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.

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 ...

May the odds be ever in your favor as we celebrate the long-awaited release of Sunrise on the Reaping, the thrilling fifth book in the Hunger Games series! Join fellow tributes, rebels, and Capitol ...

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 ...

"Veterans in the Wild" by Paula Piatt. Marine Corps vet Travis McConnell joins Rose Moore's quest to help soldiers heal. This issue also features A Bagel Hole in Wellsboro's Heart, Playing Tag in Penn ...

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 ...

"The Happy Fisherman" by Pete Ryan. Pete Ryan's life is one long, crazy, funny, dangerous, strange, and lucky fish story. This issue also features Romancing the Stone in Athens; Knit 2, Crawl 4 Yarn ...

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.

"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 ...

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 ...

My home near Ulysses, Potter County, had its beginnings in a farm house that burned down in the 1800s, leaving only the fireplace. A new owner built a cabin around the fireplace in the early 1900s. My ...