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2007
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A passion for caring.
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time as necessary to answer all of
your questions and explain your
treatment options in great detail.
Advanced treatments for:
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BEFORE
AFTER
Gingivitis/ Periodontitis
Do your gums bleed when you brush or floss? Are your gums receding?
Do your teeth feel like they are moving? If so , you may have a Bacterial infection (Gingivitis / Periodontitis) which has been linked to Heart
Disease, Lung Disease and Premature Births.
BEFORE
AFTER
Dental Implants:
It can be embarrassing to have spaces in your mouth where teeth are missing. But you’re not alone. Some people
lose teeth due to injury, tooth decay, or periodontal disease (infection of the gums and bone surrounding teeth).
Others may not have had all their teeth grow in, whatever the reason; dental implants can help reduce missing
teeth. Implants often feel more natural than dentures and other dental restorations. For an appointment please call
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I N S I Dout
E
Wake up, wake up. The sun is rising
‘bove the backyard fence ...
Let’s take a ride, let’s go outside
See what there is to see.
Feeling so alive
You can drive
I’ll just keep you company
— “Can I Turn On The Radio”
I was going to write about corn. Sweet corn.
We folks living inside Pennsylvania wait all year for
the sweet corn to come in. With the temperatures on the
rise and the farm plows on the roll comes the anticipation
of the golden harvest ahead.
Nobody grows it better than we do, right here.
I was going to tell you the best places to find sweet
corn. I was going to share the best methods of storing it,
cooking it, eating it, freezing it. I was going to tell you
everything you would ever want to know about the best
to-die-for corn on the cob in the world.
But I got distracted by a catchy tune and an even catchier
music video.
Summer’s on its way ...
Let’s make it last. Time moves so fast.
I wish it wouldn’t, I hope it won’t.
By now the YouTube hit “Can I Turn On the Radio”
by Lewisburg’s Billy Kelly (aka Earl Pickens) may be old
news. Bill’s got a mass of talent — he’s a graphic designer,
singer/songwriter, and videographer, for starters — and
boy, can he ride a unicycle. But if you haven’t seen his video
yet, you should because it paints this area to perfection.
Sometimes words aren’t enough. Sometimes pictures and
music do the job better. This is one of those times.
Summer’s on its way ... and so is the sweet corn.
And now, come on inside,
Beautiful furniture, home accents & gifts for every room in
your home. You’ll find our selection very inspiring!
EDITOR
Check out “Can I Turn on the Radio”
at InsidePaMagazine.com.
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June 2007 I N S I D E
Pennsylvania 5
SUMMER 2007
INSIDEPennsylvnia
CONTENTS
COVER STORY
CLYDE PEELING
Reptiland founder talks about
science, evolution and his past
GET OUT
18
32
PENN’S CAVE
35
MINE TOUR
38
SUNBURY RIVER FESTIVAL
40
RIVER TOWN RACE SERIES
50
GRAB HOLD OF HISTORY’S REINS
63
THE OTHER GREAT LAKE
INSIDE EVERY ISSUE
THE CULINARY QUARTET 10
The four food lovers visit
The Fence Drive-In near
Lewisburg and Montandon
SPRECKEN SIE PENNSYLVANIAISH 17
Cindy Herman shares some tips
for understanding local talk
OLD BARN HOUSES MEMORIES 28
Peek into Randall Herman’s
barn in Snyder County
WRITE ON 42
Brian Ferguson-Avery wins with
his fiction story in this issue
DATES TO REMEMBER 57
18
8
EITHER OR
Bloomsburg University and
Susquehanna University
presidents make the call
FOOD
Pennsylvania farmers produce
cornucopia of foods each summer
DEPPEN FARMS
Bakery churns out more than
30 different kinds of pies
Head outdoors for some hiking,
biking, swimming and running
Mifflinburg Buggy Museum
is one of a kind
Raystown offers fishing, hiking
and houseboats with hot tubs
BREWING IN POTTSVILLE
44
CHURCH CHANGES STUDENTS
46
CHOKE UP
48
HE SPREADS THE WORD
52
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
53
THE SWAMP THING
12
14
14
COVER PHOTO of Clyde Peeling by Michael Bavero
6 I N S I D E Pennsylvania June 2007
Fair features car show,
light show and live music
24
24
FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR
Visit Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine
and Steam Train in Ashland
FEATURES
Calendar listings of
local happenings
ONE THING OR ANOTHER
Go deep underground into
the limestone cavern
Dick Yuengling taps into East
Coast’s love of his beer
Creating community center
is a learning experience
Trip to Little League Musuem
evokes memories of innocence
“PA Books” host Brian Lockman
indulges passion for good read
Legendary creature a myth?
Sighting haunts New Berlin man
June 2007, Volume 1, Issue 2
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University Presidents Make
EITHER
BY DEB BRUBAKER
S
ince July 1, 1994, Dr. Jessica Sledge
Kozloff, 66, has been president of
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg.
“There’s no doubt the high point of
my professional life has been the presidency of Bloomsburg University ... being
president of any college or university is a
tremendous honor.”
Born in Texas, the president is a “westerner at heart.” After retiring this December, she and her husband, Stephen Kozloff,
M.D., will be moving to Arizona to be
closer to their daughter (who lives in Phoenix) and son (who lives in Los Angeles).
The Kozloffs have four grandchildren.
Dr. L. Jay Lemons, 47, has been president
of Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, a
national liberal arts college, since February 2001. Dr. Lemons is proud to have had
the privilege of watching students become
alumni who live out the university’s mission
of “achievement, leadership, and service in
a diverse and interconnected world.” To
get a better grasp of the college experience,
Dr. Lemons regularly invites Susquehanna
students to join him for lunch to share their
views and perspectives.
A native of Scottsbluff, Neb., Dr. Lemons has been married to Marsha Schone
Lemons since 1984. The couple has four
children.
President Brian C. Mitchell, of
Bucknell Universtiy, was thankful for our
interest, but could not participate due to
time constraints.
Fact or fiction?
Paperback or hard cover?
Dormitory or off campus?
Fireworks or fireflies?
Community carnival or annual fair?
Gas grill or charcoal?
Baked beans or potato salad?
Corn on the cob or cobb salad?
Lemonade or iced tea?
Roughing it or room service?
Beach bum or world traveler?
Recliner or couch?
Sandals or sneakers?
Fresh air or air conditioner?
Watermelon or cantaloupe?
Sunrise or sunset?
Dine in or take out?
Comedy or mystery?
Sound of music or sound of silence?
Night owl or early bird?
E-mail or snail mail?
Dr. Phil or Punxsutawney Phil?
A little bit country or a little bit rock ‘n roll?
BWM or VW?
Waltz or wallflower?
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OR?
Blo
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Univers
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Dr. Jessica S. Kozloff
Dr. L. Jay Lemons
fact
hard cover
dormitory
fireflies
community carnival
gas grill
baked beans
cobb salad
lemonade
room service
world traveler
couch
sandals
fresh air
cantaloupe
sunrise
take out
comedy
sound of music
early bird
e-mail
Punxsutawney Phil
rock ‘n roll
BMW
waltz
fiction
hard cover
dormitory
fireflies
annual fair
gas grill
potato salad
corn on the cob
lemonade
roughing it
world traveler
recliner
sneakers
fresh air
neither
sunrise
dine in
comedy
sound of music
night owl
e-mail
Punxsutawney Phil
rock ‘n roll
VW
wallflower
Pennsylvania 9
T he Fence
food
The Fence Drive-In
is on Route 405,
south of Milton,
one mile south of
the Lewisburg bridge
and not far from
Montandon
(570) 524-2865
thefencedrive-in.com
Open mid-April
through the third
weekend of September. Daily from 11
a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday and Saturday
until 9:30 p.m.
Moderate price
range
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL BAVERO
Fish Lures ’em In
T
he Culinary Quartet is
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, both in the food-service
industry and in the consumer
business, they have formed
definite opinions about what
people are looking for in an eat-
ing establishment, particularly
those off the beaten path.
W
arm summer
breezes, fireflies,
outdoor concerts,
baseball games,
fish dinners. Fish dinners? All
reminiscent of summer if you
live in the Central Susquehanna
Valley.
Nestled on the banks of the
Susquehanna River, The Fence
Drive-In transports you back to the
days of carhops, bobby socks and
mouth-watering fish dinners.
Dining areas are
inside, outside at
picnic tables or turn
your headlights on for
service from your car.
BY THE CULINARY QUARTET
We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go to the Fence for
its famous fish sandwiches almost as soon as it reopened for
the season.
In 1951, Bob and Elva Reitz
erected a permanent building on
the site where various temporary
restaurants had stood since the
1930s. They named the new restaurant The Fence and began a
tradition of serving fresh food
seasonally. The Fence was closed
after the Agnes flood in 1972 and
reopened in 1975 only to be devastated again by flooding. The
current owners, Robert and Debra
Rapp, purchased the property in
1975 and have continued the longtime tradition of good food and
good times.
Apart from the addition of the
air-conditioned dining room in
1980, little has changed since the
Lewisburg
early days of The Fence.
During the winter months,
the site appears desolate and
abandoned, but at the first sign
of spring the cyclic restaurant
bustles to life with patrons who
await the reopening with much
anticipation.
The parking spots stretch the
length of the property and are
framed by — what else? — a
fence, and a festive string of
twinkling lights that welcome
customers. It’s often difficult to
find an open spot, but on the unseasonably cool day we visited,
parking was not a problem. Our
first decision to make was where
to eat. You can eat in the comfort
of your car, at one of the many
picnic tables that overlook the
peaceful Susquehanna River, or
in the dining area. Each venue
offers a unique experience and
we recommend that you sample
them all.
Since it was cool, we opted for
indoor eating and were promptly
approached by a carhop with
menus and a smile. The Fence is
a popular employment spot for
local teens, who enjoy the seasonal outdoor work. Many return
summer after summer until yearround employment takes them
elsewhere.
Inside, the dining room is
well lit with pendant lighting
above each table. There are nine
tables, seating four people each,
most with a window view of the
Susquehanna River and the town
of Lewisburg.
There’s one larger table for a
group of seven, against the wall.
The walls are beautifully oak
paneled and we noticed a table
for two nestled in the corner by
a window. Prints of Lewisburg
adorn the walls, along with some
original photos of the Fence and
the history of the restaurant.
On a pleasant day, you can
traverse the wooden steps leading
to the river to enjoy the scenery or
feed the ducks after you eat.
The next decision we were
faced with was what to order from
the appetizing selections before
us. The Fence is best-known for
its fish sandwich so, of course,
we broke our rule to each order
something different. Later in the
season we’ll try the scallops,
chicken or shrimp. The fish is
hand-breaded daily (as is all the
seafood and chicken), the fries
are hand-cut, and the secret recipes for the tartar sauce and cole
slaw make it truly remarkable.
Being a family friendly restaurant, there are also “old-fashioned” hamburgers, cheeseburgers and hot dogs. Even though we
had our fill from the fish sandwiches, we had to check out the
homemade milkshakes. Thick,
creamy, luscious … a perfect ending for lunch.
The Fence makes a great stop
on a summer day. Come by boat
while enjoying an afternoon on
the river, by motorcycle with
some friends (it was a stop on
the BMW Dutch Country Riders 67-County Scavenger hunt in
2006), by bicycle or by car. Grab
a fish sandwich and a thick shake
to go. You’ll be marking your
calendar for closing day to make
sure you’ve had one last sandwich
of summer.
is the home of
Bucknell University
and has a population
of approximately
5,562. The downtown features more
than 40 varied shops,
restaurants, museums
and a historic movie
theater. Nestled along
the scenic Susquehanna River, it is most
known for its distinctive streetlights.
Montandon
sits across the Susquehanna
River from Lewisburg.
It is truly a small Central Pennsylvania town,
with a population of 637.
One could travel through
Montandon on the way to
Route 147 or to Danville,
but they would miss the
opportunity to view the
churches and businesses
that sit on the main street
of the Purple Heart Highway (Route 45).
THE CQ LOO REVIEW
3 ½ rolls
There are two separate unisex bathrooms that are
clean and offer the basics. A smaller bathroom is inside
the waitress area; the second, larger bathroom is entered from the outside and is handicap accessible.
This is a family friendly environment, so there is a
changing table in the larger rest room. Both bathrooms
have wall-mounted soap dispensers and motion-detector
paper towels. Not much to mention by way of decor;
however, it has rustic paneling and curtains for privacy.
Pennsylvania 11
food
Pennsylvania Farmers Produce Cornucopia of Foods Each Summer
FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR
I
t’s summertime, and the eating is
easy, or so Billie Holiday would sing
if she would’ve had the opportunity
to visit Pennsylvania at the peak of
the summer season.
Juicy heirloom tomatoes, blueberries, sweet corn and peaches are just
a few of summer’s muses that beckon
us to forgo a trip to the supermarket
and enjoy a leisurely jaunt to the farm
stand instead.
And there is no time of year quite so
sweet to sample the wares of Pennsylvania and let the taste of nature speak for
herself than during these long-awaited
summer months.
There are few other places that offer
the bountiful variety of fruits, vegetables, meats, cheeses and baked goods
that Pennsylvania so readily invites us
By Mandy Burbage
to savor every summer season. Whether
you’re searching for a showcase ingredient for your next meal or just looking
for an excuse to spend a lazy afternoon
getting lost on one of the state’s many
scenic back roads, you’ll undoubtedly
discover that summer in Pennsylvania
has much to offer.
And now, thanks to the efforts of
the Valleys of the Susquehanna’s “Buy
Fresh-Buy Local” campaign and six
local visitors bureaus, it’s easy to find
an excuse to set off on an adventure
to find the freshest foods the season
has to offer.
The goal of the campaign’s new
“Homegrown in the Valleys” guide is
to help consumers find farm-raised,
hand-crafted foods and beverages while
highlighting the region’s burgeoning
agritourism potential.
What is agritourism? It’s everything
from picking your own strawberries to
sampling a local wine at a vineyard to
visiting a corn maze. And it’s a growing
industry in Pennsylvania that benefits
local farmers by providing a supplementary source of income for their
farm operation.
Regardless of whether you’re searching for food or fun, the “Homegrown in
the Valleys” guide has all of the informa-
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IRONheritAGE
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July 18-22, 2007
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Various events throughout the festival.
Check our website for days and times.
Evening at the Grove,* Lantern Cemetery Tours,*
The IHF Parade and Polka Party, IHFestival for
Children, IHF Quoits Tournament,* Artisans,
Historical Walks and Talks, Entertainment on Two Stages,
The IHF Furnace, Victorian Highwheelers, Victorian Tea,* Garden
Tours* and Garden Symposiums, IHF Express Train Rides,* Civil
War Presentations, The NY Mutual Heritage Baseball Team vs.
The Local Team,* Fireworks Over the River, Vintage Planes Fly-In,
Old-Fashioned Hymn Sing *denotes paid event
www.iTourColumbiaMontour.com
Mr. Wheeler offers one of the
Cherry Alley Cafe’s summer favorites:
tion a local foodie could wish for, including a colorful map and guide to more
than 60 local food and farm destinations
situated in some of Pennsylvania’s most
timeless landscapes. The guide highlights
farmers markets, wineries, orchards,
farm stands, nurseries and community
supported agriculture (CSA) farms —
perfect for satisfying a shopping list or
entertaining weekend guests. In addition,
the guide features value-added producers
such as artisan bread and cheese makers
as well as makers of hand-crafted goods
like quilts and homespun wool.
And, if you’re looking to prolong your
authentic experience, the guide also features overnight farm lodgings that offer
the first-hand experience of life on the
farm. The guide uses icons to creatively
depict the kinds of products each destination has to offer, complete with hours
of operation and contact information so
you can call ahead to confirm what’s in
season.
Chris Wheeler, chef and co-owner of
the Cherry Alley Cafe in Lewisburg, is ac-
customed to taking his culinary cues from
the farm. On any given week, he finds out
what items local farms have on hand and
then builds a special menu around those
ingredients. The result is a spectacular
dish that practically sells itself.
