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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Glass Menagerie, with its ornate stained-glass sign at 37 East Market Street, Corning, has new owners and new life as Bedcat Studios. Stephen and Sloba Breinager bought the building in September ...

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 ...

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 ...

Failure is common among small businesses—nearly 65 percent close within the first ten years. Yet, through ingenuity and grit, Fee Brothers has navigated the financial hardships it’s met with a surplus ...

"Gina Pfleegor's Warriors Wear Gowns" by Karey Solomon. With her daughter as muse, the artist stars at West End Gallery. This issue also features Fall Cobbler Season in Troy, Beefing Up Education in ...