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Art & Music
- July 12, 2016: For the People: New Deal Art Along Highway 219
- January 29, 2015: For Over 140 Years, The Monroe Watchman Continues to Tell Local Stories
- December 14, 2014: Woody Simmons: Randolph County Fiddler
- November 9, 2014: Rattlesnake and Snapping Turtle Burgoo and Fresh Apple Pie for Dessert
- October 8, 2014: D&E Students Explore Similaries Between Appalachian and Romanian Folk Music
- August 15, 2014: Country Music Dance Hall Takes Honky-Tonk Fans Back in Time
- July 11, 2014: Allegheny Echoes: Learning W. Va. Old Time Music at its Source
- June 27, 2014: Young Elkins Musicians Help Revive Old Time Music
- December 10, 2013: Doyle Oliver Kisner Turns 90 Years Old
- June 21, 2013: The Spruce Forest Artisan Village
- January 25, 2013: I’m Upstairs Quilting
- January 18, 2013: The Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys
- December 17, 2011: Youghiogheny Forest Colony
Bear Tales
Blog
- February 8, 2015: Over Bonnie Mural in Marlinton
- November 26, 2014: Turkey Drives Down 219
- November 23, 2014: Sunshine Girls of Allegheny Mountain Radio
- November 23, 2014: Silver Lake, West Virginia
- September 30, 2014: Traveling 219 Receives AASLH History Award
- August 22, 2014: Mill Point Prison Revisited
- August 19, 2014: Frankford High School
- July 16, 2014: Cougars in Pocahontas County
- July 1, 2014: Rainbow over U.S. Route 219
- June 30, 2014: Little Levels Heritage Fair
- June 20, 2014: John Steinbeck Praised the State Guide Books
- June 20, 2014: Walking in their Shoes: Mike Smith’s Sesquicentennial Hikes at Droop Mountain
- June 10, 2014: Civil War Sites Along (and near) U.S. Rt. 219
- June 6, 2014: Fishing the Mountains Streams (part 2)
- June 2, 2014: Dare to Be Square – Helvetia
- May 30, 2014: Fishing the Mountain Streams
- May 19, 2014: Falls of Hills Creek in May
- May 9, 2014: The 1892 Civil Rights Case of Coketon, West Virginia
- May 9, 2014: Farming, Love, and the Ellison Farm
- April 29, 2014: Richwood, WV, a Town with Rich Roots
- April 26, 2014: Traveling 219 Spring Heritage Tour
- April 24, 2014: John Wesley Methodist Church in Lewisburg
- April 22, 2014: Ramps-Are we Sustainably Harvesting Them?
- April 21, 2014: How to Make Salt Rising Bread
- April 17, 2014: Pulling at the Roots of the Wild Ramp Market
- April 17, 2014: Balanced Rock near Elkins
- April 14, 2014: Fairview School: An Old Fashioned Schoolhouse*
- April 11, 2014: Brooklyn Heights
- April 4, 2014: Spring Peepers
- March 28, 2014: Farming Series: Eldridge McComb
- March 17, 2014: Pickens Maple Syrup Festival
- March 4, 2014: Renick Valley Panorama
- March 3, 2014: Fasnacht — Helvetia
- February 20, 2014: Farming Series: Up on Stompin’ Crick
- February 17, 2014: C.J. Richardson’s Store
- February 14, 2014: Tygart Valley Homestead part 2
- February 11, 2014: Old Watoga Town
- February 4, 2014: Tygart Valley Homestead School
- February 3, 2014: The Pink Cone of Pocahontas County
- January 28, 2014: Hotel Tygart in Elkins
- January 26, 2014: Falls of Hills Creek
- January 24, 2014: Greenbrier River in January
- January 17, 2014: Panther Series: A Panther Shredded His Hat
- January 14, 2014: Mike Smith – Forest Floor Connoisseur
- January 10, 2014: Farming Series: An Era Where Everything Changed
- January 8, 2014: Odd Fellows Home in Elkins
- January 7, 2014: West Virginia – Maryland Border Dispute
- December 31, 2013: West Virginia map, 1895
- December 25, 2013: Christmas on U.S. 219
- December 22, 2013: Droop Mountain Lookout Tower
- December 19, 2013: Song Re-Writing Contest
- December 19, 2013: Little Levels Panorama
- December 17, 2013: Panther Series: A Panther Before Christmas