“I have customers come in and ask
for the special before they even find out
what it is,” Mr. Wheeler says jokingly.
He doesn’t stop with specials, either.
Since the cafe started serving a
full menu this spring, he has
worked to find local sources for
eggs, pork and several dairy products. The cafe’s unique menu has
earned quite a following among
Lewisburg brunch-goers, due in part
to the restaurant’s demonstrated
commitment to supporting local businesses.
So celebrate the summer season by
picking up a copy of the “Homegrown in
the Valleys” guide at your local visitors
bureau, and plan your next meal around
that fabulous piece of produce that makes
its way home in your market basket.
Smoked Gouda/Chipolte Mayo Sandwich
2 slices multi-grain bread
2 slices of smoked Gouda cheese
Fresh leaf lettuce
Alfalfa sprouts
Sliced heirloom tomato, green bell pepper,
onion and avocado
Chipolte mayo
Chipolte Mayo: (prepare a day ahead)
3 dried chipolte peppers
1 cup mayonnaise
Place the chipolte peppers in a bowl,
add water covering peppers. Let the peppers sit in the water until they become
soft enough to process. Drain and place
peppers in food processor. Process the
peppers a little, then add the mayonnaise and blend.
Assemble veggies and cheese
onto bread slices coated in chipolte
mayo. Enjoy!
See page 66 for another recipe ...
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food
DEPPEN FARMS
PHOTOS BY
MICHAEL
BAVERO
KEEPS ON BAKING
BY JOHN FINNERTY
T
om Deppen was explaining the difference between
what they call fish pie and its more famous cousin
shoo-fly pie when he abruptly stopped and headed
across the kitchen at the bakery founded by his
mother 36 years ago.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
The call of the oven timer trumps all else in the kitchen
at Deppen Farms.
Turns out, right in the middle of pie-baking time is not
the best time to conduct an interview.
With two massive ovens — each of which can cook 120
pies at a time — fired up, the bakery, a large lab-white
room, is a frenetic place. Seven workers— including Tom
Deppen, his mother Jean, who founded the company, and
his father Ray — busily mix up pie filling and pour it into
the crust-lined pie pans.
For the vertical-shaped convection oven used for fruit
pies, the filling is added then the pies are placed on rolling
racks that go right into the oven. While the pies bake, the
rack rotates, so the heat’s distributed evenly.
For custard pies, though, a conventional
oven is used, and the filling must be added
after the pie pans have already been placed
inside the oven, Ray Deppen explained.
The reason?
Tom Deppen
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Before it’s cooked, the custard is liquid, which
would splash all over the place if they tried to
move the pans with the filling in them prior to
baking.
Deppen Farms sells more than 30 different
kinds of pies but the business’ specialty are the
traditional Pennsylvania Dutch-style pies.
But, Tom Deppen notes, you can never make
enough varieties to please everyone. Particularly,
when you have a reputation for making pies that
are hard-to-find, he said.
Deppen Farms sells its pies at the Crossroads Market, near Gratz, and at the West Shore
Market in Lemoyne. Until just a few years ago,
they also sold their baked goods at the Sunbury
Market House, as well.
But selling enough pies at the farm markets to
make the venture worth-while has gotten much
tougher, Tom Deppen said.
“People’s eating habits have changed,” he
said.
And so have their shopping habits, he
added.
Years ago, people would show up at the farm
market with the intention of buying a week’s
worth of food. “You’d see people walking out
with bundles of produce,” he said.
Now, the markets might be crowded, but the
shoppers are buying less.
As people rely more on frozen meals, preprepared food and fast-food, they spend less
time buying fresh produce. And it seems, they
become a little less likely to feel like they want
to stop out at the farm market to pick up a fresh
pie for dessert.
But the pie story is not all sour cherries.
There’s a sweet side too, of course.
While the farm market trade has seemed to
suffer, Deppen Farms has managed to augment
their sales by offering pies for school and other
community groups that sell them as fundraisers,
he said.
It’s the kind of adjustment that allows a business to last from one generation to the next.
And Tom Deppen said he’s not sure if his son
will want to be a pie man. The boy, after all, is
only 4, but he wants the business to be around to
make it an option.
Besides, who else would be able to explain the
difference between shoo-fly and fish pie?
Both, Tom Deppen said, are made from molasses, but while shoo-fly has the familiar rich brown
color, fish pie is made from a different kind of
molasses, and as a result, the filling is lighter.
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which is when you make a stupid mistake.
“That’s great,” I said. “I never heard of
making dumb. Maybe I can use it in my
article.”
“The phrase is ‘making dumbness,’ not
‘making dumb,’ ” he said. “You see, if you
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My dander was up in an instant, and it’s a
good thing he’s bigger than me and I’m a
coward, or things would have really made.
The nerve of some people!
“Fer” is another word that, to the best of
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castor oil. An area that hadn’t yet
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up a bit, his eyes focus in. He’s gotten e-mails from religious fundamentalists
who take him to task, hate mail from biblical literalists who believe science
is a fairy tale.
At the end of a Reptiland presentation several years ago that included a
clip about the 200-million-year history of tortoises, Peeling says one man
challenged him.
“He said, ‘I liked your show, but you’re wrong about the tortoises. God
made the world 6,000 years ago,’” Peeling recalls.
While it wouldn’t be fair to say his Allenwood-based zoo is a conduit for Peeling to teach mainstream science, he says he came to an
epiphany not long ago.
After a school district in Dover, Pa., decided in 2004 to mandate the teaching of “intelligent design,” a nonscientific idea that
holds some components of living organisms are “so irreducibly
complex” they could only have sprung into existence at the hand
of a creator, Peeling said he felt it was even more imperative to
teach responsible science.
“We might be the only country except for Iran that hasn’t
fully embraced evolution. A lot of institutions pussy-foot around
it,” Peeling says of many U.S. zoos. “We have an obligation to
teach real science.”
His journey, though, began not as an obligation, but as a fascination. As a young man, Peeling was enthralled with snakes. He
found an eastern hognose snake once as a Boy Scout and carried it back
to camp with the thought he could use it for the troop’s nightly American
Indian dance.
“I had a camp counselor who had timber rattlesnakes and copperheads,”
Peeling says. “I guess that’s where it all started.”
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One, to bypass the draft. If he was going to be a military
man he was going to do it on his own terms.
“I wanted to be a photographer, but they said they
had to fill their own needs first,” Peeling says. “Those
were the days when military recruiters lied to you.”
He ended up as an air traffic controller instead.
Now, at 64, Peeling is glad he learned about aviation.
Standing next to his six-seat Cherokee VI, which he
frequently uses to transport hundreds of pounds of
reptiles in and out of the Danville Airport, he’s believable as a pilot. At 6 feet tall, Peeling stands arrow
straight. It’s not hard to picture him in the cockpit of
a 747, pushing down the intercom to announce to his
passengers that take-off is imminent.
The second reason Peeling joined the Air Force was
for the chance to go to Vietnam. It was before the war
had escalated, he said. Before people began to realize,
as plastic-wrapped bodies returned home with more and
more frequency, that the war was a mistake.
But Peeling wasn’t interested much in fighting.
Instead of searching for Charlie, he would have been
hunting for Vietnam’s healthy and varied snake population.
“There are 37 species of venomous snakes in Vietnam,” Peeling says. “It would have been a paradise for
someone like me.”
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BY DAMIAN GESSEL
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL BAVERO
DICK YUENGLING
★ TAPS INTO ★
EAST COAST’S
LOVE OF HIS BEER
D
ick Yuengling snuffs his Marlboro in an ashtray, then strikes
a match and lights another.
At 64, he’s the sole owner of America’s oldest brewery. Founded in 1829, Yuengling now
ships to 10 states up and down the East Coast.
Its historic production facility, which operates
Monday through Friday, produces hundreds of
thousands of bottles, cans and cases of beer.
In Pennsylvania, finding a bar that doesn’t have
Yuengling on tap is like locating a lawyer who
doesn’t use legal jargon.
But Mr. Yuengling hasn’t let any of it go to
his head. Visit Mahantongo Street any given day
of the week and he’ll be the guy loading cases
into a truck, or helping the brewers, or shaking
hands with the folks taking his brewery’s tour.
Like his beer, he’s a throwback: the kind of guy
who takes the time to talk to the people around
him. Name a local — famous or otherwise
— and he’ll likely have a story at the ready.
It’s that kind of steadfastness that has imbued Yuengling with such success.
“We don’t follow gimmicks,” Mr. Yuengling
says. “We’re a nuts and bolts company.”
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★
★
★
Other businesses should take note.
Yuengling Lager has become a staple
throughout Pennsylvania — the drink of
choice for beer lovers and barflies both.
In the other states it’s shipped, Yuengling
is a top-shelf treat, even though Mr.
Yuengling purposely keeps prices low.
Sitting across from him in his Pottsville
office, it’s hard not to picture Mr. Yuengling
as a product of the four generations of
Yuenglings who came before him. With his
full head of solid gray hair, strong jaw-line
and straightforward way of speaking, it’s
not such a surprise when you see him doing
menial jobs at his brewery — he’s a man
who isn’t afraid of getting his hands dirty.
Not a suit-and-tie kind of guy, Mr.
Yuengling often favors a flannel shirt and
a pair of jeans.
And he’s smart — and modest — enough
to know the only way to succeed is to surround yourself with successful people. Mr.
Yuengling said he believes in letting good
people do good work.
“I never got into it that much,” he says
of brewing his namesake famous beer. “I
YUENGLING BREWERY
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just let the brew masters do their job. You
don’t go up to a famous chef and tell him
how to cook.”
Similarly, he credits his advertising people for Yuengling’s incredible expansion in
the 1990s and early 2000s. Over the span
of his more than 40-year watch, Yuengling
has grown from one to three plants — two
in Pottsville and one in Tampa, Fla. It’s gone
from producing just under 200,000 barrels
of brew each year to more than a million.
And the Yuengling name has been on the
lips (and in the stomachs) of beer drinkers
throughout the East Coast.
But Mr. Yuengling doesn’t take credit
for anything aside from bankrolling and
believing in his brewery.
In fact, Dick Yuengling — more than
anyone — is responsible for Yuengling’s
rise. He started working at the company
at 15, fending off temptation (“Guys were
always trying to get you to drink,” he says)
and finding his way through Yuengling’s
historic layout. He made it through only one
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year of school at Lycoming College.
“They couldn’t keep me away,” Mr.
Yuengling says of his brewery. “I just kept
coming back.”
Couple that love of his family’s business
with an intangible — Mr. Yuengling says he
always believed Yuengling “had a chance
to be something bigger” — and you have
a classic success story.
Beer by definition isn’t an uppity drink.
It doesn’t have as much popularity among
celebrities as, say, expensive wine. But
Mr. Yuengling says he’s been pleasantly
surprised by some of the people who count
themselves as bona fide Yuengling fanatics.
Former New York Met Mike Piazza likes Mr.
Yuengling’s beer so much, he orders cases
of it wherever he goes.
“I send a case to him when he’s at spring
training,” Mr. Yuengling says.
Mr. Yuengling says Yuengling was
granted the official title, which it displays
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prominently on all its products,
of “America’s Oldest Brewery”
in the 1950s when the previous
oldest brewing company — a
little brewery in Boston — closed
shop.
Yuengling has cranked out
beer through the Civil War, Prohibition, both world wars and
pretty much everything else in
American history.
“We grew up with America,”
Mr. Yuengling is fond of saying.
But just because Yuengling is
America’s oldest brewery doesn’t
mean you’d want to be a beer
connoisseur in the early 1800s,
Mr. Yuengling says.
“Then you just used anything
you could get to make beer,” he
says. “You wouldn’t like the taste
too much.”
As anyone who’s ever
been through the
Yuengling Brewery
tour can attest, beer-making today is more or
less mechanized. The brewery has it down to an
art enough so every bottle tastes the same.
Modern brewing methods aside, separating
Yuengling from its roots is impossible. The tour
includes a jaunt through the underground caves
where Yuengling brewers first stored their beer
to keep it cold. The musty smell of wet grain and
hops rides thick in the air; water drips from the
hand-dug stone ceilings. Although no one ever
officially recorded Yuengling’s effort in digging
the tunnels, it’s said it took a group of men 10
years to finish them.
Flash forward 178 years and you find
Yuengling’s full line — Premium, Lager, Black
& Tan, Porter, Lord Chesterfield Ale and Light
Lager — being produced and shipped across
the country every day.
Putting out his Marlboro and lighting
another — his third in just less than an
hour — Mr. Yuengling leans back in his
chair.
“We can’t play with Miller and Coors,”
he says, ticking off market shares. That
kind of ambition will be left up to his four
daughters — at least one of whom is expected to succeed him.
Which one?
Deciding that, Mr. Yuengling says, won’t
be easy.
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FINDING THE BEST BREW FOR YOU
BY DAMIAN GESSEL
IN CANS, IN BOTTLES, IN
drafts, in kegs — most people
have had beer.
Many were given their first
bitter sip as children, and it’s the
last they ask for.
“See, you won’t like it when
you’re older, either,” our fathers
or uncles will tell us as we spit
into the grass and wonder in
amazement how our elders can
drink the awful stuff.
But as we get older and our
tastes change, many of us give
beer a second chance.
Fewer, however, know beer’s
depth of variety. We stare at the
beer list like a foreign language,
often unwilling to stray from our
comfort drink, ordering the Miller
Light or Budweiser every time.
But beer lovers know that,
like wine, varieties of beer can be
as different as milk from orange
juice. It would be impossible to
list every style of beer at one sitting, but it breaks down into two
basic categories: ale and lager.
Mass-produced American
beers such as Coors, Budweiser
and Busch are lagers, or more
specifically, pilsners. They have
a lighter, weaker flavor and are
usually golden in color.
“They’re a little lighter on
the palate and aren’t as heavy,”
explained Bob Dressler, owner
of The Pub II on Mill Street in
Danville. “You immediately taste
that they have less alcohol.”
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BJ’s Steak and Rib House in
Danville, said pilsner drinkers
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OLD
BARN
houses memories
Story and photos by Jerry Westbrook
As Farm Life Changes,
Snyder County Building
Remains Stable
T
he quiet, pastoral setting as seen from
County Line Road gives no hint of the yearround activity inside Randall Herman’s
barn in rural Snyder County.
In a four-season barn, there is always work to do.
Whether it’s bringing in food crops, grinding corn
or feeding the livestock, it goes on with purpose
and enthusiasm, day after day. That activity has
been part of Herman family life since Mr. Herman’s
grandfather, Claire Herman, moved to the farm
around 1914.
If this barn could talk, it would tell us that a key
element of its life has been change. It would tell of
the replacement of horse-drawn machinery with
modern diesels, the movement from hosting dairy
cattle and work horses to today’s heifers, beef cattle
and chickens.
Loose hay has transmigrated to tight bales. And
the farmer’s work plan has gradually changed from
folk wisdom to scientific methods.
It’s the Herman family ethic of embracing change
that has underwritten the barn’s continuous transformation. As Randall Herman and his wife, Leslie,
walk through the aisles and four levels of the barn,
they convey an air of reverence for those who built
it in the early 1900s and those who worked it and
modified it along the way to meet ongoing needs.
The most significant improvement was the installation of electricity to light the barn during early
morning and late evening chores, adding an element
of safety over the use of liquid fuel lamps.
As electrically powered equipment such as grinders and conveyors became available, they were
welcomed into the barn’s generous hold. Whereas
Randall Herman’s four-season barn in Snyder County.
The barn hasn’t lost
its original charm and
character. At left,
the rafters inside Mr.
Herman’s barn.
Bottom right, a
study in light and dark
in a shot taken by
Joyce Westbrook.
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cattle formerly ruminated to the sounds and timbre of nature, today
they munch to the rhythm and resonance of a local radio station.
Despite modern alterations — a new floor aloft for storage,
a new partition for an additional variety of grain — the barn
hasn’t lost its original charm and character. A stroll through the
straw-covered central aisle on the main floor reveals the brawny
beams fastened with wooden pegs, standing proud and tall for
nearly 100 years.
