Ready or not the holidays are upon us. This year we are shopping local and supporting small businesses across the Mountain State. Here are some of the best and brightest gifts of the season—for even the hardest person on your shopping list. Eat, drink, and be merry this holiday season. For the West Virginia foodie in your life, you can’t…
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This bed and breakfast near Cass Scenic Railroad is a great base for exploring the area’s attractions. Drive out to the mountains of Pocahontas County past blooming wildflowers, beneath shade trees, through one of the most biologically diverse national forests, to a place where the waterfalls are high, the telescopes giant, and the trains ancient. Tucked away on 13 acres…
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Mario’s Fishbowl has been filling Morgantown’s glasses for more than half a century. If patrons of Morgantown’s neighborhood bar Mario’s Fishbowl had visited the block building in the 1950s, they would have found Tom and Anna Torch selling groceries and scooping ice cream at the Richwood Avenue Confectionary. But they’d recognize one treat—beer. The alcohol then took center stage when…
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Jewelry designer Teresa Young crafts wearable art. Teresa Young’s career path starts with a necklace. And it wasn’t one that she made or wore. About a decade ago, she saw a young woman making a necklace, and was completely taken with it. She thought, “I can do that.” “I had my aha moment,” she says. So she ran out and…
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The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited The Huntington-native McElroy family made publishing history in 2018 when the first graphic novel, The Adventure Zone, hit the New York Times Best Seller list for paperback trade fiction. Published in July 2019, Murder On the Rockport Limited also debuted at that No. 1 spot. For fans of Dungeons & Dragons and…
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