- ... that Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport manager James G. Howes (pictured) was lampooned using signal flags to direct air traffic from atop the control tower in a Boy Scout uniform?
- ... that the pygmy hardwood forest on the summit of New York's Graham Mountain is unique in the Catskills?
- ... that the stones at Nuits in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York are so finely cut that a penknife cannot fit between them?