Scars on the wooden and stone walls reflect the life and work
that have gone on within. Fastened to beams in an area housing
beef cattle are the pegs that held harnesses for draft horses in the
early days. Dutch doors are a reminder of the former box stalls
that were a respite to those horses after a long day in the fields.
Various marks and brands left on beams and walls by those whose
livelihood depended on this sturdy structure are a permanent tribute
to their contributions.
Use of the barn reflects a Pennsylvania sense of economy.
Every area is identified for a particular use. Few unneeded older
implements are kept around, no matter what the sentimental
value. Each grain or other animal food element is stored closest
to the point of use to conserve space and energy for delivery.
Despite availability of modern energy sources, however, nature’s
gravity is still used, wherever feasible, to move the feed from
point of storage to point of consumption.
All is not work, by the way, in this focal point of family farm
life. Inside one of the graineries, affixed to the beams about 10
feet from floor level, is a basketball hoop, where the Herman
children can both celebrate the emptying of that cubicle and work
off some spring energy.
The overriding atmosphere on this sunny day around the Herman barn was contentment. The beefers in the lowest level munched
and nodded, chickens in their private loft clucked and pecked at
the grain, and the family went about its business. Meanwhile, the
barn embraced them all.
PENNSYLVANIA
Historic Barn Survey
In October 2005, the state General Assembly passed bills urging
the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to inventory and characterize
Pennsylvania’s historic barns.
A survey was developed, distributed and tallied by the Center for
Rural Pennsylvania. Some of the key findings:
53 percent were built before 1880; the oldest is in eastern
Pennsylvania
65 percent have lightning rods
21 percent have weather vanes
Major architectural styles are: German bank barns (58 percent), basement barns (21 percent) and English barns (5 percent)
45 percent have been altered, mostly to add or remove stanchions, horse stalls and silos
73 percent are in good or excellent shape
54 percent are being used in agriculture
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A
s legend has it, long
before set tlements
reached west of Sunbury, French trapper
Malachi Boyer set off to explore the wilderness in the early
1700s.
After meeting Seneca Indian Chief O-Ko-Cho, Boyer fell
deeply in love with the chief’s
beautiful daughter, Nita-nee.
The chief would not permit their
marriage, so Boyer and Nita-nee
ran away, hoping to reach the
eastern settlements.
The two were captured and
the chief instructed his sons to
take Boyer “to a yawning cavern
filled with water and thrust him
in,” where they then stood guard
to prevent his escaping. Boyer
swam in the inky blackness and
searched in vain for another exit,
finally succumbing to death.
It’s been said that on still summer nights, an echoing can be
heard in the cavern sounding like
“Nita-nee…Nita-nee.”
The “yawning cavern” is
Penn’s Cave in Centre Hall, an
easy and scenic drive from most
areas of Pennsylvania. But it’s
not just Pennsylvanians who
visit here. People from all over
the United States and the world
come to visit Penn’s Cave.
During the summer months
it’s not unusual to hear two or
three languages being spoken.
Is it the legend that draws visitors? Perhaps, but that’s just
one reason. Of greater allure
is touring the magnificent cavern. Add to that the tour of the
Wildlife Park, and you’ve got a
destination point that will linger with you long after you’ve
returned home.
INSIDE PENN’S CAVE
Formed from the bed of a
shallow sea millions of years
ago, the limestone cavern is rich
in geology and history. Countless underground springs flow
into the cavern, allowing visitors
to ride the one-mile tour entirely
by a flat-bottom motorboat.
Knowledgeable and enthusiastic
guides provide fascinating infor-
PENN’S CAVE
Penn’s Cave House
America’s only all-water cavern is located at 222 Penns Cave Road, Centre Hall (about 18 miles east of State College).
For tour hours, directions and rates, call (814) 364-1664, visit www.pennscave.com or e-mail [email protected].
Regardless of when you visit Penn’s Cave and Wildlife Park, be aware that the cave temperature is 52 degrees year round.
Bring a jacket or a sweater; you’ll need it. Comfortable walking shoes are advised.
The Visitors Center features the Cave Café where you can enjoy a bison, elk or Texas Longhorn burger.
mation on the numerous intriguing geological formations
of columns, draperies and the
breathtaking stalagmites and
stalactites that grow at a rate of
1 inch every 120 years.
As you tour the cavern, your
guide will point out the few
rooms that are out of view and
not open to the public — dry
rooms that were once used by
American Indians, early white
explorers, and animals. In 1855,
the first white man to have entered the cavern, the Rev. James
Martin, found numerous arrowheads, pottery and other American Indian artifacts.
In 1860, Isaac Paxton found
the skeletons of two huge panthers.
One can only imagine the eerie atmosphere these early visitors encountered, armed with
only a torch to see through the
thick curtain of darkness. Today,
with electricity throughout the
cavern and your guide using a
spotlight, you are afforded a
spectacular show of the cav-
ern interior that earlier people
could have only imagined or
been haunted by.
PENN’S CAVE WILDLIFE PARK
Board a safari bus for a 90minute tour (or choose a threehour private tour in a Hummer)
of the 1,000 acres of carefully
preserved forests and fields that
serve as a natural habitat for
birds, plants and animals. Your
guide will provide you with a
wealth of information.
The mammals you will see
include wolves, mountain lions
(also known as cougars, pumas,
panthers and catamounts),
Texas Longhorn cattle, bobcats,
black bears, elk, white-tailed
deer and bison, often incorrectly
referred to as buffalo.
As our tour guide, Becky
Thomas, made clear, “buffalo”
was the term the early white
settlers used for the animals
because they resembled water
buffalo.
In addition to the live animals
you will see, there is also a stop
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At left, Texas Longhorn cattle
lay around at the Wildlife Park.
Below, a display at the Wildlife
Park African Museum.
at the African Museum — a fascinating
one-room exhibit housing an extensive
variety of replicas and mounts of animals
from the South African wilderness.
The expert prerecorded narration and
sophisticated presentation of this exhibit
momentarily whisks visitors through
a time portal, away from the rural surroundings of Central Pennsylvania to
our nation’s most prestigious museums,
such as the Smithsonian or the Chicago
Field Museum.
THE BOTTOM LINE
It pays to go off the beaten path. Whether
you tour the cavern, the wildlife park, or both,
the journey to Penn’s Cave and Wildlife Park
is more than well worth it. Owned by the
same family for almost 100 years, the level of
professionalism and dedication to ecological
preservation is obvious in every regard.
Once you visit Penn’s Cave and Wildlife
Park, you’ll understand why this glorious
habitat has been placed on the National
Register of Historical places.
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A really coal tour, dig?
Anthracite Mine Fuels Visitors’ Interest in Hard Rock
E
very year, 40,000 people from around
the globe flock to the quiet little town
of Ashland in Schuylkill County. Their
destination is the Pioneer Tunnel Coal
Mine and Steam Train — one of the few coal
mines in the world open to tourists.
Visitors gain a solid understanding of
anthracite coal mining and the importance
it played in the history of the United States
when touring what has been selected as
one of the Top 10 tourist attractions in the
state, according to the Pennsylvania Travel
Industry Advisory Council.
Other visitors (such as the large group
of Russian coal miners that visited several
years ago) come with a different agenda
— to learn from the master, general manager and mine foreman Howard Smith.
That makes sense. Mr. Smith is a seasoned pro, having worked as a coal miner
Howard Smith,
general manager
and mine foreman,
conducts the
mine tour.
STORY AND PHOTOS
BY KENDAL A. RAUTZHAN
in his family business from the time he was
16 years old. When his father and uncles got
too old to carry on, they shut the business
down. Now, Mr. Smith maintains the coal
mine at Pioneer Tunnel to ensure the highest
safety standards, and he shares his expertise with visitors about coal, its formation,
coal mining and the rich history surrounding
coal mining in Pennsylvania.
ANTHRACITE COAL
Hundreds of millions of years ago, during a tropical period in the Earth’s history,
coal was formed throughout the world when
great forests grew in swampy lands. Vegetation died and fell to the floor of the swamp,
forming peat. Over long periods of time,
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THE PIONEER TUNNEL
COAL MINE, open from
April to November, is
located in Ashland,
Schuylkill County.
For directions, hours and
rates, call (570) 875-3850
or (570) 875-3301 or visit
pioneertunnel.com.
The temperature inside
the coal mine averages
52 degrees Fahrenheit
throughout the tour
season, so bring a sweater
or jacket. If necessary, they
will gladly provide you
with one to wear.
At left, the coal tunnel, inside the
mine. Bottom, the entrance to the
coal mine, with the Henry Clay steam
train in foreground.
the peat was compressed and
became one of several types of
coal.
In eastern Pennsylvania,
enormous amounts of pressure
resulted in the formation of the
hardest coal — anthracite.
While there are small anthracite coal veins found in Canada,
Russia and Wales, three-quarters
of the world’s supply of anthracite
coal exists in a 500-square-mile
area of eastern Pennsylvania.
“Anthracite coal is the purest,
most valuable coal in the world,”
Mr. Smith said, “and 96 percent
of U.S. anthracite coal is found
right here. You’re sitting on it.
It’s also the hardest coal in the
world to mine because, unlike
other types of coal, the veins of
anthracite don’t lay flat.
“Millions of years ago, when
the continents collided and the
Appalachian Mountains rose
up, our coal in this region was
pushed upward in steep vertical
pitches. Because of that, our coal
can only be mined manually. It’s
still mined the same way it was
150 years ago.”
INTO THE BELLY
OF THE MOUNTAIN
Make sure to put on a jacket or
heavy sweater, then take a seat in
one of the comfortable open mine
cars. As the doors to the coal
mine open, cold, damp air greets
you as you and your miner-guide
travel on the rail lines deep into
the side of Mahanoy Mountain.
Eighteen-hundred feet into
the mountain, with 400 feet of
mountain above you, you’re in
the midst of Mammouth Vein
— the largest vein of anthracite
coal in the world. Leaving the
mine car, you’ll follow your guide
through various gangways as he
explains how coal was formed
and is mined, how tunnels and
gangways are constructed, what
the dangers are, and what life is
like as a coal miner. Numerous
displays help re-create the atmosphere of being a coal miner,
and storyboards further serve as
educational tools on an industry most know little about. One
thing is guaranteed — once you
complete your tour, you’ll have a
much better understanding and
appreciation of what it is to mine
anthracite coal.
AROUND THE SIDE
TO THE BREAKERS
Once you’re back outside the
mine, take a ride on the Henry
Clay — an old-fashioned, narrow-gauge steam train that
takes visitors three-quarters of
a mile around the east end of the
mountain. At the end of the line,
you’ll disembark and be treated
to more fascinating information
from your guide about strip mining, the breakers (where coal is
sorted and cleaned of debris)
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S UNBURY RIVER FESTIVAL
BY SUSAN MISUR
F
or many, summertime is not complete without going to
a town festival to mingle, eat funnel cakes and buy arts
and crafts. But the annual Sunbury River Festival — held
the third weekend in August — is not your ordinary town
get-together.
Live entertainment, lots of craft vendors, an impressively
huge car show, laser light show and scenic train rides make the
free three-day festival one of the biggest not-to-be-missed events
in the area.
It started in 1989 as a one-day street fair to raise money for
Sunbury Revitalization Inc., a group focused on preserving business and cultural interests of the riverside city. There were vendors
and food stands, but the event paled in comparison to the one held
today, according to Cheryl Delsite, SRI administrative assistant
and Sunbury River Festival committee member. Dwindling attendance and a lack of new attractions spurred the SRI to appoint
a committee to revamp the entire event.
The new eight-person Sunbury River Festival committee took
over in 2002, and is headed by Fred Scheller, who’s lived in Sunbury all his life.
“We had no experience with planning anything like this when
we started,” he said. “But the event has grown so much and gotten
so popular that people plan their vacations around it.”
Extensive planning by the committee lasts the whole year and
[CONT. ON PAGE 69 ]
THE SUNBURY RIVER
FESTIVAL runs Aug. 16-18.
Look for updates at
SUNBURY IS IN
Northumberland County,
where the west and north
branches of The Susquehanna
River converge. Sunbury
was founded in 1772 and incorporated as a city in 1921,
according to the city’s Web
site www.cityofsunbury.com.
Sunbury was the site for
Thomas Edison’s electricity experiments. In fact,
Edison wired the city hotel
on Market Street, which
was the first building to use
Edison’s three-wire system.
In his honor, the hotel was
renamed The Edison Hotel.
Sunbury was also home
to Fort Augusta, which
was built in 1756 and
served as one of the most
important frontier forts in
Pennsylvania during the
French and Indian War.
During the Revolutionary
War, Fort Augusta was the
military headquarters for
the American Forces in the
Upper Susquehanna Valley.
The current home on the
property was built by Capt.
Samuel Hunter, making it
known as the Hunter House,
and is now the Northumberland County Historical
Society.
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THE GREAT
OUTDOORS
By Lisa Z. Leighton
River Town Race Series
W
e’ve all heard about the “hazy, lazy
days of summer” but if you are in the
beautiful Susquehanna Valley, who
has time to be lazy? This summer,
the region will be home to several outdoor races that
include hiking, biking, swimming and running.
Called the River Town Race Series, it encourages
folks to “Step out of your comfort zone!” — get out
there and enjoy the great outdoors.
In the summer months, there will be five races
throughout the Central Susquehanna Valley area
that are perfectly suited for athletes of all abilities and ages. Whether you’re a seasoned athlete
or prefer to be an enthusiastic bystander, take note
of the summertime races.
Two of the races have already taken place:
The Tour de Tykes Festival, a multi-distance bike
At far left, Town
Park Criterium Road
Race (2006): Riders
lean into the turn during this fast lap race. At
left, Tour de Tykes
(2006): A downhill
rider takes a daring line
during the second day
of racing.
Bottom, Chili Challenge (2004): Calm
water and clear skies
make for a beautiful
paddle portion of the
race.
Town Park Criterium Road
Race (2006): Riders lean into the
turn during this fast lap race.
race held June 2-3 in Danville, and the Sunbury YMCA 5K, a road run throughout the
city of Sunbury, was held June 9.
June 23-24: Dutch Wheelman Crit, a
sanctioned (translation: this one is for serious athletes but enthusiastic supporters are
encouraged) short track road bike race in
Bloomsburg
Aug. 11: Sunbury YMCA Bike Race, a
hilly 26-mile (yes, you read that right!) bike
race held in Sunbury
Aug. 18: Kuhns Brothers Tri, a true triathalon — participants will swim, bike and
run during this event held in Lewisburg.
The River Town Race Series is organized
by the Montour County Recreation Commis-
sion and includes 15 existing and newly-conceived outdoor individual athletic events.
Races range in difficulty from 5K events
which anyone could complete to nationally
sanctioned triathlons that challenge even
seasoned pros. If racers excel, they can share
in the cash prizes that are offered at the end
of the event.
The RTRS truly is an example of the benefits of coordination.
Prior to the RTRS, local race events didn’t
coordinate with one another — all the organizing groups were running their events
independently of one another and rarely coordinating efforts.
The RTRS has allowed these groups to
streamline their efforts and makes each race
part of a larger series. So far, the series has
been a great success as it enters its sophomore year. To date, all participating events
in RTRS have realized between 20 to 50
percent growth since being involved with
the series.
This is beginning to trickle down to the
local economy, as well. Racers who visit the
area once or twice a month to compete in
these events spend money on local lodging,
restaurants, attractions and shops.
For more information about the race series
and to sign up to participate in one of these
great outdoor events, visit RiverTownRace.
com or VisitCentralPA.org.
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fictionstory
OUR LADY o f t h e
BY BRIAN FERGUSON-AVERY
S
BRITTANIE STARR
erena walks to the statue. The fine summer day — the kind she knew would
eventually arrive — is what she had in
mind when she and Rod bought this
home. A huge lawn, trees along the back, a
quiet street out front. She also likes this small
statue of the Virgin Mary.
