"A Flood of Love and Hope" by Karin Knaus leads our August 2025 issue, a memorial tribute to the communities impacted by Tropical Storm Debby last year.

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 ...

Tioga Lake Lane is short, maybe three miles. It leaves Route 15 and runs parallel to the Mansfield Hike and Bike Trail all the way to the boat launch where the Tioga River becomes Tioga Reservoir. The ...

In the daylight of August 9, when it was apparent the Trout Run Firehouse’s kitchen was a total loss from Tropical Storm Debby and volunteers were rallying resources and setting up relief areas, Davis ...

The tale of a horse, a Honda, and heroes.Shortly afterwards, two young women arrived to bring Timmy home. They intended to walk him the mile and a half, but he was exhausted. He’d just spent the night ...

Saturday, August 9. You’re an out-of-towner just passing through quaint, leafy Wellsboro, and you think you’re hallucinating. The streets are full of…elves! And warlocks, knights of the Jedi, ...

On a Sunday in June, I helped row a beautiful wooden racing skiff on the Erie Canal—and lived to tell the tale, despite the abuse my back, arms, and dignity took in the process. We were aboard a St.

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.

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 ...

For years, Tioga County hunters have protected the locations of ancient aboriginal stonework in once-remote parts of the woods. Although they reach heights of several feet or higher, the cone-shaped ...

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 ...

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 ...