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An aging 1895 City Hall also held an opera house.

The Upside of Everything: ‘The Old Jewish Church’

An old Virginia coal town yields new gems.
The huge German-barreled, and likely American-stocked, musket in the North House Museum in Lewisburg, West Virginia. The musket is thought by some to be the gun used by Dick Pointer during the attack on Donnally’s Fort.

Dick Pointer: Enslaved Hero

Westward movement of settlers in the late 1700s resulted in grisly clashes with Shawnee Indians. An enslaved Black man was an unlikely and heroic participant in one clash.
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Festive Foods for the Holidays

The authors of our ‘Flavors’ column celebrate the foodiest time of the year with a collection of great tastes and experiences, beginning with ‘a recipe worth the trouble.’
Soldiers scale the Humphrey’s Head rock formation at Seneca Rocks, August, 1943 during West Virginia Maneuvers.

Maneuvers, Minglings & Marriages: The Blue Ridge Plays Sicily, 1943

Our mountain terrain served as a World War II training ground for U.S. Army troops preparing for combat in Italy.
Sam and Eli Reynolds assist Elaine Ingram in preparing pawpaw/wild black walnut bread.

The Day of the Walnuts: Grandsons Across the Hollow

“Grandchildren are children only once,” might well be the theme of our new columnist.
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April 12, 2018

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