Dear Customers, August means so many things to residents of the Northwestern corner of Pennsylvania.  You can count on hot days and cool nights.  You can expect to find the Allegheny foothills shrouded in fog till at least mid-morning on most days.  Locally grown sweet corn is one of the area’s epicurean delicacies, partly…

Dear Customers, As we leisurely meander down the lazy river of August, summer vacation wanders closer to its inevitable end.  After a year-long hiatus, the McKean County Fair resumes this Sunday for its 115th edition.  Blackberries are ripening all throughout the Pennsylvania Wilds, while the spots on this year’s fawns are fading, while our lawns…

Dear Customers, Over the course of the summer, we get a lot of people in the store who don’t live in the area; tourists enjoying the Pennsylvania Wilds, visitors to families living in Smethport or the surrounding towns and people just out enjoying a beautiful ride through our gorgeous countryside.  Often, these visitors are moved…

Dear Customers, In the “Paul Costa” calendar, not to be confused with the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of the world, summer is 2/3’rds over at the end of July.  As a school-aged kid living each summer day as if it were my last, August meant “the end is near!”  August also meant those…