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At

first

woodcarvings
look like flowing and
expressive
full of life

colonial art of creating

glance,

Louis Foshay's

Beh

creations,

and

color.

A

closer look reveals the

feathery texture made by each careful
stroke of his carving tool. Look even
closer and the cleverly hidden seams
emerge where separate pieces have
come together to form a finished creation. Details like these help tell the
larger story of the process that goes
into creating one of Foshay's carvings.
The same may be said for Columbia
and Montour counties. It is the people
of our community that create its unique
cultural landscape. In this issue of
Spectrum magazine, we sought out just
a few of the people who make Columbia
and Montour counties unlike anywhere
else in the world.
We quickly learned that Louis Foshay
was not the only creative force living in
the Foshay home. His wife, Madeline,
has been knitting blankets by hand for
years. Recently, she has begun knitting
hats, scarves, and ornaments on a hightech knitting machine.
Our other articles include stories
about a woman who makes her living
raising plants and animals from the
ocean, a man who has revived the

ornamental iron, a guitar maker, a female
welder, and a couple
who works with stained
glass. We also found a
practicing "doula" and
a Millville woman who plans to walk
to Indianapolis, Ind., raising money
along the way to help find a cure for

Spectrum Magazine
Volume

15,

No.

1

Spring 2001

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Walter M. Brasch
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Eric J. Hunt

PRODUCTION AND DESIGN COORDINATOR

MaryJayne Reibsome

Lowe Syndrome.
The centerspread for this issue is a
colorful showcase of one of the
Susquehanna Valley's greatest missions to preserve our unique history and
culture. We looked at what Olde
Cloverleaf Village is now and what it
will become in the next few years.
Perhaps more importantly, we looked at
what makes the Village's creator. Bob
Cameron, work so hard to bring this
unique landmark to Montour County.
Our previous issue, an investigative
report on sex crimes in Pennsylvania,
won top honors in a 10- state region
from the Society of Professional
Journalists as the best magazine produced more than once a year. Now, we
are pleased to bring you a celebration of
Columbia and Montour counties; a
mosaic of the people that make our
community a distinct feature on the

Pennsylvania landscape.

—Eric Hunt

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Ken Fetterhoff

Louis Williams
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say that Judy Shaner, a
Turbotville resident, is a
fish out of water is an

To

understatement. More than two
hours from any body of salt
water, Shaner's shop, "The Salt
Box," in Montour County, is a
place where salt-water fish,
coral, sea anemones, and all sorts

As owner
and the only employee, Shaner
has turned what used to be her
of sea creatures thrive.

two-car garage into one of the
most well-respected salt-water
aquarium shops in the area.
"We try to keep all of the conditions true to the animal's natural
habitat right here in our shop. It
is our own little piece of the
ocean," says Shaner walking into
the humid air of her shop.
Shaner, originally from a small
town half-way between Anchorage
and Fairbanks, Alaska, had no
experience with electricity or any
other modern commodities as a
child. When she moved to New
England in 1959, she realized her

I

to

for the ocean while living
along the coast. "I would go to the
ocean as much as I could," she
recalls. Her love for the ocean and
its inhabitants eventually led her
to raise and live with animals from
the sea. For the past 12 years,
Shaner says she has been studying
the art of propagating corals, raising fish, and maintaining salt-

love

water aquariums.
"For the first two years I would go
to sleep with all of these books," she
says pointing at a bookcase full of

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books ranging in content from
marine biology to chemical compounds. Often, when she didn't
understand something, Shaner
says she wrote the authors.
"I am just an old lady who needs
to know," Shaner says of her quest
for knowledge which helps her in
her other endeavors, like the construction business she once owned,
her love for arts and crafts, and her
current interest in landscaping.
Shaner says she started her business with a shop in Hughesville

plerogyra coral or "bubble"

sways

in

the water of Shaner's tank.
Left: Fish, like

the Blue Hippo Tang, scatter

at the sight of visitors.

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but decided she wanted to move
when she reahzed her abihty to
control the conditions in the place
she rented was limited. After her
shop became established and
gained a solid customer base,
Shaner was able to afford to move
her store. As she searched for a
new location, the advantages of
having her animals as close to
her as possible became evident.
Currently, The Salt Box is located
off of a small road in the heart of
Montour County farmland.
"I

am

what

I

very comfortable with

have," she says.

love with nature

have

my

house."

and

"I

it is

am

animals so close to

The shop, which

in

great to

my

sits just

make

a purchase but to sit and
and discuss their tanks. I
think of myself as more an
aquarium advisor than anytalk

thing else," she says. One reason for Shaner's small but loyal
customer base, she says, is her

environmentalist

approach

to

raising fish.
"I do not use any chemicals.
The ocean doesn't use chemicals
to control its water so why

should I," says Shaner. There is
nothing high tech in her store.
The difficulties in keeping a saltwater tank in good condition with
healthy animals are numerous.
Although the water in most freshwater tanks may be attained

animals in my tank. That is why
I have insisted on learning to do
it all

myself," she says.

As well as selling her creations
and running her business, she
also considers herself an advisor
to people

who

are trying to learn
own tanks. As an

to start their

Shaner says she has
devoted much of her time trying
to educate the people with whom
she works. In an attempt to interact easily with people from all over
the world who share her hobby,
Shaner has taught herself how
advisor,

to

maintain her own website

(www.sail.to/saltbox.com) where
you can see pictures of her animals
and ask questions she will answer.

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yards from her living room window, carries more of a lounge
atmosphere than a business. "You
can hear my birds chirping from

my

house

from any faucet, Shaner must
make her own water. Shaner
not only mixes her own salt
water but also filters her own

She also writes a weekly column for
marine merchants organizations,
including the American Marine
Dealers'

We try to keep all
tlie

conditions true to

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of

animal

s

natural kabitat

"I am an extreme environmentalist and all I

want

tlie

to do is

make

the

these animals as
good as they can be,"

lives of

riglit

"The second time someone comes into our shop
liere in our sliop.
they are my friend," says
Shaner. Without the use
water, cleans her own rocks,
of any advertising other than a
small ad in the Yellow Pages, and propagates all of the coral
Shaner says The Salt Box's cus- that sit in her tank. "The only
tomer base has grown primarily thing I am not interested in doing
is breeding fish," Shaner says.
from word of mouth.
"Doing all of these things myself
"I know all of my customers
very well," she says. "Many of is not only cheaper but also prothem come from as far away as vides an environment that has
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said Shaner.
if

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are arranged all over the
small shop, seeming to
invite customers to stay
and sit for a while.

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says Shaner. While
Shaner has spent some
time in more populated

areas, she thinks she
has found a place she loves. "I
have everything I need right
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and
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fish

friends and my
communicate with

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A local busi:

back tlie axi
says Yasbeck.
"The special
orders are my
favorite," says
Keener. 'Tou can
be as creative

and detailed as
you want to be,"
he says. "This is

when you really
have to know what

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workshop of Roaring
Creek Ornamental Iron is
_1- cluttered with finished railings and scraps. Sparks shoot over
Robert Keener, owner of the shop, as
he cuts a piece of iron.
Keener, 54, Catawissa, does the
only thing he has always wanted to
do, shape iron.
Keener opened the shop in 1981
after working in the coal mines for
15 years. "I wanted to get out," he
"ihe small

I

simply says.

was after a mine collapsed not
from where he was working that
he decided to get out. "Most of the
people who were either hurt or died
in that coUapse I knew," he says.
In the prime of his hfe, Keener
started over. "My father helped me
out a lot," he says. "He worked as a
blacksmith all of his life, and he
had some idea about how to run a
It

far

business," he says.
Keener started Roaring Creek with
the help of his wife and three friends.
"I've always had an interest in shaping iron," says Keener. "Whenever
my dad had scraps of iron around I

10

you are doing."

would heat them up
and make different
shapes," he says.

Robert Keener

Keener's shop is the
only one in the region. "It has really surprised me," Keener says, "I
thought by now there would be
more shops."
Keener and his other employees
have watched the business grow
from a tiny shack in Orangeville to a
spacious barn in Catawissa. "My
father and I were a little skeptical
that an ornamental iron place

would do any business," he says.
Roaring Creek handles 10 to 12
orders a week, sometimes twice
that

many

in the

summer.

The shop makes everything from
cast iron fences and railings to special

orders,

including

items. "Most people just

decorative

come

in look-

ing for something practical like a
railing, but sometimes we get the

special orders," says Joseph
Yasbeck, an employee at Roaring
Creek. "The special orders are
stuff like train sets and model
cars that take awhile to make,"

Keener often
holds workshops
for people inter-

making ornamental iron.
think people really enjoy them
and it gives us a chance to bring
people out to the shop," says
Keener. "This is an art and something you can't teach overnight
but I think most people have fun
with it," he says.
The biggest order Roaring Creek
received was for a statue commemorating the Revolutionary
War, purchased by the city of
Pittsburgh. "It took us almost six
months to complete the statue,"
says Keener. "It stood over six
feet tall and weighed almost a
quarter ton."
"We had done a small statue of
George Washington for the city of
Allentown and I guess that's how the
mayor of Pittsburgh heard of us,"
says Keener. "We had heard they
were commissioning the work and
we put in a bid," he says. "I know it
wasn't the lowest bid but, somehow,
ested in
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they chose us," Keener says.
Keener says he would enjoy working on another project like the
Revolutionary War statue. "We
actually shut down the business for
about four months so we could get
things ready," he says. "It was
extremely hard work, especially
with such a big statue and every
detail had to be perfect." The statue
now stands outside of city hall in
the middle of a small garden.
"It's a great honor to have something you slaved over for six
months on display for the world to
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says Keener.
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Roaring Creek has created most of
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A timeless practice kelps
niotliers
mothers become
more in touch with their

help

intuitive ability to nur-

ture their children.

Mael's first encounter
with a doula was at her
sister's house in Virginia.

Her

sister

was giving

birth to her sixth child

childbirth, daily
After
tines along with new

roufeel-

ings and emotions often
seem burdensome to mothers.

Lisa Mael, Bloomsburg, says she
has dedicated her life to helping
women cope with motherhood by
becoming a doula.
"Doula" is a Greek word that
means "woman helping woman."
She helps guide the new mother in
the postpartum period by listening
to the mother and helping her

understand certain feelings, as well
as helping with daily life chores.
Mael studied at the Seventh
Moon Perinatal Support Services,
Englewood, New Jersey. Here, students are taught the guidelines to
follow when working as a doula.
The purpose of the course is to
understand the meaning of the
word "support." Doulas are able to

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with the assistance of a
doula.
Mael says the
group of women sat in a
room and shared feelings
about what was happening. Mael describes
it as the ultimate peacefulness. "There was an auora
around the house. This baby
was being born," Mael says.

cope witli cliilabirtli.
such a high risk of malMael says. "The doctors
and nurses do a good job, but
there's such a conservative line.
They are a lot more invasive in
that they have to do a lot more
testing to cover themselves." In
addition, she says in this area
having a doula isn't an option
"because it's not an accepted way
of giving birth. A doula can't comthere

is

practice,"

fortably practice in a hospital."

Mael has worked with 10
women. Her focus is on the postpartum period, rather than the
birth itself. Mael says personal

After this experience, Mael
decided to look into the practice further and soon realized
she shared the same beliefs
as a doula.
"We've become very removed
in the way we deal with this,"
Mael says. People all over the
world "are afraid of feelings,"
she says. The idea of expressing one's feelings is something
that is slowly being experimented with. "Birth is not a
medical process," Mael says,
"until there are high medical
risks." She says giving birth
is

an emotional learning

process in

many

ways.

problem with the
medical community is that
"The

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experience led her to
concentrate most of
her energy on this
aspect of the practice.
Mael had her third
and fourth child in

Columbia County.

