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ELLICOTTVILLE<br />
ESCAPETO ALL SEASONS OF ENCHANTMENT<br />
Walking<br />
inHistory<br />
Sharing p<strong>as</strong>t<br />
builds<br />
community<br />
OF NOTE<br />
LOST ART OF LOVE LETTERS<br />
DOCTOUR<br />
DOCTOR RETURNS FROM DEATH<br />
FEBRUARY 2013<br />
Hall of Fame<br />
Erie’s Who’sWho<br />
PLUS:<br />
‘The Abolitionists’<br />
on<strong>WQLN</strong>
ELLICOTTVILLE<br />
ESCAPETO ALL SEASONS OF ENCHANTMENT<br />
Walking<br />
inHistory<br />
Sharing p<strong>as</strong>t<br />
builds<br />
community<br />
OF NOTE<br />
LOST ART OF LOVE LETTERS<br />
DOCTOUR<br />
DOCTOR RETURNS FROM DEATH<br />
FEBRUARY 2013<br />
Hall of Fame<br />
Erie’s Who’sWho<br />
PLUS:<br />
‘The Abolitionists’<br />
on<strong>WQLN</strong>
contents FOR THE LOVE OF HISTORY<br />
February ’13<br />
VOLUME 6 ISSUE 4<br />
home & garden<br />
11 UNDERGROUND<br />
RAILROAD<br />
RICH HISTORY AT HOME IN ERIE.<br />
Photo by Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News<br />
Illustration by Jill Chaklos Starr<br />
bon appetít<br />
17 LOVING SPOONFULS<br />
Readers dish forks full of goodness.<br />
arts & entertainment<br />
20 HALL OF FAMERS<br />
Salute to Erie trailblazers.<br />
21 ARTS AU NATUREL<br />
Discover a secret in Sherman, N.Y.<br />
24 FRATERNITY OF SUCCESS<br />
Seven Jewels enrich men in brotherhood.<br />
27 LOVE NOTES<br />
Pen and paper bond lovers in letters.<br />
29 WINE & CHOCOLATE<br />
Cocoa combo can’t be beat.<br />
to your health<br />
31 TO DIE FOR<br />
Local doc returns to biking<br />
after heart-stopping ride.<br />
escapes<br />
33 LITTLE VAIL<br />
Enjoy enchanting Ellicottville.<br />
35 ‘BURGH ON<br />
Eat your way through Pittsburgh.<br />
ONTHE COVER<br />
LIVING HISTORY<br />
Fred Rush and Adrianne Rush, brother and sister, have been<br />
instrumental in bringing black history to the community. Read their<br />
stories on pages 11 and 24. Cover photo by Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News<br />
February2013<br />
In Every Issue<br />
10 THINGS TO DO<br />
Plays, wine events, food, arts and a dose<br />
of exercise are on our plates <strong>this</strong> month.<br />
39 ON SCENE<br />
We caught you at the Hamot gala,<br />
Boogie on the Bay, a bridal expo,<br />
gymn<strong>as</strong>tics tournament and more.<br />
45 INSIDE PUBLIC BROADCASTING<br />
“The Abolitionists” brings history alive.<br />
47 <strong>WQLN</strong> PROGRAMMING<br />
Celebrate a month of love with new<br />
episodes of “Downton Abbey,”“Makers,”<br />
and reminders of why we love film.
from the editor<br />
A MONTH TO LOVE<br />
What do New Jerusalem and love letters have in common?<br />
They are reminders of the p<strong>as</strong>t. In more than 20 years that I have written about<br />
real estate in the tri-state region, I had never known that New Jerusalem w<strong>as</strong> the<br />
name for property located behind Millionaire’s Row that stretches to the bayfront<br />
— it w<strong>as</strong> a community of black homeowners in the 1800s — the roots of an area<br />
that many influential families once called home. The story and all the history of<br />
the underground railroad in Erie is f<strong>as</strong>cinating. See Lisa Gensheimer’s story on<br />
page 11.<br />
When historians share places like New Jerusalem, they count on letters and<br />
diaries to verify the discoveries. Letters are something of a lost art. I remember<br />
letters from my Dad to family that he sent during World War II. They were<br />
a door to the p<strong>as</strong>t — a life we never knew and one our kids may never fully<br />
comprehend. Relationships were carried on via letters for generations. Phone calls<br />
were rare and incredibly expensive in those days — even when I w<strong>as</strong> in college,<br />
and no one had answering machines.<br />
Today’s instant messages, texts and e-mails will never come close to the letters<br />
of our parents and grandparents — documented history in many c<strong>as</strong>es.<br />
Enjoy the month of love with us where we all learn something from letters that<br />
take us back in time.<br />
Kim and Pam Parker.<br />
February2013<br />
FEBRUARY 2013<br />
Pam Parker<br />
Managing Editor,<br />
Lake Erie LifeStyle<br />
pam.parker@timesnews.com<br />
GENERAL MANAGER<br />
Marnie Mead<br />
marnie.mead@timesnews.com<br />
EDITOR<br />
Pam Parker<br />
pam.parker@timesnews.com<br />
SENIOR DESIGNER<br />
Jill Chaklos Starr<br />
CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER/WEB DESIGN<br />
Karen Burchill<br />
PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
Andy Colwell, Jack Hanrahan, Janet B. Kummerer,<br />
Christopher Millette, Greg Wohlford<br />
ADVERTISING<br />
MaryBeth Ford, Special Sections Advertising<br />
marybeth.ford@timesnews.com<br />
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CONTACT US<br />
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from the editor<br />
A MONTH TO LOVE<br />
What do New Jerusalem and love letters have in common?<br />
They are reminders of the p<strong>as</strong>t. In more than 20 years that I have written about<br />
real estate in the tri-state region, I had never known that New Jerusalem w<strong>as</strong> the<br />
name for property located behind Millionaire’s Row that stretches to the bayfront<br />
— it w<strong>as</strong> a community of black homeowners in the 1800s — the roots of an area<br />
that many influential families once called home. The story and all the history of<br />
the underground railroad in Erie is f<strong>as</strong>cinating. See Lisa Gensheimer’s story on<br />
page 11.<br />
When historians share places like New Jerusalem, they count on letters and<br />
diaries to verify the discoveries. Letters are something of a lost art. I remember<br />
letters from my Dad to family that he sent during World War II. They were<br />
a door to the p<strong>as</strong>t — a life we never knew and one our kids may never fully<br />
comprehend. Relationships were carried on via letters for generations. Phone calls<br />
were rare and incredibly expensive in those days — even when I w<strong>as</strong> in college,<br />
and no one had answering machines.<br />
Today’s instant messages, texts and e-mails will never come close to the letters<br />
of our parents and grandparents — documented history in many c<strong>as</strong>es.<br />
Enjoy the month of love with us where we all learn something from letters that<br />
take us back in time.<br />
Kim and Pam Parker.<br />
February2013<br />
FEBRUARY 2013<br />
Pam Parker<br />
Managing Editor,<br />
Lake Erie LifeStyle<br />
pam.parker@timesnews.com<br />
GENERAL MANAGER<br />
Marnie Mead<br />
marnie.mead@timesnews.com<br />
EDITOR<br />
Pam Parker<br />
pam.parker@timesnews.com<br />
SENIOR DESIGNER<br />
Jill Chaklos Starr<br />
CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER/WEB DESIGN<br />
Karen Burchill<br />
PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
Andy Colwell, Jack Hanrahan, Janet B. Kummerer,<br />
Christopher Millette, Greg Wohlford<br />
ADVERTISING<br />
MaryBeth Ford, Special Sections Advertising<br />
marybeth.ford@timesnews.com<br />
814-878-2201<br />
CONTACT US<br />
info@lakeerielifestyle.com<br />
205 West 12th Street, Erie, PA 16534<br />
www.lakeerielifestyle.com<br />
All content, including the design, art, photos and editorial content ©2013,<br />
Erie Times-News. No portion of <strong>this</strong> magazine may be copied or reprinted<br />
without the express written permission of the publisher.<br />
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contributors FEBRUARY 2013<br />
“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere<br />
without moving anything but your heart.”<br />
— Phyllis Theroux<br />
MIKE CAGGESO shares a food lover’s tour of Pittsburgh.<br />
He is an avid writer, runner, hiker and polar bear plunger.<br />
He’s been to 47 out of 50 states, but his favorite place<br />
to be is outdoors at Presque Isle State Park. He lives in<br />
Greensburg with his wife, Missy, and their dog Ozzie, a<br />
pure bred boxer. page 35<br />
LISA GENSHEIMER documents some f<strong>as</strong>cinating history<br />
on the underground railroad and February wine events.<br />
Lisa is an expert on both topics. She and her husband,<br />
Rich, produce programming for national distribution on<br />
public television. Their documentary “Safe Harbor: A Story<br />
of the Underground Railroad” (Main Street Media, 2003)<br />
h<strong>as</strong> been renewed through 2015, and continues to air on<br />
PBS. She also served <strong>as</strong> the marketing director for the Erie-<br />
Chautauqua Wine Trail. pages 11, 29<br />
PETER HAMILTON tells us about an artist community<br />
in Sherman, N.Y., where he is a freelance magazine and<br />
newspaper writer and a fiction writer. His collection of<br />
short stories is due to be published in April. page 21<br />
MARNIE MEAD relates the restaurants we love to love<br />
around Erie and a memorable meal to share with a loved<br />
one. Marnie shares her food adventures monthly in Her<br />
Times, and weekly in her Make It Erie e-mail newsletter.<br />
She “admomistrates” Eriemoms.com. page 17<br />
TOM NEW knows more about history than most of us.<br />
His take on the Erie Hall of Fame offers a quick history<br />
lesson on the members who have been inducted into<br />
the hall and how we can all vote for the 2013 cl<strong>as</strong>s. Tom<br />
is the director of creative services at <strong>WQLN</strong> Public Media.<br />
page 20<br />
Erie Times-News file photo<br />
February2013<br />
coming in March<br />
STEVE ORBANEK shares an enlightening look at a<br />
mentoring organization of some of the area’s most<br />
influential black men. Steve also cowrites a story on why<br />
love letters are important in a story he shared with his<br />
fiancee, Marissa Rosenbaum. Steve is freelance writer and<br />
reporter who authored a book on sports in the General<br />
McLane School District. pages 24, 27<br />
PAM PARKER interviews Sharon Grimberg, executive<br />
producer of “The Abolitionists.” Grimberg lived a bit of her<br />
work on <strong>this</strong> documentary — she owns an abolitionist’s<br />
home. Pam is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times<br />
and House to Home. She blogs about life’s funnier<br />
moments at www.goerieblogs.com/lifestyle/hertimes.<br />
page 45<br />
MARISSA ROSENBAUM caught up with a doctor whose<br />
heart stopped beating while on a bike tour. She also takes<br />
us on tour of Ellicottville, and shares why love letters are<br />
important in a story she shared with her fiance, Steve<br />
Orbanek. Marissa is the public relations manager for the<br />
General McLane School District and the girls’ lacrosse<br />
coach at McDowell High School. pages 27, 31, 33<br />
EILEEN ZINCHIAK locates concerts, plays, festivals and<br />
memory makers throughout the region for our calendar.<br />
Eileen is an aging-in-place specialist who h<strong>as</strong> planned<br />
community events throughout the region for 25 years.<br />
She works for the Mercyhurst Institute for Public Health at<br />
Mercyhurst College. page 10<br />
HEALTHY YOU<br />
in the February 24 Lake Erie LifeStyle, which will be in<br />
your home-delivered Sunday Times-News.<br />
Subscribe now by calling 870-1600 or e-mail circulation@timesnews.com<br />
www.lakeerielifestyle.com
contributors FEBRUARY 2013<br />
“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere<br />
without moving anything but your heart.”<br />
— Phyllis Theroux<br />
MIKE CAGGESO shares a food lover’s tour of Pittsburgh.<br />
He is an avid writer, runner, hiker and polar bear plunger.<br />
He’s been to 47 out of 50 states, but his favorite place<br />
to be is outdoors at Presque Isle State Park. He lives in<br />
Greensburg with his wife, Missy, and their dog Ozzie, a<br />
pure bred boxer. page 35<br />
LISA GENSHEIMER documents some f<strong>as</strong>cinating history<br />
on the underground railroad and February wine events.<br />
Lisa is an expert on both topics. She and her husband,<br />
Rich, produce programming for national distribution on<br />
public television. Their documentary “Safe Harbor: A Story<br />
of the Underground Railroad” (Main Street Media, 2003)<br />
h<strong>as</strong> been renewed through 2015, and continues to air on<br />
PBS. She also served <strong>as</strong> the marketing director for the Erie-<br />
Chautauqua Wine Trail. pages 11, 29<br />
PETER HAMILTON tells us about an artist community<br />
in Sherman, N.Y., where he is a freelance magazine and<br />
newspaper writer and a fiction writer. His collection of<br />
short stories is due to be published in April. page 21<br />
MARNIE MEAD relates the restaurants we love to love<br />
around Erie and a memorable meal to share with a loved<br />
one. Marnie shares her food adventures monthly in Her<br />
Times, and weekly in her Make It Erie e-mail newsletter.<br />
She “admomistrates” Eriemoms.com. page 17<br />
TOM NEW knows more about history than most of us.<br />
His take on the Erie Hall of Fame offers a quick history<br />
lesson on the members who have been inducted into<br />
the hall and how we can all vote for the 2013 cl<strong>as</strong>s. Tom<br />
is the director of creative services at <strong>WQLN</strong> Public Media.<br />
page 20<br />
Erie Times-News file photo<br />
February2013<br />
coming in March<br />
STEVE ORBANEK shares an enlightening look at a<br />
mentoring organization of some of the area’s most<br />
influential black men. Steve also cowrites a story on why<br />
love letters are important in a story he shared with his<br />
fiancee, Marissa Rosenbaum. Steve is freelance writer and<br />
reporter who authored a book on sports in the General<br />
McLane School District. pages 24, 27<br />
PAM PARKER interviews Sharon Grimberg, executive<br />
producer of “The Abolitionists.” Grimberg lived a bit of her<br />
work on <strong>this</strong> documentary — she owns an abolitionist’s<br />
home. Pam is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times<br />
and House to Home. She blogs about life’s funnier<br />
moments at www.goerieblogs.com/lifestyle/hertimes.<br />
page 45<br />
MARISSA ROSENBAUM caught up with a doctor whose<br />
heart stopped beating while on a bike tour. She also takes<br />
us on tour of Ellicottville, and shares why love letters are<br />
important in a story she shared with her fiance, Steve<br />
Orbanek. Marissa is the public relations manager for the<br />
General McLane School District and the girls’ lacrosse<br />
coach at McDowell High School. pages 27, 31, 33<br />
EILEEN ZINCHIAK locates concerts, plays, festivals and<br />
memory makers throughout the region for our calendar.<br />
Eileen is an aging-in-place specialist who h<strong>as</strong> planned<br />
community events throughout the region for 25 years.<br />
She works for the Mercyhurst Institute for Public Health at<br />
Mercyhurst College. page 10<br />
HEALTHY YOU<br />
in the February 24 Lake Erie LifeStyle, which will be in<br />
your home-delivered Sunday Times-News.<br />
Subscribe now by calling 870-1600 or e-mail circulation@timesnews.com<br />
www.lakeerielifestyle.com
ALL MONTH<br />
JAN. 31, FEB. 2, 7, 14, 21, 28<br />
New Year’s Resolution Walk, Tom<br />
Ridge Environmental Center, Erie;<br />
6:30 to 8 p.m. Meet at the Ranger’s<br />
Station for a three-mile walk in the<br />
winter wonderland at Presque Isle<br />
State Park. Cost: Free. Info: 814-833-<br />
7424, www.trecpi.org.<br />
FEB, 1-2, 7-10, 13-17 Cole<br />
Porter’s Anything Goes, Erie<br />
Playhouse, 13 W. 10th St., Erie; times<br />
vary. You will get a kick out of <strong>this</strong><br />
hit musical comedy! Cost: $13.50 to<br />
$22. Info: 814-454-2852,<br />
www.erieplayhouse.org.<br />
FEB. 2, 9, 23 Snowshoeing<br />
Saturdays, Asbury Woods Nature<br />
Center, 4105 Asbury Road, Erie;<br />
1:15 to 3 p.m. Learn the b<strong>as</strong>ics for<br />
a terrific tramp in the woods; ages<br />
8 and up. Cost: $13; $10, members;<br />
includes equipment. Register the<br />
day of the program. Info: 814-835-<br />
5356. www.<strong>as</strong>burywoods.org.<br />
JAN. 31 - FEB. 3 Groundhog Day<br />
festivities, Punxsutawney. Celebrate<br />
the 127th year at Gobbler’s Knob.<br />
Info: 814-938-7700, 800-752-7445,<br />
www.groundhog.org.<br />
FEB. 3 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble,<br />
Erie Art Museum, 20 E. Fifth St., Erie;<br />
7 p.m. The Chicago-b<strong>as</strong>ed American<br />
jazz group amazes audiences<br />
with its blend of contemporary<br />
and traditional rhythms. Cost: $15<br />
donation. Info: 814-459-5477,<br />
www.erieartmuseum.org.<br />
FEB. 4 The New Middle E<strong>as</strong>t: The<br />
Middle E<strong>as</strong>t after the Arab Spring,<br />
Erie Jefferson Society, 3207 State St.,<br />
Erie; 7 p.m. Baher Ghosheh, Ph.D.,<br />
speaks to the major implications of<br />
february 2013<br />
By Eileen Zinchiak<br />
Steve W<strong>as</strong>iesky, environmental education coordinator for Asbury Woods Nature Center in MillcreekTownship, demonstrates snowshoeing during a<br />
snowy winter day. You can enjoy snowshowing at Asbury Woods during lessons on Saturday, Feb. 2, 9 and 23. Erie Times-News file photo<br />
FEB. 2, 9, 23 Cross-country ski<br />
beginner’s clinic, Asbury Woods<br />
Nature Center, 4105 Asbury Road,<br />
Erie; 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Learn<br />
the b<strong>as</strong>ics to get you around<br />
the trails at Asbury Woods. Cost:<br />
$15; $12, members; equipment<br />
included. Info: 814-835-5356,<br />
www.<strong>as</strong>burywoods.org.<br />
FEB. 8 - MARCH 3 Agatha<br />
Christie’s And Then There Were<br />
None, All An Act Theater, 652 W.<br />
17th St., Erie; Fridays and Saturdays,<br />
7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Cost: $10;<br />
$7, students and seniors. Info:<br />
814-450-8553, www.allanact.net.<br />
FEB. 24 - MAY 19 The L<strong>as</strong>t<br />
Days of Pompeii: Decadence,<br />
Apocalypse, Resurrection, The<br />
Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150<br />
E<strong>as</strong>t Blvd., Cleveland. Hours:<br />
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,<br />
Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;<br />
Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to<br />
9 p.m. Cost: Free. Info: 216-707-<br />
6898, www.clevelandart.org.<br />
developments following the Egyptian<br />
Revolution. Cost: $10; $15 with a guest;<br />
Info: 814-459-8000, www.JESerie.org.<br />
FEB. 6 Gourmets in the Garden<br />
Series, Cleveland Botanical Garden,<br />
11030 E<strong>as</strong>t Blvd., Cleveland; 6 to 8 p.m.<br />
Learn cooking techniques from Bon<br />
Appétit’s chef Tony Smoody. Cost: $60;<br />
$45, members. Info: 216-721-1600,<br />
888-853-7091, www.cbgarden.org.<br />
FEB. 6 Remarkable American<br />
Women: Golda Meir, Erie Jefferson<br />
Society, 3207 State St., Erie; 4 to 5:30 p.m.<br />
Presented by Corrine Egan. Cost:$10;<br />
$15 with a guest. Info: 814-459-8000,<br />
www.JESerie.org.<br />
FEB. 9, 23 Green Gardener<br />
Certificate Program, Cleveland<br />
Botanical Garden, 11030 E<strong>as</strong>t Blvd.,<br />
Cleveland; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost: $240;<br />
$200, members. Register by Feb. 6.<br />
Info: 216-721-1600, 888-853-7091,<br />
www.cbgarden.org<br />
FEB. 10 Second Sundays, Erie Art<br />
Museum, 20 E. Fifth St., Erie; 1 to 5<br />
p.m. Families can explore art, play,<br />
and learn together. Enjoy a wide<br />
variety of creative board games and<br />
try a hands-on art activity from 2 to<br />
4 p.m. Cost: Free. Info: 814-459-5477,<br />
www.erieartmuseum.org.<br />
FEB. 11 Maltz Mahj Mahal: 2nd<br />
Annual Mah Jongg Tournament,<br />
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage,<br />
2929 Richmond Road, Beachwood,<br />
Ohio; 1 to 6:30 p.m. Indian food dinner,<br />
and other foods, entertainment. Cost:<br />
$45, Info: www.mmjh.org,<br />
www.maltzmuseum.org, 216-593-0587.<br />
FEB. 12 - 13 Stomp, Tullio Arena,<br />
Erie; 7:30 p.m. The international<br />
percussion sensation is both<br />
explosive and beautiful using<br />
brooms, cans and hubcaps in the<br />
amazing Erie Broadway Series event.<br />
Cost: $29.75 to 49.75. Info: 814-452-<br />
4857, www.erieevents.com.<br />
FEB. 15 - 17 All About Love<br />
Spectacular, Meadville Community<br />
Theatre, Oddfellows Building, 400<br />
North Main St., Meadville; Friday<br />
and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.<br />
This year’s fundraiser spotlights love<br />
songs that have l<strong>as</strong>ted through time.<br />
Cost: $7.50 to $10. Info: 814-333-1773,<br />
www.mctbackstage.com.<br />
FEB. 16 Simply Sinatra, Erie<br />
Philharmonic Pops concert, Warner<br />
Theatre, 811 State St., Erie; 8 p.m.<br />
Steve Lippia will pay tribute to the<br />
timeless legend with his youthful,<br />
energetic style. Cost: $20 to $44. Info:<br />
814-455-1375, www.eriephil.org.<br />
Send your calendar events to: info@lakeerielifestyle.com. Ple<strong>as</strong>e include“CALENDAR” in the subject box.<br />
Send your calendar events to: info@lakeerielifestyle.com. Ple<strong>as</strong>e include“CALENDAR” in the subject box.<br />
February2013<br />
FEB. 19 - 24 Priscilla Queen of the<br />
Desert, The Musical, Shea’s Performing<br />
Arts Center, 646 Main St., Buffalo; times<br />
vary. The outrageously fun adventures<br />
of a trio of women on the trip of a<br />
lifetime in the outback of Australia.<br />
Cost: $38 to $76. Info: 716-847-1410,<br />
800-745-3000, www.she<strong>as</strong>.org.<br />
The American Idiot, Heinz Hall, 600<br />
Penn Ave., Pittsburgh; times vary.<br />
The emotionally charged hit musical<br />
tells of three friends forced to choose<br />
between their dreams and the safety<br />
of suburbia. Cost: $20 to $68. Info:<br />
412-392-4200. www.pgharts.org.<br />
FEB. 22 Night hike, Asbury Woods<br />
Nature Center, 4105 Asbury Road, Erie;<br />
7 p.m. Enjoy the woods on a winter’s<br />
night. Cost: $13; $10, members;<br />
includes equipment. Info: 814-835-<br />
5356. www.<strong>as</strong>burywoods.org.<br />
FEB. 23 Brewer’s Cup Home Brew<br />
Festival, Brewerie at Union Station,<br />
123 W. 14th St., Erie; 1 to 4 p.m. Join<br />
local home brewers to sample some<br />
of their finest offerings. Cost:$15, Info:<br />
814-454-2200, www.brewerie.com.<br />
FEB. 26 SafeNET Chili Cook-off<br />
& Chocolate Lovers Celebration,<br />
Erie Maennerchor, 1607 State St., Erie;<br />
noon to 4 p.m. The 7th annual chili<br />
cook-off is now spicy and sweet with<br />
chocolate added by local restaurants<br />
for the SafeNet Domestic Violence<br />
Safety Network. Cost: TBA. Info:<br />
814-454-2200, www.safeneterie.org.<br />
FEB. 26, 28 When Lions Roared:<br />
Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin,<br />
Erie Jefferson Society, 3207 State<br />
St., Erie; 7 p.m. A video and lecture<br />
examination of these extraordinary<br />
men who thwarted Hitler, by Barry<br />
Grossman, J.D., County Executive.<br />
Cost: $25; $40 with a guest. Info:<br />
814-459-8000, www.JESerie.org.<br />
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Why is it that 150 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation<br />
signaled the beginning of the end of slavery, the Underground<br />
Railroad still captures our imagination?<br />
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time travel on the<br />
underground railroad<br />
By Lisa Gensheimer<br />
Photos courtesy of Erie County Historical Society<br />
Retired Erie teacher<br />
and local community<br />
activist Johnny<br />
Johnson. Photo by<br />
Christopher Millette/<br />
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MAYBE IT’S THE thrill of underground<br />
tunnels, daring escapes, and border crossings<br />
that gets our adrenaline going. Or maybe<br />
it’s a tinge of shame and sorrow, mixed with<br />
wishful thinking. We’d like to believe that our<br />
ancestors, when faced with a person or family<br />
in need, came to the rescue of freedom seekers<br />
before, during and after the Civil War, hiding<br />
them in an old stone b<strong>as</strong>ement.<br />
But the Underground Railroad w<strong>as</strong> neither<br />
underground nor a railroad, and like most<br />
myth and folklore, there’s more to the story<br />
The Underground Railroad, by Charles T. Webber, 1893, illustrates the<br />
plight of slaves and the many people who helped them escape. Image<br />
courtesy of Cincinnati Art Museum<br />
below: Albert and Shirley Deiner’s house at 3506 E<strong>as</strong>t Lake Road, built in<br />
1832, had a tunnel that ran from the b<strong>as</strong>ement to Four Mile Creek, leading<br />
some to believe it w<strong>as</strong> an Underground Railroad stop. Photo by Pam Parker<br />
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than meets the eye, says local historian and<br />
author Sarah Thompson.<br />
“Some of Erie’s early settlers and prominent<br />
citizens were slave owners themselves — Rufus<br />
Reed, John Grubb, the Kelso family, and<br />
Pierre Simon Vincent Hamot, to name a few,”<br />
says Thompson. Others were at the very le<strong>as</strong>t<br />
southern sympathizers.<br />
Competing newspapers revealed a deeply<br />
divided citizenry. And that makes the story of<br />
those who helped even more heroic.<br />
From free black communities to middle-cl<strong>as</strong>s<br />
“In a nutshell,<br />
black history is<br />
American history.”<br />
— Johnny Johnson<br />
white society, in small villages and on farms,<br />
small groups of ordinary people defied race<br />
and gender — and in some c<strong>as</strong>es, the law — in<br />
what would later be known <strong>as</strong> America’s first<br />
civil rights movement.<br />
Stand on the ridge overlooking Lake Erie<br />
and <strong>as</strong>k yourself, how did these people make it?<br />
How did they make it through the wind and<br />
the rain and the snow?<br />
Crossing mountains, rivers and forests,<br />
there were no detailed maps. They called<br />
upon the kindness of strangers, and in most<br />
c<strong>as</strong>es, had to fend for themselves. The road to<br />
freedom w<strong>as</strong> a long, hard road.<br />
Today, you can follow in their footsteps,<br />
thanks to ongoing research by local historians<br />
who are working to document people and<br />
places on the Underground Railroad. Only a<br />
few structures still stand, but once you find your<br />
bearings, you can’t help but sense their presence.<br />
New Jerusalem<br />
A good place to start,Thompson suggests, is<br />
the Erie neighborhood that runs north of West<br />
Sixth Street to the bayfront, from S<strong>as</strong>safr<strong>as</strong><br />
west to about Cherry Street. In the 1830s,<br />
white abolitionist William Himrod, a partner<br />
in a successful local ironworks, bought up<br />
property behind Millionaires’Row, divided it<br />
into small tracts, and sold it to free blacks.They<br />
formed a community known <strong>as</strong> New Jerusalem,<br />
complete with a church, school and many<br />
private residences. You can read more about it<br />
in Thompson’s book,“Journey from Jerusalem,”<br />
co-written with Karen James, available at the<br />
Erie County Historical Society.<br />
Far from the p<strong>as</strong>sive victims described<br />
in antebellum history books, free blacks in<br />
the North, many of them former slaves or<br />
indentured servants, had the re<strong>as</strong>on, and the<br />
resources, to help. They worked <strong>as</strong> laborers,<br />
started businesses, pursued education and<br />
established churches, which were at the heart<br />
of family and community life. The Wesleyan<br />
Methodist Colored Church, the forerunner<br />
to St. James African American Episcopal<br />
Church, w<strong>as</strong> originally built on West Third<br />
Street, between Walnut and Chestnut. Later,<br />
it doubled <strong>as</strong> a school.<br />
Imagine what the neighborhood must have<br />
looked like when it w<strong>as</strong> ensconced in a remote<br />
area of the city, separated from downtown<br />
Erie by a large ravine. Suddenly it’s e<strong>as</strong>y to<br />
understand why New Jerusalem became a<br />
hotbed for anti-slavery activity. Enslaved<br />
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persons who managed to break free knew they<br />
could live and work openly among their own<br />
people. Many of Erie’s black families have<br />
roots in New Jerusalem. L<strong>as</strong>t June, Erie City<br />
Council renamed a portion of West Front<br />
Street, between S<strong>as</strong>safr<strong>as</strong> and Myrtle, in honor<br />
of the Lawrence family, whose leadership in<br />
education and music inspired generations.<br />
Himrod Mission<br />
William Himrod’s own home w<strong>as</strong> located<br />
at E<strong>as</strong>t Second and French Streets, which<br />
also housed Himrod’s “French Street Sabbath<br />
school for Colored Children.” According to<br />
family diaries, Himrod and his wife provided<br />
food and a temporary haven for freedom<br />
seekers on their way to Canada, a considerable<br />
risk once the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850<br />
made these activities illegal. Jean Himrod<br />
Stull Cunningham, artist, naturalist and<br />
environmental steward, who p<strong>as</strong>sed away in<br />
2011, w<strong>as</strong> among William Himrod’s many<br />
descendants still living in the area.<br />
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Shortly after arriving in Erie with his<br />
wife Abigail, African American Robert<br />
Vosburgh opened a barbershop at 314<br />
French Street, not far from the Himrod<br />
Mission. In the Vosburgh barbershop, antinti- slavery activists kept an eye on the comings gs<br />
and goings around town. Vosburgh could<br />
change a fugitive’s appearance, provide a<br />
new suit of clothes, and put him in touch<br />
with an Underground Railroad conductor or<br />
who could take him to Canada, either along long<br />
the lakeshore or by boat.<br />
Many of the Vosburghs’nine children,<br />
who were educated at Himrod’s school,<br />
became part of Erie’s emerging middle<br />
cl<strong>as</strong>s and went on to successful careers in<br />
real estate and railroading. Two sons, one<br />
a porter and another a second cook on the e<br />
Steamship Erie, were among the more than<br />
250 p<strong>as</strong>sengers killed in 1841 when the<br />
elegant ship exploded in flames on a return rn<br />
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salt and grain in weren’t en’t the only onl cargoo loaded onto ont schooners. cho Once On<br />
darkness fell on Erie’s waterfront, fugitives climbed aboard for the<br />
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE<br />
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD<br />
The secret network that operated<br />
<strong>as</strong> the Underground Railroad during<br />
one of the most dramatic episodes<br />
in American history is the subject of<br />
feature films, a 2,057-mile adventure<br />
bicycle route, and at le<strong>as</strong>t two<br />
self-guided driving tours. Here are<br />
connections to more information:<br />
Adventure Cycling Association’s<br />
Underground Railroad Bicycle<br />
Route<br />
“Top 10 Cycle Routes” National<br />
Geographic, Journeys of a Lifetime<br />
Info: www.adventurecycling.org/<br />
routes/undergroundrailroad.cfm<br />
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Sugar Grove Underground<br />
Railroad Tour<br />
Of special note, the Miller Mansion,<br />
located one-quarter mile southwest of<br />
the PA/NY state line on Big Tree Road<br />
on Pennsylvania Route 69. Frederick<br />
Dougl<strong>as</strong>s attended a convention there.<br />
One of best-documented stories<br />
because of family diaries, scrapbooks.<br />
It is a private home now.<br />
Info: www.mysugargrove.com<br />
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African Americans in Erie County: A<br />
Heritage Trail<br />
Adriana Houseman, Public History<br />
Program, Mercyhurst University<br />
When: Spring rele<strong>as</strong>e planned by Erie<br />
Yesterday and Edinboro Historical<br />
Society<br />
Info: www.erieyesterday.org<br />
West County Tours<br />
Universalist Church, Hazel Kibler<br />
Museum, Drury Cemetery<br />
When: Reopens in May<br />
Info: 814-774-3653; by appointment<br />
Hubbard House<br />
Corner of Walnut Blvd. and Lake Ave.,<br />
Ashtabula, Ohio<br />
When: Weekends, Memorial Day<br />
through September<br />
Info: 440-964-8168; by appointment<br />
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Albert Vosburgh, son of Robert Vosburgh, continued his father’s<br />
barbershop business at 314 French Street. Photo from the collection of<br />
Lindy Tardy Wilson.<br />
P.S.V. Hamot House<br />
Just three doors from Vosburgh’s Barber<br />
Shop w<strong>as</strong> the office of Pierre Simon Vincent<br />
Hamot, a successful banker and salt trader<br />
whose black servant mysteriously disappeared<br />
soon after Vosburgh moved into the<br />
neighborhood.<br />
Like all black men in Pennsylvania,<br />
Vosburgh had been stripped of his right to<br />
vote, but he would find other ways to bring<br />
about change. The Hamot house, at 302<br />
French Street, is now home to the Hamot<br />
Health Foundation.<br />
Erie Lamplighter<br />
A longtime friend of Vosburgh w<strong>as</strong><br />
Hamilton Waters, a former slave from<br />
Somerset County, Md., who had hired<br />
himself out in order to buy his mother’s<br />
freedom <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> his own. Once he arrived<br />
in Erie, he worked <strong>as</strong> a clothes presser in<br />
Vosburgh’s Barber Shop.<br />
Waters lived with his family at 137 E.<br />
Third St., between French and Holland. He<br />
w<strong>as</strong> often seen performing his duties <strong>as</strong> the<br />
city’s lamplighter, with his grandson in tow.<br />
One night in the summer of 1858, Jehiel<br />
Towner of Erie contacted Frank Henry of<br />
Harborcreek about helping three p<strong>as</strong>sengers<br />
escape to Canada. The next night at about<br />
dusk, Hamilton Waters brought the family to<br />
Frank Henry in a wagon. A skiff w<strong>as</strong> waiting<br />
at the mouth of Four Mile Creek to take<br />
them across the lake to Canada. “The driver,<br />
one Hamilton Waters, w<strong>as</strong> a free mulatto,<br />
known to everybody around Erie,” Frank<br />
Henry wrote in his diary, “He had brought<br />
a little boy with him <strong>as</strong> a guide, for he w<strong>as</strong><br />
almost blind <strong>as</strong> a bat.”<br />
Waters’ determination to secure his rele<strong>as</strong>e<br />
from slavery, provide for his family, and<br />
<strong>as</strong>sist freedom seekers helped to shape the<br />
character of one of America’s most influential<br />
composers, Harry Thacker Burleigh. Burleigh<br />
would go on to study at the National<br />
Conservatory of Music in New York.<br />
His grandfather’s plantation songs would<br />
someday reach an international audience.<br />
The Harry T. Burleigh Society, founded<br />
by the late Charles Kennedy Jr., brings<br />
Burleigh’s songs and stories to local schools,<br />
churches and special events.<br />
Johnny Johnson, a retired teacher and<br />
coach, h<strong>as</strong> been involved in re-enactments<br />
and numerous presentations with the Erie<br />
History Center. Dressed in period clothing,<br />
Johnson takes on the role of Hamilton<br />
Waters, and Adrianne Rush presents the<br />
character of his daughter, Elizabeth Waters,<br />
mother of Harry Burleigh.<br />
Johnson and Rush have been proponents<br />
of history programs in Erie for years. “In a<br />
nutshell, black history is American history,”<br />
says Johnson, in a 2012 interview with Erie<br />
Times-News. “We cannot separate ourselves<br />
by colors, denominations, whatever you want<br />
to call it, because all of us made America<br />
what it is today and the contribution of all is<br />
just <strong>as</strong> important <strong>as</strong> the contribution of one.”<br />
The living history program is especially<br />
meaningful for Rush, who grew up in the<br />
same neighborhood, two houses from Waters’<br />
home on E<strong>as</strong>t Third Street.<br />
“When you get into character, you not only<br />
give people the flavor of the times, you get<br />
