Everything Youngstown, Youngstown, NY (Small Town WNY TV Series - Companion Podcast #19)

Jesse's Home & Gifts, Gowanda, NY (Small Town WNY TV Series - Companion Podcast #18)

Anthony/Precision Garage Door (Small Town WNY TV Series - Companion Podcast #17)

Joyce/North Star Tavern #2 (Small Town WNY TV Series - Companion Podcast #16)

Julie/Author's Note Book Store (Small Town WNY TV Series - Companion Podcast #15)

Author's Note Book Store

519 Main St, Medina, NY 14103, United States

Phone: +1 585 798 3642

https://authorsnote.com

One of my favorite aspects of running this business is meeting the great people I come across everyday out in the field. Whether it's selling, filming or coordinating shoots and the guests and there isn't days like days in the 15+ years I've been at it. Sometimes, I come across someone with such a similar story and journey that it stops me in my tracks and Julie from Author's Note Book store in Medina was one such person. An accomplished author and now small business owner she has quite a tale to tell all her own...

Joyce/North Star Tavern (Small Town WNY TV Series - Companion Podcast #14)

North Star Tavern

7340 Seneca Street, Elma, NY 14059

Phone: +1 716 805 7117

https://www.thenorthstartavern.com

Having grown up in the Southtowns of Buffalo, just a few miles from the border of East Aurora, The North Star Tavern is so buried in my muscle memory of the place that even through 15 years away, it was one of the businesses that I would often recall when I would think of the pretty drive up Seneca Street into East Aurora from my childhood home. Now, the fact that I have a real Walter Mitty fantasy about the place, is an entire other story as I'm a huge fan of the show Newhart, and if you recall, the show is set in an Old, Historically important Inn up in Vermont... and as far as Inns go.. The North Star tavern (to me) always reminded me of the Inn on the show and in my minds eye, I always had this fantasy that it would someday reopen it's top floor as a hotel or B&B just like it was back when it was when it first built as an overnight stop for travelers through the area. I recently had a chance to talk to Joyce (one half of the new owners of the Inn) between rushes on a busy Thursday night about the Inns history, improvements, menu items, additions and even the Inns most permanent ... ethereal... resident...

Bonnie/Herbalty Cottage
415 Main St, Medina, NY 14103, United States
Phone: +1 585 798 5800
http://www.herbaltycottage.com

On this episode of the Small Town WNY companion podcast I'm talking to Bonnie from Herbalty Cottage in Medina NY. Like many great success stories, Herbailty Cottage was born out of personal tragedy and obstacles. But the result is a business that is truly doing good work in the WNY community by offering services and products that offer a true 306 Holistic, healing approach with a track record of proven success. It's a truly inspiring, heartfelt story that only goes to show that in the end, we find our path and our light, even through the darkest times of our lives.

Case Nic Cookies
415 Main St, Medina, NY 14103, United States
Phone: +1 585 798 5800
http://www.herbaltycottage.com

On this episode of the Small Town WNY companion podcast I'm talking to Bonnie from Herbalty Cottage in Medina NY. Like many great success stories, Herbailty Cottage was born out of personal tragedy and obstacles. But the result is a business that is truly doing good work in the WNY community by offering services and products that offer a true 306 Holistic, healing approach with a track record of proven success. It's a truly inspiring, heartfelt story that only goes to show that in the end, we find our path and our light, even through the darkest times of our lives.