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Out of The Ashes: an Opera House, a novel
Read MoreFIRE! FIRE! THE TOWN IS BURNING! Chestnut, spruce and pine;lamp oil, whiskey and twine;furniture, boots and bread;statuary, lace and thread.The city of Thomas burned to the ground,in less than two hours,it became a smoldering mound. The early morning fire of Nov. 12, 1901, consumed 83…
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Artist Alley
Read MoreErnest Gabler is a West Virginia artist who has received much attention in East Coast cities but not his hometown of Thomas, W.Va., despite it being an art community. Discover his work in this video by Carl E. Feather.
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Coming to My Fathers’ land
Read MoreMy Fathers’ Land book is a sweeping memoir and family history covering nearly 250 years of Feathers in America and West Virginia.
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Chewing the fat at the mill
Read MoreSpend an hour or two shelling corn and chewing the fat with Larry Mustain at his Reed’s Mill, and the conversation eventually comes around to instances of sex in the mill. “We heard a bunch of splashing by that little bridge (over the mill raceway),”…
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Virginia furnace glows for a split second
Read MoreThe stone pyramid stands between Route 26 and Muddy Creek in Preston County, an imposing artifact from the county’s nascent industrial era. The iron furnace was built by Levi Kennet for Harrison Hagans, Brandonville’s foremost entrepreneur, merchant, and promoter. Historian Reardon S. Cuppett claimed it…
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The Truth about taxes
Read MoreTax season. That time of year when we settle up with the U.S. Treasury, via the Internal Revenue Service, and scratch our heads at where it all went. Local, school, personal property, municipal, state and the big one, federal, all chip away at our earnings…
