Subject: featured

Young Elkins Musicians Help Revive Old Time Music

Young Elkins Musicians Help Revive Old Time Music

June 27, 2014 |

photo of the Alleycats outside the Delmonte in Elkins, by Bill King. The Tribble’s house stands out from the street because of the solar panels on the roof, and because even from outside you can hear the sound of 16-year-old Walter King warming up his fiddle. Beside him stands Nevada Tribble, with long, straight red […]

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John Steinbeck Praised the State Guide Books

John Steinbeck Praised the State Guide Books

June 20, 2014 |

By Gibbs Kinderman: The “Traveling 219” project was inspired by the New Deal Federal Writers Project and the Guides to the States it produced. Nobel Prize winning writer John Steinbeck, who was a struggling young author when he was hired to work for the Writers’ Project, was also a big fan of these amazing books. […]

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Walking in their Shoes: Mike Smith’s Sesquicentennial Hikes at Droop Mountain

Walking in their Shoes: Mike Smith’s Sesquicentennial Hikes at Droop Mountain

June 20, 2014 |

In 2013, park superintendent Mike Smith organized a series of four memorial hikes to the top of the top of Droop Mountain to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle. In June and July, Dan Schultz and I joined the hikers as they made their way up Droop Mountain on the first two of these […]

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Cal Price and the Fabulous Feline Hoax

Cal Price and the Fabulous Feline Hoax

June 13, 2014 |

“Nobody in Pocahontas County has the slightest doubt but what the name of Cal Price will live on forever after he dies, that is if you can find anybody who believes he will die,” fellow journalist Jim Comstock wrote in 1953. “Most Pocahontasites think of him just living on and on like the trees of the forest.” Price was the editor of the Pocahontas Times for over 50 years, and his name indeed lives on.

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Calvin Price: “I Saw the Panther”, and Many Others Did Too

Calvin Price: “I Saw the Panther”, and Many Others Did Too

June 13, 2014 |

“I saw the panther. I whistled at him, and he growled at me,”- Calvin Price, 1956. Skip Johnson was a well followed outdoors writer for the Charleston Gazette. He passed away in 2010, but a book that he completed just before his death, called West Virginia Mountain Lions, the Past Present and Future of the […]

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Fishing the Mountains Streams (part 2)

Fishing the Mountains Streams (part 2)

June 6, 2014 |

Today, fly-fishing in West Virginia is a big sport that attracts thousands of visitors each year to the mountain state. The streams of the Monongahela National Forest in Pocahontas County, are some of the best known for trout fishing in the region. With warmer weather arriving in spring, we decided to check out some of […]

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Fishing the Mountain Streams

Fishing the Mountain Streams

May 30, 2014 |

When spring arrives and the weather begins to get warmer in the Allegheny Mountains along U.S. Route 219, many locals and visitors grab their rods and reels and begin heading to the Monongahela National Forest. Some of the best trout fishing in the region can be found here in these cool mountain streams. Fishing has […]

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Bear Tales: The Sharp Twins Part II

Bear Tales: The Sharp Twins Part II

May 29, 2014 |

  Bear hunting is a long running tradition in the mountains along US 219. It started more than 200 years ago, when the farmers began running sheep on their hill farms and the native black bear discovered a new food source. In the old days the mountains rang with the baying of dogs on a […]

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Bear Tales: The Sharp Twins

Bear Tales: The Sharp Twins

May 23, 2014 |

This is part one of a two part story, to check out part two, click here! Bear hunting is a long running tradition in the mountains along US 219. It started more than 200 years ago, when farmers began to run sheep on their hill farms and the native black bear discovered a new food […]

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The 1892 Civil Rights Case of Coketon, West Virginia

The 1892 Civil Rights Case of Coketon, West Virginia

May 9, 2014 |

About a year ago, a new historical marker sign went up in front of the Tucker County Court House, in Parsons, West Virginia along U.S. Route 219. The sign commemorates an exceptional story in West Virginia history, when a brave African American school teacher stood up to her local school board and sued them for […]

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