- December 17, 2013: Historic Photos of Lewisburg
- December 16, 2013: Farming in the Family
- December 10, 2013: Tygart Valley Homestead
- December 10, 2013: Snow in Hillsboro – 12/10/13
- December 9, 2013: Marlinton Christmas Parade Postcard
- November 23, 2013: Civil War History Mural Preview in Hillsboro
- November 15, 2013: The McK Building in Marlinton
- November 15, 2013: Lewisburg Lovesong
- November 8, 2013: The Fairfax Stone and West Virginia v. Maryland
- November 7, 2013: Droop Battlefield State Park Monument Dedication
- November 6, 2013: The Case of the Mystery Coin
- November 1, 2013: Help Us Tell The Story of the Pink Cone
- September 20, 2013: The Hutton House
- September 13, 2013: Nature Train to the Ghost Town of Spruce
- August 22, 2013: The Mill Point Prison
- July 30, 2013: Tunes and Tales: Old Time and Bluegrass Musicians of Pocahontas County
- July 9, 2013: Traveling 219 August Van Tour!
- July 5, 2013: The Ginkgo Tree, by Alex Casto
- June 28, 2013: Walking in their Shoes- 1st Droop Hike
- June 21, 2013: Shanklin’s Grand Theatre
- June 20, 2013: Cass Scenic Train
- June 18, 2013: The Grave of Naomi Wise
- June 14, 2013: Droop Battlefield Hosts Four Memorial Hikes
- June 14, 2013: Under the Ashes
- June 7, 2013: Sorghum: The Way it Was
- June 6, 2013: Buckwheat
- June 5, 2013: Next Weekend! Tall Shadows Passing By: a Storytelling Event
- May 31, 2013: Fort McCoy
- May 30, 2013: A Greenbrier County Tour
- May 25, 2013: World War Two Veteran Sherman Beard Remembers Flying over Europe
- May 24, 2013: My Home, Stuart Manor
- May 15, 2013: The Haunting of Zona Heaster: 5th Grade Students Team up with Traveling 219
- May 10, 2013: Interviewing Richard Hefner, by Spencer Beery
- May 9, 2013: West Virginia is for Mothers
- May 2, 2013: 219 Project Travels to Canada to Present at the National Council of Public History
- March 29, 2013: Chicory Flowers
- March 27, 2013: Please Don’t Cut VISTA, an opinion letter from Roxy
- March 26, 2013: Greenbank Radio Observatory
- March 20, 2013: Soda Pop and Postcards at Sharp’s Country Store
- March 3, 2013: Windmills and Snow
- February 20, 2013: The Cannery at Mill Point
- February 8, 2013: The McNeel Mill of Mill Point
- January 17, 2013: An Almost Perfect State
- January 7, 2013: Pleasant Green School – Seebert
- January 4, 2013: Finding Dewey: The Search for West Virginia’s First Poet Laureate along the Backroads of US 219
- December 28, 2012: The Hefner General Store at Mill Point
- December 7, 2012: Memories of the Traveling Carnival
- December 2, 2012: Byrd Couple Buried with Pet Parrot named Polly
- October 29, 2012: Strange Weather From the Memories along US 219
- October 25, 2012: The Mill Man: Remembering Aubrey, with Dixie Lee
- October 18, 2012: Backbone Mountain, WV / MD
- May 13, 2012: Pink Lady Slipper
Collections
- July 12, 2016: Pearl S. Buck Grapevine Travels to Michigan
- January 12, 2015: Hot Blackberry Picking Days, and Rocks, and Snakes
- December 23, 2014: More Timeless Memories from the Mill Point General Store
- December 23, 2014: Marlinton Residents Try to Remain Optimistic this Christmas
- December 20, 2014: Johnny Hill Won the 1983 Pocahontas County Liar’s Contest With This Magical Tall Tale
- December 9, 2014: Greenville
- November 27, 2014: Remembering One Little General Store
- July 13, 2014: Eastern Newt
- July 10, 2014: House in Frankford
- June 13, 2014: Cal Price and the Fabulous Feline Hoax
- June 13, 2014: Calvin Price: “I Saw the Panther”, and Many Others Did Too
- June 9, 2014: Barn Panorama near Hillsboro
- June 4, 2014: Yellow Bird
- May 7, 2014: Hamlin Chapel
- May 6, 2014: Droop Mountain Lookout Tower
- May 5, 2014: Greenbrier River Trail
- May 5, 2014: Rock Run
- May 3, 2014: Morels!
