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The apple emerged as a celebrated fruit each apple since the beginning of Earth. Whether you contains seven or start with Adam & Eve or the Stone Age eight seeds, each of man in Europe, the apple was there. which contains the Besides honey, fruits are one of the rare genetic ingredients Intro to Wine sources of sweetness found in nature. for a tree radically SIGNIFICANT DATES Making From the beginning, apples have been different from its @ Lillibridge associated with love, beauty, luck, health, parents & its Or Current Resident comfort, pleasure, wisdom, temptation, siblings. More than any other trait, it is the October 29 Pfeiffer Nature Center— sensuality, sexuality, virility & fertility. apple’s genetic variability that accounts for Stories & traditions about man's origins its ability to make itself at home in places as where science, art, and Indoor Explore ~ connect him to a garden of paradise filled different from one another as New England nature come together! with fruit trees. & New Zealand, Kazakhstan & California. Migrating Birds Wherever the apple tree goes, its offspring @ Office The apple originated high in the hills of propose so many different variations on eastern Kazakhstan, in the Tien Shan November 17 what it means to be an apple. There are at Mountains. As both trade & military least seven per apple & several thousand expeditions begin among these earliest per tree. From this variety there are bound Let’s Make Gifts civilizations, dessert or sweet apples to be at least one that has the qualities that quickly spread from the forests of their it takes to prosper in the tree’s adopted for the Birds origin to places throughout the "fertile home. @ Office crescent", from the Nile through the Tigris Dress up your Home for the Holiday with a PNC Wreath! December 8 & Euphrates, the Indus, & Yellow River When it traveled to the New World, the Valleys. As the apple was carried by apple reinvented itself once again, Hours of Operation Order a beautifully decorated holiday wreath & get festive for the holiday season! Pfeiffer Nature generations of travelers, it mirroring is immigrant companions. The Center is selling wreaths for the holiday season. They are delightfully decorated with hand-tied adapted to meet the needs Pilgrims discovered what we call crabapples Office, 14 S. Main St. Portville: of its traveling when they arrived but the fruit was not very bows and all natural materials, such as dried flowers and pinecones. To order your holiday Generally Tue-Wed, 8am to 3pm; companions, evolving to edible. The Massachusetts Bay Colony other times by chance or wreath, call the office (716) 933-0187 or send an email to [email protected] . become a portable, requested seeds & cuttings from England, appointment The last day orders will be accepted is November 16th , so get yours now! durable source of which were brought over on later voyages of sweetness. the Mayflower. Other Europeans brought Lillibridge Road Property: Pfeiffer Nature Center Wreath Order Form apple stock to Virginia & the Southwest. As Despite the wide Trails open to non-motorized Name: ______Date: ______the county was settled, nearly every farm usage dawn to dusk, 7 days a variations of taste in apples that you find in grew some apples. Although some were week, year round. Street Address: ______different cultures, a preference for very good, most of the early varieties would sweetness seems to be universal. But be considered poor today. Yubadam Road Property: City, , Zip: ______Phone Number: ______sweetness is a quality rarely found in Trails open to non-motorized Send orders & make checks payable to: nature. Most apples that grow in the wild Bitter apples, planted from seed instead of usage dawn to dusk, 7 days a Pfeiffer Nature Center, P.O. Box 802, Portville, NY 14770 taste bitter. This is because apple trees that grafted, were used by homesteaders across week, year round EXCEPT during QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED! grow from seeds usually produce bitter or the young country to produce hard cider. hunting season Oct —Dec , when sour tasting fruit. Only a few trees produce Early settlers were afraid of water because all trails are closed. a fruit that is sweet, but humans have of their knowledge of Wreath Description Price Quantity Total learned over the years to cultivate water borne illnesses in Staff is available for questions, Decorated Fraser Fir $32 ______$______sweetness in the apple. This is mostly done Europe. To them tours, and programs as scheduled by grafting the trees that produced the drinking water could be or by arrangement. Decorated Boxwood $43 ______$______tastiest fruit. dangerous. This practice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ of using apples to make Check our website or call for the The apple trees seeds are protected because hard cider was in use most up-to-date information and Undecorated Fraser Fir $27 ______$______they are distasteful, & slightly poisonous. upcoming programs: until the Prohibition, Therefore, we do not eat them & the seeds

