October is certainly the perfect time for all things fall: autumnal scents, pumpkin spice and of course—as the Season of the Witch—spooky fun. And many of these elements—fall flavors and witchy ...

The brooms at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movies? That’s a Scheumack broom. The walking sticks Gandalf uses in The Lord of the Rings movies? Those are from Scheumack. And that broom that Bette Midler ...

Local creatures have often been given the names of early explorers and naturalists that visited our northern shores and forests. So (until the names are changed) we have Townsend’s warblers and ...