Lisa Elmaleh prefers her photography slow. Lisa Elmaleh takes being analog in the digital age to a whole new level. Growing up with a camera-toting father and later, while studying photography at The School of Visual Arts in New York City, she loved watching an image emerge among chemicals in a darkroom. Now Elmaleh—who relocated from Brooklyn, New York, to…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Making the Stage
One man’s improbable dream brings music to the mountains. Arrive late to a show at the Jerry Run Summer Theater and you can hear the music as soon as you open the car door. Low frequencies seep from the uninsulated walls, drawing you along the worn grass path toward the green front doors. Inside, after you’ve paid the $5 entrance…
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Contact
Creative tech lets guests at Snowshoe communicate with life on this planet without keeping scientists from searching for life elsewhere. We West Virginians pride ourselves on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). The giant, iconic Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescope dish in Pocahontas County gives us world-class status in research into the origins of the universe and extraterrestrial life….
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“The Best Idea We Ever Had”
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service at these special places in West Virginia. The pulitzer prize-winning novelist, historian, and environmental advocate Wallace Stegner once said National Parks were “the best idea we ever had” and “absolutely American,” and reflected our country “at our best rather than our worst.” It’s difficult to disagree with Stegner. This August marks…
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Discover Beckley
This southern city deserves a closer look. In many ways, Beckley is the gateway to southern West Virginia. From here, you can take U.S. Route 19 and travel to the New River Gorge. Or head eastbound on Interstate 64, toward Lewisburg and White Sulphur Springs. West Virginia Route 3 will take you to Hinton, and pointing your car southbound on Interstate 77 gets you closer…
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