them to touch the personalities who were<br />
present in that time,” says Adrianne, <strong>as</strong>sociate<br />
p<strong>as</strong>tor at St. James AME Church. “Elizabeth<br />
learned to read at an early age. Her parents<br />
valued education, and sent her to Avery<br />
College in Pittsburgh when she w<strong>as</strong> only 15.<br />
At 16 she gave the commencement address<br />
in French and English.”<br />
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Cyclists on the<br />
Underground<br />
Railroad bicycle<br />
tour hear from<br />
re-enactors<br />
Adrianne Rush,<br />
seated at center,<br />
and Johnny<br />
Johnson,<br />
standing, in<br />
Erie’s New<br />
Jerusalem<br />
neighborhood.<br />
Photo courtesy of<br />
Lisa Gensheimer<br />
Trained <strong>as</strong> a teacher, Elizabeth returned to Erie and worked at the<br />
Himrod mission school. She married Henry Burley (later spelled<br />
Burleigh), an abolitionist and founder of Erie’s Equal Rights League.<br />
Erie City Council h<strong>as</strong> renamed E<strong>as</strong>t Third Street between French and<br />
Holland “Harry Burleigh Way”in recognition of his family’s contributions.<br />
Dedication of the new street sign is expected later <strong>this</strong> month.<br />
‘True American’ newspaper<br />
Like William Lloyd Garrison, the prominent American<br />
abolitionist and reformer who published The Liberator newspaper in<br />
Boston, Erie’s Henry Catlin used the power of the pen to promote<br />
his anti-slavery views. From his second-floor office in the Lowry<br />
Building at E<strong>as</strong>t Fifth and French Streets, Catlin turned out weekly<br />
issues of his newspaper, the True American, from1854 to 1861, for<br />
three cents a copy. “It is a medium of free discussion for all manner<br />
of men and women, except slaveholders, rum sellers, and codfish<br />
aristocrats,” he wrote. Fugitives were sometimes concealed in<br />
newspaper bins until it w<strong>as</strong> safe for them to sail away to Canada.<br />
When Catlin invited abolitionist Frederick Dougl<strong>as</strong>s to speak in<br />
Erie on April 24, 1858, an angry mob threatened to run both of them<br />
out of town. Dougl<strong>as</strong>s showed up anyway and delivered a speech<br />
entitled “Unity of the Human Race” at Park Hall. Lovisa-Card<br />
Catlin, founder of the Arts Club of Erie who spearheaded the effort<br />
to purch<strong>as</strong>e Frederick Childe H<strong>as</strong>sam’s painting “Summer Afternoon,<br />
Isles of Shoals” for the community, married the widower Henry<br />
Catlin, “a man of culture,” in 1893.<br />
Catlin is credited with coming up with the name ‘Kahkwa’ for<br />
Erie’s Kahkwa Club, “that having been the name of a tribe of Indians<br />
that frequented these shores when the country w<strong>as</strong> a forest.”<br />
Outliers<br />
Some of the best-documented Underground Railroad c<strong>as</strong>es are<br />
found in sparsely populated are<strong>as</strong> outside of the city, including<br />
Girard, Harborcreek, Wesleyville and North E<strong>as</strong>t. The diaries of antislavery<br />
activist Frank Henry, who lived at 2060 Station Road, now a<br />
three-unit rental property, were the b<strong>as</strong>is of numerous stories by H.U.<br />
Johnson, publisher of Lakeshore Home Magazine, to reconstruct,<br />
(and sometimes embellish) Underground Railroad stories in the<br />
1880s, after the danger of rele<strong>as</strong>ing the information had p<strong>as</strong>sed.<br />
Wesleyville historian and author Debbi Lyon reports that Henry<br />
and others stowed runaways in the Wesleyville Methodist Church.<br />
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Permanent Exhibit<br />
“Intersections: The Underground<br />
Railroad in Chautauqua County”<br />
Fenton History Center<br />
67 W<strong>as</strong>hington Street, Jamestown, N.Y.<br />
When: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to<br />
4 p.m.; Monday 4 to 9 p.m.<br />
Info: www.fentonhistorycenter.org<br />
John Brown Tannery and Museum<br />
17620 John Brown Road, Guys Mills, Pa.<br />
When: Open year-round; PHMC<br />
Historical Marker on Tannery site<br />
Info: Farm and Museum tours by<br />
appointment, Donna Coburn,<br />
814-720-2873<br />
Harry T. Burleigh Society<br />
Info: www.burleighsociety.org<br />
Safe Harbor: A Story of the<br />
Underground Railroad in<br />
northwestern PA<br />
Main Street Media Inc.<br />
Info: www.wqln.org/safeharbor<br />
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The Abolitionists<br />
American Experience docudrama<br />
premiered in January — <br />
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Info: www.wqln.org, www.pbs.org/<br />
wgbh/americanexperience/films/<br />
abolitionists<br />
See page 45 for an interview with the<br />
producer<br />
“The Underground Railroad”<br />
Independent feature film to be<br />
shot in and around northwestern<br />
Pennsylvania:<br />
Storyline follows a college law<br />
student who, on a bet, must travel<br />
to Canada along the Underground<br />
Railroad.<br />
Info: www.grantlarsonproductions.com<br />
The Underground Railroad in<br />
Girard: The Myth and Fact<br />
Amy Jones, Journal of Erie Studies,<br />
Fall 2001<br />
Erie County History Center<br />
Info: www.eriecountyhistory.org,<br />
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The church is long gone, but through her<br />
research Lyon discovered she w<strong>as</strong> literally<br />
sitting on top of the old foundation. Debbi<br />
and her husband Mike ran Record Country<br />
at 3306 Buffalo Road, the site of the old<br />
church, until 2004. “I had no idea,” says<br />
Debbi, who works in the Heritage Room in<br />
Erie’s Bl<strong>as</strong>co Library. “I w<strong>as</strong> blown away.”<br />
Local author Stephanie Wincik, who<br />
begins her Underground Railroad tours<br />
at the Universalist Church in Girard (by<br />
appointment) says, “Even though you live in a<br />
small town, it is important to know that some<br />
very brave people once lived here, and risked<br />
everything to help people moving through. A<br />
great sense of pride comes from knowing some<br />
significant events happened right here.”<br />
Albert and Shirley Deiner’s stone house at<br />
3506 E<strong>as</strong>t Lake Road, built in 1832, once had<br />
a tunnel that ran from the b<strong>as</strong>ement to Four<br />
Mile Creek, leading many to speculate that it<br />
w<strong>as</strong> a stop on the Underground Railroad. Jim<br />
Van Dyne of the Lawrence Park Historical<br />
Society is skeptical. He says there is no firm<br />
documentation to support the claim. The<br />
tunnel, if added during Prohibition, could<br />
have been used to hide hooch, not slaves.<br />
Sarah Thompson, on the other hand, says the<br />
evidence is circumstantial, but “depending<br />
on the age of the house, who w<strong>as</strong> living<br />
in the area, and what other activity can be<br />
documented nearby, it’s re<strong>as</strong>onable to surmise<br />
the property owners were involved.”<br />
Twelve miles to the e<strong>as</strong>t is the home of<br />
Jeff and Carol Bolan on Freeport Road,<br />
a stone’s throw from Lake Erie and the<br />
mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek. Built in 1835<br />
for abolitionist Philetus “John” Gl<strong>as</strong>, who<br />
established Erie County’s first foundry nearby,<br />
it w<strong>as</strong> one of several properties in the vicinity<br />
known to provide a safe haven to fugitives.<br />
“I’ve always loved <strong>this</strong> house,” says Jeff,<br />
who h<strong>as</strong> gone to great pains to preserve the<br />
integrity of the structure, and its story. He’s<br />
repainted bricks, reglazed windows, and<br />
strengthened the pillars on the wraparound<br />
porch. He’s quick to show visitors how<br />
an adult could squeeze through the small<br />
trapdoor in an upstairs bedroom, should a<br />
sheriff come knocking in search of a runaway.<br />
Lately, it’s history buffs who come calling,<br />
or an occ<strong>as</strong>ional fisherman from Pittsburgh<br />
who wants to know more about the area<br />
and its role in the Underground Railroad.<br />
A dramatic rescue that doesn’t end well<br />
is documented in great detail in Francis<br />
Newton Thorpe’s A Constitutional History<br />
of the American People (1898). Bolan thinks<br />
the Civil War’s 150th anniversary is causing<br />
people to take a closer look at people and<br />
places in their own backyards.<br />
Following the trail<br />
The local Underground Railroad story<br />
includes many other people and places<br />
throughout the Lake Erie Region, and<br />
documentation is far from finished. Sarah<br />
Thompson hopes to explore the role of<br />
the Erie Extension Canal and to spend<br />
more time following leads in Edinboro<br />
and Cambridge Springs. Online archival<br />
collections that include letters, diaries,<br />
documents, and 19th century newspapers are<br />
enabling historians to connect the dots from<br />
community to community.<br />
Just when you think there are no new<br />
discoveries to make, a researcher will stumble<br />
across a most amazing find. At the conclusion<br />
of “Runaway Slaves,” an award-winning book<br />
by historians John Hope Franklin and Loren<br />
Schweninger, is a beautifully written letter by<br />
Joseph Taper. He describes in great detail his<br />
escape from bondage in Virginia, his travels<br />
through western Pennsylvania and his work<br />
on a farm near Erie, where he met up with<br />
several people he knew from the south before<br />
settling in St. Catharine’s, Ontario. Taper’s<br />
powerful story is told at the end of the<br />
documentary, Safe Harbor, produced in 2003<br />
for national distribution on public television.<br />
The stories continue to touch a new<br />
generation, says Chris Magoc, Ph.D.,<br />
Mercyhurst University history professor and<br />
department chair. In his essay, “The Power<br />
of Place,” published in “Rethinking the<br />
Teaching of American History,” edited by<br />
Michael P. Federici and published in 2012, he<br />
speaks of the deep connections formed when<br />
a student steps foot on hallowed ground.<br />
“Taking students to a local patch of woods or<br />
a stream where African Americans and brave<br />
white supporters knowingly violated federal<br />
law and risked their lives to support human<br />
freedom strengthens the potential to establish<br />
an emotional connection to <strong>this</strong> critical chapter<br />
in American history,” writes Magoc.<br />
The same can be true for each of us, if<br />
we <strong>as</strong>sume the role of lifelong learner. Like<br />
Magoc, I’d like to think that old bonds<br />
broken can lead to new ones. LEL<br />
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Avantis Chicken Parmigiana<br />
— Pete Sitter<br />
Avantis Restaurant<br />
1662 W. Eighth St.<br />
(corner of West Eighth St. and<br />
Lincoln Avenue), Erie<br />
814-456-3096<br />
www.avantiseriepa.com<br />
Hours: Breakf<strong>as</strong>t and lunch, daily<br />
until 3 p.m.; dinner, Thursday,<br />
Friday and Saturday, 5:30 to 9<br />
p.m.<br />
Menu: Changes daily, Italian,<br />
seafood, American<br />
Price: $4 (soup) to $25 (entree)<br />
for the love of food<br />
Lake Erie LifeStyle <strong>as</strong>ked readers for their favorite<br />
romantic restaurant meal and here’s what you said:<br />
Peppino’s always h<strong>as</strong> fant<strong>as</strong>tic<br />
food and a relaxing, cozy<br />
atmosphere. Always love going<br />
there with my husband.<br />
— Trina Manios Baldwin<br />
Peppino’s steak and risotto<br />
— Jill Thompson Slomski<br />
Peppino’s Wine Bar & Chop House<br />
West Lake Road, Fairview<br />
814-474-2016<br />
www.peppinoschophouse.com<br />
Hours: Dinner, Tuesday through<br />
Saturday<br />
Menu: Italian, steaks<br />
Price:$3 (soup) to $30-plus (entree)<br />
By Marnie Mead<br />
My favorite meal is baked<br />
<strong>as</strong>paragus, Chicken in<br />
pistachio sauce and artichoke<br />
ravioli ... Where? My house!<br />
— Marc Berarducci<br />
You can find some of Marc<br />
Berarducci’s creations at<br />
Frankie & May Fresh Grocer<br />
1111 Peninsula Drive CVS plaza,<br />
Erie<br />
814-836-0070<br />
www.frankieandmay.com<br />
Hours: Daily<br />
Menu: Grocery, meat counter,<br />
prepared foods limited, cafe<br />
bon appetít<br />
Syd’s blackened<br />
prime rib and wine<br />
— Paula Bruno-Umlah<br />
Syd’s Place<br />
2992 West Lake Road, Erie<br />
814-838-3089<br />
Hours: Dinner, Tuesday through<br />
Saturday<br />
Menu: American, seafood (kid<br />
friendly)<br />
Price: $10 to $30 (entree)<br />
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Ro<strong>as</strong>ted Asparagus with a Balsamic Glaze can be augmented<br />
with the addition of some grape tomatoes during the ro<strong>as</strong>ting.<br />
top: Slow-Ro<strong>as</strong>ted Beef Tenderloin served with a horseradish<br />
sauce and accompanied by a bottle of California Pinot Noir is<br />
perfect for two.<br />
Photos by Marnie Mead<br />
in the know:<br />
COOKINGWITH MARNIE<br />
Marnie Mead teaches cooking cl<strong>as</strong>ses<br />
monthly at Frankie & May Fresh Grocer,<br />
1101 Peninsula Drive, Erie.<br />
Her next cl<strong>as</strong>s,“For the Love of Chocolate”<br />
will be Sunday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m.<br />
Sign up at www.frankieandmay.com<br />
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ROMANTIC RECIPES<br />
If you decide to stay in for a romantic evening, here’s just the menu for you. It takes advantage of<br />
ro<strong>as</strong>ting to intensify flavors; and the microwave for e<strong>as</strong>e. Most of the meal is intended to be served at<br />
room temperature, so it be done before time, allowing you to spend the night with your date instead<br />
of with the KitchenAid. Menu: Oven-Ro<strong>as</strong>ted Shrimp Cocktail, Slow-Ro<strong>as</strong>ted Beef Tenderloin, Oven-<br />
Ro<strong>as</strong>ted Asparagus, Chocolate “Cup” Cakes<br />
Oven-Ro<strong>as</strong>ted Shrimp Cocktail<br />
2 pounds 12 to 15-count shrimp, deveined with<br />
shell on<br />
1 tablespoon good olive oil<br />
Kosher salt<br />
Freshly ground black pepper<br />
3 sprigs fresh thyme<br />
½ lemon, thinly sliced<br />
Place lemon slices and thyme sprigs on foillined<br />
baking sheet. Place shrimp on top and<br />
sprinkle with salt and pepper. Drizzle with olive<br />
oil. Ro<strong>as</strong>t for 8 to10 minutes, just until pink and<br />
firm and cooked through. Set <strong>as</strong>ide to cool.<br />
Dipping sauce<br />
½ cup chili sauce recommended: Heinz<br />
½ cup ketchup<br />
3 tablespoons prepared horseradish not creamy<br />
2 te<strong>as</strong>poons freshly squeezed lemon juice<br />
½ te<strong>as</strong>poon Worcestershire sauce<br />
¼ te<strong>as</strong>poon hot sauce<br />
Heat the oven to 400 degrees.<br />
Combine all ingredients. Serve <strong>as</strong> a dip with the<br />
shrimp.<br />
— Adapted from Barefoot Contessa “Back to B<strong>as</strong>ics”<br />
Slow-Ro<strong>as</strong>ted Beef Tenderloin<br />
1 whole filet of beef tenderloin, trimmed and tied<br />
(about 4 ½ pounds)<br />
Kosher salt<br />
Coarsely ground black pepper<br />
3 tablespoons good olive oil<br />
10 to 15 branches fresh tarragon<br />
Fresh parsley and tarragon for garnish<br />
Special equipment: meat thermometer<br />
About 2 hours before cooking, remove<br />
tenderloin from the refrigerator and pat dry.<br />
Sprinkle liberally with kosher salt and fresh pepper.<br />
Heat the oven to 275 degrees. Place the<br />
tarragon branches on a rimmed baking sheet and<br />
place the tenderloin on top. Brush the filet all over<br />
with the oil. Ro<strong>as</strong>t for 1¼ to 1½ hours, until the<br />
temperature registers 125 degrees in the center<br />
for rare and 135 degrees for medium-rare. Test by<br />
placing the thermometer horizontally through<br />
the end of the beef.<br />
Cover the filet with aluminum foil and allow to<br />
rest for at le<strong>as</strong>t 20 minutes.<br />
— Adapted from Ina Garten “Barefoot Contessa<br />
Foolproof: Recipes you Can Trust”<br />
Horseradish Cream Sauce<br />
½ cup sour cream<br />
½ cup good mayonnaise<br />
¼ cup grated fresh horseradish<br />
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard<br />
1 te<strong>as</strong>poon white wine vinegar<br />
Kosher salt<br />
Freshly ground black pepper<br />
Place all of the ingredients into a bowl and<br />
whisk until the mixture is smooth and creamy.<br />
Refrigerate at le<strong>as</strong>t 2 hours before serving. Best if<br />
made the night before.<br />
— Adapted from Alton Brown from<br />
www.foodnetwork.com<br />
Ro<strong>as</strong>ted Asparagus with Balsamic<br />
1 pound fresh <strong>as</strong>paragus, trimmed and peeled if needed<br />
1 tablespoon olive oil<br />
Salt, preferably kosher or sea salt<br />
1 tablespoon good balsamic vinegar<br />
Heat oven to 500 degrees.<br />
Line a rimmed baking pan with foil. Place<br />
<strong>as</strong>paragus in pan and drizzle oil on top. Toss to coat.<br />
Arrange <strong>as</strong>paragus in a single layer. Sprinkle with<br />
salt. Ro<strong>as</strong>t <strong>as</strong>paragus, shaking pan every 2 minutes,<br />
until tender and lightly browned, about 10 minutes.<br />
Remove pan from oven and drizzle vinegar over<br />
<strong>as</strong>paragus, shaking pan to combine well.<br />
— Adapted from www.epicurious.com<br />
Chocolate ‘Cup’ Cakes<br />
2 sticks butter, softened and cubed<br />
8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped or morsels<br />
4 eggs<br />
¾ cup flour<br />
¾ sugar<br />
Zest of 1 orange<br />
1 te<strong>as</strong>poon salt<br />
1 te<strong>as</strong>poon espresso powder<br />
Melt butter and chocolate in gl<strong>as</strong>s bowl in the<br />
microwave for about 1 minute. Depending on<br />
wattage of microwave, <strong>this</strong> may take longer.<br />
In large bowl, beat eggs. Whisk in flour, sugar,<br />
orange zest, salt and espresso powder. Whisk in<br />
melted chocolate.<br />
Pour evenly into 4 large coffee mugs, no metal<br />
rim or 6 smaller ones.<br />
