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Valentown Greetings,

We are "hoppy" to announce that we now have a hops garden

located up above our parking lot. Thank you to Schmidt Hops

Farm for the instillation and good advice about our new
feature. Perhaps our garden will look as nice as this one day.

Our Heritage of Hops was delayed due to the intense heat
alert on Saturday the 20th. But our "brew tour" at 4:00 pm
that hot afternoon was fantastic. Thank you to Ben at New
York Beer Project for the great look about and tasting of our
LevIPA made just for us for that day. We will be
rescheduling our Heritage of Hops and we are welcome to
another tour of the brewery when that happens. So stay
tuned. You will not want to miss this.

This has been an abundant month for Historic Valentown. Our
berries were everywhere. There still may be some
mulberries? In fact, we are sure there still are some in the
4 trees we have. Last week there were a lot of purple hands
doing chores. The berries from the Mulberry tree are a bit
delicate and don't transport well, hence they are called a
forage berry and farms used to have them on the property but
did not actually cultivate them as orchards. They are a pick
to table delight even though they hold their stems. They are
not as sweet as other berries but pack a whopping amount of
nutrients and antioxidants. The stems can be laboriously
removed (tweezers) or you can just leave them in and cook
them up just like a lot of folks did in the past. Just add
the amount of sweetener to your liking.

When using the trail through our site you will find some of
our natural treasures. The mulberries are at the start of
the path and the blackberries are up the hill. One trail
user came back a week ago last Sunday to pick a heaping quart

of both. That's what we like. We have raspberries too but
they need to be moved closer to the trail. Another unusual
sight is our tangled but feisty American Chestnut tree which
also blossomed out well this year. We have great hopes for
her to be part of the effort to bring this endangered tree
back from the brink of extinction. And the milkweed plants
around the new hops garden are increasing every year. While
putting the new garden in, there were monarchs and
dragonflies flitting around and other butterflies eating...of
course, mulberries. So our hillside meadow is coming along
just the way it should and is being appreciated by our
pollinators.

As always, we are your down home hometown museum.

Kathryn White, Operations Manager
Historic Valentown-VHS

Quote of the Month
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience
and careful watchfulness; industry and thrift; above
all, entire trust."

Gertrude Jekyll
1843-1932

News and Events
(For other ongoing News & Events, check our web site or our 
Facebook page.)
 

Please watch for a new date for our Heritage of Hops

event. Due to the very hot day we decided to reschedule our
event. The speakers and demonstrations will be enjoyed more
 with a cooler afternoon.

We have a few varieties of hops plants if you are interested
in having one. We will be putting details on Facebook on how
to get a plant.

So New York Beer Project created a brew just for us and here
is the information that went with the sell sheet. Below find
a description of the beer. All homegrown and local. Fantastic!

CHEERS!

Hops: (all NY State): Centennial (Schmidt Farms, Farmington
NY) , Cascade(Schmidt Farms, Farmington NY) Bell Captain
(New hop grown by Tom Bell just outside of Clinton, NY as a
hobby crop for about 10 years.) We used this hop in the
whirlpool to try to extract as much flavor as possible while
preserving flavor and aroma.

Appearance: Deep Gold/Straw in color.

Aroma: Melon dominant, lemon and earthiness to finish out the
nose. Bit of malt sweetness comes through the delicate aroma.

Taste: Bright hop forward bitterness is balanced with slight
cracker or crusty flavor from the malt. Light mouth feel and
easy to drink. Melon and Earthiness are the dominant hop
flavors coming through. This unique flavor profile is most
likely due to the Bell Captain hops as they give off a noble
hop character. Smooth finish with medium lingering finish.

Thank you to everyone. We will be back with our speakers and 
guests for the rest!

After much anticipation, the new CD's by
Frank Walsh and the Valentown Band have arrived!

The CD's are now available in our gift area. The music is
easy listening country 'rock and roll', all music is
composed and written by Frank.

And a very cool "extra" on the back of the CD cover is a
QR code for the performance of the official "Valentown"
song! Check it out!
Thank you, Frank Walsh!
 

WANTED: VOLUNTEER FOR ALL KINDS OF PROJECTS.
NOT TOO BIG, NOT TOO SMALL BUT.. JUST RIGHT.