Undecorated Boxwood $38 ______$______survive to produce more trees. At its core, (Continued on page 7) www.PfeifferNatureCenter.org Get Out There And Walk! Olean_Area_Hiking & Southern_Tier_Greenway_Hiking. 716-933-0187 We support our local hiking interests! You can reach them on Yahoo! Groups. Order Total ______$______2 From the Director Yes, I’d Like to Become a Member of Pfeiffer Nature Center 7

Pfeiffer Nature Center is extremely fortunate to have such appreciation and conservation of the natural world, traditions Membership Levels and Benefits dedicated, generous people who care deeply about us. Back carried on by the Nature Center. All members receive a subscription to The Ovenbird , our quarterly newsletter, delivered to your home. in the January issue of The Ovenbird we told you about the wonderful gift of inscribed books from renowned naturalist In addition to joining us at the Pollocks and the reception, Student/senior $10 1 $5 off program admission coupons John Muir to Eleanor Knox Wheeler, mother of Nature Douglas & Barbara enjoyed a hike around the Lillibridge Center founder Wendy Pfeiffer Lawrence. These gifts, property and tour of the cabin. Thanks to Nick Vaczek & Jeff Individual $25 1 $5 off program admission coupons graciously donated by Douglas & Barbara Pfeiffer, have McMullen for refreshing old memories and making new ones. Family $35 3 $5 off program admission coupons generated lots of discussion and interest as they have made Steward $50 4 $5 off program admission coupons their public appearances. Throughout this process, several people have focused their energies to make things happen. Many thanks to Sarah Conservator $100 4 free family program admissions In July, the books and an accompanying informational Larson, Marcia Storch, Jeff McMullen, Ray Valeri, and Patron $250 Same as Conservator, invitation to wine & cheese reception, 1 tree planted display were on hand at the Portville Public Library during Ronda Pollock for their hours of time and attention. Guardian $500 Same as Patron, plus 1 decorated fir holiday wreath Portville’s Heritage Day celebration. Thanks to Chuck Bretzen and the Library staff for inviting us to share their Enjoying the fall season, Benefactor $1,000 Same as Guardian, plus unlimited free program admissions space and helping us out. Additional Donation $______Peg Cherre

September saw more activity. Tom & Ronda Pollock opened All members also receive discounted admissions and gift shop purchases at many other nature centers. their home, originally the home of Eleanor Wheeler and her Why is New York City Called “The Big Apple” Your contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowable by NYS Tax Law. family, for a private gathering honoring Douglas and Barbara Pfeiffer. The Pfeiffers made the trip from their home on the In the early 1920s, "apple" was used in reference to the many west coast to coordinate with an opening reception at the racing courses in & around New York City (NYC). Apple referred NAME: ______Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on St. to the prizes being awarded for the races -- as these were important races, the rewards were substantial. Based on the campus. Evelyn Penman and Lauren Perkins did a terrific STREET ADDRESS: ______research of Barry Popik, he found that a writer for the New York job of putting together a display at the Quick Center that Morning Telegraph , John Fitzgerald, referred to New York City’s highlighted John Muir and provided a linkage to the races "Around the Big Apple." It is rumored that Fitzgerald got CITY, STATE, ZIP: ______Wheelers and Pfeiffers. Thanks also to Phil Smith for the term from jockeys & trainers in New Orleans who aspired to lending us his terrific scale model of the historic American race on NYC tracks. In the late 1920s & early 1930s, New York PHONE: ______E-MAIL: ______Chestnut log cabin. If you haven’t yet made it out to the City's jazz musicians began referring to NYC as the "Big Apple." Quick Center to see the display, there’s still time; it will be up An old saying in show business was "There are many apples on MEMBERSHIP LEVEL: ______Is this a ____ new or ____ renewing membership? (Check one) throughout October. the tree, but only one Big Apple." NYC being the premier place to perform was referred to as the Big Apple. A 1971 campaign to May we contact you about volunteering? _____ Yes _____ No, thank you. During his remarks at the reception, Douglas