April 2008

COLUMNS & FEATURES

The Last Great Place
Eye on the Prize By Michael Capuzzo
We haven’t won a Pulitzer yet, but we’re working on it. C’mon Lunker, get busy.

Mountain Chatter
Dogs and Cats, All Things Allium Porrum, and All That Jazz
By the Mountain Home staff
Our four-legged friends get a second chance courtesy, in part, to a swinging fundraiser. It’s also time to hail and then consume the leek. Mr. Gilliland goes to State College

Cover Story
A Pine Recovery By John Fulmer
Left devastated 100 years ago and logged to exhaustion, the Pine Creek Valley has made a comeback.

Heart of the Mountain
The Pot of PennDOT Yellow at the End of the Rainbow
By Patricia Brown Davis
Some people have beige lives. Not our Ms. Davis.

Shining Star By Dara Riegel
Jana Losey is a singer from little old Lawrenceville and she’s poised to make it big. Turn on your television machine and watch her.

Reading Nature
Westward, Ho! By Tom Murphy
More than two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark blazed a trail to the Pacific. Read about William and Meriwether’s Excellent Adventure.  

The Lunker  
Fishing With A Handicap By Fred Metarko
Boxers or briefs? Hmmmm . . . we really don’t want to know.

The Mountain Man
Snow Day By Roy Kain
Mountain Man’s hound lights out after a bear, leaving MM lights out in the tent.

Raising a Roof By Michael Capuzzo
The Artisan’s Shoppe joins together with other animal-loving samaritans to build a new shelter for our homeless four-footed friends.

Comfort Creature By Reverend J. Paws & Watson
Now here’s a critter with a bedside manner that is second to none.

Yogamama Says
Thirty Days to a Better You By Kathleen Thompson
A weakness for browsing—not buying, mind you—self-help literature leads to the first-ever Yoga Challenge. Have you got what it takes?

Mountain Guide By The Mountain Home Staff
It’s all about music this month as funk pioneers Tower of Power hit Elmira, a local lad returns for a MU recital, and Lady Antebellum, an up-and-coming country group, swings through Mansfield.

Opening Day By Brett Martin
Usually involves balls and bats and gloves in less-enlightened places. Here we’re talking trout.

I’d Rather Be Reading By Kevin Coolidge
Can’t fish? Then how about reading a book about fishing. We find a few choice lines.

Canoe Crazy By The Mountain Home Staff
Cameron County is the site of the thirty-fourth annual Canoe and Kayak Classic. Last year, Mother Nature “cooperated” with low water, freezing temps, and snow. Still, about 100 paddlers made the trip to Driftwood.

A Good Gobbler By John Fulmer
Dan Natt sounds like a turkey, and that’s meant as a compliment.

Make Tracks to Towanda by Barbara Coyle.
The Weigh Station is way cool, and it’s all about local food and folks.

A Museum Full of Flies by the Mountain Home staff.
Sounds unappealing? Not if they’re trout flies. Check out this Catskill hotspot for anglers.

Billtown Barn Raising by Kaitlyn Knopp
Help Site B become a haven for music-loving teens in Williamsport. Volunteer your skills.
 
Looking Back
You Light Up My Life and My House By Joyce Tice
Electricity makes our lives hum. Only Mountain Man can live without it, not like the rest of us pikers.

The Better World
Eating Right By John and Lynne Diamond-Nigh
If a desert tribesman offers you an objectionable part of the sheep for supper, just grin and gulp it.

Shop Around the Corner
The Pennsylvania North Country Artisan Center and Store By Sarah Bull
The Pennsylvania North Country Artisan Center and Store. Now that’s a mouthful and a great place to find the work of local artisans.

Onstage Off the Wall
Spring Has Sprung By Larry Biddison
And with it comes a whole list of fun stuff to do. Let Tioga’s Host With the Most clue you in.

Cooking Bachelor Style
Fembot Fantasy By Terry Miller
There’s no back talk from a female robot and there’s plenty of affection. But even our Bachelor Cook thinks he might get tired of that. Is the end nigh?

Wine & Dine
Spit Takes By Holly Howell
There’s no polite way to do it, but wine tasters have to spit it out. Holly offers some suggestions. Also, some information on Cedar Arts cooking classes.

High on Stone by James Asbury
This drywaller doesn’t use Sheetrock.

Ask Gary 
Steamy Problems By Gary Ranck
Gary tells us how to cap a radiator, shave down an unruly chair, and pleads with us to rip out old wires. Soon as we eat lunch, then we’ll get started.