- April 29, 2014: Another Mail Pouch Barn
- April 14, 2014: Outhouse
- April 2, 2014: Kump House
- April 2, 2014: Falls of Hills Creek Photo
- March 26, 2014: Our Lady of the Pines
- March 20, 2014: Hiawatha’s Country Store
- March 19, 2014: Old House on Moore Station Road
- March 17, 2014: Old House in Huttonsville
- March 13, 2014: Mail Pouch Barn along 219
- March 12, 2014: Tracks in Ronceverte
- March 6, 2014: Red Barn in Edray
- March 5, 2014: Abandoned House in Hillsboro
- February 27, 2014: Old Barn in Monroe County
- February 27, 2014: A Carriage House Comes to Union
- February 26, 2014: The People’s Store and Supply (Brill’s)
- February 26, 2014: Marlinton CJ Store
- February 26, 2014: Charles Burns LaRue’s Store
- February 26, 2014: Cabin on Beaver Creek Road
- February 21, 2014: Moore’s General Store
- February 20, 2014: Old barn on Spruce Flats near Buckeye
- February 19, 2014: Old Stone Presbyterian Church in Lewisburg, WV
- February 18, 2014: Camp by the river down Steven Hole Road
- February 17, 2014: Farm outside of Clover Lick
- February 14, 2014: Old Barn in Huntersville
- February 13, 2014: Ronceverte Train Depot
- February 12, 2014: Sunshine before a Storm
- February 11, 2014: Abandoned Farm House and Equipment in Hillsboro
- February 10, 2014: Greenbrier River Trail near Seebert
- February 8, 2014: Tucker County Courthouse Clocktower
- February 4, 2014: Locust Creek Covered Bridge
- October 7, 2013: The Punch Jones Diamond
- March 25, 2013: The Train Station in Oakland, Maryland
- June 11, 2012: Chenoweth Bridge
- June 8, 2012: Pleasant Valley Maryland
- May 3, 2012: Panther Series: Kennison Mountain Panther?
- January 4, 2012: Second Creek
- January 4, 2012: Frankford
- January 4, 2012: Valley Head
- January 4, 2012: Leonard Cordova Road
- January 4, 2012: Thomas
Deep Creek Lake to Elkins
Elkins to Marlinton
Lewisburg to Rich Creek
Marlinton to Lewisburg
Stories
Uncategorized
- July 12, 2016: One of West Virginia’s Last Sheep Shearers Reflects on His 64 Year Career
- April 14, 2016: Ever Wonder Why There is a Lion on a Leash in Alderson?
- March 29, 2014: The Ghosttown of Spruce, presentation
- May 31, 2013: New Deal Murals along 219
- May 2, 2013: Cal Price & The Pocahontas Times
- April 26, 2013: Wild Ramp Dinner-This Weekend Along US Rt. 219
- August 3, 2012: Transcript: Youghiogheny Forest Colony
- July 30, 2012: pleasant valley, Maryland guide
- July 11, 2012: Sweet Springs Mint Julep Recipe
- July 11, 2012: Transcript: The Blue Bubbling Water
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