A young Mennonite
woman

helped her
her preg-

through

"It was nice to
someone help,
was only able see

nancy.

have

but 1
her twice a month,"

Mael

says.

"We

[doulas]

more geared

are

toward having a

lot of

support, to creating a

bond," she says describ-

ing the importance
of constant companionship.

Because Mael is not
from this
area, she didn't have
originally

the aid of family

was

mem-

a
lonely place to be,"
bers.

"It

just

Mael says In the
.

Amish

culture,

dition for

Mael says it is a train the community

women

new mother by living with
her for a while and helping with
everyday housework. "When it's all
over, your husband goes back to
work and you're left feeling overwhelmed. That's when I decided
to have an emphasis on the postto help a

partum

A

area,"

Mael

says.

postpartum doula helps the

the baby," she says, "then everything else comes naturally." A
first-time mom that she cared for
had a difficult time making this
connection with the baby.
"It was Mother's Day and this
woman was literally a wreck. She
didn't even have the instincts to pull
the baby in to her and hold her close."
Mael says she showed her how to
hold the baby. She says the mother

Women have known

to tell

new mother with everyday

didn't

such as cleaning,

it

fusion or concerns.
"The essence of

what

I

was

trained to do," Mael says "is be
there and allow the mother to
re-establish herself as a person
with this new baby. When the
mother is able to connect with
,

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doula.

During one experiwas becoming a

ence, she felt she

"cleaning service."
As she got more involved with
the mother, however, Mael learned she was asking for those services because she was too overto do them herself, and
she needed them done for her
own peace of mind. However, she
says, it is important not to

whelmed

these things since the he^innin^ oi time,

we just ior^ot
tasks
laundry, and
shopping. In addition, she will talk
with her about the whole experience, guiding her through any con-

of the

each other ior a while.

understand how important

newborn to be close
to her, she was the only connection the baby had to the outside
world. "It was very beautiful to
watch her evolve into a mother.
She became so knowing of the
situation," Mael says.
One of the hardest parts about
her job is knowing where the fine
line is, Mael says. There are times

was

when

for the

a mother

may

ask too

much

invade the mother's space.
"You're there, but it's almost
like you're invisible," Mael says.
"You have to respect where that

woman

is."

Doula
mother

is

already,"

quote

is

merely "passing on from

child what we know
Mael says. "My favorite
'Women have known these

to

things since the beginning of time.
We just forgot to tell each other
for a while.'"

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A MILLVILLE ARTISAl SHAR

by Eric J. Hunt
eads of sweat form on
the forehead of Louis
Foshay, 60, as he releases
the character he has created
inside his imagination from
the block of wood he holds in
his hands. His workbench
almost disappears beneath a
dusting of woodchips until
what emerges is a unique and
inspired addition to the array
of characters that fill his
'

Millville

home.

A hummingbird

carved from
black walnut, a dolphin, various old world Santas, gnomes
and canes, are only a few items
that Foshay has hand carved.
Foshay greets visitors with
the kind of warm enthusiasm
one usually finds only in young
children. He is a man who follows his heart and trusts his
instincts.

"I'm

more

back when

of a kid today than
really was a kid,"

I

says Foshay.
Inside his home, two parakeets chirp along with the
soothing trickle of a small founn, creating an atmosphere of

comfort and ease. Foshay

made

the fountain because he and his
wife, Madeline, didn't like the
one they bought, he says. The
Foshays don't do things like

everyone
"If

else.

somebody pushes me one

way," he says, "I go the other
way." Since the couple got married in 1961, they have tried to

by their own rules.
For the first 11 years of their

live

however, Foshay
worked as a machinist and says
he was forced to play by the

marriage,

rules of the industry. After
that experience, he says his
desire to become his own boss
increased so much that in 1972,
when the machine shop folded,
he took more control of his life.

He began working as an electronics repairman from his home
in Spring Valley, New York.
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"Those days we didn't have
much money," Foshay recalls,
"so I couldn't buy Madeline any
jewelry." Instead, he made it
for her. Like a natural silversmith, he made rings, earrings,
and necklaces out of pure silver and raw turquoise. In
order to shape the turquoise to
his liking, he made an abrasive, motorized wheel-cutter.
By 1978, the area of New York
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where they were Uving became too
developed and superficial for the
kind of life they were looking for.
"When we moved to Millville we
wanted to be self-sufficient," Foshay
says. They began growing their own
vegetables. They raised pigs, ducks,
geese, rabbits, turkeys, and chickens. They made their own sausages
and cured their own ham in their
own smokehouse. "We even had
golden pheasants and peacocks for a
while," he says.
"Everything on the table for
Thanksgiving dinner was our own
doing," Foshay says. Even the cider
came from homegrown apples
pressed in a cider press he made from
own cherry wood. But, Foshay
says he kept looking for new projects.
"I've tried to take on every challenge that I could possibly take on,"
he says. By the 1990s, Foshay was
meeting challenge after challenge
with his impressive, highly developed self-taught skills. He says
he decided to try something new.
"It was totally out of my charac-

ter!"

Foshay says, surprising even
He made a large wooden
and wrapped a section of it in

himself.
flute

an intricate Native American-style
bead pattern.
"Supposedly

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it's

very

difficult to

wouldn't classify as carving." He
the violin from scratch,
using his own home-cured cherry
wood. The only part of the violin
he considers "carved" is the head,
which is "scrolled." Most of the
I

made

M may be advancing in age,
but

my mind is

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bead all the way around an item,"
Foshay says, but "I figure things
out." A few years later, Foshay
made another flute, which he sold to
a

man

in Vienna, Austria, with the

He

woodwork-

made an

old style Appalachian fret-

A bluegrass artist in the
area bought the banjo and still
plays it. Although he loves woodworking, Foshay says his real passion is carving.

"kachinas."

He used detail-oriented
a common practice

one of the best crafts-

power

men in the region.

among woodcarvers, although he

try,

it

I

was

for indus-

was

nice,"

Foshay says. "You
got breaks and

sometimes you
could goof off.
Here I don't take
breaks or goof off."
When he gets hungry, "I grab a sand-

wich, gobble it
down, and go right
back to work."
As he holds a
picture of a beautiful,

handmade

he recently
Foshay notes,
"some of the stuff

violin

workshop.

for

ing he gets from his own trees.
But not all of it.
From a township sign, old kitchen
cabinets, and some scrap wood, he

Influenced heavily by Native
American craftsmanship, he set out
to carve "dream warriors" and

working

in his

wood Foshay uses

Foshay began carv-

"When

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less banjo.

wood only three
years ago and since
then he's become

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continued his
work with beads,
making barrettes
for Madeline, until
he switched again.
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Foshay carves an

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still

sold,

tools,

says he usually tries to avoid it.
"I don't classify that as carving,"
Foshay says. Nevertheless, the
dream warriors and kachinas were

enough to get him into his first
woodcarving show, he says, which
provided the inspiration he needed
to "really start carving."
"I looked around at some of the
carvings and said 'I can do better
than this,'" Foshay recalls. Since
then, he has put in an average of 40
hours a week creating and carving
characters that are full of expression and personality. His wife has

dubbed some

of his earliest carv-

ings "woodies."

Each woody begins as a section of
a tree branch, brought to life as
Foshay carves a face into one
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side. The trees he
used for most of the
woodies came from
a white cedar tree
branch his father
gave him. It began to
bend down so much,
Foshay says, that it
went into the ground and took root.
He took the branch, planted it,
"and from that tree I've been making more trees."
Foshay begins most of his carv-

adeline Foshay has
knitting by hand
C^since she was a young
girl. Three years ago, she says she
received a knitting machine from a
friend in New York, and it wasn't
long before her husband had to
make a revolving yarn tree to
accommodate all the rolls of yarn
she needed to keep up with her own
blossoming hobby. The afghans
and blankets she made by hand
show intricate. Native Americaninspired craftsmanship and obvious patience. She says she wonders
how she ever did it by hand.
"I'd never go back to hand knitting," she says, "Now I could knit
200 stitches at once if I wanted to."
In 25 minutes, she can knit up to
680 rows. However, with her time
limited by her full-time job as an
accounting specialist at Bloomsburg
University, Foshay says she has
only scratched the surface of what
she will do when she retires in two
years. Still, she has already made
dozens of hats, scarves, and ornaments that could compete with any
of the store-bought equivalents.
"There are so many things [the
machine] can do that I haven't had
time to get into," Foshay says. The
complexities of the machine's
mechanical carriage are enough to
baffle even an experienced machinist.
'Tve worked on aU kinds of machines," her husband says, "and noth-

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inspiration from

mag-

azines, books, and
other carvings, he
sketches the basic
character on the front
and side of the block
and then adapts the

character as he
ings with a block of kiln-dried basswood from locally grown linden
trees. The wood has few knots, and
the grain is tight and smooth, perfect for carving. After gathering

carves

is as complicated as this
thing."
By inserting a card with a prepunched pattern into the machine,

"The longest part is putting the
pieces together by hand after I've
knitted them on the machine,"
she says.
But Foshay says the time she puts
into her products are worth it. She
sends all the left over inventory to
the Boys and Girls Club of Dela-

ing

Foshay can use two
at once to

make

colors of

yarn

a hat or a scarf

something truly
original emerges.
Sometimes it takes nearly two
months to complete a single carvuntil

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ware County, Spinning Arrow
Unit in Oaks, Okla. She says that
the project

is

part of the Christian

Children's Fund for Native
Americans in the area that need
assistance.

"They have a "power store" when
the children can purchase merchandise with points that they
earn from doing homework, and
chores," Foshay says. She and her

with a picture knitted into it. She
even makes her own punch card
patterns. With each action of the
machine, one entire row is knitted.
To some, it may seem as though
the machine is actually responsible
for the superior quality of the finished products, but the ability to use
the incredibly complex machine is
a skill in itself that takes years to
master.
Foshay says some of the more
challenging pieces she's created are
baby clothes. She's made cardigan
sweaters with elephant and sailboat
patterns knitted into them, and
baby dresses with scalloped edges.

husband have sponsored five
Native American children in the
past 25 years. Foshay is oneeighth Cherokee; her great-grandmother was a Cherokee from North
Carolina. She says she's very proud
of her heritage and says she likes
being able to help._^

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ing. Once a carving has been completed, however, he says it only
takes him two weeks to repeat one
for a customer. If he is particularly
happy with a carving, Foshay says
he makes a permanent pattern
that he will use
again. But no carving
is ever exactly the
same.
"The pattern is just
a jumping off point,"

"Good knives are too expensive,"
he says.
"If you break one," he says,
"that's thirty-five bucks out the
window. I'm too frugal a person to
do that." Instead, he makes them

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March 2001, he

received $500 for winning
first place in the national

it.

pieces together. The
carousel horse took four months.
From only a photograph, he carved
and painted an exact replica of a
carousel horse from Knoebels
Grove, Elysburg.
Perhaps as fascinating as the
carving skill he has developed is
that Foshay doesn't buy most of the
knives he uses he makes them.

Even the chips and shavings from
mulch in
his wife's flowerbed and herb garden. Foshay has made the kind of

his carvings are used as

lenges.

become

carved

believe in wasting anycan help it," he says.

he has always imaghe plans to continue taking on chal-

of his carvings

so intricate
that he says he has to use small,
thin dowels to put separately

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ined, but

creation by the time

Many

if

life

Foshay says. Each
one becomes its own
he has completed

"I don't

thing

from his own chestnut wood and a
two- dollar pack of utility blades
from the local hardware store. He
shapes each blade to create a variety of knives.

