It was also hard to argue with the success of the newly combined Silver Creek-Forestville modified football team in the state's Southern Tier during its first year this past fall.
He bought a house in Forestville, in the Russian River Valley, in 1962, and a couple of years later got some Zinfandel grapes from a neighbor who couldn't sell them.
But the produce comes from the ranch of owners Catherine and Joe Bartolomei (sister and brother, not husband and wife) just up the road in Forestville, and a quartet of chickens roam the property. (Granted, they live in a peaked-roof house well padded with straw and furnished with a heat lamp.) Then there is that quintessential inn amenity, a house cat.