Bob Sauter and Roger Bailey cranking the press.
It all starts with a bath for the apples. (Photos by Bonnie Obremski)
(10/10/11) It's been a banner for fruit, including apples.
Martha Foley's neighors have been gathering to press cider for over 20 years. The hand-cranked press lives in an old milk house. It's a barrel-shaped contraption, with heavy slatted sides. Whole apples are washed, chopped and packed into the press.
The cranking starts, the squeeze gets tighter and tighter, and eventually, the cider flows.
The whole process is a team effort, starting outside with a bath for the apples. This Heard Up North first aired last fall.
(01/29/09) North Country winters are full of little pleasures...and pains. David Sommerstein bumped into a new homeowner outside Canton facing the latter. Here's a Heard Up North...
1912 Wisconsin engine, in the 1912 "Splinter".
(08/03/07) Clayton's annual antique and classic boatshow opens today. A hundred-twenty boats, from big inboards to little outboards, fill the docks of the Antique Boat Museum through Sunday. But it's not only the boats that are old. The engines are too. A 1912 "Wisconsin" is today's Heard Up North. It was recorded last year.
(The engine is now IN the boat, a long-decked launch, also built in 1912, in Morristown, called "Splinter". It'll be part of this weekend's boatshow, in Clayton.)
(11/15/05) What can you learn about your community when you try to find a nude model to pose for local artists? A conversation with potter Bill Knoble.
