It was the ’60s, rock was involved, and the Brits were everywhere. But this wasn’t the British Invasion of the 1960s I was seeing. Before me were weathered and lichen-covered headstones marking the ...

James "Fly" Williams Jr. soared from Watkins Glen to the pros before he flew too close to the sun.

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 Forest and the Trees" by Gayle Morrow leads our June 2025 issue with an update on how Cummings Lumber is rebuilding after the fire.

Wine glasses have been an integral part of my life and career for the better portion of a decade. I’ve worked with them in restaurants, wineries, and tony Manhattan wine bars. I’ve spent hours ...

This summer, I was sorting “memories” my mother saved. There was a basket of postcards—pictures of places other people visited, backed with short notes that read like prehistoric social media posts.

“For Jon!” was the rallying cry last year at Pine Creek Outfitters in Ansonia, as the staff, reeling from the loss of their friend and boss, launched into the 2021 season without their trusted guide.

We’ve all heard about treasure maps, but sometimes the map is the lost treasure. This is the story of a map created in 1965 by Penn State Professor Howard Higbee. After three decades of drawing 86,000 ...

All beer used to be sour beer. Before Louis Pasteur isolated yeast in 1857, beer was created by the yeast and bacteria floating in the air or living in the wood that held the liquid, what brewers call ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Girl, you are going to be stylin’!” Olinda Sapp beams at the young lady who leaves the store at 224 W. Water Street with a hat, furry and brilliant red. Annies beauty supply store has sent a lot of ...