I'll be shopping locally this season but before I feature my favorite vendors, I hope your lists will include poetry books. I can recommend without reservation these titles:
Here are a few of my favorite Ithaca area small businesses. Each of these artisans will ship to you.
Heirloom quality gifts:
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John Truex, co-owner with Liz Seru, of Borough Furnace, braves the cold at a recent farmers market pop-up.
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Each one-of-a-kind hat is custom-designed, blocked, sewn, and trimmed in-house by Kimberly Hutsal, owner of Two Foxes Studio.
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Many years ago I wrote in the Wall Street Journal about Borough Furnace (above left), maker of hard-working and beautiful cast-iron cookware crafted in Syracuse, NY. An added benefit? Borough Furnace has Climate Neutral Certification.To receive such certification, brands must empirically measure their cradle-to-customer greenhouse gas emissions and create quantifiable plans to reduce that footprint year over year.
When our beloved Johnny of blessed memory was still with us, I arranged with Katherine Solomon to have his portrait taken, in situ. She and her partner arrived with everything needed to take photos of our sweet boy and a few days later, her proofs landed in my in-box. Deciding which to enlarge and frame was tough! In the end, I picked the photo of the three of us to frame and made a calendar with the others. See two examples below. Wasn't he a noble beast?
You may not be able to arrange an in-person photo session with Katherine but you can still buy one of her gorgeous photographs of farm animals. Take Tallulah, for example, one of the Shetland Sheep at Miller Creek Farm. So many portraits to choose from!