.m.
(570) 742-8266
www.pssatrap.org
May 22-June 26
Recycle Art Show
Free; (570) 648-5801
May 22-23
Anthracite Heritage Festival
of the Arts
Shamokin
May 22: 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
May 23: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
(570) 648-6772
www.anthraciteheritage.
com
May 30
4th Annual Blues Festival
Spyglass Ridge Winery,
Sunbury
(570) 286-9911
www.spyglassridgewinery.
com
June 5-7
PA High School Rodeo
Complex, Harrisburg
(717) 443-1625
www.phsrarodeo.org
June 12
River Ramble Sunset
Cruise
Millersburg Dock
7 p.m.; $15
(717) 692-2442
June 13
4th Annual Music on the
Deck with Kings and
Queens and the Don
Johnson Project
The Riegle Deck at Ned
Smith Center for Nature
and Art, Millersburg
5:30 p.m.
(717) 692-3699
Love & Care Street Fair
Cameron Park, Sunbury
Flag ceremony 9 a.m.;
fair hours 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
(570) 286-5855
23rd Annual 5K Race & 1st
Annual Kid’s Fun Run
YMCA, Sunbury
9 a.m.
(570) 286-5636
www.gsvymca.org
June 14-21
PA State Sportsmen Shoot
Valley Gun & Country Club,
Elysburg
10 a.m.-dusk
(570) 742-8266
www.pssatrap.org
June 13-14
Music & Wine Festival
Fort Hunter Park,
Harrisburg
3-9 p.m.
(717) 599-5188 ext. 2116
Eastern National Gun, Knife
and Military Collectibles
Complex, Harrisburg
(570) 679-2250
[email protected]
www.maacpsse.com
June 14
Strawberry Festival
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Warrior Run Church,
Turbotville; www.wrffhs.org
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DATES TO REMEMBER
March 5-March 22
Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble “Leading Ladies”
Alvina Krause Theatre,
Bloomsburg
Thursday-Saturday: 7:30
p.m.; Sunday: 3 p.m.
(570) 784-8181
www.bte.org
March 16-28
March into Spring
PPL Susquehanna
Riverlands, Berwick
10:30 a.m.-noon
(866) 832-3312
www.pplpreserves.com
March 20-22
Sports Collectible Show
Columbia Mall, Bloomsburg
10 a.m.-9 p.m.
(570) 387-4909
www.columbiamall.com
March 26-29
WNEP Sports Expo
10 a.m.-9 p.m.
(570) 387-4909
March 27
Woodcock Watch
7-8:15 p.m.
PPL Montour Preserve,
Danville; (570) 437-3131
March 28
Wildlife Art Expo
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
PPL Montour Preserve,
Danville; (570) 437-3131
March 28-29
Antique Show & Appraisal
Northern Columbia Community & Cultural Center,
Benton
Saturday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.;
Sunday: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
(570) 864-9998
Admission: $3; admission &
one appraisal: $5; additional appraisals: $3 each
March 29
Bloomsburg University
Spring Concert
Berwick Senior High
School Auditorium, Berwick
2:30 p.m.
(570) 389-4289
www.bloomu.edu
April 3
Steve Lippia in Simply
Sinatra
K.S. Gross Auditorium,
Carver Hall, Bloomsburg
University
7:30 p.m.
Adults: $20; Bloomsburg
University students and
children: $10
(570) 389-4409
http://orgs.bloomu.edu/
arts/celebrity_list.htm
April 5
River Towns Marathon
Danville High School,
Danville
8 a.m.; (570) 271-1055
www.rivertownrace.com
April 19
Robbins Run 5K and 10K
J. Manley Robbins Trail,
Danville
9 a.m.
(570) 271-1055
(570) 389-4289
www.bloomu.edu
April 30-May 17
Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble’s “The Clean
House”
Alvina Krause Theatre,
Bloomsburg
Thursdays, Fridays &
Saturdays: 7:30 p.m.;
Sundays: 3 p.m.
(570) 784-8181
www.bte.org
May 2
Annual Spring Fling
Downtown Danville
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
(570) 279-4254
Steamtown National
Historic Site’s Steam
Season begins with the
popular “Lackawanna
Limited” steam train rides.
Steamtown National
Historic Site, Scranton
Daily departures: 10:30 and
11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 2:15
p.m.
$3 plus $6 entrance fee
(570) 340-5244
www.nps.gov/stea
May 16
East Stroudsburg “Armed
Forces” Special Excursion
Steamtown National
Departs 9 a.m.
Adults: $51; seniors: $46;
children: $30
(570) 340-5244
www.nps.gov/stea
April 25
Renaissance Jamboree
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Downtown Bloomsburg
(570) 784-2522
75 Miles of Mon-Tour-Ture
Danville Soccer Park
8:30 a.m.
(570) 271-1055
Symphony Ball
Rolling Pines Golf Course &
Banquet Facility, Berwick
6-10 p.m.
Community Day
10 a.m.-7 p.m.
