TheBurgGreater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper October 2012

Distributed in Dauphin, Cumberland, York, Lancaster and Perry counties. Free.

Contents

In the Burg 5 City Hall 6 State Street

Street Corners 7 Around Town

10 Past Tense Urban hunt, p. 7 11 City View 12 Doing Good 13 Community Corner 14 ShutterBurg

Burg Biz 15 Shop Window 16 From the Ground Up

17 New Biz Plucky little shop, p. 15

Good Eats 18 Taste of the Town 19 Home Cooking 20 Wine Time

Culture Club 21 Creator 22 Happenings 24 Musical Notes Lights, Camera, Harrisburg, p. 21

Home & Family 25 Burg Bucks

Sports & Bodies 26 Sporting Life 27 Great Outdoors 28 Your Health

29 Family Health Spooky, p. 30 30 One More Thing …

This month’s cover: “A View from the Grounds of the Civil War Museum."

TheBurg 3 TheBurg Greater Harrisburg’s Community Newspaper

General & Letters TheBurg 1103 N. Front St. Harrisburg, PA 17102 www.theburgnews.com Editorial: 717-602-4300 Ad Sales: 717-350-0428

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Staff & Contributors Advertising Sales: Andrea Black [email protected]

Reporters: T.W. Burger [email protected] Sylvia Grove [email protected] Ruth Hoover-Seitz [email protected] Stephanie Kalina-Metzger [email protected] Carol Maravic [email protected] M. Diane McCormick [email protected] Lori Myers [email protected] Barbara Trainin Blank Mike Walsh [email protected] Pamela Waters

Columnists: Cinema: Kevyn Knox [email protected] Cooking: Rosemary Ruggieri Baer [email protected] Wine: Steve Juliana [email protected] Local History: Jason Wilson [email protected] Outdoors: Kermit Henning [email protected] Pets: Kristen Zellner [email protected] Gardening: Jim Stanton [email protected]

4 TheBurg In the Burg City Hall

Tax Hike Put on Hold Judge agrees to review decision.

Lawrance Binda arrisburg taxpayers were offered city of Harrisburg," Leadbetter wrote. New City Director Review Delays MID Ha ray of hope last month as a Briefs both in support and in Commonwealth Court judge agreed opposition of the reconsideration After nearly a five-month search, The timing of a Midtown Improvement to reconsider her order to hike the were due to be filed late last month. Harrisburg has named a new director District has become uncertain after earned income tax on residents. Leadbetter has scheduled a of Public Works. the city last month upped the cost to Judge Bonnie Brigance hearing for Oct. 4 in case she decides Kevin T. Hagerich last month took hire off-duty Harrisburg police officers. Leadbetter consented to a request to hear oral arguments in the case. over the department, one of the city's After reviewing the MID's by City Council that she reconsider largest and most visible. proposed agreement with the city, an Aug. 27 order that mandated the A retired U.S. Army major and Mayor Linda Thompson made several council increase the resident EIT by 1 City Skips Payment native of Portage, Pa., Hagerich most changes, including increasing the percent. recently served as director of Public cost of officers who would patrol the The reconsideration came after For the second time this year, Works in Iberia Parish, La., where he district by about 25 percent, said MID a conference call with Leadbetter Harrisburg has missed a general worked for more than four years. co-founder Eric Papenfuse. involving the council, receiver William obligation bond payment. He previously held public works He said MID organizers now are Lynch and the administration, which Receiver William Lynch directed director positions in Lake Charles, La., attempting to see if the plan can be each indicated they would like to raise the city not to make a $3.9 million and Cumberland, Md., according to adjusted for the increased expense issues for reconsideration. payment that was due Sept. 15. mayoral spokesman Robert Philbin. before taking further action. In her Aug. 27 order, Leadbetter As a result, the city should be able Harrisburg's department has been MID supporters had hoped to not only agreed to the EIT hike for to meet payroll and pay vendors until without a permanent head since the have the district in place by Jan. 1. one year, but also denied a request by November, when it is expected to run resignation in early April of Ernie Hoch, The MID would run from N. Front Lynch and the administration to force out of cash. If the payment had been who led it for nearly two years. to N. 7th and Forster to Maclay streets. the council to fund the $75,500-a- made, the city would have depleted its year position of city communications treasury late last month. director. In March, former receiver David In a rare show of cooperation, the Unkovic ordered the city to skip a council, receiver and administration general obligation bond payment of told Leadbetter that they may try to $5.3 million. work out their lengthy dispute among General obligation bonds fund themselves. various operations of the city. They "In addition, the parties indicated are not linked to the debt-ridden that they wish to engage in a dialogue incinerator. in an effort to forge a cooperative Neither the city nor the receiver's approach for addressing the office has stated how the missed challenging financial issues facing the payments would be made up.

A Matter of State (Street)

Does something look nicer along State Street? Late last month, Harrisburg Young Professionals began to revamp the median from N. Front to N. 3rd streets, replacing the ill-cared-for, patchy grass with native, robust and low-maintenance plants (artist's rendering left). Under an agreement with the city, HYP also will assume maintenance of the strip, much as it adopted the care of the Forster Street median years ago. “State Street is an extension of the Capitol complex, and it should continue the theme of a sophisticated stately appearance,” said HYP President Meron Yemane. “HYP, along with our partners, is committed to revitalizing and showcasing our city’s beauty.” HYP still needs to raise funds for the $40,000 project. Please visit www.hyp.org/statestreet to make a donation online. Checks also can be mailed to Harrisburg Young Professionals, P.O. Box 11851, Harrisburg, PA 17108-1851. All donations to HYP are tax deductible.

TheBurg 5 State Street

Rehabbing, not Razing Tax credit meant to help save historic structures.

Peter Durantine fter more than a decade, program went into effect July 1 and on the farm land outside the city,” he “We think there will be an uptick Aarchitects and preservationists offers a 25 percent state tax credit for said. in projects,” Crawford said. finally succeeded in enshrining the rehabilitation of qualified income- No doubt, the program is small— into Pennsylvania law an historic producing buildings that are also $3 million annually with preservation tax credit that is using the federal tax credit. a single project capped expected, as it has in 30 states, to The first tax credits will not be at $500,000, which could, create jobs, revitalize communities issued until after July 1, 2013. Just theoretically, mean six and increase economic activity. like the federal program, this credit is projects could swallow Signed into law recently by Gov. issued after the project is completed. up the credits in just one Tom Corbett, the Historic Preservation Developers will be able to use both year. But Mindy Crawford, Incentive Act provides $3 million the existing 20 percent federal tax executive director of annually for historic preservation credit along with the 25 percent state Preservation Pennsylvania, projects that rehabilitate buildings credit, which is expected, as it has in believes that’s unlikely. and homes. The amount is expected to other states, to help lure investment “A lot of developers increase in future years. into Pennsylvania. have told us there are Urban advocates anticipate a Data show that the 30 states projects that are smaller,” surge in the development of historic with state credits tend to have Crawford said. That makes properties that until now have an advantage over states that do the tax credit critical often been demolished because not have tax credits in attracting because the numbers for rehabilitation is too expensive. investment in historic rehabilitation, some smaller projects “I think now, in urban centers, said Caroline Boyce, executive vice could not work financially we’ll see the greater benefit,” said president of Harrisburg-based without the state tax credit, John Campbell, executive director of AIA Pennsylvania, the architects’ she said. Historic Harrisburg Association. professional association that long Crawford added that, Campbell said the state tax fought for the tax credit. for years, Pennsylvania credit coupled with the federal The legislation’s sponsor, state has been at an economic credit, will make projects much more Sen. Lloyd Smucker (R-Lancaster), disadvantage because affordable, which could help increase whose district is urban and rural, sees it has been surrounded revitalization in Harrisburg. the tax credit helping preserve historic by states—Delaware, “I think you’ll see more projects, buildings and re-building tax bases in Maryland, Ohio, and New Less of this? The corner of Crescent and Mulberry streets and I think there’ll be less demolition,” urban centers, but also encouraging York—that offer historic in Allison Hill once was set off by a beautiful Victorian he said. farmland preservation. preservation tax credits. commercial building that fell into ruin and was razed in November 2010. The new state tax credit is designed to While the regulations need to be “If we can make the city a great New Jersey does not offer promote the rehabilitation of historic buildings like these. written over the next few months, the place, it’s going to reduce the pressure tax credits.

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6 TheBurg Street Corners Around Town

People, Bridges, Traffic—Hunting? Susquehanna River: Where city bustle meets country sport.

Lawrance Binda And it's all on Facebook that an all-out gun battle man, offered some perspective. completely legal. had broken out in her neighborhood. He said that waterfowl hunting in To the surprise of In a way, this story is an old one, Harrisburg goes back a long time, but many newcomers as hunters and homeowners long have has become more popular recently on both the east and had disputes about noise and safety due to the decline in the area's pheas- west shores, the state on and near hunting grounds. ant population, once a preferred prey, allows waterfowl However, the situation here is and because the river north of Har- hunting in these unique, as the sheer density of the risburg can be difficult to access. Harrisburg waters, as population on both sides of the river "Hunting has really grown here," long as hunters don't makes this truly an urban hunting he said. "Almost every island now has shoot into the safety experience—with its own set of a hunter on it." zone, defined as 150 benefits and challenges. In addition, in the 1960s and yards from occupied Even hunters Price and Eirkson '70s, Harrisburg police often chased structures on shore. expressed surprise that they're able hunters from the river, but the state With the state Capitol as a backdrop, Midtown residents James This situation to hunt within eyeshot of downtown intervened to stop the practice. Eirkson and Chris Price drop decoys and camouflage their is perfect for local Harrisburg, with traffic streaming over With the increased popularity of boat before goose hunting on the Susquehanna. Below, Pearl hunters, as geese and the bridges that span the river. patiently awaits a chance to retrieve her quarry. the sport, some problems have arisen, ducks both flock to the "The first time I was out here, I Henning said, including shotgun numerous little islands was almost waiting for a police officer pellets that have fallen on cars and ere they come. They're banking and grassy patches that span the mile- to come out because it just didn't bridges. He said he personally has around that building." "H wide river. In addition, the stretch seem right," said Eirkson. "You have the witnessed conservation officers From his skiff, Chris Price sees the of river is easy to navigate and, with Capitol and the governor's mansion arresting hunters charged with rules familiar V-shape of a flock of Canada numerous boat launches, convenient and people walking around." violations. geese heading for their overnight to reach. Other than some noise But, for the most part, the lengthy grounds shortly before dusk on a Price and Eirkson, for instance, complaints, there have been few season proceeds without much warm, late summer evening. both live in Riverview Manor, the problems between hunters and incident. Even residents who, at first, The flock never gets close enough condominium on Front Street in residents over the years, said are surprised—even shocked—that for a shot by Price, who is joined in Midtown Harrisburg. So they can put Jerry Feaser, spokesman for the hunting is allowed in this congested the boat by friend James Eirkson and in practically from their front door. Pennsylvania Game Commission. area eventually seem to accept the Price's golden retriever, Pearl. Some people who live near the He believes that the far majority loud wake-up calls at dawn as just Instead, the young men look on river, however, have a different take. of hunters know and respect the law— another inconvenience of living in this with disappointment as the geese The waterfowl season is long. In that they don't shoot into the safety always-challenging capital city. fly past, high above City Island, with the Harrisburg area, a three-week zone, don't shoot when it's dark out, "It's strange that this presumably the state Capitol in the background, resident Canada goose season began keep off of privately owned islands rural activity is allowed here," said toward the shore in Shipoke. Sept. 1, and geese can be hunted and respect bag limits. a Midtown resident. "But, given the Yes, City Island, the Capitol, throughout much of the fall and win- To enforce the law, conservation menu of problems involved with living Shipoke. ter until Feb. 28. officers patrol the river and cite in this city, it probably doesn't rise to The friends are not hunting out in The even more popular duck hunters for unlawful practices, he said. the level of major concern." the country or in some remote swamp, season runs Oct. 13 to 20, then again "You but in the busy, densely populated city Nov. 15 to Jan. 15. always of Harrisburg. Therefore, for about six months, have From the boat in the middle of volleys of gunfire often start at dawn, some- the Susquehanna River, one can see startling hard-working people who body streams of traffic on Front Street, would rather not be jolted awake at 6 who is joggers along the river walk. Pleasure a.m. on a Saturday. going craft drift close by. "It's an annoyance," said one to go Midtown resident who asked against not be named. "People who the don't like to be woken up in rules," the morning consider it an he annoyance." added. In addition, over the years, Kermit some people new to the area Hen- have called 9-1-1 with reports of ning, gunshots. an avid Just last year, one Olde local Uptown resident put in a frantic out- call to police and then reported doors-