Microwave for 2 to 3 minutes, depending on your<br />
microwave. Allow to cool for 30 seconds to 1 minute.<br />
Serve with vanilla ice cream.<br />
— Adapted from Michael Symon from<br />
www.cookingchannel.com<br />
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Colao’s, hand s down!<br />
— Cathy M<strong>as</strong>charka<br />
Colao’s Restaurante<br />
2826 Plum Street, Erie<br />
814-866-9621<br />
Hours: Dinner, Monday through<br />
Saturday<br />
Menu: Italian<br />
Price: $3 (soup) to $30-plus<br />
(entree)<br />
Mi Scuzi. Anything Italian.<br />
— Rob Engelhardt<br />
Mi Scuzi Ristorante Italiano<br />
W. 27th and Myrtle Streets, Erie<br />
814-454-4533<br />
www.miscuzirestaurant.com<br />
Hours: Dinner, Tuesday through<br />
Saturday; Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.<br />
Menu: Italian Tuscan<br />
Price: $4 (soup) to $23 (entree)<br />
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Danny’s ... I proposed to Lynn<br />
on bended knee ... Danny and<br />
his peeps were wonderful ...<br />
It w<strong>as</strong> a wonderful veal dish,<br />
by the way.<br />
— Bill Dietz<br />
Definitely the veal at Danny’s.<br />
There is no finer meal in Erie!<br />
— Alyson Amendola<br />
Cummings<br />
Danny’s Restaurant & Lounge<br />
5653 Peach St., Erie<br />
814-868-4486<br />
Hours: Dinner, Tuesday through<br />
Saturday<br />
Menu: Italian, steaks, seafood<br />
Price: $6 (appetizer) to $26<br />
(entree)<br />
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A few of our other favorites:<br />
Tarsitano Winery and Cafe<br />
4871 Hatches Corners Road,<br />
Conneaut, Ohio<br />
440-224-2444<br />
www.tarsitanowinery.com<br />
Hours: Winter, weekends only.<br />
Saturday, noon to 9 p.m.; Sunday,<br />
noon to 6 p.m. Reopens in the<br />
spring for regular hours.<br />
Menu: Winter, appetizers only;<br />
Italian.<br />
Price: $10 (appetizers) and up<br />
Victor’s at the Bel-Aire<br />
2800 West Eighth St., Erie<br />
814-833-1116<br />
www.belaireclarion.com<br />
Hours: Dinner, Monday through<br />
Saturday<br />
Menu: American<br />
Price: $5 (soups) to $26 (entree)<br />
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bon appetít<br />
Bertrand’s Bistro<br />
18 North Park Row, Erie<br />
814-871-6477<br />
http://bertrandsbistro.com<br />
Hours: Dinner, Tuesday through<br />
Saturday; Brunch, Sunday<br />
Menu: French, crepes. Weekly<br />
specials.<br />
Price: $3 (crepe) to $32 (entree)<br />
1201 Kitchen<br />
1201 State St., Erie<br />
814-464-8989<br />
www.1201restaurant.com<br />
Hours: Dinner, Monday through<br />
Saturday<br />
Menu: Asian-American<br />
Price: $9 (sushi) to $42 (Kobe beef)<br />
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MARY AND EARNST BEHREND<br />
HARRY KELLAR<br />
Erie Hall of Fame<br />
the people who made the town<br />
What is it that you are most proud of? Is it your home and all the stuff you stuff<br />
in it? Or is it the people that you include in your life? My guess is it’s the people.<br />
THAT SAME QUESTION can be <strong>as</strong>ked<br />
about where we live. We all love our rolling<br />
hills, sheltered bay and endless miles of<br />
open water, but the thing that makes Erie<br />
Eriesistable isn’t just the scenery, it’s the<br />
Erieite in front of the scenery. Think about<br />
the woman who loves to order ox-ro<strong>as</strong>t,<br />
or the guy who dumps french fries on his<br />
chicken/steak salad, or all of those folks<br />
who call it “the GE” — these are the people<br />
who make our hometown special. And that<br />
sentiment is, in a nutshell, the mission of<br />
the Erie Hall of Fame; to honor the people<br />
who’ve shared their Erieness with the world.<br />
What kind of “Erieness”did we share? We<br />
shared big stuff like building the first railroad<br />
bridge across the Mississippi, the opening of<br />
nearly all of the nation’s coal fields, and the<br />
dismantling of Standard Oil. We also shared<br />
the sublime, <strong>as</strong> in Peter Rabbit, the American<br />
song, and the Julliard School of Music. Erie<br />
gave the world magnets, zippers, car suspension,<br />
and paper mills. We solved the mathematics<br />
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IDA TARBELL<br />
DR. GERTRUDE BARBER<br />
ORANGE FOWLER MERWIN<br />
HARRY T. BURLEIGH<br />
By Tom New<br />
Photos courtesy of Erie Hall of Fame<br />
of flight, war, and freedom, and an Erieite w<strong>as</strong><br />
the first person to put “E Pluribus unum” on a<br />
coin. Erie also gave the world something else;<br />
something so uniquely Erie that it couldn’t have<br />
come from anywhere else on earth. We gave the<br />
world frozen food and the wind chill factor.<br />
The Erieites who’ve created all <strong>this</strong> wonder<br />
are all members of the Erie Hall of Fame.<br />
You can learn more about them by visiting<br />
one of the two Erie Hall of Fame kiosks<br />
located at the Bl<strong>as</strong>co Library, or at Erie<br />
International Airport, or by going online.<br />
There are 25 members currently enshrined<br />
in the Hall and <strong>this</strong> year the Erie Hall of<br />
Fame would like to induct five more, but<br />
to do that they need your help. Potential<br />
candidates are nominated by people living in<br />
the greater Erie area. A candidate is eligible<br />
if they are no longer living and if they have<br />
made a world contribution. Who do you<br />
think would make a good candidate? We<br />
want to know. For more information, ple<strong>as</strong>e<br />
visit www.eriehalloffame.com. LEL<br />
STRONG VINCENT<br />
ROBERT KOLBE<br />
in the know:<br />
ERIE HALL OF FAME<br />
Erie Hall of Fame is a community<br />
initiative that inducts up to five<br />
notable people each year. Currently<br />
there are 25 members, including<br />
Gertrude Barber and Harry T. Burleigh.<br />
To find out more about the<br />
Hall of Fame members, visit:<br />
www.eriehalloffame.com<br />
Nominations for the Hall of Fame<br />
can be made at:<br />
www.eriehalloffame.com/nominate.<strong>as</strong>p<br />
The newest inductees are announced<br />
in November.<br />
Erie Hall of Fame board members<br />
are Dwight Miller, president of<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> Public Broadc<strong>as</strong>ting; John<br />
Vanco, executive director Erie Art<br />
Museum; Thom<strong>as</strong> Gamble, president<br />
of Mercyhurst University; David Frew,<br />
author and former executive director<br />
of the Erie County Historical Society;<br />
Ed Mead, Erie Times-News; Marlene<br />
Mosco, president PNC Bank; and<br />
Cynthia Wyatt, the Wyatt Collection.<br />
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Brushwood<br />
Folklore Center<br />
inspires serenity<br />
THE NARROW SHERMAN-CLYMER<br />
ROAD ducks under interstate I-86 <strong>as</strong> if<br />
someone tiptoeing to a secret place. Three<br />
miles southward from that underp<strong>as</strong>s is a<br />
large right-pointing sign that says — in<br />
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Story and photos by Peter Hamilton<br />
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Sanctuary For The Open Mind.<br />
A westward turn, and then a brief rise and<br />
fall drive over tar-patched Bailey Hill Road<br />
will bring you to the entrance of, <strong>as</strong> Dave<br />
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Guzman, the receptionist and co-owner of<br />
the maverick folklore center will confide, “the<br />
best kept secret in the world.”<br />
Campsites at Brushwood Folklore Center in western Chautauqua<br />
County offer serene and private settings for creative contemplation.<br />
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“It should be a very quiet night,” he says,<br />
looking out the window of the handcrafted<br />
log-frame office, when I arrive. Then, <strong>as</strong><br />
shadowy clouds gather, adds “and hopefully, a<br />
dry one.”<br />
I select a woody site and pitch my tent<br />
on a lumber platform. Neighboring to my<br />
right, between a twist of Black Gum trees,<br />
is another campsite. A substantial tent of<br />
white tarpaulin resembles an oilcloth cottage,<br />
complete with windows, a patio, and a shedlike<br />
attachment which served <strong>as</strong> tarp for<br />
bicycles, a cooking grill, lawn furniture and a<br />
c<strong>as</strong>t of homespun arty sculptures. Its setting<br />
conjured the merger of <strong>as</strong>cetic b<strong>as</strong>e camp<br />
meets new-age accompaniments. Behind me<br />
is a late-model school bus painted sky blue,<br />
freely decorated with sun-faded streamers.<br />
Both those sites are unoccupied, but if their<br />
lodgers were present, it wouldn’t have been<br />
a surprise to see Ken Kesey and the Merry<br />
Pranksters step out from the decorated bus,<br />
or to hear the Grateful Dead tune up.<br />
Origins<br />
Brushwood began 40 years ago when<br />
Frank Barney, and his wife Darlene, returned<br />
to Chautauqua County from California,<br />
to create a studio for Frank’s artwork. In<br />
their late twenties then, they embraced the<br />
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alternative lifestyle of the early 1970s and<br />
promoted an attraction to Celtic art, neopaganism,<br />
and anachronistic folklore. It<br />
sustained, drawing others of similar interest,<br />
who returned annually where the celebrations<br />
became, informally at first, summer reunions.<br />
Around 1992, Frank and Darlene’s daughter,<br />
Teresa, opened Brushwood <strong>as</strong> a more public<br />
in the know:<br />
BRUSHWOOD FOLKLORE CENTER<br />
8881 Bailey Hill Road<br />
Sherman, NY 14781<br />
716-761-6750<br />
www.brushwood.com<br />
camp@brushwood.com<br />
The Roundhouse<br />
at Brushwood<br />
is the center<br />
amphitheater for<br />
ceremony and<br />
celebration.<br />
Hours: Brushwood Folklore Center<br />
is open every weekend from May<br />
1 to Sept. 30 for camping, bonfires,<br />
drumming, dancing, hiking, walking<br />
the labyrinth and more. Clothingoptional<br />
campground.<br />
Directions: From Erie: I-90 e<strong>as</strong>t to I-86<br />
e<strong>as</strong>t; exit 6 to Sherman. Go north to<br />
Main St. Go to the west end of Main St.<br />
to Hart Street (also known <strong>as</strong> County<br />
Road 15). Turn left. Go south 3 miles<br />
on County Road 15 to Bailey Hill Road<br />
Turn right. Brushwood is 1 mile.<br />
center for arts and folklore. During the<br />
summer of 2012, says Teresa, “there were<br />
hundreds here.” She points to an outdoor<br />
table. “We offer several opportunities for<br />
the community to meet and share meals<br />
together.” Brushwood extends invitations to<br />
all. “But,” she suggests, “be prepared to help<br />
set up, or clean up <strong>as</strong> well.”<br />
Since the 1990s, Brushwood Folklore<br />
Center h<strong>as</strong> grown to become a creative<br />
and artistic events center that encourages<br />
camping attendants to focus on imaginative<br />
and spiritual growth — KOA and Woodstock<br />
cojoined. Many are summer cyclic, residing in<br />
se<strong>as</strong>onal dwellings like the tarpaulin cottage,<br />
and sustain an austere occupancy.<br />
Dave Guzman and I took an unhurried<br />
walk through the campground. The<br />
neighborhood construction w<strong>as</strong> an innovative<br />
architectural mix: modified travel trailers,<br />
oilcloth teepee’s, canv<strong>as</strong> yurts, and several<br />
durable lean-tos; silvery-blue sheets being the<br />
neighborhood thematic color. A central path<br />
ended at a building known <strong>as</strong> The Studio.<br />
“The community center,” Dave explains, and<br />
a shelter from storms.<br />
He gestured toward shelves of board<br />
games, a television, a kitchenette. “When<br />
someone’s tent blows down, they come here,”<br />
he notes. Against one wall stood dozens of<br />
cross-country ski boots — older ones with<br />
the three-pin holes. In the p<strong>as</strong>t, Brushwood<br />
had ski trails and a cross-country business<br />
with ski trails. That business stopped with<br />
inconsistent snowfall.<br />
Summer is the se<strong>as</strong>on<br />
It is summertime when the Brushwood<br />
schedule fills. The 2012 se<strong>as</strong>on began in May<br />
with The Beltane Celebration: a Maypole<br />
dance, potluck supper and a festival to respect<br />
the coming of summer. In June, Brushwood<br />
had its 16th O.U.R. Fest (Outrageous<br />
Universe Revival) with music and artistic<br />
revels, where bands played bluegr<strong>as</strong>s to blues<br />
at the open-air stage. Mid-July it w<strong>as</strong> Sirius<br />
Rising, a weekend that promotes “energetic,<br />
hybrid harmony with Celtic-gypsy music,<br />
dancing, drumming and art exhibits.” August<br />
featured a kid’s weekend and, during the<br />
final weekend of the month, the Hawk Fest<br />
Drum and Dance Gathering. “Perhaps the<br />
largest,” <strong>as</strong> Dave Guzman <strong>as</strong>serts, “of any of<br />
the summer se<strong>as</strong>on events.”<br />
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“Brushwood considers all art forms <strong>as</strong> a manner<br />
of self-expression.And self-expression is at the<br />
root of all spirit here at Brushwood.”<br />
— Teresa Barney Guzman<br />
The se<strong>as</strong>on concluded in September with the<br />
Heart Song Harvest Fest with a cider press,<br />
tractor rides, craft workshops and mead making.<br />
“And, of course,”he insists, superfluously, <strong>as</strong><br />
music is the more than implied centering<br />
allure throughout all Brushwood events,“lots<br />
of music.” He thumped on the cider press,<br />
“especially, drumming.”<br />
We returned to the wood beamed office<br />
where Teresa, Dave’s wife and Brushwood’s<br />
co-owner, repeated his testimony on music.<br />
“Drumming is at the heart of any gathering<br />
at Brushwood,” she says.<br />
Music and fire go together at Brushwood.<br />
“Without either, it would not be celebratory,”<br />
Teresa says, opening a laptop. As images of<br />
sacred fires, spirit dancing, new-age figurines,<br />
Celtic costumes, and pagan effigy burnings<br />
appeared, she says, “Brushwood considers all<br />
art forms <strong>as</strong> a manner of self-expression. And<br />
self-expression is at the root of all spirit here<br />
at Brushwood.”<br />
The notion of self-expression exhibits<br />
diversity and covers a lot at Brushwood. Or,<br />
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arts & entertainment<br />
doesn’t cover a lot; Brushwood is a clothingoptional<br />
campground.<br />
When <strong>as</strong>ked how optional clothing is at<br />
Brushwood, she says, “it’s certainly a part of<br />
the experience here.<br />
“This is our 21st year of festivals. It is all<br />
friends and family. People can do what they<br />
want to do here,” she explains.<br />
Brushwood advertises 180 private acres, fields,<br />
ponds, forest, pool, hot tub and walkway trails.<br />
As I return to my campsite, I p<strong>as</strong>sed the<br />
Roundhouse, an open-air amphitheater<br />
bordered with skyward, herringboned arches.<br />
I walked alongside the Dirge Dome, the site<br />
of Celtic and Pagan ceremonies, and then<br />
around the Maypole where colorful crepes<br />
blew with the wind, suggesting dancing.<br />
In my tent, <strong>as</strong> the night air cooled, I recall<br />
Dave Guzman’s portrayal of Brushwood <strong>as</strong><br />
“the best kept secret in the world.” It’s likely<br />
that many others would agree. LEL<br />
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African-American leaders leave mark with<br />
Alpha Phi Alpha<br />
There’s something to be said for having the opportunity to follow<br />
in the footsteps of historic African-American figures such <strong>as</strong><br />
Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Dougl<strong>as</strong>s and W.E.B. DuBois.<br />
With Alpha Phi Alpha, individuals can do just that.<br />
By Steve Orbanek<br />
Photography by Andy Colwell/Erie Times-News and Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News<br />
ALPHA PHI ALPHA IS the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity<br />
established for African-Americans. While the fraternity w<strong>as</strong> originally<br />
established in 1906 at Cornell University, it h<strong>as</strong> had a formal role in<br />
the Erie community since 1971. In that year, Northwest Pennsylvania’s<br />
alumni chapter, Kappa Beta Lambda, w<strong>as</strong> officially founded.<br />
While there is currently no undergraduate Alpha Phi Alpha chapter<br />
active at any of the region’s colleges and universities, a chapter h<strong>as</strong><br />
previously been active at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.<br />
Perhaps no one in the area understands the<br />
value of Alpha Phi Alpha more than Fred<br />
Rush, who w<strong>as</strong> a founding member of the<br />
region’s alumni chapter. Rush, who works <strong>as</strong><br />
coordinator of community initiatives in Erie<br />
Mayor Joseph Sinnott’s office, h<strong>as</strong> been an<br />
Alpha Phi Alpha brother for more than 50<br />
years, pledging in 1962 while he w<strong>as</strong> a student<br />
at Pennsylvania State University.<br />
“I think it’s a great thing to have nationally<br />
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and internationally,” says Rush, who is the<br />
historian and chaplain for the alumni chapter.<br />
“It’s a great networking tool, training tool and<br />
community organizational tool.”<br />
Unlike many other organizations, Alpha Phi Alpha is a lifelong<br />
commitment.When a man joins the fraternity, he is expected to honor the<br />
fraternity’s mission and remain committed for the remainder of his life.<br />
Additionally, the fraternity also differs from others because<br />
members are allowed to join at the alumni level provided they<br />
agree with Alpha Phi Alpha’s mission and values. Current alumni<br />
President Dr. Kahan Sablo is evidence of that.<br />
“I actually came in at the graduate level (in 2006) because I valued the<br />
goals and the aims of the fraternity,” says Sablo, who is the vice president<br />
