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.

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 ...

Born in North Carolina, I always feel like an outsider in Pennsylvania. I absorbed the South the way I learned my accent—effortlessly, through a kind of cultural osmosis. My Southern knowledge and ...

The Japanese have an art form called kintsugi, in which broken pottery is repaired by mixing gold with lacquer or another medium and using it to seal the cracks. Rather than hiding the blemishes and ...

If there’s anything 97 percent of Pennsylvania bear hunters understand, it’s that the chances of filling their tags are slim. Yet the mere possibility of falling into the roughly three percent of ...

I straightened my aching back and surveyed our house, decked to the halls for Christmas. Lights and garland graced every window and the archway between the living and dining rooms. The collection of ...

Wellsboro area pet parents know Dr. Kristine Shaw as a busy veterinarian with a downtown office and boarding kennels on Water Street, and as the owner of the Grand Canyon Veterinary Surgery Center on ...

The beauty of Seneca Lake is worth seeking out any time of the year. As I battled the wind this frigid day, I was stopped in my tracks by the pier house in Watkins Glen. Its cheeriness was highlighted ...

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 ...

On a quiet winter day in Tioga County, I spotted this fella in my willow bush. Using a telephoto lens, I caught him as he stoically faced into the snow (maybe so his crest of feathers didn’t get ...

When I moved to the Finger Lakes, it was fun familiarizing myself with the iconic flavors of native New York wine. The sweet table wines made from grapes like Niagara, Concord, and Catawba are just a ...

Glass is the great equalizer, reflecting the image of whomever stands before a mirror without regard to rank or fame. It’s found in the equipment of Michelin-starred restaurants and local soup ...