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Dark tales under the Torture Tree

The Torture Tree looks peaceful on a recent summer morning outside Cuylerville.
The Torture Tree looks peaceful on a recent summer morning outside Cuylerville.
Bill Wolcott/ Staff Photographer
A program out of Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville paid for a number of benches along the Genesee Valley Greenway in Livingston County. They are spaced every so often along the path.
A program out of Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville paid for a number of benches along the Genesee Valley Greenway in Livingston County. They are spaced every so often along the path.
Bill Wolcott/ Staff Photographer
The owners of this Cuylerville home have done a wonderful job keeping it up.
The owners of this Cuylerville home have done a wonderful job keeping it up.
Bill Wolcott/@billwlcott /staff Photographer
For a hamlet, Cuylerville had tons of character, like this guy atop an antique tractor outside the former Tired Iron Tractor Museum.
For a hamlet, Cuylerville had tons of character, like this guy atop an antique tractor outside the former Tired Iron Tractor Museum.
Bill Wolcott/ Staff Photographer
On my hikes, whenever I enter a community I always snap a photo to use as a marker for where I've been. But I also was fascinated by what was hanging below it.
On my hikes, whenever I enter a community I always snap a photo to use as a marker for where I've been. But I also was fascinated by what was hanging below it.
Bill Wolcott/ Staff Photographer
A tree-lined country lane near the site of the former Tuscarora Indian village of O-ha-gi
A tree-lined country lane near the site of the former Tuscarora Indian village of O-ha-gi
Bill Wolcott/ Staff Photographer
Why do I walk mile after mile on the Genesee Valley Greenway? Every once in a while I stumble into a place that shows me why. The leaves were beginning to fall (foreground) in this photo from late August.
Why do I walk mile after mile on the Genesee Valley Greenway? Every once in a while I stumble into a place that shows me why. The leaves were beginning to fall (foreground) in this photo from late August.
Bill Wolcott/ Staff Photographer
The Genesee River gorge emerges from Letchworth State Park in Mount Morris. This photo is from a bridge built for the Genesee Valley Greenway. that's just above the RG&E hydroelectric station.
The Genesee River gorge emerges from Letchworth State Park in Mount Morris. This photo is from a bridge built for the Genesee Valley Greenway. that's just above the RG&E hydroelectric station.
Bill Wolcott/staff Photographer