for student affairs at Edinboro University. “So, in order to align myself<br />
with like-minded brothers, I saw the fraternity <strong>as</strong> a way to do that.”<br />
Dr. William Trice, the eldest of the Alpha Phi Alpha members in the<br />
region, joined the fraternity after he returned from serving in the U.S.<br />
Navy during World War II and went to the University of Pittsburgh<br />
for his dental degree. “A group of fellows said ‘We’d like to have you in<br />
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Alpha Phi Alpha,’” he recalls.“The quality of<br />
the young men impressed me. They were great<br />
guys.There were so many men of color who<br />
were so dynamic.<br />
“They were overachievers. If you are going<br />
to set your stars ... you want to set them up<br />
with the overachievers,” he says.<br />
Trice moved to Erie with his wife, Dr. Mildred<br />
M.Trice, after dental school. He raised two<br />
daughters here, one a lawyer now in Colorado<br />
and another who is a dentist in his Erie practice.<br />
Trice h<strong>as</strong> shared his shoot-for-the-stars goals<br />
with both his children and his grandchildren.<br />
“We have been fortunate to live the<br />
American dream,” he notes.<br />
could be black or Hispanic and what have<br />
you, but it w<strong>as</strong> good for them to see adult<br />
men that look like them that have gone<br />
on to go to college and may have the same<br />
background that they have,” says Wayne<br />
Patterson, who works <strong>as</strong> the <strong>as</strong>sistant director<br />
of human resources and labor relations at<br />
Edinboro. He is the current area director<br />
for the region’s alumni Alpha Phi Alpha<br />
chapter. “Coming in talking to them about<br />
my life, Kahan’s life (and) some of the things<br />
that we’ve gone through, but we were still<br />
able to accomplish the goal of going to<br />
college, obtaining the degree and becoming a<br />
productive member of the community.”<br />
“They were overachievers. If you are going to<br />
set your stars ... you want to set them up with<br />
the overachievers.”<br />
— Dr. William Trice<br />
Some of the goals and aims of Alpha Phi<br />
Alpha that Sablo and Trice allude to are<br />
developing leaders, promoting brotherhood<br />
and academic excellence <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> providing<br />
community service. In the p<strong>as</strong>t year and a<br />
half, the local alumni chapter h<strong>as</strong> had a part<br />
in promoting all of those aims.<br />
For example, <strong>this</strong> p<strong>as</strong>t fall, Alpha Phi<br />
Alpha participated in a back to school drive<br />
where the fraternity collected school supplies<br />
to donate to Erie barber Michael Hooks, who<br />
hands them out to students on Free Haircut<br />
Day in August. Alpha Phi Alpha also<br />
coordinated a campuswide voter registration<br />
drive at Edinboro University in the fall.<br />
However, one of the group’s greatest recent<br />
achievements came in November 2011 when<br />
it hosted the Pennsylvania Association of<br />
Alpha Chapters conference in Erie at the<br />
Avalon Hotel and at Edinboro University.<br />
More than 200 brothers from various chapters<br />
across the state traveled to Erie for the event.<br />
Though, arguably the most important<br />
goal of Alpha Phi Alpha remains the idea of<br />
mentoring and developing leaders. To help<br />
reach <strong>this</strong> goal, various brothers will often<br />
visit Erie high schools and talk with African-<br />
American men to offer some perspective.<br />
“When you’re going in, and you’re talking<br />
to some of the minority young men, and it<br />
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The idea of mentoring and leadership is<br />
especially valuable for Patterson, who says<br />
he still remembers the people who played an<br />
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“People have helped me along the way.<br />
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Now it’s my turn to reach back and help<br />
someone else too,” says Patterson, who<br />
joined the fraternity in 1988 while he w<strong>as</strong><br />
an undergraduate student at Edinboro<br />
University. “That’s what I do, and I think<br />
that’s what our fraternity promotes. To me,<br />
I don’t have a biological brother, so <strong>this</strong> is<br />
almost like my extended family.”<br />
For Patterson, Alpha Phi Alpha is like family,<br />
but for others, the fraternity literally is family.<br />
Fred Rush’s son, Cathedral Preparatory<br />
School and Penn State University graduate<br />
Charles Rush is an example.<br />
“Growing up in the house of an Alpha man,<br />
I saw how he h<strong>as</strong> taken the goals and aims of<br />
the Alph<strong>as</strong> and applied them to his life,” says<br />
Charles Rush, who joined the fraternity at the<br />
alumni level in 2007 and is currently a Juris<br />
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A group of fraternity<br />
brothers gathered at<br />
Edinboro University for<br />
the state conference.<br />
Photo courtesy of<br />
Dr. Kahan Sablo<br />
Doctorate student at Villanova University.<br />
As for the future, Sablo says one of<br />
the fraternity’s top goals is to get an<br />
undergraduate chapter back up and running<br />
at Edinboro University. Sablo estimates that<br />
should be done in one to two years.<br />
Fred Rush also sees that <strong>as</strong> a realistic goal.<br />
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to peak and go into valleys. I think they’re<br />
coming back now because networking is so<br />
important for people coming out of school,”<br />
says Rush.“It’s a great complement to the social<br />
networking that we’re doing now. You can<br />
communicate with fraternity brothers all over<br />
the world and you know when you see that, you<br />
already have something in common.” LEL<br />
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lost art of love letters<br />
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate<br />
with us and more universal than any other work of art.<br />
AUTHOR HENRY DAVID THOREAU<br />
may have hit the nail on the head.The<br />
intimacy of the written word cannot be<br />
denied, and there is probably no more<br />
intimate form of writing than the love letter.<br />
Nothing says I love you quite like the<br />
intrinsic value that comes through when<br />
a pen is put to paper. There’s no right way<br />
or wrong way to write a love letter, but<br />
anyone who h<strong>as</strong> ever received one will<br />
tell you that there’s just something special<br />
about them that cannot be denied.<br />
Perhaps it’s because a love letter is the<br />
ultimate memento. It’s a token of one’s<br />
love, and it’s a memory that can never be<br />
forgotten; whenever a person is in need of<br />
a reminder of one’s feelings, he or she can<br />
revisit p<strong>as</strong>t love letters.<br />
North E<strong>as</strong>t author Elizabeth Way<br />
knows firsthand the value that love<br />
letters have. Way, the author of “Love Every<br />
Minute of Moms” and “And I Will Love<br />
You From Heaven,” used love letters often<br />
years ago <strong>as</strong> it w<strong>as</strong> the only way she w<strong>as</strong> able<br />
to communicate with her husband, Robert.<br />
“I did believe that there w<strong>as</strong> an ability<br />
to get into the person better in letters than<br />
face to face,” Way says. “There’s a freedom<br />
in working with a piece of paper. There’s<br />
an honesty, in my experience, you discover<br />
yourself, and it just worked that way.”<br />
From 1967 to 1969, Way estimates that<br />
she and her husband wrote between 200 to<br />
300 love letters. Robert Way had enlisted in<br />
the U.S. Army and w<strong>as</strong> then transferred to<br />
Kaiserslautern, Germany. Letters were all the<br />
couple had <strong>as</strong> far <strong>as</strong> communication went.<br />
Sometimes, it would take awhile for a<br />
letter to be received, but the anticipation w<strong>as</strong><br />
part of the enjoyment that came hand in<br />
hand with writing and receiving a love letter.<br />
By Steve Orbanek and Marissa Rosenbaum<br />
Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Way<br />
North E<strong>as</strong>t author Elizabeth Way and her husband, Robert, are among couples<br />
who exchanged lover letters. Photo by Patti Orton<br />
“I can feel my heart singing when I think<br />
about the daily trip down to the mailbox and<br />
finding a letter there,” Way says.<br />
Yet, unfortunately, Way’s experience may be<br />
one that less and less generations experience.<br />
Modern technologies such <strong>as</strong> word processing,<br />
e-mail, social networking and text messaging<br />
seemed to have ushered in a new era where the<br />
love letter is becoming more and more obsolete.<br />
Licensed Social Worker Jeffrey Natalie<br />
and his practice, Family Therapy Practices of<br />
Erie, 1934B W. 8th Street, works to counsel<br />
married couples. Natalie acknowledges the<br />
power of the written word, especially in the<br />
c<strong>as</strong>e of relationships, but he also h<strong>as</strong> fear for<br />
future generations.<br />
According to Natalie, communication in<br />
general for today’s generation h<strong>as</strong> changed<br />
dramatically.<br />
“Instant message, text messaging h<strong>as</strong> really<br />
corrupted communication.Everything we do is<br />
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STEVE’STAKE ON LOVE LETTERS<br />
I have be honest, I do not think<br />
I ever realized just how important<br />
of a role love letters have played in<br />
my life. While I have never been the<br />
most intuitive scribe when it comes<br />
to writing love letters (which is ironic<br />
considering writing happens to be my<br />
favorite p<strong>as</strong>time … next to b<strong>as</strong>eball<br />
of course), I’ve always recognized the<br />
value of the written word in regard to<br />
relationships.<br />
Even something <strong>as</strong> simple <strong>as</strong> “I<br />
love you” on a yellow Post-it note can<br />
do wonders to brighten a person’s<br />
day. They say seeing is believing and<br />
there’s no denying that when you<br />
see those words on paper, it means<br />
something. There’s no disputing that.<br />
Personally, when I think of love<br />
letters, I think of my mother’s battle<br />
with cancer from 2003 to 2005. My<br />
mother w<strong>as</strong> being treated at Cancer<br />
Centers of America in Chicago, IL, and<br />
since I w<strong>as</strong> still in high school, there<br />
were many times where I could not<br />
accompany her for her trips. This w<strong>as</strong><br />
very difficult for me, and my mother<br />
understood that, so she always made<br />
a point to send me a card, usually with<br />
a hound dog on it, every few days<br />
that she w<strong>as</strong> gone (I have some odd<br />
obsession with hound dogs that really<br />
cannot be explained).<br />
The cards then, and still today,<br />
meant the world to me. At le<strong>as</strong>t once<br />
or twice a year, I find myself revisiting<br />
the cards. It’s still hard not being able<br />
to hear my mother say, “I love you,” but<br />
I am so blessed to be able to at le<strong>as</strong>t<br />
read those words whenever I see fit.<br />
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MARISSA’STAKE ON LOVE LETTERS<br />
Not everyone can write the romantic,<br />
flowery love letter that covers seven<br />
pages in cursive writing — and not just<br />
because of the penmanship. There is<br />
certainly an art to writing letters and<br />
not everyone h<strong>as</strong> the“it”needed. But<br />
anyone can write their“own” form of<br />
the love letter that is unique to them<br />
— at le<strong>as</strong>t, that’s my motto.<br />
I would much rather receive a shorter,<br />
sweet message on a post-it/napkin or<br />
even a board than a seven page long<br />
letter. Although it is nice to receive a<br />
much longer letter every now and again,<br />
a little reminder of why I’m loved or of<br />
something that made someone happy/<br />
inspired motivates me daily.<br />
Take, for example, my Etsy-inspired<br />
craft project. I turned an old mirror into<br />
a chalkboard that sits on frame by the<br />
fireplace. On the top,“I love you because<br />
…” stickers read from the chalkboard<br />
and my fiancé and I will rotate re<strong>as</strong>ons<br />
every week or two. Little reminders and<br />
words of courage really help us feel<br />
appreciated in our relationship.<br />
Don’t get me wrong — I still have<br />
the lengthy cards/letters that have<br />
inspired me over the years. I still keep<br />
the cards/notes that have brought a<br />
smile to my face in my lifetime. From<br />
middle school notes to cards from<br />
parents and grandparents and even<br />
late grandparents, I enjoy reading<br />
through the memories — and even<br />
writing new ones. And I know that<br />
one day, when they fall into someone<br />
else’s hands, they will <strong>as</strong> well.<br />
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in byte size pieces,” Natalie says. “What I’m really<br />
afraid of, unfortunately, is our millenials really have<br />
lost touch with the hand written form. I think <strong>this</strong><br />
next generation is going to have an even tougher<br />
time. Do you remember when we stopped using<br />
encyclopedi<strong>as</strong>? There’s a generation that does not<br />
know we did research with a book.I think there’s<br />
a generation that will <strong>as</strong>k,‘Why do I need to have<br />
a birthday card with a gift?’”<br />
It’s certainly a much different time period<br />
than years p<strong>as</strong>t when letters were often the literal<br />
fabric that often held relationships together.<br />
Natalie suggests it’s up to the current<br />
generation to promote the importance of<br />
handwritten letters and to their children.<br />
“I do think <strong>this</strong> generation will struggle with<br />
understanding how meaningful it is to see ink on<br />
a piece of paper that says ‘I love you’or ‘I’m sorry.’<br />
Even down to the idea of using abbreviations.<br />
This generation h<strong>as</strong> adapted to the idea of brief<br />
exchange,” Natalie says. “We have to be more<br />
vigilant in p<strong>as</strong>sing (the importance of the written<br />
word) on. Once the kid puts the pen on the<br />
paper, it becomes very natural.”<br />
Though there is at le<strong>as</strong>t one organization<br />
in the area that continues to promote the<br />
importance of letters, and specifically love letters.<br />
According to Ann Badach, family life director<br />
of the diocese of Erie, the Catholic Church<br />
offers three separate ministries that promote the<br />
importance of love letters in a relationship.<br />
Engagement Encounter (for couples<br />
recently engaged), Marriage Encounter (for<br />
married couples looking to improve their<br />
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marriage and rediscover the need for God)<br />
and NOVA (for previously married couples<br />
looking to remarry in the church) all use the<br />
love letter in their teachings.<br />
According to Badach, the art of the love<br />
letter is paramount to an encounter weekend. d.<br />
After taking part in the encounters, the<br />
couples then write love letters to one another er<br />
and exchange the letters with a kiss.<br />
“It really and truly is a wonderful way for<br />
couples to learn the art of speaking together.<br />
By connecting your heart and your mind, your ur<br />
thoughts come out through the written word,” ,”<br />
Badach says. “Every time you hand that love<br />
letter to your fiancé or spouse, you are handingg<br />
them a very intimate part of yourself. The most st<br />
intimate part of yourself is your vulnerable self.” f.”<br />
However, love letters can also go beyond<br />
romantic relationships.Way remembers when<br />
her mother w<strong>as</strong> battling bre<strong>as</strong>t cancer in the early arly<br />
2000s.Way says she saved about 100 letters and d<br />
e-mails that her mother wrote to her at <strong>this</strong> time. ime.<br />
She says the letters are one of her most cherished ed<br />
memories of her mother, who p<strong>as</strong>sed away in<br />
2006 after battling cancer for seven years.<br />
While most would agree that the value of<br />
a love letter and the written word cannot be<br />
denied, there remains the question of whether her<br />
today’s generation truly understands that value. no lue.<br />
“I think innately they know (the value of a<br />
letter), but the question is whether they have ve<br />
the motivation to do it?” Natalie says.<br />
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Wine? Chocolate?<br />
I’m yours.<br />
WHEN YOU FIND a wine you love, steam<br />
off the label or at le<strong>as</strong>t write down the name<br />
and vintage. And be sure to make a note in<br />
your journal about where and when you t<strong>as</strong>ted ed<br />
it, because it’s the experience, and the people<br />
you’re with, that make a wine unforgettable.<br />
In the datebook <strong>this</strong> February are new<br />
memories in the making. Whether you’re<br />
planning an escape with your Valentine or<br />
an all-girls getaway, you will want to order<br />
tickets soon for Lake Erie Wine Country’s<br />
Wine & Chocolate Weekend, Feb. 15-17. It’s<br />
always a sellout.<br />
This is no ordinary box of bonbons. You’ll<br />
be treated to imaginative wine and food<br />
pairings at 23 wineries along a 50-mile trail<br />
that stretches from Harborcreek, Pa., to<br />
Silver Creek, N.Y. Each dish incorporates the<br />
precious ingredient that h<strong>as</strong> been known to<br />
A romantic dinner in the city of Trois-<br />
Rivières, Ri midway between Montreal and<br />
Quebec Q City, had me speaking French<br />
over ov steak au poivre and the best cabernet<br />
I’ve I’v ever t<strong>as</strong>ted. The memory is so fresh<br />
Ic I can still hear the click of heels on<br />
co cobblestone streets, the murmur of nuns<br />
