Illustration: the Operation Location helicopter landed on a mountain ridge while a Volunteer sets a giant red map pin into the ground Click the marker
Based out of Watkins Glen, New York

Find a place worth remembering.

Pin its story to the map. Veterans, Village, and Veritas, told plain.

Yes, that's a helicopter setting a map pin on a mountaintop. We're having a little fun with the picture. The truth under it is plain enough: we aim to pin every far corner we can reach before this mission's done, because no battle buddy gets left behind.

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Operation Location. Illustration.
Reach out and find one

Pins with stories under them.

Touch a marker. Click it, and it tells you what is inside.

Concept map. Story pins stay drafts until a second source is attached.Open the full map →
The three pillars

Three posts hold up the porch.

Hover a pillar. Each one keeps a little something tucked behind it, the way a good town keeps its stories.

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Pillar one

Veterans

Civic builders, leaders, and family people, in the spirit of the generation that came home and built their towns.

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Pillar two

Village

The media design side of the house, serving the community and the businesses that keep its lights on.

III
Pillar three

Veritas

The search that ties it together. Truth is something pursued, not owned, and every claim is sized to the evidence.

Drone panorama of Watkins Glen, the harbor and Seneca Lake stretching north between wooded hills
Watkins Glen and the south end of Seneca Lake. Photograph by Charles K Lyles.
From the field

Places we've stood.

Drone photographs and studio art from around Schuyler County. More memorials go up as the map grows.

Stone memorial plaque honoring Schuyler County service in the World Wars
World Wars Memorial, Schuyler County Courthouse lawn, Watkins Glen.
Painting of a photographer in a flat cap framing a barn at dusk, in navy, red and cream
Schuyler County Dusk. AMERiGLEN Art.
Drone photograph of a two-masted schooner under sail on calm water off the village harbor
A schooner under sail off the harbor.
Drone photograph of the village with the gorge cutting into the wooded hills behind it
Where the gorge meets the village.
Drone photograph of the marina at dusk, sailboats at the docks beside the stone breakwall
The marina at dusk.
Drone photograph of the sun setting over the hills and its path across the lake
Sunset over Seneca Lake.
Drone photograph looking down on Lafayette Park in Watkins Glen, autumn trees crossed by footpaths
Lafayette Park, Watkins Glen, from above.
Palette-knife portrait of Charles K Lyles in a flat cap, with clock faces and camera lenses
The storyteller. AMERiGLEN Art.

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