4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1414+ words) “Where are the autumns of yesterday?” Hull asked in a 1970s essay appropriately titled “Yesterday’s Autumns.” He remembered little boys who “played so hard all day and slept so hard all night” and a childhood in which the future seemed to…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1438+ words) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Daniel Boone is remembered as a great figure of the Kentucky frontier, but a surviving document in his own hand illuminates a lesser-known chapter of his life. The famed frontiersman spent years in what’s now West Virginia, where…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1522+ words) NEW CUMBERLAND, W.Va. — More than 20 brick plants once crowded what’s now a scenic stretch of the Ohio River, producing millions of bricks shipped to Pittsburgh and to cities hundreds of miles away, transforming a small West Virginia community into a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1128+ words) ALMA, W.Va. — When lightning struck one of the world’s most powerful gas wells in 1895, flames reportedly leaped 200 feet into the air, illuminating the rural countryside as crowds traveled to see what a Parkersburg newspaper described as a scene both “grand…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1461+ words) RICHWOOD.. W.Va. — For generations, one of West Virginia’s most remarkable frontier stories held that a white boy born in western Virginia was captured by the Shawnee Indians, adopted their way of life, and eventually became Blue Jacket, one of the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1074+ words) MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — Behind stone walls 24 feet high, as many as 2,000 people at a time were once confined in a massive Gothic prison that spanned three city blocks in the heart of this Ohio River community. For 129 years, the West Virginia…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (760+ words) SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — About an hour’s drive from Washington, D.C., a West Virginia university will mark the 30th anniversary of a festival founded to challenge stereotypes about Appalachia and introduce audiences to the region’s cultural traditions. Shepherd University will celebrate its…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1276+ words) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Before Wikipedia existed, WVExplorer.com helped people navigate the Mountain State. More than 25 years later, it reaches more than 100,000 readers each month who seek information on places to visit, things to do, and communities to explore. “That’s what…...