She shakes off her sandals. The grass is long
enough to tickle the tops of her feet — long
enough to mow, finally. It’s a beautiful day, she
thinks again — nice enough to have opened the
windows. But through them, she hears Blair and
Max quarrel inside.
“Gimme!”
“No!”
“Mom!” They call for her as a chorus.
She pretends not to hear.
“What’s Mom doing out there?”
“Dunno. Watching the grass grow.”
“That’s stupid.”
“No, you’re stupid.”
After a few more volleys, the crying begins.
Then Rod steps in, causing more tears. She
sighs. Tomorrow, she’ll put on shorts, unpack
the lawn chairs, and sip a glass of iced tea. But
for now, it’s time to go in.
The previous owner had died; they bought
the house from his children, who were in a
hurry to pack the household. Several things — a
couch, a riding mower, mismatched china, and
the small religious shrine on the lawn — stayed
behind. “They left them; they’re ours,” Rod
assured her.
“I suppose we can use an extra couch.”
“And a riding mower!” added Rod. “We
need one for all this grass.”
They unpacked in time for the kids to start
school. But Rod, busy with the new job, never
removed the statue before the cold set in. It lay
buried under the mounds of snow. As Serena
hung soggy mittens and passed out tissues,
she wondered if moving to Pennsylvania for
the novelty of winter had been a good idea.
In their little house amid a field of white, she
felt exiled.
Spring promised relief, but then the kids
tracked in mud from the squishy lawn. Rod, it
turned out, had
allergies to the local trees, and he
spent two full months honking into
a handkerchief or doped out on decongestants.
But today, before the sun rises too high,
Serena places her chair beside the statue. She
studies Mary’s outstretched arms, blessing the
yard and all its inhabitants. The statue particularly seems to enjoy her solitary post overlooking all the grass.
Max runs out, Blair right after.
“I didn’t do it!”
“Mom,” whines Blair. “Max mixed my
paints!”
“Because you spilled mine!”
When Serena suggests that they play outside,
they chase each other around her chair, climbing under her legs and into her lap. Her iced tea
spills. But when Max tips over the statue of the
Virgin, Serena scolds him. “Inside. Now.”
“Aw,” they complain. And then they ignore
her. “Who’s this dumb lady supposed to be
anyway?”
“You’re dumb, Max.”
“Shut up! Mom!”
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Mower
She scoots them into the house, through the garage, where
Rod is working on the mower. He swears — a child-appropriate
oath, but with vehemence.
“Allergies?” Serena asks.
“Allergies are fine.” Rod inhales twice. “This bleepin’
mower ran last fall. But now it won’t.” He turns the key; the
starter grinds but doesn’t catch.
“Gas?”
“Check. And the oil, battery, everything.”
Serena shrugs. Engines and cars are Rod’s job. “The grass
will have to wait another day,” he sighs, gathering his tools.
“Time to take out that statue.”
“What are you going to do with it?” she asks.
“Garage sale. Or toss it in the trash.”
“You can’t throw away the Virgin Mary,” says Serena.
“Why not? We’re not Catholic.”
“Right. But still … ”
Inside, the kids have spilled a box of cereal, and Rod begins
shouting. “One of you, get the broom; and you, the dustpan. No,
not like that!” The kids cry, and Rod shoves the broom towards
Serena. “Here. I’m going outside, to get that statue.”
However, Serena puts out her hands, not accepting the
broom, but embracing her family without touching them. “The
statue stays,” she says. Without another word, she leaves the
kitchen.
“Serena? Where are you going?”
“Mom?”
In the garage, she straddles the mower. Before inserting the
key, she kisses it once, her eyes on the blue heaven beyond the
opened garage door. The motor starts right away. She drives
onto the lawn, knowing the next hour will be hers alone.
Her arms, gripping the edges of the mower’s wide steering
wheel, look to be spread in blessing. She steers the mower, in
a prayerful serenity, toward the statue that shares her smile.
Brian Ferguson-Avery lives in Danville.
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Church
CHANGES
Students
Williamsburg-style
chandeliers will add
warmth and brightness to the new
community center.
Transforming Building
into Community
Center Provides
Learning Experience
STORY AND PHOTOS
BY CINDY O. HERMAN
S
tudents at SUN Area Career and
Technology Center are learning
what a lot of other people would
like to know how to do: restore
a historical building.
And how to do it, apparently, is to
know what you’re doing, and work
hard.
For the past two years at SUN Tech in
New Berlin, Union County, students have
been measuring, constructing, installing,
sanding, painting and sweating in a 160year-old former Presbyterian church
on Vine Street, transforming it
into the town’s new Community
Center.
Though not quite finished, it is already a sparkling, delightfully pretty
place, with gleaming
brass, Williamsburgstyle chandeliers and soft,
cream-colored walls.
But that wasn’t the
case when the school
first took on the restoration project.
“This was bare brick,
and plaster over it, peeling and falling off,” said Bill
Shipe, electrical systems technology instructor, pointing to the
clean, spacious walls. “It was ugly.”
More than 50 students from various
departments in the school dug new footers just inside the building, put in a new
floor system, constructed all new framing
on the 16-foot-high walls, and installed
modern electrical, heating and plumbing
systems.
“We built a building inside a building,” Mr. Shipe said. “It’s very solid.”
As with any restoration project, large
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or small, the career and technology students had to tend to the details. Original wooden molding, in bad shape and
covered with lead paint, had to be discarded, so all of the original designs
were reproduced, down to the decorative
rosette blocks at the corners.
The front door is being restored and
will have a modern lock added to it,
but the original hinges and hardware
are still there.
“Still working fine,” Mr. Shipe
said.
The floor, except for a tiled foyer,
will be hardwood.
“We hope to get that done this
spring,” Mr. Shipe said. Even the original bell from the church’s tower has been
saved and will be displayed in a special
niche built for it high up on the wall.
A kitchen, two bathrooms, and a
handicapped entrance will complete
the center, combining the charm of history with the convenience and safety of
modern technology.
“It has great educational and training
value,” Mr. Shipe said of the school’s
decision to take on such an intricate
project. “We don’t often get to work on
a project of this scope.”
The SUN Area Career and Technology Center draws students from
Snyder, Union and Northumberland
counties. The Community Center is not
the school’s first project.
“We do a lot of work for Habitat for
Humanity,” Mr. Shipe said. “We built
the police station here in town.”
Students have also added a section
onto the volunteer fire station and built
homes in surrounding communities.
It’s one of those rare win-win-win
situations. Students gain solid, on-site
knowledge; the cost to the community
is lowered; and students reap that intangible sense of pride in benefiting their
communities with their talents.
“This would be a difficult project
for professionals,” Mr. Shipe said of the
Community Center restoration. “With
students it’s even more challenging.
But the students take ownership. It’s
rewarding to see it come back. This will
be here for another 150 years.”
The Community Center will likely
be used as a polling place during elections and as a meeting place for the
town council, Mr. Shipe said, and will
be available for wedding receptions and
other gatherings.
And students can show it off to their
own children someday.
Rob Middleswarth and Mickey
Treaster, both students from Midd-West
High School in nearby Middleburg, and
both electrical systems students at SUN
Tech, helped put up the five graceful
chandeliers on the 16-foot ceiling. They
also had the far-less glamorous job of
digging a tunnel under the original stone
foundation wall of the brick building so
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A small portion
of the original
brick wall can
still be seen near
the rear of the
building, where
a new handicapped entrance
will be built.
“Do a lot of planning
before you start it,” Mr.
Shipe advises. “Be very sure
you understand the scope of
your project before you get
into it.”
The New Berlin Community
Center restoration project
employed engineers (Coukart
& Associates, in New Berlin)
for structural advice, and
architects (Wolfe Associates, in
Sunbury) for interior details.
“This wasn’t cheap, and
it wasn’t easy,” Mr. Shipe
says. “But the results you get
are worth it.”
“Expect it to cost much
more than you originally
think,” Mr. Shipe said with
a little laugh. “And to take
longer.”
But, take heart: the amount
of effort you put into a project
increases the amount of
satisfaction you derive from
it, right? So bring on that
extra work and expense; it just
means you’ll appreciate your
restored home even more …
Pennsylvania 45
PHOT
OS BY
MICH
AEL
BAV
ERO
AN
DT
OD
DH
UM
L
ME
Go Ahead,
Choke Up
BY TODD HUMMEL
A
s I creep toward middle age, I’m
wondering whether today’s trip
to the Little League Museum in
South Williamsport will feel the
same as it did when I was a child.
When I was young, my grandmother
would watch us each summer while my
parents were at work. Every year, my grandfather took a week’s vacation and my grandparents would treat my brother and me to
day trips to places like Knoebels Groves
Amusement Resort in Columbia County
and to Gettysburg.
A huge baseball fan, I was thrilled when
my grandmother told us they would be
taking my brother, me and my cousin to
the Little League Museum — or, as it is
formally known, the Peter J. McGovern
Little League Museum.
I remember the ride to South Williamsport like it was yesterday. And on my many
trips since then to Williamsport, I still think
about that trip occasionally. The 40-minute
drive from the Sunbury area north on Route
15 seemed to take an eternity. After what felt
like hours, I remember coming to the hill right
before the Little League Museum.
As we went through the traffic light at the
bottom of the hill, I thought it was the largest
hill I’d ever traveled. Until I was a teenager, I had
dreams about riding in a car that couldn’t make it
up that hill.
The excitement I felt riding down the hill and seeing
the Little League Complex for the first time still gives
me a little chill when I make the trip as an adult.
At such a young age, I had a bit of an appreciation for the
history of Little League and a vague notion that this museum
held a lot of meaning for people around the world.
In the end, my everlasting memory of the trip was playing in the
batting cages and pitching games downstairs at the museum.
As I take the trip today, I’m
forced to ponder whether that museum holds the same kind of allure.
As much of a baseball fan that I
still am, would this trip allow me to
recapture some lost innocence?
I don’t have the intense love affair I once had with sports, especially baseball.
But it didn’t take long.
No sooner did I walk in the
front entrance of the museum after
paying the $5 adult entry fee ($1.50
for a child younger than 13), than
I was instantly swept back to the
feelings that baseball brought me
when I was a kid.
There is a mural of the crowd at
Howard J. Lamade Stadium with a
replica baseball infield set in front
of it. It causes you to entertain the
thought of playing in front of that
throng of people, makes you think
of how one would react — back
at that age, with a spine-tingling
chill — of taking the field for a
World Series game in South Williamsport.
The number of people just on
the hill above Lamade Stadium can
dwarf the size of some of the towns
the Little Leaguers represent.
In the corner of the same room
at the beginning of the tour sits
a shrine to President George
W. Bush. Bush is the first Little
Leaguer to become president of
the United States — the storybook
ending to what a life beginning in
Little League should represent.
Bush’s signed baseball from
his trip to the 2001 Little League
World Series is in the case, along
with the roster of his Midland Central Little League All-Stars team
from 1957.
George Bush, 22703 Sentinel
St., Midland, Texas, is the second
name from the bottom on the roster.
Leaving the main hall and entrance of the museum to the right,
you enter the Founders Room,
where the history of Little League
is traced. The exhibit begins with
the front page of the June 7, 1939,
edition of the Williamsport SunGazette, and a small story on the
first game in Little League history.
The next room is the Mary
C. McGovern Diamond Theater,
which shows four films. A history
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About
the
museum
Peter J. McGovern
Little League Museum,
home of the Little League Baseball World Series each August.
The museum is along Route 15
in South Williamsport, next to the
Little League International Administration Building, overlooking Howard J. Lamade Stadium and Little
League Volunteer Stadium.
It’s open Memorial Day
through Labor Day, 10 a.m.
to 7 p.m. Monday through
Saturday, noon to 7 p.m.
Sunday.
Admission is $5 for adults (and
children ages 14-17); $1.50 for
children ages 5-13; and $3 for
senior citizens (62 and over).
Children age 4 and younger
are admitted free.
Group tours and rates
are available.
For more
information call
(570) 326-3607 or
visit www.littleleague.
org/museum/index.asp
Pennsylvania 47
HE SPREADS
THE WORD
‘PA Books’ Host Indulges Passion for Good Read
R
Brian Lockman conducts
an interview with Lou Prato,
author of “What It Means to
be a Nittany Lion.”
eading books has always
been a favored pastime
of Brian Lockman. But
when he became president and CEO of PCN, the premier state public affairs network in the country, he decided
he wanted to turn his lifelong
passion into something that
would not only enlighten viewers, but put the spotlight on
some well-deserved books.
“PA Books” was the result
of that passion. And now, after nearly 400 shows — all of
which have been hosted by
Lockman — the weekly program has celebrated its 10th
anniversary on PCN.
Mr. Lockman came to PCN
from the network’s grandfather
of sorts, C-SPAN. He was one
of the first four original employees of the public affairs network that is now seen around
the world.
“I wanted to fashion a
progr am a f ter C -SPA N’s
‘Booknotes’ program,” Mr.
Lockman said. “But I wanted
it to be different, and since PCN
is about Pennsylvania, I wanted
to focus on books that were
about the state.”
Originally, “PA Books” was
to be a 30-minute program that
would air periodically during
the programming year. But
once he started looking into
the possibilities, Mr. Lockman
found that there were so many
books — and authors — that
fit into the mission of the program that “PA Books” quickly
became a 60-minute weekly
show.
“I consider myself very
lucky that I get to sit down and
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throughout the years. At first he
would prepare a list of questions
and then moved on methodically
down that list to make sure all
of his questions were answered.
These days, his style has evolved
into more of a sit-down discussion with the guest.
“PA Books” has been a tremendous boost for a number of
smaller publishers who might
not have an opportunity for such
a broad exposure for their work.
PCN is available in 3.3 million
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talk with the authors and editors of these great books,” Mr.
Lockman says. “The program
is always different, because
while ‘Booknotes’ featured all
nonfiction work, ‘PA Books’
covers fiction and nonfiction.
And I wanted variety. One week
the show may be about history,
and the next it could be about
sports, or the environment, or
even a biography of a prominent
Pennsylvanian.”
Mr. Lockman recalls his first
show, “South Philadelphia:
Mummers, Memories, and the
homes across the state and the
program runs right in the middle
of the network’s popular Sunday
night lineup.
As a testament to the integrity of “PA Books,” viewers can
often find best-selling authors
as guests. Lockman has interviewed David McCullough,
author of “1776” and “The Johnstown Flood,” and John Grogan,
famous for his best-seller “Marley & Me.”
Other prominent people who
have appeared on “PA Books”
include Cokie Roberts, Jeff
Shaara, Tug McGraw, Sen. Rick
Santorum, and former Pennsylvania governors George Leader
and Dick Thornburg.
Surprisingly some of the
most interesting programs have
involved authors of books that
might not have such a widespread appeal.
“I remember doing one show
with an author of a book on
archeology in Pennsylvania,”
Lockman said. “You have to understand that these authors are
such experts in their fields they
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getout
GRAB
HOLD OF
History’s Reins
STORY AND PHOTOS BY CINDY O. HERMAN
The “Exploded Buggy” was made by Isaac Reiff in Vicksburg to show visitors the process of crafting a buggy.
The Heiss family
home features the
original cookstove.
MUSEUM CATERS TO AMERICA’S APPETITE
Each year the Mifflinburg Buggy Museum chooses a theme and
invites regional businesses to participate.
This year’s theme is “America’s Appetite,” a series of events
that celebrate food, says Bronwen Sanders, executive director of
the museum.
In addition to a food-themed bus trip that is being planned,
the following events are all part of the America’s Appetite series:
Mifflinburg
Buggy Museum
is Literally
One of a Kind
I
t’s something people say all the time:
“I’d love to just step back in history to
see how things really were.”
The founders of the Mifflinburg
Buggy Museum felt like they had done just
that when, in 1978, they stepped inside the
Heiss Coach Works and saw the buggy-making tools and parts that had lain untouched
for nearly 50 years, “as if William Heiss and
his workers had simply walked away,” as their
Web site puts it.
