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 ...

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.

100 years ago, J.P. Ward’s foundry rekindled the coal town of Blossburg. Ward Foundry, with its various names, was the foundation for the small town of Blossburg. The company’s payroll sustained ...

I just saw a headline about the hourly minimum wage in New York State—it’s sixteen dollars in most places these days. That has a lot of implications for small businesses, even if you live just south ...

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 ...

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 ...

I took this photo just outside of Wellsboro on a morning that felt more like a memory than a moment. The fog was rolling low across the hills, and, as the sun broke over the ridge, it lit the land in ...

"FLX Sour Culture Is Aging Well" by Jimmy Guignard. Explore the craft brewery trend on tap in wine country. This issue also features The Art of Naples-Gazing, A Ghost of a Chance in Wellsboro, and ...

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 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 ...

Celia Finestone, seventy-nine years old, a highly respected nurse for sixty-two years, the longtime chief nurse to neurologist Dr. Daniel Britton, has seen thousands of patients, and looked at ...