November 2007

COLUMNS & FEATURES

The Last Great Place
A Mountain of Thanks By Michael Capuzzo
We’re growing here at Mountain Home and we’re getting better and it’s all because of our readers and our writers and our advertisers and our staff.

Mountain Chatter
Let’s Talk Turkey By the Mountain Home staff
This is the time of year we fight over the drumsticks. But do eagles have drumsticks? For once, Ben Franklin was completely wrong. The Great War.

Cover Story
Morris, PA: CSI By John Fulmer
Kerry Gyekis lives in Morris, Pennsylvania, and he’s just waiting for a real cougar. Don’t disappoint him with a picture of Mittens, your house cat.

Wild Cats By Kevin Coolidge
Do cougars exist in the Twin Tiers? Probably not but they’re all over the West. Our
writer has a brush with a big cat that leads to further investigation.

Heart of the Mountain
Tell Me a Story By Patricia Brown Davis
We asked for your stories about life here in the Endless Mountains, and you responded. Ms. Davis sorts it out this month, but we want more, much more, so keep those cards and letters coming. Somehow, e-mail just doesn’t cut it.

Snakes in an Outhouse By Hank Morgan
This latest blockbuster stars a firebrand grandmother who’s not afraid to take care of
business.

Reading Nature
Hunting To Find Yourself By Tom Murphy
For the nonhunter, it’s sometimes hard to understand what the hunter sees in his or her
sport. Richard Nelson, in his book, The Island Within, does his best to explain a hunter’s complicated emotions.

The Lunker
In The Drink and Still Dry By Fred Metarko
Our fisherman magically dives into the lake and comes out bone dry. A fish tale? You
decide.

The Mountain Man
The Massacre at Fort Seybert By Roy Kain
Mountain Man travels to our sister colony and gets a living history lesson.

Awakenings
Without a Prayer By Reverend Bob Greer
As St. Paul tells us, pray without ceasing. Prayer is a meditation, a focus, and without it,
the spirit will wander. The good reverend entreats you to speak to God directly and often. He’ll answer.

Yogamama Says
Radar Love By Kathleen Thompson
It takes a lot of forgiveness to forgive a cop with a pinpoint laser gun and a ticket
book. But enlightenment somehow follows and Yo sees the bright side of a lead-footed
mistake.

Love Suffers Long By Pamela Maurey
And is kind. But it’s kind of hard when your turkey of a spouse wakes you up on your
day off and wants to do taxidermy.

Native Art By Dara Riegel
A Rochester couple, longtime collectors of Southwestern pottery, get an exhibit at Corning’s Rockwell Museum. It’ll be on display until May 2008, so there’s no
excuse.

On Stage Off the Wall
Autumnal Blast By Larry Biddison
Wellsboro gears up for its annual Dickens festival, but that’s not the only thing of note in
November. Tioga County’s Impresario of Art tells us all about it.

A Wooded Preserve By Lenny Kushner
A father’s gift to his son is a camping trip long ago and, much later, the woods in which they camped.

A Nutty Delight By Teresa Banik Capuzzo
People, pecan pie is so fifteen minutes ago. Get hip to the walnut trip.

Looking Back
A Grand Effort for The Great War By Joyce Tice
Folks in these parts did their part for the “doughboys” in World War I. It’s almost a
forgotten effort but Ms. Tice won’t let us forget.

Shop Around the Corner
A Green Christmas By Tricha Martin
This Christmas tree farm will wrap it up for you this holiday season.
Cooking Bachelor Style

A Lizard Lounge Biker Eats a Barfly for Lunch
By Terry Miller
Our cook once spent time as a traveling hanger salesman. It was a lonely life, but he does what he does best: making friends by buying drinks.

Wine & Dine
'Little Lakes’ Wine Rep Grows By Holly Howell
There are a couple of smaller Finger Lakes, and they are home to some fine wineries. Just because they’re called the Little Lakes doesn’t mean they’re small on good taste.

Ask Gary
By My Trough, I Would That My Water Would Go
By Gary Ranck
We don’t know what that means, either, but it sounds nice and if we said ‘flashing,’ they might send out the vice squad.