The group, led by Charles McCool Snyder,
a retired history professor, realized it had
stumbled upon a model of the town’s buggymaking heritage — Mifflinburg once boasted
about 90 buggy makers, supplying buggies
throughout the state and the East
Coast — and the Mifflinburg
Buggy Museum was born.
Of course, that makes it
sound easy, which it wasn’t.
Everything had to be removed,
cataloged and replaced. Fifty years of abandonment had taken its toll on the buildings, too.
While taking excruciating care to maintain
the site’s authenticity, certain repairs had to
be made.
“We actually doubled the joists under the
floor (in the blacksmith’s shop),” said Bronwen
Sanders, executive director of the museum.
But, to make it easy for successive directors
to differentiate between original and new materials, “All the new lumber has a date on it,”
Mrs. Sanders said.
New mortar was matched to the existing mortar in color and texture, using
stones found on the museum grounds,
Mrs. Sanders said, while she held samples
against the original mortar in sunny and
cloudy conditions, and at different times
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Through August Explore the inventions
and gadgets of food and kitchen implements,
during regular hours at the Mifflinburg Buggy
Museum.
July 14 School of the Soldier — Learn about
being a soldier during the Civil War, from drilling
to cooking. Participants will get to eat what they make.
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5.
The Surrey Carriage
featured a compartment
under the seat that could hold
curtains for the
carriage and
a wrench for
wheel repairs.
Aug. 18 Mifflinburg Pickle Day — Celebrate the
wonderful contributions made by
the pickle. Free samples, information and fun, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at
La Vielle Maison des Livres, 344
Chestnut St.
Sept. 9 Fashion through the Ages
— Enjoy fashions and refreshments
from the Colonial era to the 1920s. Fashion show at 2 p.m., followed by refreshments. Tickets: $15 per person.
Sept. 29 Goose Day — Celebrate the tradition of
ensuring good financial fortune with a goose dinner at the Carriage
Corner, Route 45 in Mifflinburg, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Reservations suggested.
In the blacksmith’s
shop, 60 turns of
the tire roller were
needed to bend a
cold, flat piece of
iron into a wheel.
Oct. 13 Celebrate foods from Maryland; served by regional
chefs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at La Vielle Maison des Livres.
Nov. 10 Apple Festival — Enjoy fresh-cooked apple
butter, homemade sauerkraut, fresh apple items baked on
the premises, and an apple baking contest and auction.
Festival begins at 8 a.m., auction at 11:30 a.m., and festivities continue until 6 p.m. Green Ridge Market, 811 Forest
Hill Road, Mifflinburg.
Dec. 1 Christmas Cooking — Brenda Fluharty will be helping you make your own Christmas treats. The event will be held
from noon to 3 p.m. at La Vielle Maison des Livres.
And Several walking tours are planned throughout
the summer, including “Behind the Garden Gate” and “Ghosts
and Scandals of the Past.” Check the Web site — www.buggymuseum.org — for further events and details.
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Illustration of the
Jersey Devil that
appeared in the
Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin in 1909.
BY DONNA PINTER AND KENDAL RAUTZHAN
Does he
live in
New
Jersey’s
Pine
Barrens?
A
s you travel to the
New Jersey shore
this summer you’ll
pass through the Pine
Barrens — 2,000 square miles
of dense, desolate wilderness
that covers much of New Jersey’s
southern and central Coastal
Plain. There is an eerie feel to
this place. The region is thick with
bogs, swamps, sand and endless
tracts of tall pine, cedar and oak
trees.
L
ong ago, the American
Indians who inhabited
this region named it “Popuessing” which means “place of
the dragon.” In 1735, the Pine
Barrens gave birth to another
kind of tormentor — the Jersey
Devil — a legendary creature
that is believed by some to be
mythical and by others, a reallife monster of flesh and blood
that has been haunting the area
for the last 272 years.
There are several versions of
origin of the Jersey Devil, but
the most popular is of a Pine
Barrens resident, Mrs. Leeds.
According to legend, when
Mrs. Leeds was in labor with
her 13th child, she cried out for
the Devil to take it. The child
was born and immediately took
on a grotesque appearance, then
thrashed about the house for a
moment before vanishing up
the chimney.
While there is no known human that has lived for 272 years,
over the last two centuries there
have been thousands of sightings of a bizarre creature, many
by reputable people claiming
to have seen the Jersey Devil.
Most describe the mysterious
being as a 4-foot tall animal
with a horse’s head, large batlike wings, rear legs like a crane
but with horse’s hoofs, dwarfed
forelegs and, sometimes, a
forked tail.
The creature, sighted periodically throughout 1735-1740,
was exorcised in 1740 by a priest
who claimed that the exorcism
would last for 100 years. In
1840, the 100th anniversary of
the exorcism, the Jersey Devil
went on a rampage, killing huge
numbers of chickens and sheep
and frightening residents with
its chilling screams and pounding on roofs.
One such sighting in the
1800s was by Joseph Bonaparte,
former King of Spain and
brother to Napoleon, while he
was hunting in the area. Other
eyewitnesses have included
doctors, lawyers, policemen and
other citizens of good standing,
none of whom were prone to
conjuring tales.
During the week of Jan. 1623, 1909, over 1,000 people reported seeing the Jersey Devil,
but this time the sightings
weren’t contained to the Pine
Barrens. Reports came from
all over New Jersey, Philadelphia and Delaware. Livestock
was found horribly mutilated
in many areas. Around the
corpses, hoof-like tracks were
found. New Jersey residents
were so terrorized that schools
and factories were closed as
people feared venturing outside,
even in the daylight.
Since that week in 1909,
sporadic sightings have continued, random animal mutilations still occur, and residents of
the Pine Barrens occasionally
still hear terrible screams in the
woods and at random intervals,
thumping on roofs.
Theories abound as to what
exactly the Jersey Devil is and
if it really does exist. Many local residents believe that the
Jersey Devil is alive and well,
some saying it is an undiscovered species, while some feel
strongly that the Jersey Devil is
actually a group of pterodactyls
that has somehow managed to
survive.
Pterodactyls that have survived sounds absurd, doesn’t
it? After all, pterodactyls have
been extinct for millions of
years. Of course, maybe it’s not
such a far-fetched idea. Think
coelacanth — also considered
to have been extinct long ago,
until, that is, it was found to be
alive and well, first in 1939 and
later in 1952.
If we had everything figured out, there wouldn’t be
anything left to discover. In
that process of discovery,
maybe we ought to pay more
attention to myths and legends; they may provide us
with the missing piece of the
puzzle. Meanwhile, since no
specific explanation can be
given for the Jersey Devil —
the sightings, mutilations, hoof
prints, blood-curdling calls for
over 200 years — it might be
best to continue the legend by
keeping the story alive.
Our neighbors in New Jersey certainly think so, and
maybe as you pass through
the Pine Barrens on the way
to the shore this summer, you
might become a believer, too.
THE SWAMP THING
of Union County
Wally Keefer Sr.,
of New Berlin
T
hough it happened more
than 40 years ago, the
experience still haunts
Wally Keefer Sr. as if it
happened yesterday.
Mr. Keefer, then in his early
20s, was deer hunting near R.B.
Winter State Park in western
Union County with his best
friend, Frank “Goose” Conrad.
It was very early in the morning, just barely daylight, he recalls.
“We were walking through an
area known as Pine Swamp on the
BY WAYNE LAEPPLE
ridge above Halfway Dam,” said
Mr. Keefer, 65. “It was an area of
hemlocks, where the boughs hung
down almost to the ground.
“I was walking ahead of
Goose, maybe 25-30 yards to his
left,” he said. “We hunted that
way, hoping he would start a
deer that would run up and curve
around in front of me. The first
thing I noticed was a strange odor,
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Pennsylvania 53
GO HIT A
BALL GAME!
There’s lots of minor league baseball inside Pennsylvania. Here’s a look
at home games of four Central Pennsylvania teams for this summer.
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees are the Class AAA affiliate of the
New York Yankees and play at Lackawanna County Stadium in Moosic.
The Harrisburg Senators are the
Class AA affiliate of the Washington
Nationals and play at Commerce Bank
Park on City Island.
The Williamsport Crosscutters are
a Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies and play at Bowman Field.
The State College Spikes are a Class
A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates and
play in Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.
SUMMER
HOME GAMES
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
at Charlotte, 2:15
Monday, June 11
Durham at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Tuesday, June 19
Bowie at Harrisburg,
6:30
State College at Williamsport, 7
Tuesday, June 12
Durham at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Friday, June 15
Binghamton at Harrisburg, 6:30
Saturday, June 16
Binghamton at Harrisburg, 6
Sunday, June 17
Binghamton at Harrisburg, 1
Wednesday, June 20
at Durham, 1
6:30
Williamsport at State
College, 7
Thursday, June 21
6:30
Friday, June 22
Syracuse at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Jamestown at State
College, 7
Saturday, June 23
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Jamestown at State
College, 7
Sunday, June 24
Wilkes-Barre, 5
Jamestown at State
College, 6
Monday, June 25
Jamestown at Williamsport, 7
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Tuesday, June 26
Reading at Harrisburg,
6:30
Buffalo at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, 7
Wednesday, June 27
6:30
Thursday, June 28
6:30
Auburn at Williamsport,
7
Friday, June 29
Reading ,at Harrisburg,
6:30
7
Saturday, June 30
7
Sunday, July 1
Batavia at State College,
6
Monday, July 2
7
Tuesday, July 3
Ottawa at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
7
Wednesday, July 4
College, 1
Connecticut at Harrisburg, 5
Pawtucket at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Thursday, July 5
Connecticut at Harrisburg, 6:30
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Friday, July 6
Connecticut at Harrisburg, 6:30
Ottawa at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
College, 7
Saturday, July 7
Trenton at Harrisburg, 6
Tri-City at Williamsport,
7
Ottawa at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Sunday, July 8
Trenton at Harrisburg, 1
Ottawa at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 5
Tri-City at Williamsport,
7
Monday, July 9
Trenton at Harrisburg,
noon
Tri-City at Williamsport, 7
Wednesday, July 11
Oneonta at State College, 7
Thursday, July 12
Harrisburg at Reading, 7
Friday, July 13
Saturday, July 14
Hudson Valley at Williamsport, 7
Brooklyn at State College, 7
Sunday, July 15
Monday, July 16
Thursday, July 19
Altoona at Harrisburg,
6:30
Friday, July 20
Altoona at Harrisburg,
6:30
Charlotte at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Saturday, July 21
Altoona at Harrisburg, 6
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Sunday, July 22
Altoona at Harrisburg, 1
Wilkes-Barre, 5
Monday, July 23
Akron at Harrisburg,
6:30
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Tuesday, July 24
6:30
Louisville at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Vermont at Williamsport, 7
Aberdeen at State College, 7
Wednesday, July 25
noon
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Thursday, July 26
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Friday, July 27
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Mahoning Valley at
Williamsport, 7
Auburn at State College,
7
Saturday, July 28
Rochester at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Mahoning Valley at
Williamsport, 7
7
1
Buffalo at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 5
Batavia at Williamsport,
6
Mahoning Valley at
State College, 6
Sunday, July 29
Wilkes-Barre, 5
Mahoning Valley at
Williamsport, 7
6
Monday, Aug. 6
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Batavia at Williamsport,
7
Mahoning Valley at
State College, 7
Monday, July 30
at Rochester, 7
Tuesday, Aug. 7
Staten Island at Williamsport, 7
Lowell at State College,
7
Tuesday, July 31
New Hampshire at Harrisburg, 6:30
Wednesday, Aug. 1
Thursday, Aug. 2
Wednesday, Aug. 8
Wilkes-Barre, 7
7
6:30
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Thursday, Aug. 16
6:30
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Friday, Aug. 17
6:30
Wilkes-Barre, 7
College, 7
Saturday, Aug. 18
Bowie at Harrisburg, 6
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Sunday, Aug. 19
Bowie at Harrisburg, 1
Wilkes-Barre, 5
6
Jamestown at State
College, 6
Friday, Aug. 3
Portland at Harrisburg,
6:30
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Thursday, Aug. 9
Wilkes-Barre, 7
7
Saturday, Aug. 4
6
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Tuesday, Aug. 14
6:30
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Monday, Aug. 20
Wilkes-Barre, 7
7
Jamestown at State
College, 7
Sunday, Aug. 5
Wednesday, Aug. 15
Tuesday, Aug. 21
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Wilkes-Barre, 7
Saturday, Aug. 25
College, 7
Sunday, Aug. 26
College, 6
Monday, Aug. 27
Erie at Harrisburg, 6:30
Ottawa at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Tuesday, Aug. 28
Ottawa at Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre, 7
Batavia at State College, 7
Wednesday, Aug. 29
Batavia at State College, 7
Thursday, Aug. 30
Mahoning Valley at
Williamsport, 7
Friday, Aug. 31
6:30
Mahoning Valley at
Williamsport, 7
Saturday, Sept. 1
6
Sunday, Sept. 2
1
Monday, Sept. 3
1
Auburn at State College, 7
Tuesday, Sept. 4
Auburn at State College, 7
Wednesday, Sept. 5
Batavia at Williams-
port, 7
Mahoning Valley at
State College, 7
Thursday, Sept. 6
Batavia at Williamsport, 7
Mahoning Valley at
State College, 7
Friday, Sept. 7
Batavia at Williamsport, 7
Mahoning Valley at
State College, 7
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 dates TO REMEMBER
Packwood House, Lewisburg
$6 for adults; $5 for senior
citizens; $3 for students;
free for children under 12
and for museum members
(570) 524-0323,
[email protected]
www.packwoodhousemuseum.com
JUNE 20 TO 23
Second Mile Golf Tournament
Penn State Golf Course, State College
(814) 237-1791
http://www.thesecondmile.org
THROUGH JULY 18
Exhibit: Paintings by Ruth Kazez
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
HUB Gallery, HUB-Robeson Center,
PSU, State College
Free
http://live.psu.edu
THROUGH JUNE 30
Baby, the Musical
Times vary
Penn State Downtown Theatre
Center, State College
http://live.psu.edu
Franklin Institute
(570) 524-0323
$80 for museum members; $85 for
nonmembers. Includes bus cost, entry to exhibits, coffee and doughnut
holes on morning bus ride. Meals not
included.
www.packwoodhousemuseum.com
JUNE 14 THROUGH AUG. 23
Thursdays only
Summer Concert Series at Slifer
House Museum
7 p.m.
Lewisburg
www.albrightcare.org/slifer-house
THROUGH AUGUST
Wednesdays only
Music in the Park
Lewisburg
(570) 523-1743
www.lewisburgpa.com
JUNE 15-16
Cruise Downtown Bellefonte
(814) 355-2917
www.bellefontecruise.org
THROUGH OCT. 26
Fridays only
Susquehanna Valley Growers Market
2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Hufnagle Park, Lewisburg
(570) 523-1743
www.lewisburgpa.com
JUNE 15
Reception for artist Ruth Kazez
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
HUB Gallery, first floor, HUB-Robeson
Center, PSU, State College
Free
http://live.psu.edu
JUNE AND JULY
Summer Concert Series
Slifer House Museum, Lewisburg
(570) 524-2245
www.albrightcare.org/slifer-house
JUNE 16-17
Howl with the Big Dogs
Noon to 6 p.m.
T&Ds Cats of the World, Penns Creek
(570) 837-3377
www.tdscats.com
JUNE 12
King Tut Exhibits bus trip
Leave Lewisburg 7 a.m.; return to
Lewisburg approximately 8:30 p.m.
University of Pennsylvania Museum &
JUNE 19 THROUGH SEPT. 29
Tuesdays through Saturdays
Coverlet Project Exhibit
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
JUNE 22
Nittany Valley Symphony Under the
Stars
7:30 p.m.
