In its more than 125 years, the outdoorsmen retreating to the Cheat Mountain Club have changed, but it has stayed the same. The Cheat Mountain is especially long and high, even compared to the rest of West Virginia’s rough terrain. The ridge is some 70 miles long—it stretches from Snowshoe in the southwest all the way past Elkins in the northeast—and includes 9 of…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Cool Kid
In Morgantown, Bryn Perrott has stumbled onto an artistic career with a life of its own. Bryn Perrott has that kind of effortless cool everyone else—or at least those of us who preoccupy ourselves with such vain concerns—can only aspire to. It doesn’t work for us because we’re trying too hard, we’re self-conscious, we make it look like work. Bryn doesn’t…
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Work It
West Virginia Women Work has given thousands of low-income women the skills and confidence to make a living in a nontraditional field. Now, it might have to close its doors. Let’s try a thought experiment. Imagine a job field where the demand for workers is high, the barrier for entry is low, and the pay is good. The jobs are upwardly…
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Late Edition
How Charleston became a one-paper town. Around 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, the newsroom staffs of the Charleston Daily Mail and Charleston Gazette were called to the front lobby of their shared headquarters at 1001 Virginia Street East in downtown Charleston. Employees immediately knew something strange was happening. Although situated on opposite sides of the same hallway, the newsrooms…
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Behind the Scenes at the Greenbrier Classic
A year of preparation goes into making West Virginia’s largest sporting event camera-ready.
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