fro from the Ursuline Mon<strong>as</strong>tery nearby, and<br />
th the roar of Formula race cars in the Trois-<br />
Ri Rivières Grand Prix. But do you think I<br />
ca can remember the name of that wine?<br />
By<br />
Lisa Gensheimer<br />
Phot Photos courtesy of Courtyard Wineries<br />
woo lovers, lovers quiet the Mayan gods, gods and keep<br />
the Spanish conquistadors in power for 100<br />
years until they spilled the (cocoa) beans to a<br />
cadre of clever Italian merchants.<br />
Now that the word is out, winemakers have<br />
discovered the benefits of pairing wine and<br />
chocolate.<br />
Liberty Vineyards Winery in Sheridan,<br />
N.Y., will serve Cocoa and Spice Pork<br />
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Shores Vineyard, in North<br />
E<strong>as</strong>t Township, during Lake<br />
Erie Wine Country’s Wine &<br />
Chocolate Weekend in 2011.<br />
Erie Times-News file photo<br />
Chocolate applesauce cake<br />
is topped with a sauce made<br />
from Courtyard’s Chocopelli<br />
wine, pictured at right.<br />
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Township, leave Penn Shores Vineyard,<br />
in North E<strong>as</strong>t Township, one of their<br />
stops along the Lake Erie Wine Country’s<br />
Wine & Chocolate Weekend in February<br />
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WINE & CHOCOLATEWEEKEND<br />
When: Feb. 15-17<br />
Cost: $35; available online<br />
Info: www.lakeeriewinecountry.org<br />
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Tip: The flavors of wine and chocolate<br />
are not always compatible. Look for<br />
fruity, intense wines that match the<br />
intensity of the chocolate. A dry red or<br />
light white can leave a bitter t<strong>as</strong>te. If<br />
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Tenderloin at <strong>this</strong> year’s event along with<br />
their latest harvest wine, Trifection, a<br />
semisweet and sophisticated blend of three<br />
white grape varieties. The recipe at right is<br />
included in a booklet that each ticket holder<br />
will receive.<br />
Courtyard Wineries, in North E<strong>as</strong>t,<br />
partnered with Sue Mills of Crescent<br />
Catering to create a drizzle sauce for her<br />
decadent Chocolate Applesauce Cake.<br />
The sauce is made with Courtyard’s<br />
Chocopelli wine, reminiscent of Kokopelli,<br />
the southwestern flute-playing deity that<br />
ch<strong>as</strong>es away winter and brings on the spring.<br />
Kokopelli is also known <strong>as</strong> a symbol of<br />
fertility, music, dance and mischief, so better<br />
be careful.<br />
Couple that with Sparkling Ponds’ Fatal<br />
Attraction, served with Cupid’s Chocolate<br />
Droplets in their cozy, new fireplace room,<br />
and you could really be in trouble.<br />
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COCOA AND SPICE PORK<br />
TENDERLOIN<br />
1½ tablespoons ground black pepper<br />
(or to t<strong>as</strong>te)<br />
1 tablespoon ground coriander<br />
4½ tablespoons ground cinnamon<br />
2 te<strong>as</strong>poons ground nutmeg<br />
1 te<strong>as</strong>poon ground cloves<br />
3½ tablespoons good-quality<br />
unsweetened cocoa<br />
4 tablespoons sea salt<br />
2 (2 pounds) boneless pork tenderloins<br />
2 tablespoons olive oil<br />
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix first<br />
seven ingredients together; set <strong>as</strong>ide.<br />
Trim pork tenderloins of excess fat;<br />
rub with generous amounts of cocoa/<br />
spice rub.<br />
Heat olive oil in large frying pan<br />
over medium heat until hot. Sear<br />
each tenderloin on all sides, about<br />
2 minutes or until they reach a rich<br />
brown color.<br />
Remove from frying pan and bake<br />
in oven until fully cooked, about 10<br />
minutes or until meat thermometer<br />
reaches 160 degrees.<br />
Let the tenderloins rest for at le<strong>as</strong>t 10<br />
minutes before carving.<br />
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Story by Marissa Rosenbaum<br />
Contributed photos<br />
JOHN STREIFF, M.D., h<strong>as</strong> been practicing<br />
medicine since he finished his residency in 1989.<br />
But on a sunny, blue sky April day, the<br />
Edinboro Medical Center doctor w<strong>as</strong> on the<br />
other side of the table after going more than<br />
13 minutes without a heart beat. To <strong>this</strong> day,<br />
he does not remember anything.<br />
“If someone w<strong>as</strong>n’t doing CPR, he would be<br />
dead,” says Dr. Frederick Havko, an emergency<br />
physician for Saint Vincent Health Center,<br />
who had resumed medical services for Dr.<br />
Streiff when he arrived at the emergency<br />
room. “His heart had completely stopped.”<br />
Sudden death<br />
It w<strong>as</strong> the first <strong>WQLN</strong> Gears to Beers race<br />
in April 2010. Dr. Streiff joined more than<br />
200 bicyclists for the 25-mile ride from<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> to Sprague Farm & Brew Works in<br />
Venango, Pa.<br />
Photo courtesy of Tom New.<br />
But during the first third of the ride on<br />
Oliver Road, just p<strong>as</strong>t Golden Road and<br />
quite a ways down from the long slope from<br />
Dunn Valley Road that h<strong>as</strong> become known <strong>as</strong><br />
“Cardiac Hill,” Streiff had just mentioned the<br />
snowmobile trails before he stopped talking<br />
suddenly, veered across the road, hit a ditch<br />
and slipped off his bike.<br />
“I ran over to his bike and knew he had<br />
carried nitroglycerin with him, so I w<strong>as</strong><br />
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looking for that,” says Edinboro resident<br />
Jennifer Correll, a close family friend who<br />
had been riding with Dr. Streiff. “At first I<br />
w<strong>as</strong> pulling out inner tubes and anything<br />
but the nitro, but I finally found it on him<br />
and got some under his tongue. Another<br />
rider (Pierre Bellicini) started doing chest<br />
compressions, and I w<strong>as</strong> screaming for<br />
someone to call the ambulance.”<br />
Dr. Streiff had undergone open-heart<br />
surgery seven years earlier after he had 95<br />
percent blockage, so Correll’s initial thought<br />
w<strong>as</strong> that he w<strong>as</strong> having a heart attack.<br />
However, he w<strong>as</strong> suffering from a sudden<br />
death, cardiac arrest — unexpected death<br />
caused by the loss of a heart function.<br />
Unlike a heart attack, which is caused from<br />
a blocked artery, cardiac arrest occurs when the<br />
electrical system to the heart malfunctions and<br />
suddenly becomes very irregular. In Dr. Streiff ’s<br />
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c<strong>as</strong>e, his bottom pump stopped pumping blood<br />
and fibrillated, or just quivered. Dr. Havko said<br />
without people around him performing good<br />
CPR, Dr. Streiff would have been dead.<br />
Pierre Bellicini, media relations and<br />
marketing director for Lake Erie College of<br />
Osteopathic Medicine, had a lifesaving role.<br />
“I had had no idea how long he had been<br />
“I don’t remember most of the things from<br />
the night before the ride until several days<br />
after, when I w<strong>as</strong> completely warmed up<br />
and moving around and out of an intensive<br />
care unit,” Dr. Streiff says. “But from what<br />
I’ve been told, it w<strong>as</strong> like 50 First Dates and<br />
I kept looking down at my fractured finger<br />
and <strong>as</strong>king what happened. They would tell<br />
always had. He continues an active lifestyle<br />
with his family, including his two daughters<br />
(ages 21 and 18) and his 16-year old son.<br />
The Steelers and Penguin fan watches his<br />
kids play sports, and he enjoys hunting and<br />
snowmobiling.<br />
“I’ve always thought that balance w<strong>as</strong><br />
important — that you work hard when you’re<br />
“ ...you work hard when you’re working and take time to relax and<br />
play because no one knows when your time will be up.”<br />
— Dr. John Streiff<br />
on the ground or how long he had not been<br />
breathing,” he says. “I w<strong>as</strong>n’t concerned<br />
whether or not the chest compressions would<br />
do any good, but there w<strong>as</strong> no re<strong>as</strong>on to stop.<br />
I didn’t know what w<strong>as</strong> going to happen, but<br />
I couldn’t stop. You don’t stop. You have to<br />
keep trying until medical personnel come<br />
along,” says Bellicini.<br />
It took more than 15 minutes for an<br />
ambulance to arrive. By the time the ambulance<br />
pulled into Saint Vincent, Dr. Streiff had<br />
regained a pulse. But he w<strong>as</strong> still in danger.<br />
In order to prevent any possible brain<br />
damage from the arrest, which is extremely<br />
common, doctors put Streiff into hypothermia<br />
protocol, or a deep freeze. This procedure uses<br />
a special cooling blanket and cold intravenous<br />
fluids to decre<strong>as</strong>e the brain temperature to 32-<br />
34° C <strong>as</strong> quickly <strong>as</strong> possible. Streiff w<strong>as</strong> in <strong>this</strong><br />
state for 24-48 hours.<br />
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me, and then I would do it again every 10<br />
minutes. For family and friends who had<br />
never been through <strong>this</strong>, it w<strong>as</strong> really hard<br />
because they thought they lost me.”<br />
After several days, however, Dr. Streiff<br />
stopped <strong>as</strong>king and started remembering.<br />
Several tests, an implantable cardioverter<br />
defibrillator and six weeks later, Dr. Streiff<br />
started rehab and riding a bike. Soon, he w<strong>as</strong><br />
back to working part time.<br />
“I couldn’t wait to get out and do things again,”<br />
Dr. Streiff says. “It w<strong>as</strong> hard for me to lay low for<br />
so long because I didn’t have any heart damage. I<br />
didn’t have any major surgery. I just had to have a<br />
planted device in c<strong>as</strong>e that happens again.”<br />
The implantable cardioverter defibrillator is<br />
an electronic device that constantly monitors<br />
the heart rhythm and delivers a shock of<br />
energy if it detects an irregular beat.<br />
Dr. Streiff says he lives his life the way he<br />
working and take time to relax and play<br />
because no one knows when your time will<br />
be up,” Streiff says. “You have to be ready for<br />
death no matter how young you are, so you<br />
have to have your mental health and spiritual<br />
health intact to go through something like<br />
<strong>this</strong> and think nothing of it.”<br />
A year after going into cardiac arrest at the<br />
first Gears tour, Dr. Streiff participated in the<br />
second Gears to Beers tour.<br />
“My wife w<strong>as</strong> terrified,” he says. “The<br />
friends I ride with had to call her every 10 to<br />
15 minutes. But I did it.”<br />
Correll says it w<strong>as</strong> very rewarding.<br />
“It w<strong>as</strong> exciting. We took our time and it<br />
w<strong>as</strong> nice, really, really nice. This gave him a<br />
chance to end that ride the way he wanted to.<br />
ed to be done,” Correll says. As for <strong>this</strong> year,<br />
Dr. Streiff says he would like to complete the<br />
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Ellicottville<br />
four se<strong>as</strong>ons of fun<br />
for the family<br />
By Marissa Rosenbaum<br />
Photos courtesy of Ellicottville Chamber of Commerce<br />
RANKED IN 2009 <strong>as</strong> a best adventure town<br />
by National Geographic, Ellicottville is an<br />
1880s-esqe village that is home to 472 people<br />
annually. When winter arrives, however, the<br />
town welcomes 800,000 skiers — and no<br />
wonder. There is an array of winter activities<br />
— from the 58 slopes on 1,400 acres over<br />
four mountain faces at Holiday Valley<br />
(www.holidayvalley.com) to snow tubing<br />
down one of the 12 lanes and then getting<br />
pulled up by one of the two handle tows<br />
to trekking through the 20-plus miles of<br />
pristine double tracked cl<strong>as</strong>sical trails.<br />
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We <strong>as</strong>ked why people loved Ellicottville,<br />
and Julie Becker of Erie responded on Lake<br />
Erie LifeStyle’s Facebook page that it is “a<br />
mini-Vail.” Bill Taylor says “it’s a t<strong>as</strong>te of New<br />
England.” The people who work there agree.<br />
“There’s a little bit of everything in <strong>this</strong><br />
village,” says Heather Snyder, Ellicottville media edia<br />
and communications coordinator. “There’s<br />
everything from family restaurants to eclectic<br />
shops to ski shops to night life for adults.This<br />
h<strong>as</strong> always been a second home to me.”<br />
The village offers two different ski resorts<br />
for the winter sports lover — Holiday Valley,<br />
Ski slopes in Ellicottville.<br />
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which is a public resort, and HoliMont, which<br />
is a semiprivate resort.There are also numerous<br />
bed-and-breakf<strong>as</strong>t lodging and house rentals.<br />
Snyder h<strong>as</strong> been in Ellicottville for 12<br />
years. Originally from Canada, Snyder would<br />
frequently come to the New York village<br />
with her family to ski. Although the skiing is<br />
what attracted her to the village, she says that<br />
family and friends is what h<strong>as</strong> made the town<br />
memorable.<br />
“Family and friends are one of my favorite<br />
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towns in New England and Vail.<br />
things about it.There are people who used to<br />
come here when I w<strong>as</strong> with my family that now<br />
come with their kids and even grandkids — it’s<br />
great seeing the new generations,” Snyder says.<br />
One of those skiers is Lewiston, N.Y.,<br />
resident Jeff Williams, who grew up skiing at<br />
HoliMont. Now, with several children of his<br />
own, he owns a chalet in Ellicottville and skis at<br />
Holiday Valley. The family also spends much of<br />
the summer here.<br />
Williams enjoys what the village brings<br />
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outside of the resorts with small cafés,<br />
antique shops, cycling shops, a brewery and<br />
even a barn restaurant.<br />
The city offers live entertainment every<br />
weekend, multiple festivals, numerous<br />
summer and spring events that provide<br />
hiking/biking trails, sky diving, touring<br />
the winery and even horseback riding. The<br />
community offers four se<strong>as</strong>ons of fun.<br />
“What you get in Ellicottville, you don’t get<br />
in places in Vermont.The two ski lodges and<br />
the rest of the amenities are so much nicer<br />
than most resorts,” Williams says. “The hill<br />
is smaller, but the amenities are better. It is a<br />
well-rounded town and it’s close to home.”<br />
Diane M. Schneider says the rodeo in July<br />
is a bl<strong>as</strong>t. Many other visitors enjoy the golf<br />
courses and Allegany State Park.<br />
There’s even a Mountain Co<strong>as</strong>ter for the<br />
co<strong>as</strong>ter lover who’s always wished to ride<br />
one during the winter. Located near the<br />
Tannenbaum Lodge, <strong>this</strong> co<strong>as</strong>ter provides<br />
riders with 15 curves, 12 waves, one jump and<br />
a large circle spiral of fun. LEL<br />
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“OK, LET’S FIGURE THIS OUT,” Sarah<br />
Goldberg says to her parents. “Where are we<br />
going back to?”<br />
They’d just finished a food and history<br />
tour of Pittsburgh’s Strip District courtesy of<br />
Burgh Bits and Bites. For the previous two<br />
hours, they sampled a palate-spanning array<br />
of food from delis, markets, bakeries and<br />
restaurants.<br />
Sweet sopresatta, lonzetta cotta and<br />
prosciutto at Parma Sausage Products.<br />
Freshly prepared hummus at Labad’s<br />
Mediterranean Grocery and Café. Warm<br />
pepperoni roll samples at Mancini’s Bakery.<br />
Jumbo biscotti at Enrico Biscotti Co. An<br />
<strong>as</strong>sortment of Northern Italian p<strong>as</strong>tries at<br />
Colangelo’s.<br />
bite of the Burgh<br />
Burgh Bits and Bites tours show tourists how to sink their<br />
teeth into Pittsburgh’s most delicious neighborhoods.<br />
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And l<strong>as</strong>t, buttery pierogies at S&D Polish ish<br />
Deli.<br />
Many samples were generous. But still,<br />
samples just weren’t enough.<br />
Five minutes and two blocks later, they<br />
walked back into Labad’s. Instead of takingg a<br />
seat in the dining nook, they stood in front of<br />
the display counter of pistachio baklava and<br />
other Mediterranean sweets.<br />
top, from left to right: Mancini’s mouthwatering pepperoni rolls are a<br />
Strip District staple, whether eaten hot and fresh or purch<strong>as</strong>ed by<br />
the dozen to go.<br />
The hummus at Labad’s Mediterranean Grocery and Café is made<br />
three times a day by the family’s matriarch Georgette Labad.<br />
Melés are the popular dessert specialty at Colangelo’s, a northern<br />
Italian eatery.<br />
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BURGH BITES AND BITESTOURS<br />
When: Tours are held on different days<br />
depending on the neighborhood you<br />
wish to visit<br />
Cost: $35<br />
Time: 2 to 2.5 hours<br />
Info: www.burghfoodtours.com<br />
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STRIP DISTRICT MUST SEES<br />
A Burgh Bits and Bites tour only<br />
scratches the surface of the Strip<br />
District. Before or after a tour, be sure e<br />
to stop in these places.<br />
— More ore<br />
than 300 varieties of coffee and tea ea<br />
are available. Just walking into the<br />
place will wake you up. A cup to go<br />
is the perfect companion to a c<strong>as</strong>ual<br />
mosey on the Strip.<br />
— The long line for<br />
breakf<strong>as</strong>t at DeLuca’s tells you two<br />
things. One, the food is really, really<br />
good. Two, get there early.<br />
— Wholey’s<br />
goes through more than 50,000<br />
