Bill Getz is a water dowser from Schoharie County who uses two types of divining rods to attempt to locate ground water. Bill Getz was four years old when he was first told he had a gift for ...

In my previous Baby Boomer Memories column, I shared how my quest to write about dowsing nearly 25 years ago led me down a rabbit hole. Back then I ended up with a story of the 5-ton male elephant ...

So how did I end up with a city employee traipsing across my front yard with divining rods on a recent evening, searching for underground water? The answer begins with a boneheaded blunder on my part.

It always strikes me as odd how two disparate events can come together to form one story. It is something akin to the Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon-type game. One thing leads to another, ...

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