May 2008

COLUMNS & FEATURES

The Last Great Place
Pennsylvania Proud By Michael Capuzzo
The state of independence has gotten knocked about a bit on the national stage, but it’s not authentic — we are.

Mountain Chatter
Proud Momma By Cindy Evans
A 35-year dry spell is over, as Cowanesque Valley — and Mountain Home momma Cindy Evans — sends native son Caleb Evans off to the State Music Festival.

Cover Story
Goodies’ Mom By Dawn Bilder
Galeton native Dawn Pletcher and her army of volunteers send boxes full of supplies — and love — to our troops in harm’s way.

Heart of the Mountain
It Takes a Village By Patricia Brown Davis
For decades Wellsboro’s Corning Glass Works helped sustain a community while creating one of its own. Our writer asks you to send your stories of that life of glass.

M’m, M’m Good! By Allen “Oddie” Scranton
You don’t know what you have in you until you’re up against it. One of the things WW II brought out in this veteran is how to squeeze cuisine from the field, cooked to perfection in a “steel pot.” 

Reading Nature
Go Native By Tom Murphy
Our writer decided that he wouldn’t plant anything he couldn’t eat. And then things got complicated. 

The Lunker  
Go Native II By Fred Metarko
Fishing is more than just a line in the water. Nature abounds: bear and turkey and grouse and raccoons and . . . Hey! Get away from my fish!!

The Mountain Man
Liquid Courage By Roy Kain
We don’t know where it fits in the Bill of Rights, but Mountain Man discovers that whiskey was more than a Colonial luxury — it was a pioneering privilege.

Swing On By Dara Riegel
The Corning-Painted Post Historical Society hosts a jazz festival to save a historic blacksmith shop for posterity.

Yogamama Says
Memories of Mom By Kathleen Thompson
Yogamama reminisces about the mother she had and the mother she wanted to save.

Mountain Home Guide
Swing Your Partner By Joyce Tice
Outside Coudersport, Natalie Phelps calls a barn dance to help save the barns — and the calls themselves — from extinction.

Mountain Home Guide
Gold in Them Thar Hills By the Mountain Home Staff
Join a high-tech fortune hunt and in the meantime discover real treasure, the beauty of the place.

Mountain Home Guide
High Chic By the Mountain Home Staff
Wellsboro’s clothing stores fashion a show of spring and summer styles to benefit local arts groups. 

Wing Walk By Bethany Casella
Spring is in the air, along with our fine feathered friends. Become a birder with the Tiadaghton Audubon Society on their Sunday morning walks.
 
Knitted Together By Sarah Bull
Bluegrass favorites The Grass Stained Genes join spinners, weavers, and the lambs in the meadow for a wool festival in Roseville to benefit Relay For Life.

Reverend J. Paws & Watson
Say it Forward By Reverend Judy A. Stanley
Many of God’s creatures have sacrificed for us and, be they named or unnamed, we keep our gratitude alive as we remember their stories.

Looking Back
Carving a Place By Joyce Tice
Escaping the growing scarcity of land in New England, our forefathers found themselves deep in the forest when they arrived here, and built their farmsteads acre by acre.

The Better World
$@#*!?#! By John and Lynne Diamond-Nigh
What is wrong with our bleepety-bleep society? Larry the Cable Guy, it turns out, is us.

Shop Around the Corner
Ann McKay Studio By Kaitlyn Knopp
Using nature and architecture as inspiration, Williamsport native Ann McKay and her talented artisans craft art from gold. 

Onstage Off the Wall
Play On By Larry Biddison
Taste Tioga through the words and scenes of its bards, as Hamilton-Gibson stages the winners of an annual playwriting contest.

Cooking Bachelor Style
Making a Hash of It By Terry Miller
That’s what our Bachelor Cook is told to do with . . . gulp . . . opossum.

Wine & Dine
I Can Almost Taste It  By Holly Howell
Our wine writer invites you to join her online for a chat, the next best thing to raising a glass in person.

Beam Me Up by Gregory Burnshaw
Look up into the rafters of an old barn and you’ll see history ­— and maybe history in the making.    

Ask Gary 
Paint Perfection By Gary Ranck
Now that the nights are warm enough to tackle the big stuff, Gary primes us on painting the house.