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Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia, Vol. 1
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Robert Harness, preserver of history, former guard of the Moundsville State Penitentiary, executioner, construction foreman for the West Virginia electric chair, “Old Sparky.”
Hammel’s license plate forest
Pansy’s Country Store Opry and Elsie Whitmer, Minnie Pearl impersonator
Louise Carr, selling W.Va. glassware in Friendly
Charles Waldrum, aka Moon Dog, Wheeling’s night vigilante
Dick Clark and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge
Cabwaylingo State Forest, Bonnie Watts, Bloody Mingo & Dingess Tunnel
Calemine’s Patriotic Shoe Shop, Keyser, W.Va.
Coalwood Rocket Boy’s father
Crazy Bear’s Indian Store
Pleasure Valley
Randy Brown Chapel for a little boy
Larry Mustain’s Reed’s Mill on Second Creek, Monroe County, W.Va.
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Setting up Shop in Davis
Feather Cottage Media books will be available to examine and purchase at the ArtSpring event in Davis, W.Va., May 23 and 24. ArtSpring is the annual arts festival in Thomas and Davis. It opens Friday evening and runs through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. The Davis Fire Hall is the site of the market for…
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Out of The Ashes: an Opera House, a novel
FIRE! 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 buildings in the Thomas, W.Va., business district, plus many of…
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Rebirth
Our neighbor across the street and above our house is a nature preserve owned by Old Hemlock Foundation. It consists of approximately 150 acres of forest plus another 80 acres or so of land that was, until three years ago, covered with a dense stand of red pine trees way past maturity. A powerful surge…