TheBurg 7 Around Town

TheBurg … at Gallery Walk

Tara Chickey with her intriguing and provocative exhibit, Award-winning works were on display at the Art Assoc. Painter Nancy Mendes was hard at work on the grounds "Calculated Migrations," at Whitaker Center. of Harrisburg, which sponsored the event last month. of the John Harris/Simon Cameron Mansion.

Artist Jeff George, right, and a patron pondered his Artist Martin Valez greeted a patron at Historic Stephen and Cherie Fieser opened Robinson's Rare sculpture at The Gallery at Walnut Place. Harrisburg Association's Resource Center in Midtown. Books & Fine Prints in the lower level of Midtown Scholar.

The Fenetre Gallery at HACC Midtown 2 highlighted works by Grace and Robert Troxell.

A display of glass orbs was shown in the newly renovated outdoors and Zen garden space at the back of North Gallery.

Live music brought a beat to Gallery Walk outside of Little Amps Coffee Roasters in Olde Uptown.

8 TheBurg Around Town

Harrisburg: A Little Brighter Lighten Up founder sees progress.

Matt Krupp number of public and private Ainitiatives in recent months have made Harrisburg a brighter place. Earlier this year, the community came together via the grass-roots group, Lighten Up Harrisburg, raising the $4,700 needed to replace burned out bulbs and relight the Walnut Street Bridge (picture, right, in August). In July and August, the city’s Although many areas of illumination continued in the Harrisburg remain in the dark, a Allison Hill area, when Lighten Up number of lights that were previously Harrisburg and Savannah’s On Hanna out have been repaired or replaced in donated more than $2,600 in cash several neighborhoods across the city. and materials for separate lighting And finally, after going months projects. without a public works director, Mayor While Savannah’s project targeted Linda Thompson put the final piece six streetlights on Allison Hill, Lighten of the puzzle in place to address the Up Harrisburg reinforced the city’s community’s lighting needs, hiring inventory with the purchase of 80 retired Army Maj. Kevin Hagerich as streetlight bulbs and 24 photocells, the new head of public works. earmarked for the Hill’s lighting needs. Efforts like these reveal the true Additionally, the city and character of the greater Harrisburg its maintenance crew should be community: one that continues to commended for getting the lights thrive amid adverse conditions. While turned back on, despite being short a difficult road lies ahead for the city, on staff and operating on a limited efforts like these clearly indicate that budget. we are moving forward. Specifically, the city made Let’s build on the momentum significant headway in July, working we have, and work together to make in tandem with PPL to address long Harrisburg a better and brighter place. stretches of lights out along N. Front The city’s future has never looked Street. A city bucket truck also was brighter. spotted repairing the wiring to the Matt Krupp is founder of Lighten Up Harrisburg. decorative box lights on the Market For more information or to make a donation, email [email protected] or visit Street Bridge in August. www.historicharrisburg.com. In Memory: Ronn Fink

Ronn Fink (right), a dear friend of TheBurg and co- owner of one of the best little shops in Harrisburg, died last month after a long illness. Ronn had a rich life. He was a founder of Historic Harrisburg Association and the Greater Harrisburg Arts Council, a former reporter for the Johnstown Tribune- Democrat and, at one time, the public relations director of the State Library of Pennsylvania. He lived in Harrisburg since 1962 and, along with his long-time partner Bob Deibler (left), owned The Bare Wall at 712 Green St. “The Historic Harrisburg Association is what it is today due largely to the early influence of Ronn and his love of this city,” said John Campbell, executive director of the Historic Harrisburg Association.

TheBurg 9 Past Tense

Returning Home Old Home Week, a century gone.

Jason Wilson ld Home Week began as a New visitations of historic places and “a groups were present OEngland tradition and served as a good time generally.” throughout the week homecoming for residents of villages The gathering for Old Home Week for the various parades. and towns who were natives in was not only a reunion of people, Though the childhood, but had long-since moved but also a celebration of Harrisburg’s 1905 Old Home Week away. evolution into a modern industrial was deemed a vast In the early 1900s, Harrisburg’s city. Its promotional tagline was, “The success, subsequent Board of Trade recommended New Harrisburg for Old Harrisburgers.” homecomings (which adopting the practice and began Civic-minded individuals were were usually held raising funds. In June of 1905, then- launching a campaign of municipal every 10 years) were Mayor Edward Z. Gross issued a improvements, the new Capitol was not as successful, and proclamation adopting and outlining nearing completion and residents felt the city seems to have Harrisburg’s Old Home Week a desire to celebrate. departed from the celebrations. Overall, the Board of Trade had tradition after 1925. Parade arches were constructed and bunting hung on Oct. 1, 1905 for Harrisburg's first Old Home Week. This picture shows Oct. 1 to 7, 1905 was officially raised more than $13,000, and the Future growth, the many familiar buildings that still exist today at the corner of N. proclaimed as “Old Home Week.” city estimated that more than 100,000 Great Depression and 3rd and Verbeke streets, including the Central Trust Co. bank The mayor stated that visitors would people attended the weeklong event. World War II limited building (now Historic Harrisburg Resource Center) (foreground assemble in the churches on Oct. The city’s streets and buildings were future celebrations, left), Robinson's Dry Goods (now part of Midtown Scholar 1 for denominational reunions and adorned with flags and bunting, and coupled with the move Bookstore) (background left) and the Broad Street Market (foreground right). then, throughout the week, there electric lights illuminated the streets to suburbia in the post- would be parades, reunions, meetings, every evening. Military and civic war years. Attempts were made to revive However, those efforts were largely the spirit of Old Home Week for unsuccessful. Harrisburg’s Sesquicentennial by planning class, group and family Jason Wilson is a research historian for the reunions for the summer of 2010. Capitol Preservation Committee. Then & Now

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10 TheBurg City View

Two Directions at Once Contradictions of the capital city.

Lawrance Binda ast month, I attended "media crumbling, slowly being reclaimed by Lday" for Harrisburg's fifth annual the river. Restaurant Week. Harrisburg is the beautifully In the lobby of the Hilton, restored Sturges Speakeasy, but it's reporters feasted on succulent dishes also awful Forster Street on which like swordfish meatballs with polenta, Sturges gracefully sits. braised salmon, crispy aspargus wrap Harrisburg is the sophisticated and a tomato bisque, proudly plated urban streetscape of Olde Uptown by a dozen or so restaurants. and the quaintness of narrow Near the end of the event, several Susquehanna and Penn streets. But restaurateurs began discussing it's also the rows of dilapidated houses how much the city's dining scene owned by hundreds of slumlords. had changed—how 20 years ago, When Steve Reed was mayor, he downtown Harrisburg was a food liked to take credit for the resurrection desert after dark with few options of downtown as a destination. beyond a chili dog at The Spot. The real credit, however, goes There's no denying this, and it to people like Steve Weinstock, Tom reminded me of what I've often said Scott and Nick Laus, the talented of Harrisburg: It's a city moving in two restaurateurs who took huge risks to directions at once. bring us something better. On one hand, little Harrisburg is They're the ones who bet that home to a number of truly world-class people wanted more than subpar food businesses. Little Amps, Midtown and cheap, watery beer. They're the Scholar Bookstore and Alvaro's would ones who recognized that Harrisburg's fit in perfectly in a charming, upscale density and historic patronage were area of New York, San Francisco, assets, not burdens. They're the Washington or even London. ones who provided a critical mass On the other hand, the city is of customers and the confidence for destitute, state-controlled, at the feet others to build on. of its creditors. It can't seem to fix its People wanted to return to streetlights, its roads or its schools. cities, they realized; they just needed I frequently host out-of-town something of quality to return to. visitors, many of whom have never In contrast, Reed's job was to offer seen Harrisburg before. As we set off an environment where business could on foot from my Midtown home, I thrive—a city of fiscal probity, sound often feel the need to prepare them infrastructure, safe streets and well- for the bumpy road ahead. maintained roads and sidewalks. I explain the city's financial Instead, Reed let himself get situation, a bit about its troubled diverted by grand ambitions—turning history and more about the city government into a bank, a builder consequences of decades of reckless, and a business of its own, all horribly controlling political leadership. run. Meanwhile, the basic services of I hope that will ease them into municipal government fell away. the sights of decapitated light poles, The city is a terrific example that weed-strewn sidewalks, incipient society needs both healthy public and sinkholes and gaggles of people private sectors to thrive. It is fantasy to hanging out on street corners, believe that a locality—or a nation— apparently with little productive to do. can achieve greatness without solid, I hope the memory of the trip responsible government. will be erased once they've sampled Harrisburg is a contradiction Steve's delicious burgers at Brick City because government failed it—and or Qui's tapas at Suba or a rack of Bill's continues to fail it. ribs at Crawdaddy's. Fortunately, small business has Harrisburg is WCI's wonderful new stepped up and propels it today. But building at N. 2nd and State, a modern until it solves its recurring problem of structure that integrates so well into dreadful governance, Harrisburg will its historic block. But it's also the once- remain a city moving in two directions majestic river walk, now chipped and at once.

TheBurg 11 Doing Good

A Most Rewarding Venture Doris Spriggs invites others to join her in hospice care.