Please consider helping us some Sunday afternoon.
We can do this the easy way or the hard way. All you have to do 
is show up.
If you want to check ahead about a possible task match up just 
email us at info at historicvalentownmuseum.org

RESPECT REMEMBER RETIRE

the Flag at Historic Valentown

Drop off for flags is on our front porch.

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EVENTS
HISTORIC VALENTOWN

ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY
Saturday October 19th

We will be taking reservations for this event soon!

WEB SITE NEWS

WANTED: VOLUNTEERS
Lynne is still looking for volunteers to help out with some
small but time consuming tasks for the web site. Two specific
tasks are to build an index for our Recipe Box, and to build
an archive for uploading our past newsletters. Technical web
coding experience is not required, but knowing how to
manipulate text and do "cut and paste" copying would be
helpful. If interested, email her at
webmaster at historicvalentownmuseum.org

THE BOOKCASE

If you have a favorite read you'd like to share, send it
along for our review at webmaster at historicvalentownmuseum.org.

The Last Dickens: A Novel
by Matthew Pearl

Recommended by Kathryn
(Charles Dickens visited Rochester, N.Y. and is the trip is
mentioned in this story.)

In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed
author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history's
greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with
the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details,
and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the
bestsellers The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow.

Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death
reaches the office of his struggling American publisher,
Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk
Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens's unfinished
novel. But when Daniel's body is discovered by the docks and
the manuscript is nowhere to be found, Osgood must embark on
a transatlantic quest to unearth the novel that he hopes will
save his venerable business and reveal Daniel's killer.

Danger and intrigue abound on the journey to England, for
which Osgood has chosen Rebecca Sand, Daniel's older sister,
to assist him. As they attempt to uncover Dickens's final
mystery, Osgood and Rebecca find themselves racing the clock
through a dangerous web of literary lions and drug dealers,
sadistic thugs and blue bloods, and competing members of
Dickens's inner circle. They soon realize that understanding
Dickens's lost ending is a matter of life and death, and the
hidden key to stopping a murderous mastermind.

Click here
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to read more about it on Amazon.com.

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Recipes
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Tomato Salad(s)

Tomato's season is here! With so much bounty coming out of
the garden, it just wouldn't be summer without some tomato
salads. So versatile, so many possibilities! These are a few
of my favorites.
~~~Submitted by Lynne.

Ingredients (all ingredients are per person)
1 or 2 ripe tomatoes (sliced 1/3-inch thick, chopped, or
quartered) or 1 cup cherry or grape tomatoes halved
1/2 cucumber
1/2 green pepper
1/4 onion

You can use just the tomato's, or any combination of the
tomato's and other vegetables. And choose what presentation
you want based on the cuts - chopped, quartered, or sliced
(recommended slice thickness is 1/3 inch). 

Choose a Salad Dressing (sometimes just plain salt & pepper
hits the spot for pure fresh taste)

Balsamic Dressing:
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1/8 teaspoon salt
Ground black pepper to taste

Garlic Oil Dressing:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/8 teaspoon garlic salt
Ground black pepper to taste

Sweet Lemon Oil Dressing:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon sugar

Ground black pepper to taste

Add a Garnish
Good garnish pairings for tomato's:
Fresh basil, fresh parsley, fresh green onion, or fresh cilantro.

Instructions

1. Cut up tomatoes and any other veggies you may be using and
mix them together.

2. Make your salad dressing and mix it in with the tomato salad.

Note: If you want to have a marinated salad, let the veggies
sit covered at room temp for about 30 minutes, stirring
occasionally.

3. Serve the tomato salad on separate plates and add a garnish.

 Serve and enjoy!

 Note from our website manager: If you find yourself overrun
with ripe tomato's and aren't in the mood to can them, just
toss them whole into a zip lock back and freeze them. You can
use them later in soups, sauces and stews!

Levi's "What is it?" Department

Hello Friends,
This item may have been part of a routine of every day use. But 
not everyone would have a need for it. Humm?
 

If you already know, DON'T give the answer right off if
you go on Facebook. Maybe give us all a hint or two for some
fun. See, this is supposed to let everybody try and figure it
out. It is a "What Is It" after all.- LEVI

Enjoy more conversation about this "What Is It" on our 
Facebook page:

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Our June What Is It was a french fry maker. This device
would let you get those fries ready for deep frying in

lard.Its a device that's still pretty useful as you can see
from the current version. Just watch!
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Made in America.
Best to you - Levi

Stilllllllllllll//going/. Will it ever be solved...? The "mystery 
rods" 
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