(570) 387-4909
May 29-31
Annual Children’s Miracle
Network Telethon
Geisinger Medical Center
Campus, Danville
(570) 271-6188
May 30
Heritage Explorer —
“Taste Along The Tracks”
Excursion
Steamtown National
Departs 10 a.m.
(570) 340-5244
www.nps.gov/stea
June 6-7
Tour De Tykes Mountain
Bike Race & Hessfest
Music Festival
Hess Field Park & Geisinger
Forest, Danville
(800) 322-5437
www.tourdetykes.com
June 7
Annual Children’s Free
Fishing Derby
Fishing Creek Sportsmen’s
Association, Benton
1 p.m.
(570) 925-6001
June 13
5th Annual River Day
Bloomsburg Town Park to
Danville Soccer Complex
10 a.m.
(570) 271-6188
www.emo444.com
By Kathleen Arcuri
PHOTO BY JOY HOCKMAN
PENNSYLVANIA PLANTS
SOLOMON’S SEAL
S
pring awakens gently in rural
Pennsylvania, like a musical adagio.
First a quiet trickle as ice thaws, then
swelling buds, a venturesome robin and a
patch of Solomon’s seal unfurling in the
hedgerow.
The genus polygonatum, or Solomon’s
seal, is a common and unpretentious plant,
found throughout most of North America,
Europe and even Siberia — growing in
moist, loamy shade. A member of the lily
family and a close relative of lily-of-thevalley, its foliage appears in early spring,
followed by pendent umbels of tiny whitishgreen bell-shaped flowers, and then dark
purple berries in late summer.
Solomon’s seal has been heralded since
the Middle Ages, whence it derived its
unusual name. The ancients believed that
King Solomon himself marked this humble
plant as medicinal, evidenced by a six-point
Star of David they saw embossed on some of
its rhizomes.
And, indeed, this widespread perennial
does embody the wisdom of the plant world.
It is used in herbal tinctures and salves. It
provides nectar for bees, hummingbirds
and butterflies, and berries for birds. In
desperate seasons, deer browse its leaves,
and humans forage on its stems and roots.
Solomon’s seal is also popular in shade
gardens for dramatic accent, with colonies
of arching foliage spread by underground
rhizomes — a supporting companion to
bleeding heart and showier spring bloomers.
And the flowers are a hidden treasure, for
those willing to peek beneath the shielding
leaves at the secret world of the elfin bells.
Aaron Copeland’s haunting musical
composition “Appalachian Spring” captures
the tempo of spring’s unfolding throughout
Pennsylvania’s woodlands and field verges,
with plants like Solomon’s seal heralding a
verdant renewal.
■ Kathleen Arcuri retired as a psychologist
to devote her time to gardening and
grandmothering. She lives in Benton. Joy
Hockman has been an elementary school
teacher and a clinical psychologist. She is
now photographing wildflowers.
A sign of spring
Identifying local buds and branches
Pennsylvania Trees & Wildflowers Pocket Naturalist
Guide (Waterford Press, $5.95) was released last summer.
It’s an excellent reference for novices and non-academics and lists 22 of the state’s best botanical viewing
areas as well as 123 of the most commonly seen trees
and wildflowers.
The book is available at bookstores and online. For
more information, call (800) 434-2555.
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BARN STORY
Story and photos by Jerry Westbrook
Inside Hempstead Stables
A Suite of Barns
W
hen a family endeavor expands,
its facilities often expand with it.
As explained by John
Mitchell, the Mark and Anne Dincher
family purchased a farm on Park Road,
Winfield, in the late 1970s. This enabled
Mrs. Dincher to pursue her life-long
involvement with horses. They christened
the farm Hempstead Stables, after Mrs.
Dincher’s maiden name, Hemp.
Boarding and breeding horses helped
support her personal ownership of
horses. As interest grew, the farm grew
into a suite of barns.
The Dincher daughters caught the
horsemanship passion, and the family
participated in numerous horse shows.
Before
saddling
up, Lois
Lesher,
13, of
Winfield,
makes
sure
Phoebe’s
hooves
are
picked
clean.
Bucknell University also has an
equestrian team that rides at Fox
View Farms, Route 45, Lewisburg.
For more information on the team,
visit www.orgs.bucknell.edu/
equestrian_team.
It was at one of these horse shows that
they met John Mitchell, who leases and
manages the stables today.
Mitchell, who was educated in the
University of Findley equestrian
program in Findley, Ohio, coaches the
Susquehanna University Equestrian
Team.
At Hempstead Stables, Mitchell, a
horse owner himself, trains, boards and
breeds horses. In addition, he uses the
large indoor arena to give lessons in
horsemanship to riders of all ages and
experience levels. His expertise permits
him to correct behavioral aberrations in
either a horse or its rider — or both.
