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Episode #93 - January 7, 2007

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Adirondack Journal

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Event Spotlights with Kari

Road Trip to Frankfort

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        This week we started our tour of "FIM country" (Frankfort, Ilion, and Mohawk.) We discoved that Frankfort was a big industrial center of the Mohawk Valley in the mid 1800s and early 1900s. That spirit is still strong in the village and we met many industrious people, including Juanita Bass and her Soul Classics spices and sauces at Melrose Supermarket. We look forward to visiting Granny's Kitchen and we'd like to see what Brown's Feed is about, too.

                                     Thanks for watching, Sharry and Lance Whitney

Featured Artist, Alice Siegfried

The Scene Weekly with Mark
Werchowski

Since 1896, the Utica School of Commerce has been keeping the workforce up to speed with the ever-changing world of business.

Utica School of Commerce,
from typewriters to microchips

USC was originally located on the third floor of the Oneida National Bank Building on the corner of Genesee and Bleecker.

This week meet
Linda Cohen
Co-Author of the new postcard book, Old Forge, Gateway to the Adirondacks

As you travel along Rt.5S, you are traveling the route of the canal and railroad -the original superhighways connecting Utica and Frankfort. Franfort was a center of industry in the mid 1800s and home to nearly a quarter of The Valley's population at that time.

With temperatures reaching near 60 in January, Richard suggests a winter picnic. Here, at the Franfort Marina, the Erie Canal and Mohawk River meet. Frankfort has one of only three natural harbors on the Erie Canal.

Franfort's early manufacturing included gun powder and whiskey, but most people remember if for matches and balloons. The Balloon Farm B&B is located in the 30-room mansion built by the son of William Gates, who made a fortune in wooden match business. The mansion was later purchased by Carl Myers who was in the balloon business.

You can read about the Balloon Farm in a children's book called The Big Balloon Race. Mary Myers, know as "Carlotta the Lady Aeronaut," would perform balloon ascensions at fairs.

Hamell
on Trial
Jan 22
Red House, Syracuse

Juanita Bass carries on the industrious spirit of Franfort. Her business of spices and sauces, Juanita's Soul Classics, will be featured on an upcoming episode of Mind Your Business on PBS. She appears on Sunday, Feb 4th episode at 7pm on WCNY. You can find her products,
including her delicious sweet potato
pie at Melrose Supermarket in Frankfort.

We are were invited for lunch at Montana's Restaurant on N. Litchfield St. in Frankfort. The historic building was renovated by owner, Dan Montana. Preserving the
tin ceilings gave
him lots of points
with Richard.
Open Thurs, Fri
and Sat for Lunch
and dinner. 895-4831

Dan passes homemade tortellini to his daughter.

Potter, Alice Siegfried, loves a challenge, and that's what keeps her intersted in pottery. She started throwing when she was 35, forty years later she says she's still learning. She delivers her work to the Artisans Guild in a tomato crate strapped to her Schwinn 3-speed. The Artisans Guild is located on Mian St. in Oneonta

An avid bicyclist, Alice always wears her helmet. Alice was saved by a helmet!

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Artist Talk -Jim Loveless
Sunday, Jan 7 at 1pm
Raffle of one of Jim's painting to benefit EOH
Earlville Opera House, Earlville

The Odd Couple
Sunday, Jan 7 at 2pm
Players of Utica
Tickets $17
Strebel Auditorium
Utica College
724-4000

"Atmosphere in Flux" art opening
Sunday, Jan 7th 3-5pm
Works of Nancy Agati, Pamela Marks, and Kimberly Thorpe
on display at the Kirkland Art Center through Feb 21st
Clinton

Pianist, Duncan Holmes
Sunday, Jan 7th at 6:30pm
Good will offering accepted
Calvary Gospel Church
New York Mills

Intermediate Fly Tying with John Sweeney
Jan 18th 7-9pm
Register now, class size limited to 12 Call 823-0808
Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts
Canal Place, Little Falls

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