A family-friendly podcast tells science fiction stories with an Appalachian twist. In Jonathan Joy’s fictional town of Splendid, you’ll find time-traveling teenagers, kid superheroes, and giant bugs. And, if you listen closely to the podcaster’s stories, you may also find that Splendid sounds a lot like home. The Huntington writer is the creator of Professor Theo’s Mystery Lab, a kids’…
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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. In 1761, the Virginia General Assembly approved Robert Harper’s request to run a ferry near the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. The legislature dubbed the town “Shenandoah Falls at Mr. Harper’s Ferry.” Two decades later, a young future president Thomas Jefferson passed through the area. After surveying the area from the site known…
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Top-notch accommodations are popping up all around the Hatfield-McCoy Trails. With more than 600 miles of off-road adventure, the Hatfield-McCoy Trails in southern West Virginia are an ATV lover’s paradise. Riders may get dirty during the day, but that doesn’t mean they have to rough it at night. Almost Heaven Cabin Rental – Logan Almost Heaven Cabin Rentals lives up…
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West Virginia Brick Oven Bistro’s pickle pizza is really good. Or so we’ve heard. Consider, if you will, this completely hypothetical situation. Let’s say you’re a writer for a statewide lifestyle magazine and your friends are all talking about this Cross Lanes restaurant called WV Brick Oven Bistro and the “pickle pizza” it serves. You are slightly skeptical, but you…
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Beckley’s Blue Magnolia offers home decor and VIP fashion. Dana Blankenship operated Chateaux Interiors, her Beckley-based interior design firm, for 15 years. But when a downturn in the coal mining industry caused the business to start slipping, the energetic entrepreneur decided to try something different. She opened Blue Magnolia about two years ago, in the same building where her interior…
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