Horsemanship, it turns out, begins long
before the rider mounts the animal. Lois
and Claire Lesher, 13 and 11, of Winfield,
were on hand to demonstrate that it
“begins in the barn.” After mucking out
the spacious box stalls, they groomed
their lesson horses in the ample, well-lit
aisle way. They brushed, curried and
cleaned their hooves — a messy job the
horses seemed to appreciate.
After wrapping forelegs, the girls
meticulously saddled and bridled the
horses. Leading them to the arena for
a riding lesson, they were dutifully
followed by the resident dogs, Katie, an
Australian Shepherd (we could guess it
by her accent), and Harley, a Pembroke
Welsh Corgi (even stronger accent).
With Lois riding English and Claire
riding Western, Mitchell coached them
through their paces. Each horse and rider
became one as they circled the training
ring. Mitchell explained that the facilities
are ideal for their current use. What
was once a pigsty when the Dinchers
bought the place, after considerable
deconstruction and rebuilding, is now the
main stable. Other horses are housed in
the rear of the arena, where they enjoy
watching lessons.
The main barn, the first to be seen
from the road by passersby, still maintains
its original character as a hay storage
facility upstairs and equipment storage
downstairs. Several other red outbuildings
are all in use, obviously by a family that
believes in taking care of what it has.
Well-kept stables, arena and equipment
are lessons in and of themselves for
would-be equestrians. The synergy
maintains a healthy stock of animals and
keeps the family endeavor alive.
EITHER OR?
O
n April 5, the World Champion
Philadelphia Phillies will open
the 2009 season by hosting the
Atlanta Braves, while the Pittsburgh
Pirates travel to St. Louis to play the
Cardinals on April 6.
Prior to that first pitch, Managers
Charlie Manuel and John Russell left
their respective dug-outs to participate
in this issue’s Either/Or.
In 2008, Manuel, 65, originally of
Northfork, W.Va., guided the Phillies
to the second World Championship
in franchise history. He is one of two
managers to lead the team to back-toback division championships.
Primarily a left fielder and pinch
hitter, Manuel played from 1969-72
with the Minnesota Twins and in
1974-75 with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
From 1976-81, he starred in Japan,
playing with the Yakult Swallows and
Kintetsu Buffaloes.
After injuries cut his playing career
short, he returned to the U.S. to work
as a scout for the Minnesota Twins
before turning to coaching in the
minor leagues, then with the Cleveland
Indians, and, in 2003, with the
Philadelphia Phillies.
Engaged to Melissa Martin, Manuel
has two children, Charles Jr. and Julie.
Russell, 48, was named manager of
the Pittsburgh Pirates on Nov. 5, 2007.
Russell previously served as the club’s
third base coach and major league
catching instructor from 2003-05.
Prior to joining the Pirates, Russell
spent two seasons as the Triple
A manager in the Philadelphia
organization. He was named the
International League Manager-of-theYear after guiding Scranton/WilkesBarre to an 84-58 record and the
Northern Division Title in 2006.
Originally selected by the Phillies in
the first round of the 1982 June draft,
the former catcher made his major
league debut in 1984. Russell caught
Nolan Ryan’s sixth career no-hitter on
June 11, 1990.
Russell is a 1979 graduate of Norman
High School in Oklahoma, where
he lettered in baseball, football and
basketball. He and his wife, Jamie,
have three sons, Brooks, Steel and
Stone.
By Deb Brubaker
Phillies’ and Pirates’
managers go head-to-head
PHILLIES
Questions
Charlie MANUEL
MANAGER
PIRATES
John RUSSELL
MANAGER
Leg of Lamb or Glazed Ham
Glazed Ham
Glazed Ham
Carrot Cake or Key Lime Pie
Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake
Peanut Butter Eggs or
Marshmallow Peeps
No choice
Peanut Butter Eggs
Vegetable or Flower Garden
Vegetable
Vegetable
Spring Forward or Fall Back
No choice
Spring Forward
Lemonade or Iced Tea
Iced Tea
Iced Tea
NBA Playoffs or March Madness March Madness
“Angels in the Outfield”
or “Field of Dreams”
“Field of Dreams
“Remember the Titans”
or “Jerry Maguire”
“Jerry Maguire”
March Madness
“Field of Dreams”
“Remember the Titans”
“Hoosiers” or “We Are Marshall” “Hoosiers”
“Rocky” or “Ali”
“Hoosiers”
“Rocky”
“Rocky”
“The Mighty Ducks” or “Miracle” “Miracle”
“Miracle”
“Talladega Nights”
or “Days of Thunder”
No choice
The Beatles or Elvis Presley
The Beatles
“Days of Thunder”
Elvis Presley
Buffalo Wings — Mild or Suicide Suicide
Mild
Cheese steak or cheese fries
Cheese steak
Cheese steak
Foot-long hotdog
or cheeseburger
Cheeseburger
Cheeseburger
“ESNP The Magazine”
or “Sports Illustrated”
“Sports Illustrated”
Cable or Satellite
Cable
Text Message or E-mail
Text Message
“Sports Illustrated”
Satellite
E-mail
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