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.

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.

"Vintage Taste, Rare Talent" by David Higgins. Todd Yoggy shapes rich interiors and the community he loves. This issue also features Bus Your Own in Wellsboro, A Tale of Two Houses in Knoxville, and ...

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 Christmas holidays are a season of giving, so my wife gave me an assignment. It’s only fitting that Teresa Banik Capuzzo, the editor and publisher of Mountain Home, who made our company, Beagle ...

"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 ...

Across the bridge over the Susquehanna, and about a mile up a long hill in East Athens, Pennsylvania, a sculptor works in stone. The stone is not Carrera marble, but chalcedonies like agate, gemstones ...

My backyard on Heise Run Road in Wellsboro is always alive with birds, but none is a more welcome sign of the start of spring than the robin. Many stay here year-round, but in winter they move in ...

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 ...

"The Butchers, the Bakers, the Legacy Makers" by David O'Reilly. The Hillstone Farms Human Herd Mooooves from Green Fields to Main Street Wellsboro. This issue also features (Milk)shaking Things Up in ...

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 ...