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Decoration Day
Read MoreIt is Memorial Day weekend in the United States, but in Appalachia, particularly West Virginia, it is more commonly referred to as “Decoration Day.” My parents, Carl J. and Cossette (Watring) Feather, seemed to have a standing engagement in West Virginia each May, for the…
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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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Mail Pouch
Read MoreIt was the summer 1985. I was in my second year as a photographer and occasional writer for the Ashtabula Star Beacon while, when searching for feature art in the Rock Creek area, I came across a barn being painted. The barn was just north…
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A castle, commissioner & cemetery
Read MoreIn a typical year, I would make my first West Virginia/Back Roads journey in early May. But so far this year (2016) I’ve made two trips, one in January and one in March. The January trip, to the Eastern Panhandle, was during a weekend when…