Poor Man's Tool Contest
held by Wood Carving
Mustrated Magazine. His
prize-winning creation
was a dust collector made
from what many would consider
household junk.
"I may be advancing in age," he
says, "but

my mind is stiU yoving."_5'

He makes knives

"Hummingbirds"

from screwdriver handles, old
industrial hacksaw blades, sharpened nails, and reshaped wood
chisels. Making his own tools gives

him a sense
says.

of accomplishment, he

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Cameron has a vision.
started in his imagination when he was a child;

Bob
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today, at 47, his vision is becoming
a reahty. For six years, Cameron, a
resident of Danville, has been mov-

ing 19th century buildings to Olde
Cloverleaf Village in Valley Town-

Route 54, in Danville.
"With a book on the right subject
I can do anything," says Cameron,
owner and creative force behind
the Village. This kind of ambition
has driven Cameron to create a
unique landmark of local history
and culture that has helped preship, off

serve and celebrate the heritage of
Susquehanna Valley.
After graduating from Danville

-the

High School

in 1972,

Cameron

left

his self-made roofing business in

and engineers on
"One day

I

six continents.

could be in Washington,

Danville and earned a bachelor's
degree in microbiology and animal
science from Penn State, and a
master's in environmental management from the University of

talking to the government
new piece of legislation," he says, "and the next day I
could be backpacking in the Rocky
Mountains looking at an endan-

Houston.

gered species." For 21 years,

Cameron then began working for
Tenneco, now known as Pactiv, a

Among

transnational corporation headquartered in Lake Forest, 111.,
whose products include ever5d:hing
from recycled paper to nuclear aircarriers. The first environmental scientist for Tenneco,
Cameron eventually became vice-

craft

president of environmental health

and

safety, in

charge of scientists

D.C.,

regarding a

Cameron

traveled the
world.
other places, his work took
him to China, Romania, and to
Berlin as the infamous Wall fell.
"It was a fun job," he says. So why
would he want to leave all that?
Cameron says he likes to "go for the
max" in one particular field, then
start all over again.
"You never stop learning, no matter how old you are," he says.

Olde Cloverleaf Village, Danville

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Shi iron Duff, Scotland,

hosts an authentic
British tea at the
Victorian manor.

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L-Although this attitude is characteristic of Cameron, tragedy helped him
decide to return to Pennsylvania.

His wife was diagnosed with what
Cameron says was the worst form of
brain cancer possible. "They sat us
down in the doctor's office, I'll never
forget," he says, "and they looked at
us and said 'we suggest you go home
and get your things in order. You
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have two months to live.'
Cameron informed his colleagues
at Tenneco that he was going back
to Pennsylvania to take care of his
wife and 1 -year-old son. "I was
traveling so much and I didn't want
to leave my son with nannies,"

Cameron

he told Tenneco
keep doing his job.

says, so

he would love

to

but his wife and son were his

first

priority.

Cameron's wife fought and lived
two more years, he says, although
near the end of that time she had to
be placed in a wheelchair. "That's

why

all

my

projects are handi-

capped accessible," Cameron says,
"I

know what

it's

about."

He was

34 when she died; his son was
three.

"So from my little farm I ran the
world-wide operations of Tenneco's
scientific and environmental departments," he says. At that point
Cameron says he began thinking
about what he could do locally.
Cameron says he watched as
buildings throughout the Susque-

hanna Valley kept being demolished with no regard for their historical significance. "In Asia and
Europe, people revere things that
are old," he says, but in this country,
"we bulldoze it over, get rid of it."
His disillusionment continued as
he witnessed the "McDonaldization"
of society creep into the Susquehanna Valley. "It's the same shops,
the same restaurants, wherever
you go," Cameron says. "I think it's
a shame that we're losing what
sets us apart as individuals." So he
decided to bring it back. He picked
up where he had left off as a child
and outlined all the pieces that
would eventually make up the
Olde Cloverleaf Village, but one

Right: Donelle Weatherill,

Danville,

bakes a pizza

in

the hearth oven at the

Stables Eatery.

Below: Vegetables roast

over an open

fire.

was missing, he says.
"Five years ago an angel walked
into my life," says Cameron. She
was a gift manufacturer's representative and was evaluating shops to

was

do business with when she walked
into the Cloverleaf barn. "For me it

of the village.

piece

says.

love at first sight,"

Cameron

"dedication of the Village."
Debra has experience working in

He and Debra Bornmann

were married one year later in a
surprise wedding in the one-room
schoolhouse, on grand-opening day

and with major manufacturand has also contributed a

retail
ers,

valuable outsider's perspective to
his project. Originally from Texas,
Debra has fallen in love with the

Cameron says the

ceremony served as a symbolic

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Susquehanna Valley, says Cameron.
The decor in the Victorian manor's
tea room is Debra's creation, along
with other interior decorating
schemes found throughout the
village.

When Cameron began

building

on the four acres of land
he purchased, he says he found
only the remnants of an historic
farm originally owned by the
Fenstermachers, a wealthy family
from Philadelphia who built the
farm in the 1890s to escape urban
life. Only a run-down Victorian
manor, a barn, a wagon shed, and
an old mill were standing on the
in 1995

present site of the Village.
Cameron restored the buildings
and has built the Village around
them, adding emphasis to his
belief that Americans are
too quick to tear down,

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and start over, r
The old mill posed a a
huge engineerin
challenge, Cameron
erase,

currently being reconstructwas previously moved in
the early 19th century.
All historic parts of the Village
have come from within 100 miles of
Valley Township and were built or
that

is

ed on

site

made before the 20th century.
Most, Cameron says, are from the
1890s. Cameron likes the 1890s
because Pennsylvania was one of
the world's leading industrial centers during that period. The state
led the nation in oil production and
was second to Illinois for miles of
railroads. The timber industry was
booming and the anthracite coal
veins dominated the world energy
economy.

Cameron says. "We ended
up with 20 dump-truck loads of
debris on our back lot."
Although he could only preserve
injuries,"

part of the original building, he
says he's glad he got some of it
because the church is so rich in coal
region history and legend. As one
legend goes, a priest from the
church during the 19th century had
denounced the region's most infamous gang of labor sympathizers,
the Molly Maguires, for murder.
When the Mollies got word of the
denouncement, Cameron says they
entered the church, beat up the
priest, and warned him that
Centralia and the church would be
destroyed by fire. As Cameron took
the rubble from the original site
of the demolished church,
he says smoke rose up
from the anthracite
fires

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says.

"Everyone kept saying 'why don't you bulldoze this building and
get rid of

it,"'

says.

Cameron

around the mill instead.
"That was fun," he says.
Since then, Cameron has moved
20 buildings, some in sections. "In
order to preserve these works of
art, dismantling must be done care-

Cameron says, "After a century or more, wood siding, ornamentation, and other small dimension wood dries out and can become
fully,"

Another problem with dismantling a building are the "mind
sets of government agencies, public

brittle."

all of

says, "see the bull-

dozer and wrecking ball as the
most expeditious method to eliminate a building."
Cameron says yet another problem in saving historic buildings is
provided by the state's historic
commission. He says its philosophy
is that it's preferable to destroy a
building than relocate it. Ironically,
he says, the Ryde Methodist Church
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of Cen-

Cameron

What's

left of

Ignatius Church

has been worked into

build

and private owners,"

was the

epitome

St.

part of the intertwining
network of old, local buildings

Rather than listen to
the advice of others urging him to
take the easy way, he decided to

whom Cameron

burning

my mind this

church
tralia,"

says.

utilities,

still

below.

that

One

Cameron's favorite parts
of the Village came from Centralia,
a Pennsylvania mining town that
still smolders today from anthracite coal mine fires that began
decades ago. He says he was able to
capture some of the remains of St,
Ignatius Church as it was being
demolished, but was saddened that
he couldn't salvage the entire
of

church.
It was during that move that
Cameron almost lost his life. He
had contracted with the demolition
company to obtain all the items he
could in three days. Under pressure to move the building as soon

as possible, the contractor hurried-

connected chains to a dome
Cameron wanted to save. As the
multi-ton dome was being moved to

ly

a trailer, the chains holding the
dome broke.
"I was able to push the dome and
leap to safety with only minor

make up

Cameron

the

Village.

the story as his
guests walk across floor planks
once visited by coal miners who
fought against worker exploitation.
The Stables Eatery is another of
Cameron's favorite. He moved the
structure from its original location
on Lower Mulberry Street in
Danville to the Village in 1998. The
post and beam, two-story structure
had to be completely disassembled
and reconstructed. Cameron says
his father used to trade ponies at
the stables when he was a boy.
Today, the Stables Eatery boasts
oven-roasted fare and hearthbaked cooking all by wood fire. An
antique buggy sits at the top of the
stairs of the second floor dining
tells

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area.

One of Cameron's more recent
additions to the Village is an entire
church that he moved from Ryde,
southwest of Lewistown. "Where do
you find an historic church that is

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Cameron
tells

guests

about a

saw used
to cut

blocks of
ice

the

from
river.

available?"

Cameron

asks.

A

gen-

tleman from Lancaster, he says,
came by his Village with a small
advertisement.

The ad

read, "historic church for
but came to his attention on
the last day of bidding. Cameron
says he rushed to talk with the minister. He explained what he wanted
to do and that the church would
remain intact and would be restored.
"All the other bidders wanted to
sale,"

tear

it

Cameron

apart,"

minister

Cameron's

was
offer

ecstatic

says.

The

nearly every part of Olde Cloverleaf.
One large rafter that hangs above
an entrance to one of the buildings
has an arch roughly carved out of
it. He adds the beam was part of a
barn that housed a horse so huge
that it was necessary to carve an
arch just so the giant beast could

when

The wagon shed
originally on the site had birds'
nests attached to the beams when
Cameron started the restoration.

to place the cars

pass beneath

it.

He preserved

the nests, consider-

"But then reality
he says. "I had to go
out there and physically
a church." To transport
a building, Cameron says he
either has to move the entire
structure or separate it into
sections. In some cases he
must dismantle a building
piece by piece. Each building

depending

on how it was built.
The one-room schoolhouse
in the Village, brought from
Strawberry Ridge, was moved in six
sections, he says. To move the
schoolhouse intact for eight miles
proved too expensive. Cameron says
that PPL, CATV, and Bell Atlantic
wanted $60,000 to raise their lines.
Cameron says there is a story for

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Cameron says,
them to take it
didn't want it."

it,"

told

Cameron was renting

a huge crane
and couldn't afford
delays. He says there was silence
on the other end of the phone until
someone said "we'll be right there."
Perhaps the greatest testimony

cient system we have available to us right now." The
barn uses a geothermal system he installed himself.
The people who work with

and must be

differently

I

the Olde Cloverleaf barn.
Cameron says the barn is
heated and air-conditioned
"with the most energy effi-

move

different

to deliver

shrugging, "so
back. I said

Cameron's ecologicallyphilosophy
lies
sound
beneath the brick floor of

and quickly

set in,"

moved

money

to

at

accepted.

is

was expected on the
he got a call from the driver.
"The car was sitting up in
Berwick and they wanted more
delivery

last car,

ing

them part

of the

building's

history.

The bed and breakfast in the hisbegan by laying a
rail line and moving several 55-ton
torical train cars

turn-of-the-century train cars, complete with mirrored ceilings, from

Wilkes-Barre.

Cameron says that

Cameron are incredible
craftsmen, he says, "they are
people who know what I
want." Anything they take
from a site is used in the rebuilding
process or is recycled. "We don't
waste anything," Cameron says.
Most of the craftsmen at the
Village have other jobs, but they
work for him because they love it
and because they have passions
similar to his own.
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As carpenter Roy Keener, 62,
Muncy, was working on the roof of
one of the buildings, Cameron says
Keener turned to him and said,
"We've left quite a trail of buildings
behind us since we started."
Keener has been working with
Cameron since the project began in
1995. "These restorations are more
unique and more challenging then
anything I've ever done," Keener
says. He is currently restoring the
one-room church, which will house
the art center.