pounds of ice every day. Most of the<br />
ice is to keep its seafood fresh. The<br />
rest is given to customers taking<br />
seafood home.<br />
– “Penn<br />
Mac”is a must-see for every Strip<br />
visitor. Its cheese and meat are just <strong>as</strong><br />
famous <strong>as</strong> the personalities serving<br />
them.<br />
— The<br />
best way to describe <strong>this</strong> place is<br />
another Strip District within the<br />
Strip District. More than 40 different<br />
vendors set up shop in what used to<br />
be a produce terminal building. You’ll<br />
find homemade wines, baked items,<br />
clothing, te<strong>as</strong>, jewelry, dairy, plants,<br />
you name it. One vendor, Mushrooms<br />
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“I thought I knew a lot about<br />
the Strip until I started doing tours.<br />
What I found out w<strong>as</strong> amazing.”<br />
— Tour guide Richard Domencic<br />
They wanted more of Labad’s hummus —<br />
a few to-go containers more of it.<br />
Larry Labad says it’s not unusual to see<br />
tour goers of Burgh Bits and Bites return a<br />
couple hours later. The tour benefits not just<br />
his business, but also his neighbors. And he’s<br />
got some unusual neighbors.<br />
Sidewalk vendors hawk everything from<br />
flowers, produce, tacos, egg rolls, music,<br />
clothes, meat on a stick, and a dizzying<br />
variety of kitschy Steelers swag.<br />
Storefront doors swing open, drawing out<br />
scents of ro<strong>as</strong>ted coffee beans, iced down<br />
seafood, kettle corn, Asian spices and freshly<br />
baked bread.<br />
The tour dives right into the thick of the<br />
madness. Tour goers walk among slowmoving<br />
pedestrians of all types: suits, hipsters<br />
and yinzers. Lots of yinzers.<br />
It’s e<strong>as</strong>y and almost expected for first time<br />
Strip District visitors to be overwhelmed by<br />
the sheer variety of businesses on the Strip.<br />
All but two of them locally owned. And all<br />
offer something different.<br />
“I thought I knew a lot about the Strip<br />
until I started doing tours,” says tour guide<br />
Richard Domencic. “What I found out w<strong>as</strong><br />
amazing.”<br />
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Inspired by a New York City culinary tour,<br />
Sylvia McCoy started Burgh Bits and Bites<br />
five years ago. One tour a week in the Strip<br />
District w<strong>as</strong> all she really expected.<br />
Since then, her tour company h<strong>as</strong><br />
expanded to four more neighborhoods —<br />
Brookline, Bloomfield (Little Italy), Lower<br />
Lawrenceville and Mount W<strong>as</strong>hington —<br />
several days a week.<br />
Business owners such <strong>as</strong> Larry Labad<br />
are thrilled to be a destination on one of<br />
McCoy’s tours. But the honor doesn’t come<br />
e<strong>as</strong>y.<br />
When considering adding businesses <strong>as</strong> a<br />
tour stop, McCoy visits them several times <strong>as</strong><br />
a discerning customer. And it’s not just their<br />
products she appraises.<br />
“For a vendor to be a part of <strong>this</strong> tour, not<br />
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top, from left to right: Authentic cheese and potato pierogies are available served hot and packaged<br />
frozen from S&D Polish Deli.<br />
Jumbo biscotti are the featured item at Enrico Biscotti Co., conveniently located next to Italian food<br />
hot spot Pennsylvania Macaroni Co.<br />
Breakf<strong>as</strong>t sausage on display at Parma Sausage Products.<br />
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only do they have a good product, but a p<strong>as</strong>sion behind it,” McCoy<br />
says. “Those are things you might not read about in a brochure. You<br />
don’t read about an Italian woman who h<strong>as</strong> been making p<strong>as</strong>ta by<br />
hand for 20 years.”<br />
McCoy recommends the Strip District tour <strong>as</strong> a good<br />
introduction to Pittsburgh day trippers. Not only is it a hotbed of<br />
Pittsburgh history, it’s the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in<br />
the city.<br />
And that is represented in its businesses. It’s hard to keep track<br />
of how many different and distinct ethnicities are represented.<br />
Vietnamese, Polish, Mong, Syrian,Thai, Italian, Peruvian, Lebanese,<br />
Chinese, Japanese, and probably a few more that get lost in the mix —<br />
a veritable United Nations in a five-block stretch.<br />
“I think that people don’t realize how ethnically rich Pittsburgh<br />
is,” McCoy says. “Hidden culinary and historic tre<strong>as</strong>ures are<br />
everywhere.” LEL<br />
… that’s because you’ve probably seen them at the many summer<br />
festivals and street parties in Erie. Owner Dorota Pyszkowska and her<br />
family set up shop at Erie Rib Fest and Erie Days. Under its red and<br />
white tent, you’ll find the same kielb<strong>as</strong>a, pierogies and haluski served<br />
at the Polish family’s deli in Pittsburgh.<br />
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top, from left to right: Authentic cheese and potato pierogies are available served hot and packaged<br />
frozen from S&D Polish Deli.<br />
Jumbo biscotti are the featured item at Enrico Biscotti Co., conveniently located next to Italian food<br />
hot spot Pennsylvania Macaroni Co.<br />
Breakf<strong>as</strong>t sausage on display at Parma Sausage Products.<br />
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only do they have a good product, but a p<strong>as</strong>sion behind it,” McCoy<br />
says. “Those are things you might not read about in a brochure. You<br />
don’t read about an Italian woman who h<strong>as</strong> been making p<strong>as</strong>ta by<br />
hand for 20 years.”<br />
McCoy recommends the Strip District tour <strong>as</strong> a good<br />
introduction to Pittsburgh day trippers. Not only is it a hotbed of<br />
Pittsburgh history, it’s the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in<br />
the city.<br />
And that is represented in its businesses. It’s hard to keep track<br />
of how many different and distinct ethnicities are represented.<br />
Vietnamese, Polish, Mong, Syrian,Thai, Italian, Peruvian, Lebanese,<br />
Chinese, Japanese, and probably a few more that get lost in the mix —<br />
a veritable United Nations in a five-block stretch.<br />
“I think that people don’t realize how ethnically rich Pittsburgh<br />
is,” McCoy says. “Hidden culinary and historic tre<strong>as</strong>ures are<br />
everywhere.” LEL<br />
… that’s because you’ve probably seen them at the many summer<br />
festivals and street parties in Erie. Owner Dorota Pyszkowska and her<br />
family set up shop at Erie Rib Fest and Erie Days. Under its red and<br />
white tent, you’ll find the same kielb<strong>as</strong>a, pierogies and haluski served<br />
at the Polish family’s deli in Pittsburgh.<br />
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Mike Machuga with some of his family<br />
members at Rolling Meadow Lanes. From<br />
left are: nephew Dominic Ferretti, 7; niece<br />
Mackenzie Shady, 7; nephew Austin Shady,<br />
9; and nephew Anthony Ferretti, 9. Machuga,<br />
a Lake City native and current Erie resident,<br />
is a member of the Professional Bowlers<br />
Association. Photo by Christopher Millette/Erie<br />
Times-News<br />
BE SEEN ON SCENE<br />
Mike Shady bowls during the<br />
50th annual Times-News Open<br />
bowling tournament at E<strong>as</strong>tway<br />
Lanes.<br />
BOWLERS CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
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Matt Hinterberger bowls during<br />
the 50th annual Times-News<br />
Open bowling tournament at<br />
E<strong>as</strong>tway Lanes.<br />
The 50th annual Times-News Open w<strong>as</strong> held Jan. 5 and 6 and included<br />
224 entrants with Mike Machuga, a current member of the professional<br />
tour, and former pro bowlers Ron Palombi Jr., Mike Shady, and Rod<br />
Silman Sr., returning to strike up more than conversations.<br />
Leroy Smith, 80, won titles in 1966 and 1970. He bowled with veteran<br />
bowlers Ray Sheridan, Bryan Tuten, Buddy Malone, Joe Rizzo and Butch<br />
Perino. Sheridan, 75, won back-to-back championships in 1971 and ‘72.<br />
Photos by Andy Colwell/Erie Times-News<br />
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More than 600 people gathered Jan. 5 at the<br />
Bayfront Convention Center for the Hamot Health<br />
Foundation Gala, which honored UPMC Hamot<br />
Chief Executive John Malone, who is retiring in<br />
February.<br />
Malone started his career at Hamot in 1975 and<br />
h<strong>as</strong> served <strong>as</strong> CEO for 20 years.<br />
Proceeds from the gala support the Malone<br />
Legacy of Leadership Fund, which will provide<br />
hospital staff with financial support to advance<br />
leadership abilities.<br />
Ann Bula, president and chief development<br />
officer of Hamot Health Foundation, served <strong>as</strong><br />
the evening’s emcee. Special presentations were<br />
made by UPMC Hamot President Jim Fiorenzo<br />
and Charles “Boo” Hagerty, UPMC Health Plan vice<br />
president of Northern Tier Markets. Photos courtesy<br />
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Amy Cuzzola-Kern, Ph.D., and Scott Kern, chairman of UPMC Hamot<br />
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HERE COMES THE BRIDE<br />
Celeste Valerio, 24, of<br />
Erie, examines bridal<br />
shoes at the Bridal<br />
Expo in early January.<br />
Nearly 1,500 brides and their friends attended the 2013<br />
Bridal Showc<strong>as</strong>e & Expo at the Bayfront Convention Center<br />
in Erie on Jan. 13. Event organizers from radio station<br />
Star 104 and wedding retailer Bridal Elegance estimated<br />
approximately 1,500 brides and their friends and family<br />
members attended the one-day event, which featured<br />
more than 35 vendors and representatives of bridal dresses,<br />
tuxedos, venues, florists and more. Photos by Andy Colwell/<br />
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Team Lightning of the Erie Gymn<strong>as</strong>tics Center.<br />
FLIP TO WIN<br />
One of the biggest gymn<strong>as</strong>tics meets in the state returned<br />
to Erie Jan. 11-13 for the 12th annual Stars & Stripes<br />
Invitational, the second-largest gymn<strong>as</strong>tics meet in<br />
Pennsylvania.<br />
Erie Gymn<strong>as</strong>tics Center and Team Lightning Boosters w<strong>as</strong><br />
host to the invitational at the Bayfront Convention Center.<br />
More than 1,000 gymn<strong>as</strong>ts and more than 35 clubs entered<br />
the competition. Photos by Jack Hanrahan/Erie Times-News<br />
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More than 600 people brought in the new year together at Boogie<br />
on the Bay at the Bayfront Convention Center. The bayfront b<strong>as</strong>h<br />
celebrated its fifth year with music from Redline, a Youngstown, Ohio,<br />
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In“The Abolitionists,” John<br />
Brown, right, (T. Ryder<br />
Smith) tries to persuade<br />
Frederick Dougl<strong>as</strong>s<br />
(Richard Brooks), left, to<br />
join his planned <strong>as</strong>sault on<br />
Harpers Ferry <strong>as</strong> Shields<br />
Green (Thom<strong>as</strong> Coleman)<br />
looks on.<br />
PUBLIC BROADCASTING wqln<br />
‘The<br />
Abolitionists’<br />
comes to PBS<br />
By Pam Parker<br />
Photos courtesy of WGBH<br />
SHARON GRIMBERG, executive producer of the “The<br />
Abolitionists,” a series that airs on PBS <strong>this</strong> month, feels<br />
personally involved in the historical story — she lives in an<br />
abolitionist’s home in Cambridge, M<strong>as</strong>s.<br />
“I had started reading about William Garrison long before we<br />
lived here and then we moved into an abolitionist’s home,” she says<br />
in a phone interview. “I feel so intimately included in the story.”<br />
She said her kitchen w<strong>as</strong> probably an abolitionist meeting<br />
place, and she feels that sense of history in her home.<br />
Executive producer Sharon Grimberg.<br />
Grimberg, originally born in Singapore, lived in England for<br />
10 years and h<strong>as</strong> been in the United States for 25 years. Her understanding of American<br />
history is impressive but a natural benefit of her career. She h<strong>as</strong> been involved in The American<br />
Experience Series documentaries since 2000 and produced 44 episodes over 13 years.<br />
The three-part docudrama commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation<br />
Proclamation, the 1863 decree that freed the slaves.<br />
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So who are abolitionists?<br />
If you remember Civil War history lessons,<br />
the abolitionists were p<strong>as</strong>sionate antislavery<br />
activists who started with a peaceful<br />
movement that became a violent struggle.<br />
The PBS production got legs four years ago<br />
and started production in April 2011.<br />
It brings to life the rich histories of<br />
Frederick Dougl<strong>as</strong>s, William Lloyd Garrison,<br />
Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe<br />
and John Brown, and famous actors take<br />
the lead roles in <strong>this</strong> unique three-part<br />
presentation that traces history from 1820 to<br />
1854 and beyond.<br />
“To me, <strong>this</strong> is really a story of the first<br />
civil rights movement,” she says. “These are<br />
incredibly brave people who jeopardized their<br />
reputations to change history.”<br />
“The abolitionists were often looked at<br />
<strong>as</strong> a fanatical movement, but they started<br />
<strong>as</strong> people who were very optimistic at first,”<br />
she says. “The characters allow you to see the<br />
larger story. And all the research and writing<br />
pull it together.”<br />
The series weaves drama and documentary<br />
together with real photographs of the people<br />
February2013<br />
Neal Huff <strong>as</strong> William Lloyd<br />
Garrison, publisher of The<br />
Liberator, a prominent<br />
abolitionist newspaper.<br />
At left, a photograph of<br />
William Lloyd Garrison.<br />
far left: Richard Brooks<br />
<strong>as</strong> escaped slave and<br />
abolitionist leader<br />
Frederick Dougl<strong>as</strong>s.<br />
involved and historical diaries, but the story<br />
is character driven, and the c<strong>as</strong>t embraced the<br />
dramatic sequences. “We learned that it w<strong>as</strong><br />
a lifelong dream for Richard Hooks to play<br />
Frederick Dougl<strong>as</strong>s,” she says.<br />
American history would be very different<br />
without abolitionists, Grimberg says. “This<br />
h<strong>as</strong> a tremendous impact on history, and I’m<br />
very proud that we could bring it to people’s<br />
attention.”<br />
Some of the most memorable moments in<br />
the production represent real historical accounts<br />
that come to life with emotional impact.<br />
One such moment that w<strong>as</strong> particularly<br />
memorable to Grimberg w<strong>as</strong> the wedding in<br />
which Frederick Dougl<strong>as</strong>s does <strong>as</strong> much for<br />
women’s rights <strong>as</strong> civil rights. “He refuses to<br />
take his legal rights over his wife. It w<strong>as</strong> very<br />
progressive,” Grimberg says.<br />
The film also details the lives of slave<br />
women who were separated from their<br />
children — a heartbreaking habit.<br />
Another exchange that Grimberg found<br />
memorable w<strong>as</strong> a meeting between Frederick<br />
Dougl<strong>as</strong>s and William Lloyd Garrison. “The<br />
actors did a really good job of humanizing<br />
these two men. “They were reaching out to<br />
each other, and they realized they had the<br />
same concerns and very real understanding of<br />
abandonment,” she says.<br />
Who’s who in “The Abolitionists”:<br />
Angelina Grimké, daughter of a wealthy<br />
plantation family, moves north and becomes<br />
involved in the movement. Jeanine Serralles,<br />
who h<strong>as</strong> appeared in The Good Wife and Sex<br />
and the City, plays Grimké.<br />
William Lloyd Garrison, a peaceful activist,<br />
who founded the newspaper The Liberator,<br />
became a powerful and vocal anti-slavery<br />
leader. Neal Huff, who starred in numerous<br />
films, plays Garrison.<br />
Frederick Dougl<strong>as</strong>s, an escaped slave becomes<br />
a powerful speaker against slavery. Dougl<strong>as</strong>s<br />
escaped to England and later returned to the<br />
U.S. <strong>as</strong> a free man, who started his own antislavery<br />
paper, angering Garrison. Richard<br />
Brooks, who played Assistant District<br />
Attorney Paul Robinette on NBC’s Law &<br />
Order, plays Dougl<strong>as</strong>s.<br />
Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “UncleTom’s<br />
Cabin,” witnessed the cruelty of slavery and<br />
put her horror into words that open the eyes<br />
of thousands of readers. Kate Lyn Sheil, who<br />
starred in Somebody Up There Likes Me and<br />
other films, plays Stowe.<br />
John Brown takes the peaceful abolitionist<br />
movement to a more violent level to free<br />
the slaves. T. Ryder Smith, a veteran of<br />
Blue Bloods and Law & Order: SVU. plays<br />
Brown. LEL<br />
Watch “The Abolitionists” on <strong>WQLN</strong>: Part 1<br />
Sunday, Feb. 3 at 2 p.m.; Part 2 Sunday, Feb.<br />
10 at 2 p.m.; Part 3 Sunday, Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.<br />
Editor’s note:Ties to Erie<br />
Some of the abolitionists featured in the threepart<br />
film have direct ties to the Erie region.<br />
Many of them are mentioned in the story on<br />
page 11 by Lisa Gensheimer.<br />
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Loveison Air the<br />
By Tom New<br />
It’s no wonder why Valentine’s Day falls in<br />
February. Love is everywhere <strong>this</strong> month<br />
especially on <strong>WQLN</strong>-TV. And that love begins<br />
with our love affair with Downton Abbey. This<br />
month it sizzles, especially with a romantic<br />
cliffhanger that will leave you wishing for 2014.<br />
Independent Lens will remind us why we love<br />
