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- Finger Lakes Fruit Heritage Events at Cider Week 2016
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- Dorothy Hartley: Verjuice
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- West County Cider Tasting with Peter Hoover
- Cider Salon, NYC
- Cider Week at the Finger Lakes Cider House
- Two Apple Festivals, One Weekend
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- Blossom Time in New York
- Mistletoe
- Hollenbeck’s Cider Mill – A Thanksgiving Miracle
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Finger Lakes Fruit Heritage Events at Cider Week 2016
This post was written as a guest post for the Cider Week Finger Lakes blog as a prelude to Cider Week 2016. Please visit their site to find out about all the amazing events happening during Cider Week Finger Lakes. … Continue reading
Cider in Historic Newspapers series
While researching cider in the Finger Lakes region, I stumbled into an amazing resource, the New York State Historic Newspapers website. Search for cider, and it begins to pop up all over the place. I will be sharing some gems … Continue reading
Posted in Finger Lakes Fruit Posts, History, North America, Northeast
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Dorothy Hartley: Verjuice
I’ve been reading Lost World: England 1933-1936, a collection of essays by Dorothy Hartley, originally written for the Daily Sketch Newspaper. Dorothy was an eccentric, a wanderer, and a writer, whose prose style was that of a novelist or perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Apple Varieties, History, Perry, UK
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Cider Salon, NYC
When you need to advance beyond the next creative horizon; when you have an idea buzzing around in your mind that needs to be refracted through the lens of a different constellation of thoughts; or when you are tired, tired, … Continue reading
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Two Apple Festivals, One Weekend
Cider Week Finger Lakes was a smash! And our cup runneth over with events. To start off this Cider Week, I went to two different apple festivals, one connected to Cider Week, and the other not. On Friday afternoon on … Continue reading
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Mistletoe
During my research in England, I wrote some observations (reposted below) about my encounters with mistletoe, and I recently got to revisit them in a conversation with Annie Corrigan on WFIU Radio’s Earth Eats Program. If you are interested in … Continue reading
Posted in Events, History, Landscapes, Orchards, UK
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Cider on the Prairie
I decided to pay a visit to a place very close to my heart: Conner Prairie Living History Museum, where I worked for about five summers during college. I had not been back in many years, and I was excited to … Continue reading
Posted in Apple Varieties, History, Landscapes, Midwest, North America, Orchards
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