Cameron

Olde Cloverleaf "a
recreated historic village, 20 buildings with a focus on arts, education, and music." It is one of the
few places where the 60 local
artists and artisans affiliated with
the Village can showcase and sell
calls

Sharon Duff, 26, Kilsyth,
Scotland, began working at the
Village as the hospitality manager
in 1999 on a three-year work visa.

Once a month, she hosts an
authentic British afternoon tea at
Cameron's Victorian manor.
"People come expecting a cup of
tea and a scone," Duff says in a lilting Scottish brogue, "but we tell
them to come hungry." The tea
includes four courses, accompanied
by a pot of "her majesty's house
blend" a tea commissioned for

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Scotland's

Queen

Victoria.

Olde Cloverleaf also has a

sister

Upper Church in
Tiperary. "They contacted us and
asked to be our sister village,'"
Cameron says, "so we established
this exchange program." During

village in Ireland,

their work.

One woman makes small

bas-

Hand-made

may host as many as 1,000
people at one time.
Each year, seven festivals are held
on the Village grounds, each with its
theme. The Winter

Carnival, Springfest, Father's

Heritage

Garlic Festival,

Day,

Day

Herb and
and

Oktoberfest,

Victorian Christmas typically have
six to nine musical groups, such as

bluegrass,

hammered

dulcimers,

acoustic guitar, Caribbean

and bar-

ber shop singers. Free horse-drawn
carriage rides are given during the
summer and faU. The Heritage and
Herb & Garlic Festivals offer educational seminars and demonstrations.

Spring 2001

living quarters above and
a goldsmith and wine tasting room
below. "Then I'm done," he says.
But that's only the first project.
Cameron says his second project
will be to create the Susquehanna
Valley Museum Complex. The complex will include a natural history
museum containing dinosaur skeletons and information on Pennsylvania historical geology, an Indian
village with long houses, and an

Old Northumberland County musethat spans the period from initial European contact with Pennsylvania's Native American popula-

um

The third project,
Cameron says, "will have
to

Village

Bash,

way with

remain a

secret." All

three of the projects will
be close to each other and
will preserve local history

sil-

work of buildings.
With an average of 1,000 visitors
a week and the use of the schoolhouse as a tourist center for
Columbia and Montour counties,
Cameron says people come from all
over. During festivals, he says the

—

—

man.

sterling

specific

a "cidering" operation, a pottery
shed, a train station moved from
Pottsville
and a European arch-

of the late 19th century.

ver jewelry and heavy
wooden bowls that take
an average of one year to
complete also add to the
array of local artistry that
fills
"Artisan Alley" insi
Cameron's inter-connected patch

own

woodworking shop, a quilting shop,

tion to the Industrial Revolution

kets entirely from pine needles,
intricately woven by hand
Braided rugs and chair
pads are hand crafted by a

vision-impaired

dinner and performing arts thewith a brew pub and old world
market house. Also planned are a

atre,

and

2000, Olde Cloverleaf Village hosted its first exchange student.
Cameron says he hopes to send
university students from the
Susquehanna Valley to Ireland as
representatives of the Village in
the future.
Cameron says he will complete
three projects before he rests, all in
the same general vicinity. The first
is the Village, which he hopes to
finish by the end of 2002. Along
with a bath and soap shop, the
Velvet Cow ice cream parlor, a
clothing store, a Christmas shop,
nature store, a three-floor antiques
barn, and even more delightful
places to shop already on premise,
plans are being made for a chocolate shop. After that, Cameron says
he intends to create a Europeanstyle street, a 300-seat round barn

culture.

Cameron

says that historical villages
like Olde Cloverleaf Village
are the last hope for buildings
destined for the wrecking ball. He
emphasizes that in a village atmosphere the buildings enjoy far more
exposure to the public while providing educational insight on the
benefits of preservation. Cameron's
ambition, creativity, and determination have paved the way for the
creation of a village he has imagined since his childhood, but like
Robert Frost, he has miles to go
before he sleeps. Even when it is
finished,

Cameron

never stop learning."

says,

^

"I

will

by Robert H. Brown,

Sr.

did David Dalton, a resident of
Washingtonville, know that an inexpensive
birthday gift for his wife, Angela, would
change the direction of their lives. The stained glass
craft kit he gave her in 1990 introduced the couple
to a new world of possibilities. From that modest
beginning, the Daltons created the Olde Town
ittle

Stained Glass Studio in the mid 1990s. The term
26

spectrum

"stained glass"

is

misleading.

feet

Metallic salts and oxides are
added to the glass during the manufacturing process to produce the
desired colors. Adding gold produces rich reds, while silver creates
yellows. Mixing gold with copper
gives shades of green or a darker
brick red color. Adding cobalt yields
the rich and popular dark blue.
Following its zenith during the
middle ages, the use of stained
glass declined. It was during the
19th and early 20th centuries that
its use again became common. The
1960s gave rise to another resurgence in the use of stained glass not
only in windows, but also as decorative panels and lighting fixtures.
Recently, the couple completed a
25-inch by 44-inch panel, based
upon a window design by Henri
Matisse (1869-1954). The panel is
made of jewel-like gold and yellow
tones to represent the sun and flowers on a background of cobalt blue.
On the workbench, the couple
had begun work on a window for
the Trinity United Methodist
Church, Danville. The 24 by 60
inch window is the largest piece
the Daltons can construct in a single section.

bond when soldered.

The

final step is to force

sol-

cement

between the glass
and the came. The piece is polished
and a protective wax coating is

into the crevices

apphed. Reinforcing rods are added
A clear glass panel is
often placed on the outside of a
stained glass window to protect it
from the elements.
Design shadings are added on with
"vinegar trace" paint. The paint is a
mixture of ground glass and pigment,
which is combined with gum arable and
for strength.

vinegar.
all the

the glass edge
is

covered

with a thin
copper strip
sli^t^ wider

than the thickness of the glass.
Using a tool called a "fid," the extended edge of the foil is bent and
pushed onto the surface of both
sides of the glass. The finished
pieces are placed on the pattern
and the copper is then coated
with flux and soldered. The solder will adhere to the copper but
not the glass, making a rigid bond
equal to the came method. The
soldered joints and cames may be

When

designs

are painted, the
pieces are fired
in a Idln to melt

the ground glass

and, therefore,

become an

inte-

gral part of the

needed sections.

The window combines

both a center portion of stained
glass and a wide border of clear
glass. Angela says although the
studio has many books of designs,
most customers already have a
general idea of the design they want.
David likes to work on pieces in the
Victoria style with lots of straight
cuts, while Angela enjoys the challenge of working on more intricate
designs of flowers and birds.
While straight cuts generally
break as intended, inside cuts are
more difficult. A space of 1/32 of an
inch must be allowed between each
piece of glass in
order to fit into the

cames

—"H"

shaped

pure lead
used to hold the

strips of
_^

pieces of glass

together.

When each piece
of glass has

been

came,
brushed

fitted into its

every

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with flux to insure a perSpring 2001

The

der melts at a lower temperature
than pure lead and does not damage
the cames when joined, creating a
perfect bond.

Angela Dalton carefully works on a
stained glass pattern portraying
for a local church.

Jesus Christ

left the natural silver
gray color. Tiffany employed the
copper foil method to make his
famous lampshades and other intri-

tinted or

The studio stocks over 200
shades and hues of glass. In the
design of the window for the
Trinity Church, a soft marbled
textured brown glass was needed to simulate the wooden cross.
addition to the lead came
of joining the pieces of cut
glass, the Daltons also employ the
copper foil method. This modern
innovation invented by Lewis
Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), was
the first major change in the
making of stained glass pieces in
almost 2000 years. Each side of
In

method

cate designs.

Since each piece the Daltons
is a "one-of-a-kind," the final
price varies from piece to piece.
The hours spent in design and
construction, along with the cost
of materials determine the final

make

cost.

Some
hope

day,

to give

David and Angela
up their present pro-

fessions and devote full time to
joining bits and pieces of stained
glass together to form beautiful
examples of the glassmakers' art

that will last a lifetime.

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A Millville resident
Ann

Keefer

sits

back in her

chair contemplating

what

her next move will be.
Keefer has a long road ahead of
her preparing for a moment in
the spotlight. It's not fame she
seeks, although her 15 minutes of
fame will last about a month.
Keefer will walk across four

walk 600 miles for a cure.

will

who share the same

story,"

she

says.
"I

some

to

like

to

walk, and do

run,

light weightlifting for exer-

cise," she says. These joys have
become more of a hobby and a
weekly routine in her life. Keefer
says running is a great time to
clear her head and think of the

money
Lowe Syndrome.

states to raise
for

Keefer,

who has
Lowe Syndrome.
She will put on her
walking shoes, leave
her home, and embark

year-old boy

on a month-long trek
at the end of August.
The 600-mile walk will
end in Indianapolis,
where her nephew,
..^v*v.

I

sister, Michelle,

and I have always been there for each
have wished

other," says Keefer. "I

over the years that we lived closer to
each other," says Keefer "especially

Larry was born with Lowe

Syndrome." Larry was born nine
weeks premature and spent eight
weeks in the special care and
intensive care units. He has

undergone several surgeries and
been failing steadily
for the past several months, says
Keefer. "I have struggled that we
are so far away from each other,
and have on several occasions
wondered what I could do to make
a difference in her life and others

his health has

30

know ill niv) lieart tliat can
make tliis liappen witli tlie lielp
oi my lamilv) and. iriends.
I

Larry Barnett, and his
family live.

since

Indiana? I would've loved to have
been at his place of work to see the
look on his face," she says. Since
the middle of last summer, Keefer
has been committed to helping
families affected by the disease.
Keefer has the support of her
employer. First Columbia Bank &
Trust Co., where she is an assistant vice president and assistant
operations officer. She hopes to
generate large corporate sponsorships and many individual donations. A kick-off fundraising event
is being planned in Pennsylvania,
and ideas are being explored for a
closing ceremony and fundraiser

Millville, is a

grandmother, bank
network administrator, and aunt of a three-

"My

it would take
walk from Pennsylvania to

long do you think

things she most appreciates."
It was during one of Keefer's six
mile runs that an idea overwhelmed her. She decided to create a large-scale fundraiser for

Lowe Syndrome.
have

"I

knew

it

would

be something big to be
noticed and to make people listen," says Keefer.
"From that day on," she says, "I
have been so excited about this
and I know in my heart that I can
make this happen, with the help of
family and friends." Keefer says
she broke the news to her husband, Joe, while he was at work,
asking him over the phone, "How
to

"We will hold a
motorcycle rally, 'Lowe Road

in Indianapolis.

and a golf tournament is also
planned," says Keefer. The closing
ceremonies will be held at Indiana
University/Purdue University Soccer
Stadium where there will be media
coverage, and a benefit concert.
Keefer has started to contact
local businesses and local health
clubs, and is developing a full
media campaign. Her story will be
featured in the August issue of
Family Circle magazine in a series
dedicated to hometown heroes. "I
will be putting Larry's picture on
T-shirts and flyers. Not only do I
Rally,'

Spectrum

-Roadby Ken Fetterhoff

want

to raise

area,

I

funds in the local
funds and
awareness about this disease all
along my route to Indianapolis,"
Keefer says, noting, "it's hard to
put a number on what my goal is."
"I work out six days a week
which is hard with working full
time but I have dedicated myself
to this cause," says Keefer. She
visits Bloom Health and Fitness
three times a week working out
for over three hours. "On days
when I don't go to the gym I walk
anywhere from ten to twelve miles
but that will be building up as I
get closer to August," says Keefer.

want

to raise

Lowe Syndrome,

known as
syndrome,

also

oculo-cerebro-renal

a rare inherited metabolic disease that affects males. There are
cases
in
only
191
reported
the United States and four in
Pennsylvania. The disorder is characterized by lack of muscle tone,
multiple abnormalities of the eyes
and bones, mental retardation,
is

Keefer takes a break and receives some instruction from Bob
Groshak, her trainer at Bloom Healtin and Fitness.
short stature, and kidney problems.
"I'm sure I'll have blisters but
that pain will be worth it if I can

Keefer starts
her daily

workout on

bring an awareness to what Lowe
syndrome is all about," Keefer
says "My number one goal is to
bring Lowe syndrome out on a
national level," she concludes. _^

the treadmill
at

Bloom

Health and

For more information visit:
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Fitness.