Tussey Mountain Amphitheater
(814) 231-8224
www.nvs.org
JUNE 24
Mifflinburg’s Annual Garden Tour
2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Mifflinburg
(570) 966-1335
$10
www.buggymuseum.org
JUNE 29-30
Gala Fourth of July Celebration
(570) 523-1743
For time and list of events, www.
lewisburgpa.com
JUNE 29-30
Hometown Independence Day
Celebration
Lewisburg
(570) 523-3237
www.visitcentralpa.org
JULY 2-7
Jersey Shore Town Meeting
Recreational Field, Thompson Street
Jersey Shore
(570) 398-4545
JULY 4
Williamsport Fireworks Display
Williamsport
JULY 4
Fourth of July Celebration
9 a.m.
Mifflinburg Community Park
www.mifflinburgpa.com
Tug Hill Sports Lodge
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Hunting, Fishing, Hiking, Snowmobiling,
X-Country Skiing, ATVing and much more!
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(570) 416-0690
Pennsylvania 57
JULY 4
Central PA Fourth Fest
Firecracker 4K Race, 9 a.m.
4 p.m. Music, activities for children
and teens, Civil War living history.
Family playground inside Bryce Jordan
Center at 3 p.m. Concessions open at
noon. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m.
Bryce Jordan Center, State College
(814) 404-8777
$8 donation requested
www.4thfest.org
JULY 13
Sidewalk Chalk Festival
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Register at Faustina Gallery, 318
Market St., Lewisburg
Lewisburg Downtown Partnership
(570) 523-1743
Bring your own chalk
Rain date July 20
www.lewisburgpa.com
JULY 4
Independence Day Celebration
1 p.m.
Centre Furnace Mansion, State College
(814) 234-4779
http://centrecountyhistory.org
JULY 14
School of the Soldier, part of
America’s Appetite series
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mifflinburg Buggy Museum
(570) 966-1355
$5
www.buggymuseum.org
JULY 7
Hiawatha Riverfest Regatta
Along the Susquehanna River
Williamsport
(800) 248-9287
www.ridehiawatha.com
JULY 20
Blueberries and Bluegrass
Mifflinburg
(570) 966-1666
www.mifflinburgpa.com
JULY 8
Bellefonte Garden Club Tours
Bellefonte
(814) 355-2917
www.victorianbellefonte.com
JULY 20-21
Nita-Nee Kennel Club Dog Show
Grange Fair Grounds, Centre Hall
[email protected]
www.nnkc.org
JULY 10–15
Philipsburg Heritage Days
Philipsburg
(814) 342-6221
www.philipsburgpa.org
JULY 20-22
Historic Home Tour and annual Quilt
Show
July 20: Quilt Show only
July 21: Homes & Garden Tour and
Quilt Show
July 22: Quilt Show only
Muncy
(570) 546-5917
www.muncyhistoricalsociety.org
JULY 11–15
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the
Arts
10 a.m.
Downtown State College and University Park campus of PSU
(814) 237-3682
www.arts-festival.com
JULY 12–15
People’s Choice Festival
PA Military Museum, Boalsburg
http://www.peopleschoicefestival.
com
JULY 12-21
Lycoming County Fair
Hughesville
(570) 584-2196
www.lycomingfair.com
JULY 21
Fifth annual Cavalcade of Champions
Drum & Bugle Corps competition
7 p.m.
Christy Mathewson-Memorial
Stadium, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg
(570) 577-1000
www.bucknell.edu/boxoffice
JULY 22
Ghosts and Scandals of Mifflinburg
Walking Tour
3 p.m.
La Vieille Mansion des Livres, 344
Chestnut St., Mifflinburg
(570) 966-1355
$5 adults; $2 children
www.buggymuseum.org
JULY 27–AUG. 11
“Out of Line” picks up where “A
Chorus Line” left off
Opening night 6:30 p.m. July 27;
other times vary
Penn State Downtown Theatre
Center
Opening night and reception: $55;
matinees: $24; regular: $30
(800) ARTS-TIX
www.PACentreStage.psu.edu1
JULY 28
Last Cruise Car & Motorcycle Show
Antique, Classic and Hot Rod
Noon to 6 p.m.
Mount Nittany Middle School, State
College
814-237-5731
www.centralpacoolcruise.com
AUG. 3-5
19th annual Loyalsock Valley Early
Days
(570) 435-3432
AUG. 5-11
Union County West End Fair
Laurelton, PA
(570) 922-1445
www.unioncountywestendfair.com
AUG. 10
Rubber Soul
Community Theatre League
100 W. Third St.
Williamsport
(570) 327-1777
www.ctlnet.org/index.htm
AUG. 11-12
34th annual Antiques Show
Lycoming County Fairgrounds
Hughesville
(570) 584-2196
AUG. 13-14
Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes
State College area
$245 (includes lunch on both days)
(570) 458-5227
www.piceweb.org
AUG. 14-16
PSU Ag Progress Days
Ag Progress Fields, Rock Springs
http://apd.cas.psu.edu
AUG. 15–18
Rural Heritage Days at Dale/Engle/
Walker House, Textiles on the Farm
Times vary
Strawbridge Road, Lewisburg
(570) 524-8666
www.unioncountyhistoricalsociety.
org
AUG. 17
Evangelical Community Hospital’s
Annual Golf Tournament
(570) 522-2685
www.evanhospital.com
AUG. 17–26
Little League World Series
South Williamsport
(570) 326-1921
www.littleleague.org
AUG. 17-26
Annual Pig Roast & Wine Festival
Bastress Mountain Winery
5451 Route 654 Highway
Williamsport
(570) 745-2332
www.bastressmountainwinery.
com
AUG. 18
Mifflinburg Pickle Day, part of
America’s Appetite series
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
(570) 966-5052
AUG. 25
New Berlin Day
New Berlin
(570) 966-0092
AUG. 26
“What Style is that Building?”
Walking Tour
3 p.m.
(570) 966-5052
Adults $5, children $2
Free (each child receives
a free T-shirt, hat and
lunch)
JUNE 20-23
Central Pennsylvania
Youth Ballet
7 p.m. June 20-22; 1 p.m. and 6
p.m. June 23
Sunoco Performance Theater,
Harrisburg
(717) 214-ARTS
Ticket prices vary
www.whitakercenter.org
THROUGH SEPT. 29
Tuesdays through Saturdays
The Mysterious John James Audubon, Birds of North America
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Ned Smith Center for Nature and
Art, Millersburg
Derek Shaffer (717) 692-3699
www.nedsmithcenter.org
JUNE 23
A Mid Summer Night’s Tales
7 p.m.
Centennial Barn
Julia Hair (717) 599-5188,
[email protected]
$5 - adult, $2.50 children 12 and
under ($10 max. per family)
www.forthunter.org
JUNE 23
Dauphin County Day at
Fort Hunter
Noon to 4:30 p.m.
Fort Hunter Park,
Harrisburg
Julia Hair (717)
599-5188,
[email protected]
Free
www.forthunter.org
JUNE 16
Father’s Day Steak and Clays Fun
Shoot
8 a.m. to 1 p.m.; first squad out
8:30 a.m.
Blue Ridge Sporting Club, Harrisburg
(717) 469-9877
$45 (any father-son or fatherdaughter shooting together
receive a $10 total discount)
www.blueridgesportingclays.com
EVENTS
JUNE 16
Capital Area Sportsmen for Youth
Field Day
7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Harrisburg Hunters and Anglers
Shirley (717) 469-0065,
[email protected]
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JUNE 23
23rd ASA of PA Girls Junior Olympic “B” Fast Pitch Invitational
David L Persing Recreation
Complex, North Fourth Street,
Sunbury
(570) 286-7670
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Centre, Clinton, Columbia,
Dauphin, Lackawanna,
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Northumberland, Perry,
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number, cost, and Web
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JUNE 26
Danville Concert Series
7 p.m.
Southside Fire Company, Riverside
JUNE 27
B.B. King
7:30 p.m.
The Forum, Harrisburg
(717) 214-ARTS
$175, $95 and $75
JUNE 30
Martina McBride with Little Big
Town
7 p.m.
Giant Center, Hershey
(717) 520-5112
$52.50 and $42.50
www.hersheypa.com
JUNE 30
Lights in the Night Hike
8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
PPL Montour Preserve, Turbotville
(570) 437-3131
JULY 1-6
Pineknotter Days
Northumberland
(570) 473-3414
www.northumberlandborough.com
Time to be announced
Hershey Park Stadium
$430 and $295
www.hersheypa.com
(717) 520-5112
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary,
Kempton
(570) 458-5227
$45 (bring your own lunch)
www.piceweb.org
JULY 27-28
14th annual Ned Smith Center
Nature and Arts Festival
Times vary
MYO Park, Millersburg
(717) 692-3699
Free
www.nedsmithcenter.org
AUG. 10
Get the Led Out: The Ultimate Led
Zepplin
8 p.m.
Sunoco Performance Theater, Harrisburg
(717) 214-ARTS
$29.50
JULY 28
Wellness Concert: A night of Chopin
and Wellness tips to help you better
yourself
7:30 p.m.
(717) 214-ARTS
$18
JULY 28-29
ASA of PA Class “B” Girls JO Fast
Pitch Invitational
David L. Persing Recreation Complex, North Fourth Street, Sunbury
(570) 286-7670
www.sripa.com
JULY 12-15
Sunbury Celebration 2007
For listing of tunes of family oriented events and fireworks display,
www.cityofsunbury.com
(570) 286-7768
www.sripa.com
AUG. 2-5
Late Nite Catechism
3 p.m. Aug. 2-3; 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Aug. 4; 3 p.m. Aug. 5
(717) 214-ARTS
$29.50
JULY 14-15
ASA of PA Class “B” Girls JO Fast
Pitch State Championship
David L Persing Recreational Complex, North Fourth Street, Sunbury
(570) 286-7670
www.sripa.com
AUG. 2–5
ASA Eastern National Class “B” Girls
Fast Pitch Tournament
David L. Persing Recreation Complex, North Fourth Street, Sunbury
(570) 286-7670
www.sripa.com
JULY 20
VIP Concert Hospitality Package for
The Police 30th anniversary tour
AUG. 6
At Home in the Landscape: A Natural History of Plants and People
AUG. 14-19
Menopause the Musical
8 p.m. Aug. 14-17; 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Aug. 18; 3 p.m. Aug. 19
(717) 214-ARTS
$43
AUG. 16-18
Sunbury River Festival
Aug. 16: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., Cameron
Park, Sunbury
Aug. 17: 6 p.m. parade, 10 p.m.
laser light show, Market Street and
Cameron Park, Sunbury
Aug. 18: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Cameron
Park and River Front Park, Sunbury
(570) 286-7768
SEPT. 7
Louis C.K.
8 p.m.
(717) 214-ARTS
$30
The
Hotel
Edison
LUNCH
Tues.–Sun. 11–2 PM
DINNER
Sun.–Wed. 5–9 PM
Thurs.–Sat. 5–10 PM
SEPT. 7–OCT. 7
Archaeological excavation
10 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekdays only
Fort Hunter Mansion, Harrisburg
Free
Julia Hair (717) 599-5188,
[email protected]
www.forthunter.org
401 Market Street, Sunbury, PA
570.286.5605
JUNE 21-23
International Harvester Show
Bloomsburg Fairgrounds
(570) 784-4949
www.bloomsburgfair.com
JUNE 16
Breakfast
on the Bridge
7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Masonic Lodge, Rt.
487, Orangeville
(570) 458-4290
THROUGH JUNE 30
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
Bloomsburg Farmers Market
Downtown Market Square
(570) 784-2522
JUNE 15-16
June 15: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
June 16: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Rohrbach’s Farm Market, Route 487;
two miles south of Catawissa
(570) 356-7654
JUNE 15
Basics of kayaking
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
PPL Susquehanna Riverlands,
Berwick
(570) 542-2306
JUNE 15–17
Father’s Day weekend Pancake and
Sausage breakfast
9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Moyer’s Grove Campground, Hobbie
(570) 379-3375
Dad free; fee for Mom and kids
JUNE 16
Save Our Bridges Spring Festival
8 a.m. to dark
Oriental Lodge, Route 487, Orangeville
(570) 759-0975
JUNE 16
Fourth annual River Day
10 a.m.
Bloomsburg Town Park
(800) 322-5437
Registration Fee
JUNE 16
Miniature Horse Sale
(570) 784-4949
JUNE 17-24
Symphony at Sea
Bloomsburg University
Mark Jelinek (570) 389-4289
JUNE 19
Children’s Free Summer Theatre
11 a.m.
Columbia Mall, Bloomsburg
(570) 387-4909
JUNE 21
Berwick Summer Concert
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Berwick City Hall
(570) 752-2723
JUNE 23
Community Awareness Community
Tour of Greater Hazleton
9 a.m. to noon
Hazleton
(570) 455-1509
Free. Reservations required by calling the chamber
www.hazletonchamber.org
JUNE 23
Fourth of July Butterfly Count
8 a.m.
PPL Susquehanna Riverlands,
Berwick
(570) 542-2306
JUNE 26
Children’s Free Summer Theater
11 a.m.
Columbia Mall, Bloomsburg
(570) 387-4909
JUNE 26
7 p.m.
Southside Fire Company, Riverside
JUNE 28
Berwick Summer Concert
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Berwick City Hall
(570) 752-2723
JUNE 16
Townwide Yard Sale
8 a.m.
Mifflinville
(570) 759-2968
JUNE 19
7 p.m.
Danville Community Park
(570) 275-6700
JUNE 28-JULY 1
Out Among the Stars
Benton Rodeo Grounds, Route 487,
Benton
(570) 275-4285
www.oatsfestival.com
JUNE 16
Kid’s Craft Day
Bingo, 1 p.m.; Crafts, 3 p.m.
Acorn Acres Campground, Benton
(570) 925-2656
JUNE 19
Millville Concert Series
7 p.m.
Millville Community Park
(570) 458-5082
JUNE 29-JULY 1
Pennsylvania Grand Trapshoot
10 a.m. to dusk
Valley Gun & Country Club, Route
487, Elysburg
(570) 672-2566
JUNE 29-JULY 7
Millville Firemen’s Carnival
5 p.m.
Millville Town Park
(570) 458-0444
JUNE 30
Run for Dyslexic Children
(570) 784-4949
JUNE 30
Fireworks
Acorn Acres Campground, Benton
(570) 925-2656
JULY 4
Concert and fireworks
Bloomsburg Town Park
(570) 784-7703
JULY 7
4-H Junior Achievement Show
(570) 784-4949
JULY 13–15
Monster Truck Show
JULY 13–30
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble Live
Performance of “A Hans Christian
Anderson Festival”
Alvina Krause Theatre, Bloomsburg
(800) 282-0283
www.bte.org
JULY 17–22
Benton Frontier Days Rodeo
Benton Rodeo Grounds
(570) 458-5131
JULY 18-22
Iron Heritage Festival
Downtown Danville
(570) 275-6700
www.ironheritagefestival.net
AUG. 4
Rabbit Show
(570) 784-4949
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AUG. 4-5
Palomino Horse Show
(570) 784-4949
AUG. 6–8
4-H Livestock Show
(570) 784-4949
SEPT. 16
16th annual Heart Walk
Knoebels Groves Amusement
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AUG. 9–11
Masonic Fun Fair & Flea Market
Lodge Grounds, Orangeville
(570) 784-5797
Located just off Routes 11 & 15 behind the Toyota
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AUG. 10-12
Bloomsburg Hospital Car Show’s
annual Rod & Custom Cruise-in
(570) 784-4949
AUG. 13-18
Montour DeLong Fair
Washingtonville
(570) 275-2463
AUG. 16
40th annual Golf Outing
All day event
Blue Ridge Golf Trail
$500 per foursome
(570) 455-1509
AUG. 25
Paranzino Auction: Home Improvement Items
(570) 784-4949
SEPT. 8
Fall Arts and Crafts Fair
Downtown Danville
(570) 275-5200
SEPT. 8
Ferns and Mosses
Ricketts Glen State Park
(570) 458-5227
$80 (bring your own lunch)
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SEPT. 8-9
FUNFEST Street Fair and Parade
Downtown Hazleton
(570) 455-1509
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JUNE 25
25th Sunbury Celebration Golf
Tournament
Susquehanna Valley Country
Club, Hummels Wharf
$75 per person
(570) 286-7820
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Raystown Offers
Fishing, Hiking ...
and Houseboats
With Hot Tubs
C
reated by the U. S.
