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Auto RAcing SATURDAY 4:30 p.m. SBT2 NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series EchoPark 250. From At- lanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga. (N) SUNDAY 3:00 p.m. SBT2 NASCAR Cup Series Folds of Hon- or QuikTrip 500. From Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga. (N) Bowling SATURDAY 7:00 p.m. SBT2 Strike Der- by. (N) tRAck And Field SUNDAY 4:00 p.m. WNDU 0 Pre- fontaine Classic. From Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. (N) Page 2 June 1 - 7, 2020 crossword solution sudoku solution Auto RAcing SATURDAY 4:30 p.m. SBT2 NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series EchoPark 250. From At- lanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga. (N) SUNDAY 3:00 p.m. SBT2 NASCAR Cup Series Folds of Hon- or QuikTrip 500. From Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga. (N) Bowling SATURDAY 7:00 p.m. SBT2 Strike Der- by. (N) tRAck And Field SUNDAY 4:00 p.m. WNDU 0 Pre- fontaine Classic. From Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. (N) Page 2 June 1 - 7, 2020 crossword solution sudoku solution Surprising new movie celebrates the start of fly fishing in America A s a child, I spent many hours fishing in various lakes and streams. However, although I did see fly fishers occasionally snapping their lines into the water, I have never done any fly fishing myself. After watching the new release "Land Of Lit- tle Rivers," I wish I had. There is a meditative quality to fly fishing that is magical. Growing up, there were three sports that generat- ed the most excitement in my family: fishing, golf, and ice hockey. We loved watching and playing hockey, and although I can golf – I'm relatively good off the tee and not bad on the green; the fairway shots were toughest – it was fishing and boating that were the two fun adven- tures that really excited us as a group, which, when I was young, was comprised of my father Peter, my mother Geral- dine, and my brothers Peter Jr. and Daniel. Years later, three sisters – Michele, Jeanmarie, and Lisa – would arrive. We fished a lot. I remember week-long summer escapes with some of my uncles and male cousins at Chautau- qua County's Cassadaga Lakes – three glacial bodies of interconnected water. Staying in a cabin on upper Cassadaga Lake, we caught yellow perch, pumpkinseed sunfish, and the occasional small- mouth bass, all catch- and-release. I never saw the water's dangerous, sharp-toothed muskel- lunge, although there were some stuffed and hanging on the wall at Whit's Boat Livery, from where we rented our small motorboats. There was also the mysterious Lily Dale community to intrigue us. Because of my father's business connections, he and my two brothers and I also got to vacation often at a house in the woods on Lake Nosbons- ing, which is southeast of the city of North Bay on Lake Nipissing in north- ern Ontario, 310-miles from Buffalo. These wonderful trips included my mother. The boating was a joy and the fish were plentiful: north- ern pike, walleye, yellow perch, small and large- mouth bass, and the ever-lurking-in-the-shal- lows muskellunge, that horror movie monster of fresh water fishing. I nev- er saw a living muskie in Canada, either. We did pan-fry some of our catch. Knowing about the pleasures of fishing enhanced my enjoyment of "Land Of Little Rivers," which explores the histo- ry of fly fishing, a sport that has a rich British background. The documentary from director Aaron Weisblatt reveals that in the late nineteenth century, Bea- verkill River and Willow- mec Creek in the Catskill Mountains region of New York State were consid- ered the key stretches of water that contributed to the beginning of Ameri- can dry-fly fishing. The gorgeously photo- graphed movie – the cin- ematography is by Robert Featherstone – offers some colorful characters, all of whom have infor- mative and entertaining stories to tell about fly fishing in New York State. You'll meet men and women dedicated to the By Michael calleri cONTiNUeD ON PaGe 16 aarON WeisBlaTT / ciNeMa liBre sTUDiO rachel Finn, an important women fly fisher, casts a line in a New York state stream in "land Of little rivers."

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