Spring 2001

31

A

Danville

woman

traditionally

masters a

male occupation.

h Sonu future
Story and photos by Maryjayne Reibsome

white-hot flame cuts

through a piece of
metal shooting sparks into
the air. The end of the cut
metal clangs to the floor.
Kathy Snyder extinguishes the flame and
up her face shield, revealing shoulder length brown hair and a ready smile.

flips

"This isn't something I dreamed about doing
the rest of my hfe," Snyder says, emphasizing, "People
look at me and say, 'what do you do here?"' Snyder, 43,

is the owner and operator of Haupt's
Welding, Danville.
"I've met other girls who are
welders, but girl welders are rare,"
Snyder says. Fewer than 6 percent
of all welders are women, according
to the U.S. Department of Labor. "I
don't consider myself a woman's
libber I'm just doing a job and put
100 percent into my work," Snyder
says. She graduated from Danville
High School in 1975 after completing computer programming courses
at Colombia-Montour Area Vocational

—

birth of

her first

child.

Snyder began learning the trade
in 1983 as a part-time job,
working by her father's side

welding aluminum swimming
pool parts. She recalls her Dad

out that complaints are usually
from a new customer who's never

seen her work before.
A typical day finds Snyder
at the shop at 8 a.m. She banters
light-heartedly with her bro-

ther as they

spending hours
in the evenings

iii^tiiiiiiiil

Aeetaat

of pool parts. "I

—^faasc
and ^nma—

thought, how
hard could that

be?"

load

:s:

work welding thousands
after

sCop

Snyder
Today,

pieces

'

of angle-iron

onto racks.
Light filters
through the
white panels
built into

the

Technical School.

says.

"I could see the classroom across
the hall where my brother was taking welding courses," says Snyder,
"I remember wishing I could have
taken welding instead of computer
programming." But, Snyder says
girls weren't encouraged to take
those kind of courses in the 1970s.
After graduating, Synder worked
at Geisinger Medical Center as a
computer programmer until the

head lights
acthat glare
just fiaft of tfie
counts for 99
down, but
percent of her
don't reach
io6.
work; she spethe far corciali z e s
in
ners of the
repairing and
shop.
Sedibalancing boat propellers. Along
ments from grinding, welding, and
with repairing lawnmowers, car cutting leave a gritty residue
heads, and fiael tanks, she has on the surfaces. But Snyder doesn't
made hand railings for Geisinger let things like that get in the way of
Medical Cen- her job. "All that slop grease and
ter and area grime it's just part of the job,"
churches, repairsays Snyder, adding that someed pots and pans times she singes her hair or catchand wheel chairs es her clothes on fire.
for local nursHer quilted flannel shirt is dotted
ing homes, and with burn holes from flying sparks
designed the lift and a smudge of dirt rests on her
gates used in the
cheek from her work gloves.
Geisinger park- Snyder jokes about her appearance
ing lots.
and recalls times when she had to

its

aluminum

walls and over-

welding

—

—

Snyder says
that in the begin-

men were
woman
welder. "They
used to go to my
ning

leery of a

brother, Skip,

and

say T don't want
her working on my
parts."'

er,

Her

broth-

Glen "Skip"

Haupt,

Jr.,

of Skip's

owner

Portable

Welding, Sunbury,

go to the bank to make deposits or
run errands during the day.
"There's just not time to clean up
and sometimes I feel like a bag
lady," she says. She laughs at the
memory of a mechanic at a local
garage telling her that he liked her
perfume "essence of fuel oil."
Snyder says she likes being a
woman and when it comes time to
unload heavy equipment or oxygen

—

tanks into the shop she doesn't get
upset when men tell her to 'get out
of the way and let me do it you're

—

subcontracts the
steel work from his

a

sister's shop.

120-pound, Snyder.
In 1994, after working with her
father for 11 years, Snyder took
over the family business.
"I was a little leery at first," says
her father, "She was young and there
aren't too many lady welders out

them that
if they want the
best in aluminum
"I tell

welding they have

Haupt
pointing

to go to her,"

says,

It

appreciate things like that.
saves my back," says the petite

girl.'

"I

5'3",

33

.

..

by Louis K. Williams

W

style," says Dillon.

no experience
other than a high
school wood-crafting class and a love for music,

The

John Dillon, Bloomsburg,
has become one of the most
well-respected guitar mak-

until he

ith

a

art of guitar

crafting

is

especially

and

it took
Dillon about a year

tedious,

was

satis-

with his results.
"Although I sold
my guitars from the
beginning, I think
fied

ers in the country.

Dillon,

my own

and develop

native of the

Bloomsburg area, moved

that

to the southwest United
States in the early seventies

13 guitars before

pursue a career in the
music industry. Dillon

a

artistic

new

was ready

Colorado.

his

forms.

Spring 2001

decided

Dillon

return

to

Blooms-

to

burg in the early 80's
to take some time off
his music
career to help his

from

family's flower business. "I worked in the

flower business for

about 12 years after
I
came back to
Bloomsburg," DiUon

Upon

take
him on as an apprentice,
Krimmel bluntly refused,
and sent Dillon away with
a guitar making book
and instructions to return when
he had finished his first guitar.
For the next year Dillon used his
own creativity to figure out how to
make quality guitars with very
primitive tools and little knowledge.

start playing

guitar other than
own when he per-

after

After deciding

Max Krimmel

and

guitars."
very rare
for Dillon to use any

make his own guitars, Dillon made the sixhour drive from his home in
Taos, New Mexico, to
Krimmel's workshop in
asking

I

set

my own
Now it is

to start to

Boulder,

to

down my Martin guitar

playing a handcrafted guitar made by notable luthier
(a person who crafts stringed
instruments) Max Krimmel.
"It was the best sounding
guitar that I had ever heard
and I knew that I would like
to try to make my own,"
Dillon says.

I

that

good guitar when

outlet for

talent

12 or

they were very good,"
says Dillon. "I knew
that I had made a

spent time performing in
the smoky club and bar
Mexico.
scene of New
When his career as an
artist became tedious he
searched for a way to
make some extra money.

He found

me

really thought

to

his

took

it

says, "before I real-

ized

to

my

not in

it."

heart

was

After mak-

ing a guitar for his

son Michael, Dillon

began

Each time he would finish an
instrument it would be taken
and critiqued by Krimmel.
"I think that the way I was
taught was very beneficial because
it allowed me to use my own creativity, make my own mistakes,

to construct

guitars again. He
finally
acquired

many

of the tools necessary to

make a

good guitar and set up a workshop in
the basement of his current home,
which he calls the "Art Ranch."

35

Dillon who has continued his
guitar-making hobby and turned
it into a business also still spends
a great deal of time playing and
promoting music. He currently
brings out-of-town performers to
Bloomsburg every weekend to

play in town and stay
at

his

home. Every

Saturday, Dillon has
a show on the Bloomsburg University radio
station (91.1 WBUQ)
that showcases his
guest performer for

the week. Then on
Saturday night Dillon
plays with his guest

The process
Dillon's

of

guitars

making one
takes

a

lot

of

of

patience and precision. It can take
anywhere from 100 to more than
200 hours to finish a single guitar.
Customers who are interested in
having a guitar built for them play
a huge role in designing the guitar
Dillon will construct. Body styles,
wood types, inlay materials and
designs, size, color, finish, and the
number of strings are all taken into
consideration when building one of
Dillon's hand-crafted guitars.
"I usually invite a customer to my

we can

down and
talk about what they want in their
guitar," Dillon says. Due to the
time and effort he puts into making
workshop

so

sit

one of his guitars they are often
very hard to sell. "It is like putting
a kid up for adoption," says Dillon.
The price range of his guitars can
range anywhere from $2,000 to
about $8,000. They have been purchased by well known country
artists hke Trisha Yearwood, Steve
Earle, Tish Hinojosa, Dave Gibson,
and Hank Williams, Jr.
Dillon's guitars are different from

many mass-produced

versions.

Emporium,
The
promotion part of John
Dillon's hobby has been
centered on trying to
bring more recognized

great deal of pressure and time to set

at Phillip's

a local coffee shop.

correctly.

The

procedure

Dillon employs in
making a guitar is
also unique. He uses

many

primi-

he has either invented
or perfected to achieve the sound he
wants from a guitar. "My music
playing definitely lends itself to
tive tools that

bands

to local venues.

Master luthier John Dillon has
brought not only his knack for

making beautiful instruments but

says Dillon.
"Being able to hear the sounds that
come from a guitar helps in the devel-

love for music to the
Bloomsburg area. His love for
craftsmanship and fine detail
has given him a hobby and an art

opment

form that he will

my

making

guitars,"

process."

Dillon has signed
of his 79

and numbered

custom made guitars.

all

also his

of his

He

also keeps the sound hole cut out

from each guitar for identification purposes. 'This is something I will work
on forever. I will always have a guitar in the workshop," says Dillon.

life.

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A Man for All Seasons
BY MARYJAYNE REIBSOME
A Lewisburg

biker copes with
by immersing himself into the

his painful past
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BY MARYJAYNE REIBSOME
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of winemaking

in Danville.

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Rebuilding a Reputation
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is

long, flowing

white beard
can pass the
test of a child's

urious tug; his compas-

perched on his nose,
Butch Woolsey, Lewisburg,
is the perfect St. Nick. For
16 years he has played the

the holiday seasa
But, for Woolsey, 48, if s

role.

work. He's

tacles

more than
Sa!nta suit

just

donning a

and going
fiilfiUing

to

a vow

Each December, Woolsey he made to his daughters,
visits nursing homes, Angle and Missy.
and old alike.
"They made me promise
Dressed in an 18th century day care centers, private
costume, a red velvet robe homes, and public places, never to shave my beard
trimmed with faux fiir and bringing to life one of the and to always play Santa at
white satin, and half-spec- most beloved characters of Christmas," Woolsey says.
sion brings joy to

young

His first appearance as jolly old
Nick was in 1985. Angie, then
eight years old, was at Evangelical Community Hospital, Lewisburg, diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a chronic lung disease.
"I bought a $19 Santa suit and a
can of silver spray for my hair
St.

and beard," Woolsey remembers,
"Angie and the other children in
the ward enjoyed the visit from
Santa." That was Angle's last
Christmas. She died the following
year.

—

"You know outcomes you can
try to prepare yourself for it, but
it's never easy," Woolsey says

struck him and his motorcycle.
His wife and daughter were following behind in a car, but had
made a quick stop to run an
errand.
Woolsey has the perfect personal'We came upon the scene of
ity to play Santa, according to
the accident and I rememGeorge Connolly, president.
ber Missy saying, 'that
"What Butch does for us
looks like Daddy's motor[playing Santa] there isn't
cycle,"' says Woolsey's
enough money in the
wife, Karen. "We saw
world to repay him,"
him laying there
Connolly says, noting,
and he kept saying
life kicks
"he brings happy /
he was OK, but he
you down, you \
smiles to kids of all
wasn't," she says.
ages." Connolly
Woolsey was hosgot to get back up.
says that many of ^
pitalized for 18
the nursing home
days for a shatButch Woolsey
residents pull on
tered arm, a sepaWoolsey's beard to
rated pelvis and
-;;"'
make sure it's real; the
internal injuries, and
____.
women especially like
was off work for six
hugs and kisses. He also
months while he recovered.
recalls a resident at one of the
The next year, Woolsey became
nursing homes saying, "Oh, an emergency medical technician
Santa, you came to see me." An (EMT) for the William Cameron
aide later told Woolsey the Engine Company, Lewisburg. He
patient hadn't spoken in months.
and Missy, 16, took classes
Only one Christmas was together and she became a junior
Woolsey unable to play Santa.
EMT.
In November 1992, a truck
"I wanted to become an EMT to

nf

—

quietly.