Army Corps of Engineers in the 1970s,
primarily for flood
control, Raystown Lake has
evolved into a recreational haven for outdoor enthusiasts.
There is a smorgasbord of activities offered on and around
the lake, from passive nature
cruises and houseboat rentals
to an action-packed water slide
park.
Nicknamed Pennsylvania’s
“Crown Jewel,” it is the largest inland lake in the Keystone
State.
PHOTOS BY RAYSTOWN LAKE STAFF, U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Pennsylvania 63
Raystown Lake
“Generally speaking, we own 30,000
acres,” says Allen Gwinn, park ranger for
the Army Corps of Engineers. “One third of
the acreage is the lake itself, and two-thirds
is the land around the lake.”
Raystown is largest lake east of the Mississippi River. The impressive fact is not that
it’s 30 miles long, but that it has 110 miles
of shoreline.
“This tells you how many inlets or bays
there are,” says Wes Bower, a retired Pennsylvania Game Commission Information
and Education supervisor and author of two
booklets on hunting and fishing on Raystown
Lake. “It is these areas that offer serenity
and seclusion.”
The lake itself varies in depth.
“At its deepest point, it is 200 feet at the
dam site near Saxton,” Mr. Gwinn says,
adding that “It’s also an rock and earthen
dam,” which is rare.
“Some places, it’s only 10 to 20 feet, but
at the east end, around Terrace Mountain, it
drops straight down perhaps to 60 or more
feet at its edge,” Mr. Bower says.
Raystown Lake is classified as a two-
story fishery, which makes it an ideal habitat
for both cold and warm water fish species,
particularly striped bass.
“The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission introduced this fishery in 1973 and
it has been stocked ever since,” Mr. Bower
says. He notes that about 50,000 striped
bass fingerlings are stocked annually. The
deeper water gives relief from summer’s
high temperatures, allowing fish, especially
striped bass, to remain in cooler sections of
the lake.
“Striped bass spawn in fresh water and
live in salt water,” Mr. Gwinn says. “The
striped bass in Raystown Lake are hybrids
and they live here because they were stocked
here. The lake supports striped bass very well
and they enhance the Raystown fishery.”
Hooking these feisty beauties is an accomplishment.
“They are not easy to catch,” Mr. Bower
says. Worth mentioning, however, is that
the state-record striped bass of more than
53 pounds was caught in Raystown Lake
some years ago.
While the most popular attraction among
anglers is striped bass fishing, small- and
large-mouth bass are more commonly
caught.
“This is the second-most popular fishery,” Mr. Gwinn says.
There are also walleye and lake trout as
well as panfish.
The fishery at Raystown Lake attracts
thousands every summer. Anglers can either
take their own boats or use the expertise of
a Raystown Lake fishing guide service.
“The bulk of our visitation is for recreational boating,” Mr. Gwinn says. The lake
has no boat size or horsepower restrictions,
and the sky is the limit for water activity,
including water skiing and using your own
personal watercraft.
There are two marinas within the Raystown Lake complex. Lake Raystown Resort Lodge & Conference Center is commercially operated on 400 acres and is
where families can choose campsites or
cabins and even a lodge for their vacation
stay. The resort also offers a Wild River
Waterpark and mini-golfing.
“We cater to families,” says Josh Patt,
assistant general manager at the resort.
“The Seven Points
area offers camping,
but no cabins,” Mr.
Gwinn says.
“The Visitor’s
Center at Seven
Points is one of
those ‘must-see’
places,” says Sean
Waddle, executive
director of Huntingdon County’s
Visitor’s Bureau. “It
has just been renovated, and it is quite
the showplace.”
Houseboat rentals are also available
at Seven Points.
“ T hey come
fully equipped, even
with hot tubs,” Mr.
Waddle says.
Raystown Lake
and the land surrounding it, with
ABOUT
RAYSTOWN LAKE
the exception of Lake Raystown Resort, is
undeveloped.
“Only 2 percent out of the total 30,000
acres is developed,” Mr. Waddle says. Overlooking the lake, one only sees a natural
environment.
While fishing and boating are the motivators for visiting this prestigious and pristine
place, there is much, much more for wildlife
enthusiasts.
“There is a small otter population on the
lake on the upper stretches of the lake. They
are more river-oriented,” Mr. Bower says.
“What is popular among our guests are
seeing bald eagles,” Mr. Gwinn says. “They
are certainly a crowd-pleaser. We have three
active bald eagle nests on the lake. In fact, we
have just confirmed one nest has eaglets.”
Though the exact location of the nests
isn’t made public, Mr. Bower did divulge that
the oldest eagle nest is near the breast of the
dam. The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s
winter survey sighted 14 eagles. This is the
highest number ever seen since 1990.
Osprey platforms have also been built
with the anticipation of these birds of prey to
nest in the vicinity of Raystown Lake as well.
This is due to the efforts of a research project
being conducted by Juniata College.
“We are hoping they will soon be nesting
here,” Mr. Bower says.
There are also several species of waterfowl in the propagation area, but this area is
closed to the public from March 1 through
Aug. 1.
“This is the only water area on the 8,300acre lake (with the exception of the Juniata
College Field State) with such a designation
to benefit wildlife,” says a spokesperson from
the state Game Commission.
For the more adventurous visitors, walking, hiking and biking trails are scattered
throughout. There are several trails in the
Raystown Lake region, but Terrace Mountain
Trail is one of the longest and most popular.
The trail is 27 miles long, complete with
overnight shelter areas, and appears to be
geared to the experienced hiker. A more laidback leisurely trail is Hillside Nature Trail,
located behind the Seven Points Visitor’s
Center. A portion of the half-mile trail is
handicapped accessible. It is reported that up
to 30 bird species can be observed. Binoculars and field guides aid in identification.
Seven Points Marina is the
largest marina in Pennsylvania.
Known as Pennsylvania’s “Crown
Jewel.” It is not only the state’s largest
inland lake, but the largest man-made
lake east of the Mississippi. Its dam is
225 feet high and 1,700 feet long.
Raystown Lake is located about 50
miles west of State College off Route
994 east. For more information, lake
conditions, activities and directions,
visit www.raystownlake.com.
For more information contact the
Army Corps of Engineers/Raystown Lake
at http://raystown.nab.usace.army.mil
or call (814) 658-3405.
To request a brochure, e-mail
[email protected].
THE RESORT AND LODGE
Lake Raystown Resort & Lodge
is a 400-acre commercial facility offering sightseeing and dinner cruises
on the Proud Mary. The resort offers
houseboat and pontoon boat rentals
and guided fishing packages. A water
park and mini-golf are also available.
Visitors can choose from a selection
of camping facilities, from the rustic
to a luxurious suite at The Lodge. A
restaurant is also on the premises. Visit
www.raystownresort.com, send e-mail
to [email protected] or call
(814) 658-3500.
THE MARINA
Seven Points Marina is the largest marina in Pennsylvania, offering
dockage for 946 boats. Rentals include
houseboats, ski boats, pontoons, lake
cruises and camp sites. Two-hour dinner
cruises are offered, by paid reservation
only, from 6 to 8 Saturday nights in July
and August. Reservations must be made
by 2 p.m. Saturday. Call (814) 658-3074,
visit www.7pointsmarina.com, or send
e-mail to [email protected]
Pennsylvania 65
Recipe
FROM PAGE 13
Cucumber & Melon Soup
(serve cold)
2 cantaloupes
2 cucumbers
1 cup water
Grated rind and juice of 1 lime
1/2 cup raw sugar
3 TBLS shredded fresh basil
Split melons in half and scrape out seeds.
Using a melon baller, scoop out about 20
balls and set them aside for garnish. Scoop
out remaining melon and place in food processor.
Peel cucumbers and remove seeds. Puree
in food processor with melon mixture.
Place the sugar, water and lime rind in a
small pan over low heat. Stir mixture until
sugar dissolves, bring to a boil and let simmer
gently for about 3 minutes. After removing
from heat, let cool slightly. Pour half of the
mixture into food processor with the remaining melon, blend until smooth, adding
remaining mixture and lime juice to taste.
Pour the mixture into a bowl and stir in
shredded basil.
Chill in refrigerator. Serve garnished with
melon balls and fresh basil leaves. (On hot
summer days you may want to slightly freeze
melon balls before placing in soup.)
Serves 4-6.
Sprecken
sense, but both are perfectly understood
in their own circles. In fact, it would be
interesting to put a Dutchman in Shamokin
and have him politely ask, “What fer cows
d’you raise here?” To which the Shamokin
man would reply, “What the haicks are fur
cows?” Which would make the astonished
Dutchman exclaim, “What fer fur cows are
you talking about?” It could end with both
men learning a little something about each
other’s culture. And then again, if things got
out of control, it could really make.
And we’re not talking about a little rainstorm.
SUN Tech
[CONT. FROM PAGE 45]
electrical service could be installed.
“They dug under there like rats,” Mr.
Shipe said with a smile, “which was quite
a difficult thing to do. But the kids did a
great job.”
The shoveling took them three days.
“With tiny Army shovels,” Rob said, “because regular shovels wouldn’t fit.”
“It was like tunneling inside a prison,”
Mickey said with a good-natured grin.
Probably not the sort of job the boys expected when they decided to study electrical
systems technology, but an invaluable onthe-job experience nonetheless.
And a nice story their grandchildren will
never tire of hearing.
my knowledge, is not widely used throughout the United States. In Central Pennsylvania, however, it is common. Thus, if an
unusual car drives by, a Pennsylvania Dutch
man might exclaim, “What fer kind of car
is that?” The “fer” holds little grammatical
value, and would be tough to place if diagramming a sentence. But there are those
among us who would have trouble speaking
without it.
Not to say that the Pennsylvania Dutch
speakers have a monopoly on unusual words.
In Shamokin, hecks is an acceptable word,
often pronounced with a little bit of an “A”
sound, coming out more like haicks. Thus,
that same unusual car in Shamokin might
provoke an exclamation of, “What the haicks
is that?” Neither expression makes much
‘PA Books’ Host
can be wonderful interviews. We talked
about such interesting things such as the
various tribes that once were a part of
Pennsylvania’s makeup.”
While the majority of the programs are
taped in a studio, the crew has completed
some programs in the field. There have been
walking tours of covered bridges, Gettysburg-related shows set near the battlefields,
and even shows taped deep inside a cave.
There is one on-location instance that
Mr. Lockman — a musician himself —
holds close to his heart.
“I had just finished interviewing Dick
Boak of Martin Guitars who had written a
book called ‘Martin Guitar Masterpieces,’”
he said. “We were walking around the factory and Dick showed me a guitar that was
owned by Eric Clapton. It was in the factory
for repairs. Then Dick let me play a few
chords on Eric Clapton’s guitar. That was
a high point for me.”
Despite the interesting locations, the
authors — and their stories — are really
the stars.
“These people are all so immersed in
their work and subject matter and I just
like listening to them and their stories,” Mr.
Lockman said.
Asked whether he really does read
all those books, Mr. Lockman responds
proudly, “Yes, cover to cover.”
So with taping an average of 40 shows a
year, does this book lover still have time to
read for leisure? Of course — he prefers to
relax with a good mystery or some nonfiction. Favorite authors include Robert Parker
and “everything Carl Hiassen writes.” In
addition, Mr. Lockman’s wife, Nancy, and
daughters Kimberly and Kathleen are all
big readers.
Francine Schertzer has produced “PA
Books” since 2002. Before she came on
board, Mr. Lockman handled all the production details. Both Ms. Schertzer and
Mr. Lockman hear from dozens of authors
and publicists every month. Sometimes they
receive unsolicited submissions and other
times they check trade publications like
“Publishers’ Weekly” or even local bookstores to see what is out there that might be
of interest to PCN viewers.
Ultimately, Mr. Lockman makes the
final decision of whether the book makes
it on the network.
“We like to mix up the topics, whether
it is a book about George Washington or
Gettysburg or Penn State. And the geographic mix is important, too,” Mr. Lockman said.
Individual programs are shot pretty
much in real time and very little editing
is involved, with the exception of adding
still images found in the books. Often the
programs air shortly after they are taped.
When asked if he is running out of material for coming programs, Mr. Lockman
just laughs.
“There is an endless supply of books
about Pennsylvania,” he said.
Buggy Museum
during the day.
“I told the contractors, ‘Nothing new, nothing shiny.’ I’m probably one of the only women in the
world who told workers, ‘That’s
too clean. That’s too shiny. Make it
dirty,’” she said with a laugh. “We
even threw dirt on wet paint.”
But the end result is one of only
12 craft/industrial museums in the
United States that preserves and
interprets an original site. Even
the electrical wiring was redone
in the original knob-in-tube style
available at the time.
“Mifflinburg was first electrified in 1903,” Mrs. Sanders said
of the Union County town. “It cost
you $1 per bulb per year.”
The Mifflinburg Buggy Museum complex consists of five
buildings: the Education and
Visitor’s Center; the Buggy Factory; the Carriage House; the Repository, which was a showroom
for Mr. Heiss’s buggies; and the
Heiss family home, which features
period furniture and clothing and
a fully restored kitchen.
The blacksmith’s shop, located
in the Buggy Factory, features a
double forge, and a Yeager and
Hunter pot-bellied stove, as well as
original tools and machines. The
tire roller once bent flat, unheated
iron into a round buggy wheel.
Visitors will notice that this is
the only room in the building that
is wallpapered, giving it a warm,
more complete feeling. But the
only reason for the paper, Mrs.
Sanders said, was to keep the soot
from drifting upstairs where the
ladies were trimming the upholstery.
“It wasn’t ‘for pretty,’” she said
with a smile, adding that the upholstery shop was the only place,
other than bookkeeping, where
ladies could work in buggy making.
“They could not be carpenters. They could not be painters.
They could not be blacksmiths,”
she said.
William Heiss’ wife, Anna, in
fact, worked as a trimmer or seamstress in the business, and later
added to the family income by
acting as a midwife in the neighborhood and selling mysterious
women’s hygiene products that, at
that time, were believed to enrich
women’s health.
She also took in boarders, ran
the house, and maintained a vegetable garden.
“And we know she had some
kind of medicinal garden,” Mrs.
Sanders said.
The highest-paid employee in
the buggy-making business was
the painter, Mrs. Sanders said, because paint — nine to 12 coats of it
— was what set a buggy apart.
An original paint grinder and
various containers of powdered
paint are displayed in the paint
room. A huge, low-walled sink
covers the floor in one corner of
the room, where paints from the
buggies could be washed down
the drain.
Perhaps the best parts of the
Mifflinburg Buggy Museum are
the sleek, majestic buggies and
carriages on display, sitting with
all the pride and polish of their
glory days, one of the few places in
the country where such beauties,
from start to finish, can be seen
today. Yet the museum remains
a relatively unknown tourist destination.
“We’re actually the only 19thcentury carriage factory open to
the public in the U.S.,” Mrs. Sanders said. “We’re very unique, but
unfortunately, we’re still a very
well-kept secret.”
THE MUSEUM AT A GLANCE
The Mifflinburg Buggy Museum has won three awards for its
painstakingly authentic restoration. Awards presented by:
✰ The Penn DOT State Award
for Small Structures
✰ The Pennsylvania Historic
& Museum Commission and Preservation Pennsylvania
✰ The American Association of State and Local History
Award
Hours of operation
April through October
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday
through Saturday
1 to 5 p.m Sunday.
More information: Call (570)
966-1355, or visit www.buggymuseum.org
Admission prices
Full tour $8 for adults, $4 for
children ages 6-16
Visitor’s Center only $3 for
adults, $1.50 for children
Under 6 years of age and
members admitted free
Mine Tour
there long ago.
You’ll see a re-creation of a
bootlegger’s mine and learn what
it was like to bootleg for coal, and
looking across the valley to Centralia, learn more about the underground mine fire that has been
burning there for 45 years.
