Pappa Bear’s is known to many as the catering arm of Dewig Meats, but Weatherwax is the owner and operator, although his relationship with Dewig’s is a close one.

Bear and cubs carved by Hoppy Quick into Siberian elm stump at The Famous Bike Brothers on Boices Lane in the town of Ulster. Hoppy Quick of Samsonville, N.Y. carves a pappa bear and two cubs into ...