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PRESS RELEASE: February 24, 2007
Contact: Peggy Morgia, 315-646-1000

40” Gingerbread Lighthouse at Seaway Trail Discovery Center

March 13-April 28

An award-winning confectionary masterpiece crafted with 61 gingerbread panels, a chocolate rock wall, pulled sugar fishing line, and a dollhouse lighting system will be on display at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm, from March 13 through April 28. Sandra Southworth earned a perfect score to win the 2006 Confectioner’s Competition wither 40-inch-tall, 57-pound lighthouse. She also won the People’s Choice Award at the Erie Canal Museum’s 21st Gingerbread Gallery.

Southworth used 61 gingerbread panels for the lighthouse and its keeper’s house and 28 sugar panels for windows and the lighthouse beacon. She created a colorful Oriental carpet and tablecloth with fondant icing and edible food color pens. More than two pounds of chocolate disks serve as roof shingles. Other ingredients of the all-edible structure include dried pinto beans, Tootsie Rolls, poured sugar, pulled sugar, pasta, and luster dust.

Twenty-eight historic lighthouses are found along the 518-mile Seaway Trail that parallels the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River, and Lake Erie in NY and PA. The gingerbread lighthouse dubbed “Sandy’s Folly” can be seen in the maritime history and lighthouse room at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center at the corner of Ray and West Main Streets in Sackets Harbor from March 13 through April 28 and will be on display during the March 16-18 Seaway Trail Quilt Show. For more information, call the Discovery Center at 315-646-1000.

The Seaway Trail Discovery Center is operated by Seaway Trail, Inc. and the Seaway Trail Foundation in the historic former Union Hotel (1817-18) that is owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. # # #