18+ hour, 26+ min ago   (1190+ words) BEAVER, W.Va. — Gary Morefield was cleaning an old gravestone in a small cemetery in an Appalachian valley when he reflected on what such places can reveal. “Cemeteries are like libraries,” he said. “You can learn the history of a place…...

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, 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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (781+ words) BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — A 24.5% income increase over eight consecutive quarters is helping a historic West Virginia spa town bring its 250th-anniversary tourism campaign to Philadelphia during the nation’s own 250th year. Travel Berkeley Springs has launched a $36,000 campaign that will put…...

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, 3+ day ago   (922+ words) BECKLEY, W.Va. — A longtime West Virginia real estate broker is challenging the way property listings are shared across the state, arguing that agents no longer need to belong to multiple regional organizations to market properties effectively in an increasingly digital…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1166+ words) GLEN JEAN, W.Va. — National Park Week begins Saturday, spotlighting hundreds of America’s most celebrated landscapes. But in West Virginia, the national park experience is a little different. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve isn’t simply wilderness set aside from…...