Matt Wilkinson makes life-size, fully functional carvings of hand tools. Matt Wilkinson’s artistic career started with an 18-inch Rigid pipe wrench. It was 30 years ago. He had just gotten a job with the gas company and spent his days with a field crew, digging ditches to install or repair gas lines. One day, his eyes fell on that wrench,…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Hops and Dreams
A Marion County hop grower says demand is frothing over. What’s better than a West Virginia–brewed craft beer? One made with West Virginia–grown hops, of course. James Lewis’s Spring Water Farms in Marion County is making it possible. By day, Lewis teaches physics at West Virginia University. But at home, he has 100 acres to manage. He wanted an alternative…
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On West Virginia Day, #weareWVLiving
We’ve cleared our schedules. We’re setting our out-of-office replies. We’re going to shut down our computers and turn off the lights. This Wednesday, June 20, the employees of New South Media are stepping out. But this isn’t just any day off. We’re going to celebrate West Virginia’s 155th birthday the way she deserves. Last week, tourism commissioner Chelsea Ruby wrote a…
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Blowing Smoke
World barbecue champion Luke Darnell talks cartoon pigs, done temperatures, and popped tires. Morgantown native Luke Darnell started barbecuing as a kid, spending hours with his friends tending a smoking hole in the ground at their parents’ summertime pig roasts. “When smoke would start coming out of the ground, we’d have to take a shovel and cover it. We didn’t…
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Paradise Lost and Found
The surprising rebirth of the best West Virginia film you’ve never seen. When his elderly neighbor Nada tells him about the message she received from God—that he’s coming to their West Virginia mobile home park to grant each resident one wish—Marlon, a high school English teacher and one of the central characters in Daniel Boyd’s 1992 independent film Paradise Park,…
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