community swimming hole in« Livingston County town, jd look right at home on old Norman Rockwell f. At least part of it Jd. ne east end of the pond jjd fit right in — where Dgsters swing from a e into the chilly waters ji arms and legs Hailing. Jie rest of the pond, •where Je sunbathers go, might a little too strong for the jurday Evening Post. gut it's not too strong for I "World Guide to Nude •3 dies and Recreation," ;ich lists Bullhead as one seven places to go in up- jte New York to sun in the Iff The latest edition of the jiide, which lists for $14 95, as released late last year. ; was first issued in 1980 by je Harmony Books Division t Crown Publishers, New fork City. The pond's- use by aturists has been known for *ars to clothed swimmers it the pond, mostly teen- agers and college students, &ut not to the rest of the. county. W. Austin Wadsworth of Geneseo, who owns the pond, is skeptical that nude bathers really swim there. But he says no one — with or without clothes — should be swimming there anyway. "I've heard rumors <about nude bathers >. I'm not sure I really believed them. That listing baffles me." he said. Wadsworth says the guide fails to point out that the pond is private property, and uninvited visitors are not welcome. "The property is posted. We put new signs up every , summer because people take the old ones down." Wad- sworth said. "I have no ob- jection to the naturist movement in principle, but they should know that they absolutely h'ave no right to go to Bullhead. They are trespassing and I do not •*ant them there " The guide found out about Bullhead from the Naturist Rochester organization — a loosely knit group that believes nudity is physically and psychologically healthy. Morley Schloss. a Rochester resident who speaks for the group, says members suggested to guide author Lee Baxandall of Oshkpsh, Wis., that Bullhead be listed. That was sometime before 1980, when there was less community acceptance of public nudity and the pond was getting good play, Schloss said. Bui since then. Bullhead has lost its popularity, he said. "Nowadays Bullhead gets very little naturist use," Schloss said. "There are bet- ter places to go. The sides are steep and it doesn't have a good beach. It's hard to get to. There's trouble with beer drinkers who use the pond and make fun of mirfitv ". The guide, which • mistakenly calls Bullhead Pond, Triphammer Pond, "also mistakenly directs visitors to park in the nearby Lion's Club parkins lot. William Van Norman, who manages the clubhouse, said out-of-state cars began showing up for the first time. last summer. "Canada, Texas, Ohio...you name it," he said. "Sometimes our lot is half- filled with them and I have to ask them to move on." Van Norman said The pond is so hard to get to that most Livingston County residents have never seen it. There's no road, or even a trail. After leaving their cars, visitors have to walk a mile on the limestone ballast or the unevenly spaced ties of the Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad. "This pond is so pleasant it draws people from a wide area," the guide states. "It lacks good flat swimming areas, but remains popular and beautiful " The favorable review is tempered by a note that "some folks in swim garb" also use the pond. The other upstate listings in the guide are Lake Min- newaska. New Paltz; Em- pire Lake. Binghamton; Six Mile Creek. Ithaca: South- wick Beach State Park, Watertown; Zoar Valley Shale Beach near Gowanda and Chautauqua Gorge, Westfield. prtsei ;ing die borhood, it may be worth a try," she '-aid. Arthur Kremer, chairman of the commission and the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, saidjhe division failed to follow _its own regulations about Super- vising the neighborhood preservation companies. Ms. Scruggs-Leftwich said a lack of staff has prevented her^agency from monitoring the neighborhood groups as closely as she would have liked and said an effort to computerize some of the work might allow staff em- ployees to spend more time in the field with the groups. Since the program was "* 1 and budgeu-d ai $10.6 million for 1984-85 -I £?Sl 1*33. - The program was begun to help existing pfiv^t'e gr'oOps working to preserve. .arid restore old neighborhoods .-It was designed to pr6vide:.up to $500.000 in aid tea group fh a three-year perted; butthe three r year ,fimi;t~* r «afs repealed and tne'dollar'-cajp has been circuniveritejt ,';r Although the!aim",was!to provide state aid. to groups formed where thje .private sector created them,- -Uie commission criticized state housing officials "for raiting to prepare a sta^ewltlfrpTa'n to set goals ahiljqbjectives and measure their ijrpgiesjj. Topic: Gillette BY ANDREW MILNER Would Chester Gillette, convicted murderer of South Otselic resident Grace (Billy) Brown, have been found guilty if the murder trial took place today? Craig Brandon says no. Brandon, a Utica newspaper editor, spoke on the 1906 Gillette case, the basis for Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," on Saturday at the spring meeting of the Chenango County Historical Society at the Rexford Street Museum, Norwich. According to Brandon, Gillette's trial, which received national attention, was an unfair one Brown's .fabled love letters, which swayed the public's opinion against Gillette, had been obtained from Gillettte's Cortland, N.Y. apartment without a search warrant. Today that evidence would be thrown out of court. Another piece of sensational evidence, the fetus Brown was carrying, allegedly fathered by Gillette, would probably be inadmissible today. Brandon's well-research program included an ex- cellent side show with rare photos of both Gillette and Brown. Brandon also in- cluded thorough biographies of both Gillette and Brown. •Following his talk, there was a question and answer session where it was revealed there is still doubt whether or npt Gillettte ever confessed to the murder. Grace Brown was found dead in Big Moose Lake in the Town of Webb in the Adirondacks on July 12, 1906. Two days later Gillette was arrested and charged with the murder. The Vial" Cook three weeks and on Dec:- 4, 1906, the jury found Gillette guilty of first degree" ' mur- der. After an unsuccesful'at- tempt to appeal, •Gillette w~as electrocuted on March 30, 1908. Saturday's meeting 'was attended by many residents of South Otselic, some .of whom were childreff". .and. grandchildren of people who knew Grace Brown. ._. Brandon has put his fin- dings in a book w-hjch/will J>e published in Noyerhber ~}»y North Country Books, - '.". BWI proposed ALBANY, N.Y, While the state has movedto ~ make its penalties for drunken driving some <rf the toughest in the nation, two New York legislalors would like, to do the same -fur boaters who have more than their ration of rum , '. On Sunday, state Sen. IS'or- man Levy, R-N'assau. and Assemblyman Michael -,||c- Nulty, D-Albany, 'announced Sunday that they have in- troduced legisla.tion'J-'to toughen penalties for 'drtJHks caught on the state/s.'w.'ater- ways. They said half, of .all boating accidents involve drinking boaters.- ^ r ;v;>f Other fines and\sentences for drunken boatecs t Vould be made the same aj^lor drivers of land vehicles, they said. |r\1 ti JU . .--^