Jeneé Fetterhoff true volunteer is defined by the hospital for many years comforting winter of their lives. Ending Hunger Now Agift of their time, given under no the sick. This was to prepare my heart Doris stands vigil with those who obligation, and with no expectation for the dying.” are alone at the time of death and The Greater Harrisburg CROP Hunger of desired responses. Doris Spriggs Retiring after 37 years as a drafter attends the funerals of those she grew Walk invites residents, congregations of Penbrook in for Verizon’s engineering department, to know and love. It is not only the and organizations to join hundreds of Harrisburg has been Doris can be found spending her life patient who receives her attention walkers to kick off this annual event visiting the patients of on her hobbies: cooking, gardening, and care, but their family members, at 1:30 p.m., Oct. 14, on the HACC Grane Hospice every riding her horse or attending her as well. At times, a spouse simply Campus. week since May of grandkid’s sports events. needs someone to listen or to offer Local food pantries, as well as 2011. But along with these personal assurance. communities that have experienced Our patients call her interests, Doris volunteers her time to Doris has a heart for hospitality flood, tornado and other disasters— “faithful.” do what she loves—visiting patients. and has the rare ability to make people and impoverished people around the Doris Spriggs The number of You can find her sitting and talking, feel at home outside the four walls of world—benefit from the efforts of the individuals in need treating them to chocolate or flowers, their own house. CROP Hunger Walk. of end-of-life hospice care continues singing to them, praying for them, Doris encourages others to For more information, visit to increase dramatically, due to the taking them outside to enjoy the volunteer, if they have a genuine heart harrisburgwalk.blogspot.com. Register 75.8 million Americans born between sunshine and telling them that she and concern to give their time for online or contact the CROP office at 1946 and 1964. Volunteers provide loves them. patients—and their family members— 717-909-9038. a necessary part of hospice care— She even puts on her Sunday who are facing death. Embark on companionship, emotional support best so her patients feel like they this adventure with desire, after first and relief for tired caretakers. are important to her. If a patient meeting the needs of your own family Blindness Awareness They offer the gift of presence and is uncomfortable or in pain, she and work. October is World Blindness Awareness time that cannot always be offered advocates for them, informing a nurse It has been one of the most Month, initiated by The Little Rock by clinical staff. Doris learned of the or an aide of their distress. rewarding ventures of her life, and Foundation, a non-profit organization need for volunteers during a spiritual Her goal is to leave a patient’s we are grateful for the opportunity dedicated to improving the lives of and bereavement care workshop room having made an impact, with to share such a faithful lady with our blind or visually impaired children. offered by Grane Hospice at Goodwin the patient knowing he or she is loved. patients. This month of recognition is now Memorial Baptist Church in Harrisburg. Truly, she embodies the philosophy of supported by 64 organizations in 40 She is a member there of the care and hospice, which is to provide physical, Jeneé Fetterhoff is the Volunteer Coordinator states including central Pennsylvania’s comfort ministry. for Grane Hospice, which serves patients in spiritual and emotional comfort to Tri-County Association for the Blind, One season in life prepares us for Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry and York those who have less than six months which joins these groups to provide the next. Doris recently expressed: counties. To learn more about volunteering, to live. She considers it an honor to contact Jeneé at 717-763-4001 or jfetterhoff@ awareness and a better understanding “I have been in and out of the walk this journey with them in the granehospice.com. www.granehospice.com. of the challenges facing the blind and visually impaired. For more information and to support Tri-County Association for the Blind, please call 717-238-2531 or visit at www.tricountyblind.org.

New Head for AACA Mark Lizewskie starts this month as the new executive director of the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum in Hershey. He was selected by the museum’s board following an extensive search. Lizewskie has dedicated his career to all things automotive. He was an Automotive Service Excellence master technician for more than 25 years. For nearly 12 years, he was curator, restorer and historian for the JWR Automobile Museum in Frackville, Pa. Lizewskie is a founding member of the board and car selection chairman for The Elegance at Hershey.

12 TheBurg Community Corner

Events in Our Area

Midtown walking tour Power of Style Fashion Show Diversity Network Forums Olde Uptown walking tour Oct. 6: Take a walking tour of Harrisburg’s Oct. 11: A fashion show luncheon to highlight Oct. 18: Dauphin County is conducting Oct. 20: Take a walking tour of Olde Uptown historic Midtown neighborhoods, 10 a.m. domestic violence awareness month and to free monthly forums, open to the public, Harrisburg, 10 a.m. to noon. Meet at the to noon. Meet at the Historic Harrisburg benefit YWCA of Greater Harrisburg, featuring to promote cultural sensitivity in the former M&T Bank Building at 2nd and Maclay Resource Center, 1230 N. 3rd St. Cost is $5 for local women-owned boutiques, 11 a.m. to 2 community, where participants can freely streets. Cost is $5 for Historic Harrisburg HHA members and $10 for non-members. Call p.m., West Shore Country Club. Tickets: $100 express perspectives and listen to people members and $10 for non-members. Call 717- 717-233-4646 or 717-574-5370 on day of tour. each, available by calling Devan at 717-724- from all walks of life. For October, Lena 233-4646 or 717-574-5370 on day of tour. 2248 or [email protected]. Shenoy will discuss Indian culture and dealing Wildlife Art Auction “The Phantom Carriage” with addiction, 8 a.m. at Dauphin County Oct. 6: The 19th annual Ned Smith Center Sharing the Harvest Fundraiser Oct. 20: The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Case Management Unit, 1100 S. Cameron St., Wildlife Art Auction, Ned Smith Center for Oct. 12: Downtown Daily Bread’s 2nd Annual Art and Harrisburg-based film co-op Moviate Harrisburg. Nature and Art, 176 Water Company Rd., Sharing the Harvest—Helping Those in will feature a screening of the 1921 Swedish Millersburg. Registration and silent auction Need is 7 to 9 p.m. at Historic Harrisburg Butterflies are free silent film “The Phantom Carriage,” set to a open at 9:30 a.m., live auction at noon. Free. Association, 1230 N. 3rd Street. Event will Oct. 18: A program on Butterflies of PA, live original score by The Living Screen. Call 717-692-3699 or nedsmithcenter.org. feature live entertainment, wine and hors sponsored by Appalachian Audubon Society 717-692-3699 or visit www.nedsmithcenter. d’oeuvres, a raffle, local artwork and silent at Christ Presbyterian Church, 421 Deerfield org or Moviate.org. Walk from Obesity auction. Tickets, $35 in advance and $40 Rd., Camp Hill. Refreshments and social time Oct. 6: A family-friendly walk begins at Halloween Radio Theater at the door, can be purchased at www. start at 7 p.m. Free to the public. Visit www. PinnacleHealth Community Campus, 4300 Oct. 21: The Not Ready for Drive Time Players downtowndailybread.org or 717-238-4717. appalachianaudubon.org. Londonderry Rd., Harrisburg. Registration, 8 returns with its mature audience show, a.m.; $25 per person, $15 for patients of the Fall Family Fun Day Great Pumpkin Day "Halloween Radio Theater," at 6:30 p.m. at PinnacleHealth Weight Loss Center; children Oct. 13: This annual event is designed to Oct. 20: Great Pumpkin Day celebration for Coakley’s Restaurant and Irish Pub, 305 Bridge under 12 free. Proceeds benefit American increase awareness of the natural world with kids & families, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., The State St., New Cumberland. The group also will Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery & many activities for children and families. Museum of Pennsylvania, N. 3rd & North perform at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 28. Admission is Obesity Action Coalition. Register at www. See live animal presentations, get your face streets, Harrisburg. Free with museum $5. Food drive donations will be collected. All pinnaclehealth.org or call 717-231-8900. painted, visit the pumpkin patch and more. admission. www.statemuseumpa.org. proceeds benefit the Bethesda Mission. Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art, Walk to Remember noon to 4 p.m. www.nedsmithcenter.org. Oct. 7: At 2:30 p.m., a short walk will be held to the PinnacleHealth Perinatal Bereavement Crop Walk grave site, Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Oct. 14: The Harrisburg Area CROP 4855 Londonderry Rd., Harrisburg, where Hunger Walk, an annual event to raise there will be a brief service of remembrance awareness and money to end hunger for babies who died during pregnancy or locally and globally, is at HACC’s main shortly after birth. The public is welcome. Call campus. Registration is 12:30 p.m.; the PinnacleHealth oneLine, 717-231-8900. walk is 1:30 p.m. For more, visit www. facebook.com/HarrisburgHungerWalk or Community Clothes Swap email [email protected]. Oct. 7: Join Community Clothes Swap, 2 to 6 p.m. All un-swapped clothing will be donated A Doll for All Seasons to YWCA of greater Harrisburg. Bring gently Oct. 14: Modern, vintage and antique used clothing, jewelry, handbags, hats, dolls and doll related items for sale, 10 gloves, scarves, shoes, etc., to HMAC Stage on a.m. to 4 p.m., Granada Street Gym, 30 Herr, 268 Herr St., Harrisburg. Covered dishes E. Granada Ave., Hershey. Displays, door and snacks are welcome. prizes, doll raffle to benefit Central PA Food Bank. Admission: $4; accompanied Fall Stamp Show children free. Contact Juanita at 717-567- Oct. 7: The Capital City Philatelic Society will 9553 (for dealers) and Dotti at 717-761- hold its fall stamp show, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, 3609 (general information) or dotti@ at Susquehanna Township High School, centralpenndollcollectorsclub.org; www. Elmerton Avenue, Harrisburg. Contact Linn centralpenndollcollectorsclub.org. Kinney at 717-732-7813. Fight for Air Walk Atrial Fibrillation Oct. 14: Participate in “Fight for Air” 5K Oct. 9: A free community education program Walk to raise awareness of lung will be held at Penn State Hershey Heart disease. Meet at the Carousel and Vascular Institute, starting at 6 p.m. in Pavilion, Harrisburg City Island. the University Conference Center on the Registration begins at noon Penn State Hershey Medical Center campus. with the walk at 1 p.m. Proceeds Electrophysiology experts will discuss new benefit the American Lung medications and medical devices used to Association programs, such treat and monitor atrial fibrillation and how as the organization’s Asthma atrial fibrillation can lead to increased risk Awareness Days, research and of stroke. Light dinner provided. Register by advocacy efforts. Contact Susan calling the Care Line at 1-800-243-1455. Eaton, 717-541-5864, ext. 22 or Creating sustainable organizations [email protected], or visit Oct. 10: Whitaker Center and Penn State www.lunginfo.org/hbgwalk. Institutes of Energy and the Environment host National Fossil Day a seminar on creating a sustainability plan Oct. 17: National Fossil Day for an organization. Free seminar is designed tours features a newly acquired to educate leaders in the Chesapeake Bay mammoth from Erie County, Watershed, 9 to 11:45 a.m. in the Sunoco Pa., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free with Performance Theater, 222 Market St. admission to The State Museum Advanced registrations required. Contact of Pennsylvania, N. 3rd & North Shelly Communications, 717-724-1681 or streets, Harrisburg. www. [email protected]. For more statemuseumpa.org. information on Expedition Chesapeake, visit www.expeditionchesapeake.org.

TheBurg 13 ShutterBurg … a Month in Pictures

Sept. 1: An attendee listens raptly as historian Rachel Jones Williams (right) explains the importance of the Broad Street Market during a walking tour highlighting Sept. 1: During the annual Kipona festival, an all-female African American heritage in Midtown Harrisburg. drum and song circle provided the musical backdrop for a celebration of Native American culture on City Island.

Sept. 5: Stock's on 2nd owner Steve Weinstock spoons out a tomato bisque during media day that preceded Sept. 8: Jessica Ruth shows off her collection of Harrisburg's fifth annual Restaurant Week at the Hilton. homemade accessories at the Broad Street Market during a community yard sale sponsored by Friends of Midtown.

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14 TheBurg Burg Biz Shop Window

Making Music Chimneys Shop marks 5 decades crafting, selling violins.