film. On the 4th, it will show Brad Lichtenstein’s<br />
As Goes Janesvillea sort of “who done it” that<br />
begins with the closure of a Ford Motors plant<br />
that erupts into a national political fight over the<br />
future of unions. On the 18th, Independent Lens<br />
will present The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s<br />
Fight for Civil Rights. Young may have been<br />
<strong>this</strong> nation’s most significant advocate for civil<br />
rights, and <strong>this</strong> biopic gives new insight into the<br />
turbulent 1960s. On the 11th, it will present Half<br />
the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for<br />
Women Worldwide. This film visits ten countries,<br />
examining sex trafficking and gender-b<strong>as</strong>ed<br />
violence and their solutions.<br />
We know you’ll love American Experience’s<br />
line up <strong>this</strong> month. It’s a circular series that will<br />
examine the innovative spirit of America by<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> Public Media<br />
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814-864-3001, 800-727-8854, FAX 814-864-4077<br />
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profiling Andrew Carnegie on the 5th, John D.<br />
Rockefeller on the 12th, and Silicon Valley on<br />
the 19th.<br />
Meryl Streep will host a compelling threehour<br />
documentary <strong>this</strong> month called Makers:<br />
Women Who Make America. This program<br />
marks the beginning of a landmark digital and<br />
broadc<strong>as</strong>t initiative between AOL and PBS and<br />
will showc<strong>as</strong>e compelling stories from women of<br />
By Tom New<br />
today and tomorrow.<br />
We will end our month of love withwhat<br />
elsealovestoryfromM<strong>as</strong>terpieceContemporary<br />
called Page Eight. This film pairs a complicated<br />
romantic triangle with an age-old question of love:<br />
“What happens when spies grow old?”<br />
left to right: Rachel Weisz <strong>as</strong> Nancy Pierpan and Bill Nighy <strong>as</strong> Johnny<br />
Worricker in M<strong>as</strong>terpiece Contemporary Page Eight. Photo courtesy of ©<br />
Carnival for MASTERPIECE.<br />
Signature artwork for Silicon Valley: American Experience. Photo<br />
courtesy of WGBH.<br />
Independent Lens As Goes Janesville. About 1/6 of Janesville’s<br />
population lost their jobs. Photo courtesy of As Goes Janesville/ITVS.<br />
The c<strong>as</strong>t of Downton Abbey, Se<strong>as</strong>on 3. Photo courtesy of © Carnival Film<br />
& Television Limited 2012 for MASTERPIECE.<br />
Sunday, February 3<br />
9:00pm Downton Abbey, Part 5<br />
Monday, February 4<br />
10:00pm Independent Lens:<br />
As Goes Janesville<br />
Tuesday, February 5<br />
9:00pm Andrew Carnegie:<br />
American Experience<br />
Sunday, February 10<br />
9:00pm Downton Abbey, Part 6<br />
Monday, February 11<br />
10:00pm Independent Lens:<br />
Half The Sky: Turning Oppression<br />
Into Opportunity<br />
Tuesday, February 12<br />
8:00pm John D. Rockefeller:<br />
American Experience<br />
Sunday, February 17<br />
9:00pm Downton Abbey, Part 7<br />
Monday, February 18<br />
10:00pm Independent Lens:<br />
The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s<br />
Fight For Civil<br />
Tuesday, February 19<br />
8:00pm Silicon Valley:<br />
American Experience<br />
Sunday, February 24<br />
9:00pm M<strong>as</strong>terpiece Contemporary:<br />
Page Eight<br />
Tuesday, February 26<br />
8:00pm Makers:<br />
Women Who Make America<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> Station Guide<br />
February 2013, Issue 224<br />
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Radio<br />
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By Wally Fa<strong>as</strong><br />
Pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe play together. Yes, they<br />
play the piano together, but they also “play” when they perform. At le<strong>as</strong>t<br />
that’s what it looks like at times <strong>as</strong> they fl<strong>as</strong>h smiles at each other while their<br />
fingers fly over the keyboard performing their transcriptions of music <strong>as</strong><br />
varied <strong>as</strong> Schubert and Rachmaninoff, to Coldplay, Radiohead, and Michael<br />
Jackson. One critic said, “[Anderson & Roe] swept the audience into a<br />
cheering m<strong>as</strong>s of humanity, making a strong c<strong>as</strong>e that playing the piano<br />
is the most fun thing that two people could ever do together.” It’s not all<br />
fun and games, though. Anderson & Roe can express the throes of genuine<br />
griefwith Vivaldi’s “I Feel Within a Rain of Tears,” for example, on their<br />
CD called When Words Fade.<br />
Anderson & Roe will perform in <strong>WQLN</strong>’s lobby on Monday, February<br />
11 at noon and will be broadc<strong>as</strong>t live on <strong>WQLN</strong> Radio, but you’re invited<br />
to witness their command of the keyboard and their playfulness and pathos<br />
in person <strong>as</strong> a member of the live audience. And, if you are in the live<br />
audience, you could win a pair of tickets to Anderson & Roe’s performance<br />
at Mercyhurst University that night.<br />
Pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe. Photo courtesy of Scott Gordon Bleicher.<br />
Education<br />
February2013<br />
By Kathy Kathy CCarducci<br />
Do you know of a young budding author eager to write and illustrate his<br />
or her very own story? In January, <strong>WQLN</strong> Education and the Northwest Tri-<br />
County Intermediate Unit kicked off the annual local-national PBS KIDS GO!<br />
Writers Contest. This contest encourages children in grades K-3 to express<br />
their creativity while building the literacy skills necessary for academic success.<br />
Judging will take place in April, and 12 local winners will be selected. First place<br />
winning stories will air on <strong>WQLN</strong> TV-54, receive a free <strong>WQLN</strong> Kids Club<br />
membership, and have their stories entered into the national contest with a<br />
chance to win great prizes, including tablets, e-readers, and MP3 players. Local<br />
winners will see their entire stories on wqln.org, and all entrants will receive a<br />
complimentary issue of Highlights magazine. Everyone’s a winner! A reception<br />
honoring the local winners will be held in May. The deadline to submit a story<br />
is March 29. Visit www.<strong>WQLN</strong>.org/Writers for more infotmation.<br />
left to right: Tom the Turtle from the book Tom the Turtle by Drew<br />
Huntley. Photo courtesy of <strong>WQLN</strong> Pulic Media.<br />
Joe and Moe from the book Joe and Moe by Dustin Seth. Photo<br />
courtesy of <strong>WQLN</strong> Pulic Media.<br />
A cheetah from the book I Love Cheetahs by Winnifred Wolf. Photo<br />
courtesy of <strong>WQLN</strong> Pulic Media.<br />
Maya and Ava from the book Beach Girls! by Maya Swanson. Photo<br />
courtesy of <strong>WQLN</strong> Pulic Media.<br />
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See Se See the Cherry Blossoms in Bloom! Barry Manilow in Pittsburgh<br />
April 12-14, 2013<br />
Friday, April 19, 2013<br />
$475 for <strong>WQLN</strong> members/$485 for non members<br />
155 for <strong>WQLN</strong> members/$165 for non members<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> will travel to W<strong>as</strong>hington D.C. just in time to see the He “writes the songs that make the whole world sing,” and<br />
National Cherry Blossom Festival in full bloom. The cherry <strong>this</strong> April Barry Manilow will perform those songs live<br />
trees were a gift from Japan in 1912, and for a few short weeks on stage at Pittsburgh’s Consol Energy Center. This is a<br />
every spring, the city celebrates these beautiful blossoms in make-up performance from his previously cancelled 2012<br />
a grand way! The festival’s highlight is the parade – alive dateand is so popular that <strong>WQLN</strong> will take two buses to<br />
with lavish floats, marching bands, and performers. This the show! You’ll enjoy dinner at Lidia’s Restaurant before<br />
trip is a trip designed by you. <strong>WQLN</strong> will provide luxury the bus drops you off right at the front door. This legendary<br />
motor coach transportation and lodging at the Courtyard entertainer is sure to get your feet tapping and your hands<br />
by Marriott Capitol Hill, just a short walk away from the clapping <strong>as</strong> he sings all of your favorite hits. This is one<br />
b<strong>as</strong>eball stadium and the heart of the city!<br />
of the most popular road trips, so get your tickets before<br />
they’re gone!<br />
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra:<br />
Beethoven & Rachmaninoff<br />
Sunday, February17, 2013<br />
$155 for <strong>WQLN</strong> members/$165 for non members<br />
Spend a beautiful Sunday afternoon with your friends from<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> when we travel to Pittsburgh to see the Pittsburgh<br />
Symphony Orchestra. Performances will include Mussorgsky:<br />
A Night on Bald Mountain, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.<br />
2, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. After the concert, we’ll<br />
dine at the Cheesecake Factorya decadent treat. And all<br />
expenses are included in one great price!<br />
“Love changes all. Not always for the better.”<br />
Sunday, March 24, 2013<br />
$175 for <strong>WQLN</strong> members/$185 for non members<br />
Puccini’s M<strong>as</strong>terpiece Madama Butterfly willtake flight when<br />
it takes center stage at Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center <strong>this</strong><br />
March. Cio-Cio San, a young Japanese woman at the center<br />
of <strong>this</strong> tragic tale, delivers a heartbreaking performance <strong>as</strong><br />
she gives up her family and religion for the love of U.S. Naval<br />
Officer Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton. This trip includes<br />
your ticket to the show, bus accommodations, and dinner at<br />
the Cheesecake Factory.<br />
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June 20-22, 2013<br />
$475 <strong>WQLN</strong> Members/$485 non-members<br />
This June, <strong>WQLN</strong> will return to the Big Apple for a threeday,<br />
two-night stay at the Milford Plaza Hoteljust one<br />
block from Times Square and New York’s famed Theatre<br />
District. Optional p<strong>as</strong>ses for the 9/11 Memorial, Statue of<br />
Liberty tour, or the Circle Line boat tour will give you plenty<br />
to see and do, or you can choose to explore the city at your<br />
own pace. After all, it’s up to you in New York, New York.<br />
It’s impossible to see everything there is to see in New York<br />
City in just one trip, and that’s why people keep coming back<br />
again and again. Don’t miss it!<br />
For more information<br />
or to purch<strong>as</strong>e tickets,<br />
contact Lisa at 814-217-6058<br />
or at roadtrips@wqln.org.<br />
Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Super Heroes comes to Erie, March 1-3, 2013<br />
Be one of the lucky 50 that will join <strong>WQLN</strong> and receive extra special Meet &<br />
Greet tickets to the Friday, March 1st 7:00pm performance. Contact Shannon<br />
at 814-217-6040 to reserve your tickets today!
Events<br />
Beers,Bikes Bands<br />
There are lots of ways to support public<br />
television and radio. You can phone in a pledge,<br />
donate an old car, or book p<strong>as</strong>sage on one of<br />
our bus trips. We have a philosophy at <strong>WQLN</strong>,<br />
and that is to put an “F”, a “U,” and an “N” in all<br />
fundraising, because nothing spells fun like a<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> Community Event.<br />
Our events se<strong>as</strong>on will begin <strong>this</strong> year on April<br />
20 at our 7th annual Erie Micro Brew Festival.<br />
This is the event that people call the official start<br />
of spring – and just like spring, much of Brew Fest<br />
2013 will be like l<strong>as</strong>t year. It will be held at The<br />
Brewerie at Union Station, and all of your favorite<br />
micro breweries will be there, <strong>as</strong> will the home<br />
brewers from the Meadville Brewing Society and<br />
the Home Brewing Association of Erie County.<br />
Also returning will be the World Famous One<br />
Man Band, our Beer Boutique, and the Annual<br />
Peoples Choice awards for best beer and brewery.<br />
What’s different about <strong>WQLN</strong>’s 2013 Micro Brew<br />
Festival is also what sets it apart from all other<br />
brew festivals. This year we will get back to beer<br />
fundamentals and focus on nanobreweries. Nanos<br />
are the really small production houses that live<br />
outside of the data-driven world of marketing<br />
reports and social trends. The beer made at a<br />
nanobrewery is made because it “seemed like a<br />
good idea at the time.” Sometimes they get it,<br />
and sometimes they... have to try again, but the<br />
sampling is always fun.<br />
Support Free Public TV and Radio<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> Radio 91.3 FM<br />
calling (814) 864-3001 ext. 0<br />
February2013<br />
& By Tom New<br />
On April 27 you can burn off those hoppy beer<br />
carbs on our annual Gears to Beers bicycle tour.<br />
The tour will feature a 23-mile ride from <strong>WQLN</strong><br />
in Summit Township and follow a picturesque<br />
route to the Sprague Farm and Brew Works in<br />
Venango. If you would like a more challenging<br />
ride, we will also offer a second ride that will<br />
follow an out-and-back 40 mile course from the<br />
Sprague Farm. Use your GPS, and watch the<br />
route “draw” a giant gl<strong>as</strong>s of beer.<br />
In June, our annual American roots concert,<br />
The Crawford County Music Fest, will return to<br />
theSpragueFarmand Brew Works. Thisyear we’ve<br />
moved the date to June 29, and <strong>as</strong> of <strong>this</strong> writing all<br />
acts will finish before 9:00pm. So far we’ve signed<br />
l<strong>as</strong>t year’s super group The Folkadelics to return,<br />
and they will join 3 other bands yet to be named.<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> Presents:<br />
The Erie Micro Brew Festival<br />
Saturday, April 20<br />
1:00pm to 4:00pm & 5:00pm to 8:00pm<br />
Gears to Beer Bicycle Tour<br />
Saturday, April 27<br />
Music Fest<br />
Saturday, June 29<br />
More information is available online at wqln.org<br />
Member Services<br />
Monday – Friday 8:30-5:00 pm<br />
8425 Peach St., Erie, PA 16509-4788<br />
1-800-727-8854 ext. 299<br />
receptionist@wqln.org<br />
Visit Us Online<br />
Or at ww www.wqln.org www.wqln.org.<br />
www.lakeerielifestyle.com
Events<br />
Beers,Bikes Bands<br />
There are lots of ways to support public<br />
television and radio. You can phone in a pledge,<br />
donate an old car, or book p<strong>as</strong>sage on one of<br />
our bus trips. We have a philosophy at <strong>WQLN</strong>,<br />
and that is to put an “F”, a “U,” and an “N” in all<br />
fundraising, because nothing spells fun like a<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> Community Event.<br />
Our events se<strong>as</strong>on will begin <strong>this</strong> year on April<br />
20 at our 7th annual Erie Micro Brew Festival.<br />
This is the event that people call the official start<br />
of spring – and just like spring, much of Brew Fest<br />
2013 will be like l<strong>as</strong>t year. It will be held at The<br />
Brewerie at Union Station, and all of your favorite<br />
micro breweries will be there, <strong>as</strong> will the home<br />
brewers from the Meadville Brewing Society and<br />
the Home Brewing Association of Erie County.<br />
Also returning will be the World Famous One<br />
Man Band, our Beer Boutique, and the Annual<br />
Peoples Choice awards for best beer and brewery.<br />
What’s different about <strong>WQLN</strong>’s 2013 Micro Brew<br />
Festival is also what sets it apart from all other<br />
brew festivals. This year we will get back to beer<br />
fundamentals and focus on nanobreweries. Nanos<br />
are the really small production houses that live<br />
outside of the data-driven world of marketing<br />
reports and social trends. The beer made at a<br />
nanobrewery is made because it “seemed like a<br />
good idea at the time.” Sometimes they get it,<br />
and sometimes they... have to try again, but the<br />
sampling is always fun.<br />
Support Free Public TV and Radio<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> Radio 91.3 FM<br />
calling (814) 864-3001 ext. 0<br />
February2013<br />
& By Tom New<br />
On April 27 you can burn off those hoppy beer<br />
carbs on our annual Gears to Beers bicycle tour.<br />
The tour will feature a 23-mile ride from <strong>WQLN</strong><br />
in Summit Township and follow a picturesque<br />
route to the Sprague Farm and Brew Works in<br />
Venango. If you would like a more challenging<br />
ride, we will also offer a second ride that will<br />
follow an out-and-back 40 mile course from the<br />
Sprague Farm. Use your GPS, and watch the<br />
route “draw” a giant gl<strong>as</strong>s of beer.<br />
In June, our annual American roots concert,<br />
The Crawford County Music Fest, will return to<br />
theSpragueFarmand Brew Works. Thisyear we’ve<br />
moved the date to June 29, and <strong>as</strong> of <strong>this</strong> writing all<br />
acts will finish before 9:00pm. So far we’ve signed<br />
l<strong>as</strong>t year’s super group The Folkadelics to return,<br />
and they will join 3 other bands yet to be named.<br />
<strong>WQLN</strong> Presents:<br />
The Erie Micro Brew Festival<br />
Saturday, April 20<br />
1:00pm to 4:00pm & 5:00pm to 8:00pm<br />
Gears to Beer Bicycle Tour<br />
Saturday, April 27<br />
Music Fest<br />
Saturday, June 29<br />
More information is available online at wqln.org<br />
Member Services<br />
Monday – Friday 8:30-5:00 pm<br />
8425 Peach St., Erie, PA 16509-4788<br />
1-800-727-8854 ext. 299<br />
receptionist@wqln.org<br />
Visit Us Online<br />
Or at ww www.wqln.org www.wqln.org.<br />
www.lakeerielifestyle.com
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