Living in Gorham, New York:
Tips for Moving and Visiting

Although there is a Walmart in the adjacent town of Canandaigua, Gorham’s main street has a small market that carries the essentials. The front window is plastered with such advertisements as the high school play and the boy scout pancake breakfast. It has a picnic table just inside the doorway, where the local farmers gather to share stories and a cup of coffee, and a large freezer stocked with ice cream novelties for the kids who get overheated riding their bikes through town.

Gorham in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. There is a Native American legend that states that the Great Spirit laid his hands upon the earth to bless it, and his hand left an imprint which, when filled with rainwaters, created the Finger Lakes. Gorham rests between three of the Finger Lakes; Keuka, Canandaigua, and Seneca. The land is expansive and fertile, yielding farm stands full of fresh produce on every country road. Each stand has a cash box where the honor system is the only system. There are hand painted signs promoting fresh tomatoes, strawberries or pumpkins depending on the season.