Jeffrey Allen Federowicz artistic beauty Crafting a violin, viola or cello is a Patriot-News Details with precision time-consuming process. It’s started construction. and completed by the same craftsman Major Changes The shop has who manipulates the instrument’s a large section wood and strings to achieve the right The Patriot-News last month of pre-maid sound. announced that it will print and instruments A craftsman can complete a violin deliver a newspaper only on Tuesdays, from respected in roughly 400 hours. Instruments Thursdays and Sundays. companies, made at Chimneys must meet a high In late August, the 158-year-old but it’s known level of quality in sound, design and newspaper said it would stop printing for handmade appearance. daily and go to a three-day-a-week pieces that grace “I’m sure the process could be print schedule, using its website as stages around rushed through in less time, but what its principal means of daily news the world and are good does that do?” Steffy said. “The delivery. It also said that it expected used by noted end result is an instrument that lacks to announce significant layoffs this Finely tuned: Nelson Steffy, master violin-maker, puts the finishing symphonies, quality and the proper sound.” month. touches on one of his instruments. bands and solo Over the years, Chimneys' To cut costs, daily papers owned artists. craftsmen, led by Campbell, have won by Advance Publications/Newhouse Founded by numerous national and international Newspapers increasingly are reducing ith an artist’s delicate touch, Edward and Mary Campbell, the shop’s prizes for their exquisite instruments. their print editions to three days a an architect’s engineering and W name reflects the chimneys that stand Each instrument has a label inside week. design skills and a musician’s soul, like sentinels around the rustic farm listing the maker and number in order the violin-maker crafts a beautiful where the retail store, work spaces and of manufacture. Violin prices range instrument with an enchanting sound. studio are located. from $1,000 to $15,000. Midtown Block Party Such are the skills that craftsmen Edward, now retired at 83, made “What I love most about the violin at The Chimneys Violin Shop use when To celebrate 20 years in business, his first violin at age 13. Steffy, who is how it can adapt to so many forms they make a violin or cello. “Creating Okechi, a hair salon at 1005 N. 3rd St., now runs the business, apprenticed of music,” Steffy said. “Jazz or classical a violin is really an art and a skill that Harrisburg, will hold a block party on under him. music, blues or music used for a takes time to learn and master,” said N. 3rd, from Boas to Herr streets, on The shop’s customers range square dance—the violin lends itself Nelson Steffy, manager of the 52-year- Oct. 13, 4 to 8 p.m. from children to school students to so well to so many different styles of old shop and a master violin-maker. The event will feature food, music, symphony members to adults just music.” Located along a rural road near games and more. Neighbors Cafe di learning to play the instrument. Carlisle, Chimneys takes you back in Luna and The Urban Snob also wll Chimneys' reputation and longevity The Chimneys Violin Shop, 614 Lerew Rd., time—to an era before Twitter and Boiling Springs; 717-258-3203 or www. participate with a fashion show and attract several generations of the technology—where skills passed thechimneysviolinshop.com. specials. same family as customers. down through the centuries are used “We help them select just the to create an instrument by hand and right violin that suits them,” Steffy said. with a sense of pride. “It’s not uncommon for someone to Visitors to the well-stocked shop be here three hours playing different discover row upon row of glossy, violins to decide which is right for wooden instruments that combine them.” It's a (Yellow) Bird

Ammon and Steph Perry greeted visitors with cookies and iced tea last month outside of 1320 N. 3rd St. in Harrisburg, where they will open the Yellow Bird Cafe in January. The full-service cafe will feature homemade baked goods, as well as soups, sandwiches, salads and coffee. The location last housed The HodgePodgery.

TheBurg 15 From the Ground Up

AFL-CIO Buys Historic Building A cascade of restorations hits downtown.

Lawrance Binda ne downtown restoration has for $850,000. building and Changing Hands: Oled to another, as the AFL-CIO On the same converting the of Pennsylvania has bought and is day, he closed ground floor into August Property Sales rehabilitating the long-underused on the 10,200- restaurant and Gannett Fleming Building. square-foot retail space. Berryhill St., 2102: PA Deals LLC to Bholay Nath Last month, Seel Building The Seel Properties LLC, $68,900 the labor group at 319 Market Building is Boas St., 1941: A. Thompson to Capital Building LLC, purchased the St., paying expected to $39,000 five-story, Gothic $437,500. become student Chestnut St., 2012: Deutsche Bank National Trustee to 2012 Chestnut Street LLC, $31,000 revival building Deitch- housing for at 600 N. 2nd man plans to Harrisburg Chestnut St., 2043: M. & L. Early to V. Oster, $110,000 St. for its new Barto Building convert the Seel Building University. Greenwood St., 953: Auto Glass Technology Inc. to Edwin L. Heim Co., $220,000 headquarters, eight-story Derek Dilks, Barto Building, originally constructed a Brickbox vice president, said that Hoffman St., 3225: R. Alexander to L. Cappellano, said spokesman $115,000 Jim Deegan. in 1911 as a Masonic Temple, into 50 planning now is underway for the Market St., 319: PA AFL-CIO Building Association et al Restoration one- and two-bedroom condomini- restoration of both buildings. He to Market View II LP, $437,500 Gannett Fleming ums. Work will include restoring the could not give a firm date when actual of the circa- Market St., 1929: T. & G. Gaul to J. & E. High, $68,500 1926 building, historic nature of the dilapidated construction work would begin. Mercer St., 2425: Fannie Mae to PA Deals LLC, designed by $40,250 renowned architect Clayton Lappley, N. 2nd St., 1317 and 2120, 2122 & 2124 began immediately. Deegan said the The Ribbon Is Cut Susquehanna St.: Four Dreams Investments LLC to A. AFL-CIO expects to move into the Petsinis & D. Parson Jr., $85,000 building by year-end. WCI Partners last month N. 2nd St., 2309: L. Fealtman to K. Brown, $110,900 The organization paid $1.29 officially opened its new N. 2nd St., 2522: J. & D. Peskie to A. Graham & J. Hays, million for the property, a price that office building at N. 2nd $75,000 and State streets. WCI's included a parking lot across the alley David Butcher and Alex N. 3rd St., 420: Pa. AFL-CIO Ltd. to Lux1 LP, $850,000 at 518 N. 2nd St. and another lot in Hartzler (second and N. 5th St., 3020: L. Jeranka to C. McMillen, $84,000 back of the building at 609 Cedar St. third from left) are joined N. Front St., 1419: River Front Development Group The AFL-CIO had to move after it in the ribbon-cutting LLC to River Front Partners LLC, $260,000 by Harrisburg Mayor sold its two downtown buildings to Linda Thompson and N. Front St., 1525, Unit 611: C. Wood to K. Uhlman, developer Brickbox Enterprises. representatives of First $185,000 On Aug. 30, Dan Deitchman, National Bank of Pa. and Pennwood Rd., 3216: A. & S. Miller to M. Faucette, president of Brickbox, closed on the the law firm of Buchanan, $74,900 historic Barto Building at State and N. Ingersoll & Rooney, the S. 13th St., 344: D. Ebersole to B. & D. Weatherly, building's two principal $65,000 3rd streets, buying it from the AFL-CIO tenants. S. 25th St., 636: PA Deals LLC to Bholay Nath Properties LLC, $66,900 S. 26th St., 815: L. & T. Myers to Riverview Bank, $60,000 The Steelton S. 27th St., 805: PA Deals LLC to Bholay Nath Properties LLC, $83,900 S. River St., 311: A. Davis to Dauphin County Farmers Market Historical Society, $105,000 Swatara St., 2132: C. & S. Ballard to T. Small, $58,900

Visit us for Your Source: Dauphin County, City of Harrisburg, property sales Wholesale & Retail greater than $30,000. Data is deemed to be accurate. Fresh Produce & Everyday Goods Biz Notes Midtown Dollar, a discount retailer, opened last month on the 900-block of N. 3rd St., s/RGANIC'OODS0RODUCE Harrisburg. .&RONT3T s'ROCERIES(OUSEHOLD)TEMS Subway will open a large, 1,700-square foot 3TEELTON 0A sandwich shop early next year on the ground s&ISH""1#HICKEN JUSTOUTSIDE floor of the new Market View Place apart- (ARRISBURG s%THNIC&OODS ment building at S. 3rd and Market streets. s3PECIAL$IETARY.EEDS -ON 3AT  Developer Brickbox Enterprises is turning the 3UNDAY  former Kunkel Building into student housing s&RESH-EATS&ULL$ELI    for Harrisburg University.

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Just Delicious: Hope Cook (right) opened her new eatery, Just Delicious, last month in the Broad Street Market to help introduce gluten-free cuisine to the Harrisburg area. Cook is joined in her venture by assistant Misty Fornwalt (left), and the pair can be found serving sandwiches, salads and sides near the rear of the Stone Building during market hours.

Gourmet Goodness: The search for high-quality coffee and food in Harrisburg got a little easier last month, as Lisa Brown opened her stand in the Stone Building of the Broad Street Market. Brown offers organic coffees, teas and pastries, as well as paninis and sandwiches. 1224 N. 3rd St. Harrisburg Want a little splurge? No need to wait for Kipona, as Gourmet 717-458-5718 Goodness also makes funnel cakes and deep-fried oreos. www.cobaharrisburg.com

TheBurg 17 Good Eats Taste of the Town

East Bank Dining Char Magaro set to open brasserie in Tracy Mansion.

Peter Durantine he opening this month of Char’s “I bought my first piece of The result is an elegant restaurant TTracy Mansion, an American furniture for it in 2007,” Magaro said, that can seat more than 90. It has Brasserie, along the shores of the during an interview at Little Amps, walnut chair rails, warm-colored walls, Susquehanna River in Midtown, a coffeehouse a block from the windows that bring in plenty of light signals the end to restaurateur Char mansion that will provide some of and an awning-covered veranda Magaro’s northward quest that began Char’s coffees. St. Thomas Roasters in where as many as 80 diners can enjoy six years ago. Linglestown also will provide coffees. sunsets on the river. For nine years, Magaro had been Despite the mansion’s stately The restaurant is divided into serving upscale dishes at Char’s Bella exterior with a veranda that wraps several rooms. The largest is the dining Mundo in the city’s south end. It was a around the west, north and south room where patrons can eat under small version of her new place, located sides of the building, the interior blown-glass chandeliers made by a block from the river in Shipoke. She was essentially a shell. Restaurant her artist daughter, Ona Magaro. A closed it after last year’s devastating construction started in June and gallery/community room offers three flood. included new electrical wiring, large, custom-made tables around a Magaro had been planning plumbing, windows, lighting and fireplace. Blown glass and sculptures her brasserie since 2006, when the bamboo flooring—a $2 million are on display. Artwork—including developers of the nearly century-old project. exhibits—will grace the rooms. brick-and-slate-roof mansion divided “There was so much that had to The Gerald McKee Library, named it into condominiums. They offered be done just to have someone think for Magaro’s friend, reflects their her a good price and a location in, for about moving in,” Magaro said, over a shared interests. Diners can relax her, a progressive area of the city. steaming latte. before book-filled shelves covering a wall in the room. Char Magaro and daughter, Ona, outside the “It’s casual upscale,” Magaro said, new restaurant, which opens this month. describing the atmosphere of the brasserie. “You walk in and you know brasserie in Midtown because of you’re in a special place, but it’s not such development occurring there— going to be stuffy.” from the revitalization of homes and The menu, traditional French neighborhoods by WCI Partners to brasserie with American and Eastern GreenWorks’ projects, such as Campus influences, features an abundance of Square at N. 3rd and Reily streets, to seafood, homemade sausages and Midtown Scholar Bookstore, which has Lunch and Dinner Specials! steaks—all served in either fine dining become a sort of town meeting hall. or light fare options. Drinks include Served Monday thru Friday, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. “I really, really believe that cocktails, wine and beer on tap. Midtown is going to raise this city,” she Next year, Magaro plans regular said. “The community embraces young .POEBZT Thursdays salons at the restaurant featuring people; it embraces the community.” guest speakers from the fields t
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18 TheBurg Home Cooking

