Upstate New York, New York, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"It may be, as she has told me, that Larry Rasmussen when Shelly met him was a nice clean boy from upstate New York who came out to Berkeley to get a degree in anthropology, and fell in with the wrong companions."

"He had spent half his life observing animals in the field, diving among manatees in Florida, crouching outside fox dens in upstate New York, once even roaming the Belizean jungles with the world’s foremost jaguar expert, watching over kills and waiting through endless mosquito‐infested nights for the magical photo of the big beast prowling among the lianas."

"But in recent years, for whatever reason, Cornell has taken to licensing the new varietals to local farmers, and unless you own a farm in upstate New York, you’re shit out of luck and have to make do with the occasional imported Florina."