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Article: NEW YORK'S FINGER LAKES A TREAT TO VISITORS ARE THE MORE THAN 100 WINERIES, INCLUDING ONE WITH TIES TO A FAMOUS MASSACHUSETTS FAMILY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2000
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His great-great-great-grandfather was the first mayor of Salem.
His grandfather was the governor of Massachusetts and later a US
senator from the Bay State. But despite his ties to Massachusetts,
Peter Saltonstall loves New York State's Finger Lakes region and
recommends visiting its wine country, especially at this time of
year.
"The Finger Lakes area is so beautiful. And Ithaca has so much to
offer in the arts because of Cornell and Ithaca College," said
Saltonstall, who is making a name for himself in a different realm
than his Massachusetts forebears: as a winemaker. On the eastern
shore of Cayuga Lake, a short drive north from Ithaca, the grandson
of the late Senator Leverett ...