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TheBurg 19 Looking for ways to Wine Time improve your health and well-being? Beyond the Straw Bottle Stop by and visit us on October 13 Super Tuscans have revolutionalized Chianti. Holistic Vendors • Wellness Workshops• Community Steve Juliana Reiki Share • Central Pa Animal Alliance Fundraiser ah, Tuscany, the means “little black one,” a description Aquintessential Italian of its small fruit with its dark color. This All under one roof at the Colonial Park United Church province, home to the area wasn’t even known for the wines Of Christ 5500 Devonshire Rd. Hbg, Pa 17109 Leaning Tower of Pisa, the bottled here until the mid 1980s. Now, art treasures of Florence, however, things are different. Admission is $5.00 ~ Free goodie bag to the first 200 hilltop cities like Siena and Morellino di Scansano is a Super attendees ~ Biggest Holistic Expo in Harrisburg the wines of Chianti. Tuscan that we all can purchase and More details ~ AltaViewWellness.com ~ 717-221-0133 There is probably no enjoy. The sangiovese from this small other Italian wine that brings forth village is blended with grapes such as images that we all have imbedded syrah, merlot and cabernet sauvignon. in our minds than Chianti. It rings These wines are fabulous. I of traditions stretching back into speak from experience. Some are antiquity, and who among us cannot fruit bombs, big and juicy, others remember the straw covered bottles complex and tannic begging for food known as fiasco? to tame them. Tradition is upheld with But this image is not exactly sangiovese as the main grape, while what it seems to be. In the 1970s, the innovation, which is what modern winemakers in Tuscany started Tuscany is all about, has allowed working with grapes from other blends that are much more than the regions, most notably Bordeaux. These sum of their parts. wines are referred to as the “Super The ancient and the modern Tuscans.” have certainly melded in a part of Italy Some were a blend of sangiovese that seems almost as a living diorama and French grapes, and some were to a way of life almost forgotten. simply the fruit from more northern Maremma shows that Tuscany is regions done in a unique Latin marching to a new drummer into style. With names like Sassicaia and a future that is world class. History Tignanello, these wines put Tuscany shows us that innovation and on the international map in a way that imagination often emerge from the the traditional Chianti never could. “Wild West.” Since then, things have only gotten Keep sipping, Steve. better. The revolution of the vineyard Steve Juliana of Hummelstown is a wine adviser that started in France moved to Italy and a life-long lover of wines. and brought innovation in technique and viniculture. It is now possible to drink wines Patriotic Concert that are from grapes that hearken back centuries. Varieties that were thought Marks War Anniversary to be extinct are now bottled and available to us. Clones of sangiovese The Keystone Concert Band will from different parts of the boot bring perform a patriotic concert as part of a tasting experience that did not exist the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam very long ago. Quality is better than War, Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Vietnam ever, as well as a looming variety of Veterans of America, 8000 Derry St., choice. Harrisburg. In the most western part of The program begins at noon, and Tuscany, with its feet in the Ligurian the Keystone Concert Band plays at 1 Sea, is the wine area of Maremma. p.m. The band will play the "American Known as Tuscany’s “Wild West,” this is Forces Salute," "Semper Fidelis," "God a region not of buttes and cacti, but of Bless the USA," "American Patrol," an wild beaches, rolling hills and malaria- Irving Berlin medley, "America the infested marshes. Beautiful," songs from George M. Relatively unsettled, one of the Cohan and more. better known towns is Scansano. Here, For more information, call Donna a clone of sangiovese called morellino Deaven, 717-329-7541, or visit www. is the most important grape. The name keystoneconcertband.com.

20 TheBurg Culture Club Creator

Filming Harrisburg Life on "Hamilton Street."

Peter Durantine year-old actor and producer Michael Giovanni, who is of Hispanic but, sooner or later, it’s going to tip Giovanni, who’s had roles in HBO’s “The and Italian descent and grew up in into your yard.” Wire” and “Dark Knight Rises,” want to Harrisburg, is a gentle, soft-spoken portray in their new web-based series man. He’s quite familiar with the "Hamilton Street" on YouTube at www. youtube.com/user/hamiltonstwebseries. on YouTube, “Hamilton Street.” character he’s playing. He lost many For more, visit Facebook www.facebook. Shot on location in Harrisburg, friends to drugs and crime growing up com/HamiltonStWebSeries and Twitter at @ “Hamilton Street” is a gritty drama in the city. hamilton_street. about two men who grew up together “When it comes to acting and —a drug dealer, Diego “Tito” Williams, playing a role, it takes so much and journalist Marshall Rittenhouse— energy,” he said. “When it comes and how their lives and actions effect to playing a drug dealer, I’ve been Fall Festival Slated an entire city. around this environment.” Central Penn College invites the Although billed as a crime drama Though raised in a single-parent community to its annual Fall Harvest with a subscriber-based web audience home, strong family ties and a strong, celebration, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., steadily growing, “Hamilton Street” caring mother helped him avoid Saturday, Oct. 20. tries to keep away from the good guy/ making the bad choices his character A family event, activities bad guy, one-dimensional characters. Tito makes, he said. With “Hamilton include pumpkin-carving, face- Giovanni and Gadsden want viewers Street,” he wants to show how those painting, basket raffles, kiddie corner, choices damage a person’s psyche. On location: Nathan Gadsden and Michael to see Tito as human, though one mechanical bull, guitar hero, massages Giovanni at 6th and Hamilton. who makes bad choices and does “When a person becomes a drug by PTA students, craft tables, food despicable acts. In the first episode, dealer, it’s a mental health issue,” and various well-known vendors. Live t Hamilton and 6th streets in “Body Dump,” Tito, played by Giovanni, Giovanni said. music will be performed throughout AHarrisburg, the late afternoon kills an addict by injecting him with a “Hamilton Street,” which features the day, including Hot Jam Factory, light casts long shadows across a quiet drug overdose, then laughs about it a crooked cop among other charac- Katy Glorioso, Thom Lewis and neighborhood of empty lots and a few later while at a restaurant. The scene ters, tries to show how a community alumnus Brett Rudder. vacant buildings, including the old was shot near Hamilton and 6th. that ignores the drugs and crime that Events include an all-day alumni Hamilton School. In the second episode, “Shoot‘em seemingly control the neighborhood tailgating social, Fear Factor from Standing on the southwest corner Up,” Tito expresses compassion after is contributing to the problem. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., a dance team of Hamilton and 6th, Nathan Gadsden a shootout he had with rivals left two “We are not pointing fingers,” Gads- performance, the crowning of Central nods at the few buildings and houses children dead. Despite the violence, den said, noting Harrisburg is just a Penn’s Fall Harvest king and queen at across the street, where Hamilton runs the series doesn’t focus on blood and setting in the series, which is about noon, a polar bear plunge with the east to 7th, the neighborhood where gore. Its power is in the characters’ the greater issue of urban crime and president at 12:30 p.m. and Boyer he grew up in the 1960s. reactions and emotions to events. blight. “We’re trying to show it affects House tours from 1 to 2 p.m. “This neighborhood was all Neither Giovanni nor Gadsden the whole community.” Admission is free. The event is houses and people and vibrant,” said intends to glorify drug dealers and Giovanni puts it in these terms: rain or shine. For directions, visit www. the 60-year-old former city crime mobsters, but they want viewers to “You and I are neighbors, and I keep centralpenn.edu/directions. For more reporter and now screenwriter and get past the stereotypes that distort throwing trash in my yard and I don’t information: 717-728-2273. film producer. perspectives. clean it up. You don’t say anything, Gadsden’s reflection is a “As long as you see them as metaphor of sorts for what he and 28- monsters, they’re nightmares and unreal to you,” Gadsden said. Exhibit Opening

Harrisburg area artist Jeff Bye is having a show at The Red Raven Art Company, along Lancaster’s Gallery Row, 138 N. Prince St., on Oct. 5, the city’s First Friday event. Bye is exhibiting local scenes including a series of painting of railroad box cars such as the one pictured and another of farm animals. For more information, visit www. redravenartcompany.com or call 717-299-4400.

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Museums & Art Spaces

Antique Auto Museum at Hershey National Civil War Museum 161 Museum Dr., Hershey One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir, Harrisburg Read, Make, Learn 717-566-7100; www.aacamuseum.org 717-260-1861; nationalcivilwarmuseum.org Agia Sophia "100 Years of Chevrolet," featuring "1862,” an exhibit highlighting the second 225 Market St., Harrisburg; 717-232-2033 cars, special fine art and automobilia year of the Civil War, through Dec. 31. marking the 100th anniversary of the Oct. 19: Book-signings by Sheena Hisiro, iconic car maker, through Oct. 14. North Gallery illustrator of “Josiah and Julia Go To Church” 1633 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg and by Annalisa Boyd, author of “Special "Dusty Jewels: Off-road Motorcycles of the Agents of Christ,” 11 a.m.–1 p.m. 1970s," highlighting the off–road 1970s Joint exhibit of contemporary painting by motorcycle boom, through Oct. 25. featured artists Andrew Guth & Janette Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café Toth, through mid-November; reception, 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg Oct. 19, 7–10 p.m. Art Association of Harrisburg 717-236-1680; midtownscholar.com 21 N. Front St., Harrisburg Rose Lehrman Arts Center Oct. 2: Debate on theme, "Progressives 717-236-1432; www.artassocofhbg.com One HACC Drive, Harrisburg Should Support Obama," 7 p.m. "Out of the Blue" (fall membership www.hacc.edu/RoseLehrmanArtsCenter Oct. 3,10: Pre-School Art Series, 10 a.m. show), through Oct. 11. Paintings by Jeff Reed & Chris Feiro, Oct. Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25: Almost Uptown Poetry Invitational Exhibition with works by 10–Nov. 16; lecture & reception, Nov. 8, Cartel, 7 p.m. Piety Choi, Chuck Hamilton, Joanne 5:30-7:30 p.m. Landis, Alan Paulson and Lori Snyder, Oct. Oct. 6, 13: Kids & Careers Series, 11 a.m. 19-Nov. 22; reception Oct. 19, 5–8 p.m. The State Museum of Pennsylvania Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28: "TED Talks at Midtown 300 North St., Harrisburg Scholar," 1 p.m. 717-787-4980; www.statemuseumpa.org The Cornerstone Coffeehouse Oct. 11: "Poets on Pennsylvania," an 2133 Market St., Camp Hill "Trailblazers: Notable African Americans assembly of Pennsylvania poets, 6 p.m. www.thecornerstonecoffeehouse.com in Pennsylvania History," photo exhibit featuring African Americans closely Oct. 16: Midtown Poets, 7 p.m. Oil painting and drawing by Sean associated with Pennsylvania. Goldinger, through October. Oct. 17: Susquehanna Salon, 7 p.m. Whitaker Center/The Curved Wall Oct. 20: Book-reading by children's book Fenêtre Gallery 222 Market St., Harrisburg illustrator, Shadra Strickland, 10 a.m. HACC Midtown 2, 2nd Floor 717-214-ARTS; www.whitakercenter.org Oct. 21: Philosophy Salon, 12:30 p.m. N. 3rd and Reily streets, Harrisburg "Calculated Transformations," an exhibition Oct. 21: Creative NF Writers Group, 2 p.m. “Walls of Texas,” by A. Pierce Bounds, by Tara Chickey, through Nov. 8. through Oct. 11. Oct. 22: Art Kaleidoscope, 7 p.m. Yellow Wall Gallery/Midtown Scholar "K. Leroy Irvis: Woodcarvings," Oct. 19–Nov. Oct. 24: Bike the Burg, 7 p.m. 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 8; reception, Oct. 19, 6-8 p.m. 717-236-1680; www.midtownscholar.com Oct. 27: Book-signings by local authors Steve & Marilyn Carter ("No Fret Cooking") Paintings in combined media by Leann Gallery@Second and Carol Fair ("Transplanted to Better Leiter, through Oct. 14. 608 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg Health"), 2 p.m. galleryatsecond.com "Drawing Midtown," works by Ammon Perry and Jonathan Bean, Oct. 16–Nov. 11; The Susquehanna Folk Music Society The artwork of Veera Pfaffli, in the Upstairs reception, Oct. 19, 6–10 p.m. www.sfmsfolk.org Gallery, through Nov. 3. Oct. 27: Balkan Dance Day w/Michael Works by John Hassler and Jean Zaun, Oct. Kuharski (at Locust Lane). 18–Dec. 1; reception, Oct. 19, 6–9 p.m.

