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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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Visiting with West Virginia’s last living Tuskegee Airman
Read MoreYou can trust a secret to Clifton E. Brooks Sr. Information that Clifton decoded back in the 1940s remains known only to Clifton, a resident of the county seat of Mineral County, Keyser, and West Virginia’s last surviving Tuskegee Airman. Clifton is getting up there…
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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…
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The Reunion
Read MoreI knew his father before I knew Joe. Joe DePollo was the son of John DePollo, who owned DePollo’s Store in Thomas, W.Va. The store was started by John’s parents, first-generation Italian immigrants, who eventually built the three-story brick building on Front Street in 1915.…