A

year later, Woolsey found
himself playing Santa for his
youngest daughter, Melissa,
when she was also hospitalized
for cystic fibrosis.

From
house

homes sponsored by the club.
The Association is for employees and their families of the Chef
Boyardee plant, Milton, where
Woolsey has worked for 31 years.

he started making
calls to friends and
acquaintances. Woolsey says he
won't do commercial sites, like
malls or stores, but he's been
"adopted" by the Chefs Silver and
Gold Association to play Santa at
various parties and area nursing
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help Missy and to know what
to do for her in an emergency,"

Woolsey says. He
incident

recalls

an

when she was

at

home on

oxygen.
"I found her slumped over; I
had her prepped and to the
hospital before the ambulance
could respond," Woolsey says.
The physician noted he had
probably saved her life, he
adds. Missy, like Angle before
her, died from cystic fibrosis.

She was

17.

the death of my
daughter (in 1998) people
asked me if I still would play
Santa," Woolsey says. "In the
memory of my daughters I
continued, so I play Santa and
I have lots of kids."
Sometimes Woolsey's sleigh
is an ambulance or his 1983
"After

Liberty Classic Harley-David-

son

Once he

motorcycle.

dressed as Santa during his
shift as an EMT and responded to a call to help an elderly

woman.
"The doors were locked and I
to crawl through a win-

had

dow

to get inside," he
says, grinning, "Santa doesn't

always

come

down the

chimney."
All of Woolsey's activities are
He doesn't ask
for payments for his Santa
gifts of himself.

work as an EMT.
"Sometimes I get cookies or
a couple of bucks for gas," he
says. "That's good enough for

role or his

me."
"He's incredible with the

residents," says Mindy
Bartholomew, activities director at Kramm's Health Care
Center, Milton. Woolsey "is
the best Santa the center ever
had," she says.
"He'll lean right
a bed to hug a

Bartholomew

says,

blind, he'll let

biker, all black

down over
patient,"

"and

them

if

they're

feel his face

and beard."
Bartholomew remembers seeing another side of Woolsey
without his Santa suit. It was
during an ambulance call.
"Here's this guy dressed like a
Winter 2001

and

leather, tak-

ing a resident to the hospital,"
Bartholomew says. She adds that
the residents like him because he
talks to
is

them and

tells

them what

happening.
In his black bandana, jeans,

boots and leather vest, and mirrored glasses, Woolsey looks like
a typical biker.
"I
don't care what anyone

dress to be me," he says.
to wear a
hat and earmuffs to school after
he had an ear operation when he
thinks;

I

He remembers having
was

eight.

—

"Kids can be cruel although
they don't mean to be," Woolsey
says. "I don't like hats that's

—

why

wear a bandana, even to
work." He wears mirrored glasses
because his optometrist preI

7

V

them for an eye condition.
Woolsey has tattoos on both of
his upper arms; not surprising for
scribed

a biker.

What is

surprising

is

that

he received his tattoos after the
deaths of his children. The one on
his right arm is an eagle with the
names of his daughters April,
Angle, and Missy inscribed underneath. (April, the Woolsey's first
child, died when she was eight
days old.) On his left arm is a tattoo of a "guardian angel" with
Missy's name inscribed.
"Missy collected guardian angels
and when she died her mother
started wearing one of her pins,"

Woolsey explains,
jewelry,

so

I

"I

got

don't

"Life goes on," he says. "Other
people out there go through the
same or worse problems. If life
kicks you down, you've got to get

back up."
Woolsey talks about Missy and
how she watched her sister suffer
and die from CF, never saying a
word about her own fate. Her bedroom ceiling is papered with hundreds of get-well balloons she
received. "She asked me to put
them on her ceiling so she could
see them all," Woolsey remembers.

wear

instead."

But

when

Christmas

rolls

Santa suit he wears to parties.
Woolsey says he wants to look as
authentic as possible.
f "Last year I spent four hours in
a barber's chair bleaching my
hair and beard," Woolsey says,
adding, that this year he won't
have to do that since his beard is

Woolsey
and Missy
during her

I

Inospitai

stay

in

1986.

Woolsey says.
Karen Woolsey agrees that the
month of December can get quite
hectic.

"To

me

this gift

—

God gave him
be able to make peo-

it's

^to

like

ple happy," she says. "People
react to him. Their faces light up,
their eyes get big, and they have

dent, says that both Woolseys
"are willing to share what they've

gone through and they would do
anything to help other children
with CF."
Each year the Woolseys help
with the Christ Kindl Market

Motorcycle Miracle Tour,
which he has participated in

starting to whiten naturally.

Woolsey has an event almost
every day in December; his wife
drives him to the parties and
makes sure everyone is ready for
"Santa" to make his appearance.
She also takes pictures and gives
duplicates to the hosts.
"She is my greatest supporter
and is always there for me,"

financial need can apply for the
scholarship to further their education.
Betty Hollenbach, past presi-

held during December in Mifflinburg. The PACFI sells apple
dumplings at the market and,
says Hollenbach, "Butch is
always there to set up and
tear down; Karen helps man
the kitchen."
After this holiday season,
Woolsey will judge a "chili cook
off sponsored by a Mifflinburg restaurant, to benefit CF.
Woolsey has been judging the
contest each February for the
past ten years.
Woolsey will then help at the
Pennsylvania CF golf tournament held in Milton. In May, he
will climb aboard his Harley
and ride for the Geisinger's

the tattoo

around, Woolsey swaps his biker
outfit for his Santa costume.
He says he upgraded his Santa
suit from a $19.95 to a $300 handcrafted, red velvet, old world

"Angle and Missy Woolsey
Scholarship" program in 2000.
Persons with cystic fibrosis and

since

it

Summer
ing

Although Woolsey knows he
will

never be a grandfather, he's

not bitter.

"You should never outlive your
children," he says. "Life doesn't

always work out the way

—

it

should, but at Christmas to see
those kids smile and to get gifts is
wonderful."

Woolsey knows first hand how
wonderful it is to receive a special
gift. This year he was the first
recipient of the

Wm. Cameron

this big smile of joy."

Engine Co., "Missy" Woolsey 2001
Memorial Award presented to an

Standing in the living room of
the house Woolsey built himself, he gazes at a family portrait of Angle, Missy, his wife
and himself. He shrugs his
shoulders, and looks away.

outstanding EMS attendant.
"It brought a tear to my eye,"
says Woolsey, gazing at the
award in his hand.
The Pennsylvania Cystic Fibrosis
Inc. (PACFI) also started an

started in 1986.
finds Woolsey rid-

for

the

Zellemoyer

Charity Ride, and in the Fall he
saddles up for the Don Reed
Evangelical Community Hospital
Motorcycle ride for hospice.
Woolsey's outlook and continual
support to help others at
Christmas and throughout the
year proves he is, indeed, a man
for all seasons.

"People helped us when we
needed it," Woolsey says, "we try
to live each day in the fullest. God
gives us the ability to cope and
always seems to work out.'U

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Richard
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Meeting,

foot inside the structure until years later when he
decided to become a Quaker. For
the past 25 years, Wenner, now
74, has been a member of the
Millville Meeting, but before
that he says he knew little about
the religious beliefs of the

Society of Friends and, like
people, maintained misconceptions about it.
"They think we're off-beat, kind

many

of non-traditional

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or

dents of his new Pennsylvania
largely Quakers, could
worship as they chose. The document was important for launching religious freedom. It held that
there was no established religion
in the commonwealth and
affirmed the right of an elected

colony,

freakish,"

says Wenner. Most individuals
remember the term "Quaker"
from early education, but simply
recall that William Penn, a
Quaker, founded the Common-

wealth of Pennsylvania, later
as the "Quaker State," but
they remain ignorant of the principles behind the Society of

assembly
it

to

meet and

legislate as

chose.

Quakers are strong advocates of
peace. "Because we are pacifists,
some might view that as being

Wenner says.
Friends declare themselves to be
conscientious objectors at times of
war. About 1,000 Quakers were

unpatriotic,"

conscientious objectors in World
II, working in hospitals,
rural reconstruction, and other
areas of civilian public service,
says Wendy Chmielewski, curator of Swarthmore College Peace

War

Other Quakers

known

Collection.

Friends, the more formal

ed in the military.
"The way Quakers can square
the idea of fighting with their
conscience is that we are very
convinced that individuals are

name

Quakers.
In 1701, Penn signed the
Charter of Privileges, an historic

for

constitution affirming that resi-

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able to discern

upon them

to

enlist-

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calls

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Morscheck, director of the Quaker
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a Meeting could be supportive of

someone who went into fighting."
Most Quakers who enhsted distinguished themselves as soldiers, according to Jack Sutters of
the American Friends Service
Committee. "That is the astonishing aspect of this," he says.
There are two types of

Quakers are pictured as living in
a sect like the Amish. "There was
a time when Quakers were like
today's Amish," Wenner says,
"but that has disappeared over
the years." Quakers used to wear
plain clothes like the Amish to
show simplicity. "This simplicity
is often misinterpreted," says Hal
Pratt, Millville

Meeting member.

not very obvious, people tend to
think that Quakerism does not
exist today. "We're a very small
group, but a very active and
vibrant group," Loomis says.
Although the Society of Friends
has seen increased membership
over the years, membership is
stagnant, Wenner says. Because
Quakers don't recruit, it is very

Quakers, convinced Quakers

and birthright Quakers.
Wenner is convinced, mean-

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ing that his parents were not
Quakers. Instead, he sought
out the religion for himself.
"My wife and I thought the
Quaker religion was a more
helpful way for our children
to learn about Christianity,"

before I

Wenner

Quaker.

says. "Most Quakers
today are convinced."
"People don't think of

Quakers as a part of today's
world because they don't
look like the guy on the
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Amish is seen in the way
they dress and live, simplicity to
Quakers is the thought of eliminating the extras in life and
deciding how to have what is
important in their life, Pratt says.
"The Amish live apart because
they feel they have to be sepain a
rate to preserve their beliefs,"
Pratt says. "Quakers believe
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The term "Quaker" was
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Of the four Quaker meetColum-

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Meeting is the only active
meeting house in the area.
It has almost 60 members,
bia

Wenner

says.

The other

meeting houses are located
in Catawissa, Greenwood,
and Roaring Creek. Catawissa Meeting, built in
1775, is the oldest of the
four and is a historical land-

mark.
At meetings

for worship,
the principles of good will
and friendship, the root of
Quaker belief, are expressed
by its Protestant followers.
"I was always a traditionalist as far as Protestantism The interior of the Catawissa IVIeeting, used for worship, meetings, and
was concerned and I felt school, reflects the simplicity of the Society of Friends.
that I should stay in the trahas given me an anchor for why I
turned to Quakerism.
ditional denominations of the
"Others were skeptical about believe all that," he continues. "It
religion," Wenner says. But after
the bicentennial observation of my decision, including my broth- has reaffirmed my feeling for the
sanctity of life."
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a gathering to remember the person as they were, he says.
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Mark Latranyi dumps crushed grapes into the
press at The Susquehanna Valley Winery.