Gallery at Walnut Place 413 Walnut St., Harrisburg; 717-233-0487 3rd in The Burg: Oct. 19 Works by Veronica Wolfe, Oct. 4–31; reception, Oct. 19, 5–8 p.m. The drawing, "Club 1400" (right), will be on display, along with other works by illustrator Jonathan Bean at The LGBT Center Gallery the Yellow Wall Gallery of Midtown 1306 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg Scholar Bookstore during this “Unknown,” a show of unknown/new LGBT month's 3rd in The Burg, which takes artists featuring art from all different ages place Oct. 19. Bean, along with artist and styles, through Oct. 13. and cartoonist Ammon Perry, will be featured as part of the exhibit, "True Colors," college and high school GSA "Drawing Midtown," a selection of Juried Exhibit showcasing works of Gay/ drawings of sights and people in Straight Alliance Association Members Midtown Harrisburg. You can visit from both local colleges and high schools many galleries, restaurants and other from Central PA, Oct. 19-Nov. 10; reception, venues at the monthly celebration Oct. 19, 7–10 p.m. of arts and culture throughout Harrisburg. For more information Mangia Qui about all events for October, please 272 North St., Harrisburg see our back cover or visit www. 717-233-7358; www.mangiaqui.com facebook.com/3rdinTheBurg. The art of Elide Hower & Vivian Calderón, through October.

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Live Music around Harrisburg

Appalachian Brewing Co./Abbey Bar Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra Stock’s on 2nd 50 N. Cameron St., Harrisburg 717-540-1010; www.cpfj.org The Forum (5th and Walnut Sts.), Harrisburg 211 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg 717-221-1083; www.abcbrew.com (please check website for location) 717-545-5527; harrisburgsymphony.org 717-233-6699; www.stocksonsecond.com Oct. 4: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Oct. 14: Rufus Reid's Outfront Trio "Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody," Oct. 6–7 Oct. 6: Don Johnson Project Band Oct. 6: Cutthroat Shamrock Oct. 14 & 28: CPFJ Jam Session Oct. 13: Shea Quinn & Steve Swisher "Here to Stay: The Gershwin Symphonic Oct. 13: DrFameus+Former Champions Oct. 20: TBA Experience," Oct. 20-21 Oct. 18: My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Clover Lane Coffeehouse Oct. 27: Funktion Oct. 19: The Clarks 1280 Clover Lane, Harrisburg Hershey Theatre Oct. 27: Cabinet 717-564-4761; www.harrisburguu.org Suba Tapas Bar/Mangia Qui 15 E. Caracas Ave., Hershey 272 North St., Harrisburg Oct. 19: Drew Nelson 717-534-3405; www.hersheytheatre.com Carley’s Ristorante and Piano Bar 717-233-7358; www.mangiaqui.com 204 Locust St., Harrisburg Oct. 12: Hershey Symphony Orchestra The Cornerstone Coffeehouse Oct. 5: Jeff Calvin & The Converse All-Stars 717-909-9191; www.carleysristorante.com 2133 Market St., Camp Hill Oct. 6: Maidenground HMAC/Stage on Herr Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29: Chris Gassaway www.thecornerstonecoffeehouse.com Oct. 12: Chelsea Caroline 1110 N. 3rd St./268 Herr St., Harrisburg Oct. 2, 9, 12, 16, 23, 30: Brandon Parsons Oct. 13: The Humblers Oct. 5: November Drive 717-441-7506; www.harrisburgarts.com Oct. 3: Chelsea Caroline Oct. 19: Indian Summer Jars Oct. 6: Steven Gellman Oct. 4: Wade Preston Oct. 5: Aortic Valve Oct. 20: Kyle Morgan & The Backroad Oct. 7: Paul Derek Moore Oct. 5, 19, 27: Noel Gevers Oct. 19: The Way Home Oct. 26: Matt Otis Oct. 12: Seasons Oct. 6, 26: Roy LeFever Every Wednesday, Open Mic Oct. 27: Dirk Quinn Oct. 13: Sweet Life Oct. 7, 13, 21: Anthony Haubert Oct. 14: David Carr Oct. 10: Jason Kreider Brant Hollywood Casino at Penn National The Susquehanna Folk Music Society Oct. 19: Shanna Rea Oct. 11, 18: Giovanni Traino 777 Hollywood Blvd., Grantville www.sfmsfolk.org Oct. 20: Paul Zavinsky Oct. 17, 25, 31: TBA 877-565-2112; www.hcpn.com Oct. 21: Kevin Kline Oct. 7: Girsa w/Irish Blessing (at Marketview Oct. 20, 24: Jett Prescott Oct. 26: Jeanine & Friends Oct. 5: Oktoberfest Oompah Band & Lucky You Arts in York) Oct. 6: Honeypump Oct. 26: Harvey Reid (at Fort Hunter) Oct. 12: The Uptown Band Oct. 13: Second Chance Band Whitaker Center Oct. 19: Pop Rox 222 Market St., Harrisburg The Stage Door Oct. 20: Amish Outlaws 717-214-ARTS; www.whitakercenter.org Oct. 26: UUU Oct. 2: BoDeans Oct. 27: Smooth Like Clyde Appalachian Brewing Co./Abbey Bar Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café Oct. 17: Keb Mo 50 N. Cameron St., Harrisburg 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg Oct. 23: Indigo Girls Johnny Joe's Sports Bar & Grill 717-221-1083; www.abcbrew.com 717-236-1680; midtownscholar.com Oct. 25: Ingrid Michaelson 5327 East Trindle Rd., Mechanicsburg "Nerds, Puppies & Comedy," Oct. 14 Good News Café, Oct. 6 717-766-2254; www.johnnyjoesbar.com Broadway Classics Productions TMI improv troupe, Oct. 19 Oct. 5: Badd Seed Harrisburg Mall, 3501 Paxton St., Harrisburg Oct. 6: Octavia 877-717-7969; broadwayclassicspa.com Open Stage of Harrisburg Oct. 12: Martini Brothers 223 Walnut St., Harrisburg Oct. 13: Disorderly Conduct "Back Stage Horrors," through Nov. 3 717-232-OPEN; www.openstagehbg.com Oct. 19: Bamboozled Great Scott! Harrisburg Comedy Zone "Frost/Nixon," Oct. 5–27 Oct. 20: Buzz Chopper 110 Limekiln Rd., New Cumberland Oct. 26: Plugged In 717-920-3627; harrisburgcomedyzone.com Oyster Mill Playhouse Oct. 27: Trailer Park Cowboys Kurt Green, Oct. 5–6; Dave Landau, Oct. 12-13; 1001 Oyster Mill Road, Camp Hill Luhrs Performing Arts Center Ward Anderson, Oct. 19–20; Paul Lyons, Oct. 717-737-6768; www.oystermill.com 1871 Old Main Dr., Shippensburg 26–27 "Lucky Stiff," through Oct. 14 717-477-SHOW; www.luhrscenter.com Harrisburg Shakespeare Company Oct. 6: Christopher Cross & Little River Band 3rd Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg Popcorn Hat Players at the Gamut Oct. 11: Charley Pride 717-238-4111; www.gamutplays.org 3rd Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg 717-238-4111; www.gamutplays.org Oct. 19: Liza Minnelli "Poe: Much of Madness," Oct. 5–7 Oct. 25: Huey Lewis & The News "Rapunzel!," through Oct. 6 "To Kill a Mockingbird," Oct. 27–Nov. 18 Oct. 27: Glen Campbell

Hershey Area Playhouse Rose Lehrman Arts Center Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Café Sand Hill Road at Cherry Drive, Hershey One HACC Drive, Harrisburg 1302 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg 717-838-8164; hersheyareaplayhouse.com www.hacc.edu/RoseLehrmanArtsCenter 717-236-1680; www.midtownscholar.com "Greater Tuna," Oct. 18–28 Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Ahn Trio, Oct. 3: Michelle Lewis Oct. 17 Hershey Theatre Oct. 5: John Terlazzo & Jim Colbert 15 E. Caracas Ave., Hershey Oct. 11: Harmonious Wail Theatre Harrisburg 717-534-3405; www.hersheytheatre.com Oct. 12: Dylan Jane & Silent Old Mountains 513 Hurlock St., Harrisburg Oct. 13: Meghan Cary & Cal Folger Day Craig Ferguson, Oct. 9 717-232-5501; www.theatreharrisburg.com Oct. 19: Gatsby's Green Light & Jeff Miller Ron White, Oct. 27 No shows scheduled for October. Oct. 26: Dan Kibler & Sarah Blacker w/Rebecca HMAC/Stage on Herr Loebe 1110 N. 3rd St./268 Herr St., Harrisburg Whitaker Center 717-441-7506; www.harrisburgarts.com 222 Market St., Harrisburg MoMo’s BBQ & Grille If it's Halloween, it must be time for the 717-214-ARTS; www.whitakercenter.org 307 Market St., Harrisburg annual staging of "The Rocky Horror Picture "Rocky Horror Picture Show," Oct. 26–28 717-230-1030; www.momosbbqandgrill.com Show" at HMAC's Stage on Herr, 268 Herr St., Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet presents Harrisburg. You can join Dr. Frank-N-Furter Little Theater of Mechanicsburg Oct. 5: Blue Voodoo "Carnival of the Animals," Oct. 20–21 and his gender-bending crew from transexual 915 S. York St., Mechanicsburg Oct. 12: Dirt Floor Poor Band Henry Rollins, Oct. 24 Transylvania on Oct. 26 to 28. So, dammit 717-766-0535; www.ltmonline.net Oct. 19: Red Velvet Step Child Janet, visit www.stageonherr.net for ticket Oct. 26: Ben Brandt Band "A Behanding in Spokane," Oct. 19–Nov. 3 information—and do the Time Warp again!