spoke of John increase tourism to NYC adopted the Big Apple as an officially Muir’s challenges as a writing, of his solitary explorations, recognized reference to NYC. The campaign featured red apples his devotion to family, and his friendship with famous nature in an effort to lure visitors to NYC. It was hoped that the red writer John Burroughs. “John ‘o the Birds” (Burroughs) and apples would serve as a bright & cheery image of NYC, in contrast “John ‘o the Mountains” (Muir) had a huge impact on the to the common belief that NYC was dark & dangerous. Since then, NYC has officially been The Big Apple. Alluring Apples (Cont.) Best Apple Pie? Seasonal Stirrings & Nature Notes (Continued from page 1) The best apples to use for a scrumptious apple pie is a matter of personal opinion. No particular variety truly

OCTOBER ~ Darkness dominates the fall and winter months at the which threatened Americans’ relationship with the qualifies as the “best” pie apple but here are a few sug- North Pole, where the Sun does not rise between late September and apple. With the help of early public relations gestions for pie success. If you like a sweet pie, use mid March. pioneers, who constructed such slogans as “an apple Crispin, Golden Delicious, Jonagold or Winesap. In a day keeps the doctor away,” the fruit quickly fact, you can reduce the amount of sugar if you use NOVEMBER ~ Fallen leaves provide shelter and nesting material reinvented itself as a healthy food. these sweet varieties. For a more tart pie with a strong for many animals. The nutrients released as the leaves decompose apple flavor, try Cortland, Empire, Granny Smith, Ida nourish the ecosystem throughout the winter and into the next The quest to sweeten the typically bitter fruit ignited Red, Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening or Rome. th spring. a grower’s frenzy in the 19 century, bringing fame to Many people love the classic McIntosh pie but be sure hundreds of essentially American varieties such as to add thickener because the tender McIntosh flesh the Red Delicious, the Baldwin & the Jonathan. Each ~ Ice crystals grow inside plant cells at freezing temperatures, breaks down easily. puncturing and damaging their structure. To counteract this, some new variety of the apple reflected the young country’s plants suppress ice formation through a process called super cooling. understanding of itself as diverse nation of Apple Sizes Large Medium Small transplants, a new breed of individuals digging new Other plants deliberately dehydrate themselves, moving water to Diameter 3 3/4 inches 2 3/4 inches 2 1/4 inches areas outside the cell where ice formation will not do any damage. roots into their adoptive soil. # of Apples/ Our modern orchards combine the rich heritage of 2 3 4 DECEMBER~ Ice crystals form as water vapor condenses in the Pound atmosphere and then freezes once the temperature drops below 32 o F. apple growing with research & field trials to grow an As more and more water vapor freezes onto the branches of the annual U. S. crop that exceeds 220,000,000 bushels. Yield/Apple New varieties are still being discovered & cultivated. original crystal, it becomes heavy and falls to Earth as snow. Sliced/ The best eventually become household words like 2 cups 1 1/3 cups 3/4 Chopped ~ It has never been proven that no two snowflakes are identical, but McIntosh, Delicious, Empire, Cortland & Granny Margaret Shulock lives in Friendship, NY. Her “Sticks” the chances of such an occurrence are extremely small—every Smith. It can certainly be said that an apple Finely combines the best attributes of our past with our 1 1/2 cups 1 cup 3/4 cup cartoons can be seen in the Olean Times Herald. Visit her snowflake forms its structure as a result of the very specific Chopped temperature, humidity, and wind levels of its “birth”. present day knowledge & tastes. website, www.thesixchix.com to see more of her work. Sauce 3/4 cup 1/2 cup 1/3 cup 6 Thank You To Our Financial Supporters Apples Born in New York State Peg’s page 3

Thank You & Welcome to your gift from these lists, Acey Mac—Discovered in Jonagold —Developed at New & Renewing please bring it to our Peru, NY 1969, Sweet, tart the Cornell Agricultural Members attention and we will happily & juicy, Excellent for eating Experiment Station in correct our oversight. & sauce Geneva, NY in 1968; Cross June 15 – September 30, between Jonathan & 2011 Create a Lasting Tribute Cortland —Created in 1915 Golden Delicious apples; You can honor your family at the Agricultural Honey sweet with a hint of William & Kay Anderson Experiment Station in Stephen Andrea and friends in ways that will tartness & very juicy; Geneva, NY; Cross between & Peg Bergreen have lasting impacts on Excellent for eating, salads, McIntosh & Ben Davis Joe & Tricia Bohan Pfeiffer Nature Center and sauce & baking Steven Cipolla therefore the local apples; Sweet Mikki & Alex Cole community. Gifts can be with a hint of Albert Cousins either memorials or tributes tartness; good Angela Cousins to the accomplishments of for salads, stays Barb & Bob Fairbanks someone still with us, and all white longer Bill & Sondra Fox gifts will be acknowledged in LaDorna Fox Empire — this newsletter. Richard E. Heiser Introduced in Paul Kaduc 1966 at the West Long Gifts to the Kay Pfeiffer Jonamac —Cross between Randy Martin Gerkin Endowment Fund Cornell Agricultural a Jonathan & a McIntosh; Robert & Anna McDonald are maintained and managed Experiment Station in Released in 1972 by Cornell Nina McMullen separately from our operating Geneva, NY; A cross in Geneva, NY; a sweet/tart Melora Miller funds. The principle in this between a Red Delicious & flavor, good for fresh eating Mike & Martha Nenno fund is retained exclusively a McIntosh; Tasty blend of Ed Reisman for investments and income sweet & tart; Ideal for Macoun —Another Mike Marvin & Jan Rhody eating & baking discovery of the Maureen Sheahan generation, with only interest and dividends available to agricultural Experiment Ken Shields Fortune —Introduced in Mark Shields support our ongoing Station in Geneva, NY in 1995 at Cornell in Geneva, Troy, Jesse, Jordan, & Jeremy activities. Check with your 1923, Blends a McIntosh NY; hybrid of a Schoharie Spehar financial or legal advisor to with a Jersey Black Apple, Steve & Donna Teuscher Spy & an Empire; Gently name Pfeiffer Nature Center Extra Sweet with a mild, Theron Teuscher sweet with a juicy tartness; tart taste, Great for fresh John Van Hoff in your estate planning. Choose Fortunes for eating, eating and pies Christine Walden Gifts may be made specifically sauce & baking R Gregg & Cinda Warner Bob & Donna Weber to our sugar bush expansion YogaBetsy Yoga Center project. We will plant sugar maples on our Eshelman property annually. While A Heartfelt Thanks to Our donors will not be able to Pfeiffer Nature Center Mission Generous Donors identify “their” tree, they will Allen’s Wine & Liquor have the benefit of knowing • To preserve the integrity of the Carol Bradley that their gifts provided a old-growth forest Health Now source of ongoing income. Craig & Punkie Sinesiou Maple seedlings are $35 each. • To provide an area for scientific Letro, McIntosh & Spink research Funeral Home Gifts of any size may be made Mallery’s Auto Body to the Nature Center to honor • To promote community-based Minges Flooring or memorialize relatives, Wayne Paving & Gravel nature study programs for grade friends, or pets. With no school, high school, college and minimum donation, this We are grateful for your option provides giving adult students generosity and support! opportunities for all. Kind acts and thoughtful gifts • To further natural resource such as these assist us in We hope you’ll make a stewardship fulfilling our Mission. If we gift soon! have inadvertently omitted 4 Johnny Appleseed: Conservationist & Entrepreneur Thank You to Our Dedicated Volunteers Adopt-A-Tree Sponsors 5

Many know Johnny Appleseed as a From there is it rumored that they entrees as We would like to thank Dave Mitchie & the Sala’meander. We had eleven participants, Our Adopt-a-Tree program is an innova- legendary American who wandered the travelled up the Alleghany River to snitz & Portville Boys Scouts for their help with which included children & their parents. It tive, hands-on education program for chil- wilderness with a pot on his head Olean, NY where they remained about knep , an clean up at this year’s Woods Walk. Dave was a joy to see the children exploring the dren in kindergarten through fifth grade, planting apple trees. These are the one year. They had hoped to visit an apple & Mitchie also helped set up a few small tents forest & discovering 92 salamanders! helping them to understand their relation- pictures & stories that we grew up Uncle but found that he had moved on pork dish. Friday, before the event. ship with the environment. It has two hearing in school. Johnny Appleseed is to Ohio. Most stories point to John & Pfeiffer Nature Center again teamed up with components, classroom learning & outdoor The juice more than the fictional character Nathaniel struggling to survive during To start off our July programming we held St. Bonaventure for the annual Freshman learning, that help provided a wide range presented in legends & storybooks. their year in Olean. The area was new could be our Fantastic Forest Fun day. Eleven work day. We had about eight students of student activities. We have designated a Much of what we know of his life is & unsettled & often lacked the made into from stories & legends