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Mountaineer aviator
Read MoreMost of us will have one memorial, our gravestone. According to writer Derek Coleman, an England native living in West Virginia, Louis Bennett Jr. has at least 12, all funded by his late mother, Sallie Maxwell Bennett of Weston, Lewis County. The memorials range from…
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Full Circle in Lenox
Read MoreOne might guess that Preston County’s oldest, continuously operating business is a funeral home. Not so, although at one time, a funeral home operated in the north section of the Lenox Store, founded in 1882. Located on the Brandonville Pike just a stone’s throw south…
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New Cumberland’s amazing ‘scrapyard’
Read MoreOne of my direct routes to West Virginia from northeast Ohio was down Route 11 to Route 2 on the West Virginia side of the Ohio River. At New Cumberland, Route 2 climbs a steep embankment and rewards the motorist with stunning views of the…
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Coming Home
Read MoreAt 3:36 p.m. November 14, 2020, my 2013 blue Scion XD crossed the state line on Interstate 79 north of Morgantown, West Virginia. As the WVU billboard near the state welcome center declared, I was home. Finally. My parents left West Virginia in 1956 and…
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Labels dehumanize people, justify hatred
Read MoreOur “traveling road show” culture loves to put labels on people, especially people who refuse to buy a ticket to their show. As a retired reporter, I understand the value of tagging people. Labels make it possible to study and write about wide swaths of…
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Mourning a tree in blossom
Read More(May 2020, Geneva, Ohio) Its five main limbs resembled the biceps of a circus weightlifter. They emerged from the low-set trunk just a few inches above the former orchard’s soil; twenty-inches in diameter at their widest, the limbs rose like a worshiper’s arms and terminated…
