The bus ride from NYC back in 1971 was a long and grueling one. Liberty, Roscoe, Binghamton, Elmira. Then a place called “Horseheads”—Horseheads! And a little north of that, a glimpse of a waterfall.

"The Forest and the Trees" by Gayle Morrow. After a fire at Cummings Lumber, Scott had his millwork cut out for him. This issue also includes Doing Thyme in Steuben County, Filling Hearts and Jars in ...

A six-knot breeze is blowing down Cayuga Lake, dancing the afternoon sunlight into diamonds. Sublime, but I’m watching those stone cliffs looming large on the eastern shore. Time to tack. No need to ...

The comedy and tragedy masks have been put away, but the gloriously improvised menu lives on! That’s right, local favorite Cast & Crew is coming back in a new role as the in-house caterers for Lambs ...

A regional anthology, in the right hands, is a box of fine chocolates, and as welcome a holiday gift. The words will take you back to beloved memories or will show you another view of places you ...

I took this photo last March when visiting my brother Tim’s sugar shack in East Smithfield, where he and his family have started a small maple syrup business—Robson Maple. I was there to check out his ...

The Unofficial Tioga County PA Whiskey Co-Op was distilled in the flames of a northcentral Pennsylvania ritual I love—the fire ring. During the pandemic, Francis, Dan, Tom, and I started drinking ...

Even from Elmira’s highest hilltops you can’t see the mega-yachts anchored off the French Riviera, with their swimming pools and helipads and beautiful, suntanned millionaires. No, it’s a world away.

Each year, around the beginning of September, an amazing phenomenon happens across the small towns of northern Pennsylvania. Sometimes, if you get up very early, you can catch a glimpse of the ...

At 6:51 p.m. the last of the summer light turns the field golden, the unmistakable hue that happens as summer begins to fade. The air tonight is cooler, quieter. As a photographer, I know to expect ...

Park at the Darling Run Access Area for the Pine Creek Rail Trail and walk south about five minutes. Look up into the pines downstream for the white spot that tells you a bald eagle is watching your ...

In August of 2023, at the dōTERRA Global Conference in Salt Lake City, the atmosphere was buzzing as nearly 10,000 attendees celebrated the rollout of a new line of birch essential oil. dōTERRA, the ...