that have been necessities of life. John & his brother hard cider children from the community enjoyed a day help us with clearing brush along the creek two-acre parcel of our old-growth forest on passed down through the years. spent the year in Olean living in an (sometimes full of sun painting, bugs, water, pelts, & bank near the footbridge on our Eshelman our Lillibridge Property as a focus of our abandoned cabin. frozen to scat. The children had a wonderful day Property. We would like to thank Mike Adopt-a-Tree activities. Within a few hun- But he was a real man who was an early make learning about nature & exploring the Ermer, Wendy Brandt, Rob Walk, Tim & dred feet of our parking area, the Adopt-a- conservationist & lived in harmony In the fall, John was able to get a job applejack or Lillibridge property. A big thanks goes to Sue Houseknect for helping as well. Bob Tree forest presents visitors with a rare with nature. Johnny was a skilled for a farmer making apple cider. He distilled to Kathy Ross for helping out in the morning Weber, Ted Georgian & Mike & Judy opportunity to see trees that are hundreds nurseryman who grew trees & supplied found that there were not many apple make with the children. Patton also lent us tools to use for the day. of years old. The Adopt-a-Tree program is apple seeds to the pioneers in the mid- trees in the area & while he was making brandy), which was the preferred entirely dependent on the generosity of western United States. Johnny the cider, he saved many seeds from alcoholic beverage in the early A big thank goes out to Mike Johnson for We want to thank Melanie Johnston & the Appleseed gave away & sold many the apples & dried them. In the spring American West. Although Chapman local sponsoring businesses & individuals. leading our first ever Make Your Own Richburg Historical Society for inviting us trees. He owned nurseries in Ohio, of that year, he started planting these himself was a teetotaler as well as a By being a sponsor for one of our special Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, & seeds along the various rivers where he vegetarian, his version of Homemade Soap program. He supplied to present information on John Muir & the old growth trees our sponsors are helping Indiana, where he grew his beloved traveled. Later he started his journey Swedenborgian theology condemned participants with samples of soap, as well Pfeiffer Nature Center. The members to ensure the continuation of this impor- apple trees & then sold or traded them. down the Allegheny River toward drunkenness, rather than requiring as, ingredients to make your own soap at enjoyed learning about the connection tant educational program and encouraging Although he was successful with his Pittsburgh to meet with his father & the total abstention from alcohol. On the home. between John Muir & Pfeiffer Nature elementary school children’s connection to trees, he lived a simple life. He was a rest of his family. frontier, water supplies were often of Center seeing pictures of the books Pfeiffer & care of the environment. vegetarian, wore raggedy clothes, & was questionable quality, & alcoholic Thanks to Mark Baker for sharing with us family. a very religious man. Records show that John Chapman beverages could be the healthful his five owls at our July Owl Prowl. We Benefactor appeared on Licking Creek, in what is alternative. were able to learn about these mysterious We recently received some new signs for Time Warner Cable Johnny Appleseed was born as John now Licking county, Ohio, in 1800, birds & see them up close. our trails, thanks to Terry Fuller & BOCES. Chapman on September 26, 1774 in when he was 26 years old. This area The popular image of “Johnny Guardian Look for them to be popping up on our Leominster, Massachusetts. He was would soon be filling up with settlers, Appleseed” had him planting apple We would like to thank Beaver Meadows Southern Tier Arthritis & Rheumatism the son of Nathaniel Chapman, who since Congress had passed resolution trees randomly, everywhere he went. In trails in the near future. Audubon for allowing us to borrow their bat Caretaker fought at Concord as a Minuteman in that gave lands to those who had left fact, he planted orchards, from which detector to use during our Batty for Bats We are grateful to Ernie Borer for keeping April of 1775 & later served in the Canada & Nova Scotia to fight against settlers could obtain trees at modest Both, Branch & Hendrix, Inc. Continental Army with General George the British in the Revolutionary War. cost. program. Even though it rained we were the lawn around the pavilion looking Cutco Foundation Washington during the American Grants of land ranging from 160 acres able to see multiple bats flying around the beautiful all