by Chris Clemens I don’t know where obsessions arise from, but as a kid I was really in to rocks. My parents even bought a rock tumbler one year so I could polish my own! To further support my habit, they made sure we visited Rock City Park in Olean, New York, in the southeastern […]
by Chris Clemens About five years ago, I was driving south into Pennsylvania on Route 219. Just a few minutes south of the New York State border, I encountered the city of Bradford. From the highway, it was easy to spot the towering icon of a Zippo lighter, but I didn’t know at the time […]
by Chris Clemens While in Cattaraugus County with a few friends, we were told of a haunted grave and the story of the Ashford Hollow Witch. My friends didn’t have to try very hard for me to agree to go find it. After we visited, I was intrigued enough to spend a few weeks researching the story […]
by Chris Clemens Seeing a white-tailed deer in New York is nearly as common today as seeing a human, but that wasn’t always the case. It was such an important source of income for hunters in the late 1800’s that the state’s deer population nearly went extinct. In fact, the population was so deeply at risk, that in […]