Potter Hills

The Finger Lakes is renowned for its beauty, particularly its rolling hills carved out by glaciers, its believed. The water flows clear and pure and the air is crisp and rich. People come from around the nation to walk the trails, swim in its natural pools and lakes, and to get away from the tumult of the city, with its belching smokestacks and the constant whine of engines. Here, the most noise you'll get is a from a songbird gliding on the breeze.
Though Munson isn't a major attraction for naturalists or others seeking to commune with the natural world, we do have our fair share of trails that run through the hills and out of site of the canal, a testament to human progress to be sure, but a scar industrialization has left on the land to be sure. Trails connect us to other towns and strangers sometimes pass through, enjoying a meal or a hot bath before traveling on. It's not usual for a man to use a ramble to distance himself from trouble, but travelers say that the trails are mostly safe from wild creatures and, the most dangerous animal of all, other humans. Mostly, that is.

Uncanny Occurrence

A few years ago, a naturalist went missing somewhere between Munson and Macedon, and people guessed that he had drowned in a lake or pond, or hit his head and fell in the canal, or hell, maybe he came across a very cross bear. But then after an uneventful year, it happened again last autumn. A man resolved to walk the length of the Erie Canal stopped in Munson for breakfast but never made it Macedon. This year, the number of missing persons has risen to three--one heading east out of Munson, the other two west out of Macedon.
While the earth in these parts bears the hallmark of ancient glaciers that dug out great trenches, people have been noticing strange formations of enormous rocks, deep divots in the earth, and trees that appear to have been stripped of their bark and cast away. People joke that "the hills are alive" but that joke doesn't get many laughs nowadays.