Last November, I bundled up, nestled my umbrella under my arm, and headed up the nearby hill in State Game Land 37 in an attempt to embrace the colder weather. I missed the colorful beauty of autumn.

"Good Dog, Hunting" by Paula Piatt. Paula and Steve Piatt train their Labs to fetch pheasants instead of slippers. This issue also features Hunt for Orange November, We Like Bigfoot and We Cannot Lie, ...

Without fail, when the leaves started to turn, the phone would ring and a friend we hadn’t heard from in a while, after exchanging pleasantries, would ask “Hey, how’s Ben doing?” It was pheasant ...

I was born as a hunter at age fifty-two, after a very long labor and delivery. I grew up in the suburbs of DC, and there were no hunters in my family. Well, that’s not exactly true, because go back ...

There’s a lot of activity in the woods this time of year. With so many people in camo staying still and trying not to smell like a human, you’d think sightings of oddities like a Bigfoot sort of thing ...

"Good Dog, Hunting" by Paula Piatt leads our November issue following Paula and Steve Piatt training their Labs to fetch pheasants instead of slippers and more.

Sometimes, a failing plan hides its own surprising solution—a blessing in disguise, if you will. For the New Love Center, with its beginnings in 2014 as western Lycoming County’s answer to the loss of ...

Duck, capon, chicken, with turkey a distant fourth: it used to be, when I was eating a roasted bird, that was always my order of preference. But turkey closed the gap a few years ago at a Thanksgiving ...

“I kind of grew up in this place,” says Kyle Dunn, who’s been curator for the Eldred WWII Museum for not quite a year. He was three in 1996 when the museum opened, and remembers some of the original ...

There’s something about Christmas and Victorian settings. To give credit where credit is due, I suppose we have to acknowledge Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol. But it’s more than that. The ...

"Johnny Applesaver" by David O'Reilly leads our annual Finger Lakes issue with a story about Steve Selin recovering lost apples for his Ithaca cidery.

Years ago I was taking a fall drive in Caton, New York, and came upon this quiet country road lined with maple trees and stunning views. I silently wished to myself that I could live on a road like ...