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October Schedule harrisburg midtown arts center 268 Herr Street Oct. 5: Aortic Valve www.harrisburgarts.com Acoustic Autumn Oct. 19: The Way Home Forecast calls for folkie fall, winter Oct. 26-28: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, full stage production Jess Hayden he Susquehanna Folk Music Every Wednesday, Open Mic TSociety, the Harrisburg area’s champion of traditional and contemporary folk music, dance, stories and craft, presents its Monday Nights: Broke Ass new season of concerts, dances, Monday Karaoke hosted by workshops, jams and coffeehouses. This veteran group doesn’t own Giovanni Traino a venue, but instead uses a variety of interesting spaces to help create Tuesday Nights: Board Game the cozy, informal atmosphere so Coming in November: Molasses Creek often appreciated by folk music Night!!! enthusiasts. Susquehanna Folk three concerts there at another new events are staffed by volunteers and venue: Marketview Arts. This former Wednesday Nights: Open Mic Night include opportunities for audience Fraternal Order of Eagles building has with Mike Banks – Sign up online. members to meet one another over been turned into a downtown arts refreshments at intermission or during center complete with a large space a potluck meal before the event. that adapts well for concerts. In this Look for the group to return this venue, the group will feature the season to one of their favorite haunts: Irish-American band Girsa on Oct. 7; For full event information visit www.harrisburgarts.com or call 717-701-6199 the Fort Hunter Centennial Barn. Part beautiful three-part harmony from of Fort Hunter Museum and Park, this the trio Brother Sun on Jan. 26; and attractive historic barn has housed country blues from the legendary Rory many Susquehanna Folk concerts, Block on April 21. jams, coffeehouses and workshops. Susquehanna Folk also features Concerts slated at the barn this world class international dance season are multi-instrumentalist instruction and dancing to live ethnic Harvey Reid on Oct. 26; string band music. On Oct. 27, Balkan Dance Day music and quirky humor from will be held at Christ the Saviour Molasses Creek on Nov. 2; an eclectic Orthodox Church in Harrisburg with mix ranging “from Celtic to Cowboy” dance instruction by Michael Kuharski, with Small Potatoes on Nov. 17; local while, on Dec. 1, there’s a dance party favorites Voxology on March 23; and with the Balkan music band Sviraj at Canadian singer-songwriter Garnet the St. Lawrence Club in Steelton. Rogers on April 13. A jam, open to For more information and tickets, visit www. all, is held 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on third susquehannafolk.org. The group gratefully Sundays, October through May. acknowledges funding from the Pa. Council on New this season is a series of the Arts and the Cultural Enrichment Fund. Sunday afternoon concerts held in Jess Hayden is executive director of collaboration with Greenbelt Events Susquehanna Folk Music Society. Contact her at 717-319-8409, 717-938-9606 (fax) or concerts@ at the Gallery of the Appalachian sfmsfolk.org. Brewery in Harrisburg. This lovely, intimate space has old-world charm but boasts the latest in sound and lighting technology. Youth Arts Festival The series of concerts include Canadian fiddling and step dancing NexGen Youth Arts Festival, for youth virtuoso April Verch on Jan. 13; a from kindergarten through college, spotlight on local talent with Neidig, premiers at HACC this month. Koretsky, Gehret and Campbell on Feb. The Oct. 20 to 21 festival includes 3; Blues Hall of Fame Inductee John visual arts, digital arts, gaming, Hammond on Feb. 24; and Americana filmmaking, music and a performing music favorites Red Molly on May arts showcase. Community partners 19. Concert goers are encouraged to such as Jump Street, Art Association stay for dinner or to try one of ABC’s of Harrisburg, Susquehanna Art famous brews. Ample parking is free. Museum and Penn State Harrisburg For those wishing to venture are collaborating with BARAK, Inc. Visit to York, Susquehanna Folk will hold www.nexgenartsfestival.org for more.

24 TheBurg Home & Family Burg Bucks

The Retirement Riddle Your money could expire before you do.

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TheBurg 25 Sports & Bodies Sporting Life

A Tale of Football, Life Carlisle Indian School's championship is a century old, but lessons endure.

James DeBord he past few years have been rough What’s that you say? You’ve title of National Tfor the game of football, at the never heard of the Carlisle Indian Champions. collegiate and professional level. School—and you most certainly Jim With endless coverage of scandals never knew that they won a national Thorpe and on and off the field at several major championship in football? Well, that his teammates powerhouse universities, and with would be a shame if you are not most certainly the constant labor strife in the NFL familiar with their accomplishments. didn’t enjoy between the players and owners over It’s something all of us should know, any special their share of billion-dollar pies, the whether or not we are football fans. It privileges as negative aspects associated with the is one more great story in the tale that successful game seem to garner more attention is America. football players than the individual contests these At a time when football has do today. days. become an endless cash machine for In fact, they But, I would like to call on fans not only owners of professional teams were routinely of the game of football and fans of and universities playing in major subjected to Picture day: Carlisle Indian School pupils gather together, circa 1900. American history and ask them to conferences, but also for the television discrimination pause a moment this football season. networks, advertisers and all those by their own Take a minute and recognize the who make their living from the games, school, where white administrators They were not worried about anniversary we should all pay homage to a truly and instructors were systematically strutting for the cameras or wondering of one of the amazing team from the Carlisle Indian trying to rid them of the Native what agents might be watching. greatest and School led by America’s greatest American customs and heritage. The goal of the Carlisle Indian perhaps purest athlete Jim Thorpe, as well as one of They were also discriminated School players was to demonstrate, moments of the game’s most famed and innovative against by other teams and students through their actions on the field, team glory in early coaches, Pop Warner. at opposing universities that clearly that they were the best team in the the history of This team from a tiny school thought them to be inferior, not just game during that 1912 national football. This year, located in bucolic Cumberland County, as football players, but as human championship season. In so doing, 2012, marks the Pa., was comprised of numerous beings. they represented the purest essence 100th anniversary players, including Thorpe, who had These proud young men had no of sports and should serve as a model of the Carlisle never played organized football special dorms, individual tutors, first for all of our athletes of today. Indian School before they came to Carlisle. Yet, the class travel accommodations, private The Carlisle Indian School closed winning college team rose to glory defeating all of the workout facilities or fancy meals six short years after the football football’s national traditional powerhouse programs of before or after their games. They were team won its national championship. Today, the grounds and some of the The great Jim Thorpe, championship that day, including Harvard and Army, simply a team that walked out onto circa 1909. title. which was led by a young back named the field determined to be better original buildings of the school where Dwight Eisenhower, and claimed the football players than their opponents. Jim Thorpe, his teammates and Pop Warner rose to collegiate football glory is the site of the U.S. Army War College. This fact and the passage of NOW time make it easy to forget the accomplishments of these great OPEN! players on the gridiron. But, I hope that, in the coming days as you turn on your television and watch your Lower team run out onto the field to blaring Level of music and smoke machines, you will remember how 100 years ago the the mightiest football team in the nation Midtown was comprised entirely of a group of proud Native American athletes from Scholar Carlisle, Pa.

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26 TheBurg Great Outdoors

Park Patriarch Celebrating the life, work of Maurice Goddard.

TheBurg Staff e served five of public park land to the state. He anniversary of his birth. Goddard was and are important beyond measure,” HPennsylvania died in 1995 at his Camp Hill home. born Sept. 13, 1912, in Lowell, Mass. said Marci Mowery, president of governors as Supporters this fall are celebrating his On Oct. 13, Camp Hill Borough Pennsylvania Parks and Forests the secretary contributions to the state. will hold a Goddard 5K run/walk Foundation. “Even people who never of Forests and Goddard’s work helped to through the Goddard Memorial Trail. set foot in a state park or forest Waters and as make the system one of the best in The trail is designated with a marker benefit immensely from these natural the founding the country. In 2009, Pennsylvania describing Goddard’s influence on the treasures. Maurice Goddard had a secretary of the received the National Gold Medal state park system. large role in gifting that treasure to all Department of Award for Excellence in Park and Also that day, cycling enthusiasts Pennsylvanians.” Environmental Recreation Management from the can take part in a metric century bike Maurice Goddard Resources, and American Academy for Park and ride between two Goddard parks in Founded in 1999, the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation supports 120 state parks his goal was to Recreation Administration. The York County. The ride will begin at and 2.2 million acres of forest by coordinating establish a state park within 25 miles Goddard Legacy Project began the Gifford Pinchot State Park at 8 a.m. and volunteers, activities and donations through of every resident. same year to increase awareness of continue to Codorus State Park and its 34 chapters. To learn more about these While he never fully realized that Goddard’s impact. back. events and Maurice K. Goddard, visit www. dream during his years of service, Goddard’s work as a public In 1972, during Goddard’s time paparksandforests.org. Maurice K. Goddard nonetheless servant included: dedicating as secretary of the Department of added 45 parks and 130,000 acres funding for natural resource Environmental Resources, eight conservation; aiding the other parks also became part of Car Rally for Charity formation of the Delaware Pennsylvania’s system. These state River Basin Commission parks include Beltzville, Milton, Bald Mille for MS, a fundraising car rally for and the Susquehanna River Eagle, Locust Lake, Lackawanna, Little the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Basin Commission; creating Buffalo, M.K. Goddard, Shikellamy, Central PA Chapter, sets off on Oct. 20. a watershed-scale approach Ridley Creek and Frances Slocum. The race starts at the Sun Motors to resource conservation; Today, 35 million people visit Porsche dealership on Carlisle Pike, and influencing the national Pennsylvania state parks annually. Mechanicsburg. Dozens of antique, conservation policy. Spending time in natural areas such vintage and contemporary sports This year, the Legacy as state parks has been known to cars will travel to Kings Gap, Carlisle Project Task Force and the decrease stress, increase interpersonal and Harrisburg, rallying at various Pennsylvania Parks and Forests bonding and promote recreation and checkpoints. A lunchtime show at the Foundation are conducting exercise. Carlisle Fairgrounds allows the public Preserved: Created in 1968, Frances Slocum State local and regional events to “Public lands are an integral to vote their favorite car for a $10 Park in Luzerne County is one of the many parks that commemorate the 100-year part of the overall health of the state, donation. For more information, visit Maurice Goddard helped to establish. www.milleforMS.com.

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TheBurg 27 Your Health

Being "Fit and Well" Cancer summit to celebrate survival.

