Elk disappeared from West Virginia’s woods more than 100 years ago, but they’re on the way back. Studying a map of West Virginia, you soon begin to notice a pattern. There’s an Elk Creek that flows through Clarksburg, and another Elk Creek between Man and Gilbert in Mingo County. There’s an Elk Mountain in Webster County and, not too far away, a place near Green Bank called Elk Lick…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
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What’s a company town to do when the company leaves town? When we think today of company towns—those communities whose economies rely almost entirely on one big business or industry—the prototype we come up with is invariably not modern. We think of the town of Spruce, with its rows of identical clapboard houses, which was so reliant on logging and…
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Dangerously Delicious
Celebrate berry season with this inhalable blackberry cobbler. As the late poet Seamus Heaney wrote, “summer’s blood” is inside blackberries, “leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for picking.” It’s just the season for picking, too. The end of summer through early autumn is berry season and has berry pickers rushing to the bush. There are 13 pick-your-own farms across…
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Affliction of the Innocents
A West Virginia physician plans to halve the number of drug-affected babies by 2020—with cold, hard numbers. The halls at Lily’s Place, an old Huntington podiatrist’s office turned infant drug withdrawal center, are almost noiseless. For drug-affected newborns, almost any kind of stimulus is unbearable. “Sometimes just talking to them is too much stimulation,” says clinical care manager Rhonda Edmunds. The nurseries…
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Little Lake of Horrors
Celebrate Halloween by traveling to one of the state’s spookiest spots—the abandoned Lake Shawnee Amusement Park outside Princeton. In photos from the 1950s you can see the charm of the place. Suntanned teenagers in bathing suits float in a pool, sun reflecting off a water slide in the distance. A smattering of heavy, handsome cars are parked in a gravel…
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