Charlie Leonard
is the construction genius behind Ithaca Artisan apartments. All our buildings are his handiwork, most all from plans drawn up by Ann per his specifications. Charlie is capable of caring for most anything that goes awry in the apartments, and for the few things that prove beyond his experience, we have a network of professionals to rely upon for assistance. Currently all our routine maintenance, repairs, lawn mowing and snow plowing is handled “in house.” When we are not around to do the job, our sons (primarily Benjamin) step in to cover for us.
When not building or maintaining things for Ithaca Artisan and around home, Charlie is playing as hard as he works. His free time passion is running, and not just your hop skip and jump marathon, either. His shortest race distance is typically 32 miles, with 50 and 100 mile races more to his liking. These races take a lot of time, both to run and to train for. Race times are typically in the 24 to 36 hour range… depending on the hilliness and technicality of the course; to date he has two sub 24 hour 100 mile races under his belt. Training for these races takes the most time, however, and our times away from Ithaca are typically planned around Charlie’s race schedule.
When not running, Charlie has a small herd of Italian Chianina beef cattle, mostly crossbred with Angus and Herefords these days. Full blood Chi’s are a high powered lot and he has reached the point where he wants to enjoy his cows, not match wits with them endlessly. He harvests all the hay from our farm that we feed our cows and horses.