A Weston boutique highlights the work of local makers. Anna Cardelli planned to showcase the work of a few local artists when she opened Curated, her small boutique in downtown Weston, in October 2018. But within a few months, the store was filled with products from dozens of West Virginia artisans and producers. It has since become a favorite stop…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Reconstructing the Past, Building the Future
A hometown historian revives Webster Springs’ Lovers Lane. David Gillespie was born in Webster Springs in 1938. His father was a coal miner and their family home was only 200 yards from Lovers Lane, a simple wooden boardwalk that allowed townspeople to walk the three-quarters of a mile to the Conrad Hotel and grist mill without trudging through the mud…
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Mural by the Masses
An acclaimed Philadelphia mural artist brightens up Charles Town with local help. The colorful mural mosaics of Isaiah Zagar splash across hundreds of walls in downtown Philadelphia. For many of them, Zagar draws the outlines on the walls of privately owned buildings. Then community members fill in the lines by painting and then arranging thousands of pieces of pottery, glass,…
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Back to the Land
A Raleigh County coal miner takes up growing hops as his backup plan and finds himself becoming a farmer. One day a few years ago, the coal mine where Jonathan Ward works suffered a round of layoffs. He survived the cut and went home that day still employed, but wary. He and a friend talked about how coal mining continues…
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Wild Blue, Over Yonder
Take to the skies for a view of the New River Gorge you’ll never forget—or regret.
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