"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 ...

It started around July 4, 2024, when a mysterious message popped up on Facebook—“Coming soon!!!”—along with an image that said, “just Be...Market & Refillery,” followed by explanations about what a ...

After some needed time away for rest and refurbishment, the fluted, two-story Greek Revival-style columns flanking the entry of the Arnot Art Museum at 235 Lake Street, Elmira, will soon be ready to ...

Holly Mauser never saw the house during her childhood when her family came to Coudersport to buy groceries for their cabin in Potter County. She did notice other homes in Coudersport, which, unlike ...

Without fail, when the leaves started to turn, the phone would ring and a friend we hadn’t heard from in a while, after exchanging pleasantries, would ask “Hey, how’s Ben doing?” It was pheasant ...

There’s a lot of activity in the woods this time of year. With so many people in camo staying still and trying not to smell like a human, you’d think sightings of oddities like a Bigfoot sort of thing ...

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 ...

"Hats Off to Christine" by David O'Reilly. The famed Kentucky Derby milliner calls our woods home. This issue also features Living to Paint in Penn Yan, Howllywood Comes to Wellsboro, and Easel on Up ...

Corning’s streets bloom in spring with these enormous crab apple trees—a must-see from the end of April through early May. When petals start to drop it’s like a warm, snowy fantasy world. This photo ...

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.

Friends were visiting for the weekend, and it’s our custom when we’re together to do a significant brunch. Jon is from Texas, and I was going to try my hand at biscuits and sausage gravy, a southern ...

Myer Farm Distillers sits on Route 89 overlooking the west side of Cayuga Lake—that is, if you can get above the trees for the view. It was probably more visible in 1868 when John and Joe Myer’s great ...