summer long! We are also John Ash Cleaners Revolutionary War. Johnny was born to 2,240 acres were awarded. Johnny Chapman owned orchards that today barn on the Eshelman property. Five thankful to West Long for demolishing the Erick & Marianne Laine around the time that the battle of went ahead & planted his nurseries would be worth millions of dollars. He participants took home a bat house to help old barn on Route 305 for us. M&M Fran Mahar/Park & Shop Service Bunker Hill was fought. Johnny’s before the settlers arrived. By the time would obtain land, paying for it with encourage better bat populations at their Stores the promise of apple trees, clear it & mother died when he was not yet two families were ready to settle the area, homes. Thanks to Barbara Johnston for helping Olean Medical Group plant an orchard, leaving it in the care years old, leaving him & his sister to be Johnny’s tracts of land were ready for with office work mailings. Velma Tanner Wal-Mart of a nearby settler who would sell trees cared for by relatives, since their father market. The rain eventually begin to fall in mid- also helped us with our last Ovenbird on shares. His orchard managers were was serving with General George August just in time for our Mushroom mailing & Richard Ehman folded some Steward Washington at the time. Eventually, This was the plan that John Chapman instructed to sell trees on credit. As Walk with Chef Garrett Taylor. Thanks to more of our new trail maps. Michael Kelley & Mary Freeman Nathaniel Chapman remarried & had followed for nearly a half-century. settlers were setting down roots in the Marcia & Jack Kelly Chapman went ahead of the great community, this was sound credit Chef Taylor for adding his expertise to the ten children with his second wife, Lucy And a big thanks goes out to Vicki Schmit, Rich & Pat McNeil Cooley of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. immigrant flood that was ever management. walk sharing his knowledge with the fifteen sweeping westward. He planted with folks who attended this event. Colleen Kent, & Ray Valeri who have joined Olean Area Federal Credit Union According to some accounts, in 1792, an eye to future markets, & seldom did Chapman's outlays were very minimal. the Program Committee to help update our Pleasant Valley Greenhouse & Nursery John, at the age of eighteen, persuaded he make a poor choice. Many towns He obtained the seed for free from Thanks to Bill Shelp for leading a slimy current program offerings & plan new ways Potter Lumber his half-brother Nathaniel, who was have risen on or near his nursery sites. cider mills eager to have new walk through the Lillibridge Property in to share the joys of nature with our Reid’s Market around eleven years of age, to go west customers. He dressed poorly, even for search of elusive salamanders during our surrounding communities. Henry & Marcia Storch with him. John Chapman is said to The apple orchards sown by Chapman the frontier, & spent most of his time have been in the Wilkes-Barre region of were not today's familiar sweet snack, traveling from home to home on the Pennsylvania some time in the 1790’s, produced by grafting clones of a few frontier.

practicing his profession as a exceptional varieties. Seed-grown Pfeiffer Nature Center & Staff nurseryman. Sources are unsure when apples vary significantly from tree to There is some vagueness concerning Board Members he embraced the Swedenborgian faith, tree, but are typically small, sour fruits. the date of his death & his burial. Some Foundation Margaret Cherre, Director sources list March 18, 1845 & others Carol Bradley Mike Canada which has a resemblance to pantheism, Still, they added vitamin C & fiber to a Administrative Office: Reann Ehman, Naturalist where god is a part of or in nature. frontier diet heavy in game meat. give a date of 1847. Although the actual Mike Ermer Jeff McMullen 14 S. Main St. Portville NY 14770 John & his brother spent much of the site of his grave is disputed, a national Board of Directors Tim Houseknecht Colleen Kent Whole apples can be stored in a root historic landmark gravesite is located Mailing Address: 1790’s travelling around the Virginia & President: Wendy Brand Ed Reisman Ray Valeri Pennsylvania area. They eventually cellar for months, & dried apple in Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort PO Box 802 Portville NY 14770 ended up in at the fort in Pittsburg, sections known as snitz keep Wayne, Indiana. Historical documents 716.933.0187 Vice President: Marcia Storch Rob Walk sometime around the mid-1790’s. indefinitely. Snitz were used to flavor say he was buried beneath an apple www.PfeifferNatureCenter.org Secretary: Sarah Larson soups & stews, & in such popular tree. [email protected] Treasurer: Bob Weber