Page 16 - SUSQUEHANNA TIMES Fortnay’s stencils in Cohen house featured in Good Housekeeping Co oI BLES a J pe The floor and wall stencils in this picture of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Cohen's home were done by Ken Fortnay. Barbara Kirvinsky, who works at the Hy-Lo in Marietta, was leafing through this month's Good Housekeeping magazine when she noticed some familiar names. Good Housekeeping ran a full-page color picture of Marietta artist Ken Fort- nhay’s stencil decorations in the Front Street, Marietta, heme of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Cchen. Ken Fortnay has stencilled houses in Lancaster and York Counties and in Wash- ingten, D.C. A reporter from Good Housekeeping wanted to feature Ken's work in an article on stencilling. The reporter wanted a picture showing stencilling on both the flecor and walls of a room. Ken ccouldn’t think of a house in which he had stencilled both the walls and floors, so he called the Cohens and asked if he could decorate one of their rooms. - 4H *® ® 3 ne » Ine jE 3 January 28, 1976 Ken Fortnay examines stencilling he applied in the Railroad House. The Cohens, who run an antiques business in their restored Front Street man- sien, had an old back roem which they hadn’t painted. Ken decorated the room in two weeks, and the maga- zine photographer got a beautiful shot of Ken's floor-to-wall stencilling. Ken bases his stencil patterns on 18th century New England designs. In colonial times, Ken says, wallpaper had te be impor- ted from Eurcpe. It was very expensive. Stencils were a cheap substitute. In those days, stencillers roamed the country, work- ing for little mere than room and board. “It’s very tedious, but I Joseph Hottenstein practices diversified art Joe Hottenstein and his portrait of friends and family Locust Grove, near Bain- bridge, is a tiny, secluded hamlet where the Conoy Creck empties into the Susquehanna River. Althcugh small and hid away, this hamlet is most remarkable. It includes the grand but uninhabited Hal- deman Mansien, and less pretenticus homes inhabited today by seme remarkably creative people. One of these creative pecple is Joseph S. Hotten- stein. Joe Hottenstein is highly skilled in three areas of art: photography, illustration, and three dimensional forms. As a photographer he has recorded many local wed- dings and dene commercial as well as purely artistic work. As an illustrator he has painted pictures seen by many people on highway billbcards. The chairman of the beard of a truck manufacturing company commissicned Jee to paint a picture of one of his company’s stainless steel tank trucks. The painting hangs in the chairman's New York office. Joe's work in 3-D started when he carved the Hotten- stein family ceat of arms out of an cold marble tombstone. When Joe tock his family’s ceat of arms te New Jersey Shell Casting Corporation in Marietta, te have a cast of it made, he got inte a new line of work:bas relief commem- erative plates. His first commissioned job for designing a plate was for the Haldeman Society. The plate depicted the Haldeman Mansion (see picture). Presently, he is working on another plate for the Maytown Bicentennial Committee. Joe’s design for the plate shows the May- town square. Joe has a feeling for the past which shows in much of his work. Te amuse himself and his friends he is painting an cold school picture of the late 1800’s (based on an actual photo- graph of that period) into which he is painting faces of himself, his family, and his friends. Joseph and his wife, Joyce, -have 2 children; April, 3 1/2, and Sharon, 7 months old. is like the Renais- sance artists, trying all kinds of media. For six menths recently he was absorbed in learning how to make stained glass win- dows. Joe All art forms interest him, and he has mastered many. enjoy doing it,"”’Ken Fortnay says. Ken carefully traces the stencil patterns onto walls and floors, using a dry- brush technique. Ken was an art student at college, but he doesn’t think that stencilling requires any special talent. ‘It’s easy,’’ he says. ‘‘Anyone can do it.” ’ The plate designed by Joe Hottenstein depicts the Haldeman Mansion. In 1936 Marietta had its own Cadet Band Za : rr wl The Cadet Band of Marietta in 1936 consisted of the members named below and other persons in the picture who cannot be identified. Morrell Shields, Herman Kraybill, George Miller, Frank Zuch, Charles Rich, Jacob Shellenberger, Oscar Brayman, David Shank, Jere Bland, Drew Haas, William Hamilton, Jay Bowers, Persy Frey, Charles Seigel, Buck Weaver, Jack Tumma, George Wolf, Henry Fletcher, Chester Smith, Paul Raber, Ray Raber, John Waller and Bob Fletcher. Pheto loaned by Mrs. Harry Zuch.
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