This tiny market is a huge boon to its community. Off Route 50 in Capon Bridge travelers are raving about a little store and butcher shop. Fresh-cut meats, ground sausages, cured bacon, produce, breads, coffee, wines and beer, daily sandwiches, and specials—we could fill pages with the selections at Farmer’s Daughter Market & Butcher. “We try to source as much…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Hangout: Dwight Garner
Dwight Garner, a book critic for The New York Times, was born in Fairmont but spent many of his early years in Charleston. He gets back whenever he can, so we caught up with Garner to ask about his favorite hometown haunts. Taylor Books “This is one of America’s genuinely great independent bookstores. Taylor Books has a carefully curated selection…
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Treading New Ground
Building a Better State· Discover· How We Did It· People· WV-Made
Gurkee’s finds international success after moving production to West Virginia. Ray Sickes is a natural entrepreneur. He sold real estate for a while, worked as a wedding photographer, and then ran a web design business while the Internet was gaining popularity in the late ’90s. But his most successful venture literally walked through his door. “One day my wife came…
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High Fidelity
What goes around comes around. After years of gathering dust, vinyl records are back in vogue—and West Virginia is teeming with record shops filled with vinyl, old and new.
Squeaky Clean
Think all soap is the same? Think again. Soap. It might be the most utilitarian thing around—you can’t escape using it, and doing so isn’t usually a thrilling experience. Unless, of course, you’re using soap made by Phillip and Mary Peelish, the husband-wife duo behind the Wild Mountain Soap Company, based in Fayetteville. Wild Mountain soaps are different. They come…
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