7*andhe

leaves are turning

brown

"that's

what

["Oma"

they're

here for."
in

grandmother

withering on the vine;
the grapes are starting to
shrivel. Kolby Latranyi, 8, wanders through the family's threeacre vineyard at the Susquehanna Valley Winery, Danville,
searching for a few remaining
grapes missed during the mid-

In a pasture adjacent to the
vineyard, a white horse grazes
unperturbed as a noisy flock of
honking white geese chase after a
flock of black ducks. The ducks
flee into the vineyard, quacking

September harvest.
"Here's some," Kolby says triumphantly, as he plucks a handful of the dark purple fruit and
pops one in his mouth. "Oma says
we can eat all the grapes we want
during the harvest," Kolby says.

in protest, and line up single file
like soldiers on patrol guarding
the grapes.
"The ducks eat the bugs and
grubs, like the Japanese beetles,
that destroy the grape vines,"
says Hildegard Latranyi, Kolby's

is

German.]

grandmother and co-founder of
the winery. She says no pesticides
are used on the grapes and the
animals supply the fertilizer. She
and her husband, Miklos, started
growing grapes on this farm in
Cooper Township in 1968, and sold
their first bottle of wine in 1987.
But, the idea of growing grapes
started long before 1968. In 1956,

during an anti-Soviet uprising

Hungary, Miklos Latranyi
escaped with two friends and
immigrated to the United States,

in

settling in

New

Jersey.
at the uni-

"He was a student

versity there

and was

politically

involved," Hildegard Latranyi
says. "If he wouldn't have
escaped, he would have had a bullet in his head."
Miklos brought with him the
knowledge of grape growing and
winemaking he had learned on
his own family's vineyard near
Lake Balaton in Hungary.

Hildegard came to the United
States from Germany a year
before to learn English and to
the country.
only planned to learn the language and stay two or three years

visit
"I

and return

to

Germany," she

changed when
she met Miklos at Bloomfield
says. But, her plans

High School, in New Jersey, while
taking evening English classes.
They married in
1958. Later they
bought the Danville

farm and

planted the vineyard.
Latranyi says
she and her hus-

band were

look-

ing for a week-

end

Left: clucks patrol

getaway

the vineyard look-

and retirement

.^'a>--

ing for

place.

bugs

to eat.

"We looked

'
at
real estate catalogs and when Route 80 opened
up, it wasn't a long drive from
New Jersey." Latranyi says they
liked the area right away, adding,
"It's beautiful here."

Hildegard Latranyi moved to
Danville with her sons in 1972.
She ran the winery while Miklos
stayed in New Jersey working as
a pharmaceutical research scientist in neural pharmacology (how
the brain reacts to medicine) for
Schering Plough.
For 27 years he made the three
hour drive on weekends to visit
his family and work at the winery.

He

retired

from Schering

Plough in 1998 and moved

to

Danville.

Along with working the farm
and the vineyard, and running
the winery, Hildegard started a
cleaning company in 1975; her

husband named
18

it

American

Scientific

Maintenance.

"He thought it was a good name
since he was a scientist and also
because he wanted it to be listed
first in the phone book," she says.
Together, she and her young sons
ran the winery and their father
helped out during weekends and
vacations.

18, Mark
spent two
months in Germany at the
Heinrich Schneider Winery in
Edenkoben, one of the grape growing areas of Germany.
"There was always something
exciting going on there," he
remembers, "we drank the wine
while we worked and I got to help
in every aspect of the winery."
The Susquehanna Valley Winery
isn't as big as the one in
Germany, but it still keeps the
family busy. His sons, Kolby, 8;

When

Latranyi,

he

was

their

son,

Easton, 6; and Hunter, 3, help out
with the chores at the winery,
feeding the animals, weeding,
picking the grapes, and bottling
the wine.
Two weeks after the September
harvest, Mark Latranyi is in the
winery workroom "pressing" the
last of the grapes into juice. The
sweet smell of crushed grapes
is

almost overpowering, and

Latranyi's hands are stained
dark purple as he dips the grapes
out of a holding barrel with a
bucket and dumps them into the
pressing barrel. His sons, wearing black rubber work boots, hang
around the barrel, their faces
stained with purple mustaches
from sampling the juice.
"The squeezing is the hardest,
dirtiest, and messiest part,"
Latranyi says, as he dumps
another bucket of grapes into the
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adding, "you can't rush the
process if you want to make it
right." He says Erik, 35, was
pressing the grapes too fast and
the barrel exploded. "The pulp

pressed, the density of the liquid
and sugar content are measured
with a "floating measure." After
adjusting sugar content, yeast is

was on him and everyone and

The

everything in the area," Latranyi
says, grinning, pointing to the
white wall splattered with brown

gallon barrels and left to ferment
for three months. The wine,
Latranyi says, is made "the old
fashioned way" without the use of
heat or artificial colors and flavorings. A minimal amount of
sulfates are added to the wine to

stains.
It wasn't the only learning
experience for the winery's next
generation.
Latranyi says that sometimes
during bad growing seasons it's
necessary to get grape juice from
other wineries. He recalls a time

when he and

Erik transported 20 barrels
of juice home in
a rented truck
from Erie.

Usually the

winery adds
sulfates to
bilize

to

sta-

the juice

keep

it

from

fermenting,
Latranyi

says,

pointing out,
"there wasn't
enough

in one of

the barrels and
it exploded in
the back of the
truck."

This year,
Latranyi says
that the growing season was

good and the
grapes are sweet
Hildegard and Miklos Latranyi label wine bottles with
the help of grandsons, Kolby and Easton.

"You have to be patient
and let most of the juice run out
before you actually start the
press," he says.
Latranyi points to the barn
beams on the ceiling of the workbarrel.

room stained with brown blobs of
what were once grapes. He calls

them

learning experience." Two years ago, the brothers took over the winemaking
from their parents; they now take
turns working at the winery.
"The saying 'sell no one before
its time' is true," Latranyi says.
"Erik's

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juicy. "We
pick the grapes

and

and check the
sugar content,' Latranyi says,
adding, "we know right away the
content of alcohol the grapes will
produce." He says a 10 percent
alcohol content is the best.
"Most people drink wine for the
flavor and taste," Latranyi says,
pointing out that if the alcohol
level is too high it distracts from
the taste of the wine. Using a
"Refracto Meter" that measures

the "brix" (sugar content)
Latranyi checks to see if the
grapes are ready to be picked.
After they are crushed and

added

for

fermentation to

start.

liquid is put into plastic 55-

prevent

it

is bottled.

from fermenting once

it

"Racking," the process

where the wine

is

pumped

into

clean barrels leaving the sediments behind, takes place after

Christmas. A second racking
takes place in the spring. "It
helps to clarify the wine,"
Latranyi says. Each barrel is
equipped with a "fermentation
lock" that prevents air from getting into the wine, (which would
turn it into vinegar), and allows
carbon dioxide produced by fermentation to be released. "The
wine is aged in the barrels for
about a year," Latranyi says,
"then it's run through a filter, bottled and labeled." The winery produces about 2,000 gallons a year.
But, there is more to the wine
business than just processing the
grapes, Latranyi says. The vineyard has an average life span of
about 25 years and after that the
vines start to lose their productivity. Rotating the vines is important for crop production. "Over
the years we rip out older vines
and start all over with new ones,"
he says, "then we must wait five
or six years for them to produce
grapes." Grapes are best when it's
damp in the spring and dry in the

summer. Too much moisture can
cause fungus to grow and the
grapes don't ripen properly,
Latranyi says.
The wines processed by The

Susquehanna Valley Winery
include Sweet Concord, a fruity,

sweet wine made with concord
grapes; Sweet Niagara, a sweet
white wine, made with Niagara
grapes; Melody, a blush wine;
Symphony, a semi-dry wine;
Duet, a dry red wine; Gluhwein,
19

Kolby
Latranyi

discovers

grapes
left over
from the
harvest.

("glow wine" in German) a spiced
wine, served warm or cold; and
Harmony, a middle of the road

wine between Duet and Concord
wines, reintroduced this season.
Although the ingredients seem
simple enough, it's the blending
of the different grapes that makes
the wine. Eight to ten types of
grapes are used in various combinations.
"It's our secret family recipe,"
Kolby says seriously.

And family

is

and

of course, a bottle of wine.

Advertising for the Susquehanna Valley Winery is mostly
by "word of mouth," Latranyi
says. The only other advertising
is two road signs on Route 11.
Wine purchases can be made
only at the winery on Mount

premises in the future.
The future of the winery is
now in the hands of the
sons. Hildegard says she is
"burned out and ready to
retire"; her husband likes to
travel and has been back to visit
his brother in Hungary. She
says he hopes to purchase land
near the family vineyard there,
as a "getaway place," where the
tradition of grape growing in the
Latranyi family first had its

what the

Susquehanna Valley Winery is all
about. Adjacent to the wine tasting room is the family's dining
room. "We've had lots of gettogethers here," Latranyi says,
adding that various clubs and
organizations come for wine tasting. Hildegard Latranyi says the

nuns from Maria Joseph Manor,
Danville, bring patients. "The
nuns bring the cheese and crackers and I supply samples of the

roots.

wine," she says, adding, "It's a
nice outing for them."
The winery also creates custom
labels for special occasions like

weddings and holidays, and
makes gift baskets, filled with
cheese, crackers

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and other

Zion Road, off Route 11
between Danville and Bloomsburg. Latranyi says he's had
offers from local restaurants and
is looking to expand from the

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M

XwA y 6:30 wakeup call didn't come from my
alarm clock but from the highest trees in the
nearby woods. Several dozen early morning
crows were flying in to take part in some kind
of ancient ritual, which was impossible to
ignore. As a city dweller, I had never seen or
heard anything like this before.
I knew very little about the American Crow
Corvus brachyrhynchos (Brachyrhynchos means
short beak.) I knew only that it was shiny and black,
.

brazen and

loud and noisy. It seemed to be
well known that crows destroy the farmers' corn
crops and defy the scarecrow sentinel, but is this
true? There are many misconceptions and much
unknown information about the crow.
Henry Doraski, a farmer in the Numidia area,
believes crows aren't a big problem. "They don't
destroy large numbers of corn plants in my field,
and I've even found that they help me out by eating
up insects and dead animals," he says, noting
"crows are hunted more for sport in this part of
Columbia County."
Bill Bitler, a Bloomsburg farmer, says that crows
aren't a problem at his farm either. "The crow is a
very intelligent bird and I've found that I've had to
change some of my ways of farming," he says, noting "crows love to pick the corn plants from the outside two rows of the cornfield, so I leave these rows
empty now." The only problem he says he had is
crows pecking through the black plastic irrigation
paper in order to get at the bugs underneath it. It's
a nuisance but not a big problem, Bitler says. There
is an old farmers' saying about the planting of corn,
says Rachel Bitler, his wife, "One for the row, one
for the crow, and one to grow." According to the
Cooperative Extension bulletin, American Crows,
complaints associated with crow damage to agricul-

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social,

ture were more common in the 1940s
than today.
Douglas Gross, an

ornithologist

from

Orangeville, believes
that crows aren't a big

-

problem

in eastern
Pennsylvania. Gross
notes that crows eat a

June Bug grubs
which are uncovered
by plows each spring in
cornfields around Pennsylvania. "Even older
lot of

accounts give fascinating records of

crows consuming

amounts of
cutworms and beelarge
tles,"

Gross says.

The crow has been a
helper in the fields as early as
1845, when it was called "abundant" in Cumberland County. The
raven, a look-alike, however, decreased in numbers as cultivation took place because it prefers the
seclusion of forested areas.
Crop damage is not a big problem with crows;
roosts have become the modern dilemma. Roosts
form in the fall and by mid-December as many as
50,000 to 100,000 birds may congregate in an area.
Local crows are joined with those migrating out of
northern areas, forming large, noisy flocks.
In Milton, a roost of thousands of crows existed
since the early part of the twentieth century. In
recent years, thousands of crows have roosted in

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Milton in riverside trees; these
particular crows have become a
nuisance because of the residue
they leave. Residents were tired
of the problem and asked for help.
According to the Milton Standard
Journal, "The first attempt to
drive the crows away involved
playing recordings of predators
calls near where the birds had
been nesting." Since that method
didn't work, the police decided to
try a stronger method. Propane
cannons, which made a noise like
a shotgun, were set up in several
locations in order to disperse the
crows over a wider area. The
Milton police got approval to
shoot the crows if the roost didn't
break up, but the crows dispersed
and were given a reprieve. In the
fall and winter, crows spend their
nights in scattered roosting locaaround Milton. As spring
approaches, these large roosts
diminish as crows leave for
their breeding and nesting

tions

sites.

