Some look at the Chemung River as it flows through Elmira and think of walleye and bass. Pat Capalongo looks at it and thinks of romance.
For her, love and water just seem to go together.
Under the pen name Patricia Blake, Pat, an Elmira native living in Ithaca, has published her first romance novel, “River Flows.” It tells of a relationship that is sparked along the Chemung River.
“I grew up in Elmira, on the Southside, and I spent a lot of my childhood down on the Chemung River,” Pat said. “I’ve moved around a lot, but a constant throughout has been the water. I lived on the Chemung River, I lived at different places on East Coast beaches, and now I’m living near Keuka Lake.
“I just found that being at those places, you see a lot of romance going on,” she said.
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