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The demand for coal has begun to take shape again. With
the diminishing supplies and
high prices of oil, this fossil fuel
is slowly being considered once
again as an important resource.
“There are millions of tons of
coal left in just the Mammouth
Vein,” Mr. Smith said. “Not even
half of the coal has been mined
from the Anthracite Region. At
the rate we use coal today, there
is enough coal here to last for another 200 years.”
Without a doubt, people of all
ages will find Pioneer Tunnel a
fascinating and educational place
to spend a morning or afternoon.
Howard Smith and his staff are
extremely friendly and eager to
share their vast knowledge with
you. Both tours last about 30
minutes, and what you’ll come
away with is something you’ll
never forget, and that’s important. Coal is certainly a part of
our past, but quite possibly, it
may be our future.
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Peeling
of a liability. He had already been bitten
by a western diamondback while stationed
in Texas.
“That cost the Air Force a lot of money.
They wanted to get me the hell out of any
place that had snakes,” he says.
While Greenland — with its hundreds of
miles of glaciers — wasn’t exactly the most
exciting spot on the planet, Peeling says it
gave him plenty of time to begin planning
Reptiland.
“I called my father and told him to start
looking for land along Route 15,” he says.
In 1964, when he returned to American
soil, Peeling began working furiously on the
zoo that would become his life’s work.

You have to get behind the glass exhibits
and their back-lit, multi-colored informational signs to really understand Reptiland.
Behind the plethora of alternately slimy
and scaly animals. Behind the perfectly
placed fiberglass tree limbs and meticulously
molded rocks, to the guts of the place, to
know what it hides.
To the bright-white-fluorescent places the
$10 tour won’t buy you passage to. Where
zookeepers tinker with temperature gauges,
humidity levels and fog machines. Where
they leave hand-written notes to one another
on aquarium tanks about sick or missing
animals and doses of medication. Where a
red- and white-spotted gecko lies belly-up
on a paper napkin awaiting autopsy. Where
$30,000 of highly precise equipment is often
packed into an area the size of a washing
machine — all of it necessary for the survival
of Peeling’s various creatures.
That’s where Reptiland — sliced open and
on the table — reveals its secrets.
Peeling, the man behind it all, lives in the
details. As he breezes past the turtle exhibits,
he spots a flaw.
“That one,” he says, moving his sharpfeatured face in close to a turtle exhibit, “isn’t
yet finished, of course.”
Peeling isn’t a crooning pet lover to his
hundreds of animals. He doesn’t name them,
doesn’t get down on one knee and stroke the
length of their scaly bodies (save for one
40-year-old, 300-pound land tortoise he says
loves to have its head scratched and is “part of
the family”). Both in demeanor and appearance, with his thick, gray curly hair, pencilthin moustache and slim physique, Peeling
is the polar opposite of Steve Irwin.
A kind and caring man, Peeling is respectful of the dead. But probe him, and he’ll
reveal Irwin wasn’t highly thought of in zoo
circles. Peeling once delivered an alligator to
Irwin in New York City for a news conference
he was doing.
“It was a cold, rainy October day,” he
recalls. “Irwin was down on the ground
kissing (the alligator) on its jaws. My son
turned to me and said, ‘What is wrong with
this guy?’”
Peeling says one highly regarded conservationist thought Irwin’s schtick — snuggling
up with deadly wild animals — did more
harm than good. While Peeling himself isn’t
afraid of getting close and personal with his
reptiles, he knows the difference between
safe and foolish.
The only thing he shares with Irwin, in
fact, is success.
Peeling has taken a boyhood love of reptiles and a handful of snakes and turned them
into a family legacy. Both his sons — Chad
and Elliot — work 60 hours a week under
the Reptiland banner. Chad following in his
father’s footsteps, traveling to elementary
schools and zoos in cities far and wide to
inform and teach; Elliot working behind the
scenes at the Peeling workshop across from
Reptiland, power tools in hand as he designs
what seem like endless animal displays.
“Chad and I come up with an idea for a
display, and Elliot lets us know if it’s realistic
or not,” Peeling says of his younger son.
His daughter, Whitney, works in the publishing industry in New York. She’s worked
on books by a man named Richard Dawkins,
who writes extensively on evolutionary biology and who Peeling says he admires.
While he doesn’t have a college degree
hanging on his office wall and shies away
from the “scientist” label, Peeling says he
believes the solution to a lot of the world’s
problems today — global warming, war,
territorial conflicts — is better information,
better science.
The cash cow of Reptiland isn’t the Allenwood location itself, Peeling says. The traveling exhibits that go to museums in Alabama,
New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
other places generate the company’s most
revenue.
But you get the feeling Reptiland isn’t really about a bottom line. A man approaches
him in the alligator exhibit to ask a question
about the difference between Costa Rican
crocodiles and their American cousins.
“Which are bigger?” he asks, prompting
Peeling to launch into a volley of information. He doesn’t pause, he doesn’t hesitate.
The knowledge — the science — is right
there at the front of his mind, ready to be
called upon at any moment.
In a way, it’s like Peeling is still that Boy
Scout, hognose in hand, fascinated with the
idea of grasping some piece of evolutionary
history.
Best Brew
aren’t generally too concerned with flavor.
“The standard, everyday beers like Bud,
Miller and Coors seem to be marketed to
people who drink for quantity rather than
quality,” he said. “They’re not bad, but you’re
not going to get much flavor.”
A relatively new trend among beer makers is to offer low-carb drinks. With only 2.6
grams of carbohydrates, Michelob Ultra is a
popular choice among dieters. But to some
beer aficionados, drinking it is practically
sacrilege. One reviewer on Ratebeer.com,
a consumer-driven beer ranking Web site,
described it as “for water drinkers who like a
taste of beer in their water.”
Not all lagers are considered watery and
weak, though. To the contrary, brands like
Harp, Grolsch and Killian’s are thought to be
among the world’s finest beers.
Ales comprise everything from barley
wine — an extra-high alcohol content version of regular beer — to stout, a deep black,
rich drink made from roasted malt. Think
Guinness.
Blue Moon, a newly popular beverage made
by Coors, is also an ale. Made from wheat instead of barely and hops, Blue Moon is cloudy,
with a thicker mouthfeel and a smooth taste.
At The Pub II, it’s the most expensive beer,
going for $3 a pint. Mr. Dressler said he chose
it and the other beers he offers based on what’s
popular with his customers.
“A lot of bars are driven not necessarily
by what they’d like to provide. It’s more so
consumer driven,” he said. “In my case, it
was an acknowledgment of what the current
trend was.”
BJ’s offers several microbrews (connoisseur
lingo for beers produced in lesser quantities,
usually by small breweries) on tap, including beers from Harrisburg-based Troegs and
Stoudt’s Brewing Co. of Adamstown.
Mr. Naylor said his restaurant just started
offering Troegs’ Nugget Nectar, an orangecolored pale ale packed with hops.
He said beer drinkers can usually be
separated by their love — or hatred — of
hops, which gives beer its bitter flavor.
“It’s really a personal preference. Some
people love the hoppy beers and some people hate them.
“For people that don’t know, when you’re
young and taste beer for the first time and
it’s really bitter, that’s the hops you’re tasting,” he said. “As you get more experienced
with beer, something like Miller Light or
Yuengling (Lager) tastes like it has no hops.
But something like a pale ale is going to be
very hoppy.”
Other examples of “hoppy” beers are
Sierra Nevada and Harpoon IPA.
But for those new to the vast and varied
world of beer, Mr. Naylor suggests starting
simple. You don’t need to experiment much
to find an easy-drinking, quality beer.
Samuel Adams, he said, is usually a
good decision.
Swamp
and then the hair stood up on the back of
my neck,” he said.
“I felt like something was following
me.”
He caught a glimpse of something large
off to his right, and it shadowed him for
some distance. He never got a clear look
at what it was through the heavy cover,
but he insists it was a large creature of
some sort.
Mr. Keefer, an experienced hunter, was
certain it wasn’t a bear, because bears rarely
walk upright.
“It didn’t move like a bear does, and
it seemed like it was bigger than a bear,
too,” he said.
When his hunting partner caught up with
him, he said, he asked him whether he had
seen the creature.
“He said he had the same feeling, that
something was following us, but he never
saw it. We both had the feeling that something was there, even though we never saw
it, and we couldn’t see each other.”
The hunters looked for tracks, but be-
cause the ground in the area was covered
by hemlock needles, no clear tracks could
be discerned.
“There were impressions in the ground,
but you couldn’t see toes or anything like
that,” he said.
The two men were so spooked by their
experience that they abandoned their hunt
and went home.
“Frank was ready to leave right away,”
he said. “We stayed close together for the
rest of the time.”
They had the whole day to hunt, he recalled, but they left before noon.
“We never hunted that area again, either,” he said.
In the years since, Mr. Keefer said, he’s
spoken to others who hunted Pine Swamp
and had a similar feeling that something
was following them, but no one has ever
been able to tell him what it was.
He grants that no one has ever been able
to see or photograph anything abnormal in
the area, but he knows what he saw and felt
that cold morning many years ago.
Mr. Keefer said he’s only ever had the
same feeling one other time, when he was
trout fishing in the Salona area in Clinton
County.
“I knew instantly something wasn’t normal,” he said. “I felt the hair go up on the
back of my neck.”
“But that other thing, it was real to me,”
he said. “It shook both of us up.”
River Festival
starts immediately following each
festival. After all, the committee has to
schedule bands, a historical encampment, a talent show, the Little Miss and
Mr. River Festival Pageant, a parade, the
laser light show, and over 200 food and
craft vendors.
The laser light show premiered to blaring music at last year’s festival on a huge,
40-foot screen in the middle of town, facing
the Susquehanna River. The show will most
likely be returning this year thanks to the
crowds it drew and rave reviews by all.
“People were really impressed with it
because you don’t see anything else like
that around here,” said Scheller.
In past years, tractor square dancing was
a must-see attraction. In each performance,
large tractors were used to represent men,
and smaller ones were used to represent
women (actually men riding in bonnets and
dresses). Though it was popular, shows like
this aren’t on the schedule every year in
order to maintain a variety of entertainment
and “mix things up a bit,” Scheller said.
In 2003, WWE Superstar LITA made
an appearance at the festival to sign autographs.
“We found out LITA was coming at the
last minute. We’ve been known to change
and add events only two weeks before,”
Scheller explained.
With over 15,000 people attending over
the weekend, the smorgasbord of shows and
entertainment cater to different people of
all ages, keeping with the festival’s motto,
“There’s something fun for everyone.”
For the rock n’ rollers out there, the
popular local bar band Jesse will perform.
The band has become a fixture of the festival — it has headlined the Friday evening
show every year. The committee also brings
in Christian, country and soft rock bands.
Those who love the serene countryside setting of Central Pennsylvania come
for $10 scenic train rides that depart from
Sunbury. Each hour-and-a-half long ride
is themed and features characters from
the historical society and Fort Augusta
Regiment re-enactors telling stories and
history of the area.
If you’re a history buff, don’t miss the
Historic Encampment of the Recreated Augusta Regiment that represents troops who
built and garrisoned nearby Fort Augusta
in 1756. These live historians camp out
for the weekend to show how the original
regiment lived. They also march through
the whole festival carrying rifles, playing
drums and causing everyone to stop in their
tracks and watch.
The marionette show and Little Miss
and Mr. River Festival Pageant are particularly fun for the whole family. The
pageant is open to contestants 12 and under,
and features a talent portion and informal
“interviews” with the judges. The Miss and
Mr. win a ride in a convertible during the
festival’s parade.
During the entire festival more than 50
food vendors will be on hand to satisfy any
kind of craving — from the hog and grog
to crab cakes, to Tai food, halushki and
stuffed cabbage, to sausage, hamburgers
and funnel cakes. Come hungry!
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Little League
of Little League narrated by
famed Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully, Abbot and
Costello’s “Who’s on First? ”
routine, a Disney baseball cartoon featuring Goofy and an animated Casey At The Bat were
the features the day I visited. An
important side benefit of the trip
was that it made me remember
the comic genius of Goofy.
Exiting the theater for the
lower level of the museum,
you can admire paintings by
Norman Rockwell and several
featuring baseball stars of the
’40s and ’50s, such as New
York Yankees legend Joltin’ Joe
DiMaggio. The next two rooms
at the museum are devoted to
the players’ health and baseball
rules — more specifically, the
rules that are different in Little
League baseball.
The first room features a
wall mural with the appropriate
pregame stretches for a baseball player, along with exhibits
pertaining to all of the safety
features Little League has created, such as the current face
mask required for batting helmets. A nutrition section also
addresses the dangers of alcohol
and drugs, with a video presentation by former Major League
pitcher and Little League Hall
of Excellence member Orel Hershiser.
The next room is a baseball
primer with a baseball rules quiz
for Little Leaguers — a quiz that
isn’t easy for adults. There are
also several displays of equipment, such as gloves from the
1940s and ’50s, the different
types of spikes used throughout
the Little League era, and one
that shows how an aluminum
bat is made.
The favorite part of my first
trip was up next, as through the
doors after the Basics Room
came the Play Ball Room — the
pitching and batting cages. It
took forever for my grandparents to get my brother, me and
my cousin out of that room.
As an adult, it should have
held no interest for me. I made
the tour by myself on a weekday,
so I had the place to myself. Yet
once again, the allure of testing
myself won out over my supposed maturity.
You get a minute to throw
pitches in the pitching cage,
while a camera videotapes
your pitching motion. I threw
a couple pitches and then went
over to playback. Nothing forces
a man to come to grips with his
age faster than watching himself
trying to recapture the pitching
form he had at 12.
Needless to say, the Philadelphia Phillies aren’t calling me
for a tryout anytime soon.
Next up was the batting
cage. Same rules for this one
— 60 seconds to set up and hit
balls off a tee, then over to the
video machine for critique. This
should be easy, but as I walked
into the cage, I noticed the tee
was set up for a Little Leaguer,
or at my knees. This didn’t deter me as I set out to display
the form I showed as a senior
in high school, when I hit .500
(2-for-4).
After getting a few good
swings, I headed to a video
machine, which proved why I
only received four at-bats as a
high school senior.
There is one new addition to
the room, an area that measures
foot speed from home-to-first,
but that part of tour was broken.
The downstairs portion of the
tour wraps up with a room full
of baseball memorabilia from
notable Major League players
from the Susquehanna Valley,
including Montoursville’s Mike
Mussina.
T here is a lso a h istor y
of champions of other Little
League World Series events,
such as Junior Division and the
Softball World Series champi-
ons. The champions list wasn’t
updated, so Milton’s win at the
2006 Senior Division World Series hasn’t been recognized as
yet in the museum.
The tour heads back upstairs
with the final two rooms of exhibits. The first is the Gallery
of Achievement that features
the annual leadership award
winners for Little League,
followed by the Hall of Excellence, which is the highest
honor a Little League graduate
can receive. The honorees range
from baseball stars Tom Seaver,
Mike Schmidt and Cal Ripken
Jr. to Little Leaguers that have
found success in other walks
of life, including former Sen.
Bill Bradley, columnist George
Will and rock-and-roller Bruce
Springsteen.
The tour ends with a tribute
to the Little League World Series in South Williamsport. The
room has pictures of all the past
champions, an extremely entertaining highlight video of great
moments in World Series history and a model of the original
field that hosted the first Little
League World Series in 1951.
I couldn’t help but notice
the amount of smiles on the
children’s faces in every exhibit
in the Peter J. McGovern Little
League Museum, which is why
this story has a happy ending.
As I walked into the building at the beginning of the tour,
I wondered if I was too old to
enjoy the museum at this point
in my life. As a reporter who
has spent the bulk of the last
14 summers around the Little
League fields in Pennsylvania,
there is not a lot of the underbelly of local Little Leagues I
haven’t seen.
But for those who believe the
great things Little League can
do for a town and a child, a trip
to the Peter J. McGovern Little
League Museum is like a trip
back in time with a chance to
recapture some of the innocence
of baseball.
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