Of all the shocking confessions I’ve made over the years, perhaps none has been met with more stunned reaction than this:

I’ve never been to Golden Artist Colors.

That’s right folks, unbelievable as it may seem, until a couple weeks ago, I had never set foot inside what is surely one of Chenango County’s most successful and innovative home-grown businesses.

You’d think being the seen-it-all, done-it-all seasoned newspaper editor that I am, there wouldn’t be many thresholds in Chenango that I haven’t crossed. Yet, until very recently, I’d never seen the wonders of Golden Artist Colors.