In eastern Pennsylvania, crows have
large, rural territories in
which to breed, live and
hunt so they can live in relative
harmony with their
neighbors. Although there
is an abundance of crows,
their number is small in

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relationship to the

num-

ber of acres available for territory.
Surveys indicate
that crow numbers have not

changed
appreciably;

populations
appear to b e

more

scat-

tered dur-

much

change
had resulted apparently from the
crows' response to changing land
use patterns. Farming has
become more prevalent in areas
with larger fields. Woodland
areas are generally smaller, and
ing

of the year. This

trees

and other resources

urban

sites provide

Winter 2001

in

crow habitat.

Kevin McGowan of
Cornell University says
that crows didn't start
moving into towns and
cities until the late
1950s.

The move occurred

around the world
with other corvids
(jays,

magpies, ravens,

and others). "The
change may have been
because

it

became

ille-

discharge fireThe American Crow is completely black.
arms in urban areas
around the 1950s," he believes. and the nestlings and fledglings,
Although we don't know the rea- defend the territory and the nest,
and stand guard over other family
sons, crows have adapted to city
members while they forage. The
life. It may have been the abundance of discarded food and also care of the young is a family
gal

to

the protection offered by new
laws forbidding the discharge of
firearms in cities. Although the
city is not the best place for a

crow

to

roost,

city

parks and

cemeteries have the necessary
tall trees for roosting; city

lawns

provide earthworms and insects;
city dumpsters are open and
available. The bright lights of the
city enable the crow to see better
at night, helping to elude
nighttime predators, including
the owl. However, hunting and
scavenging are more difficult during droughts, and opportunities
to feed the nestlings with quality
sources of protein are fewer. This
may be why the city crow is not as
large as his country kin.
Some naturalists believe that

the crow mates for life. The
American Crow is a cooperative
breeder, a behavior rare in birds.
The crow may lay from two to six
blue-green, 1-1/2 inch speckled
eggs; the average is three, and
two of those three resulting offspring will be alive and with the
parents the next year to help
raise another family. The incubation is about 18 days; the young
fledge about 35 days.
McGowan found that "crows
never chase away their offspring,
and the young may remain at
home for years" helping their parents raise the newer generations.
Because the crow does not breed
before it's two years old, it will
help feed the incubating female,

affair.

The crow

an omnivore and
600 different food
items. It can be found feasting at
fast food restaurant parking lots
or enjoying bugs, eggs, worms,
is

will eat over

and
which are

roadkill, mice, berries, corn,

many

items

other

available in

its territory.

Crows,

who have remarkable memories,
will store food

on the ground and

in trees, then conceal it, coming
back much later to retrieve their

treasure. Crows have been seen
to store frogs, catfish, and corn
whenever they have too much to
eat. They will follow a coyote to a
fresh kill and wait for the hide of
the prey to be torn apart because
the crow does not have the ability
to rip and tear tougher flesh. The
crow will follow a weasel and
tweak its tail in order to make the
aggravated weasel drop its prey,
a little trick that requires no
hunting on the clever crow's part.
Flocks of crows range widely for
food, up to 30 miles a day in winter, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Playtime appears to be impor-

tant to crows. They have been
seen hanging upside down for no
apparent purpose; they will move
about in a dancing motion unrelated to courting; they will mimic
sounds of other birds, and do barrel rolls and fancy flying for the
sheer enjoyment of it. Once aloft,
the crow can fly at 25-30 mph, but
with a strong tailwind, can hit 60.

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each evening to whisper what
they found.
In Aesop's "The Crow and the
Pitcher," the crow, almost dead
from thirst, can't reach the water
at the bottom of a pitcher. As a
solution, he collects stones and
one by one drops them into the
pitcher until the water is within
reach. The moral of the story:
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

The crow gets berries of varied
sizes into its mouth so they can
be eaten

later.

The crow and the raven (often
used interchangeably) have
shared a long history with human
beings; even ancient man was fascinated by them. Ravens were
often given credit for being carriers of both good and bad omens.
Crows and ravens have been used
as symbols in the mj^hology and
legends of almost all of the earth's
peoples. The crow was used as a
sentinel and as a symbol for the
ancestor's spirit in ancient
Egypt's Book of the Dead. The
crow was a popular bird in the
Dreamtime stories of the original
Australian tribes. "The Catfish
and the Crow" tells how the crow
inadvertently created the Milky
Way. In China of 2,000 years ago,
the soul of the sun was believed to
take the form of a crow; the
raven, as solar bird, was a symbol

Chou dynasty. In Celtic
mythology, the god of war, Bodb,
was believed to change into a
crow when he flew over battleof the

fields.

Many

Celtic sailors carried

crows on board their boats as good
luck; if they got lost at sea, they
could release the crow and it
would head for land. In Scandinavian folklore, the mighty Thor's
companion was a raven who was
a message bearer and scout.
Ravens were well-respected by
the Norse and were a symbol of
Odin, king of their gods. Odin had

The intelligence of the crow is
well documented. Experiments
indicate that American crows can
count to 3 or 4, are good at solving
puzzles, and quickly learn to
associate various noises and symbols with food.

The crow and raven appear

at

various times in the Bible. In the
story of the great flood, Noah first
sends out a raven while at sea to
search for dry land. Later the
raven returns, but neglects to tell
Noah that the flood has ended.

ravens were

These interesting birds have
been understudied and
misunderstood. They deserve our

It is
also
believed that crows were beautiful,
almost tropical, birds in
Paradise, but when Adam and
Eve were thrown out of Paradise,
crows began to eat dead animals,

because, "If men had wings and
bore black feathers, few of them
would be clever enough to be
crows," according to famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher.^^

Because of
viewed as

this,

selfish.

Ravens have appeared, less
commonly, in Christian legends
as symbols of virtue and solitude,
and in the stories of St. Bernard.
For the most part, in other cultures and religions, crows and
ravens have been portrayed with
more positive and useful qualities.
Perhaps, the Native American
legends of ravens and crows are

known

and returned

the earth

shoulders

respect and acknowledgement

birds.

two ravens, Hugin and Munin
(Thought and Memory) who flew
around the world each day to collect information about the world
to Odin's

definitely

and that's why they became
black. Legend says crows will
again become beautiful tropical

today. According to
Northwest tribes, the
kindly raven created the world
and taught humans how to survive in it. For Tlingit Indians, the
crow is the main divine character.
He organizes the world and gives
it civilization and culture. The
raven was often given a significant position on the totem poles
of Native Americans in British
Columbia. The Haida used the
raven for an explanation of how

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the raven swooping down,
grabbing freshwater in its talons
and letting some of the drops accidentally fall to Earth, forming the
lakes and rivers. For the Haida,
the crow steals the sun from the
sky's master and gives it to the
earth's people. On the Haida
totem poles, the top figure is usually the clan crest, the raven
being one of the most common figures represented.
Although crows may not be the
colorful, seed-eating songbirds
that we entice with expensive
feed and feeders to come to our
yards, these busy, shiny black
birds have survived in spite of us
and have even helped clean up
our environment. We may not
always like to hear their raspy
voices or observe their gregarious
habits, but we should not dismiss
crows as having no value.

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better

some

of the

was formed. The

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Local

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recovery leads to

of water aerobics

class

story and photos by Jeremy Grad
a cold morning in early
January 1993, Sally Keys

On

searched throughout her
home, looking for her
beloved cat Poohder. Not finding
her cat upstairs, in the living
room or in the kitchen, Keys
opened the door to her basement.
On the top stair, Sally found

Poohder,

moment
stairs
floor.

her

under her

foot.

A

Keys fell down the
and landed on the basement
She felt a searing pain in
later.

left leg. It

was broken,

twice.

Keys was in rehabilitation
three months learning to walk
again.

She had taken a water aerobics
class the year before and credits
the pliability she gained with giv-

ing her the ability to quickly
regain her mobility.
"I think that water aerobics
gave me such flexibility," Sally
says, "that when I fell down the
steps,

travel

I was flexible enough to
down them without having

other injuries."

That summer, Keys organized
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first water aerobics
That Aquacize class had

Aquacize, her

alleviate the pain associated with

course.

arthritis by increasing joints'
range of motion and muscle

18 students. Two years later,
nearly 70 were enrolled for the
twice weekly session.
A typical Aquacize class begins
with 15 minutes of stretching and
warmup exercises, followed by 30
minutes of aerobic maneuvers.
A 15-minute cool down period,
meant to slowly return the heart
rate to normal, caps the class.
Beverly Harding joined the
class in 1999 after suffering a
ruptured disc and a slipped disc.
'1 had back surgery," Harding says.
"And my doctor recommended that
I should have this therapy. He
said swimming was very good for
it because you can do more in the
water than you can out without
hurting yourself."
After Harding finished rehabilitation, she continued to attend
the water aerobics course.
"I also have arthritis, bad, and
it helps that," she says. "It makes
me feel better, keeps me limber."
Water aerobics is thought to

strength while relieving pressure.
"Flexibility is very important,"

"The more you keep
helps keep
the arthritis at bay and just eases
the pain of the arthritis because
you're working against the resistance of the water."
This summer Beverly Harding's

Keys

says.

your joints

flexible, it

husband, Sam, a heavy equip-

ment mechanic, joined the

class.

my

legs

and ankles," Sam says. He
had a heart problem, and he

tries

"I

have trouble with

also

he can to exerday on cement all

to do everything
cise. "I

work

all

When I get home at
don't feel like walking.
feet and legs hurt. Something
about being in the water, it doesn't
bother you."
Ruth Ann Carroll, a retired
the time.
night,

I

My

administrative assistant from
Rickets Glenn, has been involved

with Aquacize since 1995 and
also suffers from joint problems.
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Top: Sally Keys leads a class
of Aquacizers at the Nelson
Field

House

pool.

Bottom: Aquacizers catch their
breath between exercises.

"My knees
exercise

are bad and the only
somebody can do with

bad knees

is

in water," she says.

make you feel better,
even when you come out of it. If I
miss a week, I know it. And if I
"It

does

miss a couple weeks,

know

I

really

can explain

now good ijoii leel wlien
yon swim, but you

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Carroll says Aquacize has given
her renewed confidence.
"Nobody can explain how good
you feel when you swim, but you
do," Carroll says. "If you're exer-

cising,

could
can't

you mentally

feel better. I

swim a couple of miles. I
walk more than an eighth of

a mile."

Sherry Carpenter, a freelance
Winter 2001

been an Aquacize

stu-

dent for five years.
"It's a lot of fun," she says. "It's
informal. We laugh a lot. We
share things with each other. It's
just necessary."
Carpenter's long time friend,

Joann Johnson, who worked

it."

NoJdocIlj

writer, has

for

45 years as a registered nurse
before retiring, is also an Aquacize
student. "I feel a hundred percent
better when I do," she says. "I feel
I really need the exercise. It's fun
too. It's fun to be with friends."
Inge Allen worked as a cook at a
nursing home 15 years before
retiring. For the past four years,
she's been an Aquacize student.
"I've made friends here," Inge
says. "After every season we have
a get-together. I enjoy it. It's
refreshing and

I

feel it's healthy."

"You just don't want to quit in
an hour," Carroll says. "An hour
just doesn't seem long enough."
Sally Keys' students may soon
have to quit Aquacize for good. In
fall 2001 the Aquacize course was
discontinued by the University's

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