Robin Perry-Smith and Eugene J. Lengerich ancer survivorship is a day-to-day, treatment and differences in tumor Transition, from Oncologist to your Robin Perry-Smith, MHA is Congoing process that begins with characteristics. Primary Care Physician,” a message of the Program Manager for the your diagnosis and continues through We are pleased to report that Harrisburg Community Cancer hope, door prizes and much more. Network at Penn State Hershey the rest of your life. It is essential when death rates from breast cancer have This event is sponsored by the Cancer Institute. moving forward with survivorship to been decreasing since 1990 and are Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute keep your body fit and well. Healthy thought to be the result of treatment and The Wal-Mart Foundation through living and lifestyle behavior matters as advances, earlier detection through the American Cancer Society. Dr. Eugene J. Lengerich, breast cancer patients move beyond screening and increased awareness. V.M.D., M.S. is director of the Harrisburg Community Cancer Education Community Sciences and cancer. However, there is still more work to Health Outcomes Core, which Breast cancer is the most do to prevent breast cancer or to help Summit, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 3, at Zion Assembly Church of Harrisburg, 2101 N. supports the Harrisburg frequently diagnosed cancer and the women survive once it is diagnosed. 5th St., Harrisburg. Community Cancer Network. second leading cause of cancer death To celebrate cancer survivorship, among females in Harrisburg. In 2009, the Penn State Hershey Cancer 32 women in the city of Harrisburg Institute will partner with the were diagnosed with breast cancer Harrisburg Community Cancer and seven died, according to the Network for its 3rd annual Harrisburg Fall into Fine Craft Pennsylvania Department of Health. Community Cancer Education Summit White women are more likely to on Nov. 3, at Zion Assembly Church of Artisans working in fiber, photography, Craft events page at www.ybcrafts.org. develop breast cancer, but less likely Harrisburg, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. wood, pottery and more are featured Show time for each day is 10 a.m. to die from it compared to African- The upcoming summit, "Moving at Fall into Fine Craft, the annual fine to 5 p.m. Free parking available. American women. Also, African- Forward with Survivorship: Keeping craft show, Oct. 27 to 28, at the Carlisle The Yellow Breeches Chapter of the Pa. Guild American women tend to have more Yourself Fit and Well," will celebrate Expo Center, Carlisle. of Craftsmen organized in the early 1970s aggressive tumors and are diagnosed breast cancer survivorship and the Sponsored by Yellow Breeches as Cumberland Handcrafters Guild. It was Chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of chartered in 1986. Today, its members represent later. Why? It is thought that factors importance of exercise and nutrition. all areas and levels of fine craft. Pictured below, that contribute to the higher death This event will include topics on the Craftsmen, the show features original craftsmen Amber Kane and Jim Whetstone. rates among African-American women 10 myths and facts about exercise and designs and handwork of skilled include differences in access to and fitness, cancer survivorship, nutrition, chapter artisans. utilization of early detection and a doctors panel entitled “Lost in Their works include stained and fused glass, steampunk clocks, collectible art dolls and Santas, weaving, designer apparel, fine New Home for HSO furniture, woodcarving, enamel on copper collages, fine decorative Derek and Margaret Hathaway recently donated a three- painting, pottery, jewelry and other story house in Susquehanna mediums. Township to the Harrisburg A boutique will showcase Symphony Orchestra. The original handcrafted works by chapter Symphony plans to use the historic property, located members. The chapter is working with on about .9 acres at 3405 N. seven area high schools to conduct a Front St., for its administrative student art competition with a grand offices. HSO would move from prize award of $500. its current location at 800 Admission is $5, but a $2 discount Corporate Circle in Harrisburg to the Front Street property, is available with a Fall into Fine Craft possibly as early 2013, said postcard found at local galleries, Jeff Woodruff, the symphony’s from chapter members or with the executive director. discount coupon on the Fall into Fine

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28 TheBurg Family Health

A Rare Danger Wise to keep Rare Earth magnets away from kids.

Dr. Deepa Sekhar am in the office with the parent of a 9 to make it look like they have tongue or I month-old and we are laughing together lip piercings and accidentally ingested the over his progress. magnets while manipulating the pieces in His mother describes how he is now their mouths. pulling up to stand with the furniture and Reports of children swallowing the grabbing for everything he can to put in magnets began in 2002, with currently his mouth. These are exciting milestones more than 200 reports, many of which for children, but present a whole new level required emergency surgery. The first of safety concerns for parents. We spend a product warning was released in 2007 by portion of every well-child visit focused on the Consumer Product Safety Commission injury prevention. Usually, the discussion is (CPSC). In 2009, the CPSC required the based on the child’s age. For infants close magnets be labeled for adult use only to walking independently and developing (14 years +). However, this labeling did increasing hand coordination, we often not decrease the continued number of discuss keeping older children’s toys with injuries and sales continued. Then, just small parts out of reach. in July, the CPSC filed a formal complaint I seldom have a specific item to against the manufacturer of Buckyballs and caution parents about. However, recent Buckycubes—Maxfield & Oberton Holding abrams & weakley media attention has focused on a product LLC. The firm has been ordered to stop I think few parents would initially consider selling the products as the CPSC did not a danger to a child. These are tiny BB- feel, after discussions, that they reached a general store for animals sized neodymium magnet balls, marketed satisfactory plan for voluntary recall with under the names Rare Earth Super the company. In addition, multiple retailers Magnets, Executive Desk Toys, Bucky-balls, have agreed to suspend sales of the Celebrating 25 Years! Nanospheres, Zen Magnets and Magnet product including similar products made Balls. They are sold in sets of 100 or more by other companies. pieces in multiple colors. The magnets Though the CPSC is working at a 3963 N. 6th Street 717-232-3963 may be purchased online, in gift shops and national level with manufacturers and Harrisburg, Pa. abramsandweakley.com office supply stores. The products get high retailers, it is up to parents and physicians online reviews for their ability to secure to work together on an individual level to multiple sheets of paper to refrigerators keep children safe. At this point in time, and file cabinets. Adults also seem to enjoy parents should be very careful to keep all them as a desk distraction during the work small magnets away from children younger day. However, comments also include than 14 years old. Teenagers should Au Bon Lieu how difficult they are to remove and be cautioned not to keep the magnets Good Coffee detail pinched fingers accidentally caught anywhere near their faces in an attempt to between magnets. pretend they have a piercing. If you suspect And Good Crepes Though nobody would think to give your child has swallowed a magnet, you such a product to a young child, children must seek immediate medical attention. Do Mention this ad and get 1 free juice will naturally find the shiny magnetic pieces not expect that the magnet will pass on its attractive. If they can reach the magnetic own. Typical symptoms following ingestion 1 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg pieces, they are very apt to put them in of the magnets include stomach pain, Near 3rd & Market Sts. [email protected] their mouths, swallow and choke on them. nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, though 703-608-0871 www.aubonlieu.com The danger comes when more than one these may also be symptoms of a variety of magnet is swallowed. Because the magnets other illnesses. are so strong, they will work to find each The Rare Earth magnets are in the other anywhere in the stomach and news today, and it is likely next year that intestines. The result has been obstructions, there will be another product raising safety perforations (holes), twisted bowels, severe concerns. No matter what the product, our infections and even death. Children have goal as parents and providers is to try our undergone multiple surgeries, endoscopies best to provide a safe space for our children and bowel resections. to explore, develop and grow. Mention this ad & save 15%!* Since the sets have so many small pieces, it is very difficult for a parent to tell Dr. Deepa Sekhar is a that a couple of the magnets are missing. pediatrician at the Milton They are difficult to find if dropped in fluffy S. Hershey Medical Center. 215 Reily Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110 * Any Service carpets or between couch cushions. Even (717) 635-8073 New Clients Only teenagers have tried to use two magnets

TheBurg 29 One More Thing …

A Capitol Ghost Story Even with lawmakers absent, the statehouse can be a scary place.

Peter Durantine or Halloween, let me share a story for Monday’s edition before going desk. I looked up, but saw no one. I Fabout a possible paranormal event home for the weekend. thought it strange, but then I figured that occurred late one autumn night A blaze of lights bathed the it was just one of the many noises a many moons ago in the state Capitol’s Capitol’s green-tiled dome as I walked century-old building makes. newsroom. up the granite steps and signed in After awhile, I took a break to use Skeptics may chuckle and say with the guard on duty, a familiar the bathroom. I went through the much of what comes out of the face who recognized me. He said with lighted rooms to see who else was in newsroom is paranormal, but this was a smile, “Working late?” I nodded, the newsroom working, but found no truly strange. It did not become eerie preoccupied with how I was going to one. I was alone. This didn’t bother to me until afterwards, when I spoke write my story. I went up the white me. I often went to work early in the to the Capitol policeman on guard marble steps in the Rotunda and back morning to have the place to myself. Ooooo spooky: The windows of the Capitol that night. into the newsroom. Back at my desk, I toiled away. newsroom overlooking East Wing rotunda. It was a Friday evening. I attended I unlocked the door and let myself The noise from the reception began I looked at him and nodded. He a political meeting at a hotel on into a rabbit’s warren of rooms that to die out, and I figured it was ending. smiled. “I’ll tell you something, off the the outskirts of the city for a story make up the newsroom. A couple of I finished my copy and sent it to my record,” he said. I listened intently. “We I had been working on. It was the lights were on in one of the rooms, editor. As I prepared to leave, I heard hear lots of things in this building at Democratic State Committee’s fall and I assumed someone else was footsteps approaching my desk again. night. Don’t know what they are and gathering, where, like at similar working late. I passed the Associated I stood up, but no one was there. not sure I want to know, if you know Republican affairs, the ghosts of Press’ office. The glass-pane door was I again shrugged it off and what I mean.” campaigns past appear, either as closed and the lights were off inside. finished closing up. When I reached Was he implying the Capitol had hangers on or looking to make an At my paper-cluttered desk, I the door to leave, I noticed my shoe ghosts? He shrugged and left it to me electoral comeback. switched on my computer and went was untied. I knelt down and began to to decide. I stood around the hallways immediately to work. My little cubicle tie my laces when the footsteps came Of the many theories about outside the meeting rooms for a few was by the window that overlooked hurrying up behind me. I thought a ghosts, one is they are unsettled hours, talking to elected officials and the atrium and escalators that lead to colleague was playing tricks. I stood souls, walking in the place they once party leaders, collecting information. the little Rotunda of the Capitol’s East quickly and turned around. No one lived, hoping to resolve their issue. I After accomplishing my task, I Wing, an addition built in the 1980s. was there. For the first time that night, don’t know what I heard that night; returned to the newsroom, where I As I worked, I heard people I felt a chill. maybe it was the specter of a reporter planned to write. It was nearly 10 p.m. moving through the atrium, heading Down at the building’s entrance, eternally working his last story. Or and I wanted to have the story ready down to the little Rotunda, a popular I signed out with the guard and asked maybe it was a group of long-dead area for about who had the reception in the lawmakers, gathered in the little catered East Wing. He looked at me strangely. Rotunda, haunted by their frustration events at “What reception?” over political obstacles to progress. night. Soft I told him what I had heard. He Maybe I was just hearing things music and laughed nervously. “No one’s been in or maybe, in this time of trick or treat, the noise this building all night except you and someone was playing a trick on me. of crowds me,” he said. His answer stunned me. Regardless, it really happened, and emanated When I asked whether he had been if you like ghost stories, I hope you from the little up in the newsroom earlier he shook enjoyed this one. Rotunda as I his head. “Were you hearing things up sat working. there?” he asked. Peter Durantine is co-editor of TheBurg. I wondered who was having the Dauphin County Treasures reception and The Cowden Pottery is the most famous of all those what it was in 19th century Harrisburg. J.H. Cowden started the about, but business in 1861, producing jugs, crocks, pails, butter paid no more dishes, and jars. Some were plain; others were decorated attention. It with cobalt blue paint. Pieces were marked “Cowden became just & Wilcox” after Isaac Wilcox became a partner in 1863. This jug was made between 1863 and 1881. It has a background cobalt blue “spitting tulip” decoration. The number "2" noise. As I indicates that the jug will hold two gallons. Cowden and wrote, I heard Wilcox was a major supplier in Pennsylvania and beyond, footsteps operating until 1915. To see this jug and more examples from Harrisburg potters, visit the Historical Society of coming Dauphin County’s Harris-Cameron Mansion, 219 S. Front through the St., Harrisburg. 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